Because I tend to give into sentimentality
I wonder if this isn’t the space of love
Revolutionary love
From this point on
everything would be permissible
But how are we to make histories together
when our victories are your defeats?
These are my ancestors
these are my people
They are yours too
if you want them.
Text extract from Whites, Jews, and Us: Toward a Politics of Revolutionary Love by Houria Bouteldja (2017, Semiotext(e)). Including quotation from “The Making of the Caribbean People (published 1980) by C. L. R. James.
IMAGE — Jenna Collins
MUSIC — Pierre-Alexandre Tremblay
PERFORMANCE — Ben Spatz
2023