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“How can the ability to work be considered recovery, if it is work that is making us sick?”

“‘The well-balanced person’ would not thereby have achieved an inner resolution of social conflicts [because] his integration would be a false reconciliation with an unreconciled world” -Adorno

“[gentrifiers] were complicated locusts, they ate up everything in sight, but they meant well […] drawn by the promise of empty land and easy business, the opportunity available among the ruins of other peoples’ lives”. adrienne maree brown’s prose is as vibrant as her worldbuilding — Octavia Butler is alive in these sci-fi tales !

think he might have ADD

• mental health oppression
• coregulation
• misery party & grief work in the club context
• dopo and abortion companion-ing / doula-ing

‘‘Tis a fearful thing
To love
What death can touch.

[…]

‘Tis a human thing, love’

“We must be come fluent in the language and customs of grief. If we don’t, our losses become great sights that drag us down, pulling us before the threshold of life and into the world of death.”

“everything we love, we will lose”

revisiting the $5.5million Chicago ordinance / reparations win for the 120 victims of police torture and murder between 1972-91 (p ~17-21, 97)

abolitionist in the lineage of imagining a world without prisons, what systems would we have to abolish and cultivate new to imagine a world without burnout?— from 17th cent. colonial slavery project village night raids in Africa to eugenic bio-essentialist stereotypes of lazy and western medical pathologisation we (gendered and racialised) inherit a generational sleep deficit

• The ‘disembodied knowledge’ of cartesian dualism (44)
• Violence of the void: whiteawake.org ‘Before that we were white’ — histories of ‘white’ european indigenous pre-colonised communities (p.45)
• substance use and numbing: (lack of) emotional regulation in organising culture (51)
• ableism, activism, and burnout (p53)
• rigid radicalism vs joyful militancy (bergamann & Montgomery, 57)