| Stretch October 2021
Jo Koppe
Gratitude as an Anticapitalist Practice
Drawing from the wealth of our personal experience, as well as from indigenous practices and from adrienne maree brown’s “Pleasure Activism”, let’s take a deep dive into the politics of gratitude and fulfillment. (How) could individual and collective practices of gratitude support our liberation? ... Are you satisfiable? Can you imagine being satisfied?
Jo Koppe is on an ongoing journey of weaving, integrating and sharing a variety of different experiences, practices and perspectives. He has a background in dance as well as in Sociology and Gender studies. He has worked as a performer and dramaturg, in social justice education, as a tantra masseur, as a personal assistant for differently abled people, and in end of life care. He has been initiated into the “natural religion of being trans” and thus “almost automatically being a witch” (says Anohni).