SPEAK UP: Tell me something good

Joy isn't denial, it's how we will survive

It has been something of a week. But as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Bluesky (where you can find me these days also), “It’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism. We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive.”

So tell me something joyful, life-giving, surprising (in a good way), hilarious, or beautiful that has happened to you since last Tuesday.

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