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Freedom was once inseparable from interdependence, close ties, and kinship: I am free because of others I can depend on. Today, freedom tends to mean something different. It is about being unconstrained and having options. Look for the dictionary definition of freedom today and one finds rights and choices at the core, applied to an isolated individual. […]

Relational freedom necessarily includes undoing destructive relationships, dissolving or attacking depleting or harmful forces. Freedom is the capacity to make friends and enemies, to be open and to have firm boundaries. In this sense, the dominant order destroys our capacity to identify and attack that which depletes and destroys us: morality, policing, law, and prisons are all designed to monopolize the power to decide what is right and wrong, and how to respond to it.

Meaningful change comes from finding wiggle room to work on each other and our situations. It might entail supporting each other to become more present with despair, guilt, resentment, fear, anger, or grief. It might include channeling rage into blocking oppressive or extractive relationships, or blocking their flows, at least in part.

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Pipe Tongs, American Decorative Arts

Gift of Mrs. Robert W. de Forest, 1933 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Wrought iron

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/5652

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The Age of Innocence (1993)

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“Wives and Daughters’

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Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping

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Herman Hesse, Demian (tr. Damion Searls)

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Oxford Sandy and Black Pig (Sus scrofa domesticus)

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shewhoworshipscarlin: Closed faced helmet used for jousting, 1560, Germany.

Closed faced helmet used for jousting, 1560, Germany.

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its not that americans can’t read subtitles and watch international films but the propagandist arm of the us empire doesn’t want its citizens to see films from other regions, particularly their adversary nations, because they know that cinema could humanize the very same people and culture they try really hard to vilify. its better to exaggerate the inaccessibility of subtitles and limit distribution of foreign films so people are forced to be pacified by english blockbusters. 

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Frogmore House, The Duchess Of Kent’s Drawing Room.

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wuthering heights (2011, dir. andrea arnold)

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you see a greta gerwig film and you nasty cry in the dark about small acts of tenderness. thats just how it is

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tchalamet: little women bts 1 :)

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rmbr when richard siken said “love, for you, is larger than the usual romantic love. it’s like a religion. it’s terrifying”

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