Make Your Damn Bed25 Feb 2025

1373 || expressive vs. instrumental resistance

“I had to examine, in my dreams as well as in my immune-function tests, the devastating effects of overextension. Overextending myself is not stretching myself. I had to accept how difficult it is to monitor the difference. Necessary for me as cutting down on sugar. Crucial. Physically. Psychically. Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” - Audre Lord

"The best actions are both expressive and instrumental, but it is more important than ever to approach direct action from an earnest, strategic perspective, with an eye toward what harms we can halt and what values we can materially enact." - Kelly Hayes

TODAY'S RESOURCES:

Kelly Hayes Article: https://truthout.org/articles/how-must-we-reorient-our-movements-under-a-second-trump-administration/

Kelly Hayes Blog: https://organizingmythoughts.org/collective-survival-adaption-and-direct-action/

Resistance Resources:

Choose Democracy "what can I do?": https://choosedemocracy.us/what-can-i-do/

Find Local protests + actions: https://www.buildtheresistance.org/actions

More action resources: https://www.buildtheresistance.org/actions

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