self-love (a winter love study hall)
Self-love, in a world built on binary, transactional, hierarchical frameworks, where individuals are ever in competition, self-love (where to love, as bell hooks shows us, is to systematically support a person’s integrity as well as your own) is inherently radical. It’s not bubble baths (though they’re allowed) and days off from work (though they are deeply needed); it’s a stance against our dominant culture of duality, a resting in complexity and an ever-developing a practice of interdependence.
Sonya Renee Taylor, poet and author of The Body Is Not An Apology, The Power of Radical Self-Love in a conversation on Layla F. Saad’s Good Ancestor podcast shared this with us:
…radical self-love is as far as I’m concerned first and foremost a political framework. It is a social justice framework and so I invite people when they think about this idea of radical self-love to see their relationship with themselves as a personal relationship and as a deeply political relationship. And so our transformation is a political necessity. Audre Lorde says self-care is not an act of self-indulgence but an act of political warfare. — Sonya Renee Taylor on Radical Self Love
It’s a lot to take in.
Can we do it together?
Hope to see you at this week’s winter love study hall.
Fri, 25-Feb from 5:30-6:15pm EST.
Register here to attend.
