Hey folks, I'll be writing about Kwanzaa ALL WEEK on my blog. I want to introduce the holiday to folks who've only heard about it while also talking about why it's personally significant to me. :)
https://jakebe.com/2017/12/26/kwanzaa-day-1-umoja-unity/
@jakebe I did a lot of digging into Kwanzaa last year. I look forward to hearing your take on it all!
@literorrery @jakebe I was thinking about doing something similar, cause i think there are a lot of ideals in Kwanzaa that match up postfurry ideas.
@kelseyhusky @jakebe If nothing else, I think we tap into a common motif: we create rituals for ourselves because we can't connect to the narratives of the larger culture in which we find ourselves, but our connections to any "origin culture" has been deliberately broken in many ways. So, we do what we can to construct new futures from our understandings and try to show respect for the past in so doing.
@kelseyhusky @jakebe ... got a more personal side to this, too, but I'd rather go into that elsewhere. =>.>=
@jakebe @kelseyhusky Much of the ideals of Kwanzaa are also well in line with what I think of as good community values. Unity's a hard one, if only because we're all such damned poststructuralists that "unity" ends up looking like "forward in all directions." :) The rest, though, are all things I'd love to see more conscious engagement in the community with.