Art by Erik Carnell one of the LGBT+ artists who was featured in Target during Pride and then removed thanks to white Christian nationalist pressure.
So here we are, and yeah, we need you all.
The horrors persist, but so do we.
We can get through this if we fight like hell and work together.
I won't go quietly into that good night, I'll be kicking, screaming, clawing, and biting. And if I'm not alone then we have a chance to make sure that what comes to pass is a new dawn.
Edit: Also here's a link to the artist's etsy page for this sticker. NGL I wish they had an enamel pin for this one.
Oh, hey, it's Abprallen. I own the Satan Respects Pronouns tee that was the excuse the shitheads used for the Target bullshit.
A wise friend once said, "you should wipe your ass before you clean your home" he meant it literally, but I like the phrasing.
Get involved in local politics. Do you know the name of your Town's mayor? I didn't. Fucking former prison warden. I don't recall voting for him.
I fucking knew Ive been spotting more of those fuckers who don't show up when you're getting mugged
So much this! The school board is important too.
"I'm tired, boss... Mostly, I'm tired of people being ugly to each other. I'm tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world every day. There's too much of it - it's like pieces of glass in my head, all the time. Can you understand?"
I really appreciate your message and post. I think we all need to process and grieve and then move toward the fight. We need everyone.
...let's just ignore the fact that John Coffey said this while asking to be killed.
does it though
It does. I know I tend to underestimate myself, especially when my major depression symptoms kick in hard and I just sleep for months at a time. But sometimes I can help. Sometimes it's just sweeping floors, or making clever art or being a sympathetic ear to other people who have given up.
We don't know our futures, and small opportunities to help can still happen.
The very worst sober-gaze-into-the-abyss case is we become another point added to a statistic. Another hate crime victim, another suicide after our benefits were cancelled. Slightly better than that is being the next Mahsa Amini (the victim of the Iranian morality police who sparked the last major civil unrest), or the next George Floyd. But while we will have some of these, we'll also have survivors who can help to assist other survivors, or to drive the movements toward justice and prevention. These are the beams that make the structures of our moral and political systems that don't depend on violent enforcement.
In the meantime, make art, make observations, make memes, make conversation. Stay alive for sake of staying alive, because there are a lot of unfilled roles in the progressive social movements we need.
I can't imagine having the mindset that I am needed outside of my household. All evidence points to our insignificance, and the willingness of my fellow man to let me perish if saving me would affect their pocket book negatively to save me.
That being said, it would be nice to see something good happen, and the people here are the most likely to do good.
Be sure to follow the rule before you head out.
Rule: You must post before you leave.