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I love art that is a simple gesture of refusal. Refusal to give you any explanation for a deeply arbitrary world.

Trisha Low, Socialist Realism

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You have to leave a place to figure out if it's where you really live. Whether or not it's home.

Trisha Low, Socialist Realism

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It's no wonder, as Wendy Brown points out, that suffering has always been the barometer of authenticity, and authenticity has in turn become proof of identity. Your bleeding wound is the evidence that allows you to name yourself part of a group; shared wounds have historically been the impetus for political solidarity. Movements are brotherhoods of suffering that gather numbers and grow, forming the bonds that are the basis of our politics, our shared homes. But for Brown, this increased focus on the shared wound also yields the compulsive policing of membership in any given identity group. It can become an unnecessary distraction. It can prevent us from focusing our energies against the process of the wounding. It stops us from detecting and addressing the structural and historical elements that harmed us in the first place. I think Brown is right when she points out how suffering, as the basis of identity, can curtail the possibilities for intersectional politics. It means we may end up forming movements that are exclusionary to those who cannot sufficiently prove themselves part of our identity group. often, this comes at the expense of building a true coalition with significant numbers. Svetlana Boym may warn us against letting emotional bonding outweigh our critical thinking, but what if this moment of emotional bonding is exactly what we need for collective activism, a platform from which critical thinking will be come relevant across difference? After all, when push comes to shove, one of my leftist friends of color reminds me, we might have more in common with the white kid standing next to us, masked up and holding an M18 smoke bomb, than the Asian cop in riot gear, or the Mexican border patrol agent. But the power in belonging, in professing sameness, is still sometimes the only power afforded to the oppressed and disenfranchised. So I itch my wound.

Trisha Low, Socialist Realism

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Trisha Low, from The Compleat Purge (2013)

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and our throats were bare for god.

Trisha Low, from The Compleat Purge

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Join Us At OAKLAND BOOK FESTIVAL!

The Rumpus will have a panel called “Creating Change: Leadership and the Literary Community”, which will consider how—and if—diversifying leadership within organizations and the publishing industry effects real change in the literary community. We’ll also discuss how the current administration has, and will continue to have, an effect on that community. With our country moving backward and our literary communities struggling to move forward, does diversity in leadership translate to diversity in content? If not, what additional changes are necessary to create a genuinely inclusive literary landscape?

Panelists include: Samantha Giles (Executive Director, Small Press Traffic), Anisse Gross (Author/Editor), Trisha Low (Publicity Manager, Small Press Distribution), Medaya Ocher (Managing Editor, Los Angeles Review of Books), and Arisa White (Poet/Writer/Educator). The panel will be moderated by our Editor-in-Chief, Marisa Siegel.

Our panel will take place from 12:30–1:45 p.m. PDT in the Dalziel Foyer. Can’t be in Oakland on May 21? We plan to stream our Rumpus panel live from The Rumpus’s Facebook page, so make sure you’re following us and stay tuned!