Madeline Burchard
@madelinehart
Madeline Burchard
@madelinehart
Post-social media
It's time to rethink what the feed is for.
Knee-jerk call outs say: those who cause harm or mess up or disagree with us cannot change and cannot belong. They must be eradicated. The bad things in the world cannot change, we must disappear the bad until there is only good left.
We will not cancel us and other dreams of transformative justice by Adrienne Maree brown
In a nutshell, principled struggle is when we are struggling for the sake of something larger than ourselves and are honest and direct with each other while holding compassion.' It is when we take responsibility for our own feelings and actions and seek deeper understanding before responding (by asking questions, or reading the referenced
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“ everything I need to get from you: how fan girls created the Internet as we know it” everything I need to get from you: how fan girls created the Internet as we know it” by Kaitlyn Tiffany