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All our struggles are connected: Organize for a better world

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Psychedelic attachment theory

Ethnographic theory on how psychedelics can facilitate healing—or harm.

Center the Children: A Manifesto for True Liberation

"I don't like kids," people openly say. They are the most vulnerable, yet the least protected; the most valuable, yet the most expendable. Their lives are shaped by power they do not hold, by institutions they did not design, and by choices they cannot escape.

We cannot have a rational debate about technology.

As long as we rely on screens rather than on forests and sunsets to soothe our pain, we will fight to defend the screens, not the forests.

Men are not trash.

Perpetuating the narrative that "men are bad" helps normalize rape culture by making it seem like it's just inherent to their nature. It's not.

Shaming fascists: Not enough, or too much?

If shame was helpful, we would have solved all our problems by now because it's the primary way people relate to each other in colonial cultures.

Big tents: Normies joining the movement for liberation

No movement against fascism will ever succeed if it's not led by the left, because fascism is capitalism in crisis. But we also have to work with complicated, messy human beings.

Can people with bad political beliefs change?

100% of the people we need to talk to in order to grow the movement have some weird and harmful beliefs. We still need to build with them.

No, we shouldn’t put them in prison

Think more deeply about what that actually means, and what it would do.

Can you be a parent and an activist?

Parents are suffering. Children need so much more love and care than parents alone can give them under capitalism. If we want to build a better world, we need to support caregivers.

How can we get free?

What actually works in activism and organizing?