When power becomes the substrate…

Overt power is easier to identify. What about when power intentionally makes itself more covert, more palatable? What about when power becomes the substrate; infiltrating perceptions, language, thinking & reasoning? When it's deemed "neutral", "inevitable", "human"? When we, as products of the environment, self & peer perpetuate & reinforce it?

Resources & Notes:

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Goodreads)

How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett (Goodreads)

Field of flowing grasses. (Instagram)

'Do you think people could tell by looking at you, if you're gay or straight?' (Instagram)