Elfi @elfi@pixie.town

I'm so exhausted. Why can't people write whole words in content warnings? "uspol" I get but I've now see "gapol" and "ilpol" and am I supposed to know how your states are abbreviated, US Americans?

server mods/admins: looks like pieville dot net needs a domain block - check their public timeline if you want but be aware it is racist as hell and has gross/disturbing/graphic images without CW.

#FediBlock

Lots of un-CW’d politics going on.

Please be considerate of others. I know there is a lot going on that needs attention, but people need to have their own wellbeing considered as well. Otherwise we’re just harming the same people we’re trying to protect.

From an interview last month with LaTosha Brown, co-founder of Black Voters Matter:

"We did see the power of Black voters in the South this election season. Why did Georgia go for Joe Biden?"

"The work wasn’t overnight. It has been an ongoing process for more than a decade. The way I talk about community power is like electricity: Thomas Edison didn’t create electricity in the purest sense; what he created was a conduit to organize the energy and direct it. It was already there. That’s the same way I see organizing: We’re not creating power; the power is already there. This outcome in Georgia is a result of deep-seated organizing. It works. While I do certainly believe that Black folks, particularly Black women, were at the vanguard, we weren’t leading this by ourselves. There is a multigenerational, multicultural coalition that is rising up in the South and is really going to transform it."

https://gen.medium.com/latosha-brown-is-only-getting-started-9465dd28d0a0