Observations
“You can form no intimacy without vulnerability” We continue to remain our own islands and seem to refuse to accept any experience but our own. It’s like an entire population is being gaslit, ad the need the demand for change (for action) is so prevalent- yet they are being told “There is no injury. There is no loss. We don’t need to change anything.”
The idea that falling in love, or experiencing, allowing in self love for people of color, is a radical, “revolutionary” feat. In General, as a person with white privilege, I have never really had to grapple with the idea of ownership of my own body. How devastating it must be to have no agency or autonomy and inherit those “historic” feelings.
American culture’s concern with consumption and having more has sparked fear and suspicion of people we have chosen to “other.” With all focus being on the self, the “invulnerable”- no need for others. We amass, amass, amass (take, take, take) and still fear.
Questions
White supremacy has always remained active and antagonistic despite many who did not find it to be an antagonistic contradiction (as it did not affect them). Now that it is far more “on the surface” for even those who are unaffected by it to see, now that the “needle has moved”, why is it still so easy for people to regress back to their “historical privileges”? What will it take to shift someone’s thinking to outside themselves?
Why does society train us to be “emotionally reactive” but not to take action? The desire to do is there but comfort holds us back.
Why has a society attempting to breed the “inhuman, invulnerable man” brought forth so many with immense need and fear and paranoia?
My vision for Radical Hope is shifting the focus from reacting to taking action. I am guilty of having big emotional responses over current issues, and then not standing up and taking action. It is easy, it is comfortable, and I do not have to walk around being comforted by it just by living and breathing. However, if you are not part of the solutions you are a part of the problem and eradicating complacency is a necessary step.
Using my art practice to get people invested in people as a whole, to get them invested in issues outside of themselves, for no other reason other than that is is wrong. Shed the individualized life, personal fears and complacencies as it just draws larger dividing lines.
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