I just finished the book Joyful Militancy by carla bergman and Nick Montgomery. And fucking hell. It's exactly the book I needed to read right now, not just for my academic philosophy (although very much also for that), but especially for my personal life.

The most important points of the book for me are:

✊🏿 People are already resisting in many different ways, and 'activists' shouldn't fool themselves into thinking they're the only ones taking action;
 Being a rigid ideologue about your radicalism only serves empire – making connection and being open to encounter is the most radical thing one can do;
💢 Resistance is necessarily risky and troublesome. Staying with that trouble is the only way forward;
 Being militant is not about altruistic sacrifice, it is about defending forms of life that are worth defending. It is about refinding and reclaiming joy. Not in an imagined future, but here and now. That's what it means to be militant about joy.

💸 You can order it here: https://joyfulmilitancy.com/

 or read it for free here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/joyful-militancy-bergman-montgomery

#JoyfulMilitancy #activism #anarchism #joy #philosophy

So who here has read #pleasureactivism by #adriennemareebrown And who has read #joyfulmilitancy by #carlabergman and #NickMontgomery? Anyone who has read both? What is your experience?

I tried PleasureActivism but it does ''t work well for me now. Probably because as an older white European trans queer I recognise little in the stories of the first piece of the book.
On the other hand the descriptions in Joyful Militancy are relatable, through what I read in the excerpts. How about you?

Got back into #JoyfulMilitancy during my sleep study, bc I could read it in bursts between interrupted naps.

This is... uh, pretty timely IMO. Excerpt follows.

#AmReading #JoyfulMilitancy by Nick Montgomery & carla bergman, which I picked up at the same time and place as the #Gelderloos book I read before, #HowNonviolenceProtectsTheState

So far the best thing I've seen is a reassuring note at the start that this shouldn't be taken as an attempt to smooth & soothe resistance, to tame it & make it more palatable. So ppl who cite this for a #ToneArgument are fucking up.

"We want nothing to do with attempts to regulate resistance."

It is revolutionary to love ourselves
It is radical to have hope
It is beautiful to have visions of our future and to dance

We can know the end capitalism
We can realize universal human rights and dignity
We can show what Empire creates
And the beauty of its dismantling

It is not inherently toxic to fight
With Joy we will smash borders and build bridges

We will will demolish prisons and build hospitals and schools

Together we can be so much more.
#JoyfulMilitancy