there is a really excellent section of this podcast where franny and danez, the two poet hosts of this (my favorite) poetry podcast, share their thinking about what it means to have a crew. i’m just going to drop the bullet points below, but you should listen for yourself if you want the ground truth. the link is timestamped to the part of the conversation i’m talking about.
Read more...in the past ten days, two or three different people (alex, sam, and maybe one other) have said something of this effect to me:
Read more...Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by Adrienne Maree Brown
Read more...so, the octavia e. butler come up is real. i personally attribute it most directly at scale to one adrienne maree brown, but i know it’s more complicated than that. anyway…
Read more...as a person socialized as a man, i have been conditioned into disconnection with my feelings. this diminishes my humanity in a number of ways that i am still uncovering (and probably will be forever).
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