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Arca and Marina Abramović on Divas, Death, and Body Drama

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won't you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. born in babylon both nonwhite and woman what did i see to be except myself? i made it up here on this bridge between starshine and clay, my one hand holding tight my other hand; come celebrate with me that everyday something has tried to kill me and has failed. - Lucille Clifton

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from The God-Human Relationship in Octavia Butler’s “The Book of Martha” by Elham Mohammadi Achachelooei and Carol Elizabeth Leon 

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bell hooks, All About Love (1999)

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...suffering as a way of knowledge that is often expressed through the body, what it knows, what has been deeply inscribed on it through experience.

bell hooks, 1991 

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The Uhuruverse for i-D  

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ISAAC for Kynk Magazine, Chocolate III

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T.S. ending a fb status

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Zdá sa, že namiesto toho, aby sme l'uďom pomáhali získat moc - a mám na mysli skôr silu než moc nad niekým - a aby sme utvárali spoločnosť, v ktorej sa budeme cítiť bezpečne a milované, učíme l'udí, ako si na nespravedlivosť privykať. […] Namiesto toho, aby sme sa učili, ako bojovať proti útlaku a nespravedlivosti, ktoré poznačia nielen naše vlastné prežívanie, dostáváme tréning v prerámcování negativných zážitkov na pozitivné výzvy.

Alexandra Osterágová, Šťastná navzdory osudu  (Kapitál 03, 2020)

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Moses Sumney, Cut me 

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There is a distinction I am beginning to make in my living between pain and suffering. Pain is an event, an experience that must be recognised, named, and then used in some way in order for the experience of change, to be transformed into something else, strength or knowledge or action. Suffering, on the other hand, is the nightmare reliving of unscrutinised and unmetabolised pain. When I live through pain without recognising it, self-consciously, I rob myself of the power that can come from using that pain, the power to fuel some movement beyond it. I condemn myself to reliving that pain over and over and over and over whenever something close triggers it. And that is suffering, a seemingly inescapable cycle.

Audre Lorde, Eye to Eye: Black Women, Hatred and Anger 

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Charles Eisenstein, Coronation (March 2020)

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“Don't sweat it, just get it We're too cool to admit it” Meet Sudan Archives, the violin player rejecting genre—and Western tuning 

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Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents (1998)

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Nemesis (Emily Segal & Martti Kalliala), The Umami Theory of Value: Autopsy of the Experience Economy