Power To The People - Tumblr Posts
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I finally finished my black lives matter masterpost, here it is.
It is my attempt at compiling activism (the post includes petitions and donations suggestions), mental health and educational sources (videos, podcasts, books, articles…) anything to help you grow in understanding and get involved with the cause.
Gay Liberation Front member, New York University, New York City, September 1970
This animation was done in collaboration with @jesilerae (on insta) who provided the audio. Jesi also gave me some creative direction for the first part and was super patient and supportive throughout the whole process! It was a healing project to work on and I'm very touched that I was contacted for this collaboration. 🦋🦋🦋 Thank you Jesi. 🙏
Some more information about the four wings of social change as taken from an article in Yes! Magazine:
//“Drawing from Grassroots Economic Organizing’s butterfly model of transformative social justice, Leah Penniman (Soul Fire Farm co-founder and farmer) described the four wings: Resisters: the people in the blockades, the protests, the work stoppages; Reformers: the folks trying to make change from within systems, including schoolteachers and elected officials, like those getting into the prosecutor’s office and working to get sentences lowered; Builders: those who create alternative institutions such as freedom schools, farms, and health clinics; and Healers: the conflict mediators, the therapists, the preachers, the singers, the dancers, the artists—“all the folks that are gonna make us well,” she said.//
To follow that, I just wanna re-iterate that YOUR contribution matters! We ALL have strengths that lift up different wings. And we all have the ability to broaden our scope and see where else we can help and see which wings may need more lifting. Your activism may look different from someone else's. That's both okay and necessary, so long as we stay connected and united. 🦋🦋🦋🍉🍉🍉✊✊✊ ~Pothos 🪴
Bonus: game mechanics are co-designed by an actual civil engineer and electrician, so it doubles as training.
A puzzle game where you play an electrician who has to divert electricity away from a greedy corporation to give it to the needy slums.
You must steal enough to reach your goal (and maybe bonus goals) but not too much or your supervisor will notice. After you're done you also need to patch everything back up so that you're not discovered.
Every few levels the corporation puts more obstacles meant to catch you or make your job harder and you need to figure out new workarounds.
The game is called Power to the People
To whoever this makes uncomfortable, I'm sorry but this isn't a fight between black vs white; this is good against evil.
