Act Out! podcast

Fear is incredibly useful - until it's not. Here's a look at how fear is pushing people to make rash (and ultimately unhelpful) decisions in the face of actual systemic dangers.

And this isn't about vote shaming - this is about system shaming.

We have to be real about our place and time, the historical context of this election and the work that can't be done by checking a box on election day.

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Movement spaces can feel uncomfortable at times - and at times, that's a good thing. But if rigid radicalism is at work, people and spaces will break under the weight of replicated oppression and narrow-mindedness.

Embracing feeling weird, building space to acknowledge our continuing growth while holding ourselves and others accountable is in the DNA of powerful and radical spaces. Here, we can break the stalemate of inaction that so often hits people when they're so afraid to fuck up, so afraid to misstep...

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This week's nerdery hang dissects the problem with equality in a system where people have unequal needs and access.

Technology divides, it isolates, but it is not the inherent enemy. That is capitalism - and we don't have to look at a future written by a capitalist scribe. We can write our own, starting now.

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In so many ways, voting doesn't count. And for those who lift their heads from the sand every 4 years just to proselytize the virtues of voting for evil, y'all can fuck right off.

Change won't come from voting or petitioning, it comes from mutual aid, community organizing and the myriad possibilities outside the voting booth - all the ways to engage they never talk about, because they know how powerful they can be.

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Sometimes you get delicious fish, sometimes you get tires. Either way, to know and to deal with what's beyond the surface, you gotta dig. This isn't just for our selves but for global systems as well.

Don't accept their painting of fate - and come to that, don't accept the state!

On the other side are possibilities legion. Our work dreaming and building includes nurturing solidarity and making space for other dreams, tactics and emergent ideas.

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Some decisions are binary - yes or no, south or north, on or off. Some decisions include manifold options, backstories, possibilities. Organizing is hardly ever binary. Embracing some nuance - tho it might feel uncomfortable and icky at times - is vital for building power.

So you've been to a protest, now what? Some thoughts on what folks can do now to not only fight, but build.

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Any capitalist answer to feelings of worthlessness is no answer at all – it is merely a momentary glaze on a chipping facade of programmed self-hatred and feelings of worthlessness.

From body positivity to self-worth and monetary value, let's dive into this sticky and tangled web of life as commodity, consumer - and on the other side, human.

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A somewhat trip back to the nerdery - this time it's about language. The power of words - or the lack of power, as it sometimes happens.

How what we choose to say or write changes how we think about things. Like ally vs. accomplice, American vs. un-American.

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Step into the nerdery with me as I dig into the seemingly at-odds worlds of science and magic. Plus, I have a hypothesis on the origin of ghosts...no, really.

PLUS...

The out-of-touch take the pulse of a dying body politic and pronounce it America. Flags made in China flutter in a toxic breeze. Masked vigilantes demand our complicity - in the plot to kill us. The bottom line buckles, and the beast roars.

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Oh what a tangled web! Feeling squirrely today on this release date of my first ever documentary. Either way, we're rolling with it!

We're diving head first into the muddy waters of conflicting, contradicting emotions in order to marinate and toast despair, stop chasing happiness and more. Talking Viktor Frankl and obligations to life - and how that chafes against our programming in multiple ways.

So...suit up and let's go for a swim.

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