#tip of the spear

[azeutreciathewicked]

What's your social change role? It is important to remember: 1) "Tip of the Spear": the big event or the big speaker you see never got there alone. There are hundreds, maybe thousands of people who supported, built, promoted, actualized to make that one big event happen.

2) There are many many jobs and roles in social and political activism. Everyone can bring something useful to the table, and there is work that we all can do that helps.

3) There are already organizations that exist. Check for those around you before reinventing the wheel. Learn from them so you can find your fit or, if needed, apply those lessons to starting something new if there is a niche that needs an organization.

[seventyfishes]

"A telling example occurred in 1978, when the SHU cell of a Sunni Muslim captive named Musa Abdul Mu’Mim mysteriously caught fire and, according to eyewitness accounts, was allowed to burn for several minutes before guards came to his aid. Musa, who witnesses claim was sent to the SHU after observing a KKK meeting involving the guards, later died in the hospital. His death was not an isolated incident.”

Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression and the Long Attica Revolt, Orisanmi Burton

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[gierosajie]

This has been sitting in my drafts for over a year now but anyway wip be upon you

[totally-razzical]

been meaning to post my fantasy au scraps, kept forgetting

[blogfanreborn777]

Commission Adalia by kamiyamark

[relmint-draws]

Nezha moment

[ID: A full-bodied illustration of Nezha donning a serious expression on his face. His short black hair falls above his shoulders, some wrapped in twin buns with a red ribbon. Underneath his bangs, a red huadian peeks out in the middle of his forehead. He is wearing a red dudou paired with a green skirt mimicking a lotus leaf. He has a golden ribbon tied around his waist. He is wearing a golden band around his neck accompanied by a pink yunjian that mimics lotus petals. He has golden bands around his ankles and is wearing red and gold arm braces. He floats over his Wind Fire Wheels which look like lotus roots, while clutching onto his Fire-tipped Spear in his left hand, and the Universe Ring in his right. He has the Red Armillary Sash around his shoulders. END ID]

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[seventyfishes]

“Counter-intelligence speaks to the tactical imperatives of this war on Black revolutionary minds: how state actors, in a literal sense, attempt to counter the intelligence of incarcerated people, to eliminate their capacity for autonomous action and self-governance, and to criminalize threatening ideas and even nonthreatening ones that are not explicitly permitted by the state.

For pirsoncrats, the most threatening idea was that which imprisoned Black revolutionaries understood to be indispensable: the BLA [Black Liberation Army]. After gunning down BLA member Twymon Meyers in 1973, the NYPD announced that it 'broke the back' of the organization. However, key members maintained that the BLA was not an organization, but rather an idea. As Dhoruba explained in a 1973 interview, ‘The importance of the BLA lies, not in its size, not in its ability to muster so much firepower of whatever. The importance of it lies in the concept. The concept is basically this: that revolutionary armed struggle is a very vital aspect of any progressive movement for revolutionary change.’ Asked under oath if he was a member of the BLA, Albert Nuh Washington made a similar point: ‘All the Black people that struggle for the liberation of their people are members of this organization, but it’s a concept more than an actuality.’ So too did Assata Shakur in her autobiography: ‘There is, and always will be, until every Black man, woman, and child is free, a Black Liberation Army.’ BLA combatant-theorists apprehended the historical dynamics of the permanent war within which all Black and colonized people were ensnared, whether they were locked behind prison walls or moving throughout the so-called ‘free world’.”

Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression and the Long Attica Revolt, Orisanmi Burton

[theninjamouse]

Me before trying to write this chapter: the soul sharing stuff is gonna be so deep and wonderful and it's so vivid in my mind, it's gonna be awesome

Me now: they uh. shared souls and it was cool

[lowqualitygarbage]

Cleansing

[just-a-girl-with-a-pistol]

I am eepy

[agnesandhilda]

megan thee stallion is to me what judy garland was to gay men in the 1960s

[jimmys-brewcuppia-shit]

(insert Nicki Minaj lyrics or something because I think CM would be a Barb)

chocolate meringue redesign!! imo this was a MASSIVE upgrade from her previous one,,,

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