Simple ways almost everyone can resist…

    • Look at the BDS list and boycott as many things as you possibly can on it.

    • Download the boycat app and use it to shop

    • Encourage others to do the same

    • Follow accounts talking about Sudan, Congo, Palestine, etc.. and share the information with your networks

    • Discuss these issues in real life where possible.

    • Buy refurbished instead of new electronics (not on the boycott lists) whenever possible.

    • Buy a keffiyeh, free Palestine (Sudan, Congo) stickers from artists with those backgrounds and wear them to signal your support to others.

    • Get as many library cards as you can (your primary library will often have reciprocal relationships with other nearby libraries).

    • Check out or put on hold some titles about abolishing policing, abolitionist activism, mutual aid or speculative fiction by authors of the global majority.

    • Check out titles or put on hold titles the banned book list, especially those about and by queer and trans folks.

    • Check out or put on hold titles about sex education and reproductive rights.

    • Purchase some of those books if you can and put them in little free libraries.

    • Take your money out of the billionaires pockets.

    • Buy only what you need and try to do so second hand.

    • Join and use your local buy nothing group & thrift stores. (You’ll not only save money and the planet, but build community)

    • Use second hand retailers (like Thred Up and Mercari) online.

    • Start free pantries and closets in your neighborhood where people can drop off and take free items (canned food, menstrual products, coats, gloves, etc…)

    • Set up or find a have a coat/leave a coat (gloves, mittens, scarves, boots, etc…) rack and give as much as you can. Share about its existence to others in your network so they can as well.

    • Keep gloves, scarves, and new socks in your car or bag to give out to unhoused folks or anyone else in need.

    • Create warm bags you can hand out as needed.

    • Learn about how the goldrush was a theft of land and resources furthering the genocide of Indigenous people.

    • Stop posting and boosting weight loss content. It negatively affects those with eating disorders and aims to keep you small and hungry.

    • Educate yourself on safe ways to join protests and join them if you are able.

    • Stop using AI.

    • Learn not only about the Indigenous peoples who land you inhabit, but about the history and standing of treaties there.

    • Start asking yourself and those close to you (in private, offline, or encrypted spaces) what you are willing to do for what you believe in and put a plan in place to act when needed.

    • Recognise and acknowledge that anyone can become disabled at any point in time.

    • Educate yourself on how disabling covid has been.

    • Wear a face mask.

    • Follow disabled creators like: Crutches & Spice, Thai Brows, RDs for Neurodiversity, Astro Woke, Courtney C Blindish Latina & Danny with Words,

    • Start building accessibility considerations into your every day life. Are there interpreters? Is your information legible for those with poor eyesight and does it include alt text? Are there ramps and clear pathways?

    • Use apps like Roll Mobility to help others find accessible places.

  • • Work to educate and decolonize yourself on western beauty standards and how they are routed in racism. “Fearing the Black Body” by Sabrina Strings is a great place to start.

    • Block companies who sell weight loss drugs.

    • Learn about the BMI and how it is a racist tool based in eugenics and never meant for widespread use that the medical industry uses to make more money.

    • Ask for companies to carry plus sizes in store and online and in the same styles as straight sizes.

    • Stick up for fat people getting publicly attacked just like you should any oppressed group.

    • Educate yourself on the genetics and epigenetics of fatness.

    • Stop spreading the lie that people get ill cause they’re fat. There are no illnesses that fat people have that thin people do not.

    • Learn about the connection between thinness and white supremacy/control groups like cults.

    • Follow Historical Fat People and recognise that fat people have always and will always exist.

    • Examine your beliefs and biases around why people are fat and ask yourself if you hold the same belief for thin people who behave in similar ways.

    • Stop commenting on or complimenting people’s bodies

    • Educate yourself on how many fat people suffer from eating disorders (EDs)

    • Educate yourself on how weight loss content contributes to EDs

    • Follow plus size creators who aren’t trying to lose weight like…

    ◦ Sacred Space for Fat Bodies

    ◦ Jaimmy Koroma

    ◦ Baila with Kyla

    ◦ Arielle Estoria

    ◦ Jervae

    ◦ Diarra Jasmine

    ◦ Fat Angry Black Girl

    ◦ Megan Ixim

    ◦ Jodyann Morgan

    • Join, start, or share a local resource to directly get people meals. My village facebook has a dinner train, many communities will have something similar.

    • Start or donate to a free fridge or pantry. These can stock food, but also other necessities like hygiene & cleaning products.

    • Abolish the cop inside of you. This means we don’t know anything about anyone doing what they have to in order to get what they need from big corporations and we don’t make people justify themselves to us.

    • Help track and report ICE sightings.

    • 6 ways to support the protest at Delaney Hall if you can’t be there.

    • Make sure ICE feels unwelcome everywhere they go. This could mean verbalizing that, letting your mayor and local businesses know they aren’t welcome in your city, and denying them business.

    • Learn how to de-arrest

    • Find out what hotels ICE is staying at and show up to make noise or email the hotel and leave bad reviews.

    • Be vocal against ICE in airports. Make sure they know they are unwelcome and let everyone know that they are are kidnapping, trafficking & killing people.

    • Share videos of the harm ICE is causing (as long as they don’t include any identifying features of others).

    • Jam up ICE checkpoints (if you are a white citizen).

    • Make sure your devices are turned off and biometrics are disabled before heading into airports where ICE could be present and take other actions to avoid surveillance and stay safe.

    • Work on switching your mindset from a nonprofit to a mutual aid model.

    • Develop a mutual aid practice of giving when you can and sharing every day.

    • Join your local buy nothing group.

    • Find mutual aid groups near you or creators who often do mutual aid to support.

    • Learn to ask for help if you need it. Mutual aid is giving AND receiving.

    • Keep condoms in stock and available in a (room temp) place where anyone in your community can access them anonymously.

    • Stock Plan B and medical abortion pills and let people in your community know you have them.

    • Build a library of comprehensive sex ed books for all ages and share with your community

    • Keep menstrual products in stock and free for access anonymously

    • Mentor children and teenagers in your community and make sure they have access to age appropriate, comprehensive sex ed. tem description

    • Speak Spanish in public if you know it and are here legally.

    • Record ICE agents and police and loudly scream out people’s rights to them (learn and bookmark or memorize them for these occasions).

    • Wear a mask.

    • Proudly display your support for more marginailzed groups publicly (clothing, stickers. etc…) so people feel safer with you and not alone.

    • Wear a face mask in public.