Afterword

Opening the afterword to a political journal with the slogan “the personal is political” is perhaps too on the nose. But throughout this inaugural publication of Perspectives on Gender, Equity, and Politics the space has been made where this rings true. The ways in which resistance shows up in the pieces throughout this journal act to bear witness to the fractal legacies of resistance — from the personal to collective.

What gets lost in neutrality or objectivity? The ways in which emotion and personal influence are seen as a detriment to logic and knowledge, this journal has created a space here and now of witnessing how politics has become entangled with personhood. PGEP, as space and a collection, is resistance itself to the expectations of acceptable knowledge; resistance to the ways in which as resisters we present our realities. By resisting the expectation and fallacy of neutrality within academic and institutional knowledge an opening is created to question

not just within the context of this journal, but within the current paradigm of politics. Confronting the privilege of the illusion/delusion of neutrality.

To witness is to pay attention—to give space in time and psyche—to the stories and knowledge of each other. To receive what is resonant and to resonate with one another. The resonance reverberates through community, through generations, through mass action, organization, and individual reflection and research.

In resistance and witnessing, we create new shapes. We hold open a door and forge paths for those who come after us. Leaving trails through devastation and flourishing, creating cracks through which future generations can flow through without the stress of resistance. Allowing for the work of reinforcing, and expanding that which we create together through shared spaces and times.

afterword by: jacquie shaw

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This is a somatic (integrating the mind and body) practice. Prompting and guiding you-us-one as a moment of rest and connection. Acting as a respite to transition from witnessing the resistance of others to witnessing and returning to the self.

[Begin]

What is it to resist, to feel the resistance of the many, of ourselves?

Here is a place to rest, to reflect, to self-witness, feel the body, be present at the individual level of resistance.

Pausing, close the eyes or soften the gaze. Take a beat to observe your state, with gentle compassion and curiosity; what does this body hold within and against, through, and from resistance?

[pause] [prompt]

What is the shape of your resistance? (Explore the dimensionality)

[pause] In this reflective stillness, we witness our individual shapes of resistance. Trace our physical shape; as if laying down on a large sheet of paper as a friend traces around us to create an outline — playfully, gently, friendly, and attentively.

[Begin again] A small ball of light sprouts atop your head, as if it were the sprouts of seeds emerging from fertile soil in the warmth of spring. Follow the light as it traces your shape.

Moving from the crown of your head leftwards and down along the temple, following past the place of ears and down the jaw, the neck, the shoulder. Around the arm, to the wrist, around each finger, rounding the thumb,

and once again up the arm. To where arms meet torso. Against the side of the torso past ribs and waist.

To hips, along outer thighs,

around knees, down calves. Ankles. Feet. Toes. Inner foot. Ankle. Calves. Knees, continuing up one leg,

completing half of the body. Beginning the journey back to the top of the head.

Once again along the legs, around the feet. Ankles, calves, thighs, Right hip —

Returning through the torso, through the waist, along the side.

Meeting the right arm, throughout the fingers, to close the arm, to trace the shoulder.

Returning to the neck. Returning to the temples. Returning, and completing this current shape of self. This moment of tracing.

[pause]

Making space here for a moment to feel the container of this form. To witness a personal shape. [prompt] What does this form withstand? [prompt] What are the boundaries of his form? [prompt] Within this space, what is created. With this form, what is created?

[Return to as needed]

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