When You Live Your Values Every Day, There’s No Need for Activist Guilt.

Responding to reader questions about decision fatigue, organizing tactics, and the shame of never doing “enough.”

I received several all-too-relatable questions about ~activism anxiety~ in the ol’ Tumblr mailbag this week, and I thought I’d take a moment to synthesize my answers and various reader responses to them here, because they get to the heart of a lot of pervasive struggles that the Palestinian liberation movement is facing these days.

Our first question comes from an anxious Autistic person who isn’t quite sure they’re doing enough, or choosing the correct organizing priorities in a world where they can’t do it all:

Anon, the decision fatigue and pervasive guilt that you are describing is unfortunately all too common, especially among left-leaning neurodivergent people who use social media. There are so many causes and actions demanding our attention every single day, and numerous social justice “influencers” stand to personally gain from telling us that they alone know the exact actions we must take against systemic…