Ah! I feel so glad that I found and read this piece I had missed. It is an important one for me as I couldn't be vulnerable in my politics beyond a point. Still processing why. Allow me to pull out my fave bits: "Yet often to hear political activists speak about their ideals, you’d think they’d come into the world with fully formed knowledge of how it works and how it should work – like so many Athenas born from the head of Zeus in all their maturity and wisdom. You’d never know from such talk that we all have to learn the ideas we hold most dearly, that we owe debts to other people who taught us, that we too are conditioned by the dominant ideologies of the world we live in, that we’ve made lots of mistakes along the way."
"Vulnerable activist writing is writing that gets into the messiness of change, not for the sake of satisfying the reader’s voyeurism or telling universal truths, but as a way of sharing things that are profoundly personal and possibly painful, while being about so much more than ourselves."
I so much enjoyed the honest simplicity of this piece, also thinking of vulnerability and food while fasting today.
Ah! I feel so glad that I found and read this piece I had missed. It is an important one for me as I couldn't be vulnerable in my politics beyond a point. Still processing why. Allow me to pull out my fave bits: "Yet often to hear political activists speak about their ideals, you’d think they’d come into the world with fully formed knowledge of how it works and how it should work – like so many Athenas born from the head of Zeus in all their maturity and wisdom. You’d never know from such talk that we all have to learn the ideas we hold most dearly, that we owe debts to other people who taught us, that we too are conditioned by the dominant ideologies of the world we live in, that we’ve made lots of mistakes along the way."
"Vulnerable activist writing is writing that gets into the messiness of change, not for the sake of satisfying the reader’s voyeurism or telling universal truths, but as a way of sharing things that are profoundly personal and possibly painful, while being about so much more than ourselves."
Thanks for reading, and going back to read, Raju!