Decolonizing Love on Instagram: "“We don’t learn to love in a linear path, from self to family to friends to spouse, as we might have been taught. We learn to love by loving. We practice with each other, on ourselves, in all kinds of relationships. And right now we need to be in rigorous practice because we can no longer afford to love people the way we’ve been loving them. How have we been loving? defining love by obligation, celebrating love on externally marked holidays keeping the realities of love behind closed doors, framing love up as a fairy tale on social media, as a product, we give each other, as a limited resource that gets swallowed and used up, tied in plastic when we’re done and piled up out of sight, prioritizing romantic love over self, comrade and friend love This kind of love is not sufficient, even if it is the greatest love(s) of our lives. The kind of love that we will be forced to celebrate or escape on Valentine’s Day is too small. We’re all going to die if we keep loving this way, die from isolation, loneliness, depression, abandoning each other to oppression, from lack of touch, from forgetting we are precious. We can no longer love as a secret, or a presentation, as something we prioritize, hoard for the people we know. Prioritizing ourselves in love is political strategy, is survival. What we need right now is a radical, global love that grows from deep within us to encompass all life.” - Love as Political Resistance- Lessons from Audre Lorde and Octavia Butler by adrienne maree brown Reel by @janeyricacelle Video interview of James Sexton on Diary of a CEO 🌟 Follow us for more polyamory content from a decolonizing lens 🔍 If you’re looking for personalized polyamory coaching, you can book your session through the link in the bio. #Polyamorous #polyamory #nonmonogamy #openrelationship #relationshipgoals"
50K likes, 405 comments - decolonizing.love on August 20, 2024: "“We don’t learn to love in a linear path, from self to family to friends to spouse, as we might have been taught. We learn to love by loving. We practice with each other, on ourselves, in all kinds of relationships. And right now we need to be in rigorous practice because we can no longer afford to love people the way we’ve been loving them. How have we been loving? defining love by obligation, celebrating love on externally marked holidays keeping the realities of love behind closed doors, framing love up as a fairy tale on social media, as a product, we give each other, as a limited resource that gets swallowed and used up, tied in plastic when we’re done and piled up out of sight, prioritizing romantic love over self, comrade and friend love This kind of love is not sufficient, even if it is the greatest love(s) of our lives. The kind of love that we will be forced to celebrate or escape on Valentine’s Day is too small. We’re all going to die if we keep loving this way, die from isolation, loneliness, depression, abandoning each other to oppression, from lack of touch, from forgetting we are precious. We can no longer love as a secret, or a presentation, as something we prioritize, hoard for the people we know. Prioritizing ourselves in love is political strategy, is survival. What we need right now is a radical, global love that grows from deep within us to encompass all life.” - Love as Political Resistance- Lessons from Audre Lorde and Octavia Butler by adrienne maree brown Reel by @janeyricacelle Video interview of James Sexton on Diary of a CEO 🌟 Follow us for more polyamory content from a decolonizing lens 🔍 If you’re looking for personalized polyamory coaching, you can book your session through the link in the bio. #Polyamorous #polyamory #nonmonogamy #openrelationship #relationshipgoals".