I'm Tired Of Being Feminist In A World Where Men Refuse To Stop Being Shitty People. Like What Is Even

I'm tired of being feminist in a world where men refuse to stop being shitty people. Like what is even the point? I'm determined to see change and I'm strong but I'm just so tired. I want to sleep.

someone recommend me some good fantasy books that aren’t centred on a war, please, my crops are dying

If you’re a Christian, you believe that Jesus died for the sins of humanity.

In other words, you believe in a man who made a huge personal sacrifice for the good of other people.

You believe that he made that sacrifice willingly, even though it caused him mental anguish and physical suffering.

You believe that he did this out of love for the world—even though, by and large, the world did not love him.

If you’re a Christian, you should be one of the biggest proponents of basic anti-COVID precautions like wearing a mask and avoiding large gatherings, especially now that the holidays are coming.

Why?

Because the savior was willing to suffer and make sacrifices for the good and for the love of his fellow man, and isn’t the point of being a Christian to follow Christ’s example?

Especially because, compared to him, the sacrifice is so much easier to make. You aren’t being asked to suffer and die and become a martyr. You’re being asked to endure mild discomfort and disappointment in order to protect yourself and other people. And I’m not saying you can’t or shouldn’t complain—that’s normal. But you should still be putting up with it and taking those precautions.

And you can argue with me if you want, but in doing so, what you are saying is, “It’s too hard and inconvenient to follow Jesus’ example. I don’t need or want to follow his example. I’m too good to follow his example by making sacrifices for my fellow man, even though my sacrifice is so much less than his.”

So. If you’re a Christian, wear the mask. Make the sacrifice.

So you don’t have to watch the video every time you need one of these hacks immediately:

1. If you feel nauseated, smell rubbing alcohol.

2. If you feel like throwing up, start humming.

3. If you have a runny nose, put your tongue to the roof of your mouth and press your thumb to your forehead for about 20 seconds.

4. If you have a headache, pinch the webbing between your fingers and rub it back and forth for about 1 minute.

5. If you’re lightheaded from standing up too quickly, clench your butt cheeks.

6. If your arm’s dead/has the pins and needles feeling, rock your head back and forth.

7. If you need to pee badly, think of sex to trick your brain and relieve the pressure.

8. If you have a migraine, stick your hands in ice water.

9. If you wanna calm your racing heart, blow on your thumb.

Black Feminism & Abolition

if you want to actually engage with intersectional feminism & what abolition really means, this is your homework:

Angela Davis - “Are Prisons Obsolete?”

Ruth Wilson Gilmore - “Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California”

Angela Davis - “Abolition Democracy”

Angela Davis - “Freedom is a Constant Struggle”

“If They Come in the Morning… Voices of Resistance”

Carole Boyce Davies - “Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones”

Safiya Bukhari - “The War Before”

Patrice Douglass - “Black Feminist Theory for the Dead and Dying”

Patrice Douglass & Frank B Wilderson - “The Violence of Presence: Metaphysics in a Blackened World”

“Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect?”

Evelyn Hammond - “Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality”

Sadiya Hartman - “Seduction and the Ruses of Power”

Sadiya Hartman - “Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route”

Audre Lorde - “Sister Outsider”

Audre Lorde - “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House”

bell hooks - “The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators”

Michelle S Jacobs - “Black Women’s Invisible Struggle Against Police Violence”

Claudia Rankine - Citizen

Assata Shakur - “Women in Prison: How We Are”

Assata Shakur - “Assata: An Autobiography”

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor - “How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective”

Zoe Samudzi & William C Anderson - “As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation”

this is a curated list of texts that i find the most helpful for illustrating why we all should also be abolitionists. the bolded are the ones i’ve found the most helpful thus far. & reminder to buy the books when you can, preferably from independent / leftist / black-owned bookstores… and see what you can find at your local library! keep these works in circulation!

How to Walk By Faith

“Who also walk in the steps of the faith which our father Abraham had.” Ro 4:12 NKJV

The Bible talks about those “who also walk in the steps of the faith which our father Abraham had.” How do you walk like that?

(1) Abraham believed “God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did” (v. 17 NKJV). When God makes you a promise, He has the power to bring it to pass, even when all the evidence and surrounding circumstances run contrary to what He said.

(2) “Who, contrary to hope, in hope believed…that he became the father of many nations” (v. 18 NKJV). When all reason for hope was gone, Abraham still hoped. Why? Because his hope was in God! If you’re feeling hopeless today, think about these words: “Return to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope. Even today I declare that I will restore double to you” (Zec 9:12 NKJV).

(3) “Who…believed…according to what was spoken, ‘So shall your descendants be’” (Ro 4:18 NKJV). Note the phrase “according to what was spoken.” When God makes a promise, it contains the self-fulfilling power to bring it to pass. “So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and…prosper in the thing for which I sent it” (Isa 55:11 NKJV).

(4) “He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith” (Ro 4:20 NKJV). The word “waver” tells us Abraham didn’t dither, vacillate, argue within himself, or let other people’s opinions influence him. Instead, he remained resolute and steadfast. That’s how you walk by faith!