FKRG Open Session - February 2019
Our first open session of the year was centred around the theme ROOTS.
(Image provided by Cynthia Florek ♥)
In her blog post 'movements like trees' adrienne maree brown asked, 'where are you growing your roots, who are you intertwined with? these feel like crucial questions right now.' Almost nine years later these questions remain crucial for FKRG, as we embark on a new year of figuring out what it means to work with and through each other. And still, more questions arise. What does it meant to be rooted on stolen land? What roots have we been made to forget due to colonial violence and forced migration? What rooting processes have we been forced to be complicit with? What are the roots we have chosen, and what roots do we want to choose? How are these choices influenced by the lineages that have come before us, these inherited histories, the ways they refuse to be straight? What is happening beneath us, within us, that we can't see or name but sustains us, makes us whole, facilitates our growth? How do these twisted, fragmented, beautifully queer roots tangle together, just as we tangle together? How will this tangled and twisted mess become the foundation for our group?
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Readings
Excerpts from Sara Ahmed’s interview on Lithub: “Once we find each other, so much else becomes possible”
Oodgeroo Noonuccal - The Past
Music
akka - home as a temporal, not spatial, category
Laurel Halo - Raw Silk Uncut Wood
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Until next time, happy (or not) Feminist Killjoy-ing!
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