Sign up or Log in
Are.na
Tshegofatso Senne
Book musings
Info
  • Pleasure
    • Defining, theory, praxis, philosophy
  • Community
    • Yearning, creating, intentions
  • Trauma
    • Haunting, ancestry, accountability
  • Home
    • Belonging, yearning, chosen family, choosing self,
  • Desire
    • Sex magic, haunting, erotica,
  • Care
    • Webs, needs, sustaining, intimacy, tenderness
  • Dis(ease)
    • Illness, disability, trauma, community, grief
  • Spirit
    • Dlozi, haunting, healing, remembering & misremembering
  • Kink
    • Defining, exploring, trauma, healing
7 Followers
View
Grid
Table

“If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

New ways of thinking

Sit with your loved ones for dinner today and talk about the stories of your ancestors. Notice how the air feels during the conversation.

1
MATERIAL WORLD/SPIRITUAL WORLD
MATERIAL WORLD/SPIRITUAL WORLD
The Art of Going Through
The Art of Going Through
98407_C.gif
98407_C.gif

The body is a haunted terrain—a living record of personal, familial, social, and epigenetic memory. To look at my father’s body now—the way he shuffles when he walks, the atrophy in his once-nimble fingers, the nerve pain in his feet, the cloudiness in his eyes as he loses his sight—it too is a record of a forgotten life, and of the systems that failed it. I carry the memory of him in his splendor and his decline. And what I carry of him is also connected to the land, its seam connecting memory, legacy into the future. Memory itself is a kind of map, linked to textures, smells, songs, places, the act of remembering in and of itself a kind of haunting. Music is one of the few portals I have into my fragmented memory, and writing the only way I know to recover my people from the nothing of forgetting, to resist the erasure of the border and its constant overwriting of history, to salvage what is disappearing.

∆ Vanessa Angélica Villarreal, from “La Cancion de la Nena,” Oxford American (Summer 2021)

Vanessa Angélica Villarreal, from “La C…
bell-hooks.pdf
bell-hooks.pdf
pdf
call out the BS
call out the BS
What the Meadow Teaches Us – World Sensorium / Conservancy
What the Meadow Teaches Us – World Sens…
fbd62bd0-f905-4dc7-ada5-f4232d857c5b.jpg
fbd62bd0-f905-4dc7-ada5-f4232d857c5b.jp
Join Are.na to follow Book musings
Sign upExplore