Like most of your writing, I find myself and my way of being somewhat validated reading this. I feel like I am this friend - and that we are often misunderstood. I also am most often this friend to white fragile womxn, which is tiresome, but those that can make it through, are gems.
I honestly would like to republish this on my own yet to exist blog cited so that people can understand this perspective more. hurrah - i celebrate
how do I find these hardcore activist spaces, and what do I do other than that, if I live in a town in the middle of nowhere where people are either aggressively white and middle class or actively bigoted and I have yet to hear about any sort of organising there that isn't part of some country-wide or region-wide movement and/or super middle-of-the-road, and regularly getting anywhere more than 10-20 minutes away by car or bus and being in touch with what those people do (let alone that the current bunch I'm with, about half an hour away normally, are pretty far from hard-core) drains almost all my spoons to the point of just minimal functioning, and even when I don't regularly meet them I just lurk in their WhatsApp group and hardly even notice when they're planning some sort of action or another because the sheer volume of messages overwhelms me?
A-fuxking-mxn on this one (Question 1).
Like most of your writing, I find myself and my way of being somewhat validated reading this. I feel like I am this friend - and that we are often misunderstood. I also am most often this friend to white fragile womxn, which is tiresome, but those that can make it through, are gems.
I honestly would like to republish this on my own yet to exist blog cited so that people can understand this perspective more. hurrah - i celebrate
Everyone needs a tired trans woman who will be honest with them in their life.
how do I find these hardcore activist spaces, and what do I do other than that, if I live in a town in the middle of nowhere where people are either aggressively white and middle class or actively bigoted and I have yet to hear about any sort of organising there that isn't part of some country-wide or region-wide movement and/or super middle-of-the-road, and regularly getting anywhere more than 10-20 minutes away by car or bus and being in touch with what those people do (let alone that the current bunch I'm with, about half an hour away normally, are pretty far from hard-core) drains almost all my spoons to the point of just minimal functioning, and even when I don't regularly meet them I just lurk in their WhatsApp group and hardly even notice when they're planning some sort of action or another because the sheer volume of messages overwhelms me?
I'm so thrilled your on Substack!! Thank you for this, great post x