{"id":103595,"date":"2016-04-26T21:04:37","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T21:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/26\/halfdesiqueen-people-shit-on-clicktivism-or\/"},"modified":"2016-04-26T21:04:37","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T21:04:37","slug":"halfdesiqueen-people-shit-on-clicktivism-or","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/26\/halfdesiqueen-people-shit-on-clicktivism-or\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/halfdesiqueen.tumblr.com\/post\/137029108917\" target=\"_blank\">halfdesiqueen<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>People shit on clicktivism or online social justice shit a lot but here\u2019s the thing:<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been on this garbage website for three years as of this month and I can say with absolute certainty that a lot of what I now know about intersectionality and gender and race and class and ableism can be directly traced to this website. It\u2019s because tumblr (and Twitter to a lesser extent because of the character limit) is a really accessible way to see mini essays explaining shit to me from tons of different perspectives. <\/p>\n<p>Like you get these really digestible posts that clearly spell out either theoretical concepts or their practical applications. And I sure as shit don\u2019t get that in school or in my daily interactions. <\/p>\n<p>I feel like people shit on clicktivism because they think it stops there \u2013 with me reading stuff on a screen. But it doesn\u2019t because I for one take the knowledge I gain here and transfer it into the world at large: my interactions with my friends and family, my conduct in the classroom, and the entertainment media I consume. <\/p>\n<p>Real-world revolution has never once just fallen out of the sky, guys. It always starts with an exchange of ideas. Tumblr and platforms like it facilitate that exchange. <\/p>\n<p>So like don\u2019t ever let anyone tell you that you\u2019re less of an activist because you started learning shit from social media. Social media is a gift to activism.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>halfdesiqueen: People shit on clicktivism or online social justice shit a lot but here\u2019s the thing: I\u2019ve been on this garbage website for three years as of this month and I can say with absolute certainty that a lot of what I now know about intersectionality and gender and race and class and ableism can &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/26\/halfdesiqueen-people-shit-on-clicktivism-or\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[12815,3502,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}