TODAY at 12pm eastern: Dreamers & Troublemakers Study Hall
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Dear Shapeshifters,
I am so excited to gather and read alongside one another, for those who are joining us today: Our monthly “study hall” is today from 12-1pm eastern time.
If you’re like me and have found your reading practice disrupted by grief, you may find body doubling helpful. This gathering is a monthly silent reading party- which I’m thinking of as a dreamers and troublemaker’s study hall.
Bring a cup of tea a magical text or whatever book of your choosing (or choose from our selection for book club tomorrow below!)
Curated Grief Magic Reads for May
We also have a book club/salon Tomorrow, May 27th, 12-2pm eastern time, where we will be discussing the resources below, if you’d like to join us in reading any of the following!
BUT please don’t feel like you have to have gotten through all of them to join us! As you move through these readings, try to find what feels most alive for you. Bring a few quotes, themes, or questions you would like to discuss with one another!
Essays:
“A Plea for Magic” essay by Bayo Akomolafe
“The Rise of End Times Fascism” article by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor (take care of yourselves as you move through this one, but be sure to get to the end which calls for reviving animist understandings and practices of “hereness”)
The following excerpts from Rebellious Mourning: The Collective Work of Grief by Cindy Milstein:
Prologue: Cracks in the Wall, p. 3-12
Feeling is Not Weakness/ On Mourning and Movement, p. 13-26
To Mourn and Strike, p. 203-231
The following excerpts from The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram**:
The Ecology of Magic, p. 3-29
The Forgetting & Remembering of Air, Coda: Turning inside out, p. 225-274
**OR, below are some supplemental podcast interviews with David Abram that accompany the book well and if you can’t get a hold of the book will still help you engage in conversation around it!
- Coming to our Animal Senses - A Conversation with David Abram
- The Ecology of Magic - A conversation with David Abram
- The Ecology of Perception - A conversation with David Abram
There are two ways to join us for study halls and book clubs:
Become a paid subscriber to Grief Spells for $16-20 per month, OR
Join the grief magic self paced study for $40 for 12 months, which also gives you a lifetimes access to a seasonal library of resources for cultivating your attunement to your grief, your magic, your joy, and your ecosystems that you can move through at your own pace! 🌸🪄 (All students are also invited to grief studios!)
OR