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spurred on by cleavers
Spurred on by cleavers, a member of the group observes that as it seems, anything that grows in the garden and is often considered useless, it is actually quite important. Similarly to members from the previous herbalism group last year, commenting: “What? The same chickweed eaten by our chicken? You mean chicken eat better than…
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huddling
Huddling belongs to gatherings. It takes place during breaks, but also during any kind of meeting – a seminar, an open forum or even a celebration. And while during teaching huddling can be a source of whispers or even disturbance (to say the least), causing at times a couple of raised eye-brows, they do play…
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hope instead of other wishes
We were wondering what to wish for the New Year. We were thinking of the interconnection between peace and justice (so that the first is not something dead, similar to the peace you find in cemeteries), but also the interrelationship between tenderness and justice (so that the second is not inflexible, as it often happens…
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how can the crack speak?
A text from Bayo Akomolafe on white supremacy and the importance of cracks: “How do we unlearn white supremacy? We can’t. The pedagogical imperative that reduces learning to the isolated learner-that-learns, the self, conceives of white supremacy as what selves are doing, instead of how selves are being done. But white supremacy cannot be unlearned…
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a liberation psychology
“A psychology of liberation is one whose primary focus is the communities we come from and create. Our collective history is as important as our individual history. A liberation psychology is more concerned with how structures of power shape and bind us than with the particular events of our individual childhoods. . . . a…
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inspired by clay
As the group creates, the world is being reshaped and the sense of self is being reshaped too. “Did I do this?”, “look what I have done!”, “no way I made this”, “I didn’t expect I could have created something like this”. None of these phrases refer only to the creative process.What does clay teaches…