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“Giving into the fear of feeling and working to capacity is a luxury only the unintentional can afford. And the unintentional are those that do not wish to guide their own destinies.”
adrienne maree brown, Rodriguez, • Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (Emergent Strategy Book 1)
disasters are often moments of strange joy.
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
In A Paradise Built in Hell, her 2009 book about human response to disasters through history, Solnit describes how communities invariably come together during and after crises, developing new ways not just to survive but to thrive, healing old wounds, and finding joy in the process.
Jon Alexander • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
“Joy remakes people through combat with forces of subjection [i.e., subjugation]. Joy is a desubjectifying process, an unfixing, an intensification of life itself. It is a process of coming alive and coming apart. Whereas happiness is used as a numbing anesthetic that induces dependence, joy is the growth of people’s capacity to do and feel new thi
... See moreRebecca Solnit • Orwell's Roses
joy is itself an insurrectionary force against the dreariness and dullness and isolation of everyday life.
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
disasters are often moments of strange joy.
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
Hope in the Dark - Rebecca Solnit (April 2025)
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