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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoLas entrañas de la videovigilancia en la Ciudad de México – SAPIENS2024-03-25T20:58:19+00:00
https://www.sapiens.org/es/culture-es/mexico-city-surveillance-anthropology/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-SQuxleYtI
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https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1.7032238
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https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/03/pamela-price-da-progressive-prosecutor-recall-campaign/
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https://grist.org/protest/keystone-pipeline-fbi-government-documents/
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https://thedigradio.com/podcast/the-missing-revolution-w-vincent-bevins/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqOA_nwYys4
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https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2017-11-28-declassified-apartheid-profits-pals-with-pinochet/
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https://speakingoutofplace.com/2023/09/13/on-the-obligation-to-killjoy-sara-ahmed-on-the-feminist-killjoy-handbook/
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https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/how-much-discomfort-is-the-whole-world-worth/
robertogrecoNot everyone we work with on a particular issue has to have deep ideological alignment with us. A skilled organizer should be able to work with people who aren’t of their own choosing, including people they don’t like. It’s really as simple as being attacked by fascist police in the streets. Once the attack begins, there are two sides: armed police inflicting violence and everyone else. We need to be able to see each other in those terms, reeling in the face of unthinkable violence, scrambling to stay alive and uncaged, and doing the work to protect one another.
This will not come easily, because white supremacy and classism have forced many wedges between our communities. Great harms have been committed and very difficult conversations are needed, but refusing to do that work, in this historical moment, is an abdication of responsibility. It is no exaggeration to say that the whole world is at stake, and we cannot afford to minimize what that demands of us.
This is not to say that we should seek no respite from the messiness and occasional discomfort of large-scale movement work. We all need spaces where we can operate within our comfort zone. Whether these take the shape of a collective, an affinity group, a processing space, a caucus, or a group of friends, we need people with whom we can feel fully seen and heard and with whose values we feel deeply aligned. In such a violent and oppressive world, we are all entitled to some amount of sanctuary. Many organizers have tight-knit political homes, sometimes grounded in shared identity, in addition to participating in broader organizing efforts.
But broader movements are struggles, not sanctuaries. They are full of contradiction and challenges we may feel unprepared for.
Effective organizers operate beyond the bounds of their comfort zones, moving into what we might call their “stretch zone,” when necessary. No one has to be able to work with everyone, but how far beyond the bounds of easy agreement can you reach? How much empathy can you extend to people who do not fully understand your identity or experience or who have not had the same access to liberatory ideas? How much discomfort can you navigate for what you believe is truly at stake?
These are not questions anyone can answer for you, as we must all make autonomous choices about who we connect and build with, but if we do not challenge ourselves to navigate some amount of discomfort, our political reach will have terminal limits. To expand the practice of our politics in the world, we have to be able to organize outside of our comfort zones. People whose words and ideas don’t yet align with our own often need room to grow, and some people grow by building relationships and doing work—often in fumbling and imperfect ways.
Political transformation is not as simple as handing newcomers a new set of politics and telling them, “Yours are bad, use these instead.” Instead, we will sometimes have to accompany people along messy transformational journeys. And we must also remember that no matter how far we have come, we are still on our own messy journeys, and our own transformations will continue as we grow.
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To do this kind of work, a person has to hone multiple skills, including the ability to listen.
When people delve into activism, they often grapple with questions like, “Am I willing to get arrested?” when often the more pressing question for a new activist is, “Am I willing to listen, even when it’s hard?”
For organizer and scholar Ruth Wilson Gilmore, it was her time in Alcoholics Anonymous that helped her transform her practice of listening. “The main thing that I learned,” Gilmore told us, “especially in the first couple years that I was going to meetings, was the beauty of the rule against crosstalk. It was the best thing that ever happened to me, that I couldn’t say shit to anybody. I had to listen, and I had to learn to listen.” The urge to interject or object ran deep for Gilmore. “I’ve always been a nerd, yet I’ve always been a know-it-all,” she told us, “so there’s this tension between my nerdiness that wants to know everything and my know-it-all-ness that wants everybody to know that I know it all already.”
At first, listening did not come easily—or feel particularly productive—to Gilmore. “I would sit in these meetings, and I listened to people talk, and listened to them, and listened to them, and at first I was like, ‘I don’t get this, I don’t get this.’ And so for me in the early days, it was just a performance of words. I mean, my main thing was, ‘I won’t drink when I leave this meeting. I won’t drink, and I won’t use.’”
But over time, Gilmore began to appreciate the role of listening in the group’s collective struggle to avoid drugs and alcohol—even when she did not appreciate what was being said. “I would be getting more and more wound up, because there’d be the sexist guy going on about women and his wife, and then there’d be somebody else talking nonsense about whatever, [but I was] learning to just sit there, and listen, and keep my eye on the prize, which was not just that I wasn’t going to drink but that the only way I could not drink was if all of us didn’t drink.”
Being committed to the sobriety of every person in the room, which meant listening to their story and being invested in their well-being, helped Gilmore develop a deeper practice of patience. “That was kind of this transformation for me that carried into the organizing that I already used to do before I got sober,” she told us.
It is our ability to constructively engage with other people that will ultimately power our efforts. We have to nurture that ability and respect its importance in all of the ways that our society does not. And that skill of constructive engagement starts with listening.
Like so many other aspects of organizing, listening is a practice, and at times, it’s a strategic one.
We might need to hear something true that makes us uncomfortable. Listening deeply makes space for that to happen. But even if the person who’s talking is off base, we can often still learn by listening to them. Why do they feel the way they do? What sources informed or convinced them? What influences them? What strengthens their resolve? What makes them hesitant to get more involved or to engage more boldly? If you are in an organizing space together, how has that issue brought them into a shared space with you despite your differences? What points of agreement might you build upon? What is surprising about them? A good organizer wants to understand these things about the people around them, and you cannot truly understand these things about a person without listening.
Even if the person who’s talking is off base, we can often still learn by listening to them.
Organizers will often repeat the maxim, “We have to meet people where they are at.” It is difficult to meet someone where they’re at when you do not know where they are. Until you have heard someone out, you do not know where they are, so how could you hope to meet them there? Relationships are not built through presumption or through the deployment of tropes or stereotypes. We must understand people as having their own unique experiences, traumas, struggles, ideas, and motivations that will inform how they show up to organizing spaces.
Some task-focused activists brush off activities that involve “talking about our feelings.” This is a common sentiment among bad listeners. The fundamental skill of patiently absorbing another person’s words in a respectful and thoughtful manner is desperately lacking in our society. For this reason, it is folly to expect this skill to manifest itself fully formed when it is most needed, such as in a heated meeting, if we are not building a greater culture of listening in our work.
A group culture that helps participants build their listening skills is an important component of successful organizing. Political education can create opportunities for people to practice listening to one another, without interruption, and interacting meaningfully with what others have contributed. For example, during the Great Depression, communist union organizers in Bessemer, Alabama, developed a practice of devoting thirty minutes of each meeting to political education. For thirty minutes, material would be read aloud—creating space to collectively listen while also allowing members who could not read the opportunity to hear the information. Members would then spend fifteen minutes discussing the material, listening to each other’s thoughts in response to the work.
In organizing, we sometimes expect people, including ourselves, to shed the habits this society has embedded in us through sheer force of will, when in reality we all need practice. Activities that help us hone our practice of listening can make us better organizers, improve our personal relationships, and help us build stronger and longer-lasting movements.
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As we work to build more sustainable movements, we must think hard about our strategies for responding when organizers make mistakes. Social media can often foster a “zero-tolerance” attitude about political ignorance or missteps. Platforms like Twitter have helped facilitate tremendous accomplishments in movement work, but they have also created an arena for political performance and critique that is often divorced from relationship building or strategic aims. For many people, social media is not an organizing tool but a realm of political performance and spectatorship. A trend has emerged in which some organizers will demand performances of solidarity and awareness on social media but then critique or even tear apart those performances when they fall short or are deemed insincere. As with reality television, favorites emerge, and people are sometimes voted off the island.
When the performance of solidarity via the replication of the right words or slogans becomes our central focus, it’s not surprising that responses might read as empty or even insincere. Sloganizing is not organizing, and paying righteous lip service to a cause, in the preferred language of the moment, does not empty any cages or transform anyone’s material conditions. Rather than fixating on the grammar of people’s politics, we organizers must ask ourselves what we want people to do.
When debates arise around language, we must also understand the extent to which the language of dissent and liberation has shifted over time. The terms and jargon we use today do not represent an “arrival” at the “correct” words that were always out there, waiting to be found, while our predecessors flailed about in search of them. The language we uplift in movements today represents an unending process of grappling—a search for words that embody the experiences of oppressed people in relation to their history, their current conditions, and the culture they are presently experiencing. Policing language, as though our phrasing is written in law, misunderstands that pursuit and the purpose it serves. If these words merely exist to divide us into categories—those who can properly discuss ideas and those who cannot—what is their value in the pursuit of liberation?
While it is important to trouble terminology and to engage with its evolution, the mastery of language does not spur systemic change or alter anyone’s material conditions. The concept of “allyship,” for example, is often grounded in presentation rather than substantive action. Similarly, people who believe they are “good people” often view goodness as a fixed identity, evidenced by their expressed feelings about injustice rather than a set of practices or actions. Goodness, to them, is a designation to be defended rather than something that they seek to generate in the world in concert with other people. Mainstream liberals often fall prey to this line of thinking because liberal politics play very heavily into political identity as being determinant of whether a person is good or bad (Democrats are good, Republicans bad). But the left can fall into its own version of this trap by treating politics as a test of how well we can perform language or recite ideas.
Our movements are not driven by getting the words just right. They are driven by the goal of enacting change through collective struggle as we endeavor to both understand ideas and turn them into action. Fumbling is inevitable, but as Gilmore tells us, “practice makes different.”
Dixon emphasizes that people will show up imperfectly and that organizers have to anticipate that mistakes and harm will happen. “I worry we’re creating a culture now where people are so afraid to make mistakes,” she told us. “They’re afraid to not have the analysis before they open their mouth. The bonds that I’m really trying to build within organizing are the bonds where we can divulge the things that we are nervous about, or ashamed of, or the things we need to learn, all of those areas, because that’s when I know we’re building the kind of intimacy that takes care of each other around heightened threats.”
Dixon points out that when trust is lost, organizing not only becomes more difficult, but it also becomes more vulnerable to surveillance and infiltration: “A huge piece of COINTELPRO was around seeding distrust.” Therefore, she says, a key part of organizing is building bonds of trust, and that can only happen within a context where people are allowed to be vulnerable and make mistakes.
Learning and growing in front of other people can be embarrassing, and even intimidating, particularly for people who have been put down or made to feel diminished in the past. Even seasoned organizers like Dixon often worry about derailing their work with a verbal misstep. “I have a small crew of other organizers where I think our text thread is mostly questions we are afraid to ask publicly,” she acknowledged. “It’s our own little political education circle, where we ask, ‘What does this mean?’ Or, ‘Is this fucked up?’ Or, ‘What is the right way to say this? Because I don’t think this is right.’” Dixon says that she believes “everyone needs that text thread,” but she also hopes that more of our movement spaces can operate in the same spirit and offer opportunities for people to “feel safe in their process of transforming.”
Creating trust-based movement spaces also puts us in a better place to confront harm and conflict, Dixon says.
“The biggest part of the work is how we maintain relationships while navigating harm,” she told us. “Because that’s the thing, that will break your group. That’ll break any project.” Dixon stresses the importance of conflict resolution and accountability mechanisms within groups—that is, group- or community-based methods of confronting harm, such as peace circles and transformative justice. But she also reminds us that in order for accountability mechanisms to serve their purpose, people need room and opportunities to grow. “People need to build skills and mechanisms to navigate conflict. Sometimes we’re not apologizing. Sometimes we’re not accountable. Sometimes we have done harmful things. Sometimes we’re doing things we were never told go against the norms [of the group] and then are being held accountable.”
In an organizing space, accountability should not be about policing or punishment, but our punitive impulses can sometimes twist accountability mechanisms into those shapes. It’s easy to forget how imperfectly we ourselves have shown up in movement spaces and throughout our lives. Sometimes our aggravation with others is rooted in pain or trauma we have experienced; sometimes it is rooted in our uneasiness about things we may have said or done that were equally upsetting because we did not always know what we know now. And regardless of how much we believe we have learned, as the saying goes, we don’t know what we don’t know. Many of us would not be in this work today if someone along the way had not been patient with us.
Even if we never develop a sense of mutual respect and understanding, or even come to like the people we’re working with, we can still build power with them. In many cases, we must. After all, the whole world is at stake. We must ask ourselves, how much discomfort is the whole world worth?"]]>solidarity 2023 activism organizing kellyhayes mariamekaba listening language patience politics affinity difference behavior whitesupremacy generations age race racism diversity discomfort offense growth scale socialmedia tolerance purity puritytests education learning understanding transformation online internet trust conflict transformativejustice justice socialjustice accountability cointelpro surveillance infiltration distrust fear silence allyship action goodness liberalism identity democrats republicans left leftism performance dissent liberation jargon policing division divisiveness sloganizing spectatorship twitter politcalperformance performativepolitics relationships groups communism history society practice praxis ruthwilsongilmore crosstalk discourse conversation alcoholicsanonymous struggle strategy canon groupculture culture movements change changemaking ejerisdixon class classism lcdhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c13f1560a59c/Some small towns in America are disbanding police forces | AP News2023-09-06T18:05:00+00:00
https://apnews.com/article/police-departments-hiring-disbanding-defunding-minnesota-6bc707834152806264dce7bfa80d9b29
robertogrecous 2023 police policing defunding lawenforcementhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d48c42a1ccb5/Defending Allende | Ariel Dorfman | The New York Review of Books2023-09-02T19:51:19+00:00
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/09/21/defending-allende-ariel-dorfman/
robertogrecoIt would be better for Chile if Allende and Pinochet become purely historical figures, rather than sources of political inspiration, allowing the country to look forward. Clearly that is still hard. Allende’s government was a colossal political failure. But what “we can try to agree on,” as Mr Fernández, the journalist who was originally involved in the 50th-anniversary celebrations, put it, “is that what happened after the coup was unacceptable”.
https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2023/08/31/chile-is-still-haunted-by-the-coup-in-september-1973
Fucking fuckers.]]]>chile arieldorman 2023 salvadorallende pinochet coup identity history richardnixon henrykissinger socialism cia us mir grief terror memory chicagoboys neoliberalism capitalism miltonfriedman nazis fascism shockdoctrine shocktherapy reencuentro reformism christiandemocrats 1988 1990 plebiscite patricioaylwin revolution anti-imperialism resistance subversion violence police policebrutality policing 2021 2019 gabrielboric estallidosocial joséantoniokast constitution constitutionalconvention indigeneity indigenous inclusivity inequality class labor work nature women gender jairbolsonaro donaldtrump crime inflation immigration war future golpemilitar antiimperialismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7d68e11d44ee/What is Antiracism? | Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Arun Kundnani - YouTube2023-08-09T01:20:44+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcBNfYWSw9w
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https://techwontsave.us/episode/132_surveillance_wont_protect_students_w_chris_gilliard
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcLHc2BZMzM
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http://amleft.blogspot.com/2010/07/bart-oscar-grant-and-johannes-mehserle.html
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V3LRTHSeKk
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https://www.blackagendareport.com/greed-san-franciscos-hyper-gentrifying-classes
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https://millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/debunking-norwegian-prison-reform-as-propaganda-with-oakland-abolition-and-solidarity
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-NV5hoaPJQ
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https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-your-enemy-the-right-kind-of-worker-with-gabriel-winant
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD7gsNNobb0
robertogrecokimberlécrenshaw criticalracetheory florida rondesantis 2023 intersectionality education schools advancedplacement ap curriculum collegeboard mccarthyism antiwoke legislation us history structuralracism donaldtrump queerstudies antracism racism whitesupremacy authoritarianism democracy police policing lawenforcement policebrutality politics policy racehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:77a0dfd5ac74/-- Andrew Ross and Julie Livingston present "Cars and Jails: Freedom Dreams, Debt, and Carcerality" in conversation w/Stuart Schrader --2023-01-28T21:44:36+00:00
https://redemmas.org/events/andrew-ross-and-julie-livingston-present-cars-and-jails-freedom-dreams-debt-and-carcerality-in-conversation-w-stuart-schrader/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky-4NFZ-_Ao
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https://mailchi.mp/thebrick.house/america-will-never-put-its-teen-curfews-to-bed
robertogrecoIn The Sims 3, teens that were out past 11pm by themselves could be caught and brought back to their home by a police car, mimicking the many real-life curfew laws that exist in some parts of the United States. This concept comes off as incredibly strange to many Simmers, with user kakkapieru incredulously asking, "someone pointed out the curfew, i remember when in sims 3 the police would get your teenagers after 23 and take them home??? [...] is that [for real] or sims thing?"
Like yellow school buses and the absence of subsidized early childcare, this is, in fact, a very real thing in the United States. While youth curfews aren’t quite unheard of in the rest of the globe, we might lead the developed world in their ubiquity, punitiveness, and popularity.
Henry Grabar wrote a good thing in Slate this week about the continuing popularity of youth curfews in the U.S. as a response to social ills ranging from gun violence to general purpose hooliganism. Cities and counties from Chicago to Cherry Hill, New Jersey have introduced or strengthened bans on teens going out at certain hours or even going to the mall unattended. There is, as he writes, “just one problem”: “Even after more than a century of curfews in thousands of U.S. municipalities, no one seems to agree that they reduce crime.”
If anything, that is understating the case. There is effectively no evidence that they reduce violence and some studies suggest they may even increase it, by taking eyes off the streets or shifting policing energy to tracking down scofflaw teens. But, of course, in American criminal justice, “evidence” and “outcomes” hardly matter, as one remarkably honest police chief admits.
"I'm not concerned about studies that show curfew enforcement is not effective in reducing crime, because our curfew enforcement is not designed as a primary strategy to reduce violence," Canton, Ohio police chief John Gabbard told the Canton Repository. Instead, the point is “to identify juveniles in need of more supervision, hold parents and guardians accountable, and to connect them to resources when appropriate before the juveniles are victims or perpetrators of violent crime.” The goal, as ever, is to use policing as a universal social welfare policy, and to treat our youth as problems rather than people.
Philadelphia provides an illustrative example of whether and how the actual efficacy of curfews at reducing “crime” plays any part in their use. The city council there recently made headlines for voting to make its stringent 10 p.m. curfew for people under 18 (and 9:30 for anyone under 13) permanent. Maybe we ought to give this policy some time before we cast judgment on it? We could give it like 68 years maybe? That’s how long Philadelphia’s already permanent youth curfew has been law, it turns out. And, as student journalists documented in 2018, city leaders have been periodically announcing crackdowns and amendments and increased enforcement every few years ever since. It seems that whatever problems a curfew is intended to solve have not been addressed by several decades of having one on the books. But this is the city that also installed youth-directed sonic weapons in public parks; the problem seems to be less teen behavior than teen existence.
If the goal was the safety of our vulnerable young people, it should seem obvious that a law that practically mandates that rule-following kids are home while rule-breaking ones are out would both punish the rule-following teens and lead to riskier behaviors by their less obedient counterparts. But I suspect our police and elected officials see that less as a flaw than as an opportunity to introduce future criminals to the criminal justice system as early as possible—not with any sort of positive intervention, but with an early taste of submission to authority."]]>curfews children us youth police policing ageism 2023 alexpareene crime controlhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7415b2f6af64/The Ezra Klein Show: A Legendary World-Builder on Multiverses, Revolution and the ‘Souls’ of Cities on Apple Podcasts2022-12-05T05:05:25+00:00
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-legendary-world-builder-on-multiverses-revolution/id1548604447?i=1000583002187
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https://soundcloud.com/socialismconf/black-and-indigenous-liberation-a-dialogue-with-robyn-maynard-and-leanne-betasamosake-simpson
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https://futuress.org/stories/a-passive-mob/
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https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/waymo-cars-and-honey-bears
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https://millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/martin-luther-king-jr-dialectics-materialism-and-the-black-radical-critique-of-racial-capitalism-with-andrew-j-douglas-and-jared-a-loggins
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https://missionlocal.org/2021/12/san-francisco-tenderloin-matrix-declaration-of-emergency-london-breed/
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https://platformonline.uk/posts/justice-is-not-an-event-towards-understanding-abolition-ruth-wilson-gilmore-mariame-kaba-angela-davis
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https://groundedfutures.com/shows/silver-threads/silver-threads-episode-25-antonio-buehler/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjqiX3-TgaY
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLO0UuSnPzU
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https://twitter.com/BikoMandelaGray/status/1416480735511330822
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https://www.democracynow.org/2021/5/26/elizabeth_hinton_america_on_fire
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https://rebel.libsyn.com/bd
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https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/mike-davis-old-gods-set-night/
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https://groundings.simplecast.com/episodes/joy-james
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https://truthout.org/articles/black-trans-feminist-thought-can-set-us-free/
robertogrecoThe relation between pleasure and the possession of slave property, in both the figurative and literal senses, can be explained in part by the fungibility of the slave — that is, the joy made possible by virtue of the replaceability and interchangeability endemic to the commodity — and by the extensive capacities of property — that is, the augmentation of the master subject through his embodiment in external objects and persons. Put differently, the fungibility of the commodity makes the captive body an abstract and empty vessel vulnerable to the projection of others’ feelings, ideas, desires, and values.
Black queer and trans and feminist thought provide an arsenal of critique and praxis that allows us to think rigorously both about violence, and to think again alongside Frank Wilderson’s brilliant grammar, the demand for “gratuitous freedom.” The violence that you are describing is part of a broader matrix of the gender binary that constantly seeks to imperil and outlaw Blackness, despite the failed optimism of appeals to what Jared Sexton calls “borrowed institutionality.”
How might the discourse and praxis of Trans Studies help us to move forward, to a world where justice and radical love prevails?
One of the problems of the heralded moment of “trans visibility” is the assumption that trans is perceptible and knowable, that you can visually isolate trans or that there are more authentic versions of trans than others, which implies a kind of hierarchical and vertical visual economy. Trans visibility so often means surveillance, especially by non-trans people and also by the security state — from TSA at airports to the welfare line. This is rigorously studied and dismantled by Toby Beauchamp in Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and U.S. Surveillance Practices and in Eric Stanley’s brilliant essay on visibility as an anti-trans optic (and operation). I’m interested in how trans artists through their visual theorizing are subverting that order through iterations of trans “opacity” and troubling aesthetics as a racial and patriarchal regime. For example, Ser Serpas, who in a show in 2017 at the gallery Current Projects exhibited as “self- portrait,” undercuts the autobiographical notion of the self and its portrait, titled penultimate warrior. The “self-portrait” was an incinerated armchair that she had lit on fire after throwing estradiol on it. The armchair isn’t an armchair anymore; rather than perfected, it is undone. Trans as gender in ruins.
Thinking about another intervention and troubling of trans linearity and visibility within the frame of trans studies is Eva Hayward’s “More Lessons from a Starfish: Prefixial Flesh and Transspeciated Selves.” Hayward presents an alternative to the medical linear narrative of trans women and femme embodiment as ontological insufficiency and corporeal lack — the idea that to transition requires a supplement to an originary lack that is then solved by reassignment surgery that would make one into a “real” woman. Instead, Hayward shows how every cut is a fold, how there’s no lack but instead a transition of body from itself to itself.
Finally, in thinking about Black trans art and the afterlife of slavery, it’s important to bring attention to the incredible aesthetic, cinematic and archival labor of the filmmaker and artist Tourmaline. Hartman argues that the afterlife of slavery is an aesthetic problem and I see the work of Tourmaline as both an inhabitation of that problem, through speculative cinematography and what Hartman terms “critical fabulation.” Tourmaline’s film Salacia, which is now in the permanent collection of both the Museum of Modern Art and the Tate in London, as well as her films Happy Birthday Marsha and Atlantic is a Sea of Bones helps us imagine the Black trans aesthetics of abolition, as well as think of the historical temporality of Blackness and transness beyond the limits to and effacements of the archive of slavery.”]]>chegossett 2020 interviews gender trans blackness georgeyancy nonbinary justice liberation freedom feminism prisonabolition hortensespillers patriarchy heteropatriarchy policing policeabolition layleenpolanco economics cecemacdonald prisons incarceration race frantzfanon sylviawynter mauriceblanchot saidiyahartman frankwilderson fredmoten antonionegri queer queerness surveillance tobybeauchamp serserpas evahayward tourmaline slavery transness transgender history politics tsa jaredsexton institutions institutionality critique commoditization karlmarx marxism sociogeny criminalization zakiyyahimanjacksonhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5382b7468550/Dean Spade on the Promise of Mutual Aid | The Nation2020-12-19T09:37:32+00:00
https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/interview-dean-spade/
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