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In winger, you have to find ways to keep cosy, to make the house cheerful. Otherwise…. People aren’t always prepared for the change in their habits.

"It's an open invitation to transition into a more sustainable life and wrest back control over the chaos I've created, it's a moment when I have to step into solitude and contemplation. It's also a moment when I have to walk away from old alliances, to let the strings of some friendship fall loose, if only for a while. It's a path I've walked over and over again in my life."

"Our survival mechanisms are unique, brilliant, and necessary, and they can tell us a lot about what we care about, what we fear, and what can bring us closer to love."

"To this day, grief has shown me that love does not die in the face of death, it is transformed. Our funerals are commemorations of life, and they honor what needs to be released. When you grieve deeply, you are shown your abounding capacity to love. Love does not die. Love sprouts form the ground that we have nourished with our tears."

"There is much to learn from swimming in the deep shades of our grief, and we will emerge from it basking in the sun. If we cannot honor our endings, then how are we supposed to usher in new beginnings?"

Re-reading again with my Org! This quote stuck with me from my second read:
"In all the successful class struggles and colonial wars of liberation, the vanguard elements did get ahead of the people and pull. There is no other way in forward mass movement" (15)

Excited to learn more about dialectical materialism and read this foundational text with a better analytical lens.

"As I run I tell myself to think of a river. And clouds. But essentially I'm not thinking of a thing. All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty wonderful thing. No matter what anybody else says"

i'm listening mister murakami....

run club book! need to finish it by saturday

company book club 📚🥸, let’s see how this goes

You cannot have safety without strong, emphatic relationships with others You can have security without relationships but cannot have safety-actual safety-without healthy relationships.

Security and safety aren't the same thing. Security is a function of the weaponized state that is using guns, weapons, fear, and other things to 'make us secure,' right?

The system of mass criminalization we have isn't the result of failure.

Our charge is to make imagining liberation under oppression completely thinkable, to really push ourselves to think beyond the normal in order for us to be able to address the root causes of people's suffering. That's the politics that we should be focused on, a politics that attends to the grievances that people have in their day to day life The everyday. The mundane. Not the spectacular or the excess.

What do the spectacles of policing-as well as the response to it-both reveal and camouflage in regard to the 'terror of the mundane and quotidian,' a terror that is often taken for granted, even in critical commentary?

How do we rightfully account fo the increased militarization of the police as a problem without forgetting what joy James reminds us: 'the dreams and desires of a society and state will be centered on the control of the black body' - or as jared sexton emphasizes: Black people serve as 'the prototypical targets of the panoply of police practices and the judicial infrastructure built up around them'

Amid this, we are left with the difficulty to name both the spectacle and the quotidian violence Black people in the United States experience day after day from the police and the racially deputized. What do we call this incessant violence? How do we describe it beyond the spectacular event? occupation? War? Genocide? Life? Death?

Yet one gets the sense that the only way to generate a modicum of concern or empathy for Black people is to raise the stakes and to emphasize the extraordinary nature of the violations and the suffering. To circulate repeatedly the spectacular in hopes that people consider the everyday. It's a fools errand because it often doesn't garner the response desired or needed.

Understanding that harm originates from situations dominated by stress, scarcity, and oppression, one way to prevent violence is to make sure that people have support to get the things they need. We must also create a culture that enables people to actually take accountability for violence and harm.