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Lately we’ve been coming back to a truth that’s all too easy to forget when the pain of oppression is so loud: it’s not enough to resist and fight the status quo of extreme capitalism and the transphobic white supremacist heteropatriarchy.
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To do so keeps us trapped in a binary that will always privilege toxic power.
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We resist and fight to survive, and it is often driven by crisis and trauma. Trauma is rooted in pain and stress. Our collective liberation is not found in this place. Make no mistake; fighting back is often part of healing and staying alive. It’s necessary. And, it’s not all we are capable of.
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We also get to dream and build the world we want, on our terms. Not in response to our oppressors. In response to US: our thriving while feeling pain, our laughing together even when they want us dead, our supporting each other as they try to conquer and divide, our truth telling even as they try to erase us, our attempts to redistribute power and resources as they try to crush us. And our identities that exist wholly outside of this system. We are pretty amazing, actually. And binaries always = death.
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Let’s move to the overlap in this Venn diagram. And let us not allow our privilege to turn that space to saviorism, because that’s still existing in the binary of our oppressors.
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For the collective, this post is highly influenced by the work of: @rachaelrice who literally posted this image in her stories (and image by #redkelders ), @desireeadaway @sanyuestelle @theladyalx @adriennemareebrown @alokvmenon and @theartsob and @mckensiemack
So like I said, this is a story about freedom.
I remember telling a friend a few years ago that I feel most free when I'm in my bikini. I remember that moment when we were walking down the street in Playa Hermosa, headed to the beach for sunset, and we were all smiles and sunshine and he just sort of looked at me when I said it, seeming surprised that it could be true. In that moment, it actually was. The ability to live nearly naked, skin touching air and sand and sea, that was what freedom felt like to me.
In subtle ways, that freedom has been stripped, little by little, in unwanted glances and uninvited comments made by men and some women. And I fight to hold on to any semblance of that feeling, which may have been lost now entirely on that trip to El Salvador, where the freedom I once felt in my bikini was grounds for reminding me just how vulnerable my body actually is. Not because of what I wear, but because I am a woman. And that makes my body feel like my own little prison of skin I should hide, when it once felt absolutely free to kiss the air and swim wildly in the sea, wearing as little fabric as socially possible. At best, being in my bikini now often feels like both freedom and prison, simultaneously, however impossibly contradictory that might be.
from ' a Surfeminist Story - Part II' now live on the website at link in bio. .
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