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Anonymous asked:

I’m sorry but how can you be so proud of yourself for taking this moment to write an essay that boils down to “Don’t bother engaging in collective action, you should just do what makes you feel good with your friends :)”

Like, there is no world in which going to a concert advances a cause more than participating in a union or political party. How can you be so detached from historical and material reality? Nobody who advocates for political organization is saying “also stop spending time with your friends and interfacing with your community.”

Have fun limiting your “organizing” to shallow little playtime in nice cozy Switzerland while the rest of us try to address injustices and atrocities through collective action. I hope you decide to join us, eventually.

nyancrimew answered:

the essay does not actually boil down to this, at least this definitely isn't the point of it. this would be a very fair critique if that actually were what im trying to say but it just straight up isn't.

my essay focuses on how just saying to "get organized" or "join xy org" doesn't really help most people actually find their space in a movement, it's about how building friendships both within and outside the movement is important for setting foot in it and how people's morale tends to be forgotten in some political orgs (which i find sad) which leads to burnout and orgs that fall apart.

i think my essay makes it pretty clear that collective action is the goal but focuses on what's also important in the here and now, leaving people helpless and hopeless helps no movement.

i do a lot of things in radical spaces that i don't publicly talk about online, to just assume i have no actual involvement in any on the ground stuff just because you misread my essay and disagree with it is frankly insulting. you are free to disagree with me, i don't think anyone will ever fully agree on theory anyways, but at least try to be honest in your engagement with what i wrote.

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Personally, I go to both protests and punk concerts, and host union meetings and soup parties. and they're all necessary. The artists at the punk shows give words to the frustrations of this oppressive system. They provide a space to dance and process the traumas with like-minded people. As a visual artist, I can use my skills to make big fuck-off signs for protests and paint them visibly enough that people see and take pictures and spread the message. And paint elsewhere. As a cook I can make my friends and people on the street food to nourish them and help them through the day and FEEL a part of community, cut through the alienation. I think Maia's on the money encouraging people to get organised using their skills. It's talking about a much less reductive and exclusive vision of 'organising' than the most straightforward popular examples of union/protest/DSAwhatever. It's more holistic. It's not saying don't do these things, it's saying do what you can, branch out, and hold each other up. Literally "we cannot just fight, we have to live to be able to fight" (bold mine). Go read the article again, but with an open mind.

#exactly #my essay focuses on these things because (evidently) a lot of people just dismiss them #the political organizing part has already been discussed into the ground #and the people who dont need to hear more to get organized are already organized

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Anonymous asked:

I’m sorry but how can you be so proud of yourself for taking this moment to write an essay that boils down to “Don’t bother engaging in collective action, you should just do what makes you feel good with your friends :)”

Like, there is no world in which going to a concert advances a cause more than participating in a union or political party. How can you be so detached from historical and material reality? Nobody who advocates for political organization is saying “also stop spending time with your friends and interfacing with your community.”

Have fun limiting your “organizing” to shallow little playtime in nice cozy Switzerland while the rest of us try to address injustices and atrocities through collective action. I hope you decide to join us, eventually.

the essay does not actually boil down to this, at least this definitely isn't the point of it. this would be a very fair critique if that actually were what im trying to say but it just straight up isn't.

my essay focuses on how just saying to "get organized" or "join xy org" doesn't really help most people actually find their space in a movement, it's about how building friendships both within and outside the movement is important for setting foot in it and how people's morale tends to be forgotten in some political orgs (which i find sad) which leads to burnout and orgs that fall apart.

i think my essay makes it pretty clear that collective action is the goal but focuses on what's also important in the here and now, leaving people helpless and hopeless helps no movement.

i do a lot of things in radical spaces that i don't publicly talk about online, to just assume i have no actual involvement in any on the ground stuff just because you misread my essay and disagree with it is frankly insulting. you are free to disagree with me, i don't think anyone will ever fully agree on theory anyways, but at least try to be honest in your engagement with what i wrote.

#anyways im logging off for the night

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NEW ESSAY: anarchism starts in the now: hope for a better future

there is still time

cover art: @punkitt-is-here

anarchism starts in the now: hope for a better future

there is still time

maia :3

punkitt-is-here

hi i did the art for this!! please go read, if you've been feeling hopeless lately this article is a wonderful reminder of what we can still do <3

#logging off until i have more energy later today #but go read this in the meantime #maia arson crimew #punkitt #writing #art #essay #anarchism #hope

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sorry for being a bit cranky this morning i only really just woke up and am already on my way to a meeting, my energy levels and patience to deal with shit aren't super high rn

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Anonymous asked:

That article is genuinely the least serious bit of anarchist writing I've seen in a long time. Joining any organisations is more hollow politically than just going to parties? Seriously?

that's not what the piece says at all 👍 great bad faith interpretation though, i love this

read it again. it's very clearly about how starting and ending organizing at meaning JUST explicitly political spaces burns people out, is alienating to a lot of newcomers and is in my opinion not a way forward, as the way forward is to start building our future in the current times.

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Anonymous asked:

If its not maya nor mia how do you pronounce it

Ma-ee-a? Mey-a? May'a???

YOU PRONOUNCE IT THE SAME AS MAYA BUT IM STILL NOT CALLED "MAYA" OR "MIA", THAT BIT IN MY BIO IS ABOUT THE SPELLING NOT THE PRONUNCIATION IT'S NOT THAT HARD TO UNDERSTAND

#i get this ask like once a week and i genuinely don't know if yall are actually this stupid #im just annoyed by people who call me 'maya' or 'mia' in asks or notes as if it doesn't say my name all over my profile already #but i might have to remove the spelling guide now because yall don't get that either apparently #im not actually mad but im a bit tired #all caps

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Anonymous asked:

do you have any advice on getting into cybersec? I started doing stuff on tryhackme and hackthebox and set up my first vm yesterday but most of the stuff on thm and htb is paid :c