For our next meeting, we are going to be discussing deference politics — the organizing tendency to defer to someone else’s judgment about what should be done in a given situation based solely on their perceived social location. We are going to dissect this tendency through “Being-in-the-Room Privilege: Elite Capture and Epistemic Deference” (2020) by Olúfémi O. Táíwò, and the local Ada’itsx “Fairy Creek” anarchist zine Creeker’s “Water Falling on Granite: Deference Politics, Indigenous Leadership, and Anarchist Relationality” (2023).
“Being-in-the-Room Privilege: Elite Capture and Epistemic Deference” by Olúfémi O. Táíwò is available for free via The Philosopher as screen or custom imposed zine PDF.
“Water Falling on Granite: Deference Politics, Indigenous Leadership, and Anarchist Relationality” by Anonymous (Creeker Zine) is available as a stand-alone reading from Creeker Vol 4 as screen or imposed zine PDF.
We ask you to please read the pieces ahead of time.
As always, we meet at Camas Books and Infoshop, 2620 Quadra Street, on unceded Lekwungen Territory at 6:30pm on Sunday November 10th. Bring a notebook!
PS: Our friends at Food not Bombs serve free vegan food for revolution every Sunday 4-6PM at Spirit “Centennial” Square. They are always looking for extra support from volunteers.
PPS: Our neighbours at Heart & Hands, and Green Muse Herbs, are having an open house from 12-6PM, before our circle. Come say hi!
Next time, we will be discussing Sobre la violencia en una época de catástrofes AKA About violence in a time of catastrophes (2023). We will also be pairing it with an excerpt, Chapter 7: Trusting, from Worth Fighting For: Bringing the Rojava Revolution Home. (2023)