kin(d)
This/these word/s is/are related to race, species, Platonic ideals, and the word idea. It has to do with how things are connected or related, and how things are categorized and divided. There is a big push in environmental humanities for an expanded sense of kinship, one that includes our more-than-human kin. I do to this in my work with rocks as I attempt to understand my kinship with the rocky land that shaped me. By talking to and embodying rocks, I acknowledge their agency and place in shaping us as individuals and peoples.
This connecting and relating can also be used to divide, as kinship can easily turn into nationalism, racism, and the many other forms of hierarchical categorization. For example, the CJCLDS only sanctions a hetero-normative definition of family, limiting the range of deep connection that kinship can offer.
The kind of kinship I seek needs kindness. Kinship is related to family and "family is who you survive with if you need to survive--even if you do not like them." Similarly, this kind of radical kinship doesn't require one to like everything about their environment, just to recognize one's reciprocal interdependence. Because, to create a healthy environment for one's self and one's family means creating a healthy environment for all who participate in this environment.
see also: acknowledgement, body, the Church, embodied / embedded, fake rocks / real rocks, human exceptionalism, land, map, myth, reify, rocks / stones, spiritual experience, under / inner, "what is"
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This/these word/s is/are related to race, species, Platonic ideals, and the word idea. It has to do with how things are connected or related, and how things are categorized and divided. There is a big push in environmental humanities for an expanded sense of kinship, one that includes our more-than-human kin. I do to this in my work with rocks as I attempt to understand my kinship with the rocky land that shaped me. By talking to and embodying rocks, I acknowledge their agency and place in shaping us as individuals and peoples.
This connecting and relating can also be used to divide, as kinship can easily turn into nationalism, racism, and the many other forms of hierarchical categorization. For example, the CJCLDS only sanctions a hetero-normative definition of family, limiting the range of deep connection that kinship can offer.
The kind of kinship I seek needs kindness. Kinship is related to family and "family is who you survive with if you need to survive--even if you do not like them." Similarly, this kind of radical kinship doesn't require one to like everything about their environment, just to recognize one's reciprocal interdependence. Because, to create a healthy environment for one's self and one's family means creating a healthy environment for all who participate in this environment.
see also: acknowledgement, body, the Church, embodied / embedded, fake rocks / real rocks, human exceptionalism, land, map, myth, reify, rocks / stones, spiritual experience, under / inner, "what is"
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