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Joyful Persistence: My Talk for the UBC School of Creative Writing Graduation
Sarah Leavittsarahleavitt.com
The best way to resist a monolithic institution or corporation is not with a monolithic movement but with multiplicity itself.
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
Joanna Hoffman • Futures From Ruins
I always prioritize how people feel.20 Is it a pleasure to be with each other? Does the agenda or space allow for aliveness, connection, and joy? Is there a “yes!” at the center of the work? There are so many things that are violent, offensive, unbearable. An embodied “no” is so justified—but I don’t believe it moves us forward.
“Yes!” has a future.
brown, adrienne maree; Rodriguez; Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi • Pleasure Activism
Simcha is a key tool for change makers. Despair is a partner of oppression. People or systems that promote exploitation consciously and unconsciously try to get people to feel powerless and bad about themselves, so they won’t challenge the exploitation. Someone in despair is not going to put up much of a fight against oppression.
David Jaffe • Changing the World from the Inside Out: A Jewish Approach to Personal and Social Change
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
Create a Culture of Celebration—Pivot Towards Pleasure. It seems simple—but people stay more engaged in a space where they are enjoying each other, and feel celebrated and appreciated. Small, personal celebrations help fuel groups through the hard work, reminding them that they are humans together, regardless of the external pressures they face.