Sarah Durnesque

@durnesque.bsky.social

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Mildly infamous nerd & comfy executive goth. Pick Your Posion Productions Producer 🖤 Performer | Creator | Artist 🖤

Screenshot of a video ESPN posted of Kendrick Lamar's halftime show at the Super Bowl. An a capella group is singing with Kendrick below a light pole. In the foreground, Uncle Sam (Samuel L Jackson) is waiting to move into the scene beside camera operators. A lone figure reclines with elbows bent, hands beneath their head, at the top of the light pole. A spot light on this figure creates a shadowed outline on the ground which looks like a hanging man.
Screenshot of a Facebook post linking to an article with the title: Measure to make California an independent country cleared to gather signatures. Sarah (the author of this bluesky post) has replied: If we leave, how do we help? How do I protect my sisters and afab friends in Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina? All my queer and trans friends there and throughout the rest of the country? Maybe its easy for people who have lived in California their whole lives, who only think ephemerally about everyone else in the United States. But I have people I love and care deeply about in almost every continental state in this country. And I've spent the better part of my life living in deeply red areas where people I know and love are first in the line of fire.
Screenshot from a Tumblr post. Author is Durnesque-esque. Text reads: Yes, punch Nazis. But remember, one does not simply wake up able to punch Nazis. Punching requires strength training and form. You should sign up for a martial art of some kind and regularly stretch and lift weights. Practice on a punching bag frequently. If you have not already started training to punch Nazis, you should start today. And this is not just a lesson for literally punching Nazis, this is also a metaphor for punching Nazis. Y'all need to get educated about the issues and get involved. And you need to practice standing up for your deeply held beliefs. I am a Holocaust / Shoah scholar. When we talk about the Holocaust / Shoah, we talk about 4 categories of people: victims, perpetrators, rescuers / resistors, and BYSTANDERS. Everyone likes to think they would be a rescuer / resistor AUTOMATICALLY. But you wouldn't. And probably many of you already haven't. And that's ok - I'm not accusing you, but I'm trying to wake you to the fact that most of us have already been quiet bystanders too many times. It takes active, daily work to move from bystander to rescuer / resistor.