How crappy is it that spirituality in politics has been largely co-opted by the religious right? Taoist anarchists, Muslim socialists, Buddhist communists as cohesive forces when.
@ljwrites not true in a lot of political rap music fwiw, or i would bet in a lot of locally‐oriented political scenes
i think the reason you don’t see it in the media is because non‐WASP religiosity is typically racialized (in the United States anyway) and racialized political movements are generally portrayed as niche to the mainstream
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@ljwrites there’s a quote by Kevin Yuen Kit Lo, who is an anarchist designer out of Montréal, and he’s interviewing Sandy Kaltenborn who is another important activist designer out of berlin (link: ‹ https://www.lokidesign.net/en/texts/productive-misunderstandings-an-interview-with-sandy-kaltenborn ›), and he says :—
« That’s exactly it! Like there’s a big tension in many ways between the racialized immigrant communities that we’re working with and the white anarcho hardcore organizers, where it’s like, no… we want to actually live together. And through that living will be the engagement and the activism and the organizing and everything. We’re not just going to come to your six-hour meeting and agenda, we want to be able to eat, socialize, we want to be able to dance. It’s such a clear difference between the organizing I do with the more militant white activists versus the kind of community building initiatives we’re doing with racialized folks. I wish we could find ways to bridge them, but it’s so hard. »
i think religion falls right in there with the living and eating and socializing and part of the reason you never hear about it is because it’s those white anarcho organizers which always get all the name recognition. but i think there’s a lot of important work actually happening in the more subtle spaces, like, even just a handful of Muslim women together having a book club, there will be important work happening there and it will be personal and political and there will be religion and all of it. the same thing happens in music or with the arts, and the problem is that we (er, the media) don’t see those as activist spaces, we don’t look to the places where people are actually living, we only look to these kind of sterile white anarchist meetingrooms or organizations and label those as “political”.
