Ebony Casagrande
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Ebony Casagrande
Oil extraction is highly symbolic of capitalism, where the production of life is always based on the creation of death. We know this about pesticides in agriculture and we know this about mining. So much depends on this constant production of scarcity, and we live in a kind of somnambulism with this production of death. If we were aware that our... See more
Ecologies of Care: A Conversation - Journal #157
i keep thinking about these rituals of famous creative women, from @Moonkissed Edit ★
emmsubstack.comIn his room, she fights his waning interest. Her sense that he is sliding away even when he is right there, as much of him touching her as possible, makes her worry she is losing her mind.
Maggie Shipstead • Astonish Me: From the Booker Prize 2021 and Women’s Prize 2021 shortlisted author of GREAT CIRCLE
The successful struggles are those in which people create affective relations and forms of cooperation between themselves.
Ecologies of Care: A Conversation - Journal #157
E-flux journal, Silvia Federici.
Since her conversation with Harry, she has felt painfully alert, both vulnerable and dangerous, as though she were wrapped in explosives.
Maggie Shipstead • Astonish Me: From the Booker Prize 2021 and Women’s Prize 2021 shortlisted author of GREAT CIRCLE
björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw
He does not understand that he cannot understand, that the loves of others are unfathomable.
Maggie Shipstead • Astonish Me: From the Booker Prize 2021 and Women’s Prize 2021 shortlisted author of GREAT CIRCLE
“No. The secret is nothing compared to everything else. You can have a secret that stops mattering.”
Maggie Shipstead • Astonish Me: From the Booker Prize 2021 and Women’s Prize 2021 shortlisted author of GREAT CIRCLE
Woah this churns some little writing demon inside of me — the way something so poisoned as a secret could leach all the way dry.
“We want to call work what is work so that eventually we might rediscover what is love and create what will be our sexuality which we have never known.” Silvia Federici, Wages Against Housework
We need to separate work from love — we currently think love is what is actually unpaid labour, we think we will receive love when we structure our lives around this unpaid labour, but that is not love. I’m trying to really figure out what love is, when we look at it outside of female labour.