Essay #53: Charlotte Lowell, ‘Is Love a Synonym for Anarchism?’

Essay #53: Charlotte Lowell, ‘Is Love a Synonym for Anarchism?’

Saidiya Hartman asks, “Is love a synonym for abolition?”. bell hooks writes that “true love requires an ongoing commitment to constructive struggle and change”. This essay proposes that anarchism is a practice of honest, dedicated and expansive love that opens our lives and our political societies to the possibility of transformation.

Charlotte Lowell is an undergraduate student at Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies, where they investigate ‘how things change’ in the context of love, physics and anarchism.

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