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softest of mornings 25

[stinkyhat-deactivated20231213]

its silly that we have BLM carrds going around, everyone was reblogging them months ago on the regular & u guys are still asking “what are we supposed to do if voting biden is bad” or whatever. like the answer was in those carrds, several of them provided books & pdfs, most of them were FREE for you to read. & you STILL didn’t do your homework.

stop reblogging headlines without reading the article. actually put in the effort to learn about how to be antiracist and how to organize & make a change within ur community. get in touch with local groups. if you don’t have any near you, take the time to learn, listen, & spread resources. research & criticize yourself. take it easy, but take it.

here are those resources again to get started:

ORGANIZING RESOURCES doc

Master List of Black Revolutionary Readings by Timmy Chau (free pdfs, some have been taken down but most are still up, you could try googling the ones that have been deleted)

Anti-racist Resource Guide by Tasha K. (books, podcasts, movies and more)

D e c o l o n i z e : Resources by Ari Sahagún and Jay Saper (also check out resource generation)

Antisemitism: a basic guide by @bishonen and @hotgirlkakashi

yes this is a lot to take in all at once. make small goals for yourself though, try reading at least two articles a day that interest you, etc. find out what works for you.

[stinkyhat-deactivated20231213]

added a doc about antisemitism

[petruchio]

im literally always saying this

[imdrinkingmiso]

they hate me because the years of memory loss has purified my mind

[petaltexturedskies]

Donna Tartt, The Secret History

[soap-stones]

bro how do you make yourself do stuff? i need to finish my diss prospectus and id rather lay and stare at ceiling than ever do anything again

ohh so impossible. so so impossible. okay first step is to not be mid-depressive episode. if that's squared away:

caffeinate

change your environment

impose accountability. i recommend the strategy that i recommend to my undergrads on peer review workshop days: choose someone who seems capable of psychologically damaging you.

accountability but make it immediate. i will cowork with friends and we'll start by saying, in this 40m session i will.... and then if i don't do the thing i will have to explain myself. oof.

accountability but make it immediate, deranged, and panoptic. in moments of true desperation my virtual coworking friend and i will sometimes share our screens so we can actively surveil each other.

make it silly

break it up. there was a period last spring where i was KILLING it at stardewdoro, which is when you play one day of stardew valley and then do one task from your list, ad infinitum. this does require you to:

lower your standards, especially for quantity--sometimes i cannot face the Big Task but if i tell myself, actually the goal is not "start the chapter," the goal is

i am vastly more likely to attempt it. i made eye contact this morning and that got me started on making my tbr list, which is a separate task that is now less of a Thing because i already have it started.

yap about it. i feel this lowers the barrier to entry but you have GOT to be careful bc sometimes talking about doing something pings the part of your brain that rewards you for actually doing it. you do still actually need to do it.

[hyenaswine]

i think people are starting to confuse class analysis with bioessentialism. like... no not all men do this, but Men as a constructed social class do do this. that's still okay to say. that is regular material analysis of the world around us.

[kosmogrl]

living my life one ‘it is what it is’ at a time

[redlipstickresurrected]

Mabel Dwight aka Mabel Jacque Williamson (American, 1875-1955, b. Cincinnati, OH, USA, d. Sellersville, PA, USA) - Cat at Window, 1928, Lithograph

[anonimusunnoaniswriting]

block button ily.

[woman-respecter]

it’s so hard for me to listen to heartbroken/angry breakup songs by straight men bc no matter how good the song is i’ll be like i’m not sure if i fully believe you. let’s hear her side of the story.

[somefunnylagoon]

James Spader at Cannes in 1996 for David Cronenberg’s Crash

[persianmom-deactivated20260602]

[miamaimania]

▽ The first envelope was a pair of wings.

[2colde]

it's thousand yard stare summer

[visvya]

on new year’s eve 1999 i cut my fingure on a can illustrating the importance of small things

[stillnaomi]

these days you can call the US an empire and nobody will bat an eye, but the way some people get worked up when you start talking about acts of US imperialism. empire doesn't just mean powerful lmao, it means you're exploiting foreign populations