Political Love
The following bits of texts were reprinted in subRosa's invitation to the Feast, in order to stimulate dialog and responses to the idea of Political Love.
The following bits of texts were reprinted in subRosa's invitation to the Feast, in order to stimulate dialog and responses to the idea of Political Love.
Love aims to close all distance. Death achieves the same end. Yet whereas love celebrates the unique, the unrepeatable: death destroys them. ...Love aims to close all distances. Yet if separation and space were annihilated neither loved one nor lover would exist. Between space and love there is the first opposition--that opposition which is contained as energy within the original act of creation.
-John Berger, our faces my heart, brief as photographs, p. 90
subRosa invites you to prepare a gift of discourse reponding to the phrase Love is Strong as Death addressing ideas about the politics of friendship between women, and how acts of political love could be activated and embodied as new possibilities in our lives, in the surrounding community, in the world...