All my life I've lived and worked in institutions that are run by people in charge making decisions and it never works. The only thing it does consistently is keep someone in charge and sometimes it cant even do that.

jesus was a leftist revolutionary and yet the history of christianity itself is the clearest and longest-running example i can point to of the dangers of creating power structures

Transphobia is based on scrutinizing, defining, and policing gender, which is inconsistent with feminism or queer liberation, which seek everyone's right to self-determination.

It's also based on being an insufferable piece of shit, which is inconsistent with getting to hang out with cool lesbians.

by embracing preparedness, you are building mental and physical resiliency for yourself and your community.

agency is, essentially, the opposite of trauma. creating plans and taking steps towards those plans is, in some ways, more important than actually succeeding at those plans. always be trying.

Signal is the most secure private messaging app available to most people. Full stop.

It's open source, it's end-to-end encrypted, and it has helpful features like disappearing messages.

For most of us, this is as good as it gets, and everyone should be using it for daily messaging, activism, etc.