ナオミ・シマダさんのインスタグラム動画 - (ナオミ・シマダInstagram)「**** a lil announcement **** after thinking about it for way too long I’m finally doing it and starting a loveletter / newsletter! It’s called ‘tender contributions’ and I’m using it as a space of inquiry to work through what tenderness is and why we need to be practicing it more than ever. it’s been harder and harder to stay tender as of late. The overwhelmingly depressing 24-hour news cycle, the impending doom of our dying planet, another new strain of the virus spreading in what’s come to feel like a never-ending pandemic, the all round every day violence created by capitalism and all the other isms’ of oppression, means that practicing tenderness, with ourselves (so we can hold it for the world around us), has become absolutely imperative for our collective survival. Life is never without pain, but tenderness can be a teacher that shows us how to move through it with love, care and deep compassion. In this way tenderness becomes an act of resistance, small and giant, delicate and ferocious, all at once. I’m setting up a paid subscription for those who want to pay me for this work as the paid subscriptions help me stay accountable to this process but I will keep everything I post on there accessible to all. TC is my humble attempt at a living practice of reaching and stretching out to you! AND I’m waiting for you to reach back and grab my hand so come hit subscribe in my link in bio, first one drops this sunday! also thank u to the qt’s @888.cct for jazzing up my drawings, nothing but luv for you guyzzz ╰(*´︶`*)╯♡ #tendercontributions」12月18日 1時28分