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blckgirlondex

“If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.”

— Audre Lorde

Could not decide on which pie to get, so we got all of them.

Fred Moten and Stefano Harney - the undercommons: fugitive planning & black study (10)

The wild beyond: with and for the undercommons - Jack Halberstam

#fred moten #books #critical thinking #stefanoharney #theundercommons

beingharsh

It is the phenomenon sometimes called alienation from self. In its advanced stages, we no longer answer the telephone, because someone might want something; that we could say no without drowning in self-reproach is an idea alien to this game. Every encounter demands too much, tears the nerves, drains the will, and the spectre of something as small as an unanswered letter arouses such disproportionate guilt that one's sanity becomes an object of speculation among one's acquaintances. To assign unanswered letters their proper weight, to free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves—there lies the great, the singular power of self-respect. Without it, one eventually discovers the final turn of the screw: one runs away to find oneself, and finds no one at home.

"On Self-Respect", Joan Didion

thomasmartinnutt

Josef Koudelka. FRANCE, 1976

thetendertongue

tremblement -> from Glissant: the act of thinking without domination; thought that shivers, shifts, listens, and allows for uncertainty. not about controlling or mastering an idea, person, or place, but about being in relation with it. grounded in care, in listening, in humility; resists totalizing truths, singular narratives; staying open to the unknown; refusing mastery and allowing yourself to be changed in relation; honors multiplicity

thetendertongue

right to opacity — from Glissant: the right to not be fully known, decoded, or made transparent; to resist being flattened into one meaning or one identity; a refusal or surveillance, overexposure, total explanation; a poetics of protection