reglow’s positionality acknowledgement, delusional white supremacy, and religious spiritual journeying

[single quotation marks denote a fragment of identity emerging through rhizomatic networks of languages]

whiteness is empty, has no sustenance or truth of identity outside of itself that is vital. the delusion is that it is supreme. the reality is that we are deeply interconnected through layers of multiplicity.

in cultivating roots of identity beyond supremacy ‘we’ tend to healing from being an oppressed oppressor at degrees of intersections, beyond whiteness, beyond the chasm of colonialism, and inward towards heart intelligence.

who am ‘i' if  ‘i' am not white?

how do ‘i' respond to the delusion of whiteness and dismantle the real oppression it causes?

how do ‘i' cultivate identity outside of whiteness?

who are ‘my’ indigenous ancestors pre-colonization if not also my ancestral lands and how do ‘we’ cultivate relationship?

‘my’ ancestors are from what english language currently calls sweden, the netherlands, ireland [Eire], spain, and america. ‘i' am made up of layers of time and matter in these places and regions, and the peoples who were birthed from these places and regions. ‘i' carry their memories in ‘my’ body, the memories of ancestors, places, and regions. as ‘i' carry these memories in ‘my’ body, they come alive, are acknowledged, and processed when ‘i’ journey through realms of ‘my’ imagination. this is a way for ‘me’ to cultivate identity beyond whiteness. after roots were severed, they make way to grow back. this is the craft of reglow.

‘i' believe that my separate self is an illusion and that we are interconnected through source(s) and in the multiverse of experience beyond space and time.

how do ‘i' uplift and center people of hues as ‘we’ are interconnected?

how do ‘we’ hold central space for [marginalized] multiplicity and harmonize?

in queerness

this blog post has been influenced by the work of:

Sonya Renee Taylor

Rachel Ricketts

A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Deleuze and Guattari

“and” [review of deleuze and race] by Peter Kulchyski

Whiteness is Not an Ancestor: Essays on Life and Lineage by white Women. by Lisa B. Iversen

& more