Narrator voice: Homan had never been in the military.

I love this. Thank you for sharing, and thanks for teaching the next generation of scholar-activists.

I want this quote on a t-shirt, a sign, a tattoo, and every grassroots organizing manual from here forward.

I would be really interested to hear from craft and folk art experts on BlueSky about the history of these particular mediums in protest/social change movements.

I am not that expert, but I believe that expert exists.

To be clear, I'm describing myself here down to the Girls State and debate qualifiers. It is really hard for those of us who have put our trust and careers in the hands of norms, institutions and peaceful transfer of power to see the moment it all breaks.

Speaking as a MoCo leftie, my fellow MoCo lefties tend to be a little starry eyed about the healing power of advocacy, elections, government (federal and local), and civil discourse.

Which is not surprising! A bunch of Girls State and debate kids grew into adults who still think systems mostly work

I mean, these messages are mostly coming from folks in like TkPk and Hyattsville. That is, densely populated inner ring suburbs

TBH, there has always been tension in the MoCo organizing universe between mutual aid/electoralism and confronting power structures directly.