Make Your Damn Bed

Constant exposure to information and crisis can reduce our ability to react, respond, or move forward with hope. It's incredibly overwhelming to know everything without knowing what to do with it. You must take action in your own life, in your own community, in your own ecosystem - if you want to shed that feeling of hopelessness. Our investment in things we have no control over is exhausting + de...

My life is now divided into 2 parts: the pre-Ayesha Khan version of me and the post-Ayesha Khan version of me. I truly started to feel like I was screaming into a void and though people "understood" where I was coming from, nobody seemed to know what to say about it. Ayesha Khan not only "gets it" but her hopefulness + intentionality has renewed my own hope. Today, we discuss the reality that our...

Today we revisit an old nugget: low power mode. DONATE: www.pcrf.net Get Involved: Operation Olive Branch: Spreadsheets + Links GET AN OCCASIONAL PERSONAL EMAIL FROM ME: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.com TUNE IN ON INSTAGRAM FOR COOL CONTENT: www.instagram.com/mydbpodcast OR BE A REAL GEM + TUNE IN ON PATREON: www.patreon.com/MYDBpodcast OR WATCH ON YOUTUBE: www.youtube.com/juliemerica   The opi...

Sometimes I’m painfully reminded that hope is really all we have. When I am suffering most from the effects of grief, the hopelessness becomes overbearing and all-consuming. It feels impossible to avoid and it typically makes me feel like that’s how things will “always” be.  This is why, I often encourage myself (and others) to take action as a reminder that there is more than overthinking an...

"Hopelessness is often most pervasive among the privileged who are more insulated from from overt violence." - Ayesha Khan SOURCE: https://wokescientist.substack.com/p/how-do-we-keep-hope-alive-in-our DONATE: www.pcrf.net Get Involved: Operation Olive Branch: Spreadsheets + Links GET AN OCCASIONAL PERSONAL EMAIL FROM ME: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.com TUNE IN ON INSTAGRAM FOR COOL CONTENT: www.ins...

There are four main roles to play (when it comes to creating social change) and those are the citizen, reformer, rebel, change agent. Where do you feel the most natural? MAIN SOURCE: https://commonslibrary.org/bill-moyers-movement-action-plan-and-four-roles-of-activism/ Another resource: https://creaworld.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/All-About-Power.pdf More resources: https://commonslibrary.org...

Yesterday I rambled on about power structures and today I want to clarify some of those thoughts.  Primarily when it comes to the definition of Power.  When a concept is this abstract it carries a different meaning for different individuals - based on our experiences and situations. There are so many words that carry different meanings for people: power, democracy, equality - but the mor...

Empowerment starts as a personal experience, then grows to our close relationships, and eventually becomes the collective. Today, we dig into the concept of power as discussed in Jo Rowland's 1997 work: Empowerment Examined. THE COMMONS: https://commonslibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/How-to-Make-a-Difference-5-Stepes-to-be-an-Effective-Change-Maker-2022_Commons-Library.pdf VIDEO RESOURCES FROM THE...

If we become curious about ourselves, we'll start to realize what parts of our identity are really ours vs. what we think other's expect from us. DONATE: www.pcrf.net Get Involved: Operation Olive Branch: Spreadsheets + Links GET AN OCCASIONAL PERSONAL EMAIL FROM ME: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.com TUNE IN ON INSTAGRAM FOR COOL CONTENT: www.instagram.com/mydbpodcast OR BE A REAL GEM + TUNE IN ON PA...

just getting back from a trip and a delayed flight means a re-release of a classic. DONATE: www.pcrf.net Get Involved: Operation Olive Branch: Spreadsheets + Links GET AN OCCASIONAL PERSONAL EMAIL FROM ME: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.com TUNE IN ON INSTAGRAM FOR COOL CONTENT: www.instagram.com/mydbpodcast OR BE A REAL GEM + TUNE IN ON PATREON: www.patreon.com/MYDBpodcast OR WATCH ON YOUTUBE: www.yo...

Humans are animals and I can’t tell you how hard it is for me to remember that fact. This is why it feels like, every time I am reminded of that fact - that we are all just big dumb animals - there’s a part of me that is humbled but there is a bigger part of me that is relieved because it feels like my failings are less of a personal attack and more of a common symptom of what happens in the life...

It’s not about giving someone the world, it’s about making them feel like they are an important part of yours.  Which means, it’s hard to do properly. It’s a ton of cognitive load to pay attention to, remember what, and constantly hunt for things with a perfect discernment. It’s really easy to fuck it up, and that’s okay too. I think,, fucks ups are easy to overlook if your intention is genui...

"Climate change is here because of the current global systems, and that means that, eventually, the system will become obsolete. It already is when it comes to the survival of humanity. I think that ultimately people will come to see that the system doesn’t work for them. It’s never been designed to work for the masses." - Murrawah Maroochy Johnson RESOURCE: https://peoplesworld.org/article/how-an...

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Most nations are more intent on policing the poor than the rich, when the opposite would be more effective, lucrative, and important. Tax evasion is estimated to cost Austria about one thousand times more than welfare fraud. RESOURCES : https://insidestory.org.au/the-case-for-banning-billionaires/   https://newint.org/equality/2024/what-if-we-banned-billionaires   DONATE : https://www.pc...

Most nations are more intent on policing the poor than the rich, when the opposite would be more effective, lucrative, and important. Tax evasion is estimated to cost Austria about one thousand times more than welfare fraud. RESOURCES : https://insidestory.org.au/the-case-for-banning-billionaires/   https://newint.org/equality/2024/what-if-we-banned-billionaires   DONATE : https://www.pc...

Riley Brooke wrote a dope ass article and I need everyone to hear it. Today we're talking capitalism, means of production, unions, exploitation, scabs, and profits. RESOURCE: https://rileybrooke.medium.com/for-beginners-what-is-capitalism-what-does-it-mean-to-be-anti-capitalist-9670e14f1122 DONATE : https://www.pcrf.net/   GET INVOLVED:   Operation Olive Branch: Spreadsheets + Links GET...

You cannot earn a billion dollars. You can take a billion dollars, but you can't make it. Every billionaire has built their "empire" off of the exploitation of laborers. UNFUN FACTS: Jeff Bezos could give every single one of his 876,000 employees a  $105,000 bonus  and he’d still be as rich as he was at the start of the pandemic. The  median U.S. salary  is $34,612, but even if...

Utopia feels far away, post-scarcity feels less so. According to wikipedia: Post-scarcity  is a theoretical  economic  situation in which most goods can be produced in great abundance with minimal human labor needed, so that they become available to all very cheaply or even  freely . [1] [2] Post-scarcity does not mean that  scarcity  has been eliminated for all goods...

Utopia feels far away, post-scarcity feels less so. According to wikipedia: Post-scarcity  is a theoretical  economic  situation in which most goods can be produced in great abundance with minimal human labor needed, so that they become available to all very cheaply or even  freely . [1] [2] Post-scarcity does not mean that  scarcity  has been eliminated for all goods...

Becoming a "deep-fake detector" was not on my 2024 bingo card, but here we are. As AI generative tech improves, we must improve at our fact-checking. RESOURCES : https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/how-detect-and-guard-against-deceptive-ai-generated-election-information https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/artificial-intelligence-and-election-security DONATE...

"The soldier is applauded who refuses to serve in an unjust war by those who do not refuse to sustain the unjust government which makes the war." Henry David Thoreau RESOURCES: https://blogs.law.columbia.edu/uprising1313/files/2017/10/Civil-Disobedience-by-Henry-David-Thoreau.pdf and   https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-David-Thoreau/Move-to-Walden-Pond DONATE : https://www.pcrf.net/...

Today we're talking: civil disobedience RESOURCES: https://datadetoxkit.org/en/home/   https://nonviolentpeaceforce.org/quick-resources/   https://www.amnesty.org/fr/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/ACT1074712024ENGLISH.pdf DONATE : https://www.pcrf.net/   GET INVOLVED:   Operation Olive Branch: Spreadsheets + Links GET AN OCCASIONAL PERSONAL EMAIL FROM ME: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast...

Anhedonia is the lack of enjoyment or pleasure and is a common symptom of depression. Today I share some of my more negative defense mechanisms and then attempt to share some healthier ones. RESOURCE 1: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/symptoms/25155-anhedonia RESOURCE 2: https://www.verywellmind.com/unsupportive-friends-and-family-1067469 RESOURCE 3: https://www.webmd.com/depression/features...

I've been dealing with depression since I was 12 and the world hasn't gotten more "fun" but that doesn't mean I'm hopeless. I'm just reminded it's time to get busier but I can't do that in good conscious without addressing a few elephants that have been in the room. CHECK OUT MY RESOURCE : https://screening.mhanational.org/content/how-can-i-be-ok-when-world-terrible/ SUPPORT MUTUAL AID IN GAZA : h...