Radical Intimacy Quotes

“Being alive together might mean, for instance. a collective responsibility to build a world in which being alive is better… grief can bring our awareness to what matters most, and in doing so be a source of radical intimacy and transformation.”
― Sophie K. Rosa, Radical Intimacy

“The family…is construed as the inevitable, happy and moral culmination of human endeavour.”
― Sophie K. Rosa, Radical Intimacy

“This prioritisation of the couple form might involve a shrinking not only of the self, but also of more expansive intimacies - and therefore solidarities.”
― Sophie K. Rosa, Radical Intimacy

“Throughout history, laws regulating intimate relationships, especially marriage laws, have been about nation-building...”
― Sophie K. Rosa, Radical Intimacy

“We must roll up our sleeves and start doing the hard work of learning how to work through conflict, pain and hurt as if our lives depended on it – because they do.”
― Sophie K. Rosa, Radical Intimacy

“Often, a carceral logic of 'care' — sometimes reiterating abuse through public harassment, shunning and punishment — takes the place of the transformative approaches that leave space for people to take responsibility for their behaviours, and change. Surely, for any healing to happen, indeed for liberation to be possible, we must know ourselves and others to be both hurt and hurting, harmed and harmful — and to be fluid: always capable of being otherwise.”
― Sophie K. Rosa, Radical Intimacy

“The idea that being in a couple should fulfill all our intimate needs leads to desolation for many.”
― Sophie K. Rosa, Radical Intimacy

“Grieving is antithetical to productivity.”
― Sophie K. Rosa, Radical Intimacy

“Developers like Ballymore don’t tend to sell well-built homes at fair prices; instead, they flog an idea of home.”
― Sophie K. Rosa, Radical Intimacy