Wow! An article with reasonable and actionable steps to take mixed with a pointed and realistic point of view?? In this Information Age???
I appreciate the point of finding ways that things exist outside of social media. My hope is that as we move away from social media and into stuff like newsletters and websites we will be able to relinquish the need to check stories for what is going on.
Wonderful! I always thought that individualism in regard to social media was a very big problem. There’s this often unspoken conception that sharing infographics on your story equates to activism or “doing something”, which to me always felt more like individuals self soothing rather than doing any kind of actual hard work to organize out in the real world.
I like your emphasis on the actual work it takes to organize community when unplugging. Thanks for giving voice to it.
Thanks for reading and for adding your thoughts! Yes, I am always torn about it because I *do* think that sharing information through infographics is very useful, and for some people that is all that is accessible to them to be involved (a lot of disability justice activists write about this!) BUT i think not EVERYONE is in that position and not EVERYONE needs to be doing it all the time.
I like some of the writing Iv seen relating taking different actions to dungeons and dragons character classes: everyone has their role they do (or multiple roles) that they are good at or are accessible to them. But like, not everyone can choose to be a Bard all the time! We need Fighters and Clerics and Wizards too.
Terrific piece, full of actionable ideas. I have joined, and then left FB at least four times. It is difficult to let go of the "easy" access to "what's happening", but going and finding it myself really is the way to go. So, WAY TO GO Ruune!
Wow! An article with reasonable and actionable steps to take mixed with a pointed and realistic point of view?? In this Information Age???
I appreciate the point of finding ways that things exist outside of social media. My hope is that as we move away from social media and into stuff like newsletters and websites we will be able to relinquish the need to check stories for what is going on.
ty for reading and for your praise of the writing :) yeah, if we do it intentionally, we can do it! <3
Wonderful! I always thought that individualism in regard to social media was a very big problem. There’s this often unspoken conception that sharing infographics on your story equates to activism or “doing something”, which to me always felt more like individuals self soothing rather than doing any kind of actual hard work to organize out in the real world.
I like your emphasis on the actual work it takes to organize community when unplugging. Thanks for giving voice to it.
Thanks for reading and for adding your thoughts! Yes, I am always torn about it because I *do* think that sharing information through infographics is very useful, and for some people that is all that is accessible to them to be involved (a lot of disability justice activists write about this!) BUT i think not EVERYONE is in that position and not EVERYONE needs to be doing it all the time.
I like some of the writing Iv seen relating taking different actions to dungeons and dragons character classes: everyone has their role they do (or multiple roles) that they are good at or are accessible to them. But like, not everyone can choose to be a Bard all the time! We need Fighters and Clerics and Wizards too.
Those are solid points, especially about disabled folks. Thanks for always adding new perspective 🖤
Terrific piece, full of actionable ideas. I have joined, and then left FB at least four times. It is difficult to let go of the "easy" access to "what's happening", but going and finding it myself really is the way to go. So, WAY TO GO Ruune!