[Anarchafeminists] Second Call: Revolutionary Love Letters

[Jamie Heckert]

Dear Potential Contributor,

For many of us, revolution doesn't refer just to a transformation of a
political system. It's also about a change of heart: r/evolution in our
relationships with ourselves, each other and the land. With life itself.

Are you drawn to, moved by or curious about revolutionary love? Would you
like to share something of your love(s)? Do you know of others who might
want to contribute? If so, please do pass this invitation on them.

This letter to you, to many of you, comes from a vision: a book of love
letters. They come from around the world, beautiful in their diversity of
form and focus, beautiful in their shared love of freedom and equality,
their love of life. In this vision, too, are street parties and poetry
nights, protests and lazy mornings, friendly discussions and tense moments,
deserts and forests, oeans and gardens, romances and loves that have no
name. There are details out of focus, not yet present or not yet known. It
is a vision of a world where many worlds, many loves, are possible.

A great philosopher, one who knows the wisdom of love, referred to the
state as the coldest of all cold monsters. This potential book, and the
process of its birth, might be a source of warmth, of heat.

You might consider yourself a revolutionary, with or without adjectives. Or
maybe you sense the power of love to transform consciousness,
relationships, entire cultures. If not, would you like to?

*A Call for Revolutionary Love Letters*

It might be a traditional letter, a poem, a short story, a mini essay, a
picture, a report from an event. It might be something that you or I have
yet to imagine. The love letter might only be a small part of a bigger
picture. How might you craft it with love? On your own, or with friends or
lovers, comrades or strangers? Will making love letter(s) be part of an
event, or an event in itself? Could the process help nourish communities or
movements, families or friendships?

You are also warmly invited to interpret revolutionary love for yourself,
for yourselves. As permaculture teaches, the most productive spaces are
often at the edge. What do you see, what do you feel, at the edges of love
and revolution? What would you like to?

Just to be clear, love does not have to be limited to romance. It need not
exclude anger or rage. It can be very practical. It might be love for a
person or a place, a movement or an idea, an item or an event. It may have
no object, no boundary, no end.

You don't need to write/make your own love letter in order to contribute.
Do you know of existing works that might fit in such a collection? Could
you point them out to me? Or volunteer to translate into English? Would you
like to organise a loving event without necessarily worrying about
submitting a letter? Perhaps you might accept this simply as an invitation
to nurture your own capacity to love. That in itself is a contribution.

*Deadline for submissions: 1st May, 2012.*
Word limit: 2,000 (or one US letter/A4 page for artwork)
Language: some form of English, more or less (including English translation
alongside another language)
Multiple, anonymous and/or collective submissions all welcome
For those who facebook, this call has a page at
https://www.facebook.com/events/269881439718751/
Submissions, queries, etc to Jamie.Heckert at gmail.com

*A book of Revolutionary Love Letters will be published by Minor
Compositions, an imprint of Autonomedia.*

With love,
Jamie

*Jamie Heckert*, Ph.D., is an activist, writer and yoga teacher living in
the south of England. His writings on ethics, erotics and ecology have
appeared in numerous publications including *Green Pepper, Fifth Estate,
Understanding Non-Monogamies, Queer Methods and Methodologies* and
*Post-Anarchism:
A Reader*. He is co-editor (with Richard Cleminson) of *Anarchism &
Sexuality: Ethics, Relationships and Power*, editor of a special issue of *
Sexualities*, and Love Life columnist for the web magazine *Bella Caledonia*
.

*Minor Compositions* is a series of interventions & provocations drawing
from autonomous politics, avant-garde aesthetics, and the revolutions of
everyday life. http://www.minorcompositions.info/
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