[redlipstickresurrected]

Susanne Ussing (Danish, 1940–1998, b. Frederiksberg, Denmark) - I Drivhuset (In The Glasshouse), Installed in Ordrupgaardsamlingen, Denmark, 1980  Mixed Media: Granite, Newspapers, Metal, Wood, Porous Materials

[melisica]

[yellowfeather84]

Patti Smith // “Im going to promote myself exactly as I am, with all my weak points and my strong ones. My weak points are that I’m self-conscious and often insecure, and my strong point is that I don’t feel any shame about it.”

[quentinderonzier]

Lone Light 1/5

Artwork by Quentin Deronzier

[snakedisorder]

[backfromrlyeh]

Tomo Hyakutake

[austinkleon]

Beautiful things grow out of shit. Nobody ever believes that. Everyone thinks that Beethoven had his string quartets completely in his head—they somehow appeared there and formed in his head—and all he had to do was write them down and they would be manifest to the world. But what I think is so interesting, and would really be a lesson that everybody should learn, is that things come out of nothing. Things evolve out of nothing. You know, the tiniest seed in the right situation turns into the most beautiful forest. And then the most promising seed in the wrong situation turns into nothing. I think this would be important for people to understand, because it gives people confidence in their own lives to know that’s how things work. If you walk around with the idea that there are some people who are so gifted—they have these wonderful things in their head but and you’re not one of them, you’re just sort of a normal person, you could never do anything like that—then you live a different kind of life. You could have another kind of life where you could say, well, I know that things come from nothing very much, start from unpromising beginnings, and I’m an unpromising beginning, and I could start something.

Brian Eno, Here Is What Is (cf. David Rakoff: “Writing starts off as shit.”)

[arabellesicardi]

Radical Dharma is so good honestly; returning to buddhist concepts from a praxis of activism is really nice since I totally did not absorb it when I was dragged to temple as a child in Taipei

[arabellesicardi]

[subtleceiling]

If I had a dollar for every time I cried and wrote a love letter to my future self in Home Depot..

[arabellesicardi]

reminders

[thetattedstoner]

Hope you find someone with some genuine mutual feelings fam

[666chula]

This good karma needs to be passed

[southsideshortyy]

I hope you get that job you need

[hvchiko-blog]

I hope some money comes your way.

[dee-termined]

I hope that stress you have goes away

[swingset-love]

I hope you feel good and okay in the morning

[thatonegaykidastrologer-blog]

I hope you feel loved and safe

[xpope]

I hope you find the healing that you seek

[gogoravenclaw]

I hope you forgive yourself for your past

[r-e-doubleindefinitely]

I hope you find peace within yourself

[ginghampearlsnsweettea]

I hope your skin is clear and your hair is growing.

[milespierre]

I hope and pray you find the happiness you deserve

[arabellesicardi]

[arabellesicardi]

we´re walking into a dictatorship here in Brazil and I have been reading your resist tag. do you have any specific recs about guerrila tactics & self-care for groups of activists? x

It makes the most sense to look into local organizing and grassroots movements in your immediate community; they’ll have specific tactics, timetables, locations et cetera they can share with you. You can probably find local connections through ItsGoingDown. In times of political unrest you can be sure to find political base centers like, for example, my local one, The Base, who host self defense and tactic workshops, and Flux Factory holds self-care workshops for healing specifically for Queer and TPOC. Crawl through antifa network for local orgs. 

Some readings to look into (should be easy to find online if you look): 

Saul Alinsky’s original Rules for Radicals - it’s not like, as relevant now, but the 12 rules for organizers is still very valuable.

Begum Ozden Firat’s Cultural Activism: Practices, Dilemmas, Possibilities 

Creative Community Organizing by Si Kahn 

Read bell hooks ACTUAL works on the origins of self care, read june jordan, audre lorde’s uses of the erotic, read other black women on political practice and the cost of bodies:  i really love reina gossett too. 

Self Love as a Liberatory Practice for the Future

Obviously also if you’re going to be participating in activism of any kind you absolutely must get up to speed on your online & general security and anti-surveillance practice (which I mentioned in my piece on protest prep for Racked). Do not organize on an unsecure connection - use Signal, Tor, et cetera. You can go through my resist tag for pointers and also The Glass Room’s resource page, something put together by Tactical Tech. 

Hope that helps! I do not identify as an activist™ just someone that does it, and observes and learns the history of it….so! Anyone can and should feel free to add to this, these are just what pops up immediately in my head. 

Mostly remember this:

[arabellesicardi]

some of the moodboard, james baldwin and june jordan of course….

[richassness]

90s babies we’re getting old

[inso-uciant]

i don’t want to talk about it

[morbidology]

A hawk with an arrow pierced through its body.

[saintheartless7777-deactivated2]

wealthy people get so much attention i think its easy to forget that its literally not normal or good to have extreme wealth