#peasants — Public Fediverse posts

The currently trendy obsession with being a "#king" is poison.

Buddy, the vast majority of #men throughout human #history—past, present, and future—are not kings. If you think you are, or can be, you don't understand how people function. We're not #knights either. We're #peasants. We're born, we live, we work, we die. Nobody but our friends and families will ever know we existed. When they die too, we will be completely and utterly forgotten.*

The ones who are kings? Or #dukes, or #barons, or knights? Shitheads, by and large. Even the "good ones" turn out to be pretty bad when you look closely. #Rulers need the #people, but people don't need rulers. This is a lesson the world learned through millennia of blood and pain. Those who want to discard that hard-won knowledge are scum.

If that's what you want to be ... okay, thanks for letting us know what you are. We won't forget it.

🎉 WoMin African Alliance just released their 10-year anniversary publication: “Women Build Power! Celebrating 10 Years of Pan #African #Ecofeminist Organising.” https://bit.ly/womin-celebrates.

These pages are filled w/ #photographs, #political posters, struggle #songs, #slogans, and #poetry created by women organizers & communities across #Africa.

✊🏾 WoMin is a Pan African #ecofeminist #alliance working alongside organisations of women, #peasants, and communities impacted by extractive developments.