ALL 👏🏾 OF 👏🏾 THEM 👏🏾

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one of my friends sent me this, and people thought i was CRAZY for preferring lowe’s over home depot. i’ve worked at lowe’s for a while, and let me tell you, they 100% pass the vibe check. they’re offering full time, paid 2-week sick leave for the virus, tuition payback, health insurance, and other benefits to all employees, not just full time. they offered us hazard pay and unlimited overtime to help employees make ends meet when their family members were laid off. we have a self-made, black CEO, Marvin Ellison, who started out working as a cashier making minimum wage, then went to school and got his masters degree, and worked his way up. we have community projects every year to donate labor and resources to build things like shelters, parks, and infrastructure, and we have a good time doing it. on top of that, they’re very diversity-driven. in my store alone, we have veteran, disabled, black, lesbian, gay, bi, and trans employees, and not ONCE has anyone been made fun of, treated differently, paid differently or even misgendered. and yep, we did donate 25m to minorities.

tl;dr: fuck home depot

Stop.

Stop thinking of time in days or weeks. Think of it in hours, or minutes even. 

Don’t tell yourself that “You’ve already ruined today anyway, so what that point?”

You’ve only ‘ruined’ this hour, this minute. You can still succeed in the next hour. 

So don’t give up and start tomorrow for the millionth time, start again the next minute. Start again the next hour, and keep fucking going.

“And now, the six merry murderesses of the Cook County Jail in their rendition of the Cell Block Tango.” Chicago (2002), dir. Rob Marshall.

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On twitter I’m seeing dozens of threads from Black activists warning people against burnout, giving all sorts of useful tips about preventing and managing it for the sake of a long-term, sustainable effort.

On tumblr I’m seeing a hell of a lot of young white kids yelling at anyone who actually follows those steps, and acting like burnout is a moral falling rather than a well-proven psychological phenomenon.

Be careful who you get your information from. Don’t let guilt lead you to make choices that will harm both you and the movement.

I don’t watch bon appetit so I don’t really know what’s happening but I saw a post going around about supporting cooking YouTube channels created by poc and I wanted to suggest that people watch Homemade by Steven Lim. Each episode Steven learns how to cook a dish from a different cuisine first from a restaurant owner and then from someone who has been cooking the dish in their home their whole life. This person is usually a family friend of Stevens’. It does a really good job showing how poc pass cultural knowledge down and how the restaurant scene differs from the experiences poc have cooking at home, while also exploring how poc incorporate their culture into restaurant experiences. Also check out Stevens’ other show grocery run where he interviews other Asian Americans who are successful in their fields and his podcast hidden narratives which focuses on how covid has impacted the Asian community