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I’ve been thinking a lot about the imagination of the colonizer. Everything we are living through in this current moment is borne out of the brutal imagination of those who use war as their only tactic—whilst espousing peace as their artillery blows bodies up in Gaza and Tehran. It’s classic colonial gaslighting. But the fact is, the most egregious war mongering nations on Earth are the U.S and Israel.
When you think about it, their settler innocence is a mythological orchestration that is wrapped around a little narrative of defense but the aggression of these two genocidal entities is so clear that the question now is are we prepared to write the truth of this moment? Are we ready to do this examination of ourselves and society?
I believe writers are being asked to stand up and take note, take witness, and master the pen like the weapon we know it can be.
Let’s break down the narrative here of Western propaganda. Something Edward Said once said is very important here: “One of the shabbiest of all intellectual gambits is to pontificate about abuses in someone else’s culture and to excuse the same practices in one’s own.”
What story do we want to write if we get to be the ones who tell it? This to me is the important work of our times. If you’ve been feeling frustrated, angry and isolated — I am with you. One of the reasons I’ve pivoted to being an educator right now is to meet this moment. This time is asking us to dream something bigger than this ugly colonial supremacist imagination. If we believe in a better world, what does it look like? Let’s dream it together. On March 21st, to mark the Equinox, I will be holding “Spring Sessions: Writing Towards Revolution.”
This selection is sliding scale and starts at $11.11 to $33.33 and anybody is welcome to pay what they can. Please join me, let’s move this grief and rage into the fruitful foundations of the utopia and end of global hegemonic capitalism that we all deserve.
I’ve been thinking a lot about the imagination of the colonizer. Everything we are living through in this current moment is borne out of the brutal imagination of those who use war as their only tactic—whilst espousing peace as their artillery blows bodies up in Gaza and Tehran. It’s classic colonial gaslighting. But the fact is, the most egregious war mongering nations on Earth are the U.S and Israel.
When you think about it, their settler innocence is a mythological orchestration that is wrapped around a little narrative of defense but the aggression of these two genocidal entities is so clear that the question now is are we prepared to write the truth of this moment? Are we ready to do this examination of ourselves and society?
I believe writers are being asked to stand up and take note, take witness, and master the pen like the weapon we know it can be.
Let’s break down the narrative here of Western propaganda. Something Edward Said once said is very important here: “One of the shabbiest of all intellectual gambits is to pontificate about abuses in someone else’s culture and to excuse the same practices in one’s own.”
What story do we want to write if we get to be the ones who tell it? This to me is the important work of our times. If you’ve been feeling frustrated, angry and isolated — I am with you. One of the reasons I’ve pivoted to being an educator right now is to meet this moment. This time is asking us to dream something bigger than this ugly colonial supremacist imagination. If we believe in a better world, what does it look like? Let’s dream it together. On March 21st, to mark the Equinox, I will be holding “Spring Sessions: Writing Towards Revolution.”
This selection is sliding scale and starts at $11.11 to $33.33 and anybody is welcome to pay what they can. Please join me, let’s move this grief and rage into the fruitful foundations of the utopia and end of global hegemonic capitalism that we all deserve.