not my sadness but our sadness

Admit something:
Everyone you see, you say to them, "Love me."

Of course you do not do this out loud, otherwise
someone would call the cops.

Still, though, think about this, this great pull in us to connect.

Why not become the one who lives with a
full moon in each eye that is
always saying,

with that sweet moon language,
what every other eye in
this world is
dying to
hear?

“God created an otherness so that we would dedicate our lives to a union with each other.”

“The measure of our compassion lies not in our service of those on the margins but in our willingness to see ourselves in kinship — and so that means the decided movement towards awe and giant steps away from judgement. How can we seek a compassion that can stand in awe at what people have to carry rather than in judgement of how they carry it.”

how can queerness be the method through which we come together? what would a queer methodology to solidarity look like and how can this model best be shared?

convergence zones: moments where radicalism across space and time came together. revolutionary moments rehearsing the afterlives of the mexican revolution and its own heterogeneity to be a foundation for a new kind of solidarity, internationalism always evolving

“The way we protect ourselves from loss may be the way we distance ourselves from life.”

bostrom’s existential risk draws from the work of t.s. eliot’s “the hollow men” but erases the imprint of internal human divisions and violence, looking instead towards the existential risks to a generalized humanity, as if that’s something we’ve all been able to share.

"Living means learning to hold the astonishingly beautiful and unbearably hard things in the same palm."

-Suleika Jaouad

“What if, whenever we used these concepts, we’re touching these populations again? What if every time we think through these concepts we re-open and rethink through the relations that made these possible. So that segregation doesn’t become something that’s passed…but rather something that’s relived and reanimated every time we use these concepts.”