"Indigenous
activist-scholars and anarchist anthropologists note
that many cultures, and
even some nations, do not have the same impulse
to define clear borders or
police their own people
— forms of social control that are taken for granted as
politics.
Let’s notice in our own lives the difference between the official stories of
who is in
control and how life actually
works.
How might we
nurture the elements of our society that work cooperatively with other people
as well as ecosystems to create freedom, equality, and abundance?
Like
power, gender is everywhere, running through our relationships with ourselves,
each other, and the earth, and the relations between nations, classes, and
cultures.
And like power, it is not a problem in itself but instead a question
of how we do it.
Gender can be a pattern of control, violence, and domination.
Or it can be just another way of talking about the beautiful diversity of human
existence."
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