Background info for today’s small pleasure: a friend and I recently started a soup swap, which just means we drop off soup for each other whenever we feel like it.
So today’s small pleasure was texting my friend “HOT SOUPS IN YOUR AREA” to find out whether she was home
Loved this take on how to organize across differences in privilege:
“One of my favourite organizers in history is a guy named Witold Pilecki, who organized a resistance cell inside Auschwitz… He said that the people he chose for that cell were the ones that he saw do an action that helped another person and harmed them. Help another person, and gain nothing.
You wanna know if you can trust the white people you organize with? Put them in that position. Do it over and over and over again.”
From this episode of The Red Nation Podcast.
Reminds me of the classic Real Ally Shit zine— finding the difference between pretty words and dependable people:
You would think by now I would have one moment of hesitation before I started boiling 3 bunches of radishes that had been in the back of the fridge too long. It makes #WeirdSmells but will it make ink?
Surprisingly solid pink ink once it gets concentrated enough! Seems more stable than things like raspberry or red cabbage.
Can’t decide whether to add gum arabic for a drawing/dipping ink, or filter it better and add a bit of glycerin to try with a cheap fountain pen 🤔
Sewing projects are 80% activities other than sewing, and I think my favourite of all of them is finding matching thread.
What a treat to hear a host on my fave herbal medicine podcast encouraging people to wear masks to protests to protect against covid and long covid. Lots of other good protest safety tips in here, plus some herbal ideas for street medics.
Aww, how lovely to see an interior design youtuber give a great 30 second explanation of ME/CFS. Bonus design tips about how to put a bed in your living room.
One more data point in favour of the battery metaphor instead of spoons, I suppose.
Small pleasure of the day was printing other people’s zines to enjoy at home. Going to highlight this free one-pager about drawing cute poops. A perfect gift for the children in your life.
