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Red Dirt Collective’s Community Conversation this month was a repair fair 🎉 we had community members mending clothes, offering advice about troubleshooting car troubles, doing bicycle repair, providing stain glass repair, sharing hair cut/hair care tips, and computer repair/tech troubleshooting 👾
January 6, 2026 at 3:30 AM
Red Dirt Collective’s Community Conversation this month was a repair fair 🎉 we had community members mending clothes, offering advice about troubleshooting car troubles, doing bicycle repair, providing stain glass repair, sharing hair cut/hair care tips, and computer repair/tech troubleshooting 👾
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For anyone out there doing mutual aid work - thank you.
Mutual aid is radical. Mutual aid is love. Every small thing you do in your community goes a long way to helping your fellow neighbors.
Despite the current situation of transphobia, facism, racism, etc - love & caring will win.
Mutual aid is radical. Mutual aid is love. Every small thing you do in your community goes a long way to helping your fellow neighbors.
Despite the current situation of transphobia, facism, racism, etc - love & caring will win.
December 31, 2025 at 10:15 PM
For anyone out there doing mutual aid work - thank you.
Mutual aid is radical. Mutual aid is love. Every small thing you do in your community goes a long way to helping your fellow neighbors.
Despite the current situation of transphobia, facism, racism, etc - love & caring will win.
Mutual aid is radical. Mutual aid is love. Every small thing you do in your community goes a long way to helping your fellow neighbors.
Despite the current situation of transphobia, facism, racism, etc - love & caring will win.
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Screaming "wtf" and waiting for a spontaneous uprising is going to discourage you. There won't be a spontaneous uprising. That's just not where the people are at.
Organize for the long term. Build community. Build resilience. Have a strategy for whatever corner of this thing you're working on.
Organize for the long term. Build community. Build resilience. Have a strategy for whatever corner of this thing you're working on.
January 3, 2026 at 8:46 PM
Screaming "wtf" and waiting for a spontaneous uprising is going to discourage you. There won't be a spontaneous uprising. That's just not where the people are at.
Organize for the long term. Build community. Build resilience. Have a strategy for whatever corner of this thing you're working on.
Organize for the long term. Build community. Build resilience. Have a strategy for whatever corner of this thing you're working on.
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Take action against Trump’s illegal war on Venezuela:
January 3, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Take action against Trump’s illegal war on Venezuela:
I love public libraries 💞 and the abundance of resources they offer to the community. They’ve played such an important role in my life since I was a child and they continue to do so. This week I visited two different libraries to utilize the sewing machines they had in their maker spaces 🪡🧵
January 3, 2026 at 12:19 AM
I love public libraries 💞 and the abundance of resources they offer to the community. They’ve played such an important role in my life since I was a child and they continue to do so. This week I visited two different libraries to utilize the sewing machines they had in their maker spaces 🪡🧵
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Das Boot Camp is closing in Norman 😔 so made time today to eat there one more time.
December 30, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Das Boot Camp is closing in Norman 😔 so made time today to eat there one more time.
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Abortion funds are a vital form of mutual aid - they make it possible for people to make decisions about their own bodies and futures.
Please help PSAF stay open if you can!
Please help PSAF stay open if you can!
We are behind schedule for hitting our end of year goal, making it very likely that we’ll be starting 2026 off with a closed intake line.
We need your help to make sure this doesn’t happen.
Give before December 31 → tinyurl.com/PSAFSupport
We need your help to make sure this doesn’t happen.
Give before December 31 → tinyurl.com/PSAFSupport
Palmetto State Abortion Fund: End-of-Year Fundraiser | Palmetto State Abortion Fund (Powered by Donorbox)
Give for freedom. Give for care. Give before December 31st.2025 tested us — and our community showed up.Because of people like you, the Palmetto State Abortion Fund helped more than 1,500 Southerners ...
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December 29, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Abortion funds are a vital form of mutual aid - they make it possible for people to make decisions about their own bodies and futures.
Please help PSAF stay open if you can!
Please help PSAF stay open if you can!
Today’s good: Had lunch with friends and then they let me borrow their serger 🥹. It was so nice chatting while we all worked on different projects and I was thankful I could ask them for sewing advice. I had felt a little overwhelmed with my project beforehand but talking to them helped so much 💞
December 30, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Today’s good: Had lunch with friends and then they let me borrow their serger 🥹. It was so nice chatting while we all worked on different projects and I was thankful I could ask them for sewing advice. I had felt a little overwhelmed with my project beforehand but talking to them helped so much 💞
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Times are tough, and some of my paid subscribers have had to cancel lately due to financial hardships. I get it, and I wish for better times for us all. Unfortunately, paid subscriptions are now dipping into unsustainable territory. I am hoping to get eight new paid subscribers before the new year.
Organizing My Thoughts
Kelly Hayes writes about things you should know if you want to change the world.
organizingmythoughts.org
December 28, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Times are tough, and some of my paid subscribers have had to cancel lately due to financial hardships. I get it, and I wish for better times for us all. Unfortunately, paid subscriptions are now dipping into unsustainable territory. I am hoping to get eight new paid subscribers before the new year.
Second Story Books & Cafe held a Book Journal set up event (it was free!) and a lot of the community showed up~ It was a little overwhelming 🫢 but I loved getting to talk to others about our planners and we ended up sharing journaling supplies with each other. Overall a super wholesome time 💖
December 28, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Second Story Books & Cafe held a Book Journal set up event (it was free!) and a lot of the community showed up~ It was a little overwhelming 🫢 but I loved getting to talk to others about our planners and we ended up sharing journaling supplies with each other. Overall a super wholesome time 💖
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"Starbucks baristas are struggling to make ends meet. Many rely on SNAP and Medicaid because they don't receive enough hours to pay their bills or access benefits... [T]he average barista receives just 19 hours of work per week, leaving them one hour short of the cutoff to receive company benefits."
"It’s a pretty bleak state of affairs... if, even at the 'best' job available, you can’t get stable hours & your bosses can crush you when you dare ask for better."
A bargaining delegate for @sbworkersunited.org, explains why almost 4K baristas are on strike.
A bargaining delegate for @sbworkersunited.org, explains why almost 4K baristas are on strike.
Striking Barista on Starbucks' Endgame: “They Don’t Want Working People to Have a Voice"
Silvia Baldwin, a bargaining delegate for Starbucks Workers United, explains why more than 3,800 baristas are on strike against “the biggest labor law violator in modern history.”
inthesetimes.com
December 28, 2025 at 8:41 PM
"Starbucks baristas are struggling to make ends meet. Many rely on SNAP and Medicaid because they don't receive enough hours to pay their bills or access benefits... [T]he average barista receives just 19 hours of work per week, leaving them one hour short of the cutoff to receive company benefits."
I scraped my knees today and 😭 I feel like such a little kid like it could have been avoided 🫠
December 28, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I scraped my knees today and 😭 I feel like such a little kid like it could have been avoided 🫠
We listen and we don’t judge. We listen and we learn 😌.
December 27, 2025 at 4:02 AM
We listen and we don’t judge. We listen and we learn 😌.
You feel like it’s getting better and you’re getting used to the coexisting feelings of a quiet blanket of grief interwoven with acceptance and then something small can upend things leaving you all of a sudden crying and wondering why you’re back in this state of louder grief.
December 26, 2025 at 10:41 PM
You feel like it’s getting better and you’re getting used to the coexisting feelings of a quiet blanket of grief interwoven with acceptance and then something small can upend things leaving you all of a sudden crying and wondering why you’re back in this state of louder grief.
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December 18, 2025 at 10:00 PM
There’s a quote I’ve seen around that says something along the lines of how you’re a museum of everyone you have ever loved and it’s something I’ve been thinking about lately.
December 20, 2025 at 11:32 PM
There’s a quote I’ve seen around that says something along the lines of how you’re a museum of everyone you have ever loved and it’s something I’ve been thinking about lately.
I worked on answering emails and grading assignments today at two different local coffee shops and at the end of the day (not for the first time) I find myself so grateful for the abundance of local coffee shops in our area.
December 19, 2025 at 1:46 AM
I worked on answering emails and grading assignments today at two different local coffee shops and at the end of the day (not for the first time) I find myself so grateful for the abundance of local coffee shops in our area.
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Preorder the second edition of Mutual Aid, out March 31st. I wrote a new section about what I learned about mutual aid since 2020 and updated various sections of the book.
Preorder here: store.deanspade.net
We also have shirts, hoodies, mugs, and totes! All proceeds go to support the podcast.
Preorder here: store.deanspade.net
We also have shirts, hoodies, mugs, and totes! All proceeds go to support the podcast.
Dean Spade's Store
Dean Spade's Store
store.deanspade.net
December 11, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Preorder the second edition of Mutual Aid, out March 31st. I wrote a new section about what I learned about mutual aid since 2020 and updated various sections of the book.
Preorder here: store.deanspade.net
We also have shirts, hoodies, mugs, and totes! All proceeds go to support the podcast.
Preorder here: store.deanspade.net
We also have shirts, hoodies, mugs, and totes! All proceeds go to support the podcast.
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I commissioned @radicalemprints.bsky.social to make this letterpress print for me. I think that it turned out beautifully. You should check out their other work: www.radicalemprints.com - this is my twist on a @ladyofsardines.bsky.social comrade card. A few folks are receiving a print.
December 16, 2025 at 1:54 AM
I commissioned @radicalemprints.bsky.social to make this letterpress print for me. I think that it turned out beautifully. You should check out their other work: www.radicalemprints.com - this is my twist on a @ladyofsardines.bsky.social comrade card. A few folks are receiving a print.
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The process of shrinking the gap between your values and actions is a lifetime journey.
Maturing is realizing that…
December 12, 2025 at 9:05 PM
The process of shrinking the gap between your values and actions is a lifetime journey.
Got to play around with some air dry clay today and made Calcifer and soot sprite worry stones ✨
December 12, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Got to play around with some air dry clay today and made Calcifer and soot sprite worry stones ✨
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Can't wait to read this. A copy is already here, I simply need to make time.
Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis is still on the Bookshop Bestseller List! ❤️
Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis
Letters to Activists in Crisis
bookshop.org
December 8, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Can't wait to read this. A copy is already here, I simply need to make time.
It’s been so cool to see how doodling regularly has led to me getting better and better at it (gee- who would have thought 😅). I’m so excited about a project I’m currently working on.
December 5, 2025 at 12:28 AM
It’s been so cool to see how doodling regularly has led to me getting better and better at it (gee- who would have thought 😅). I’m so excited about a project I’m currently working on.