
Resistance is Resilience
Author(s) -
Kevin Healey
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
canadian journal of disability studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1929-9192
DOI - 10.15353/cjds.v8i4.525
Subject(s) - resistance (ecology) , resilience (materials science) , meaning (existential) , sociology , psychology , environmental ethics , philosophy , biology , psychotherapist , ecology , physics , thermodynamics
Breathing, surviving, living, finding and forging our own meaning, acting in our own lives, finding our way to live through each day is survival, is resistance, is resilience, is re-whatever you want it to be because it is yours.
And, with every act of resisting, we become more resilient and, in time, and we find ourselves connecting with others similarly engaged: struggling, learning and sharing experiences with each other as equals. So, our individual resistance-resilience becomes, naturally, organically, messily, something of a collective survival too.