Ramping Up my Writing
I check my e-mail during my "morning routine" (which happens about an hour after I wake up - mornings are relative, now) and enjoy the quick recaps I get from places like GameIndustry.biz (did I tell you I'm looking to get into game development?), people like Dan Hon (a solid voice on tech and policy with nuance that I know I don't have) and groups like Peoples' Forum (it's like the BBC of grassroots movements, to me). But I'm realizing that I don't really talk about this kind of stuff outside of my ramblings on my site (here be dragons). I mean, that's ideally where I'd like to write about it. Nothing against the BDFL of Buttondown, but having agency over where I place my content is something that's becoming more important as social media platform hunker down on the media part of the phase and continue to remove the networking aspect of it (ignoring LinkedIn).
That's why I have a website and would strongly recommend doing the same if you want to either document your thoughts (even if no one's going to read them, half the time, I write things out because I'll forget or need to expand on it later with links) or become your canonical source (especially if you're someone who has to produce "content" - I gag at the word sometimes, but companies like Facebook and Condé Nast have made it too easy to use for anything).
That's all besides the point.
I mention that because I'm working on ramping up this newsletter and announcing some stuff I'll attempt to work on. In 2023 February, I'm going to write something short each day of that month about Black activism around the world from a non-colonial lens (to the best of my abilities) and people-centric view. This means instead of fixating on the kindness of people like Martin Luther King, Jr.; I'll speak on his stances about capitalism. Instead of "celebrating" Black capitalists, I'll expand on how the majority of movements of Black liberation that's been happening for (sadly but amazingly) centuries has a focus on the evolution of the Black radical tradition and around Marxism (the Black Panthers were one of the most prominent examples, but there's been hundreds of other cases that are influential to this day).
I want us to know more about the things that are not taught - things you can't really take an elective for; you have to hunt to learn about. I spent too much time reading about this and not enough time sharing the information. Without that, I'm just reading for "fun" (if you can call it that). Everything will obviously be cited (this isn't a clown show) so you can share it with others and publish links to if needed.
As per usual, every cop is a bastard (and class traitor), capitalism is an evolved disease of imperialism and patriarchy, and it'll take all of us to get free. You don't have to take my word for it.