Are you saddened, sickened, and enraged by the ongoing genocide?
Me too. Some days I feel like I can’t even process the ongoing sense of despair and hopelessness that comes from watching a genocide in real time. I donate and do what I can but it doesn’t feel like enough.
Are you on board with a free Palestine?
Me too!
Are you voting third party in the upcoming US election?
100%!
Why?
Because I don’t want to vote for genocide.
Because you have to show them you have choice. Lawrence O’Donnell who worked within the Democratic party says, “If you want to pull the major party that is closest to the way to what you’re thinking, you must, you must show them that you’re capable of not voting for them. If you don’t show them you’re capable of not voting for them, they don’t have to listen to you.
I feel like Estelle Ellison says it best in her most recent zine:
“People continue to go through electoralist motions unaware of or simply uninterested in knowing how demonstrably wasteful and fruitless these capitalist campaigns are.
Unprecedented availability of information detailing just how much widespread suffering imperialism causes elicits, at best, only dispassionate rationalizations of the electoral system.
At worst we are told it is selfish to insist on putting an end to genocide when we “should be” contributing to the system that lists genocide among the state’s many “rights.” At every scale of human interaction we find fascism hard at work.”
I’ve been inspired by Dayna Lynn Nuckolls recently, and I wanted to share some of her writing with you. You can follow her on Twitter/X and Tiktok.
Dayna Lynn Nuckolls writes, “More and more I’m seeing this moment as an evolutionary tipping point for humans and for Earth, from which humans are not separate, nor distinct.
Yes, in terms of this virus we expose each other to. But more importantly, this is a moment of critical mass in the evolution in human consciousness, character, and identity.
The cult of individualism (those who worship at the altar of “personal responsibility”) does not want to share the burden of survival. Instead of saving their bodies, they save their identities which contradict the truth of their bodies. They terrorize those who preserve the truth of their bodies… Black folks, LGBTQ, children, many women, and indigenous people.
For them, bodily autonomy means the right to dissociate and allow the power of patriarchy, whiteness, and capitalism to occupy their identities. Giving up their minds and bodies for the promise of power and domination over others, unable to see that they have surrendered themselves to the power of, and have been dominated by patriarchy, whiteness, and capitalism.
It’s actually quite simple. Humanity cannot survive whiteness.
Whiteness is a cannabalizing suicidal cult that engages in rituals of mass sacrifice, including and especially of children, in order to preserve real and perceived power. Gaza is an example of this.
She quotes Alok Menon: The focus has been on comprehension, not compassion. It’s not about accepting trans or gender nonconforming people. This is about accepting yourself. And if you do that, everything I say is going to make sense. And if you don’t, then everything I say will be seen as an attack from a zero sum ideology that makes you think that if other people thrive, it means you must somehow lose something. The real threat?
“The threat is a system that made you mistake your latent dissociation for a personality.” -Alok Menon
She continues: “Identity is a belief system and it’s being weaponized against you. The religion of maleness and the cult of heterosexuality. The doctrine of whiteness. These are not embodied experiences. They are altars at which you must sacrifice your body to survive.”
To Decolonize Your Survival Instinct is to take your body back.
FEELING is the beginning of revolution.
There will be no revolution without:
- Feeling your body
- Standing feeling your pain
- Feeling your grief
- Standing feeling your rage
- Feeling your powerlessness
Use the Feelings wheel and the Needs wheel as places to start if you have a hard time feeling your feelings
Listen to your resentment and dread. (Note: This Dr Devon Price medium account has a free tier so you can read everything)