Fire Walk With Me

This page is a weird mix of rantings and ravings, Music, graffiti, punk,Doctor Who, postpunk, comics,art, general silliness and GPOB (gratuitous pictures of Bowie). Sometimes I post about the 2012 US elections

white radical nerd lady in my 30s
transplanted to the East Coast US
happily living in sin with my co-conspirator Mr. X

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Posts I Like

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googlebus:

thats an interesting point but the thing is

shut up

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snuffysbox:

Anders seems fairly depressed in my current playthrough. Sorry buddy, my Hawke flirts with everyone including you but Fenris is...

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arevhat:

Plugging this wonderful web comic again: http://www.shaenon.com/monsteroftheweek/

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kamounke:

“If you’re an adivasi [tribal Indian] living in a forest village and 800 CRP [Central Reserve Police]...

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When was super depressed, I wasn’t working—I was always too depressed. Hemingway did his best work when he didn’t drink, then he drank himself to...
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Who I Follow

Posts tagged "emotional justice"

Emotional justice is about working with this wounding. It is about inviting us into our feelings and our bodies, and finding ways to transform our collective and individual pains into power. Emotional justice requires that we find the feeling behind the theories. It calls on us to not just speak to why something is problematic, but to speak to the emotional texture of how it impact us; how it hurts, or how it brings us joy or nourishment. Emotional Justice is very difficult for many activists, because historically most activist spaces have privileged the intellect and logic over feeling and intuition. This is directly connected to sexism and misogyny, because feeling and intuition are culturally and psychologically linked to the construct of “woman”, a construct that we have all been taught to invalidate and silence. So by extension we invalidate and silence the parts that we link to “woman” in ourselves: our feelings, our intuition, and our irrationality. →

ancestryinprogress:

Amazing article on emotional justice and activist organizations, written by Yolo Aikili

Centering academia and academic methods in discussions of justice does this. You take a thing like gender equality or colonialism and you try to couch it in the same terms as mainstream academia in order to prove that it’s just as valid and true. But you end up stripping out the personal, the emotional. Anything that still contains those things ends up seeming invalid and vulnerable to criticism. Plus, I’d venture to say the vast majority of people (of any gender, but especially white people) first encountered these ideas in an academic context, so discussion of these issues in privileged or mixed circles is typically very academia-oriented.

Emotional justice is an important reframing for this reason.

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