A reminder that for many Indigenous, Black, brown, queer, & disabled folks - online activism may be the only safe and accessible way to make change.

Not everybody has the privilege to physically protest safely.

Just think about that when you call people performative.

For many of us, learning how to do well on social media, or write op eds, or do media interviews is an essential activist skill to raise the profile of issues we’re working on, create leverage etc. and for some folks being visible publicly is essential for their safety.

When you call people performative for doing a lot of activism online, you are literally excluding the groups who MOST need change to happen, and who are most marginalised already.

So if you want to dunk on marginalised people for being “performative” because their activism is very online, then you best be ready for the aunties to get up in your mentions to call you TF out for your racism and ableism.

Because that’s exactly what it is.