I hope that those who keep saying "matter matters" in the church-opening debates will start to see what happens as the slogan occupies the same air as "Black Lives Matter". 1/x https://twitter.com/Rgt71Robert/status/1267348381380345856">https://twitter.com/Rgt71Robe...

As this thread itself says, the binaries come in all too easily. If bodies and things are that essential, the awful condition in which we& #39;re divorced from them...doesn& #39;t actually exist. What are iPhones and kitchen tables and (to quote Gauthier) & #39;pieces of glass& #39; if not & #39;matter& #39;?

Whenever I see someone pull the "we& #39;re embodied, actually" line, my inner response is: the fact that embodiment is something you feel others should be reminded of probably says more about your ambivalent relationship with it than theirs. What privilege allowed *you* to forget?

@KatieMGrimes is good on this in Christ Divided: there& #39;s a tendency in Catholic theology to appeal to "the body" as the end and consummation of abstract theory - which denies how the body is always-already abstracted from us by theorisation (and, in her book, racialisation). END