This episode is a crossover between Investigative Selfism and The Exploding Head, my more political project.
I’ve chosen to post my message in both because, in the end, it’s about how we choose to show up in times that are extremely worrying globally.
And because I think it can’t be clearer that polite self-silencing, smallness, and not being unapologetically anti-fascist aren’t serving us.
Because even if we choose to engage with reality less, it remains the same: international law is left irrelevant because of our governments’ bowing down to empires; fascism is on the rise globally (and very much present in the U.S); Israel is allowed to annihilate Gaza with complete impunity.
The question is, how do we choose to show up in this reality?
Stay strong but keep your heart open ❤️
Justina
PS. Find the political work that I mention so often here.
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