hhmm. let me put it this way. I pay attention to how people in movement spaces use slogans in relation to how psychologically grounded they appear or don't appear to be https://twitter.com/ilanabryne/status/1248351534120939526

like i think about the false dichotemy presented between mourning over organizing in relation to what kinds of social and emotional spaces organizing cultures prioritize as necessary

case in point: I get FB invites to political events at bars, non-profit fundraising galas with liquor, late night parties, or political education events

and i'm often left wondering "so you can organize, think, and drink is what you're demonstrating to me.....?"

meanwhile, I just finished Starhawk's "Dreaming the Dark" where she details how ecofeminist politics was oriented around study, organizing, emotional processing, and ritual (you could substitute this for some kind of group work that facilitates emotional bonding)

and to me there's something to be said about how feminist consciousness-raising of the 60s and 70s wanted to move from the Cartesian split of body & mind- one that decoloniality understand as a product of coloniality & western modernity

now, I don't care for the hella cissexist perspective of feminist consciousness-raising takes on a lot of levels

but i think the endeavor to think critically about not replicating the very attitudes & affective logics of a culture we claim we're trying to change is instructive

because I study the past not only to understand how movements worked, but to understand how people in those movements related to each other. how they understood what it mean to be collectively embodied (if at all), and the varying tensions of collective embodiment