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Four Sword

by Yung Lemon

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Recently, I've come to realise that I feel as if I’m constantly at war – there is no clear enemy or objective but the need to fight informs my being, it’s in my blood. If I ignore it, I feel vulnerable, I feel like the people and communities I love become vulnerable too. Fighting is a duty.

My people have struggled. They have been colonised, oppressed, silenced. Our culture and traditions were diluted and robbed of spiritual significance, commercialised. My grandmother tells stories about French soldiers torturing her mother and her uncle. She talks about her father who was a strategist for the revolution but he and his comrades were sold out and ambushed in Constantine. He was shot in the face and killed by the French. My grandmother’s mother was a nurse in the mujahideen. She fought in the mountains, hidden in caves as French soldiers patrolled metres away. I know countless tales of extreme violence and horror.

Sufi mysticism runs deep amongst the Amazigh people of North Africa. It preaches peace, tolerance and pluralism, while encouraging music as a way of deepening one's relationship with the universe. My grandmother would dance in a ritual called Aissawa, characterised by repetitive and hypnotic percussion as well as circles of instrumentalists and circular dances. Dancers find healing through musically-induced trance and ecstasy. They are able to reach altered states of consciousness purely through sound, rhythm and movement.

Through recent explorations of psychiatry and psychology, as well as hours of self-reflection it has become evident to me that this feeling of war that I experience may come from a history of struggle and resistance going back generations.

Lessons in violence, a search for justice, states of peace have been passed to me by my antecedents.

I come from a place of struggle and resistance. My ancestors - tortured, shot, killed, silenced.

Bleed through time.

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released August 26, 2021

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