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• W4285272242 abstract "Becoming More Ourselves:Four Emergent Strategies of Black Feminist Congregational Abolition Jasmine Syedullah (bio) Race is seen as out there in nature, even as most scientists now believe that race has no biological basis. Even though we have moved into an era of gene splitting, biotechnology, and cyborgs, race remains immutable in the minds of most Americans1 —E. Frances White At the hands of the community, the enforcement of Western impositions of time via the strong arm of the law—the police—is not only challenged, but also supplanted by a radical organizing strategy that bends the normative boundaries of time . . . into Black visions of the future . . . that place human concerns over the material demands of a Western racial capitalist infrastructure.2 —Damien Sojoyner For those who want desperately for the world to change, remember that you do not have to destroy yourself in the process of destroying violent systems.3 —Tiffany King [End Page 108] Notice the body. Notice where and how it absorbs harm, or loss, or love, or rage, or grief. Notice where the body holds onto what it does not need. Take a moment to breathe in from the belly, breathing deep into the tight places, inviting the breath to touch the frozen numbed-out spots, to warm the sore places. On the out breath, release fully and pause at the bottom of the breath, contracting the chest slightly to push that last bit of stale air up and out the lungs. Without effort, allow the in breath to swell up through the heart. Shoulder to shoulder, broaden into relationship with self. On the next out breath, open through the heart, radiating your inherent tenderness and dignity through the body, cleansing all the spaces breath touches with the ancient heat of love.4 The rise and fall of the breath contains much of what a body needs to know about what it needs. What care looks like for any one body is going to be particular to where that body lives, and how it is oriented within what the Combahee River Collective called the interlocking systems of oppression. Everybody absorbs the impact differently. Every transgenerational line holds trauma according to the things it had to hold down to survive. Every breath is a new opportunity to build a closer relationship with the patterns of the body, what it has habituated, what it holds, what it needs, and what it might need to let go. They Say the People Could Fly5 Black feminisms arise, like a deep breath from the ruins of modern progress, bearing witness, noticing the stifled state of the political body, oxygenating the parched soil carceral capitalism leaves in its wake, aerating the ashen earth until that ground of loss and disrepair clears enough to grow fertile again. The cleansing breath of black feminist truth-telling, unapologetic commitment to horizontal leadership, fierce love for knowledge of self, sensuous healing magic, and irreverent audacity for collective survival can channel the fiery balm of choice into otherwise tight spaces, into the most numbed-out and bruised places. Self-invention, shape-shifting, and body modification are more than self-improvement strategies for black women; care in this context has been and continues to be a matter of survival. As Toni Morrison writes, the black woman had nothing to fall back on; not maleness, not whiteness, not ladyhood, not anything. And out of the profound desolation of her reality she may well have invented herself.6 With improvisational methods for survival and self-making threaded through experiences of alienation so violent they could snatch the life right from you, black feminists fashion ways, practices, and protocols for bodies to move with contradiction, interconnection, and impermanence, rather than wear a self out stressing, resisting, or fighting them. Knowing contraction, fear, and otherwise threatening patterns so intimately that sudden descents from the [End Page 109] familiar into utter chaos can give way to Prove It On Me Blues,7 the political philosophy of black feminisms is a philosophy of wrong that willfully turns law and order on its head. The right kind of wrong this turn takes requires exposing the ambiguities buried within..." @default.
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• W4285272242 title "Becoming More Ourselves: Four Emergent Strategies of Black Feminist Congregational Abolition" @default.
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