Look, I get it. I do. It’s a LOT to keep track of. EVERYTHING is a LOT to keep track of. So it’s ok, you don’t have to keep track of it all.

You just need to find a couple of good resources, Stick Them In Your Information Pipeline, then interact with them when the come across your feed so you’ll see more of them.

No really, it works. It works really really well. As long as you do that ‘interact with them’ bit.

Here are some of the places I follow on instagram to keep up with abortion info: AbortionEveryDay, PlanCPills, ShoutYourAbortion, AbortionFunds, Mayday.Health, AbortionFront

If you have others you like, ABSOLUTELY drop them in the comments on this post over on my insta (commenting on posts like this makes ig show them to more people). If you don’t have any you like yet, go follow a couple of those.

And seriously, whenever you see information about abortion stuff (or any other *cough, eyeroll, cough* “political” *masssssive eyeroll* issue you care about) come across your feed, like it! Leave a comment on it! Share it! Save it!

These god forsaken al-gore-rhythms control an absolutely terrifying amount of what you see online. And I promise they are designed to keep you complacent, to keep you scared, and to separate you from as much of your money as possible. And we can’t make them go away…but we can sure as hell learn about them to try and mitigate the damage.

So yeah, go follow some of those folks. Interact with their stuff. Teach the algo-gods that you want to know this stuff. Make your feed a better place.

P.S. Every month, I use your patreon pledges to make a donation to AidAccess to help pay for abortions. That’s what’s happening on that last pic (Women on Waves is AidAccess’ parent organization and where they ask folks to donate to support their work). Because the world is terrifying and awful and overwhelming…but doing one teeny tiny concrete thing every month helps me feel ever so slightly less awful. And this is my concrete thing. I highly recommend finding one of your own. Because ever so slightly less awful is…better than the alternative.

P.P.S. Instagram is, by FAR, where I have the biggest audience, so these posts are always structured to be shard over there. Hence the bits about comments/likes/shares/etc. But if you like to use something else to put info in your brain, this works on pretty much any social media platform. Find a couple good sources, put them in your feed, interact with them whenever you see them, and you’ll get more of it!