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Homemaking, gardening, and self-sufficiency resources that won't radicalize you into a hate group
It seems like self-sufficiency and homemaking skills are blowing up right now. With the COVID-19 pandemic and the current economic crisis, a lot of folks, especially young people, are looking to develop skills that will help them be a little bit less dependent on our consumerist economy. And I think that's generally a good thing. I think more of us should know how to cook a meal from scratch, grow our own vegetables, and mend our own clothes. Those are good skills to have.
Unfortunately, these "self-sufficiency" skills are often used as a recruiting tactic by white supremacists, TERFs, and other hate groups. They become a way to reconnect to or relive the "good old days," a romanticized (false) past before modern society and civil rights. And for a lot of people, these skills are inseparably connected to their politics and may even be used as a tool to indoctrinate new people.
In the spirit of building safe communities, here's a complete list of the safe resources I've found for learning homemaking, gardening, and related skills. Safe for me means queer- and trans-friendly, inclusive of different races and cultures, does not contain Christian preaching, and does not contain white supremacist or TERF dog whistles.
Homemaking/Housekeeping/Caring for your home:
Making It by Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen [book] (The big crunchy household DIY book; includes every level of self-sufficiency from making your own toothpaste and laundry soap to setting up raised beds to butchering a chicken. Authors are explicitly left-leaning.)
Safe and Sound: A Renter-Friendly Guide to Home Repair by Mercury Stardust [book] (A guide to simple home repair tasks, written with rentals in mind; very compassionate and accessible language.)
How To Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis [book] (The book about cleaning and housework for people who get overwhelmed by cleaning and housework, based on the premise that messiness is not a moral failing; disability and neurodivergence friendly; genuinely changed how I approach cleaning tasks.)
Gardening
Rebel Gardening by Alessandro Vitale [book] (Really great introduction to urban gardening; explicitly discusses renter-friendly garden designs in small spaces; lots of DIY solutions using recycled materials; note that the author lives in England, so check if plants are invasive in your area before putting them in the ground.)
Country/Rural Living:
Woodsqueer by Gretchen Legler [book] (Memoir of a lesbian who lives and works on a rural farm in Maine with her wife; does a good job of showing what it's like to be queer in a rural space; CW for mentions of domestic violence, infidelity/cheating, and internalized homophobia)
"Debunking the Off-Grid Fantasy" by Maggie Mae Fish [video essay] (Deconstructs the off-grid lifestyle and the myth of self-reliance)
Sewing/Mending:
Annika Victoria [YouTube channel] (No longer active, but their videos are still a great resource for anyone learning to sew; check out the beginner project playlist to start. This is where I learned a lot of what I know about sewing.)
Make, Sew, and Mend by Bernadette Banner [book] (A very thorough written introduction to hand-sewing, written by a clothing historian; lots of fun garment history facts; explicitly inclusive of BIPOC, queer, and trans sewists.)
Sustainability/Land Stewardship
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer [book] (Most of you have probably already read this one or had it recommended to you, but it really is that good; excellent example of how traditional animist beliefs -- in this case, indigenous American beliefs -- can exist in healthy symbiosis with science; more philosophy than how-to, but a great foundational resource.)
Wild Witchcraft by Rebecca Beyer [book] (This one is for my fellow witches; one of my favorite witchcraft books, and an excellent example of a place-based practice deeply rooted in the land.)
Avoiding the "Crunchy to Alt Right Pipeline"
Note: the "crunchy to alt-right pipeline" is a term used to describe how white supremacists and other far right groups use "crunchy" spaces (i.e., spaces dedicated to farming, homemaking, alternative medicine, simple living/slow living, etc.) to recruit and indoctrinate people into their movements. Knowing how this recruitment works can help you recognize it when you do encounter it and avoid being influenced by it.
"The Crunchy-to-Alt-Right Pipeline" by Kathleen Belew [magazine article] (Good, short introduction to this issue and its history.)
Sisters in Hate by Seyward Darby (I feel like I need to give a content warning: this book contains explicit descriptions of racism, white supremacy, and Neo Nazis, and it's a very difficult read, but it really is a great, in-depth breakdown of the role women play in the alt-right; also explicitly addresses the crunchy to alt-right pipeline.)
These are just the resources I've personally found helpful, so if anyone else has any they want to add, please, please do!
#homemaking#homemaking resources#gardening#urban gardening#self sufficiency#self sufficient living#sustainability#sustainable living#homesteading#nontrad homemaker#nontrad housewife#urban homesteading#solarpunk#cottagecore#kitchen witch#kitchen witchcraft#crunchy to alt right pipeline#book rec#book recommendations#resource#long post#mine#racism tw#racism mention#transphobia tw#transphobia mention
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My Mane 6 Redesigns all together! I was going to post them separately but ended up finishing them all before I got around to it lol
#mlp#my little pony friendship is magic#my little pony#mlp fim#mlp redesign#earth pony twilight truthers where are you#bat pony fluttershy truthers where are you#dark color palette rarity truthers where are you#ALL OF YOU RISE WITH ME#im ESPECIALLY an earth pony twilight truther ever since I saw the old G5 concepts#I love the idea that Twilight's bonds with others are her true magic rather than beams or spells and I feel earth pony twi fits that well#since “the five elements brought together creates the sixth element magic“ aka friendship since FIM she embodies ”magic“ in a#more metaphorical sense#the star in her eyes is also a reference to the first ep when twilight says “the spark” ignited inside of her heart#plus the earth pony to alicorn pipeline is so cool and i like the idea of an earth pony being the bearer of the element of magic as a#fun contrast/its unexpected
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idk y’all should treat fat men better. and i don’t mean mildly chubby guys i mean honest-to-god love-handles-and-double-chins fat guys. stop calling them shit like discord mods or gross weebs or nasty creeps or neckbeards or that they’re stinky or sweaty or beer bellied or whatever else. fatphobia isn’t cute, even repackaged in a neat little box of “ew men”
#and this isn’t some like “IF A CUTE GUY HARASSES A GIRL SHED LOVE IT BUT WHEN A FAT GUY DOES IT SHED HATE IT”#I guarantee she’d hate it nontheless#just saying that the way some of y’all treat fat guys is seriously disgusting#and a lot of em end up falling down the incel and rightwing pipelines because of it#fatphobia#antimasculism#fatphobes#male fatphobia#transandrophobia#anti transmasculinity#emo moss talks
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Chase Iron Eyes & Tokata Iron Eyes in Oyate (2022)
#native american#oglala lakota#dapl#indigineous people#indigenous#tokata iron eyes#chase iron eyes#biodiversity#dakota access pipeline
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I really do think an important component of activism is to make sure your motivation is based on a desire to help/improve things for the people being harmed by a system, and not hatred for the ones doing the harm. both for mental health reasons, and because either way you're training your neural pathways and it's gonna turn out a lot better for literally everyone if the question on everyone's mind after achieving a goal is "how/which people can we help next, what's the next step for improving things" and not "who do we need to attack next."
I'm not saying don't be angry, there are a lot of good reasons to be angry right now and it makes for an excellent kick in the pants, just don't define yourself by it or it's gonna poison you and potentially do collateral damage.
#it also makes it so much easier to get sucked down those dangerous algorithm pipelines#I've said it once I'll say it again improving the world is often boring and unglamorous and anticlimactic#but it's fucking important
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Hehe the Odysseus evolution
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#this man gets cuntier every time I see him#charlie slimecicle#slimecicle#beware the pipeline#just something i noticed
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The shy, quiet nerdy boy with overprotective religious parents to anarchist punk transfem domme who never talks to their parents anymore pipeline
#transfem#trans#196#r/196#transgender#lgbtq#lgbtqplus#pipeline#hornyposting#lgbt memes#lgbtq community#lgbt#lgbt nsft
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Bloodweave nation hello. They make me mentally ill <3
#bloodweave#astarion#gale dekarios#gale bg3#astarion bg3#astarion ancunin#baldur's gate 3#baldur's gate iii#bg3#bg3 fanart#myst's art#mlm#listen i was an astarion ho first but then i got back into bg3#and its true the astarion to gale pipeline is real the rizzard got to me#but i got stuck in the middle#right in the bloodweave...#they have me by the throat
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I imagine Sonic and Shadow have an ongoing situationship unbeknownst to their friends for a WHILE before they kind of end up living together after Shadow lets Sonic stay over one night and he just. never really leaves LOLLL
#my art#sonadow#shadonic#sonic prime#sonic the hedgehog#sth#shadow the hedgehog#rouge the bat#sonic#shadow#rouge#comic#sonic art#sonic fanart#sonic fandom#situationship into one night stand into roommates pipeline#situationship au
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Couples Therapy (DpxDc Prompt)
Danny looses a bet and now he has to attend couples therapy. The problem? He has no one to attend couples therapy with.
The obvious solution, he decides with 3am clarity after 36 consecutive hours awake, is to put out a job listing. And where better to find a fake partner than a dating site?
About Me
Looking for someone to take to couples therapy and see how long it takes the therapist to notice we don't know each other.
Now all he has to do is wait.
#Lets get some more fake dating aus around here#strangers to friends to lovers pipeline anyone?#it would be funny if the therapist was Jazz but ahe might be a bit too perceptive to trick#up to you guys what you want to do!#Yes this is based on that one screenshot ive seen floating around online#dpxdc#dpxdc prompts#my prompts
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souyo smoochies ✨
#souyo#my art#persona 4#yu narukami#souji seta#yosuke hanamura#chie satonaka#yukiko amagi#comic#i had this in the pipeline for WEEKS#inspired by the switched personality drawing thingy i made#lol#hello guys LOVE U#hope my handwriting is legible#yosk is having a meltdown again#oh man i forgot white stitches on the uniforms again please ignore lol
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listen. this man canonically wrote a sad song about the first kinslaying. which he took part in
#maedhros#maglor#ukulele#tolkien#the silmarillion#tolkien elves#elves#tolkien art#pen and ink#youtube apology#oh no. they got cancelled. again. anyway#donate to their curu-fi and follow them on kinstagram#how else will they feed their kidn-- er-- adopted kids?#pipeline: original songs -> storytimes -> “family channel” vlogs#elrond & elros are convinced they're kept alive for content
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jesus never said thou shalt not commit large scale industrial sabotage you can check the Bible it is not in those pages
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the mspec to aspec pipeline is real and it happened to me
[ID: a collection of m-spec flags (including bi, pan, poly, omni, and multisexual) at one end of a pipeline with a collection of a-spec flags (including aro, ace, greyace, greyaro, demi, demiro, and aroace) at the other end. end ID]
#aspec#aspec pride#aromantic#asexual#greysexual#greyromantic#demisexual#demiromantic#aroace#mspec#multisexual#bi#pan#polysexual#omni#pipeline#aspec meme
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Akademiya kvthm you mean so much to me
#kavetham#haikaveh#alhaitham#kaveh#genshin impact#genshin fanart#hkvh#kvthm#🌱🏛️#art tag#art#my art#alhaitham is the quiet autistic girl to autistic buff trans guy pipeline
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