i love so much how bell hooks loved & respected children, pointed out clearly & without fear how wildly under-cared for they are in this society, how much more power we owe them, how much this society commodifies them into non-humans, pen full of deep devotion, protection, care.
bell hooks said, "The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves..."
Coming home to the absolute beautiful ordinariness of this body.
I dont have to escape this body. In this body is the divine, the totality of the cosmos. Right here, nowhere else.