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dither a trifle

dither, a trifle by Shuli Branson

what if we
or if we

www.cawshinythings.com/dither/

yall the outpouring of support and love has been so huge. I can never thank you enough for the incredibly kind things you've said and done for me over the last 24 hours, I have no doubts and no fear, just the knowledge and confidence of a community of solidarity and power that has my back. 😭😭😭

Such a thoughtful conversation about managing conflict. I really appreciate the honesty about why these processes often fail (alongside the many suggestions for skills that can make them work better).

Vicky does a lot of great mutual aid work. I'm chipping in $50, who will match me?

@vickyacab.bsky.social and @caw-shinythings.bsky.social are some of my favorite parscocial friendships on these goofy medias. It's worth skipping a couple coffees this week to help out.

Match me if you can, goobers.

CAW Journal a worker-run anarchist platform of art, culture, and all the shiny things we can find!

And if youve been on the fence, now would be a great time to subscribe to CAW! Especially since im actually gonna have the time and space to put more and more up there!
Venmo: Vicky-surge
Cash App: $VickySurge1312
Cawshinythings.com

A cardboard bankers box sitting on top of an office chair filled with assorted odds and ends as I cleaned out my desk

I need some help. Got laid-off on Friday: unannounced budget change + my position was first cut, so it was a total surprise. Thanks to a tax status loophole my employer manipulated, I cant get unemployment. In short im SOL

Anything you can give would be huge
Venmo: Vicky-surge
Cash: $VickySurge1312

I found this to be such an insightful conversation. Highly recommend just popping this on and letting it roll about your mind.

The Breakup Theory, Agony Letter: The Thing That Cracks Us Open For this episode, I invited the beautiful Dean Spade to respond to a listener letter with me from someone who had a terrible experience with an accountability process and over the years this has cause...

THIS IS SO GOOD! TBT, Agony Letter with Shuli, who invited the beautiful @deanspade.bsky.social to help respond to a letter from someone who had a terrible experience with an accountability process....

CW: Letter includes brief mention of suicidal ideation.

www.cawshinythings.com/the-breakup-...

Sciopero oggi per Flotilla e Gaza, diretta dei 100 cortei in Italia: già più di un milione in piazza Si fermano i trasporti, la scuola e la sanità. Salvini avverte: “Se prevarrà il buon senso, ci comporteremo in una certa maniera. Se prevarrà la violenza sapre…

Many blockades in Italy as part of the general strike in solidarity with Palestine. Reportedly more than 2 million people in the streets across the country.

Solidarity with the the #SumudFlotilla: end the siege, feed the starving and end the genocide

24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla

No live coverage of the Global Sumud Flotilla on The Guardian, BBC, CNN, CBC or the NYT

65,000 people following it on YouTube www.youtube.com/live/uEN2bWF...

Listen to Vicky talk with friends about her fabulous new book + more! And she also drops a hint about shiny caw merch coming soon!!! ✨

Talking to My Friends Hello my precious murder, As you may or may not know, my book, The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World has entered pre-order! You can order it through my Bookshop store here or anywhere else pre-orders are sold, although going to your local bookshop

With my book in pre-order, I've started talking about the IP regime, Disney, fascism, and how the company helped build the current moment. There's a conversation with the incredible @ellaguro.bsky.social in Tank Magazine and an appearance on It Could Happen Here pod!

“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

Kakuya Shakur Just now - At approximately 1:15 PM on September 25th, my mother, Assata Shakur, took her last earthly breath. Words cannot describe the depth of loss that | am feeling at this time. | want to thank you for your loving prayers that continue to anchor me in the strength that | need in this moment. My spirit is overflowing in unison with all of you who are grieving with me at this time. Sending much love and appreciation to you all, Kakuya Shakur

Rest in power, Assata Shakur.

"A wall is just a wall
and nothing more at all.
It can be broken down.

I believe in living
I believe in birth
I believe in the sweat of love
and in the fire of truth.

And i believe that a lost ship
steered by tired, seasick sailors,
can still be guided home
to port."

Bluestockings Cooperative Bluestockings Cooperative: Established in 1999, Worker-Owned since 2021. Located at 116 Suffolk Street, New York, NY 10002. One of NYC's only queer, trans, sex-worker run bookstores.

solidarity and love to the Bluestocking crew as they go through this hard process of ending ..... www.bluestockings.com

This week we're centering stories of resistance, were laughing at the pathetic cowardly fash, were not letting liberal bootlicking convince us all is lost. This week we're loudly, proudly the anti-state family abolishing gay nightmare they piss themselves about.

A pink image with the text in the skeet above written across it, with an illustration of a black crow perched over the words with a lit match in its claw

Q: "Why are culture and art important while the world is burning?"
A: "The world has been burning since 1492. Art and culture have been crucial for creating a sense of belonging, spreading radical ideas, resisting empire, imagining new worlds, building community, and helping you find your murder."

I TRULY love creating spaces for folks to come together to make stories and share. collaboration is love.

thanks for joining us!!!!

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

hello new followers! 🖖 we're behind with shows, but we've been trying to stay afloat, surviving capitalism while busy with all the things that take us away from this passion project!

BUT we will be back! for those new to RIF: we have 3 episodes up!

@ayoub.bsky.social &
@joyfulcarla.bsky.social

Maybe everyone thinks New York belongs to someone else but feels it belongs to them. The shark doesn’t care as it sinks its teeth into your leg. It doesn’t even want to eat you.

new piece by Shuli!!
"People contain unknown possibilities that only blossom given the right situation. The possibility was latent, but then it comes out with the right people."

www.cawshinythings.com/maybe-everyo...

They are forcibly detransitioning people. They are denying life saving abortion care. They used the lifeless body of Adriana Smith as an incubator without her or her family's consent. They are denying millions vaccines which prevent deadly & chronic illness.

These too are violence.

quietly judging all the group chats that aren't popping off

"they are going to use this against us."

where you been, they are murdering black people in the streets for selling CDs, they are rounding up hispanic people for being at a home depot, they are sending people to foreign torture prisons for tweeting about Palestine.

The terrain is SHIFTED

This is how we live in the frontlines of love and peace Poetry knows more than we know, and in between the lines and voices, we hope you find somewhere to live and love.

With the words given to us by wonderful folks, we formed a poem, written in multiple voices, followed by a litany, a prayer for these times.
Poetry knows more than we know, and in between the lines and voices, we hope you find somewhere to live and love 🌹

www.cawshinythings.com/this-is-how-...

Conversations with Poets & Rappers: Featuring chris time steele “Art is about wandering around the borders of magical thinking and weaving in different ways of experiencing the world.”

on collaboration with nature: "it made me think about the cosmos because we’re made of starstuff and really I’m just borrowing particles for a few years and composing them into songs and writings then I’ll blow away."
www.cawshinythings.com/conversation...

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