..by Yewande O. Addie @rti.bsky.social , @maccahanson.bsky.social , Emily Melnick, Melody Mohebi, and Annie Niemand.

I sense the shadowy hooded figure of @avtorres4.bsky.social behind this... 👏👏👏

Exhibit #1 (when it selfishly dawned on me, anyway) was that sharing pronouns also helps people with 'unfamiliar' (i.e. ethnic minority) names.

💯 - its not just defeatist it feels a bit like a lazy copout, their weaknesses are prob more instructive than their (uneven, as you say) strengths.

It's been pernicious in my sector of progressive communications ppl too, did a short vid about it with counter+examples
youtu.be/wQiAy34JlA4?...

🤣 what you learning?

...that 'lack of audience interest' isn't just something that campaigners should throw our hands up at, we know that media perceptions of audience interest are in large part driven by campaigns & conversation they see online, often by intentional activism (Tibet, Darfur & Kony show it's possible)

...and the only times a 'rebel alliance' lasted was when power sharing was done by democracy. This may be cherry picking to fit my priors but its worth repeating with the rise of 'realists' on both left & right.

h/t via Amanda Taub's always-excellent The Interpreter: www.nytimes.com/column/the-i...

FYI people interested in climate/transition messaging @dorameade.bsky.social @foeeurope.bsky.social @elliecusack.bsky.social @ellie-may-says.bsky.social @davekitching.bsky.social @barnabypace.bsky.social @ziibiing.com @naomiaklein.bsky.social @crisortunity.bsky.social @fraserjfstewart.bsky.social

...but the most effective by far at converting in-principle support into supportive action (at least in a limited digital test with UK audiences) was a "Reclaim and replace" framing, riffing off of Take Back Control.

...some dabbled in 'national energy independence'-type arguments...