Something I’ve been sitting with and want to share honestly

One of the hardest things to hold in activism is that people are not fixed. Scratch a fluffy person enough and they go spiky. Bring a spiky person into real trust and shared purpose and they can soften. Repression, fear, insecurity, ego, trauma – these are universal. The point isn’t pretending the tensions don’t exist. The point is mediating them socially before they become destructive. Without that mediation, movements collapse. Not because people are bad, but because unmediated conflict always drifts the same way – fluffy becomes avoidance, passive aggression and endless process; spiky becomes domination, ego battles and fragmentation. Both become dysfunctional when they lose connection to trust and collective accountability. We need to consciously compost this mess rather than just cycling through it. On the practical side – I still think the “use and abuse the platforms” approach is right. Walking away from mainstream spaces entirely just means retreating into circles where nobody…