💯 Also, Hi Shirley ❤️

Hi Sarah!! 🥰 hugs and kissessss

Hi folks. From an earnest place: the phrasing in the post was not only intentional but thoughtful, and aimed to mobilize the large number of people who reply to my posts saying nothing can be done. Threading organizer discourse on public health professionals’ posts right now… is a bummer.

But if I have a sincere contribution to the discourse, it’s that the biggest lesson of the last two weeks of work on this for me is just not to argue with my fellow travelers when they use messaging I don’t like, because it’s a distributed strategy, and different messages get different audiences.

My feeling is, I do not need to feel seen in every piece of advocacy right now, and the urge to treat Bluesky as a community - rather than a social media app that follows the same norms and serves the same purposes as every forum since 1999 - will mostly just make organizing on here unpleasant.

Apologies for drive-by dickhead response; I can disagree firmly but politely :)

Sorry I read what you wrote twice and I don’t understand what it’s saying :( are you saying that you already think you had the best messaging for your audience and that we should just stop critiquing each other on messaging in general? If so, I totally disagree. Also it’s never EVER worth it to

throw other causes underneath the bus or make them less important to make yours more important. Period. Organizing must be intersectional or else it’s not being done right. Doesn’t mean you have to mention every other cause when u r talking about 1. Does mean u should not say yours is the only one

that is or does whatever and that it’s the only way someone can make a difference. Again that just hurts community and organizing. Again I’m not sure what you were trying to say so if u agree with all of the above then cool lol. Otherwise I’m happy for the eyeballs that will see it regardless

I think this comes down to the idea that inside the house discourse versus public discourse can differ. I don’t disagree that activism starts from an intersectional place and can’t be single-issue. But the place where that matters most is inside the house: with other activists as we plan.