kristi zabka

Creating their own interstate compacts for everything from climate policy to civil rights.

What if millions of people in blue states simultaneously decided to claim exempt on their W-4s and simply... stopped paying federal taxes?

Starting a panic isn’t helpful. Nor is trapping people in guilt. Yet it’s also important to be able to call a spade a spade—to draw a red line around our aliveness. And we must not be afraid to stand up for what is good and right in a world that, let’s face it, seems to be increasingly led (both in technology and politics) by those without even a... See more

The fear of missing out keeps us tethered to technologies that deplete us—ironically making us actually miss out on the things that really matter

because let’s be honest—why are so many of them more offended by that statement than by the behavior that caused it in the first place?

the moment someone brings up the harm women face, or a woman speaks about her experiences, some men rush to say “not all men,” as if their own discomfort is the real issue.

as if saying that rewrites what we lived... See more

What I yearn for is having the option to not digitize my personhood for mass consumption. Yes, this fucking includes Linkedin, a resume should be enough to get a job.

they demand nuance, but only when it protects them.

they make it our job to explain every angle with care—but won’t do the same when it’s time to check each other.

they play dumb, or twist our words, until we’re bending backwards just to be heard—or quiet enough not to bother them.

they’re not just avoiding accountability—they’re undermining ours.... See more

Carl Jung understood this dilemma well when he wrote that “this new form of existence,” speaking of the modern mass society, “produced an individual who was unstable, insecure, and suggestible.”

Jung warned that if the individual is discounted and subordinated by society, he is vulnerable to the influence of the state and other mass movements to... See more

Not threatened as political theater but actually planned. Constitutional conventions. Referendums. Negotiations for national debt division. Military base transfers. Currency agreements.