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.

  • • 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

    • 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.