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What Have You Been Carrying? A Self-Assessment for Navigating Authoritarian Harm
Your overwhelm isn't personal failure — it's a natural response to engineered chaos. This assessment helps you get unstuck and start strategizing.
Befriending Yourself Is A Strategic Priority For Sustainable Resistance
My body sounded the alarm. These are moves I’m returning to — because survival isn’t the endgame. (Stay Human Weekly #7)
3 Quiet Resistance Moves to Share With Someone Who’s Struggling
This week’s tiny moves support reconnecting around shared purpose, cultivating self-compassion, and restoring agency and focus. (Stay Human Now Weekly #6)
Resisting Authoritarianism for Introverts: An FAQ for Staying Human in Loud Times
A lot of resistance advice sounds like it's meant for someone louder. But what if your strength lives in quiet — and that's exactly what this moment needs?
Destabilizing Us Is Their Goal. Here’s How To Resist
Stay Human Weekly #5: This week’s news cycle is especially punishing. These tiny moves help protect our focus and stay human under pressure.
For the Readers Who Can’t Subscribe Because of the Risk
A message for those sharing these posts in secret — and the quiet resistance growing underground. You’re not alone, and you’re not forgotten.
Trump's "Authoritarian Offensive" Is Official (Thanks, Experts): What the Pundits Are Still Missing
People are living through authoritarian harm daily while experts debate. Understanding these harm patterns is how we protect ourselves, support each other, and prepare for what comes next.
What It Means to Stay Human in the Trump Era
Staying Human Now #4 - Trump’s actions are engineered to grind us down. Staying human is a key resistance strategy.
Stay Human: 80 Tiny Moves for Everyday Resistance in the Authoritarian Harm Complex
What if staying human is one of the most powerful and most unappreciated forms of resistance? Shaping tomorrow and defeating tyranny takes more than big protest events and macro strategies.
Stay Sane: 80 Tiny Moves to Resist Digital Despair and News Overwhelm in the Trump Era
Tiny moves live in the terrain between hypervigilance and retreat. They keep us agile and motivated.
Autism Supports Are Under Siege: How We Track Harm for the Fight Ahead
The harm is real, and increasingly invisible. We need to rebuild tracking capacity - fast.
Staying Human Now #3: The Connection You Forgot You Needed
Authoritarian chaos thrives on disconnection. This tiny move helps you rebuild the ties that keep you human.
Staying Human Now #2: Define Your Waypoints
Confusion is the tactic. Navigation is the countermeasure. This tiny move helps you plan your own path.
Staying Human Now #1: Start Where You Are
Authoritarian harm is real. So is your capacity to respond. These three tiny moves help you pace yourself with purpose.
Trump’s Chaos Is Making Me Fat — And I’m Choosing Defiance Over Dieting
What if post-election weight gain is a signal to evolve my recovery? I need strategic versatility and agility to hike this new terrain, not wellness fluff.
The Harms Are Cumulative. Your Overwhelm Is the Goal. Let’s Get Unstuck
Trump and Musk weaponize chaos to exhaust our capacity for resistance. Recognizing the patterns of harm gives us the framework to protect our humanity and reclaim our strategic power.
From Authoritarian Harm to Clarity of Purpose
Looking Beyond Resistance: What if Our Collective Pain is Pointing to the Better Future Worth Fighting For?
They Want Experts to Go Quietly. Don’t.
They’re purging experts from government, slashing research, and gutting public health and disability policy. They want you to go quietly. Don’t. Here’s how displaced experts can fight back.
When They Gut Your Mission: Start Here…
You’re still standing. That means you get to choose where to go next.
Life Inside the Authoritarian Harm Complex: Understand It to Stay Human
Trump and Musk want to break you through a blitz of actions that destabilize every level of life. Seeing the pattern of personal and institutional harm is how you begin to resist and stay human.
Befriend Yourself: A Strategy for Staying Whole While They Dismantle Everything That Matters
Trump and Musk want to disappear you into a cell of despair. Kindness to yourself is how you stay human—and begin your escape.
Unprecedented Blitz Against People With Disabilities Requires New Strategies
This Is Not a Drill: 6 Moves Disability Services Leaders Need to Make Now
They’re Coming for Disability Services—Here’s How We Stop Them
They're Hiding the Harm to Children - Here's How We Track it Anyway
Trusk is gutting programs that protect children and dismantling data systems that could track the harm. We must make sure the truth is seen. Here’s how we track what they want to hide.
Collective Defense of Democracy: Breaking the Predator's Isolation Strategies
Why Organizations Must Strengthen Their Network Power Now
The Federal Purge: Standing With Democracy's Defenders
To federal servants enduring dismantling: your dedication matters. As Trump attacks public infrastructure, I stand with you - and civil society must step up.
The Coming Storm: Protecting Public Servants and Their Essential Expertise
Building a movement to preserve democracy