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Organizational cadre school ramblings
Jul. 29th, 2005 12:40 pmWell. I haven't updated in ten days. Once, in the life of this blog, that would have been quite normal. It may become quite normal again, if I get into a classroom by September. That's not a job that has room for daytime journalling. Even in terms of e-mail, my old pattern was to get up early enough to check messages, and quite often get sucked into writing people early in the morning before leaving for work, and then to do whatever I could in the evening. Over the last few months, I've had enough laxity that I've definitely been drawn into internet-dependency. It's not that I feel exactly guilty about that, or annoyed with myself... just that I doubt it will remain as possible. Maybe not, though. People are always telling me they can't ever find time to read, and I have never in my life managed not to find time to read. The one circumstance I can imagine limiting that is parenthood. From all I observe, I would imagine that parents almost never get a chance to start a book, much less finish one.
Otherwise, I've had almost a week of intensely enjoyable and energizing and hopeful interactions with comrades of mine in my socialist organization, Solidarity. The cadre school I got to participate in from last Friday night until Wednesday afternoon was the same sort of touchstone for me as our Socialist-Feminist Queer Liberation retreat more than two years ago. The experience of this cadre school was made up of both the formally structured parts and the informal connections made and reforged, of course. And the formally structured parts were quite excellent: I think this is the first time that the feminist process that Solidarity has struggled with WORKED, and worked almost seamlessly, and worked to undergird and make more accessible the actually quite rigorous theoretical and political discussions. It worked at the aforementioned SFQL retreat, too, in fact, but possibly it wasn't as self-conscious. Also, the task being undertaken was different in each case, I think. The conscious attempt to grapple with generational transformation and building cadre is a strange and different goal.
Cheers, Comrade I. I thought of titling the above photo "You don't HAVE to drink to be a revolutionary... but it helps", sort of along the lines of the Emma Goldman quote. There WAS a conspicuous lack of dancing at this thing, and that needs to be rectified next time. It's really the only kind of rectification I am into.
( Everything from theory to sex, at least sex in theory )
As a result of a week of intense education and conversation, starting around 8:30 AM and ending between midnight and 2 AM most nights, and then of a fair amount of babysitting of my nieces, I am absolutely wiped out right now. I have a number of things I want to be working on politically, some of which overlap with LJ, actually -- in terms of annotating various lists of novels with utopian aspirations or visions, and of making that list of Books the Christian Right Aren't Banning But Would If They Had Any Brains.
And I have a job interview on Monday, from out of the blue. I don't know what my chances are, but I feel much better about getting OTHER interviews on the basis of my applications (all those annoying fucking papers and forms I have been juggling in frustration, and cover letters and resumes, etc.), having gotten one, you know?
Otherwise, I've had almost a week of intensely enjoyable and energizing and hopeful interactions with comrades of mine in my socialist organization, Solidarity. The cadre school I got to participate in from last Friday night until Wednesday afternoon was the same sort of touchstone for me as our Socialist-Feminist Queer Liberation retreat more than two years ago. The experience of this cadre school was made up of both the formally structured parts and the informal connections made and reforged, of course. And the formally structured parts were quite excellent: I think this is the first time that the feminist process that Solidarity has struggled with WORKED, and worked almost seamlessly, and worked to undergird and make more accessible the actually quite rigorous theoretical and political discussions. It worked at the aforementioned SFQL retreat, too, in fact, but possibly it wasn't as self-conscious. Also, the task being undertaken was different in each case, I think. The conscious attempt to grapple with generational transformation and building cadre is a strange and different goal.
Cheers, Comrade I. I thought of titling the above photo "You don't HAVE to drink to be a revolutionary... but it helps", sort of along the lines of the Emma Goldman quote. There WAS a conspicuous lack of dancing at this thing, and that needs to be rectified next time. It's really the only kind of rectification I am into.
( Everything from theory to sex, at least sex in theory )
As a result of a week of intense education and conversation, starting around 8:30 AM and ending between midnight and 2 AM most nights, and then of a fair amount of babysitting of my nieces, I am absolutely wiped out right now. I have a number of things I want to be working on politically, some of which overlap with LJ, actually -- in terms of annotating various lists of novels with utopian aspirations or visions, and of making that list of Books the Christian Right Aren't Banning But Would If They Had Any Brains.
And I have a job interview on Monday, from out of the blue. I don't know what my chances are, but I feel much better about getting OTHER interviews on the basis of my applications (all those annoying fucking papers and forms I have been juggling in frustration, and cover letters and resumes, etc.), having gotten one, you know?
