Keywords
Assembled at the Colloquium
At the close of the Sexual and Economic Justice Colloquium, after a
long day of deep discussions about injustice, the participants were led
in a creative and light exercise that resembled refrigerator magnet
poetry. They were asked to construct "poems" about their vision of
sexual and economic justice, in groups, using words that had been
prominent in the day's discussion. They were given index cards with
keywords from the day, as well as encouraged to add their own cards with
additional keywords from the colloquium. The resultant assemblages interrogated themes
such as security and sex, market freedom and sexuality, crisis and
capital, revolution and desire. We include the results of this exercise
because they give a glimpse—albeit awkward and
comical—into what happens when terms usually held so far apart are put
together. How do we want safety, security, and sex connected? Is sexual
shame necessarily a bad thing? What is the relationship between class
shame and sexual shame? How should we confront what Svati Shah called
the sense of visceral "ick" that we can encounter from Left movements
when they encounter sexuality? What would be characterized as market
indecency? The debates held by participants as they constructed their
poems gave fascinating insights into how such issues were understood;
again, though, we seek forgiveness from actual poets.
Group 1.
Part One — Ick. Indecent.
Precarious pluralism. Shame market.
Money shock.
Part Two — protect. Sex.
Seductive revolution.
One's orgasm.
Safe work. Inhabited justice. The end.
Group 2.
"Sex, Poetry, Wants Money" Seduction, an indecent want.
Revolution, an unsafe desire. The strategies of shock and shame.
Orgasm, not a luxury. Justice empowers wants.
Global revolution seduces orgasms. P.S. — safe Ick.
Group 3.
The right to want —
multiple, indecent, power, orgasms.
Group 4.
"Inhabited Entitlement"
Global revolution shocks. Precarious orgasms.
Power, money, market. Erotic justice. Where to put the ick.
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