Mourning

I agree with both EP and juliah. Mourning is an introspective, healing – and socially stigmatizing – process. I feel as though mourning collides with feminism, especially post-modernist feminism, because feminism today lacks forward motion. Mourning, according to Brown, is a “scene of rediscovery.” It is a time where someone breaks down what they are and believe, what impedes their process and what worked in past. It is a standstill motion that is neither in the past or future entirely. I feel like in the present it’s nearly impossible to predict the future but it’s almost if a period of mourning deviates from normative time to allow time for solitary, proactive reflection. As Brown recalls the days in which she was actively involved in the second wave, she recalls political movement for social equality. Everything was moving, pushing, forward, renouncing, reshaping. But on shaky ground. The momentum’s changed, shifted, slowed down. It’s a time for mourning. This time here and now is for reevaluating the truths of the past and a time for carrying them into the present, while simultaneously trying to rediscover what feminism means, encompasses, and includes. It’s almost as if mourning is a revolutionary kind of healing; and it’s almost as if this revolutionary sentiment can reenergize the beating, passionate pulse in the heart of feminism.