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1. Siem (human_dude@weirder.earth)'s status on Saturday, 23-Apr-2022 21:58:35 UTC Siem

   "We need a handle when we lose it. A killjoy survival kit is about finding a handle at the very moment one seems to lose it, when things seem to fly out of hand; a way of holding on when the possibility you were reaching for seem to be slipping away. Feminist killjoys: even when things fly out of hand, even when we fly out of hand, we need a handle on things."

   - Sara Ahmed, Living a Feminist Life

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 23-Apr-2022 21:58:33 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Sophie Jane
     @ghost_bird @human_dude I hadn't heard about TQILA before, so I looked them up. That was during the war in Syria against ISIS apparently.
     
     belfastchildis.com/2017/08/10/…
   • Siem (human_dude@weirder.earth)'s status on Saturday, 23-Apr-2022 21:58:34 UTC Siem

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     Do you have a "Killjoy Survival Kit"?

     Things that keep you going, and things that keep you committed and keeping your hopes (of a better life, and a better world) alive?
     Are there books, items, tools, practices, art, things to do? Really anything and everything can be part of a killjoy survival kit.

     Is there something in your killjoy survival kit that you'd like to share with others?

   • Sophie Jane (ghost_bird@mythago.space)'s status on Saturday, 23-Apr-2022 21:58:34 UTC Sophie Jane

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     @human_dude Ursula Le Guin and Sara Ahmed are both in my killjoy survival kit, of course, and Harraway’s “Cyborg Manifesto”. And also this short video that someone on Mastodon made - “anarchism, but make it anime”:

   • Sumana Harihareswara (brainwane@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Apr-2022 22:03:40 UTC Sumana Harihareswara

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     • Jez 🍞 🌹
     • Josh "cortex" Millard

     @human_dude @petrichor "Songs And Books That Have Helped Me Get Through News Despair": https://harihareswara.net/posts/2018/songs-and-books-that-have-helped-me-get-through-news-despair/ including a song by @joshmillard with the subtitle "keep going"

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   • Siem (human_dude@weirder.earth)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Jul-2022 10:55:33 UTC Siem

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     Allow me to start with something.

     When I walk through a city, I keep my eyes open for stickers and graffiti. So often they're cute, fun, or signs of struggle, and of resistance to fascism.
     I bring my own stickers to stick over any hateful messages.

     Sometimes it feels like a city or neighborhood is itself is part of the struggle. Like the cityscape is solidarity.

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   • webbie (wmd@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Jul-2022 10:55:45 UTC webbie

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     @human_dude
     "If I can't dance it's not my revolution" and the fact that under oppression happiness is a form of resistance. To smile, to dance, to play is defiance. It's ok to be sad, but working to be happy is valuable work.

     Find food and find friends where available. You help them as they help you. as they help you, you help them.

     Don't forget to breathe and don't forget to sleep.

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