“Unveiling Grief: Eiren Caffall Reveals the Hidden Wisdom in ‘The Mourner’s Bestiary'”
I think we’ll see how much we all are in the same boat—whether the activism that we do is around settler colonialism, Indigenous land rights, immigration, reproductive justice, disability justice, or climate justice. The idea we can see any of those things as separate—there is absolutely no way to respond to rising fascism without recognizing that we’re all working towards the same goal. Artwork that says that—explicitly or subtly, that teaches us this way of interconnected thinking—binds us together as a collective working for the same level of liberation from fascist control. That’s the kind of work we need to produce now. I wrote a book to make us feel that in our bones and in our bodies with a lot of tenderness. That’s the kind of book I want to read now so that I have strength to get through this.
