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Can you imagine a world without oppression? What would it look like? What would it feel like? What would it be like to be you? . I think we need to go beyond identifying what it would NOT include - not oppression, not violence, not racism, not ignorance. To move us to new places, we must envision and articulate radical new ways of being. What would that entail? . I imagine a world where all people experience connectedness, bonds of understanding, & community marked by generosity and creativity, together which give us the ability to solve our collective problems with grace, ingenuity, and care. . Envisioning this possible future in detail makes me believe liberation is possible. It’s how I maintain hope, commitment, and stamina to keep pushing and growing and loving more. To build a future I believe in, one for which so many people before us have struggled, fought, and died. . How do you imagine that a world without oppression would look and feel? . #feministfriendship #imagineliberation #aworldwithoutoppression

#Repost @sarahsophief . White nationalism has deep American roots. The recent rise of white nationalism is global and is taking its cues from the US. The rhetoric coming out of this white house is emboldening hate and emboldening the terrorism we saw at the Christchurch Mosque. Today is Islam’s holy day. Holding my Muslim family in my heart. @adserwer wrote, in @theatlantic, about “the history of the “white genocide” conspiracy theory, which treats the presence and immigration of those deemed non-white as an existential threat. That hatred appears to have been the motive for a terrorist attack on Muslims in New Zealand.” (Link in stories for whole piece). “The concept of “white genocide”—extinction under an onslaught of genetically or culturally inferior nonwhite interlopers—may indeed seem like a fringe conspiracy theory with an alien lineage, the province of neo-Nazis and their fellow travelers. In popular memory, it’s a vestige of a racist ideology that the Greatest Generation did its best to scour from the Earth. History, though, tells a different story. King’s recent question, posed in a New York Times interview, may be appalling: “White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization—how did that language become offensive?” But it is apt. “That language” has an American past in need of excavation. Without such an effort, we may fail to appreciate the tenacity of the dogma it expresses, and the difficulty of eradicating it. The president’s rhetoric about “shithole countries” and “invasion” by immigrants invites dismissal as crude talk, but behind it lie ideas whose power should not be underestimated.” - @adserwer #keepshowingup #stayhuman Image via @michaelskolnik

Some people say oppression will never end, that racism and sexism are here to stay. I often hear it is “human nature” to dominate each other and be horrible to those who are different from us. hooks describes these people as the “prophets of doom,” and names the capitalist values that assume there are not enough resources or well-being to go around for everyone to live a good life. These beliefs are a mix of cynicism, apathy, and complicity that actually serve to keep oppressive systems intact. . . But we can be confident in our belief that the world can change. Because people have changed. And we can change, too. . . . #feministfriendship #allaboutlove #bellhooks

Final lecture prep on hooks’ “All About Love.” What is love? A verb, an act of will, a complex of many different ingredients. This is perhaps one of the most important lessons I never learned in any of my formal education, and I don’t want that to be the case for my students.

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