Declare your niche and help in ways you find joyful
Work in ways that make sense for you and others
Authors Against Book Bans recently shared a few "ways to help that do NOT include: Going anywhere / Calling anyone / Writing anything"
- If you enjoy making calendars, make one for your community's "meetings, protests, elections," etc.
- If you enjoy making spreadsheets, make one "to organize phone trees, letter writing campaigns, postcard parties" to show when elected officials "were last contacted about what and who's up next for bugging them."
- If you enjoy cooking, bring homemade food to your local meetings — it's a morale booster like nothing else.
- If you enjoy reading and sharing what you find, do that: "Help your community tune in by aggregating the day's or week's news for them. Send an email, post something in the hallway."
Andrea Pitzer writes in Degenerate Art:
Every tyrant falls in the end. What do you want to do that will outlive him? What part of your vision of the world will you work to build? It can be as small as a project to document local history or as large as an effort to guarantee rights of a targeted group in your state. You might imagine a community program that would reach every elementary school-age child in your county or that fights for automatic voter registration and the removal of barriers to civic participation.
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...take a step back and pick what you want to see in America when Trump is gone, something bigger than just a personal fight against him. You may be waiting for the day he’ll exist only in the past tense, but you can begin to build a better world—one that will absolutely outlast him—right now.
