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listening to the most recent episode of Rune Soup with @gordon_white and Kathryn Fink on mythic time, and very grateful for both the discussion of the troubled, colonial, even racist roots of the term animism and their willingness to stay with that trouble.
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as a witch, I share many values with folks who consider themselves animists although it is not a word I use for myself—for precisely the reasons Kathryn and Gordon discuss. it is linguistic trouble I have chosen not to stay with in my own practice and path.
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more useful to me than the term “animism” has been:
-Black feminist metaphysics, as articulated by Alexis Pauline Gumbs (see M Archive: After the End of the World and dub: finding ceremony)
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-Black feminist metaphysics, as articulated by Alexis Pauline Gumbs (see M Archive: After the End of the World and dub: finding ceremony)
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-agential realism, as articulated by Karen Barad (see Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning)
-vital materiality, as articulated by Jane Bennett (see Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things)
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-vital materiality, as articulated by Jane Bennett (see Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things)
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-Donna Haraway’s own articulation of companion species, multi-species kin-making with the figure of the Chthulucene
-as well as the work of ecofeminists, ecowomanists, queer ecologists, and others generating revolutionary thinking on being a part of a living world.
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-as well as the work of ecofeminists, ecowomanists, queer ecologists, and others generating revolutionary thinking on being a part of a living world.
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I'm grateful for folks like Kathryn and Gordon doing the important work of staying with the trouble of animism. and I am also so grateful for the work of others—all the women listed above and more—who have offered other frameworks for becoming with a living world.
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