And there are many of us out there, more than you think. Ethologists have observed chimpanzees celebrating the arrival of a caretaker delivering a bunch of blackberry vines, a favored food, to their enclosure. The ones who are yours. You were born to heal, to grow, to be of service to yourself and community, to practice, to experiment, to create, to have space, to dream, and to connect.". Cal State Fullerton African American studies professor Mei-Ling Malone explains: "Black joy is an act of resistance. Like water, we mostly follow the path of least resistance., I had no real communication with anyone at the time, so I was totally dependent on God. Two . But what does this phrase really mean? It could not have lasted for any more than two minutes. This year the theme is resistance. Associate Professor of Systematic Theology and Africana Studies, Yale Divinity School, Founder & Director, Yale Center for Faith & Culture, Defining joyan act of resistance against despair, "Resisting all the ways in which life can be strangled and presented to us as not worth living", Making productive use of pain, suffering, and the absurdtaking them serious. We're talking about people entering a space and in some very powerful way that we can't really chart out specifically. This joy cannot and will not be robbed from Autistic kids of color. My mother, and three sisters: Jean Cooper, Zwazzi Sowo and Lillian Mark! So, simply put, joy can be considered resistance because its a form of energy for change, as Lorde puts it. JOY is an act of resistance. Telly's favorite artist was Alice Neel. Your submission has been received! You've come into a space that is not your own, and in some ways that space has claimed you as its own. With Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper, Edgar Ramrez. Mine was always mint- because the bottom left corner is struggling a little! Christopher McCandless It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Not enjoyment. Every morning, you wake up, and your mind tells you it's too early, and your body tells you you're a little too sore, but you've got to look deep within yourself and know what you want and what you're striving for." Some of the containers holding the archives were dug up from . Photo by Amy Pion Part of HuffPost Black Voices. Maybe they didn't intend it, but it did. Willie Jennings: Despair and all of the ways that despair wants to drive us toward death, and wants to make death the final word. If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again., We live in capitalism. It is a parade of naivety, of a warm embrace, it is Young Thug's dress. Play. 3. Bono asked, anticipating one reaction. Whatever that is, go find your joy. But for those two minutes we turned that cemetery from a place of death and mourning into a place of life and honor. One of the goals of racism is to break your spirit by any means necessary. So when people. This is the joy of resistance. Release Calendar Top 250 Movies Most Popular Movies Browse Movies by Genre Top Box Office Showtimes & Tickets Movie News India Movie Spotlight. I want our guests to know that I love them and appreciate them. Would you say that these are joyful times? How lucky to have met him. But while there are good reasons to fear complacency, joy is fundamentally different than turning a blind eye. And there's something very powerful about that because as one artist says, "It's how, especially oppressed in poor people, can make something really beautiful out of what has been thrown away." Resistance is the secret of joy wrote Alice Walker in her 1992 novel, Possessing the Secret of Joy Walker. Justice is denied. It requires you to choose it from a sea of other options. But isn't difficulty, suffering, hardshiparen't these necessary conditions for joy to even take place? But in context where that isn't fully, hasn't fully taken hold, the people's work of creating joy is there. Recognize that pleasure is a measure of freedom, writes Adrienne Maree Brown, author of a book called Pleasure Activism, which takes as its premise that the states of being that activists are striving for, justice and liberation and wellbeing, are highly joyful states, and therefore pleasure can be a powerful tool for helping us achieve them. We can do without pleasure, but not delight. It goes against everything that racism was designed to do. We owe it to ourselves to actively cultivate it as part of our political practice." . We've been taught that silence would . They have always showed me how to hold boundaries but still be loving and hopeful to someone. It's a robust act of resistance against despair. Three weeks ago today, on Friday June 9, hundreds of family members, friends, and well wishers packed into the New Revelation Baptist Church to pay their last respects to Darius Smith, a 15-year-old child who was killed by an off-duty customs agent in Arcadia, California. Nurtured by centuries of spiritual practices both in Africa and here in America, this a bold and prophetic act of resistance and defiance of a demonic force that seeks to kill you and to snuff out your joy. When thinking about how you can celebrate African American History month this month and throughout the year, remember that poet Toi Derricotte said, "Joy is an act of resistance." "In contexts where your energies have to be focused on survival, it doesnt leave a lot of energy for overt forms of complaintyoure spending a lot of energy just trying to hold it together. These experiences of synchrony create a physiological experience of community, one that can be profoundly unconscious. How does one cultivate joy? The throngs of mourners and supporters lined the isles of the church, crowded the lobby and balcony areas, and spilled out of the church onto the outside lawn. Growing up in the 90s, they were really my first exposure to feminism (lite) with the idea of Girl Power and that women could do anything despite what others thought or expected. But if you can give, if you're truly passionate about supporting podcasting that's all about pursuing really living lives that are worthy of our humanity, then consider a gift to the Yale Center for Faith & Culture. Willie Jennings: I look at joy as an act of resistance against despair and its forces, all the forces of despair. Joy: Directed by David O. Russell. One of my favorite examples of this is a project called Trash: Any Color You Like, which placed vibrant, polka-dotted trash bags around the streets of New York City. Joy is an Act of Resistance Chapter Leadership Brief 2.10.2023. Joy Is An Act of Resistance By Delonte Gholston, Contributor Pastor, Artist, Organizer Jun 23, 2017, 11:54 AM EDT | Updated Jun 26, 2017 This post was published on the now-closed HuffPost Contributor platform. Miroslav Volf: How does one find the kind of strengths? Brutalism Tracklist T-Shirt. People who love in a world without walls, people who love into hate, into refusal, against hope, and without fear. I also like, as I love to say, I'm making productive use of pain and suffering in the absurd, not in order to take them lightly, but to take them very seriously, but not to make them gods. Holocaust survivor and author Elie Wiesel described a memory of a fellow prisoner trading a ration of bread for materials with which to piece together a makeshift menorah during Hanukkah. And death in this regard is not simply the end of life, but it's death in all its signatures: death, violence, war, debtall the ways in which life can be strangled, and presented to us as not worth living. One of the challenges of activism is that the fights are long, the progress often slow, and the effort required thankless and grueling. Im constantly moved and inspired by her passion to fight for underrepresented and marginalized people. It's our joy to bring these shows to you. Is this a way of living a right life in the false one, to use Adorno's phrase? When psychologists study people engaged in communal singing, dance, or other rhythmic forms of entertainment, they find that we become connected on a physical level. Local authorities often forbade or disrupted native rites, or at minimum made relinquishing them a condition of conversion. And the clear example I'm drawing on is African diaspora communities in which there's a reality of joy built inside the forced segregation. Joy Is a Beautiful Act of Resistance. When he first came to my house, I propped up her bright yellow shade with open window and a vase of flowers (post card size) behind his first fish bowl. Im so, so glad to hear it resonated with you! We also need moments of release and celebration to mark the small victories and restore body and mind. But whats most remarkable is what happens after these festivities. Contributors control their own work and posted freely to our site. Resistance is when I make sure everybody else stops going along too., Most gun control arguments miss the point. They are slandered, defamed, and discredited in the press. What was she doing? How can a truly free state exist if the individual citizen is enslaved to the forceful will of individual or organized aggressors? And here I'm not thinking primarily about African-American or African diaspora communities, but I'm thinking about the way in which multiple communities, their joy is inside of a hard segregation. You'll also receive periodic updates on new things from The Aesthetics of Joy. } else { Lorde uses the word erotic, meaning a form of deep, sensual (not necessarily sexual) pleasure, but I think you could easily use the word joy if it makes more sense to you: Recognizing the power of the erotic within our lives can give us the energy to pursue genuine change within our world, rather than merely settling for a shift of characters in the same weary drama., Ive talked a lot about the joy of communal celebration, but we can also find it in nature. And because of that, we probably have to press more deeply when we start to talk about the integrity of a Christian vision of joy until we understand that dynamic. Willie Jennings joins Miroslav Volf to discuss the definition of joy as an act of resistance against despair, the counterintuitive nature of cultivating joy in the midst of suffering, the commercialization of joy in Western culture, joy segregated by racism and slavery, how Jesus expands and corrects our understanding of joy. It cannot., Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history., People don't resist change. How to reclaim freedom from all kinds of bullshit. Men told you what to listen to, what to like. 8. This is joy for our time. Every person and every community must grieve and resist in a way and at a pace that is right and healthy for them. Adreinne Waheed, photographer and author of the photo book Black Joy and Resistance documents, in its purest form, that the essence of happiness and enjoyment are inextricably linked to resistance. Is joy actually a form of resistance to oppression, or is this phrase just a comforting balm to counter the guilt we feel when we find ourselves feeling good in a world thats burning? "Yes. The New York Times recently did a piece on the power of the garden at Rikers Island, which is managed by inmates. I met Jack Gilbert a couple of times. The separation of the races geographically speaking, and not simply socially speaking. Football coaches, mentors, family members and friends told story after story of how this young man had made a positive impact on their lives and how devastated they were to lose him. When Im in the coffee house [GLIDEs dining room reserved for families, the elderly and the physically disabled] and people are sitting there still hungry, I dont rush them out or ask them to leave. The Joyspotters Guide is a free resource that shares my favorite tips for finding more joy, everywhere you go! It's clear that joy is the crown of the good life, as Miroslav Volf has said. In this live workshop series, you'll learn evidence-based strategies to reclaim your joy and create a life you love. But another way that joy can support activism is that it disarms. There can be complaint, but you're spending a lot of energy just trying to hold it together. It reminds the teachers and students that they are fully human, fully worthy and deserving of a full and beautiful life. AFP NYC Board Member. People who refuse to stop believing. There's also the other ways in which space exists. "We must risk delight. I loved your book, and this post really lifted my spirits. But the emotion, the phenomenon, the virtue, the state, whatever joy is, it resists definition: different from happiness, and pleasure, and positivity, often out of our control, often present in the most surprising circumstances. And if you're not, please continue listening and engaging the content. So for today, Sojourner Truth is my inspiration. Open Preview. Released 31 August 2018 on Partisan. Professor Jennings, it's great to have you with us. Protest is when I say I refuse to go along with this anymore. Visit faith.yale.edu/give. "Oh, the Spirit's coming." The Handmaid's Tale is a study of an ordinary, non-heroic person's response to severe repression. But contemporary hits are just as suspect; the Soviet Union, for example, censored songs by artists as varied as AC/DC, Tina Turner, and Julio Iglesias. For in that moment, he truly was. Tricia Hersey, Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto. If you need to flag this entry as abusive, send us an email. The whole idea of oppression is to keep people down. And not every church I've been is a space of joy. I suggest you look to some literary greats who not only captured the relevance and significance of the African American life but lived extraordinary experiences themselves like, Ida B. And I think at another level, the work of joy becomes serious work, which I think in our contextand by our context, I mean in the Westthe work of joy in many ways is not fully the people's work. In a nation that denied our humanity, surrounded by neighbors who harbored hate for us in their hearts, our futures and our children's futures have perpetually been kept under the boot of the police state, our lives snatched away by a cop's pistol or the smack of a judge's gavel. "Our joy in itself is an act of . Wa-ching! Miroslav Volf: So if you have a kind of cultural logic that sets patterns for expressions of joy, but it ends up being segregated joy, how do you break open out of the enclosure? Women like Emma Watson, Malala and Beyonc (who thankfully introduced so many people to the amazing Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) are empowering young women through their speeches, actions and music and providing a gateway to larger feminist and social justice movements. My free Joyspotters Guide offers my best tips for finding joy everywhere you go! Put yourself in the way of beauty." I could not help but hear Nehemiah encourage his people to rebuild by saying that the joy of the Lord is your strength when they were being oppressed by a brutal and ruthless power. Even though looking back now I have some mixed feelings on the group, at the time they did provide a new type of role model to young women and paved a path for other women in the industry by not fitting into the existing generic mold. Joy is an act of resistance. As I stood amid a sea of mostly young black faces at New Revelation Baptist, I found myself seeking my own new revelation by asking hard questions about what has become a dangerously mundane ritual around young black bodies. But strong and destructive, too. And something else, I think to myself. Every year African American History month has a new theme. Wolves howl together after a hunt. Now, obviously we're talking beyond a kind of cultural tourism or kind of theological tourism. In China under Mao, listening to the music of Beethoven was a crime. It is a part of the empire of advertisement that they do the work, the creative work, of presenting to you what is joyful and what can become part of the reality of how you create enjoyment and pleasure. Joy in that regard is a work, that can become a state, that can become a way of life." //]]>. And when the horse drawn carriage with the bullet riddled body of her slain son passed by, someone from the family in the slowly driven car behind the carriage once again did something that I did not expect. There is that space. Yet even the smallest kernel of it can move nations. Continue to get inspired by watching the movie Hidden Figures which features brilliant women like Dorothy Vaughn who used mathematical formulas to launch John Glenn into space. A genuine leader will never exploit your emotions or your pocketbook. Willie Jennings: As I like to say, I'm a child of the church. Essentially, hope is the belief that tomorrow can be better than today. Resistance is when I put an end to what I don't like. It is one the things that makes us truly human. , The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community., I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light., After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was., We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil., Protest is when I say I don't like this. 7. She said she tries to acknowledge the difficulties that others might encounter in these unprecedented times while also caring for herself and those around her. She also goes into prisons to empower and open safe spaces for queer folks. Thats right, dancing. I am printing this post in order to keep the many good points at hand. She lives in my native and beloved city of Bogot, Colombia, where she divides her time between teaching and working for an amazing nonprofit, PARCES. Thanks so much for sharing. Miroslav Volf: So it's almost like a Pentecost joy, each speaking in their own tongue, but speaking that language of joy together. Societal change always involves a lot of pain as those with privilege and power often refuse to listen or take responsibility for the suffering theyve caused. He had a way of speaking that made you feel like magic. I would say something similar, but I would probably read it in this way. "For Black folks, joy and resistance aren't really that separate," Waheed tells me over Zoom. a piece on the power of the garden at Rikers Island. To make injustice the onlymeasure of our attention is to praise the Devil. Like Romeo, Juliet sees love as a kind of freedom, "boundless" and "infinite.". Singer Joe summarizes: "This album is an attempt to be . Im sorry that this post left you sad! 1. While communal joy represents an outright danger to a repressive regime, individual joy can also empower resistance. }); This episode featured theologians, Willie Jennings and Miroslav Volf. Thank you, Gail, and thank you for sharing! And he never failed me., Whenever you see a board up with "Trespassers will be prosecuted," trespass at once., Each of us, right here, right nowwe are the resistance., Resistance by definition is self-sabotage., Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave, Remember that on any world the wind eventually wears away the stone, because the stone can only crumble; the wind can change., The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction, The War of Art: Winning the Inner Creative Battle. This talk will give viewers a bird's eye view into what it means to be Black, millennial, and socially conscious. Released on Partisan Records 31/08/18 1 X LP, includes digital download card Joy As An Act Of Resistance is a parade. But here I'm wondering: if there is not a Christological intervention that the life of Jesus draws us toward, that brings an invitationthat the very form of joy and pleasure and contentment and comfort that you imagine in the enclosed space can actually be something far richer, far more beautiful, far more pleasurable in this new space, in which your joy is constituted with some of the very people who you imagine are a part of your despair, not a part of your joyor those who you imagine their joy that is absolutely in what they find enjoyable is absolutely foreign to what I would. Featured peformers: Joe Talbot (vocals), Mark Bowen (guitar), Lee Kiernan (guitar), Adam Devonshire (bass), Jon Beavis (drums), Space (producer), Adam Greenspan (mixing), Nick Launay (mixing). Miroslav Volf: I don't know whether I'm maybe romanticizing things, but it seemed to me that from what I have observed growing up, but also when I have traveled, that I find more joy in the midst of oppression in almost paradoxical way, than I find in plenty. Author Cheryl Strayed writes in her book Wild about how her mother made a choice everyday to find peace, even when things were difficult. Elephants celebrate when the herd is reunited after a separation, stamping around, peeing, and trumpeting with their trunks. Miroslav Volf: And in some ways you've got this space for joy, but you can constitute in it also a space of joy. Lewis. I believe in the magic and authority of words.. Stop. Willie Jennings: Despair in all of the ways that despair wants to drive us toward death, and wants to make death the final word. As a Christian pastor, I could not help sense that I was bearing witness to the embodiment of Isaiahs prophecy that you have turned my mourning into dancing, my sorrow into joy. Black History Month, the creation and celebration of it, is such a cause and proof that a powerful story can change the world! We're grateful that you're listening. I remember people handing flyers to the guy I was with and not to me as if I werent autonomous, or men saying things to me like, youve got a really good record collection for a girl. As I became more aware, I found myself influenced by girls and women who were challenging the existing power structure of rock n roll. If you need to flag this entry as abusive. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); The Aesthetics of Joy is a resource for finding more joy in life and work backed by scientific research. And to push it even further, some of them just didnt care about educating men or changing their minds. Now I do want to take seriously the way in which a community finds joy and creates joy and creates patterns of pleasure that are imagined to only exist in integrity when the outside others are kept out. Segregated joy is most often sequestered joy, bounded joy territorially, in particular places. The reverse is also true that the secret of joy is resistance. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. Come and join me and my colleagues on the AFP NYC IDEA Committee where we not only embrace inclusion, diversity, equity and access but we further these ideals within the Fundraising profession through planning, collaboration, implementation, and of courseJoy. abulabbas Dec 27, 2021. I began to realize this when I was studying animal celebrations. If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?, Resistance is always lying and always full of shit., We are like water, arent we? "Secondary choices are always subordinate to a primary choice. History month and why rewriting history to exclude the African American's place in it is so perfidious, its founder said it best, "If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the . Stories are told, jokes are told, people walk in, comments are made, and without you being spoken to directly, you've been spoken to. But, there's also the goodness of the joy that transcends, that reach us out, that includes the other people, and music is one of the spaces where that can happen. People who refuse to stop believing. In World War I, soldiers on both sides were known to cultivate gardens in the trenches. The language of oppression is one of scarcity and fear, and I think to some extent, the activists goal must be to remind those who have been convinced that progress is a losing game for them that there is in fact enough to go around. Even in the rebellious punk rock subculture, misogyny was rampant. Authors and activists Maya Angelou and Isabel Allende join GLIDE co-founders Janice Mirikitani and Reverend Cecil Williams at a Sunday Celebration in January 1996. In Trinidad, the British banned drumming. Miroslav Volf: So you walk and you think, "I need to walk into a space of joy." Rest is vital, but rest alone doesnt create resilience. And like an old cassette tape, the world presses stop, rewind, and play. Aesthetics of joy can also disrupt complacency, drawing much-needed attention to a cause. At all points in the fight for equality for Black Americans, women have been driving the movement. We danced like Darius was right there with us. Willie Jennings: They had dreams of power. For women, this has meant a suppression of the erotic as a considered source of power and information within our lives. The denigration of feminine forms of joy, such as romance novels and films, fashion and home decor, is another manifestation of this insidious form of repression. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. It is mind-boggling to them that Black people can still find peace. To me she was the embodiment of my existence as resistance. 13. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Lyrically, Joy as an Act of Resistance focuses on lead singer Joe Talbot's troubled past & many timely themes like . To be Black and joyful despite and against all the odds is an act of resistance. Joy lets us reclaim our humanity. And so we did. It takes something for joy to be brought forth, and I love that youre standing from this viewpoint. And we'll be back with more next week. Also empower resistance favorite tips for finding more joy who said joy is an act of resistance quote everywhere you!! Join GLIDE co-founders Janice Mirikitani and Reverend Cecil Williams at a pace that right. Fully taken hold, the world presses Stop, rewind, and thank you, Gail, not... 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