Red Menace!!: All this nonsense with public leadership, political office, and politicians...

~The Red Menace~

Radical Feminist, Anarcha-Socialist, Lezbian Queer Dyke Cunt Lover, Secular Humanist, Activist Social Change Agent, Mestiza-Classed, Community Builder, RED MENACE!!

I'm a Public Leader, Community Organizer, and Community Builder. And I'm also an Anarcha-Socialist who fights to eliminate capitalism and other political, social, and economic hierarchies to create a society without institutions where all people have equal access to knowledge and production, emphasizes trade unions and decentralized methods of direct democracy, and finds any institutional form to be abusive. And I'm a Radical Feminist who believes the cause of women's oppression to be within patriarchy and the cause of all oppression to be in the mimicked hierarchical structures such as capitalism and amerikkkanism and globalism and colonialism and imperialism and jesusgodism which means society needs to be recreated and not changed cuz change just rearranges the same shit in a different order. And I'm a Secular Humanist who believes we got ourselves into this mess and can only rely on ourselves to get the hell out. And I'm Mestiza-Classed: the educated working-class wonder! And a Lezbian Queer Dyke Cunt Lover. An active activist social change agent iconoclastic catalyst. A VOICE with capital letters that stand tall and out and above and are heard and seen...always an outspoken mouth on the pretty face of the strong head of an independent woman. I'm an individual within the collective. And a Revolution! I'm a ReVoLuTiOn! and revolutionizer. A riotous redhead. THE Red Menace!

Sunday, January 24, 2010

All this nonsense with public leadership, political office, and politicians...

Public leadership means being a leader in the community. And political leadership means being a leader in the political sphere which, while certainly a part of any leader's leadership as well as what we understand to be both the private and the public, is actually identifying as part of the political hierarchy. Public office is holding a position of public leadership, but we call it office because it sounds more improtant which just equals hierarchy so why can't we just call it public leadership? And political office is holding a position of political leadership...that has been elected or appointed to you. Volunteerism is donating your time and energy to an organization, person, or group of persons. And activism is making something happen with your time and energy.

And I'm a public leader who will not hold public office because I'd rather be a public leader in a leadership role within my community rather than above it, and I do and will continue to create change through activism no matter how I'm bringing in the tofu-bacon, and I'll work alongside elected officials until they piss me off like they tend to do and then I will riot because I don't have time for their shenanigans, but I'll certainly work within the system and outside of it when appropriate and as it suits me because that's what a public leader who will not hold public office does!