ASG Stuff

Activism, Society and Green related issues > a real mix of finds and whatever connects *NB: ALL TEXT FROM THE ORIGINAL SITES*

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Conversations around race and privilege are usually met with a kind of silencing, distancing, and resistance from white-bodied individuals. There is often a collapse of the reflecting, thinking space and an aggressive assertion of personal innocence on the part of the white-bodied person; this is mixed with a seeming inability to engage the systemic. (Beyond Fragility: Interpassive White Rage | The Other Journal)

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Given that White individuals disproportionately occupy “gatekeeping” positions of power, one key barrier to systemic change is rooted in White individuals’ emotional (and emotion-regulatory) responses when considering their own role in racism (e.g., involvement in racist systems, biased actions). White people often experience such moments as a jeopardy to their valued goals and are consequently highly motivated to reduce the negative emotions that they feel by denying or avoiding the issue—a multifaceted response known as a White fragility response. (White fragility: An emotion regulation perspective. | American Psychological Association)

PDF: Ford, B. Q., Green, D. J., & Gross, J. J. (2022). White fragility: An emotion regulation perspective. American Psychologist, 77(4), 510–524

4 Ways White People Can Process Their Emotions Without Bringing the White Tears | Every Day Feminism

How white women use strategic tears to silence women of colour | The Guardian

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Emotional flooding “outstrips your ability to use the smarter part of your brain,” she says. The result is that everything collapses into one-dimensional thinking... (What ‘Emotional Flooding’ Really Means—And How to Handle It | Time Magazine)

Emotional Flooding: Why Arguments Make You Shut Down | ReachLink

What Is Emotional Flooding? | The candidly

Understanding and Coping With Emotional Flooding | Psychology Today

What Neuroscience Tells Us About Emotional Flooding and 8 Ways to Feel More in Control of Your Emotions | Wildflower

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An increasing number of new films hinge on direct action – Úna O’Shea explores their potential to advance a culture of resistance. This article features spoilers for I’m a Virgo, Code Name Jenny, Black 47 and How to Blow Up a Pipeline. (Leftist direct action thrillers: a new genre? | revsoc21)

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I think the strategic pacifists are wrong in saying that it is a law that as soon as you engage in property destruction, and more militant tactics that involve violence, you alienate the masses. (..) But you need to do this in a smart way. (‘Property Will Cost Us the Earth’: On Ecological Rage and Class Hatred | ArtReview)

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The [short docu-drama] film, shot by Hooper (The King’s Speech, The Danish Girl)... follows a day in the life of 15-year-old autistic girl Ash – cast alongside her real family and best friends – and her elemental relationship with her favourite hoodie, which was central to the bespoke script. (Me, My Autism and I: Vanish unveils its Channel 4 Diversity In Advertising Award-Winning campaign | Channel 4)

See the short film Me, My Autism & I here on YouTube

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The Justice Dictionary

These terms, phrases, and labels — drawn from the diverse stories covered in The Emancipator — can give you context to understand what we’re

These terms, phrases, and labels — drawn from the diverse stories covered in The Emancipator — can give you context to understand what we’re living through and ideas for the kind of world we can build. (The Justice Dictionary | The Emancipator)

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When Hannah got naked on screen, it was Dunham depicting, in the most direct way possible, the show’s awareness of Hannah’s lack of self-awareness. It was also “Girls” telling the viewer, “we don’t care what you think about it.” (‘Girls’: Why Lena Dunham Getting Naked For 6 Seasons Proves the Show’s Greatness | IndieWire)

Lena Dunham Opens Up About Her Body Confidence In Exclusive Interview | Marie Claire

Nudity and graphic sex? Lena Dunham and ‘Girls’ can do better | LA Times

Why Lena Dunham’s Persistent Nudity in ‘Girls’ is Important | Incite

Television Critic Doesn’t “Get” Why Lena Dunham Is Naked All the Time | Slate

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Chief Ninawa Huni Kui, from the Amazon... talks about the fact that climate change, climate destabilization, and biodiversity collapse are not things that are happening outside of us. The famines, fires, and floods that are happening in our environment are also happening in our internal landscapes. Our formal modern education is extremely effective at numbing us to the expressions of these effects, but they are still there and cannot be repressed forever. (Hospicing Modernity: A Conversation (Vanessa Machado de Oliveira Andreotti and Lucia Pietroiusti) | e-flux Journal)

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I don’t want to nurture that feeling within myself, nor do I want to cultivate it in others as if it were a declaration of surrender, but we can’t continue to deny the evidence. If we have climate events altering the weather, why should we continue to overspend on things nobody needs? (It’s not the end, we have several possible futures: Interview with Indigenous author Ailton Krenak | Mongabay)

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The Global Justice Project attempts to set out a new vision for global progress in the 21st century: grounding human development and equality in planetary habitability. It explores the conditions under which the world could move toward this horizon and traces an economically and ecologically consistent transition path from 2026 to 2100. (The Global Justice Project)

See also

‘An equal and habitable world is possible’: academics set out sweeping vision for planetary survival

A good life for the 99% isn’t a pipe dream: it can be done. Here’s how

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The nearly hour-long film takes us on a journey through what George calls the ‘movement of images of race through time’ and sits adjacent to an installation of images from the archive. These pictures are often zoomed into and cropped, zeroing in on the Black figure, varying from two women lying in what looks like a post-coital dream state to chilling anthropological photography and Medieval spectres. (Edward George re-presents an archive of images depicting Blackness at the Warburg Institute | The World of Interiors)

See also:

Edward George: ‘You get beauty, but it’s inseparable from a history of violence’ | Financial Times

Who Are You Looking At? Opening up Edward George’s ‘Black Atlas’ | Ocula

At the Warburg | London Review of Books

Fever Dream as Archive, Archive as Fever Dream | Art Review

Edward George Has Composed a Peculiar Kind of Atlas | Elephant

On Ghosts and The Moving Image: Edward George’s Black Atlas | Contemporary And

Edward George: The Strangeness of Warburg | The Warburg Institute

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We can’t have an honest reckoning about race until we start to recognize all the ways in which privilege and prejudice creep into our lives (Why we need to call out casual racism | TED Ideas)

See also Why saying “I don’t see race at all” just makes racism worse | TED Ideas

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Racism denial is a coping tool. The contradiction of living in a society that preaches equality, freedom, and democracy but often practices the opposite, generates psychic distress, triggering denial. Whether reflecting strategy or psychology, racism denial comes in many forms. (The art of the denial | The Emancipator)

See also BEYOND GUILT AND RACISM DENIAL | The American Psychologist

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...Afroféminas, an Afrofeminist platform that promotes equality, representation and racial justice. Its purpose was to make the multiple ways of living and expressing Blackness visible, and also to educate on the different manifestations of racism. (AfroféminasGPT: A decolonial and anti-racist AI | Technology | EL PAÍS English)

See also:

ChatGPT - Afroféminas GPT

Afroféminas

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How racism operates in clinical work, supervision and our institutions is explored, and whilst it can seem an intractable problem, proposals are given for ways forward. This book will be of great importance to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, social workers and all those with an interest in the role of white privilege on mental health. (The Work of Whiteness: A Psychoanalytic Perspective | Routledge)

See also “The baby who is born pink learns to become white” | Tavistock and Portman and Tavistock Policy Seminar: Whiteness – A problem for our time | YouTube

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Taking inspiration from the deep well of anti-racist and social activist writers such as Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò and Angela Davis, each chapter offers tips on how to learn, reflect and act in a society where we are told we are powerless. (Radical Justice: Building the World We Need)