This isn’t about skipping the holidays.
It’s about asking why we keep performing joy while our neighbors go hungry.
Every year we’re told to spend, to host, to smile through it — to prove our gratitude with receipts. But this winter feels different. The air is heavier. The silence after the news about SNAP funding says more than any carol could. And maybe this time, instead of pretending everything is fine, we can decide that enough is enough.
Maybe this year we gather differently.
Maybe the most radical thing we do is refuse to perform abundance when what people need is care, regardless of status.
Tell me what’s happening where you are.
Who’s feeding who? Who’s showing up when the government won’t?
Share your mutual aid links, your local food drives, your quiet acts of defiance.
Let’s turn this thread into a living list of care and resistance.💎
