This is an amalgamation of the learnings of Squishii Fishrose, mostly in terms of anarchism.

Big Disclaimer: Please do not point this out as an educational resource. This just a dumpspace for my understanding, and there will possibly be things wrong, or things not included because I don't need a reference back to them myself.

Mutual Aid

• Basically: People meeting the needs of other people unconditionally, with shared understanding that unjust systems are not meeting needs.

Intersectionality

• How capitalism and racisim intersect: People hate on one race (or many races), the demand for products that are made by people who are considerd the superior race, or depict the people who are considered the inferior race as... well inferior, capitalists respond to this demand. This creates a kind of feedback loop where the capitalists comfirm the biases of the part of the working class being racist. The capitalists do almost nothing to change their biases, unless the working class changes bias, since the capitalists priortize profiting off of co-opting the ideas and political biases of the target market, over holding out for their own beliefs (This is especially true for larger companies), since pandering to the working class's beliefs and profiting off them is more important than whether it's actually going to hurt people, it's moral, or if the individual capitalist actually agrees with that belief. Since most people aren't racist, most large companies don't constantly push out products that have racist messaging, but if that changed, and people started boycotting brands that hired minority race employees, and going to places that discriminated against said minority race(s), the larger companies will begin discrimination as well, since in this hypothetical example, being racist will up the demand for product, thus making more money.
• How the State and Racisim intersect: People are racist, they are more likely to elect racists since they trust the pepole with similar beliefs more, and said racists make and pass laws that perpetuate racisim. Again, most people are not racist, so a racist canidate wouldn't get far in a presidential election, but if people had similar racist beliefs the canidate had, he would get a lot of votes of the citizens.

The only reason I'm not going to make a version of these two for sexism, ableism, and queerphobia is because it basically works the same way

• Misoginynoir, How does it happen?: (in the simplest sense) A woman has to face misoginy, people telling her to stay in the lane of traditional roles, whether or not said roles need to be held up, losing access to potentially life saving medical procedures if they go against traditional roles, etc. A Black woman has to deal with this coupled with having beauty standards be even less attainable to them, be called unprofessional for having natural hairstyles and speech inflections that were immortalized as internet culture, being stereotyped as being more aggressive, angry, and/or sassy, and being profiled by police and other institutions due to said stereotypes. So basically it's racsim and sexism mixed together.

Outside Resources, because this is a journal of my own understanding and own taking action

• The Anarchist Libary
• So I was watching a solarpunk art stream on Andrewism's Channel, and I asked he if could recommend any literature for me to read. While I thought he would give an actual physical book, he actually recommend Anarchy.Works

It'll be a long, slow read for me, since it's not really accessible to people who need line breaks to fully comprehend text at their normal rate, but I recommend it regardless.

• An Anarchist FAQ - Aka the masterlist of answers to many questions you may have to anarchism

Still not a simple to go through read, FYI. But there are line breaks before quotes this time.

Actioning

• Repair your clothes as many times as you can before you have to throw them away. Or if you really don't want them, donate them to a thrift store or have a clothing swap with friends and/or neighbors.
• Try to buy food locally as much as possible, and to grow your food. This can springboard into seed swapping and hosting community potlucks and barbecues, along with just plain making batches of food large enough to give out to the whole community, and giving them out so people do not have to rely as much on large supermarkets for food.

----Plus, even if food is still heavily bought at large companies, potlucks and other types of gatherings can be really good for just plain getting everyone in the community together and getting to know each other (This means more trust between members of the community).

• I found a tutorial on how to make seedbombs.
• This is a video on reducing participation in capitalism.

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