Make Your Damn Bed

Hopepunk is a much needed reaction to decades of dystopian and nihilistic fiction. It explores how goodness, joy, optimism, and collective action can be acts of rebellion.

Alexandra Rowland's Tumblr: https://ariaste.tumblr.com/post/163500138919/ariaste-the-opposite-of-grimdark-is-hopepunk

Sam's Monologue to Frodo: https://mountebank.org/sams-speech/

A Blogpost on Hopepunk: https://www.centreforoptimism.com/blog/hopepunk

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"We want the world to be better—kinder, more just, more merciful. We still yearn toward noblebright, toward an honest and desperate belief that love conquers all. Except, when the other guy has more guns and fewer moral objections than we do, it doesn’t.

We forget, sometimes, that we have knives too in this empire. That we can unsheathe them, that we can turn our blades to the defense of an atom of justice and a molecule of mercy that might not even exist—except . . . except for where we make them exist, in the hands we hold out to each other, and in the shelter we offer even when we ourselves are exhausted, footsore, and filthy, with the wolves at our doors.

There are no heroes and no villains. There are just people. That’s hopepunk: Whether the glass is half full or half empty, what matters is that there’s water in that glass. And that’s something worth defending." - Alexandra Rowland

Alexandra Rowland's post about Hopepunk: https://festive.ninja/one-atom-of-justice-one-molecule-of-mercy-and-the-empire-of-unsheathed-knives-alexandra-rowland/

Hopepunk on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopepunk

A conspiracy of Truths by Alexandra Rowland: https://www.alexandrarowland.net/a-conspiracy-of-truths

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Stage 1 – Honeymoon

Initial commitment and excitement to engage in tasks. For example, when you first start your journey in a new activism group.

Stage 2 – Onset of stress

Common symptoms of stress start being felt, such as fatigue, lower productivity and sleep disturbances.

Stage 3 – Chronic Stress

Lack of motivation + more intense symptoms felt on a very frequent basis. At this stage, bad habits such as smoking, drinking etc may begin

Stage 4 – Burnout

Difficulty even to cope with the minimum of daily tasks. Everything seems dull and ugly, and the person starts feeling either numb or else always overwhelmed.

Stage 5 – Habitual burnout

Symptoms of burnout become incorporated into normal life and person experiences chronic fatigue, depression and apathy.

The Resource: https://commonslibrary.org/activist-burnout-guide-with-videos/

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Horst and Webber's examples of wicked problems:

1. There is no definitive formulation of a wicked problem.
2. Wicked problems are often ongoing.
3. Solutions to wicked problems are not true or false, good or bad.
4. There is no immediate and no ultimate test of a solution to a wicked problem.
5. All attempts to find solutions have effects that may not be reversable.
6. Wicked problems do not have a set of solutions.
7. Every wicked problem is essentially unique.
8. Every wicked problem can be considered to be a symptom of another problem.
9. There are many explanations for wicked problems.
10. There are no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ answers.

The wicked problems article: https://commonslibrary.org/what-are-wicked-problems/

More information on wicked problems: https://uq.pressbooks.pub/publicinterestcomm/chapter/wicked-problems/#term_53_357

The UN's 2030 Agenda example: https://sdgs.un.org/2030agenda

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“I had to examine, in my dreams as well as in my immune-function tests, the devastating effects of overextension. Overextending myself is not stretching myself. I had to accept how difficult it is to monitor the difference. Necessary for me as cutting down on sugar. Crucial. Physically. Psychically. Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” - Audre Lord

"The best actions are both expressive and instrumental, but it is more important than ever to approach direct action from an earnest, strategic perspective, with an eye toward what harms we can halt and what values we can materially enact." - Kelly Hayes

TODAY'S RESOURCES:

Kelly Hayes Article: https://truthout.org/articles/how-must-we-reorient-our-movements-under-a-second-trump-administration/

Kelly Hayes Blog: https://organizingmythoughts.org/collective-survival-adaption-and-direct-action/

Resistance Resources:

Choose Democracy "what can I do?": https://choosedemocracy.us/what-can-i-do/

Find Local protests + actions: https://www.buildtheresistance.org/actions

More action resources: https://www.buildtheresistance.org/actions

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“I had to examine, in my dreams as well as in my immune-function tests, the devastating effects of overextension. Overextending myself is not stretching myself. I had to accept how difficult it is to monitor the difference. Necessary for me as cutting down on sugar. Crucial. Physically. Psychically. Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” - Audre Lord

TODAY'S RESOURCES:

The article: https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2021/05/10493153/reclaiming-self-care-audre-lorde-black-women-community-care

Read Audre Lord's A Burst Of Light: https://eddierockerz.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/a-burst-of-light-and-other-essays-pdfdrive-.pdf

Buy Audre Lord's A Burst Of Light: https://www.akpress.org/catalog/product/view/id/3259/s/aburstoflight/category/6/

Resistance Resources:

Choose Democracy "what can I do?": https://choosedemocracy.us/what-can-i-do/

Find Local protests + actions: https://www.buildtheresistance.org/actions

More action resources: https://www.buildtheresistance.org/actions

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There are limitless ways people are showing up to resist the coup and protect democracy so today I want to share some more examples of ways we can personally show up as a part of the resistance. You can't do everything, but you can do something. Here's a lil compilation of somethings we can begin.

RESOURCES:

Choose Democracy "what can I do?": https://choosedemocracy.us/what-can-i-do/

Compilation of current stories of Resistance: https://choosedemocracy.us/resist-list/?ref=meditationsinanemergency.com

Affinity Groups: https://www.seedsforchange.org.uk/affinitygroups

Find Local protests + actions: https://www.buildtheresistance.org/actions

More action resources: https://www.buildtheresistance.org/actions

Guide to stopping the coup: https://indivisible.org/coup

Guide for Military: https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/blog_post/for-members-of-security-forces-a-guide-to-supporting-pro-democracy-movements/

Guide for Feds: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14p6FJMp6qTJZpPKom32BLtm1ynp9xho5HmOP_Bpkl9k/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.yetwg1phrfmp

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There are 4 pathways to resisting authoritarianism: 1. Protecting people. 2. Defending Civic Institutions, 3. Disrupting + Disobeying 4. Building alternatives.

RESOURCES:

The "Some actions to resist authoritarianism" Guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PnA86CvqKNo1le3TEczIBQftX6Pq1n7G5ROHxS_fj1E/edit?pli=1&tab=t.0

Choose Democracy "what can I do?": https://choosedemocracy.us/what-can-i-do/

Worth Fighting For: https://weareworthfightingfor.org/

Tax Resistance: https://nwtrcc.org/ and: https://www.warresisters.org/

Mutual Aid 101: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13lh98gyLn1sHSxtFHoInMV5Mz44IICVfPehvvXWJOtg/edit#slide=id.g30bd7fb412d_0_102

Other Sources for different types of Resistance:

Pen (Fighting Book Bans) https://pen.org/book-bans/

Local Abortion Fund Map: https://abortionfunds.org/find-a-fund/

The Welcoming Project: https://thewelcomingproject.org/

Mobilize (find local action): https://www.mobilize.us/

National Bail Fund Network Democracy: https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org/en/nbfn-directory

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There are 4 pathways to resisting authoritarianism: 1. Protecting people. 2. Defending Civic Institutions, 3. Disrupting + Disobeying 4. Building alternatives.

The "Some actions to resist authoritarianism" Guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PnA86CvqKNo1le3TEczIBQftX6Pq1n7G5ROHxS_fj1E/edit?pli=1&tab=t.0

Choose Democracy "what can I do?": https://choosedemocracy.us/what-can-i-do/

Civil Servant's Serve the People Doc: https://drive.proton.me/urls/4W0PN5CZQG#u3PMOGzXgZjT

National Security Leaders for America: https://www.nsl4a.org/

Protect our elections: https://www.protectourelection.com/contact-county-election-officials

Run for Something: https://runforsomething.net/

Pen (Fighting Book Bans) https://pen.org/book-bans/

Local Abortion Fund Map: https://abortionfunds.org/find-a-fund/

The Welcoming Project: https://thewelcomingproject.org/

Mobilize (find local action): https://www.mobilize.us/

National Bail Fund Network Democracy: https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org/en/nbfn-directory

News: Resistance Idaho: https://idahocapitalsun.com/2024/03/28/idaho-leaders-united-calls-out-extremist-culture-of-permission/

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Some ways to opt out:

Cancel superfluous subscriptions,

Shop at local grocers and small ethnic markets for groceries.

Reduce meat + dairy consumption.

Boycott fast fashion.

Digital detox.

Avoid single use plastics.

Opt out of all data tracking.

Refuse to participate in "grind culture".

Avoid trendy diets.

Don't engage with trolls or trash content.

Support worker strikes + boycotts.

Reject overachieving + perfectionism.

Cancel Amazon Prime.

Buy secondhand or borrow.

Rely on the library first.

SOURCES: https://www.businessinsider.com/subscription-services-forgotten-cost-consumers-payments-2022-6

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