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dark / gardening / in the / vertigo / cold
the bees
colony collapse disorder
pathologization of an inability to perform work due to adverse conditions
environmentalism centered on the continuation of exploitation
escape/fugitivity/death
lack
Vertigo definition: disordered vertiginous movement as a symptom of disease in lower animals
growth and cultivation in disordered movement/turning
Black and Indigenous feminists guiding my journey: Gwendolyn Brooks, Saidiya Hartman, Cara Page, Dr. Cooper, Dr. Kim Tallbear, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Hortense Spillers
Resisting punitive carcerality in a world of abundant black ecologies. Transforming harm is not about control of environment. It is about abundance, biodiversity, "a world in which many worlds are possible." It is fundamentally resistant to exploitation, capitalism, accumulation.
Essential similarity to the policing of being that extends beyond the human, but certainly also applies to the human.
Vertiginous: inclined to frequent and often pointless change : INCONSTANT
Marked by turning
Rotary
Dark/black - What is it to cultivate in the absence of light?
Could be interpreted as a choice - to grow where it is dark/black - to resist anti-blackness and the centrality of light as the source of growth
Perhaps light is not an option. Adverse conditions turn into conditions of necessity. Making something out of nothing.
Weeds in the sidewalk, rats and roaches in the trash, advantageous plants that climb on each other, that multiply in excess, that are opportunistic, that we seek to isolate
"I call for you cultivation of strength in the dark"
weeds
Weeds in the sidewalk, rats and roaches in the trash, advantageous plants that climb on each other, that multiply in excess, that are opportunistic, that we seek to isolate
Dandelion, Chickweed, Plantain
excess
humans
queer kinship networks/disability/care
and how that relates to black sociality and sexuality
multitude of ways we are not performing duties that support capitalism and are therefore not useful
intimacy/kink/perversion
failure to work/perform - bodily behavior that is in excess of, but simultaneously less than
those who are performing kinds of work that have been criminalized: sex work
trans folks
excess
lack
HOW DO WE KNOW WHAT TO CULTIVATE? HOW DO WE DECIDE WHAT IS NATURAL, WHAT IS RIGHT? WHAT WE WANT?
Is cultivate to "foster the growth of" or "improve by labor, care, study"? Is this prescriptive or descriptive? What is the context?
When will we relinquish control?
Keywords
Impurity
Refusal
Escape
Animacy
Object
Resistance
Central Texts
Venus in Two Acts - Saidiyah Hartman
Has the Queer Ever Been Human? - Mel Chen and Dana Luciano
Do Black Lives Matter? Fred Moten and Robin Kelley
Resistance of the Object - Aunt Hester's Screams
Fred Moten
Kim Tallbear - Settler Sexuality
Agitation as a Form of Conduct - Mel Chen
Animacies - Mel Chen
Blackness, Animality, and the Unsovereign - Che Gossett
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