LGBTQIA+ on Yik Yak | I would ask this in politics but they’re scary. How do you actually sit down and read about politics. I know what I believe fundamentally and I know Im right on a base level, but I don’t know how to read the theory texts I’m being recommended.

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LGBTQIA+ 1d

I would ask this in politics but they’re scary. How do you actually sit down and read about politics. I know what I believe fundamentally and I know Im right on a base level, but I don’t know how to read the theory texts I’m being recommended.

Anonymous 1d

marxists.org has a bunch of different articles/resources by different left-wing authors, it’s a pretty ok place to start if you’re just looking for somewhere to click around and read stuff. many DSAs (democratic socialists of america) have political education events and/or reading groups. keeping current on the news is helpful but can be overwhelming—personally i listen to democracynow! (uploaded as a podcast) every day to have a consistent baseline.

Anonymous 23h

Sophie Lewis’s Enemy Feminisms is a good book for an overview of feminist movements- I don’t read much either and this book was helpful bc Lewis has a very engaging style. I would also recommend the autobiography of Frederick Douglass- I felt like it was a very accessible primary source of slavery in the U.S. South

Anonymous 1d

wdym by don’t know how to read them? can you not access the texts? do you find them difficult to comprehend? do they give you some kind of emotional response that makes it hard to continue reading?

Anonymous

#1 1d

Difficult to comprehend, and I have adhd, so sitting down and starting something is hard. I can’t pay attention to movies, shows, or books, but I desperately want to. I just feel stupid and uneducated even though I know on a base level my politics are okay. Like I see some people wishing death on others for being themselves, or wanting groups to die, or thinking it’s okay to kill civilians after a oppressed group of people fights back after years of oppression and colonisation.

Anonymous

OP 1d

And I don’t agree with that. And I know the people I’m told to hate by the government (especially when they hunted them down in the 40’s & 50’s) are the same ones at pride parades and handing out free food to those who can’t afford it

Anonymous

OP 1d

Idk if that makes sense at all

Anonymous

OP 1d

it makes sense, idk that i have any suggestions though😅 if reading is hard for you, maybe see if you can find a different method? ik mit and harvard both (and probably lots of other colleges too) offer free online coursework, mit in particular has a lot of polisci ones

Anonymous

#1 1d

Oh wait I’ll look into that :) I’m also going to try reading some wiki pages about political views and movements & history to see what I’d like to learn more about

Anonymous

#2 1d

I try and keep up with current news! I’ll definitely check out Marxists.org :)

Anonymous

#3 23h

Shell-Shocked by Mohammed Omer was another accessible read on Israeli apartheid and the role of media in perpetuating harms in Palestine.