Angela Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?

Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (eds.), Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement

Elizabeth Hinton, America On Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s

Mariame Kaba, We Do This Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transformative Justice

Colin Kaepernick (ed.), Abolition for the People: The Movement for a Future Without Policing and Prisons

Robin DG Kelley, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination

Victoria Law, "Prisons Make Us Safer" and 20 Other Myths About Mass Incarceration Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

Zena Sharman, The Care We Dream Of: Liberatory and Transformative Approaches to LGBTQ+ Health

Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)

Heather Ann Thompson, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy

Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation

"Native Americans, Palestine, Venezuela = We kiII Indigenous Peoples for their natural resources"

Anti-colonial graffiti seen in Santa Fe, New Mexico

"Light catcher" (2012) by Helene Beland.

TRUTH. What you need is imagination, and you don’t need to go anywhere to use it.

Yeah, sure, seeing new things is helpful as a fantasy writer. But. Don’t make the mistake of assuming that exposure to new things is the same as traveling. You know what else exposes you to new things?  The internet. Documentaries. Books. Freaking Youtube. So when you’re bored of cats and cooking tutorials, go on an adventure!

You wanna write create some fantasy creatures but don’t know where to start? Go check out some videos The Weird Creatures Earth has Had.

Want some inspiration for your Super Evil Villain’s Villanous Deeds?

Or maybe you want some weird locations to kick start your Fantasy World Terraforming?

Or maybe you need knowledge of bunches of historical places and cities and cultures?

But maybe you’re basing fantasy on the modern world?

Okay but lets say you want to start from the same inspiration as GRRM? (and part two!)

That’s just the stuff I could quickly grab. Things I’m subscribed to, that I know offhand. There is So. Much. Stuff. Online.

The best thing about the internet is that it means its not just the fortunate sons that get to learn, and explore and imagine and write. We get to see stories from all over the place, from all sorts of people, who bring All Kinds of New Ideas.

I like you.

when the clock is at :45 it’s like. oh i have a whole quarter of the hour left i have so much time this is great and then it hits :47 and you’re like it’s basically :50 which is basically the top of the hour and all my time is wasted forever and ever

1:45 -> oh neat there's 15 minutes left

1:47 -> yeah no it's 2pm

The standoff with agents happened on Jan. 8, one day after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good in south Minneapolis. Wooten’s refusal to comply with ICE was captured on video and posted to Facebook. 

The agents tried everything to intimidate the guard.

 “You can’t come back here, bro,” Wooten can be heard in the video saying to an agent wearing a mask and sunglasses. “I’m talking to your manager,” the agent said. Wooten responded: “No, you’re talking to security, I’m in charge.”

ICE left empty-handed. Wooten said he just stood his ground, “10 toes down.”

“I was doing my job like I’m supposed to,’’ Wooten said. “If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything. I just want to make my family safe because I’ve been here three years.”

Also, stop posting protesters faces unless they're interviewed. Y'all love taking photos of strangers and posting them online. I don't understand it.

And start wearing your own masks! What the fuck? Between privacy, a surveillance state, and Covid? It should be a no brainer!

Dumb as hell.

I saw someone posting images of guys from the New Black Panther party and I'm anyone who knows them would recognize them. I'm sure that image will circulated amongst the wrong parties.

Couldn't even be bothered to blur their faces in some way before posting to Reddit for karma.

No licks of sense to be found. None.

I haaate the emphasis on how ice is "masked" & "no one should ever be wearing masks" from supposed left-wing people 😭 Like this is their chance & excuse now to complain about ever having had to take public health seriously cuz they're still such lil babies about even damn surgical masks.

Everyone should be wearing masks! Ideally N95s!

The point is ICE's lack of any ID at all, & their legal impunity under the DHS. 🙄 Somehow even people against ICE are distracting from the real problem.

The coyote occupies an uncanny space in our modern consciousness between the domestic and the wild. Often overlooked, feared, or seen as a nuisance, the coyote is a compelling stand-in for neurodivergence and queerness. We are natives but are never quite at home.

I’m gnashing my teeth like a child of Cain

If this is a prison I’m willing to bite my own chain

projection

the space between knowing and believing

scemo steph + cass as smith college girls from id mag

seeing a lot of stuff abt what ICE is doing in minneapolis, here are some articles i liked abt the tactics ppl have been using to fight back.

I wish I was a stress cleaner. Never once has my response to stress been “time to employ some good habits”

got a new sweater and im just a little obsessed