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Hey y'all! Apologies for being so quiet lately - we've had both unexpected health issues and minor personal emergencies cropping up right and left the past couple weeks in particular, and it's rather thrown things into chaos. To anyone currently waiting to hear back from us, whether through here, email, or the website contact form, we promise we haven't forgotten you - we're catching up as quickly as we can.

This has thrown off our plans for Pride somewhat, but we will definitely be at Boston Dyke March (this Friday, June 5!), Franklin County Pride (next week, June 13), and Rhode Island Pride (June 20). We'd hoped to have a fresh Off-The-Rack sale ready for y'all already; not to worry, it's still coming, just not quite on the schedule we'd hoped.

On a wider, grimmer note... things are scary out there, y'all. We're all too aware of that. We're not letting it stop us; we're out here doing our best to take care of the community and each other, however we can.

For everyone out there fighting as hard as they can against everything going on in the world: we see you. We love you. Happy Pride.

For everyone who's just trying to keep their heads above water, who for whatever reason isn't up to joining the fight: we see you. We love you. Happy Pride.

For everyone who can't safely be out for one reason or another, who can't celebrate Pride at all: we see you. We love you. Happy Pride.

Once there, scan the shelves and physically pick up the first book that sparks even the slightest interest in you. No nuance, no further thoughts, just grab it.

This book is now your baseline.

From here, you can keep browsing and compare every next book you see to the one you've got in your hand.

If something else seems more interesting, swap it out! If another choice would be more practical, e.g. a little paperback instead of a thick hardcover tome whilst on vacation, swap it out! And so on and so forth, for as long as you fancy and/or have other books available.

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

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And I also wanted to mention that humanitarian organisations have free courses too, like the Red Cross on international humanitarian law.

Picked at these for a while when I first saw this ask and then just,,.. did not finish them, sorry!! But I’d rather get them posted than let them rot in my gallery forever so I finally sat down and rushed out the general idea I had going a month ago lol