So that’s my pep talk. Spending time connecting to your true self is not selfish in these times — it’s intricately connected to a resistance movement that is tied to honoring our bodies, our communities, and to the land. We have to build capacity to resist by being exactly who we are!

5). Remember they are like abusive parents: they only see us extensions of them. They have no clue how powerful joy and community and self-expression can be. We can use this to our advantage — we can be the strong-willed child they never saw coming.

3). The single best way you can resist fascism is to not let them terrorize you constantly. Protect your mental health to ensure you are not constantly in a terrorized state

4). Keep connecting to who you are at your core. Your values, preferences, ethics, and beliefs. Build up capacity to resist.

Here’s my pep talk after studying authoritarianism:

1). They never truly expect a long-term resistance movement bc they think people are a collection of trauma triggers who are easily controlled thru terror

2). If they can’t terrorize you 24/7 in your mind, they have already lost the war

This is brilliant!! 😂✊🏼

2/2 The second post is different-

TikTok had two different alerts as it closed for U.S.Americans. 🧵

“We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.” -Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail

If you’re coming from TikTok, I created a Black BookTok starter pack. I created it awhile ago and needs to be updated but it’s still thorough

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Praying for SoCal. These wildfires…May the Goddess have mercy on us all.

🤬😱😱🤬🤬These emojis don’t capture the level of awful this nomination is.

These cabinet pics would be hilarious if they weren’t so terrifying.😱

Goodreads is owned by Jeff Bezos. A better alternative is StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform. And before y’all start, you can transfer all your Goodreads data to Storygraph so you literally have no excuse.

Throughout this election cycle a lot of people have suggested that Trump is bluffing about his deportation plans and all of the ideas in Project 2025 but he wasn’t bluffing. And I don’t think people understand how horrible the mass deportations are going to be. They want to remove 15 million people!

Border security isn't going away as a concern for a great many Americans. But it should come as no surprise that government officials are eager to turn public fears into blank checks for expanding their own intrusive power.
reason.com/2024/11/11/f...

Thank you to Rev. Meg Barnhouse who posted this helpful tip.