Dudes in my org are really pissing me off right now, some of them have actually done seriously sketchy shit and other ones have just not taken obvious steps to avoid looking sketchy and problematic and now we’re having a PR crisis and because of identity pol stuff people won’t listen to my dude comrades and so I have to handle it as the most centrally involved woman and I’m just angry. 

dear leftists, If you care about the wellbeing of your organizations you need to not only make sure your behavior is irreproachable but make sure it also appears irreproachable.  Leftists are ALWAYS under immense scrutiny internally and externally and it would behoove us all the remember that.

Residents of the squatter community of Christiana, Denmark, for example, have a Christmastide ritual where they dress in Santa suits, take toys from department stores and distribute them to children on the street, partly just so everyone can relish the images of the cops beating down Santa and snatching the toys back from crying children.

David Graeber, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology.

This is really excellent propaganda.