![]() ![]() ![]() We are expected to feel deeply lucky and even indebted to a society that allows us to work, even if that work cannot satisfy our most basic needs. They appear as rescuers, demanding ceaseless labor from us but presenting it as a gift. This Here Flesh is a captivating spiritual meditation where ‘Black words live in dignity, lament, rage, and hope.’ It explores how spirituality can heal the body, heal the stories we inherit, and give language to the deepest experiences of the human. ![]() ![]() They distract us from this by dangling opportunity in the opposite direction. Meanwhile, the powerful convince us that there is not enough while their pocket spill out in the open. You can work, as my gramma did in California, for a full month just to be able to finally move from the shelter into low-income housing. This is a grim human development, for no one wants to spend their days merely surviving.Īnd this transaction is nearly always incongruent with the amount of labor one does. How could it be when one is withering from hunger? Labor instead becomes a means to an end, not an avenue for flourishing but a transaction for survival. From the first words of the Argentine novelist Agustina Bazterrica’s second novel, Tender Is the Flesh, the reader is already the livestock in the line, reeling, primordially aware that this. In response to the risk and need around us, we have constructed systems around labor that leave even the hardest workers vulnerable, in deficit. When fear enters the story, something changes. “I have to believe that if we didn't need to protect ourselves, we wouldn't be so prone to avoiding rest. ![]()
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