I agree that profane is the way to go. I think I have always known that and have tried to push the verbal envelope in many situations. I would love to be part of the revolution of the incendiary!
I definitely agree with you about the intersectional "catechism", where you must toe the party line on everything and parrot the wording du jour. It's like no one ever learns from past movements, like they think they're creating worlds out of whole cloth in ways no one ever did before. Insisting on this Marxist purity has caused movements to crash and burn; if they'd opened themselves , some great progress could have been made (cf, the 9to5 organization for working women). You then you leave your movement vulnerable to the chance that people who might agree with you on most things will instead run fleeing for rightists who offer the illusion of security and less judgment. I have Sarah Schulman's collection of essays about activism, and in her telling of her first meeting with Maxine Wolfe mentions that Maxine's philosophy is "people can only be where they are". I got that book in 1994 and that mindset has stuck with me ever since.
I agree that profane is the way to go. I think I have always known that and have tried to push the verbal envelope in many situations. I would love to be part of the revolution of the incendiary!
yeah, let's see what trouble we can get into.
You seem happy
Yeah. Doing this newsletter has cheered me up. (Who knew?) And the better weather helps. xoxo
I definitely agree with you about the intersectional "catechism", where you must toe the party line on everything and parrot the wording du jour. It's like no one ever learns from past movements, like they think they're creating worlds out of whole cloth in ways no one ever did before. Insisting on this Marxist purity has caused movements to crash and burn; if they'd opened themselves , some great progress could have been made (cf, the 9to5 organization for working women). You then you leave your movement vulnerable to the chance that people who might agree with you on most things will instead run fleeing for rightists who offer the illusion of security and less judgment. I have Sarah Schulman's collection of essays about activism, and in her telling of her first meeting with Maxine Wolfe mentions that Maxine's philosophy is "people can only be where they are". I got that book in 1994 and that mindset has stuck with me ever since.