I admire people who are moving into whatever the next world will bring--the people who are learning #survival skills: permaculture, water purification, foraging, and ways of being in community beyond white supremacy. I imagine in 10 years I'll regret not taking time now to learn from them. But right now, what I need, after four years of unbearably painful #loneliness in an on-going #pandemic, is embodiment, #pleasure, #sensuality, decadence. I need a future with those things, and I feel like I rarely see leftist groups making space for them--they're often treated as frivolities to lull us into complacency.

We will likely be able to eke out small #joys even in a #dystopia. It's what humans do. But I'm not content with just small joys anymore. I don't want a crumb; I want the whole damn cake. In my experience, I can either spend time fighting for a cake I will never actually get to eat, or I can try to find a cake now and maybe get a bite