How can our society resist fascism and become more equitable?
Last updated 2023 October 27 | More of my big questions
Sub-questions
- What should we expect from fascists? What are the common approaches and arguments they use?
- How have people resisted fascism in the past?
- How can I help others safely?
- How can women be treated as equal members of society?
- How can I defend against Christian nationalism?
Bookshelf
Related books I’ve read since 2021. Links go to my book review.
They Called Us Enemy
by George Takei, J. Eisenger, S. Scott + H. Becker
(graphic novel, memoir)
Japanese-American + gay author
2021-06-15
Banned Book Club
by Kim Hyun Sook, Ryan Estrada + Ko Hyung-Ju
(graphic novel, history)
Korean author + illustrator + rep
2021-05-23
Webinars + videos
- Romance and Apocalypse
- Politicized Design: escaping oppressive systems with participatory movements
- Went to The History of Exclusion on the Eastside
- Watched Don’t Talk to the Police
- Flights of Foundry: Imagining Accessible Worlds in SFF
Articles
Articles or longer responses I’ve written.
- An endless battle for the rights of the underclass
- Art devoid of politics
- Cultural coercion and the question of choice
- What is considered “political”?
- The tactic of destroying the meaning of words
- Oppression against public opinion
- Controlling American society through a reign of terror
- Don’t let them say it’s normal
- Letter to my Senator about KOSA
- Distortion and distraction
- Defending against abuse, violence, and viewpoints of hatred
- What happens to activism after Twitter?
- Nuance and ambiguity
- Do men think about whether they want kids every day?
- Public spending needs context
Notes
Bookmarks and quotes from articles I’ve read.
- Freedom to believe, not freedom to impose
- Embracing authoritarianism to keep power and quash change
- 1941: “Who Goes Nazi?”
Supporting others
- Unite Against Book Bans
- How to support trans people
- Sponsorship vs Mentorship
- Allow room for allies to make mistakes — because we all make them
Advocacy
- An interactive advocacy website about police
- Organizing vs. Mobilizing
- Banksy’s Hotel in Palestine
- Seizing the Narrative on Violent Crime
Truth + language
- Tools for keeping power in the upper class
- Pro-democracy journalism
- The mirror world
- Free speech distortion, cancel culture confusion
- Democracy requires truth; lies grow insurrection
- What does life look like?
- Overrepresented majority
- A right contingent on political whims is not a right
- Inherent Value
Resistance
- We cannot have bodily autonomy in a surveillance state
- Embracing authoritarianism to keep power and quash change
- Asserting the right to exist in public online spaces
- Our Rage is Not Hysterical
- Rest is resistance
- Maintenance supports change
- Cancel Culture
Psychology
- The news is a drag
- Article pairing: stop reading the news
- The duty of hope
- Power Over vs. Power With
- Why others get upset when you mask
- The shifting baseline of normal
History + not-history
- The question of democracy
- Background on Ukraine and Russia
- Child Labor is Alive in America
- Capitalism vs. children
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What’s Tracy up to lately? Updated 8 August 2024 Creating educational materials for a city business pollution prevention program Posting thoughts and saving bookmarks here — I love having this site 🤓 Editing a sci-fi novel 📝 I’m planning to self-publish Reading lots — I’m digging novellas lately Trying to get out of the house…
I have too many pages to fit in my nav! Here’s a sitemap of all the pages on this website. Blog Mind Garden Index Links to blog about Big Questions Big Questions Balanced Lifestyle Effective Creative Processes Writing Fiction Thinking Better Information Diet Future of the Internet Resisting Fascism Building Community Transforming Capitalism Collections Cool…
Spring is here — it was a big wildlife week in the neighborhood! Heard coyotes howling in the greenbelt and the frogs started their evening chorus, saw a doe in the backyard and a hummingbird out front, and spotted the first bees cruising. But, allergies also hit me hard 🤧
I downloaded my Google Takeout data. I’d forgotten they own Blogger and was delighted to discover they had atom feeds for all of my old college blogs! No photos, but still funny to see what I wrote about twenty years ago. I’ve marked the date of my very first post on my calendar so I can celebrate the anniversary come September 😁🥂
I’ve been working on keeping fewer tabs open on my phone. I was doing pretty well till yesterday but left six tabs open overnight 😂
Stuff I Did:
About eight hours of consulting work
Developed a new revision plan for my novel
Started exploring webfonts for my consulting website
Went to Homebrew Website Club
Watched a webinar about home design
Walked with a friend twice
Baked scones
One appointment
Reading:
Read Alien Mercenary’s Destiny by Mina Carter and re-read The Suffragette Scandal by Courtney Milan
Started reading Effortless by Greg McKeown
DNF’d Breath of Life by Jocelynn Drake and Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood
Added five books to my TBR
Words I looked up / concepts I learned:
cognate
caliginous
No free lunch theorem
New newsletter I’m trying out:
Ann Friedman’s newsletter
Pretty things I saw:
Ryan Swierczek of Swierczek Design Co — I like the color palettes, especially the photo tints, and the photo collages on their posters
Roland Kraemer on ThatBloom.com — lots of neat abstract natural photo series, and I thought the inverted cursor overlay was cool looking (although the size changing was a little confusing)
Parag Sahasrabudhe on parag.micro.blog — a series of colorful doors in Puerto Rico
Website Changes:
New organizing section!
I created a new section called “Big Questions” which organizes a lot of my notes and reading under broad questions that I’ve been thinking about a lot over the past couple years:
Balanced Lifestyle
Effective Creative Processes
Writing Fiction – this one hasn’t been populated yet
Thinking Better
Information Diet
Future of the Internet
Resisting Fascism
Building Community
I got some good ideas at Homebrew Website Club that I’ve only started implementing on the ‘balanced lifestyle’ page, so these still have some work to do. I also need to figure out what system I’m going to follow to update them since it’s all manual 😉
New page
I also finally published a page collecting “neat websites” as an addition to my pages for interesting people and cool artists and blogroll. I’d been sitting on it, feeling like it needed more content before I could post it, but whatev, may as well post now and can keep adding 🤷♀️
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