Activism – Page 17 – Matthew Remski

January 5, 2018

Faith in Yogaland (a work in progress)

I have to ask every day: what's my responsibility, with this strange platform, cobbled together out of critique? I spend half of my working life burning the roof. How do I show the less visible work of those I admire, in the clay and mud, shoring up foundations?

November 30, 2017

Pro-tips for Yoga/Spiritual Abuse Gaslighters

Remember: you got exactly what you needed from that teacher/guru/organization. It/they transformed you. Don't let any victim or their snowflake victim mentality take that from you. Nobody can disempower you.

October 26, 2017

11 Year-Old Boys, Touching Women on the Subway

Eleven-Year-Old Boys, Touching Women on the Subway

CONTENT WARNING: Sexual assault. _______ I’ll bet many cisgendered heterosexual men have a story like this. After telling it, I’ll describe how […]

October 20, 2017

On Minimization as a Patriarchal Reflex

The explicit minimizations I can verbalize are grounded in countless somatic reflexes that have been trained into me. I believe that before gaslighting becomes an institutional strategy, it is a nervous response. A lot of the vibrant discussion out there focuses on changing behaviors, and that’s as it should be. I’m trying to see what drives the behavior.