Adrienne Joy

Plenty of politicians on both sides of the aisle feel threatened by rising class consciousness.

Holy smokes this makes so much sense...

"Hope and change" lol. Love it. Good luck! ✊️

I don't think Poilievre's meanness works on Canadian swing voters. We don't like bullies. I think it will backfire.

Ooh CBC just called "Rebel News" a disgrace!! 🔥

"Old liberals cannot save us—they don't know how to speak. Young people need to speak this truth and thereby create a world for themselves and for others—a world for all of us. Together."

I talked about this with a girlfriend recently with teenaged sons, and she literally said: "over my dead body." Women will not let this happen. I promise.

I've been thinking about how inevitable violence feels in this moment. And you know what occurred to me? This is the first major world conflict where women feel like a major factor in politics. Not the case even a generation ago. I think it's a game changer?

Good. As it should be.

I love that!

Ugh I'm sorry. I think people do that because lockdowns really messed people up. And people can't hold two things to be true at the same time. (We have all been traumatized in ways we don't understand... )

How can you not be?

Because conservatives only know how to do negative messaging. And their favourite scapegoat is gone. They had nothing apart from F Trudeau?.

I think it's why monotheism can very easily slip into a justification of authoritarianism.

Patriarchy does the same thing with women. It's why reproductive rights are essential. Birthing bodies/labour (see the connection?) must be offered from a place of consent, not coercion. Same thing with sex/love obvs. Financial coercion means consent cannot be freely offered.

Lol nice tee up... it 100% does. Worker exploitation is labour extracted without consent. Workers need to reclaim their sovereignty and offer their their labour/bodies only when they have consented to humane conditions. Capitalism offers the illusion of consent but it's not real. It's coerced.

That's my exact point. It's abuse. Domination. This is why sovereignty is an essential part of love. Without it, it is only coercion and forced subordination.

I like this because I have been thinking about empowerment this way. Sovereignty is essential. The ability to consent; to say no. Jesus is the transgressed boundary; the loving "yes" that must be offered freely and without coercion. Love only exists in the interplay between dominance and submission

I think this is also where the Trinity is helpful? God the Father is the sovereign power who is good because he is great. *but* Jesus "did not consider equality with God something to be grasped but made himself nothing." And the Spirit is the movement between sovereignty and submission.

That's adorable actually. You're famous!

The volunteers that came by to bring me cookies and apple juice is still a fond memory I have from my chemo suite days. I think AI is gonna teach us what it means to be human. And in actually hopeful about that.

too late for this one but there has been some planning on Facebook: www.facebook.com/share/p/1B7F...

I like life drawing for this. Find a flow state. Become one with the thing you are drawing/painting. Fall in love with it. Devote yourself to unlocking it's essence. It's lovely.

Slowness is resistance. I feel that more and more. Allowing oneself to step away from manic productivity takes real unlearning. But we need to do it.

Purity tests are a thing on the left for sure, but more and more, it doesn't feel worth the effort to me to invest in electoral politics. We need to create a world that isn't possible within the mechanisms we have. The left needs to invest in mutual aid and community organizing. Not elections.

Omg I used to *love* this song!

This is the energy the moment is calling for. ✊️

Use the panopticon to our advantage?? This is why transparent bargaining is the only strategy in this moment. Build your movement out in public and call people into it.

Yeah that's to me the exact call of the moment! It's solidarity. Collective power. Mycelium.