Love this essay/manifesto by @anandwrites.bsky.social "Because having, and nurturing, in your life a sphere for joy and connection and community and love and food and music and human difference and living and letting live is everything they are not and is everything they are trying to take away." - ThreadSky

rebeccasolnit.bsky.social • 4 days ago

Love this essay/manifesto by @anandwrites.bsky.social "Because having, and nurturing, in your life a sphere for joy and connection and community and love and food and music and human difference and living and letting live is everything they are not and is everything they are trying to take away."

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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social•4 days ago

I think we think alike:

greginhrva.bsky.social•4 days ago

Agreed.
Think of where we would be if trump wasn’t such a total moron.
And that fact should give us hope.

tishado.bsky.social•1 day ago

Thank you for all you do!

anil-blue.bsky.social•3 days ago

I'm reminded of Woody Guthrie's guitar.

tmorrow66.bsky.social•4 days ago

The “common sense of the American people” is hardly something to depend on.

t-h-a-d.bsky.social•4 days ago

💯

alascur.bsky.social•4 days ago

Thank you Rebecca, you saved me today

clairesommer.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yell love from the rooftops
❤️

penahay.bsky.social•4 days ago

❤️

angelam.bsky.social•4 days ago

I love it and totally agree. Hope and joy are the forces we use to, as you say, kick down the door of a burning house. I also think it’s important to emphasize that we can’t use hope or joy as political bypass. Action, and possibly even sacrifice of comforts, is required.

phidipdbq.bsky.social•4 days ago

Reminds me of...
"To make injustice the only
measure of our attention is to praise the Devil." Jack Gilbert

montemerrick.bsky.social•4 days ago

Reminds me of the end of Sartre’s Nausea- existential terror is eased fir the first time in our narrator’s life by good old American jazz. Also reminds me that Bebop was developed in the early days of WW2.

anil-blue.bsky.social•4 days ago

❤️

mlow.bsky.social•4 days ago

Thanks for posting this, it's exactly what I needed to read today.

drkarlauthor.bsky.social•4 days ago

addssv.bsky.social•4 days ago

Please keep posting pics of oaks and green hillsides. What a joy to live here in this awful time.

whatname65.bsky.social•4 days ago

Thanks! I needed this today.

robstewartwriterq.bsky.social•4 days ago

One of my favourite books of recent years was ‘Station 11’. It expresses it unusually though dystopian fiction, but succeeds admirably.

michellesidles.bsky.social•4 days ago

I’ve been craving this very thing. More visions of the alternative. Thank you for sharing this writing. I want to print it out and post it on my fridge. I definitely went and followed the writer.

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