On Radical Belonging
Between romanticizing community and taking cynical distance from people who stay inside collective rules, there is still the question of how belonging works.
When safety is gone, staying inside can become its own form of survival.
Performative safe space participation aesthetics
In a world where everything is becoming increasingly performative, one might wonder: how do we move away from symbolic gestures without falling into cynicism? How do we de-performatize ourselves?