Count me among the legions of humans who feel the world is a little less of the best humans have to give without her. I feel gratitude. I feel love. I feel strangely bereft, whether or not I have a right to.

This singular human was more important to me privately, personally, than my parents, to be honest, if by important we might mean something to live for, something to love. I admired her life force, her life choices, her living and being more than any other human on the planet, I think.

you can get training on action, security, and first aid. you can share resources and information in small cells that mobilize quickly. you can make art in the face of fuck (info about eyesss, raising funds for legal aid, memes about shitheads.

you can volunteer at immigrant and refugee support organizations, LGBTQ+ organizations, BIPOC organizations, shelter and domestic violence organizations. you can buy kids lunches.

and if you are overwhelmed and need a break, take a break. we can take turns. it is also important to replenish your life force for those of us who still have it, until we don’t.

or if someone is suffering, their family in danger, afraid to leave their house, might they need a meal? resources about their rights or phone numbers to call in an emergency? something soft or beautiful dropped of at their door? a poem the body can travel on? a hand?

or even the most simple of simple: if an adult in transition close to you is growing their first adult mustache, one they worked their whole life to arrive at, or sprouting their first boobs, recognize them.

you can communicate with vulnerable individuals who you know to be under attack right now in your immediate circle of friends and family, let them know you love them, offer support

you can divest from corporations and seek alternatives

you can make anti-war, anti-ICE, anti-fascism art

you can cook, sew, sing, pray, sit with vulnerable community members

if you find out about ICE presence/raids near you, you can document, amplify, broadcast, show up, interrupt

you can amplify with your body, your voice, your collaborations with others

you can document injustice where you see it, in your streets, your neighborhoods, your communities, you can publicize and amplify

you can protest, you can make calls to your representatives—often. relentlessly. you can also intervene, interrupt, resist, refuse.

you can join an activist group in your community—they are already hard at work, they have the infrastructure to do good work, and the work is collaborative

you can stockpile and donate supplies that you have access to that others might not have access to

you can donate to legal aid groups that serve vulnerable communities

you can volunteer to escort vulnerable humans around legal or medical situations.

you can join an organization in your community that supports immigrants and refugees, LGBTQ+, BIPOC

Meanwhile, things to "do" : you can dive deeper into educating yourself, on resistance, on social justice, but also on empire; lessening ignorance on liberal complicity in empire is as important as fighting fascism. empire is not a trump thing. he’s a tool. empire requires endless war and brutality.