Creation as Resistance
Remember when 2025 seemed like a year out of a science fiction novel? It didn't seem like a real year, it was so far into the future. Would we have flying cars? Robot maids? Computer chips embedded into our brains? The future was full of opportunity and excitement! Well, now the future is here. I don't know about you all, but this isn't what I imagined for "the future." I'm not one to talk about politics - I freely admit to being ill-informed about the nuance about a lot of things - but high-level, I believe people have the right to live their lives as their whole, true selves, regardless of their gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disability status, or anything else. People are people, and they all deserve to live lives that don't harm other people. Apparently, this is a difficult concept for some of the people in power in the US these days. Things are getting hard, and it's really difficult to see what a single person can do to ma...