Blossey

I think part of getting better is complete ego death. Like you’re not above setting a timer for 5 minutes and focusing on a task. You’re not above doing a very simple 3 minute workout to start. You’re not above reading for 10 minutes a day when you first get out of your reading slump, even if you used to read for hours. You’re not above starting slow and then building up to where you want to be/where you once were. What you are above is total inertia. Doing something really is better than doing nothing. Radically accept where you are, radically accept your limits, and go from there. Don’t let your ego get in the way.

Happy Pride

You Have to get really into protecting the most vulnerable among us not purely out of some sense of sympathy for those who have it worse than you (though that can be a helpful starting point) but because ripping out the most deeply held biases, the most socially acceptable bigotries, will involve uprooting these thought processes and accepted power systems from the bottom up. "Nobody is free until all of us are free" is a good slogan but you need to *really* get into what that means & looks like in practice. You absolutely cannot have any exceptions to your principles

you will not feel stuck forever. you’re actually slowly but steadily moving forward in ways you don’t always notice.

Reblogging in honor of Marjane Satrapi, one of THE great graphic novelists. Her comic Persepolis was a crucial text for shaping my belief that comics can deeply explore identity, culture, politics, and history.