16:58:46 From agnes borinsky : welcome y'all 16:59:25 From agnes borinsky : so many wonderful faces! 16:59:43 From Paul K. Smith : My favorite songbird!!!!! 17:00:24 From agnes borinsky : we’ll start about five minutes after the hour. for now we settle in, face-gaze. 17:00:35 From agnes borinsky : welcome to all. 17:00:56 From agnes borinsky : welcome welcome! 17:01:08 From agnes borinsky : where are people joining from? 17:01:27 From Jacob P : a brooklyn kitchen! 17:01:35 From Jillian Steinhauer : a brooklyn bedroom! 17:01:53 From kristen kosmas (she/her) : a seattle apartment/office/studio/church 17:01:55 From Gus : A sun porch in the catskillzz 17:02:03 From Paul K. Smith : ♫♪♪♫ 17:02:05 From allyson : new jersey <3 17:02:05 From Declan Zhang : im waving hello to everyone!! old friends and new!! 17:02:06 From Will Brumley : Astoria 17:02:08 From Andrew Hardigg : a queens kitchen 17:02:08 From Declan Zhang : so many new friends :) 17:02:11 From Megan : Hide, Agnes and All! NACL in the Catskills! 17:02:17 From Declan Zhang : bushwick kitchen! 17:02:19 From Megan : Hi! Not hide 17:02:20 From anne demelo : a pittsburgh kitchen table! 17:02:22 From daisy(she)+sophie(they) : A Brooklyn kitchen 17:02:25 From agnes borinsky : hi hide hide hi 17:02:28 From Paul Hufker : Hi everyone! 17:02:31 From Carmen R. : Hello from Ft. Greene… 17:02:35 From Lindsay Bowman : Hi from Canada! 17:02:39 From Charles Gershman : Hello! 17:02:45 From Daniel Krane : Hi from Brooklyn! 17:02:52 From agnes borinsky : welcome all. so glad to see your faces. we’ll start around 5 min after the hour. 17:02:52 From Eliza Bent : middle west 17:02:53 From Lisi DeHaas : hello from Hamilton Heights 17:02:56 From Sarah Sanders (she/her) : Joining from Bed-Stuy :) 17:02:59 From Megan Riordan : Hello from the UWS 17:03:03 From Meghan Deans : Bed Stuy also! 17:03:04 From Shara Feit : hi all from riverdale in the bronx! :) 17:03:20 From Dina Vovsi : Hello from Greenpoint ! 17:03:22 From Peter Cook (he/him) : hello from Ann Arbor, MI! 17:03:46 From Whitney : Bed Stuy too! 17:03:49 From Scott Davis (they/them) : Hello from Pittsburgh! 17:03:57 From noah : hi from the bronx :) 17:04:03 From Philip Gates : Philadelphia <3 17:04:08 From Patrick Ferreri - he|him|his : Hi from Brooklyn! 17:04:14 From Patrick Ferreri - he|him|his : (Gowanus) 17:04:15 From Paul Hufker : New Brunswick :) 17:04:21 From Paul K. Smith : am joining from a day of if not killing then at least destroying the ultimate Predator our Midst: God 17:04:22 From Ryan Gedrich : upper west side hello, too! 17:04:23 From Taryn M. (she, her) : hi, from Saratoga Springs, NY 17:04:28 From Carly Bales : Hi hi from Baltimore 17:04:36 From Olivia : hi from brooklyn crown heights ! 17:04:49 From kelsey !! stevenson !! : Hi from Albuquerque! 17:05:04 From Eve Beglarian : hi from Vermont 17:05:32 From raphi soifer (he/him they/them) : hi from another corner of crown heights :) 17:07:45 From Jacob Perkins : mom 17:07:51 From Charles Gershman : to silenced voices around the world 17:07:53 From Will Brumley : I’m offering my work today to Erin. Her father passed. 17:07:53 From Jaclyn Backhaus (she/her) : my friend david who lost his mother this weekend 17:07:56 From Daniel Krane (he/they) : to Michael and Tina Krane 17:08:01 From Maia Karo : Tzvi 17:08:02 From daisy(she)+sophie(they) : Our friend Skye 17:08:04 From Gus : agnes 17:08:04 From rebeca medina : To Sara Fonseca 17:08:04 From Whitney : MuMu who lost someone today 17:08:05 From Lauren Z : dedicating today to Vero who has a broken ankle and is holding her family together in Miami 17:08:05 From Meghan : JR 17:08:05 From Sarah Sanders (she/her) : my uncle Dan, who’s currently in the hospital 17:08:05 From B F : Dee 17:08:05 From Yehuda Hyman : TO Daniel Meynen of Freiburg, Germany 17:08:06 From Tessa Albertson she/her : Miley Cyrus… but also my grandfater 17:08:06 From Megan Hill (she/her) : for my family 17:08:07 From Lucy Jackson (she/her) : I'm offering my work today to my mum, Anna Jackson, who is a long way away. 17:08:09 From Scott Davis (they/them) : My sister 17:08:11 From Declan Zhang : my grandfather who is newly in a nursing home 17:08:13 From Lindsay Bowman : My sisters 17:08:16 From Olivia : my friend naima’s whose mother passed this morning 17:08:17 From Lisi DeHaas : my dear friend and compatriot Deborah 17:08:17 From kelsey stevenson : Gramps! And Grammy. 17:08:18 From Carly Bales : to Hannah 17:08:18 From Carmen R. : For my mom since she never got to live the life she wanted 17:08:18 From anne demelo : mamá 17:08:18 From Philip Gates : Tiffanie who is trying to bring her brother home 17:08:21 From Megan Riordan (she/her) : My friend Clark who is going through a hard time 17:08:21 From sean he/him : blake 17:08:22 From walker caplan : offering my work in the working group today to Sid who is exhausted w legal work 17:08:24 From Peter Cook (he/him) : Offering to my brother, Andrew, in Providence. 17:08:28 From eliza bent : My mom, Jane 17:08:31 From Patrick Ferreri - he|him|his : to my mom and her work in the classroom 17:08:32 From Adam Mazer : my dad, who had surgery today 17:08:34 From Daniel Richman : my grandmother 17:08:34 From Cricket Brown : kay 17:08:35 From Aitan Groener : ariel in greensboro 17:08:36 From Paul K. Smith : to all the other victims of a Silent God, where Silence IS complicity in evil. 17:08:37 From kristen kosmas (she/her) : offering to the young people, the ones i know and the ones i don’t 17:08:38 From allyson : My mother in law Linda 17:08:39 From Ryan Gedrich : my parents, in new jersey. 17:08:42 From Rachel Kauder Nalebuff : to a friend who is doubting herself and is a genius 17:08:44 From Taryn M. (she, her) : my students/teachers 17:08:48 From Hannah Wolf (she/hers) : Bev Ingram and Steve Wolf- isolated in Alaska 17:08:53 From Andrew Hardigg : my sister, managing time 17:08:57 From Jillian Steinhauer (she/her) : to Anton, who was a great teacher 17:08:58 From Maria : Ann & John 17:09:00 From Joey Sims : to my friend Brian, working through a loss 17:09:06 From Dina Vovsi : My mama. 17:09:06 From Michael Leibenluft (he/him) : To min tanaka and Jeffrey sichel 17:09:10 From Eve Beglarian : corey, whose birthday it is, and he is suffering 17:09:11 From noah : To the person I want to become 17:09:18 From Megan Riordan (she/her) : and all those feeling lost and stuck in this unending moment of transition 17:09:26 From raphi soifer (he/him they/them) : my new neighbors, the ones who are physically close and the ones who are near in other ways 17:09:38 From Jessica Almasy she, Lenape : to my grandpa Michael who made it to the fourth grade and is such a force anytime I write something 17:15:48 From agnes borinsky : https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdjV9w1SlLu8qMhRXbux9RoctOAqOKFp25HkKkXpQc1tiKCbw/viewform 17:19:02 From Paul K. Smith : thoughts of the mind and truths of the heart 17:19:07 From Jaclyn Backhaus (she/her) : snacks 17:19:11 From Yehuda Hyman : Days left 17:19:11 From Lauren Z : books that I want to read or reread 17:19:14 From Jacob Perkins : resentments, fears, sexual experiences 17:19:15 From Angel Z : fears 17:19:15 From rebeca medina : plants 17:19:15 From Olivia : successes & failures 17:19:17 From Daniel Krane (he/they) : Boys I’ve kissed 17:19:18 From Tessa Albertson she/her : friends I should call 17:19:20 From Michael Leibenluft (he/him) : Things I am shedding 17:19:20 From Shara Feit (she/her) : notable songs 17:19:23 From Lucy Jackson (she/her) : things I used to believe to be true 17:19:24 From Lyndsey Bourne : things i put into my body 17:19:24 From Maggie Cino : what groceries will make what dinners 17:19:25 From Jessica Almasy she, Lenape : a fearless and searching moral inventory a la the 12 steps 17:19:26 From kelsey stevenson : favorite articles of clothing! 17:19:27 From Whitney : muscles that hurt 17:19:27 From kekoamorris : memories 17:19:27 From Carmen R. : Careers and aspirations 17:19:28 From Jerry Polner : Everything that I value. 17:19:29 From Megan Riordan (she/her) : Step 4 in 12 step fellowships is a ‘searching and fearless moral inventory’ 17:19:29 From kelsey stevenson : Favorite SOCKS... 17:19:30 From Ryan Gedrich : aspirations unmet 17:19:31 From Caitlin (she/they) : books - I’ve read and to read 17:19:34 From Jillian Steinhauer (she/her) : insecurities 17:19:34 From Maia Karo : loves 17:19:35 From Adam Mazer : people that i’m attracted to 17:19:36 From sean he/him : times i’ve cried 17:19:37 From Megan Hill (she/her) : things that fall through the cracks 17:19:38 From Angel Z : dreams 17:19:40 From Will Brumley : archive of the past 17:19:41 From Jaclyn Backhaus (she/her) : inventories!! 17:19:42 From raphi soifer (he/him they/them) : songs that communicate pre-election/plague-era catharsis 17:19:43 From Noel Allain (he/him) On Lenapehoking : projects to start. 17:19:43 From Jessica Almasy she, Lenape : everything I no longer have 17:19:44 From Ryan Gedrich : aches 17:19:45 From Whitney : recipes to attempt 17:19:46 From Yehuda Hyman : Things I need to work on 17:19:48 From Peter Cook (he/him) : things (to be) accomplished 17:19:49 From Sarah Sanders (she/her) : recipes I said I would make during quarantine and have not 17:19:49 From eligelb : things that have shaped me 17:19:51 From walker caplan : map of places walked 17:19:51 From sophie(they)+daisy(she) : Past events 17:19:52 From Rachel Kauder Nalebuff : kinds of allergies 17:19:52 From Meghan : Things on my floor 17:19:53 From Daniel Krane (he/they) : People I love 17:19:53 From Megan Riordan (she/her) : songs I can’t listen to anymore because of too many memories/feels 17:19:53 From Jaclyn Backhaus (she/her) : photographs 17:19:54 From Lucy Jackson (she/her) : things I don't need any more 17:19:55 From Maria : special treasures in my house 17:19:56 From Daniel Lupo (they/them) : dreams 17:19:58 From Jillian Steinhauer (she/her) : people i miss 17:19:58 From Maggie Cino : all my idea debt 17:19:59 From walker caplan : commitments made 17:19:59 From Tessa Albertson she/her : my creative flow 17:20:00 From kelsey stevenson : containers 17:20:01 From Andrew Hardigg : phone calls to make 17:20:01 From Will Brumley : Things I misremember 17:20:05 From sophie(they)+daisy(she) : People who’ve wronged me 17:20:06 From Lyndsey Bourne : my friends mothers 17:20:06 From Lisi DeHaas : emotions and sensations 17:20:06 From Jaclyn Backhaus (she/her) : beanie babies 17:20:09 From Maia Karo : scars 17:20:10 From kekoamorris : To do’s 17:20:10 From walker caplan : forgivenesses 17:20:13 From raphi soifer (he/him they/them) : floorboards that creak 17:20:13 From Megan Hill (she/her) : things I should have said 17:20:17 From Jerry Polner : In business, inventory means the items I expect to sell. 17:20:26 From Jessica Almasy she, Lenape : everyone Im about to end a relationship with 17:21:11 From Dina Vovsi : Mistakes. 17:21:42 From sophie(they)+daisy(she) : Regrets 17:21:45 From Taryn M. (she, her) : space and time 17:21:54 From Paul K. Smith : Beings who give-- only to take. 17:22:22 From Megan Riordan (she/her) : Memory is a theme 17:23:45 From Paul K. Smith : AND YET: in any inventory: Counting gives one the illusion of Control. 17:24:05 From Jessica Almasy she, Lenape : my son is saying a minecraft inventory, where you store stuff 17:24:19 From eliza bent : Paul ^^^ 17:25:06 From Chad Kaydo : Quantities vs. qualities 17:25:30 From agnes borinsky : https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/271006?lang=bi 17:26:21 From Adam Mazer : i’m having trouble loading the page? 17:26:28 From walker caplan : me as well — it loads and then becomes blank 17:26:29 From Jillian Steinhauer (she/her) : can’t get the link to work either 17:26:31 From Carly Bales : yes 17:26:32 From agnes borinsky : Pirkei Avot 4:1 (1) Ben Zoma said:Who is wise? One who learns from everyone, as it is said: “From all who taught me have I gained understanding” (Psalms 119:99). Who is mighty? One who subdues their [evil] inclination, as it is said: “One that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and one that rules their spirit than one that takes a city” (Proverbs 16:3). Who is rich? One who rejoices in their lot, as it is said: “You shall enjoy the fruit of your labors, you shall be happy and you shall prosper” (Psalms 128:2) ...Who is one that is honored? One who honors their fellow human beings as it is said: “For I honor those that honor Me, but those who spurn Me shall be dishonored” (I Samuel 2:30). 17:26:33 From Maggie Cino : same 17:28:24 From Jacob Perkins : to me the central tenet is acceptance of exactly what you have and where you are 17:29:04 From Yvan Greenberg : that we have enough in our interconnectedness 17:29:22 From eligelb : I hear lot in there about generosity 17:30:18 From Lauren Z : One who rejoices in their lot, as it is said: “You shall enjoy the fruit of your labors, you shall be happy and you shall prosper” 17:30:21 From walker caplan : (power of personal reframing & engaging relationally rather than being dragon sitting on stack of individually possessed items/experiences) 17:30:25 From Shara Feit (she/her) : i see agency - it is within our control to be wise, to be mighty, to be rich, to be honored 17:30:27 From noah : There’s a sense too of “if you think you’ve arrived, you’re not there yet” 17:30:40 From Lauren Z : ^ dark version of that quote is be content with what you have (in a negative wise) 17:30:50 From Lauren Z : *negative way 17:31:02 From Noel Allain (he/him) On Lenapehoking : I would say there’s a directive towards humbleness. Towards generosity. Towards patience. 17:31:29 From Will Brumley : Making room for others and by doing so, growing into oneself 17:32:35 From Lauren Z : I wonder what is the line between wanting more for yourself (in an inspirational way) and wanting more for yourself (in a greedy or ungrateful way) 17:32:47 From walker caplan : who has things of value? one who is able to see value around them 17:33:07 From agnes borinsky : https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/271006 17:34:01 From Paul K. Smith : fate 17:34:02 From sophie(they)+daisy(she) : Current material reality 17:34:04 From Jerry Polner : That which you have been given. 17:34:04 From Megan Riordan (she/her) : Circumstances 17:34:06 From kristen kosmas (she/her) : situation 17:34:08 From Eve Beglarian : situation 17:34:08 From Paul Hufker : that which you are given 17:34:09 From Jaclyn Backhaus (she/her, Munsee Lenape/Canarsie) : your domain 17:34:09 From Daniel Krane (he/they) : What you’ve been given in life? 17:34:14 From Chad Kaydo : your place in the world 17:34:14 From Yehuda Hyman : what you end up with In your earthly manifestation 17:34:17 From Lisi DeHaas : space of one’s possesion 17:34:17 From walker caplan : what has been given to you 17:34:18 From Daniel Lupo (they/them) : everything you already have and everything you will only ever have 17:34:19 From Lauren Miller : your cosmic roll of the dice 17:34:21 From Paul Hufker : those circumstances you've been dealt 17:34:23 From kelsey stevenson : luck, in a way 17:34:23 From Olivia : what you have, with the implication that some entity has allotted it to you 17:34:27 From Whitney : related to lottery - chance 17:34:30 From eligelb : Re one’s “lot” and per Agnes’ first working group prompt: “Ben Bag Bag said: Turn it over, and [again] turn it over, for all is therein. And look into it; And become gray and old therein; And do not move away from it, for you have no better portion than it.” 17:34:34 From kekoamorris : Circumstance 17:34:37 From Will Brumley : Home/family/circumstance 17:34:40 From Jordan Baum : burden 17:34:40 From Andrew Hardigg : everything you can say is yours 17:34:58 From Jaclyn Backhaus (she/her, Munsee Lenape/Canarsie) : i love that, metaphorical real estate 17:35:00 From Yehuda Hyman : Your “lot” changes along the road of your life 17:35:03 From eliza bent : Eli - I think about that Ben Bag Bag like every day! 17:35:05 From kelsey stevenson : oof, yes, eli 17:35:13 From Eve Beglarian : fortuna 17:35:45 From allyson : being thankful 17:35:51 From eligelb : @Eliza haha same 17:36:00 From Carly Bales : there's an element of inventory to the idea of lot- an amassing of or a pre-existing collection of circumstances surrounding self 17:36:22 From Paul K. Smith : the lot concerns the place where we have roots-- but we can break away from the lot (the fate) of that place 17:36:59 From Yvan Greenberg : lots are also what are cast in divination “casting lots” so also something about your potential future 17:37:23 From noah : Thinking about what it means for lots to be chosen v. assigned 17:37:25 From Philip Gates (they/them) : lot as both real estate and as lottery draw is making me think about the contingency of existing in the space (and body) that we do 17:37:26 From Lauren Z : ‘Lot’ is a foil to Abraham in the torah, right? 17:37:30 From Dina Vovsi : Parts of it change, parts of it do not, I think. 17:37:31 From Will Brumley : And we change as ephemeral creatures constantly 17:37:33 From Jaclyn Backhaus (she/her, Munsee Lenape/Canarsie) : your lot feels like stakes 17:37:49 From Megan Riordan (she/her) : I doubt there’s an etymological link, but it’s an interesting resonance between ‘your lot’ and the Biblical Lot 17:37:59 From Lauren Z : ^^ yes! 17:38:12 From Lyndsey Bourne : but also your physical form/spirit/body and how that relates to the world 17:38:44 From Maggie Cino : I think of your “lot” sort of like the Chopped Challenge - a mix of ingredients you need to get creative with 17:38:56 From Olivia : it seems to also have an implication for the lots of others — what others are allotted you are not allotted and vice versa ? 17:39:33 From noah : In book X of Republic, plato (or whoever wrote that one, possibly later) imagines people in a reincarnation cycle choosing their own lots (fates, the sum total of the experience they will have in the coming life) but then made to forget their choice through the process of being born 17:39:57 From Maggie Cino : also “a lot” as in “much" 17:40:28 From kristen kosmas (she/her) : yes maggie, i’m thinking that too 17:40:40 From kristen kosmas (she/her) : especially hearing it over & over 17:41:01 From kristen kosmas (she/her) : it’s making the experience of itself 17:42:01 From Lauren Z : @noah - that is so interesting! 17:42:28 From walker caplan : For proof look up, And read thy lot in yon celestial sign; Where thou art weighed, and shown how light, how weak, If thou resist. 17:58:10 From Yehuda Hyman : longing for JFK 17:58:45 From raphi soifer (he/him they/them) : the personal is always political, and vice versa 17:58:56 From Paul K. Smith : That you can never put out love: it's raging flame will never die-- yet we let evil ones seduce us to love them Whether a Huey Long Or a Donald Trump. 17:58:59 From Jessica Almasy she, Lenape : my grandmother being a Democratic organizer, dying 30 years ago, and now her kids are ardently for the other party 17:59:03 From Ryan Gedrich : a mode of relating foregrounded by sentiment, by emotional honesty 17:59:17 From Jaclyn Backhaus (she/her, Munsee Lenape/Canarsie) : value systems that are rooted in emotion 17:59:46 From sophie(they)+daisy(she) : Not being able to see the other side of something due to being a sever empath 17:59:55 From sophie(they)+daisy(she) : severe* 18:00:14 From sophie(they)+daisy(she) : Moral absolutism 18:00:17 From Jerry Polner : Choosing a way forward based on a wonderful feeling that we remember from the past. 18:00:24 From walker caplan : what your body/feeling/intuition tells you mapping onto / serving as stem to modes of work and relation 18:00:25 From Will Brumley : Heart on sleeve resistance and activism 18:00:41 From walker caplan : or rather! relationality guiding you 18:01:09 From Rachel Kauder Nalebuff : a political sensibility rooted in our intimate feelings!!! which is maybe always true but calling it as such 18:01:13 From Dina Vovsi : Sentimental politics sounds like art to me. 18:01:30 From Rebecca Kahn : A dynamic like the flower text you read — an active tendency toward a kind of balance that is the great secret of our future 18:01:45 From Philip Gates (they/them) : a praxis based on the understanding that emotions (collective and individual) have real power in the world 18:01:46 From Maggie Cino : https://www.thisamericanlife.org/683/beer-summit/act-two-8 18:01:51 From Megan Riordan (she/her) : When I hear the word “sentimental,” I am reminded of Anne Bogart’s quote I can’t quite remember fully—something like “sentimentality is the absence of complexity”—can anyone remember the full thing? 18:02:53 From Rachel Kauder Nalebuff : lots of hands on hearts 18:03:48 From raphi soifer (he/him they/them) : pisces/cancerians/scorpios running for public office )or counting votes) 18:09:04 From Paul K. Smith : Can God's Compassion be exhausted? -what "compassion"? 18:10:01 From Peter Cook (he/him) : Re: sentimental politics, I think of the passage about kitsch, from The Unbearable Lightness of Being: “Kitsch causes two tears to flow in quick succession. The first tear says: How nice to see children running on the grass! The second tear says: How nice to be moved, together with all mankind, by children running on the grass!” 18:10:37 From Noel Allain (he/him) On Lenapehoking : Passed down ideas based on nostalgic and protective impulses. 18:10:57 From Noel Allain (he/him) On Lenapehoking : Expressive toes. 18:11:09 From eligelb : An act of vulnerability 18:11:29 From kekoamorris : organic 18:11:30 From Michael Leibenluft (he/him) : digits! Extremities! 18:11:33 From Yvan Greenberg : play and communication between species 18:11:41 From Will Brumley : perspective 18:11:51 From kristen kosmas (she/her) : prehensility 18:12:00 From anne demelo : intertwining 18:12:12 From Lyndsey Bourne : near to assuming form 18:12:15 From kelsey stevenson : ecosystem(s) 18:12:16 From Lyndsey Bourne : gesture 18:12:17 From kristen kosmas (she/her) : visual humor 18:12:24 From Noel Allain (he/him) On Lenapehoking : new perspectives 18:12:24 From Jaclyn Backhaus (she/her, Munsee Lenape/Canarsie) : emerging!! 18:12:28 From eliza bent : it was quite sensual! 18:12:29 From Rachel Kauder Nalebuff : new views on the familiar 18:12:39 From Jaclyn Backhaus (she/her, Munsee Lenape/Canarsie) : passage of time 18:12:44 From kristen kosmas (she/her) : watching quiet 18:13:02 From Lauren Z : I laughed so hard at the toes ‘floating’ upwards 18:13:16 From eliza bent : I laughed too! 18:13:26 From Rachel Kauder Nalebuff : alive!!! 18:13:38 From Lisi DeHaas : witnessing her skin allowed me back in my own skin 18:13:53 From Yvan Greenberg : enchanted 18:14:12 From B F : water sphere as air bubble, containers of life and the porosity of skins 18:14:13 From kelsey stevenson : i remembered shadows 18:14:39 From Andrew Hardigg : increased sensitivity 18:14:42 From Lauren Miller : strangeness of hands and toes and their similarities / differences 18:14:59 From Lyndsey Bourne : i felt deeply female, but the kind of female I feel when I’m alone 18:16:59 From Lauren Z : both are about perception? 18:17:06 From noah : I’m curious about other possible translations of “politicos sentimentales 18:17:12 From noah : — a politics of feeling? 18:17:41 From walker caplan : in that it was a body seeing and touching itself …. 18:18:35 From Aitan Groener : sort of a body claiming itself 18:18:55 From Lauren Z : the choice to spend so much time with body parts 18:20:11 From kristen kosmas (she/her) : i think of sentimentality as the performance of the personal 18:20:43 From kristen kosmas (she/her) : a performance of the personal, not *the* 18:20:49 From Sarah Sanders (she/her) : ^^ ooh that is very interesting/juicy to me, Kristen 18:21:16 From Will Brumley : I agree, that’s great, Kristen 18:21:21 From sophie(they)+daisy(she) : ^^yess 18:21:48 From Yehuda Hyman : Merriam Webster dictionary: sentiment: an attitude, thought or judgement prompted by feeling; resulting from feeling rather than reason 18:23:01 From Yehuda Hyman : Politics of feeling as opposed to politics of thinking 18:23:46 From Maggie Cino : Definition of politics 1a: the art or science of government b: the art or science concerned with guiding or influencing governmental policy c: the art or science concerned with winning and holding control over a government 2: political actions, practices, or policies 3a: political affairs or business especially : competition between competing interest groups or individuals for power and leadership (as in a government) b: political life especially as a principal activity or profession c: political activities characterized by artful and often dishonest practices 4: the political opinions or sympathies of a person 5a: the total complex of relations between people living in society b: relations or conduct in a particular area of experience especially as seen or dealt with from a political point of view 18:24:21 From Maggie Cino : (from Merriam Webster) 18:24:33 From raphi soifer (he/him they/them) : how, when, and for whom is vulnerability political? 18:24:37 From Jaclyn Backhaus (she/her, Munsee Lenape/Canarsie) : i’m feeling that both the video and the sentimental politics are charted by progression evolution and growth - so it feels like to me, both represent the notion of constant change 18:24:41 From raphi soifer (he/him they/them) : and when is it a political *choice*? 18:28:04 From declan z (they/them) : like “that’s a nice sentiment, but--" 18:28:33 From declan z (they/them) : hmm the noun vs the adjective... 18:28:36 From Jillian Steinhauer (she/her) : i like “politics of feeling” because “feeling” can be emotional or physical, and that creates a connection to the video, which was so much about embodiment and physical sensation 18:28:41 From Dina Vovsi : Thinking about comfort and discomfort, how the body and mind pulls itself back to comfort, fights discomfort… 18:28:43 From noah : Is it true that “sentimental” is the primary/all-purpose word in Spanish for of/relating to feelings? 18:28:45 From Maggie Cino : but we also think of lack of sentimentality as brutality - if it’s ever named that someone did something “without sentimentality” then you know that’s harsh 18:29:05 From sophie(they)+daisy(she) : If someone sees art and then says “that was so sentimental” my brain thinks it is a negative critique which is sad to me 18:29:12 From declan z (they/them) : ^^^ 18:29:21 From Daniel Krane (he/they) : Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP's Fight against AIDS by Deborah Gould. It’s cool! 18:29:45 From raphi soifer (he/him they/them) : relating to noah’s question: what would the difference be between sentimental vs. emotional politics? (in english or spanish) 18:30:26 From kristen kosmas (she/her) : oh i think sentimentality - like everything - can be so potent — neither negative nor positive in itself 18:32:40 From declan z (they/them) : this is my favorite thing we do 18:32:51 From declan z (they/them) : i missed this part the most 18:33:35 From Paul Hufker : thank you everyone!