Juha Haataja
Sheryl Weikal"Joy is resistance" (and I'm paraphrasing) was used by Emma Goldman to mean that we should live happily in spite of oppression, not as an excuse to do things that enrich and empower oppressors. The whole point was to dance at the revolution, not pay the oppressors to take dance classes.
kolya@theleftistlawyer in before the alleged Goldman quote about dancing at the revolution is posted. that's also just a paraphrase. https://mondaymonkeylives.tumblr.com/post/77416919317/on-the-commonly-misattributed-emma-goldman-quote
On the commonly misattributed Emma Goldman quote "If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution"
"If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution" a quote frequently attributed to anarcho-feminist icon Emma Goldman, never actually appears in any of her work. It was invented by...
Дими́трийI intend to have as much fun as possible, and care for as many of my neighbors as I can, before they haul me off to the gas chambers.
I'll be dancing all the way to the prison camp; rattling my chains to keep the beat.
Christ Crofoot
Joan of Contention 😷@theleftistlawyer I don't know if he drew from Goldman, as well, but this reminds me of queer activist Michael Barron's use of the phrase "queer optimism" in the recent historical context of queer liberation struggles in Ireland, and which encapsulates so, so much:
Levka"Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine act of insurrection." -- Rebecca Solnit, *Hope in the Dark*