I grew up in the punk scene listening to bands called like alienated despair.

And stuff like that.

I remember I was at a party once in the sky had a sweatshirt on and I was wasted and his sweatshirt said

fuck the universe and I was like yes I've never heard anything that was more right on

like I hate the whole universe. What is up good people? Welcome to the Bituation Room Podcast, live stream bonus episode. That right you were watching this right now

you're one of the sexiest people alive that's right mhm just that's like

impenetrably true or very penetrably true I'm sorry I'm getting

gross early on what's going on I'm your host from Jessica Fiorentini we have such a good

bonus show today it's gonna be a little different. Okay? Not going to lie. We're not going to talk about Marjorie Taylor Green and Matt Gates and other weirdos, although we should and they're fun and my God, what'll they do next?

No, we're going to actually talk about radical self-care and I specify radical because the other stuff is just bullshit

and I think we need to do that and especially when it comes to

Social justice organizing, movement work, people who are involved in social justice life, people who organize on campaigns, people who organize

um people who take to the streets and organize demonstrations

who stop pipelines who write who cover these things are journalists, and who are everyday trying to work

towards a better world and all of the things that one encounters in that world and all of the ways that we are not

supported or support one another in ways that we should. Additionally, I'm going to be sharing stories. I've never shared. I've never shared and sharing had not shared ever on this podcast pretty much anywhere

but kind about my early days organizing

and sort of what happened in me

and the ways that like,

in our stresses obviously manifested themselves

in our bodies and you know we turn on ourselves

sometimes in really really small ways and sometimes in really huge ways so if you're not

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