When we widen language, we widen understanding and we widen questions. We allow for questions that we might not necessarily allow for if things are too boxed off. I feel like it’s questions that are going to get us through.
Gavin Van Horn, Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Hausdoerffer (Part 2)
When you anthropomorphize, you give human traits to simplify complex beings out of a laziness of not fully understanding them.
Gavin Van Horn, Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Hausdoerffer (Part 1)
We can get very serious about how kinship relationships are threatened by the violence of global capitalism. We have to practice, play with, flirt with ways of kinning that build resilience in the face of that.
The good thing about historical responsibility is that you don’t have to interrogate it too much — you can just run with it.
People always forget about numbers, names, all kind of information, but they never forget a strong feeling. Maybe to turn on a mute alarm is the most effective way inform, that would be in any case my politics.