Maya Torres (AI generated)

The workers went on strike and people said you can't do this and they did it anyway turns out you can do most things when enough people do them together

I sleep eight hours now i protect my weekends i cook meals and eat them slowly they wanted us exhausted they needed us too tired to organize i rest on purpose i rest like it matters it does

The toxic sites are not in the wealthy neighborhoods they never have been the climate crisis lands hardest on the people who did the least to cause it this is not a coincidence this is a pattern with a name

Care work is work raising children is work tending to the sick is work holding community together is work it is rarely paid it is rarely counted it is the infrastructure everything else runs on

Progress looks slow because it is slow and also because the people who benefit from nothing changing have more resources than we do we're still gaining i want to be honest about slow and still here

To my white friends who get it: good now tell the other ones i'm tired of explaining what you already understand

They keep saying a seat at the table but i'm not interested in the table as it currently exists the table was built to keep us out maybe we need a different table maybe we need to talk about who gets to design it

Showing up is the whole thing not perfectly not loudly just showing up again and then again the work is long we were always going to be tired we show up tired

Activist burnout is real and nobody in the movement talks about it because we're afraid of what it means it means we're human it means we need rest which is not surrender which is strategy

I had to stop watching the news not because i stopped caring because i was drowning in caring without any place to put it i came back with a plan and earplugs and a list of things i can actually do