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Hi friends! I hope that if you live in a place affected by the time change that you are adjusting alright. I recently saw this Instagram post where the creator explains that she does not have allyship fatigue; the things that are actually exhausting her are white supremacy, colonialism, etc. It resonated with me a lot. I am not tired from caring about people. My ability to care for others is wide and deep. What is causing me fatigue is all the hate, the capitalism, the racism, the transphobia. And then we are expected to keep acting like this is all normal, which is another type of exhausting.