kara
@karapark.bsky.social
queer cat mama & kid 엄마 | a former repro & asian american organizer now fighting for better labor conditions for organizers | eastside st. paul | she/her
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Wrote about the morally vacuous, strategically unsound (and also wrong!) anti-“woke”diagnosis everyone’s still sticking with, even in the midst of civil rights apocalypse.
Wokeness Is Not to Blame for Trump
How a misdiagnosis of the 2024 election has calcified into self-defeating conventional wisdom.
nymag.com
February 18, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Wrote about the morally vacuous, strategically unsound (and also wrong!) anti-“woke”diagnosis everyone’s still sticking with, even in the midst of civil rights apocalypse.
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The 150-page plan proposes to target groups with a wide array of attacks, ranging from stripping organizations of their nonprofit status, to filing RICO charges, to deporting immigrants who protest, to filing class-action lawsuits against groups like Students for Justice in Palestine.
The Right Has a 150-Page Battle Plan to Shut Down Progressive Civil Society
Attacks on Palestine solidarity are the opening salvo in the right’s stated plan to suppress social justice groups.
truthout.org
November 27, 2024 at 9:53 PM
The 150-page plan proposes to target groups with a wide array of attacks, ranging from stripping organizations of their nonprofit status, to filing RICO charges, to deporting immigrants who protest, to filing class-action lawsuits against groups like Students for Justice in Palestine.
An incredible and timely gift of an anthology that, as a new parent and chosen family of a toddler, I’m deeply grateful for
We Grow the World Together is a vital anthology exploring the intersections between caregiving and abolition.
For every copy we sell on our website this month, we'll send a free copy through our Books Not Bars program to a reader who is currently incarcerated.
For every copy we sell on our website this month, we'll send a free copy through our Books Not Bars program to a reader who is currently incarcerated.
We Grow the World Together
www.haymarketbooks.org
November 19, 2024 at 8:30 PM
An incredible and timely gift of an anthology that, as a new parent and chosen family of a toddler, I’m deeply grateful for
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another curmudgeonly thread for the many of you who will be entering organizing spaces.
all other things being equal, when confronted with one team of people recruiting you to Be a Thing and another team recruiting you to Do a Thing, please give serious thought to joining the second.
all other things being equal, when confronted with one team of people recruiting you to Be a Thing and another team recruiting you to Do a Thing, please give serious thought to joining the second.
November 13, 2024 at 1:52 PM
another curmudgeonly thread for the many of you who will be entering organizing spaces.
all other things being equal, when confronted with one team of people recruiting you to Be a Thing and another team recruiting you to Do a Thing, please give serious thought to joining the second.
all other things being equal, when confronted with one team of people recruiting you to Be a Thing and another team recruiting you to Do a Thing, please give serious thought to joining the second.
Digesting this piece from Scot Nakagawa—a key voice on anti-authoritarianism I'll personally always look to—on what to do and how to move now:
Recommendations for Anti-Authoritarian Resistance
We Must Adapt, Not Assimilate
antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com
November 12, 2024 at 8:37 PM
Digesting this piece from Scot Nakagawa—a key voice on anti-authoritarianism I'll personally always look to—on what to do and how to move now:
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I wrote a piece about what I'm seeing, what I'm worried about, and the emotional space we need to make for ourselves and others right now.
Beyond the Blame: Fighting for Each Other in the Face of Fascism
"In dark times, people have always found ways to make their own light. That work is now upon us."
organizingmythoughts.org
November 8, 2024 at 1:17 PM
I wrote a piece about what I'm seeing, what I'm worried about, and the emotional space we need to make for ourselves and others right now.