This Omnivorous Soul, How Lusty

It was [James Cook's] misunderstanding of the word nuutkah ('to turn around') that resulted in the name "Nootka" for the inlet that they entered and the people they encountered.

"As far as I'm concerned," she said, "there are only two kinds of Communists. Thinkers and doers. The thinkers are the ones who come up with all sorts of theories and grand ideas. The doers, well, they do everything else. They grow the food and they clean the house and they even fight the battles. Except they never get to write any of the books, now, do they? Not even the rules we're supposed to follow. 'Is that fair?' you might ask. Obviously, I'm not a thinker."

When Indigenous peoples use the term nationhood, we aren't talking about nation states. We are talking about formations that respected and worked with different sovereignties over shared time and space. Giving up what you can so others might live. Again, this ethic of care.

If you are alive or were recently alive on planet earth, then you are part of a deep network of relationships that exist outside of your own body and sphere of influence. You belong.

friendship is available for uptake as a commitment to being unfinished

The inevitable movement of politics is to do away once and for all the false division of beings who act and those who are acted upon. The violence and authoritarianisms that attempt to establish order are a symptom of the reactionary void and wound.

Is is our contention that our lived experiences of friendship might be able to provide some raw materials for thinking borderlessness. Friendship does not have to always be congenial or even friendly - it can be astringent and agonistic and malleable - but friendship is always voluntary, and thus always an exercise in agreement. We submit that any friendship, no matter its depth or breadth, is definitionally marked by a substantive concern for the other, which is the basis for the good relations that an ecological world requires.