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Again with this Solnit essay:
❝[P]eople assume you can’t be hopeful and heartbroken at the same time, and of course you can. In times when everything is fine hope is unnecessary. Hope is not happiness or confidence or inner peace; it’s a commitment to search for possibilities.❞
❝I respect despair as an emotion, but not as an analysis.…Feelings deserve full respect as feelings, but all they inform you about is you.❞
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/26/we-cant-afford-to-be-climate-doomers
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I am interested right now in possibilities, actions •I• and •we• can take:
- to protect the trans, queer, Black, and brown people who will be vulnerable and in the crosshairs,
- to gird up our systems of mutual support while we are under siege,
- to counter, to slow, and to kneecap an unhinged Trump administration,
- to work around a broken US government to continue to fight climate change, establish abortion access safe havens, etc, and
- to uproot rampant fascist thinking.
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I am thinking now is a good time for checking that mutual aid hashtag.
I’m also hoping to crowdsource information on businesses to avoid/ and others to frequent for ethical reasons. (Republican donors are on my avoid list)
A good/ bad list, if you will.
That might be handy in the future for further action. I notice that we all know businesses that are small and that we want to support, but we don’t necessarily tell each other about it and then everyone duplicates their research