“Gaslighting can be subtle and unintentional, but as feminist writer Nora Samaran explains, it is particularly insidious because it undermines people's trust in their own capacities: "If you think of the power, the strength, the capacity to effect change that women who trust themselves are capable of, what we are losing when we doubt ourselves is an indomitable force for social change that is significant and therefore, to some, frightening. In other words, our capacity to know ourselves is immensely powerful." All forms of oppression seem to have this tendency: racism, heteropatriarchy, ableism, ageism, colonization, and other systems of oppression contort people's insights, experiences, and differences into weaknesses or deny them outright. For this reason, the emergence of trust can be a powerful weapon, which is being recovered all the time through struggle.” DoubtTrustOppressionEmergenceGaslightingPatriachy Book:Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times Source: Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times
“What happens when politics becomes something a person *has*, rather than something people *do together* as a shared practice?” PraxisGood Politics Book:Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times Source: Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times