our solidarity must extend to
every person behind bars
every displaced person
every victim of imperialism
every family affected by the matrix of these three things
every person in ICE detention
every person facing deportation
every person growing up with gang and police violence all around them
every poor person
and every person who resides at the axes between these various oppressions
WE TAKE CARE OF THE WORLDS WE CONSTITUTE. WE FIGHT FOR EACH OTHER.
Hey you!
Are you a fan of Neil Gaiman, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, and/or Doctor Who? Do you like urban fantasy? Do you like stories about cool girls who kick ass?
Then you should check out my web serial, Rollerskater — currently on its second instalment with more forthcoming.
It's weird, violent and funny, and has been very well received. I hope you check it out!
https://cremullins.wordpress.com/rollerskater/
(cw for graphic violence)
The political discourse about terror is very misleading, because it represents terror as an exception. But it is in fact the ruling principle of bourgeois society.
At every turn, people's sense of independence is undermined, and they are made to feel little by the rulers of this world. 'Freedom' is just the mistaken sense of independence of those who are not inflicted in this situation.
Class warfare, legal sanctions, and police terror are the order of the day as an always present threat, if not a lived reality. At the same time, a generalized fear-mongering is perpetrated by the institutions of the state, capital, and governmentality.
This is not a peaceful tranquility to which terror is an exception. This is a well-regimented social world, underpinned by a pervasive, civilized, and 'reasonable' terror.
Those schooled in the art of politics understand terror in this sense, not in the sense of a wild and incidental attack or lashing out, which is child's play by comparison.
Accepting the limitations of what you can accomplish is often, paradoxically, a precondition for accomplishing something. Far from being demotivating, it gives you a sense of proportion and priority. And it also helps you to not be so hard on yourself if you don't accomplish that which was impossible to accomplish to begin with.
This Pearl Jam cover of Neil Young's 'Keep on Rockin' in the Free World' is so real. It is, like, the realest thing.
No matter how misunderstood and lonely you feel, there are others like you out there. Maybe you just have not found your crowd yet, but there probably is a crowd for you.
Do not give up expressing yourself, and do not trade in your unicity for conformity just to be accepted. It is not worth it.
You will be happier making authentic connections in the end, even if it seems as though you cannot make those connections at the moment.
Keep on rocking, people.
Hey uh so I wrote a whole-ass novel called THE MALCONTENT OF MARS and I've been serialising it over the last few weeks, and the eighth chapter just went up!
If you want to read it and support it by boosting it, I'd really appreciate it! Click the link below for the blurb page and the table of contents.
(cw for themes of trauma and abuse, also cw for scenes of strong bloody violence)
A radical chicklet who gets lost in its meandering reveries
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