Let’s explore the ways we make more work for ourselves and our accomplices. Once we know what we’re doing, maybe we can cut it out!
And well… if we happen to pick up a thing or two about how to infiltrate a Moms for Liberty group and dismantle them from the inside… don’t tell anyone you learned it here.
Let’s Explore Sabotage
Check out our archived series on Sabotage back from the LBT Facebook group. Join the group to read, or if you prefer to wait, I’ll import these into the portal here as we go.
4 ways to collaborate on this month's challenge: Recommend resources, give advice, share what you've learned from your mistakes, and unpack the roots of oppression that make tackling this challenge so difficult.
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I really really really want to be actively involved in discussing and learning from this topic…and…it feels like I don’t quite have space for another whole topic in my mind right now, like if I even start thinking about another topic, I’ll just overload and fry my whole brain. That might be a this-week thing (I hope!) or a seasonal thing for me, but I just wanted to say it aloud so that you knew. If I get a little more mental space and have ideas for what would work for me to connect, I will come back here to let you know!
Oh but also! I am crystallizing in my belief that DEI committees are just institutionalized sabotage (which people like Sara Ahmed have already explained at length so I’m just belatedly catching up). Or rather, I used to think this was just about the way that forming a committee on something is often itself viewed as the objective and end — check, we formed the committee! And now I think that even if the committee works its ass off, the work gets sabotaged in other ways (e.g., going through the proper channels, which are designed to delay and water down and assimilate anything system-challenging into the existing system).
So clearly I’m thinking about this today despite saying I couldn’t possibly…maybe I’d vote for a Zoom or Polo discussion of a cliff notes version of the book??