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        1. The Joy of Movement is the most uplifting thing I've read since shelter-in-place began. Kelly McGonigal @kellymcgonigal combines autoethnography as a movement instructor, interviews, biology, anthropology, & psychology to write an ode to collective joy thru exercise.
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        If you have time during the current crisis, going from thinking about what you enjoy to thinking about why and how you enjoy it is a good direction to go. TJoM does this for moving your body, persisting thru difficulty, syncing to music, moving w/ others, and enduring hardship.
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      I mean, collective effervescence and communitas in protest is my work jam, and collective movement thru yoga, dance, and aerial arts is my play jam, so I had a lot of places to take this book.
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    What I'd like to think through out loud is which of these things cross over to collective political action. As I've written: "In the melee, unlike in the meeting, each body shares the same vulnerability, has the same needs, and must engage with others on a one-to-one basis…
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      "… Such experience is ‘undifferentiated, egalitarian, direct, spontaneous, concrete, and unmediated,‘ precisely the kind of bonds created through communitas." Inner quote from Edith Turner, Communitas: The Anthropology of Collective Joy, also a good quarantine read.
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        A daring, righteous, and enjoyable thing about TJoM is McGonigal's commitment to write against the elitist and ableist narrative around exercise. Not my place to judge how successful this always is, but the book is founded on the stories of people across ages and abilities.
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          Hat tip to @jenny_blake for being the link thru which I find out about Kelly McGonigal's work.
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