(from bikini kill: girl power issue #2)

• be a dork, tell your friends you love them.
• resist the temptation to view those around you as objects + use them.
• recognize empathy and vulnerability as positive forms of strength. ☆
• resist the internalization of capitalism, the reducing of people + oneself to commodities, meant to be consumed.
• resist psychic death.
• don't allow the world to make you into a bitter abusive asshole.
• cry in public.
• don't judge other people. Learn to love yourself.
• acknowledge emotional violence as real.
• figure out how the idea of competition fits into your intimate relationships. ☆
• decide that you'd rather learn stuff than prove you're right all the time. ☆
• believe people when they tell you they are hurting or are in pain.
• recognize you are not the center of the universe.
• recognize your connection to other people and species. ☆
• make additions to this list and/or think about why you don't agree w/some of what i've written.
• don't assume people invent pain in order to manipulate you or make you feel bad.
• close your mind to the propaganda of the status quo by examining its effects on you, cell by artificial cell. ☆
• trust.