radical love

[alex]

radical love (a winter study hall)

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@the invitation

I’m not sure whether it was via bell hooks or Loretta J. Ross, that I first heard about (more like felt) the notion radical love. Love as a foundational and transformational basis for being. For living. For each action we take.

Responsibility, accountability — living interdependence as the path to full self-expression — radical love makes this possible.

Otherwise, it’s at best petty squabbling. And we get to see the worst and everything in between daily. Some of us getting hit harder than others.

why not radical love?

It’s not a bubble gum sweet fantasy, this sh*t is serious. I’m not saying it can’t be wildly fun… It’s everything. Or, I imagine it is (because I am nowhere near embodying radical love — I’m kind of squeaking open a door here)…even though I have little from personal lived experience to share with you - for this Friday’s winter love study hall, I did want to ask: what would you propose instead?

I’m not looking for easy answers. Just to consider it…even with all the hard and horrible that happens in the world, I’m drawn to radical love - a love ethic…how about you, how does this sit with you?

bell hooks, all about love, p.87

Loretta J. Ross, Calling in the Calling Out Culture (Fall 2020 session)

When you ask people to give up hate, you have to be there for them.

Meaning you can’t call them in to just berate them… I don’t think this is easy to do and I don’t know that I’ve ever done it… But I still have the same question (for myself, for us): if not radical love, what then, are we signing up for?

Will you join me in study hall?

Come as you are. This isn’t about sugar-coating things or lip-service to love. Come argue with me if you like…

Register here for winter love study hall on Friday 04-Mar from 5:30-6:15pm EST, where we’ll explore radical love.

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