#Refusal

[thetendertongue]

fugitivity -> in Black Studies: a mode of refusal and escape; not just running away, but creating other ways of living outside or beneath the structures of control. inspired by enslaved people who fled plantations, but also used for any subversive, ungoverned life

[3eanuts]

February 27, 1957 — see The Complete Peanuts 1955-1958

[palatinewolfsblog]

"Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth.

Be critical and evaluate what you believe in."

- Aristotle

[stop-war-ukraine]

Was the wrong country disarmed 30 years ago?

This December 5th marks the 30th anniversary of the Budapest Memorandum—an agreement meant to provide security assurances to Ukraine in exchange for its decision to give up the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal.

[mikufunfacts]

Can miku marry me

miku fun fact #223

no

🙏

peace and love

[mouthtapedguy]

China's rapid growth has led to some unusual situations. Some homeowners refusing to give up their homes for low compensation. As a result, standalone homes, and even some graves, are being surrounded by high-rise development and roadways

[arabdoll]

The weak project their incapacity as virtue, extolling characteristics such as humility and submission. While condemning qualities they cannot achieve - such as pride and self sufficiency.

Nietzsche

[quotelr]

A sincere decision to make is to refuse to give up until the society experiences the defeat of every form of injustice and ungodliness.

Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

[dollbotthing]

we refuse to refer to this doll as anything other than “ducky” ok

[howifeltabouthim]

. . . she felt that to refuse would be to throw away a life-line.

L. P. Hartley, from My Fellow Devils

[thetendertongue]

right to opacity — from Glissant: the right to not be fully known, decoded, or made transparent; to resist being flattened into one meaning or one identity; a refusal or surveillance, overexposure, total explanation; a poetics of protection

[thepersonalwords]

They want you to use a black umbrella; use yellow, use red, use green and always refuse the thing they want you to use! Refusal is often more honourable than conformity!

Mehmet Murat ildan

[meeedeee]

Anat Shenker-Osorio's *actual* plan to beat fascism

"Create "social proof," actions, mobilize your community, stop waiting for Democrats, and start getting it DONE"

1. Social proof actions are where people start to speak out in small daily ways to let others know that they're not alone. It sounds simple but it's really powerful. Put up a sign, Make a post, write a song, respond to someone's idiotic statement. Organize an international food truck festival. Anti racism dance parties. Organize a die in at a corporate headquarters.

2. Don't wait for someone to lead. Do your own action. And show up to those school board meetings. Seriously. This is where one body can make an outsized impact

3. Contact your elected officials. Everyday. If you can't do everyday do it every week. Engage in “Mangione without murder”

In summary....

1. Pick the thing that you're most interested in (education, climate, immigrant protections).

2. Go as local as possible about that thing. School, city, county, state

3. Do something social and fun, bring along friends, organize a potluck

4. Wear your beliefs. Pull out that t-shirt, put up that sign.

5. Join a union. Support a union

6. Resistance, refusal, ridicule.

"Fabulously Fighting Fascism” 

[corvianbard]

#7475

The evil queen must become fried For her refusal to change with the tide And allow her towering pride To terminate a beautiful bride.

[bobdobalina]

Parodic sketch of Brünnhilde's slumber at the end of Wagner's Die Walküre, first published in the satirical pamphlet Schultze und Müller im Ring des Nibelungen by Alexander Moszkowski (Berlin: A. Hoffman, 1881?). Artist unknown, possibly Moszkowski himself but I don't think so.

Sluggo floating in midair and saying "no," from the Nancy comic strip by Ernie Bushmiller, 17 or 27 April 1953.