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This is Day 4 of our week-long invitation series to Folx Tales. Today, we’d like to step away from any pretending like this is just another registration drive for another conference. It’s not. It can’t be. These times call for something different, a different way of coming together.
We have been bringing words to you each day this week. Words that need to be shook up, maybe like we might need some shaking up in different ways, too. Words that need to be moved into actions as we face what is happening around us right now.
Resistance is our theme, our main word, our guiding concept for this year’s Folx Tales — but what does it mean? Resistance to what? And what do we want instead? How do we breathe fresh life to this word?
At Folx Tales, we hope to make space for many stories of Resistance, weaving them together in ways that both comfort and light fires in us.
Here are some of the responses to these questions about Resistance that we have gathered so far:
It means that we are always acting, never neutral.
absolute refusal to accept this, de-“normalize” any "normalization" of these times… digging our heels in. getting scrapy... and staying fucking fierce — especially with the inertia/ indifference/ cruelty/ dehumanization/ exploitation from people, governments, and institutions. Lives in my body as hot burning coal in my heart and chest, fire, fight.
RESISTANCE
- What does this word mean to you today?
- How does it feel in you? How do you tune yourself to see how people are resisting?
- What metaphors or images does it evoke?
- What are your hopes for how this word might live in your life?
Let’s wrestle with all these complexities together, with care and accountability to each other.
Let’s shine radiant light on all acts of resistance, big and small.
Let’s figure this out together.
We hope you’ll join us.
In solidarity,
The Folx Tales Team
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