from the pen of icarus blake

Fascism relies on despair. Relies on fear, on a misunderstanding and truncating of normal legal process to enforce the unenforcable through individual avoidance of possible consequences. It relies on the idea that those resisting are outnumbered, which is almost always untrue.

As the barrage of executive orders roll in from the new fascist administration, we shift our focus from harm prevention to harm reduction, and I feel I ought to remind you: their ability to administer consequences for your resistance are only possible if you bend the knee before they make you. Now is the time to embrace your inner toddler, stomp your feet, and scream at the top of your lungs.

You can’t fucking make me.

Bypass censorship, speak in code, distribute food and water in your community, support your neighbors. Be loudly, aggressively, unapologetically queer and black and latine. Gather around us, and understand that you don’t fight alone, and for fuck’s sake don’t bend the knee before you’re forced to.

NO kings, NO masters. Bite the hands that starve you.