The Shapes of Grief
September 09, 2024 at 11:19PMChristina Sharpe’s poignant essay—a series of 19 vignettes—examines how we grieve and mourn, how we use words to describe loss and death and terror, and how language can undo, remake, and change the shape of the world.
“Encampments are not only zones of demands & refusals, but also processes of communing, making decisions together, enacting solidarity as a verb, embodying autonomous & collective liberation. They are themselves zones of imagination, of connection, of prefiguring life & new worlds.”
This is Harsha Walia writing about the student encampments on campuses in the United States and Canada and France and the United Kingdom and elsewhere.
This is a vocabulary and a practice of our possible living.
from Longreads https://longreads.com/2024/09/09/the-shapes-of-grief/
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