> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.hawthreiter.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # What's your role in the revolution? - URL: https://www.hawthreiter.com/whats-your-role-in-the-revolution/ - Published: 2026-01-19T18:27:25.000Z - Updated: 2026-01-19T18:27:25.000Z - Description: The world is watching and documenting. - Author: Hawth Reiter - Tags: #hawthornereiter, #Migrated-1787155092750, #Import 2026-08-19 11:58 *In the last week and half, I’ve doomscrolled my way through TikTok video after TikTok video, showing the brutality of Trump’s administration. A few nights ago, I landed on HopeTok and began feeling better. It’s not the end of the world — just maybe the world as we know it. We have an exciting opportunity to help shape what we think America could or should be. Everyone has something to contribute, whether skills, desires, random knowledge, time, or sheer orneriness.* *My role is in communication. I’m a writer; it’s what I do. What stories am I telling? What narrative can I help to uncover and build? When history books look back at this time, where will my contributions, no matter how small, land? Where will yours?* [Subscribe](#/portal/signup) --- Everyone’s voice matters. The more people who speak up, who use whistles literally and metaphorically, who shout into the cacophonous maw of never-satisfied and always-hungry social media — the more we can facilitate change. I know. Yet another voice shouting into the wind? Here’s the thing: Even if only one other person reads what you have to say, you’ve changed their day. Maybe you plant a seed about revolution. Maybe you, like the young college kid in a dark dorm room who came across my feed late last night, have only a handful of followers. This college student was the tipping point for me —as I listened to the cadence of their young voice crackling with enthusiasm about technofeudalism and the future they foresee, I felt motivated. The more action we can motivate, the more likely we are to win. It’s all about energy. The more energy you pour into revolution, whether it’s a solo work of witchcraft in the dark that no one ever knows about or it’s a viral video of someone hexing ICE or Trump, the more we create the groundswell of change. Revolution begins in each individual. — We’ve binged dystopian media, whether movies or books or comics. In those stories, the plot moves quickly. We go from one intense scene to the next, plot point by plot point, and the story wraps up in a nice trilogy arc. We don’t see how revolutions are truly built: Small conversation after small conversation. Introducing yourself to the neighbors down the street with a cute yard sign and lots of car stickers that indicate a sympathetic ally. Writing post after post about your experience. Shifting your time to include more analog practices in general, understanding that in an economy of attention, deliberately disengaging from doomscrolling removes energy from the oppressors. Laughing with your child while splashing in rain puddles. Yes, laughing — oppression feeds on fear. --- Revolution doesn’t just come from protests (although we sure do need our front-line protestors!). What is one small thing you can do in the upcoming week? Here are some jumping-off points (and please, provide more in the comments!): - Start using the word “revolution” in place of “resistance.” Resistance is simply pushing back against the oppressors. Revolution allows us the space to create something entirely new — something better now that humanity’s understanding of itself and the world is exponentially expanding. - Donate time or money to cause you care about. - Register to vote (even if it feels like it won’t make a difference: We must all show up to show our dissatisfaction and disgust with this administration. If and/or when they decide the election results are “fraudulent” because they are so anti-Trump, and work to instill Trump loyalists, the world will see what we’ve documented: We’ve had enough. We don’t want this.). - If you are already registered to vote, research how to become a poll worker so we have multiple eyes on our electoral process. - Post anything and everything that you record: Digital records of oppression matter (and record everything). - Call your senator (shoot, even just find your senator’s phone number; call them the following week — it’s about baby steps!) --- When we all speak out, we might be surprised at just how loud we can be. --- *Written without any use of AI. Not that I’m anti-AI; I think it has its time and place. However, I believe in transparency around AI use. So if and when I use AI, I’ll make note of when, how, and why.* --- Hawth Reiter is a trans husband, dad, artist, writer, and Tarot reader who talks to dead people (and spirits of all kinds). Learn more at geologyofthesoul.com. [Subscribe](#/portal/signup)