What a wonderful interview ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥 Have you read, or better yet listened to the audio of, adrienne maree brown’s essay on Ursula K LeGuin in her new book Loving Corrections? It is so good !
The talk/q & a you did with her is what got me to take you "seriously" when I first found you, I did a Google search and it came up (I think it only still lives in entirety on vimeo.) I would have come to taking you "seriously" (here i mean believing you are an important thought sharer) eventually on my own but I think there's few vettings in writing as strong as hers (to me) so it made me instantly buckle down in learning about what you had to say. I still think it's an incredible honor that she gave you and this interview is wonderful. I'm so glad you do what you do, and that she did what she did. I'm incredibly grateful to have access to y'all so easily.
UKL has 'raised my consciousness' more than any writer... and her subtle, yet laser focused, unapologetic 'anarchism/toaism' hits hard and fast. She claims she tried to keep her romanticism from being too 'overt'... and sure, she nailed that in a sense, but once her subtle powers of asking questions about all those beautiful and brutal truths with the penetrating 'lies' of her 'fictional' imaginations get into you... words fail me, so I will go with 'overt as fuck! Her prose is so good it does weird tingly things to my spine before it finally hits my head and my brain goes 'HOLY FUCK WHAT WAS THAT'!?, and I get to read those lines a few more times with something beyond joy... Folks write paragraphs on places like reddit to try to 'explain' anarchism, but her pithy zingers, often rendered with less than a sentence get right to the heart in both the chest and head...
Pithy zingers such as: 'a world where the only laws prohibit rape and usury', 'a world where one gets to decide what happens to one's body'.... 'we have forgotten the meaning of 'cooperation' and turned that to 'obedience'.... There is so much packed into those few words about what anarchism could mean (or fail to remember) ! They bounce around my head in interesting ways more days than not. Also handy to pull out when someone suggest anarchism is too complicated, or to 'romantic' to be taken seriously. Only the truest of believers fail to have those penetrate the armour of their bubble world and start to have a little wonder... that a world like that might be a righteously fulfilling world in which to live. Sorta glad she missed the recent history as the left seems to abandoned those core values of free speech and free association, the important of understanding the other... etc. But then I reread something like 'The Dispossesed' and well, of course she knew the deal...
What a wonderful interview ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥 Have you read, or better yet listened to the audio of, adrienne maree brown’s essay on Ursula K LeGuin in her new book Loving Corrections? It is so good !
i have not! I have that book waiting for me when i get home though.
A recorded convo with the two of yall on UKL would be … just chefs kissy! Either way, def hope to hear more later on how you experienced amb’s essay
The talk/q & a you did with her is what got me to take you "seriously" when I first found you, I did a Google search and it came up (I think it only still lives in entirety on vimeo.) I would have come to taking you "seriously" (here i mean believing you are an important thought sharer) eventually on my own but I think there's few vettings in writing as strong as hers (to me) so it made me instantly buckle down in learning about what you had to say. I still think it's an incredible honor that she gave you and this interview is wonderful. I'm so glad you do what you do, and that she did what she did. I'm incredibly grateful to have access to y'all so easily.
UKL has 'raised my consciousness' more than any writer... and her subtle, yet laser focused, unapologetic 'anarchism/toaism' hits hard and fast. She claims she tried to keep her romanticism from being too 'overt'... and sure, she nailed that in a sense, but once her subtle powers of asking questions about all those beautiful and brutal truths with the penetrating 'lies' of her 'fictional' imaginations get into you... words fail me, so I will go with 'overt as fuck! Her prose is so good it does weird tingly things to my spine before it finally hits my head and my brain goes 'HOLY FUCK WHAT WAS THAT'!?, and I get to read those lines a few more times with something beyond joy... Folks write paragraphs on places like reddit to try to 'explain' anarchism, but her pithy zingers, often rendered with less than a sentence get right to the heart in both the chest and head...
Pithy zingers such as: 'a world where the only laws prohibit rape and usury', 'a world where one gets to decide what happens to one's body'.... 'we have forgotten the meaning of 'cooperation' and turned that to 'obedience'.... There is so much packed into those few words about what anarchism could mean (or fail to remember) ! They bounce around my head in interesting ways more days than not. Also handy to pull out when someone suggest anarchism is too complicated, or to 'romantic' to be taken seriously. Only the truest of believers fail to have those penetrate the armour of their bubble world and start to have a little wonder... that a world like that might be a righteously fulfilling world in which to live. Sorta glad she missed the recent history as the left seems to abandoned those core values of free speech and free association, the important of understanding the other... etc. But then I reread something like 'The Dispossesed' and well, of course she knew the deal...
Wow. Incredible. I did not know about this interview. Thank you for posting!
Yay! Thanks for posting this. We talked about it at your Cleveland reading. No need for outdated visuals this way. <3
This is lovely, thank you so much for sharing it!
Wow, used copies of Mythmakers and Lawbreakers are going for $70. That’s impressive.
This is so lovely, thank you for sharing it! Too bad about that one weird dude being in your past collection.