diff --git a/src/blog/2024/liberationist-1.md b/src/blog/2024/liberationist-1.md index 62c1514..231cb64 100644 --- a/src/blog/2024/liberationist-1.md +++ b/src/blog/2024/liberationist-1.md @@ -9,9 +9,9 @@ Liberation, at its most basic, is the act and process of freeing oneself and oth ## How I extend liberation's definition -For myself, liberation involves deconstructing cycles, systems, and structures which perpetuate violence against and exploitation of the oppressed and prevent people (oppressed *or* oppressor) in communities and broader society from living as their fullest selves. Liberation includes the pursuit healing, social justice, and collective actualization. +For myself, liberation means deconstructing things—cycles, systems, structures—which perpetuate violence, oppression, and exploitation, and building ones which support our collective and individual abilities to live as our fullest selves. Liberation entails acting together with love, hope, and vision to build collective power and realize change. -Love is a core value to my liberation politic because liberation, to me, is love at its loudest. In a world on fire, love calls us to liberation. I heavily adapted my perspective on love from bell hooks, who offered this definition by M. Scott Peck: “Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth... Love is as love does. Love is an act of will—namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love.”[^1] +Love is a core value to my liberation politic because liberation, to me, is love at its loudest. In a world on fire, love calls us to liberation. I adapt my perspective on love from bell hooks, who offered this definition by M. Scott Peck: “Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth... Love is as love does. Love is an act of will—namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love.”[^1] This love, in which we extend ourselves for nurturing spiritual growth, is inherently liberatory. Liberation fulfills love. Liberation work is a sacred labor which allows us to manifest love. It encompasses collective action to build power across dimensions of the political, cultural, social, economic, psychological, spiritual, and so forth. diff --git a/src/journal/journal.json b/src/journal/journal.json deleted file mode 100644 index 44be8dd..0000000 --- a/src/journal/journal.json +++ /dev/null @@ -1,4 +0,0 @@ -{ - "tags": "journal", - "permalink": "/journal/{{ page.date | formatDate: 'y' }}/{{ title | slugify }}/index.html" -} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/src/journal/2024/2024-07-07.md b/src/updates/2024/2024-07-07.md similarity index 98% rename from src/journal/2024/2024-07-07.md rename to src/updates/2024/2024-07-07.md index ad2ce91..a71345f 100644 --- a/src/journal/2024/2024-07-07.md +++ b/src/updates/2024/2024-07-07.md @@ -6,5 +6,3 @@ date: 2024-07-07T18:02:55-5 Today I have a small update to the site: I've added a footnote plugin and a header anchor plugin to the site's Markdown parsing. Not a noticeable difference, but it'll help when I start publishing more stuff here. I've also changed permalinks for journal entries to include the year, and I updated how datestamps are formatted across the site. - ----G diff --git a/src/journal/index.md b/src/updates/index.md similarity index 79% rename from src/journal/index.md rename to src/updates/index.md index 47feef9..84cc128 100644 --- a/src/journal/index.md +++ b/src/updates/index.md @@ -1,17 +1,17 @@ --- -title: Journal +title: Updates override:tags: [] -permalink: /journal/index.html +permalink: /updates/index.html pagination: - data: collections.journal + data: collections.updates size: 2 generatePageOnEmptyData: true eleventyNavigation: - key: Journal + key: Updates order: 2 --- -# Journal +# Updates Wizard sightings diff --git a/src/updates/updates.json b/src/updates/updates.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e659630 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/updates/updates.json @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +{ + "tags": "updates", + "permalink": "/updates/{{ page.date | formatDate: 'y' }}/{{ title | slugify }}/index.html" +} \ No newline at end of file