And remember, the Christian Right only took up abortion as a topic after they lost school segregation for good when the IRS went after Bob Jones’ U status, & needed a new issue to rally the troops.
1/x all our issues are intertwined.
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The United States has always been a democracy for some and a brutal authoritarian regime for others, and the effort to expand it to democracy for all has led to a 70+ year backlash culminating in SCOTUS claiming that kings are totes cool and also judges are the ones to coronate them
To say nothing of who abortion bans harm hardest and first, always.
Oh, I don’t have it in me to list all the intertwining ways all our issues are intertwined this time, I just don’t.
But it is every thing every step of all the things all the way down. Gender justice and racial justice and disability justice and queer justice and economic justice and all the things all tangled up together, always.
Because that’s what kyriarchy is. That’s what it does.
“Kyriarchy” was coined by feminist theologian Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza in 1992 to describe her theory of interconnected, interacting, and self-extending systems of domination and submission—from “kyros”, master.
Which is the whole point. All of us. Are in it together. All of us are impacted by this stuff and trapped in this unjust system that does not benefit ANYONE because even those who may ostensibly be “winning” in a game of domination and hierarchy have lost what really matters most. You know that.
The thing where I win by crushing you, by dominating over you? That is not humanity retained.
What is now is not good for anyone.
Another world is possible.
There is another world that is possible that we can only get to when we begin to live into it now. I don’t know how else to say it.
Like— we can’t get there by continuing to act into the world of domination and hierarchy in any place where we have a choice not to.
We must cultivate relationships of care and respect that actually honor the humanity of those involved. We have become dehumanized, because that is how we are able to participate in kyriarchy.
Or as I sometimes like to put it: "Another world is *inevitable*. Choose carefully."
The world we have is unsustainable and unstable. It's going away. If we don't want to live in an even worse world, we have to build a better one and - as you say - build it together.
