Hi Friends!
Liberation is a word, concept but most importantly ethos and praxis that has gained popularity in the last few years and has been bastardized by social media, as so many others before it. Now more than ever, we need to bring people back to the root meaning of Liberation and the birth of the praxis. While there have been liberatory struggles globally, the way we talk about Liberation within the United States and much of the Western world is specifically born out of the Black Liberation movement.
Black liberation is not a niche concern; it is one of the most fully developed traditions of freedom thought in the modern world. Born out of centuries of resistance, Black liberation movements have produced some of the most rigorous, creative, and spiritually grounded analyses of power, dignity, and what it means to be fully human. The pursuit of Black liberation has developed intellectual and political traditions for understanding how oppression works and how to dismantle it. Things like abolition, Pan-Africanism, Black feminism etc, these are sophisticated, battle-tested frameworks, not just ideas but ever-evolving bodies of theory and practice. To engage with it seriously is to encounter a living tradition, one that has never had the luxury of treating freedom as abstract.
