Rec | GET INVOLVED!

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Your community doesn’t have an activist collective? START ONE! You’re not sure what role you’d fill in liberation work? FIND ONE! You feel disconnected to the struggles and injustices in your community? GET INVOLVED! because it feels good because it fosters connection because it allows you to use any power or privilege you hold and lend it to those who need it most because when you don't utilize your privilege it rots inside of you like a poisonous bile and everyone can smell it BECAUSE THE FIGHT IS WORTH IT BECAUSE THE PEOPLE ARE WORTH IT BECAUSE YOU’VE GOT NOTHING BETTER TO DO BECAUSE YOU’VE GOT A MILLION THINGS TO DO because only you can provide to the cause in that specific way that you can and to anyone who is leaving themself out and forcing the rest of us to miss out on your skills and gifts that only you can provide COMMUNITY is the only way out of Imperialism and you hold more POWER than they will let you know of <3

@emol1

Dec 23, 2023

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