bluestockingsmag: “What I got out of punk is an unwillingness to accept what I am told is &l
bluestockingsmag: “What I got out of punk is an unwillingness to accept what I am told is “good” as true or obvious. Punk gave me words and gestures for once inchoate feelings about the cluster of promises that comprise what Lauren Berlant calls a cruel optimism — the state and capital are on your side! The ring on your finger is a sign of love and protection! So if I am told, “this is what you should be doing, it’s for your own good,” my first impulse is usually — on the inside these days — “Fuck you!” And then “Why?”” What does it mean to be a POC within punk and academic spaces? How do we reconcile capitalist expectations of productivity with self-care? Last spring, Chanelle, Sophia and Ann sat down with author/zinester/professor Mimi Thi Nguyen to discuss. (Un)productivity in the Digital Age- A Conversation with Mimi Thi Nguyen -- source link