Brittney Cooper
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90 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Feb 2025
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But the part of me that's still like a Gilmore Girls girl is like, okay, but I still recognize badass boss bitches in any century. I do. And you get to claim these people and disagree with the parts that didn't work. So it took them 75 years, basically, from 1848 Seneca Falls to 1920.
Like we're talking about a history that happens in 75 year cycles, which means that we're kind of right on schedule.
The thing I want to tell people is this is the time to build good, solid, local relationships. This is the time to join orgs. I have, you know, taken up crocheting. I was never an arts and crafts girl. It's very weird even to myself. But I have been delighted by all this stuff that I'm doing with yarn. And so I've just gone ahead and leaned into it.
So I have been finding local crafting spaces and circles and conferences and all kinds of things to go to, mostly because it's a low stakes way to be in community. So whether it's, you know, starting a book club or going to learn archery or taking up axe throwing or whatever, I'm partly saying get a hobby because there's got to be something that your hands are doing that are not doom scrolling.
But also, the way that we're going to be able to figure out what is true in a world where the media has abandoned us and the government has abandoned us is that we've got to be in community with people so that we can build real deep and solid relationships so that there are people to come to our rescue, people to bounce ideas off of, people to be a resource well for us so that we can connect with each other.
And so even though I know we're in the era of the hyper digital and A.I., We're also in this era where going back into local space, even recognizing that some of the running that you might want to do in government is for the school board, is for the city council, is for the planning or zoning board, right? Go be part of the volunteer firefighters, any number of local orgs.
These are the places where we're going to be able to have impact. These are the places where we're going to be able to be in community. These are the places where we're going to be able to be in power. And I say that as a person who is largely an introvert, you know, I'm a social extrovert in terms of like my work and all of that. But I'm not necessarily like a make a lot of new friends person.
I have my kind of trusted circle. But being connected in community is the way that this is going to feel less apocalyptic. And so allow yourself the benefit of that new energy. Allow yourself to imagine that there might be some interests that you haven't imagined that you can take up. And the thing is, we're all very busy people. So as you can imagine, I too am busy.
So I know you're wondering, well, where do you get all these time for hobbies? I schedule it in the same way that I schedule in work meetings and every other thing. And so then I just be like, look, it's already on the schedule. I got to do it. I paid for this class, this whatever. So that is my like non-political, political way of like sustaining yourself is build community with people.
And it is really hard for adults to make friends. It's hard to make adult friends. But maybe you won't make a bunch of new deep friends, but maybe you'll make a bunch of like social acquaintances in your community. And that really matters.
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