politics-of-hope
Last post i discussed how violence and colonial projects erased identities and rituals of healing, leading to cycles of trauma and domination that we have inherited globally. i also discussed how thinkers like Frantz Fanon believed that violence was necessary for overthrowing oppressive regimes and for liberation movements but this
politics-of-hope
i keep having this thought - it comes up between the latest horrors and updates from Gaza - about how we heal from legacies of violence. Beneath the drones and rubble is a story so old it feels ancestral. A story of people being erased by those who were once
politics-of-hope
A couple years ago i became obsessed with Yellowstone. Yes, that one. The conservative cowboy epic, with all its horses, open skies, gravelly-voiced patriarchs, and rugged Americana soaked in blood and sentiment. And not just Yellowstone but the entire world Taylor Sheridan has constructed - Neo cowboy, sprawling mythologies centered