#i only ever catch glimpses of the political organizing because it's not where my strenths lie but jesus

[darkacademiaarchivist]

I've had a class on solarpunk / utopian literature and although the structure of it killed me a little bit (this semester in general killed me idontwannatalkaboutit) it was really interesting because one of my main takeaways was:

THE REVOLUTION WILL BE VERY BORING, ACTUALLY (and that's okay)

so i'm saying this because we read both pacific edge and the lost cause and while the books themselves weren't "boring" they dealt a lot with communities making changes and somehow city council work was a theme in both books and like yeah. we might dream of the fall of all the opressive systems but if we're being realistic, there won't be one heroic person taking down the one villain. Real life isn't a superhero movie ore a ya dystopia. Real life is messy and tedious but there are REAL CHANGES that we can make and they start in our communities. We have to stick together in Thes Trying Times (tm) and not anything tear us apart