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queerly-autistic · 2 months
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My dad just messaged me going "seeing all this 'Save OFMD' stuff made me realise some things never change" and attached a load of pictures he'd dug up from fifteen years ago of me in my 'Save Ianto Jones' fan campaign era.
As much as it made me laugh, it also made me think about something that I've not talked about before: the fact that this is what introduced me to campaigning.
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I was a very lost queer (undiagnosed autistic) kid, bullied and lonely and keenly aware that there were a lot of bad things happening in the world, but I had no idea how to begin to even try to change things, or even any awareness that there was anything I could do to change anything.
And then my favourite show killed off my favourite character, and I suddenly accidentally found myself swept up in the mobilisation (without even realising that that was what was happening) of the fan community around me. It's where I learned about the idea of campaigning as, y'know, a thing that I could do. It introduced me to the concept that I could actively try and do things to make a change I wanted to see in the world.
And now that's my actual literal real world adult job. This is what I do in my 9-to-5. Some of the skills I learned and developed at seventeen (and the lessons from the fuck-ups - oh boy there were many of those because I was seventeen) trying to get the BBC to un-dead my favourite bisexual welshman are skills that I now use every day to actually create change (such as writing persuasive emails to influence a specific target).
And I've also used them outside of the 9-5 in the smaller grassroots campaigns I've been involved with. For example, the skills I learned from a fan campaign when I was a teenager helped me play a small part in stopping the deportation of young autistic man, and potentially saved his life.
There's a HUGE amount of crossover/symbiosis between fan campaigns and 'real world' campaigning. A huge number of people involved in these fan campaigns are already involved in organising (or at the very least supporting/donating) for 'real world' issues. And, if they're not, then a fan campaign may well be their introduction to campaigning - a 'wow ok so I can actually do this' moment that inspires them to start pushing for change on other issues too.
It's fantastic if someone goes 'hey, I managed to call Netflix about picking up Our Flag Means Death, which has made me realise maybe I can also cope with picking up the phone to call my political representatives about [insert other issue here]' - and if the strategies they put in place to help them do the Netflix phone call also help them do the political phone calls as well, then that's absolutely brilliant.
The same with getting experience/confidence writing emails, or learning how to create and push a hashtag on social media, or realising the power of taking mass actions (like signing a petition). It even goes so far as inspiring people to follow up a fan campaign donation with an additional donation to a good cause, and helping direct them to some good charities/initiatives to donate to (because sometimes knowing which are the right ones to send your money too is very hard). These are all skills and experiences that can help build both confidence and understanding of how to get involved with campaigning for change, and these are absolutely transferrable to an infinite number of causes.
It's about people feeling empowered to take action: feeling like they can do it, that it's tangible to them as something they can do, and giving them the tools to do it. The endgame in real world advocacy and campaigning is getting stuff done: petitions signed, phone calls made, emails sent, donations collected, rallies attended.
And no one (outside of the internet moral purity police) cares if your journey getting there started with a fan campaign.
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smotherstories · 1 month
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"A fur coat in every closet ... ."
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acquariusgb · 6 months
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Just some random GIFs I've made LOL
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newyorkthegoldenage · 6 months
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Black Roosevelt supporters leaving Harlem to campaign across New York state in October 1936. Lehman was also running for re-election, in his case for governor. He had succeeded FDR when he was elected president in 1932.
Photo: Acme via the NY Times
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zee-rambles · 2 years
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tedkennedyswife · 11 months
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Campaigning together 💗
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tomorrowusa · 27 days
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« Listen to what the people are saying. The best politician is the politician who says what the people are thinking already. We’re representatives. You’re supposed to represent the people. So if the number one thing on people’s minds is the border crisis, you’ve got to talk about the border crisis, and you’ve got to talk about how to solve it. If you’re going to be their representative, you’ve got to talk about what they care about. »
— Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY-03) who recently returned to Congress after flipping the district formerly held by fabulist George Santos. Quoted at POLITICO.
If you have made up your mind to do political work this year, especially grassroots precinct work, your first step should be to find out what people are thinking about.
In one-to-one conversations with voters, you should not be talking more than about a third of the time. Contrary to popular belief, not everybody responds to polls or is active on social media. Finding out what people are concerned about and relaying that information to the campaign helps the candidate formulate a response which addresses what worries voters.
Your neighbors or your candidate may not share your personal views completely, but then the only person who does agree with you 100% of the time is probably you. 🙂
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whats-in-a-sentence · 11 days
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'Can you cook dinner?' shouted a heckler. 'Yes! Can you drive a coach and four?' replied Constance Markievicz (1868-1927) on her campaign for women's votes driving her carriage with four matched grey horses. The daughter of an Arctic explorer in an Anglo-Irish family, she fought against the British occupation of Ireland and was sentenced to death, though released in 1917 under a general amnesty. Arrested again the following year for protesting conscription in the First World War, she stood for Sinn Féin and took 66 per cent of the vote from prison, and refused to take her seat – then she was in any case, still imprisoned.
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"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory
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electronicsquid · 8 months
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Campaigning for a school levy in Kansas City
(Lisa Larsen. 1950)
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ledsastray · 7 months
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^ Staying Up Late is such a cool campaign and advocacy project for Disabled people with Learning Disability / Intellectual Disability who live in residential services or need care to have a social life.
Fab videos
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mixedkid-matchup · 1 year
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was gonna send this as just Sam Alexander propaganda BUT it also doubles as Miles Morales propaganda. please vote for them 🤲 (this is canonically RPF Miles wrote about himself and his best friends. let that sink in)
OH MY GOD HES SO FUNNY, PROPAGANDA EAGERLY ACCEPTED. VOTE FOR SAM AND MILES
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ishhbowl · 1 year
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realizing most people didnt experience my 2021/early 2022 earlposting phase
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(that last one was the first time old man earl was written in the councilblrcord)
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manicgunpixie-blog · 1 year
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hey, Grian fans!
that was a close battle in the polls. we had it till the last 5 minutes. Please help us get revenge. Vote for Joehills!!
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ricklondoncartoons · 1 year
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Cilantro Ruins Everything by @ricklondoncartoons & Gifts
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newyorkthegoldenage · 6 months
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The quintessential politico: Rocky chomping on ethnic food, October 1, 1958. Running for his first term as governor, Nelson Rockefeller and Louis Lefkowitz, who was running for Attorney General, ventured down to Delancey Street and visited a deli. It was Rocky's first-ever trip to the Lower East Side. They ate corned beef sandwiches and Rocky also bought a five-pound salami for $3.
Photo: Associated Press
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bikerlovertexas · 8 months
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Rock you like a Herman Cain-9
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