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black is queer and time is queer and our survival is queer
"It also has to do with a rejection of certain capitalist formations of the day and units of time. And you know all of that is happening at the same time. How do I show up for what I'm supposed to do, who I'm supposed to be, to be accountable for what I'm here for, but not by reproducing what we have all been forced to survive about this idea of time that comes out of the structures Sylvia Wynter is talking about. This is what makes slavery not only imaginable, but inevitable. We can't continue to think that way, because that will continue to be the only possibility. And yet, here we are. We have been shaped by that. We have internalized it. We--and this is what I think is so amazing about Sylvia Wynter's body of work--she wants us to see we think it's natural, what we do. And there's actually whole epistemologies and ways and science that is taught that says this is nature doing this. And it's not. It's the story that we're telling about whats natural. So I think that time is such a huge part of that. Because to totally disregard it is met with violence. Even in the small scale of a parking ticket. If you don't acknowledge the time that you're supposed to pay that--and everything else. Rent? You can't just not acknowledge time in capitalism! You will be met with violence. And yet. Here we are." - Alexis Pauline Gumbs. Writing Home Podcast: https://www.writingho.me/2020/05/15/episode-02-ceremony/
“The tribe of the Middle Passage was how Kohain and his neighbors, Imakhus and Nana Robinson, identified themselves. As Imakhus often repeated, “We are the descendants of Middle Passage survivors.” It was the tribe created by the rapacity of African elites, the territorial expansion of strong states, and the greed, cruelty, and arrogance of white men possessing the world. It was the tribe of those stolen from their natal land, stripped of their “country marks,” and severed from their kin.”
Hartman, Saidiya V. . Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (pp. 102-103). Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
In Them We All Exist
