physicsandfandoms reblogged
I am so serious when I say that now is the time to take your activism offline. I am not spending the next four years squabbling on social media or getting woke points by reblogging posts that my followers already agree with. There are real places in your offline community where you can do good if you seek them out
Also: DEESCALATE ALL CONFLICT THAT ISN'T WITH THE ENEMY. We have so so so so much in common, are so much more aligned, with each other than we do the people we need to fight against. We're going to have disagreements. We're going to feel strongly on different sides of an issue. But now more than ever we need to find ways to address those things without alienating each other and pushing others out of our movements.
#one of the really positive things to come out of the last Trump presidency at my university was that the organizations for queer students#POC students and disabled students all formally started working together and they've made a lot of progress as a combined force#much more than they were able to ever do separately#they even got new construction to happen to add on to a building so they have a shared space#and from what I hear#people have been really good about de-escalating the conflicts that arise when inevitably someone makes a mistake#they understand who the real enemy is#and its not an equally marginalized person or sincere ally who just doesn't know any better