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“Documentation is a feminist project.” - Sara Ahmed . Over a year ago, I wrote a plan for myself. Since then, I’ve filled nearly three books of thoughts, outlines, feelings, conversations...and I’m reading them today with gratitude for how much I’ve loved myself enough and held space for myself (diligently, and without reservation) to eventually be able to listen to myself and hear what I need to hear, see what I need to see, to help me become the person I want to be. #feministfriendship

Healing has become more prominent and central to my own reflections over the past several years. While it is important for us to process our traumas and pain for the sake of improving our own lives and wellbeing, it is also a crucial part of liberation. Oppression creates weighty burdens that grind us down, so much that we often end up grinding ourselves and others down, too. Audre Lorde said we need to confront the oppressors within, which I believe includes tending to the painful things in us that need attention to heal. We must remember, the future does not need to be one of suffering. And we are responsible for getting ourselves there. . Serendipity led me to the beautiful writing of @rainbowsalt. I love this from The Beauty of Our Scars. . #feministfriendship

Freedom, Love, & Liberation: A World Without Oppression. Last semester was the first time in ten years I wasn’t teaching in the classroom, but I set a goal to explore new ways of teaching and engaging with new students. I have always loved teaching feminist theory, and I am so grateful to the students who learned with me as we explored the nature of feminist friendship together for the past three years each spring. This semester, I’m drilling down even more to basics and fundamentals to create a short course that feels like a natural culmination of my thinking & teaching thus far. It’s going to be different in so many ways that I know will stretch me as a person and educator, but I’m so excited to see what happens. For starters, I’ve decided to play with how to present the reading schedule. 🤗 #feministfriendship

I’ve been trying to be patient with myself. (Yes, even after two full years of wondering, “What is the potential for feminist friendship? What can it look like?”) . I’m grateful for time to think and create and retrace familiar lines so that the “how” of the “what” can continue becoming more clear to me. . My goals for 2019 include exploring the non-linear, meta-level, personal, political, and philosophical publicly-engaged, feminist critical pedagogy and praxis of liberatory self-overcoming for freedom, healing, liberation, and meaning. . That may sound intimidating or like a bunch of word soup. Or like the basis of a new cult. But I swear it’s just how I live and think through every day. My hope is to become ever more integrated into that practice (and not devolve into mental and emotional chaos...though I think my man, Nietzsche, would be proud and love every bit of my process). Here’s to trying! #feministfriendship

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