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It fucking blows my mind that people still buy into the lie that politicians will bring about change. That’s exactly what’s wrong with this fucked-up world. Real change only comes when the people take power for themselves equally!
#Activism #Politics

"A good ancestor does not measure their worth by success or failure." -- more @ #activism

Mastering the Possimpible
How to Become the Ancestor the Future Deserves

Good Signal tips for activism.
#signal

Using Signal groups for activism
Things are heating up. Millions of people are taking to the streets against Trump's rising authoritarianism. Communities around the US are organizing to defend against ICE raids, to protest Israeli genocide, for mutual aid, and for other forms of fighting fascism. Signal can help people safely organize in all of

"Where contradiction is complexity, not confusion." -- more @ #activism

Holding Both
healing from all-or-nothing thinking

"What if healing isn’t a prerequisite for meaning?" -- more @ #activism

you don't have to be healed to begin
a love letter to the unfinished and still becoming

"Somewhere along the way, we absorbed the idea that leadership has to look a certain way." -- more @ #activism

Pollinators of Privilege
Why Privilege is Meant to be Spent

Look what I found out in the wild, someone hung up this poster for #NSFIAA #Activism

Despite the overwhelming interconnectedness of life's problems, even the smallest actions can send ripples of change through the whole web. full article @ https://www.brichapman.com/p/everything-is-connected-in-a-giant

Everything is Connected (In a Giant Tangled Knot)
welcome to the existential hairball 🐈

Privilege can be used as a tool for contribution and change, not shame or guilt over its possession. full article @ #activism

Pollinators of Privilege
Why Privilege is Meant to be Spent

#Nature #Activism

"If everything is entangled, then no act is too small." -- more @ #activism

Everything is Connected (In a Giant Tangled Knot)
welcome to the existential hairball 🐈

I feel proud that Spain is sending its own Navy ships to help protect and shield the flotilla to Palestine.
Me siento orgulloso de que España esté enviando barcos militares para ayudar a proteger y escudar la flotilla para Palestina.
#gaza #israel #palestine #endGenocide #BDS #apartheid #activism #gretaThunberg #espana #italy https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mxc7liuon6iq5gzapmmwkq22/post/3lzr3avp4ls2i

"In that moment, I realized that by only preparing for the bad outcomes, I had left myself unprepared for the good." -- more @ #activism

Possibility Thinking
The discipline of preparing for all outcomes

"For a long time, I didn’t know what to do with my privilege." -- more @ #activism

Pollinators of Privilege
Why Privilege is Meant to be Spent

"If you only ever move forward, you’ll end up crunched in a corner with nowhere else to go." -- more @ #activism

The Backward Step
why progress isn't always forward, and what dance, tides, and breath can teach us about real growth

"The passion that drives our work can also become a barrier if we lack the tools to communicate effectively." -- more @ https://www.brichapman.com/p/nonviolent-communication-for-activism

Nonviolent Communication for Activists
Speaking to be Heard, Listening to Understand

"In a world that demands spectacle, moss reminds us: softness can be a strategy." -- more @ #activism

the season of small things
how to trust the quiet work that doesn't look like progress yet

"I want to declare once and for all: There is no limit to what I am willing to feel in order to stay with my world." -- more @ #activism

Hopium vs. Doomerism
Two ways to leave. One reason to stay.

By focusing too much on what could go wrong, we run the risk of being unprepared for the good outcomes life offers us. full article @ #activism

Possibility Thinking
The discipline of preparing for all outcomes

Nervous system regulation is not about enduring the intolerable, but about feeling deeply to know when something is intolerable. full article @ https://www.brichapman.com/p/your-nervous-system-is-not-a-machine

Your Nervous System is Not a Machine
Why Regulation Should Never Replace Resistance

"In a culture of urgency, slowness is radical. Stillness is power. Rest is rebellion." -- more @ #activism

Erosion, not Explosion
A Field Guide to Slow Work, Sacred Mess, and Unseen Change

#Capitralism #Activism #Socialism #AntiCapitalism

"There is only the next right thing, in relationship with all the other right things." -- more @ #activism

Silver Buckshot
Why complex problems need plural solutions

"You do not need to be fixed to be worthy. You do not need to be finished to be effective." -- more @ #activism

you don't have to be healed to begin
a love letter to the unfinished and still becoming

"I thought: if we forget how bad things are, we might stop trying to change them." -- more @ #activism

You're Allowed to Be Happy While the World Is Burning
The radical clarity of letting yourself feel one thing at a time

Though we often crave a silver bullet solution, in reality, meaningful change often comes from many small efforts working in harmony, just like it happens in climate activism. full article @ https://www.brichapman.com/p/silver-buckshot

Silver Buckshot
Why complex problems need plural solutions

"Sometimes, the most courageous thing we do is not escalate." -- more @ #activism

Like the Moon on Water
How Fiction Quietly Pulls Us Toward the People We Hope To Be

"The tide pool is a cradle, not a cage." -- more @ #activism

Tide Pool Thinking
How Structure Makes Space for Imagination to Breathe

Sometimes in life, like in dance, stepping back isn't a mistake or setback but an essential move to create space, rhythm, and shape for the next big leap forward. full article @ https://www.brichapman.com/p/the-backward-step

The Backward Step
why progress isn't always forward, and what dance, tides, and breath can teach us about real growth

Healing is not a prerequisite for participating in life but a process we undertake as we live, work, love, and play. full article @ https://www.brichapman.com/p/you-dont-have-to-be-healed-to-begin

you don't have to be healed to begin
a love letter to the unfinished and still becoming

"You don’t just have to move, you have to draw the map as you move." -- more @ #activism

you are your best thing
On becoming your own guide when no one shows you the way 🤍

"For a long time, I didn’t know what to do with my privilege." -- more @ #activism

Pollinators of Privilege
Why Privilege is Meant to be Spent

"You are not here to move in a straight line. You are a living system, dynamic, relational, responsive." -- more @ #activism

The Backward Step
why progress isn't always forward, and what dance, tides, and breath can teach us about real growth

"Nothing exists in isolation. Not a single thing." -- more @ #activism

Everything is Connected (In a Giant Tangled Knot)
welcome to the existential hairball 🐈

"You are not responsible for having privilege. You are responsible for what you do with it." -- more @ #activism

Pollinators of Privilege
Why Privilege is Meant to be Spent

Facing a situation where no guidance exists, it becomes a necessity to step forward, forging your own path and showing others the way. full article @ https://www.brichapman.com/p/you-are-your-best-thing

you are your best thing
On becoming your own guide when no one shows you the way 🤍

Leadership can sometimes mean stepping into uncharted territory without any guide. In such situations, you become both the traveller and the mapmaker. full article @ https://www.brichapman.com/p/you-are-your-best-thing

you are your best thing
On becoming your own guide when no one shows you the way 🤍

"It took me awhile to realize that how we talk about collapse matters just as much as that we talk about it." -- more @ https://www.brichapman.com/p/talking-to-yourself-and-others-about

Talking to Yourself (& Others!) About Climate Change
The Importance of Good News For Staying In The Fight

In observing a tide pool, we can learn that the right kind of structure, not pure limitless freedom, is what truly enables creativity to thrive. full article @ https://www.brichapman.com/p/tide-pool-thinking

Tide Pool Thinking
How Structure Makes Space for Imagination to Breathe

"To be a powerful futurist is to live at the edge of the present, where the known and unknown collide." -- more @ #activism

Anxiety is a Form of Futurism
Turning Worry into Radical Imagination

In life, much like in a tide pool, freedom often comes from the refuge of a nurturing enclosure rather than boundless openness. full article @ #activism

Tide Pool Thinking
How Structure Makes Space for Imagination to Breathe

Anxiety can be an asset, sharpening our awareness of potential risks and opportunities, and pushing us to imagine new possibilities like great visionaries. full article @ https://www.brichapman.com/p/anxiety-is-a-form-of-futurism

Anxiety is a Form of Futurism
Turning Worry into Radical Imagination

I've come to realize that not using my privilege doesn't make it disappear; instead, it renders it inaccessible to those who could benefit from it. full article @ https://www.brichapman.com/p/pollinators-of-privilege

Pollinators of Privilege
Why Privilege is Meant to be Spent