A Social Justice Conundrum
May. 28th, 2020 05:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
There's some vacuums in social justice that really, truly need to be filled. There are times that I think 'well, maybe I should try to step up and fill some of those' but I also have deep misgivings about my ability to organize anything (look at this blog! do I look like an organized person?!) and I deeply loathe taking on responsibility of any sort. I occasionally discuss political issues on my blog(s), but that's rather less difficult than actually organizing some sort of group, even of the simplest type. With a group there has to be regular engagement or it fizzles out, and I'm not good at regular anything. With my blog posts I just post stuff when I feel ready to post it. Also with a group that's focused on those sorts of issues the problem of burnout becomes even more pronounced as well as the related problem of harassment. I've seen how much truly nasty stuff gets targeted at activists, in addition to being well aware that not all activists themselves are very good people, and that just all looks so exhausting to deal with.