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Aloneness, Belonging, and the Paradox of Vulnerability, in Love and Creative Work
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deep common ground and interwoven kinship among all things and people.
AnaLouise Keating • Transformation Now!: Toward a Post-Oppositional Politics of Change
When I stare too long at the world with science eyes, I see an afterimage of traditional knowledge.
Robin Wall Kimmerer • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
The work is to crumble the barriers of injustice and shame leveled against us so that we might access what we have always been, because we will, if unobstructed, inevitably grow into the purpose for which we were created: our own unique version of that oak tree.
Sonya Renee Taylor • The Body Is Not an Apology
we are the boxes we strive to out-think.
The point then is not to transcend the boxes – or to move away from them.
The point then is not to transcend the boxes – or to move away from them.
Bayo Akomolafe • On thinking out the box • Writings – Bayo Akomolafe
how might these feelings advance understandings of the relevance of black affects to social life for black folks and others?
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
Humanity is going through a coming of age ordeal – just like a teenager goes through in an indigenous community when put in a situation where our world falls apart, when our child’s identity is no longer functional; put into that space between stories so that we can step into the adulthood of the species – a space in which our gifts are turned towa... See more
Charles Eisenstein • Presentation to Uplift Festival, 12.14.2014
The dream of a Liberal (arts) education—which is the scaled, democratic form of the Keatsian ideal of negative capability—cannot hold up when liberalism itself is held to be suspect.