The Optative Mood

Beautiful ginger tabby yawns during Dr. William Barber's sermon at Middle Church in 2017 on the laptop.

When I am weak, despairing, and lost, I re-watch Dr. William Barber's sermon at Middle Church from 2017 and am renewed. Whatever you hold sacred, whether religious or not, miraculous and creative freedom can and does break into history. Happy new year, beloved friends!

Small tuxedo cat is sitting on the lower shelf of a tall bookshelf, looking up at the many books above her

Too many books to name, but Miss Kanmani is interested in them all

I don't know about importing old tweets, but there's a browser extension that finds all the people you follow on Twitter who are now here. It's called Sky Follower Bridge. It takes forever, but it finds all the overlaps.

A ginger tabby flops over a laptop showing a PDF of Gerald Horne's 2015 book, "Confronting Black Jacobins". The laptop is propped up against a red and orange pillow on a bed with a pink, yellow, and white bedspread.

Selvi is reading in different mediums. The book is "Confronting Black Jacobins: The United States, the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican Republic", by Gerald Horne. (A good reminder from Selvi to revisit C.L.R James' "Black Jacobins" itself.)

Prints available

All profits raised from this print will be donated to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund.

Look, she's rolling around trying to figure out which corner she wants to take a bite out of. There's no way it won't be blurry, friends.

Is it weird that for the very first time *ever*, I feel really excited about being on social media? I guess it helps that I'm making this the space for a little project of documenting my reading. But still, it's such an unaccustomed feeling.

Ginger tabby rolls herself on the back side of the book "Sexualness", by Akshay Khanna, which is on a laptop on top of a pink bedspread

"Khanna looks equally, and often instead, at 'sexualness', a neologism that is central to the question of what is at stake in an anthropological project of attempting to make sense of the sexual in non-Euro-North American contexts."

Ginger tabby cat rolls herself on a copy of Sexualness, by Akshay Khanna, on a pink bedspread, next to a laptop

Sexualness, by Akshay Khanna. Miss Selvi is intrigued

Two classics by Ambedkar, Federation Versus Freedom, and Castes in India, on a pink and red pillow on a bed

No cats in this picture (sob), but two still-transformative classics by Ambedkar: Federation Versus Freedom, and Castes in India.

You know, this book really is. It's not a prank/joke/satire--she takes interspecies collaboration on the environment really seriously

Also, that should be "The Power of Conversion and Foreignness *of Belonging* in an Indian Slum"

@terranen.bsky.social, "To Be Cared For" is one that I may want to draw a passage from for the contemplative group at some point

A small tuxedo cat stands atop a pile of books on a bed with a red, blue, and white bedspread. The books are: Christ & Empire, Making a Way Out of No Way, Other Dreams of Freedom, Circuits of the Sacred, Postcolonial Theologies, and my personal favorite, To Be Cared For: The Power of Conversion and Foreignness in an Indian Slum.

Miss Kanmani is an aspiring scholar. The books are: Christ & Empire, Making a Way Out of No Way, Other Dreams of Freedom, Circuits of the Sacred, Postcolonial Theologies, and my personal favorite, To Be Cared For: The Power of Conversion and Foreignness in an Indian Slum.

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Ginger tabby cat plops herself on a copy of Erik Davis' "High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies". Both book and cat are on a red and blue bedspread with pillows behind.

Selvi *is* high weirdness. Also, one of the very best books on the study of religion that I've ever read. @erikrdavis.bsky.social

Oh, do I

Selvi *is* high weirdness. (Also, one of the very best books on the study of religion that I've ever read.)

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Planning to make this feed a document of all the books I'm reading that my cats enjoy--and reposting outstanding thoughts from the good folx I follow

Slowly moving over here--and figuring out how to find all the people I follow on the other one