The annual holiday spending cycle fuels business in America as families gather and business shuts down. Instead of dreading it, leverage it!
We collect tips from how to choose a boycott, to how to navigate family gatherings with authenticity. Along the way leverage your gift-buying to support small and local businesses and charities. You might even find ideas to loop your MAGA relatives into resistance!
It’s not too early to think about meaningful gifts! Visit craft or ethnic fairs for locally made items, plan an experience for the person who already has everything, or start the project you always remember too late. If it’s the thought that counts, put in thought! Click through for inspiration.
Think ahead to a meaningful holiday…find a small-time artist who accepts commissions for bespoke work, and have something created for someone you love—or yourself! Commissioning art takes some faith and flexibility, but it creates a truly meaningful gift or memory.
Coming out works for any issue that “nice people don’t talk about.” The problem is, jerks DO talk about those things, making it feel like there’s a consensus of bad opinion. Talking about your experiences changes that. Whether it’s telling your uncle that nice girls get raped, too, or telling Grandma that immigrants are cutting her lawn, not her health benefits, speak up!
The busy holidays are approaching. Put important cultural dates on your calendar now, and raise those dates when scheduling meetings, exams, or other important events. Coming up in September: the Jewish High Holidays!
Cultural Calendaring Find Out How »
The military is far more diverse than most credit it with, and the mistreatment many are currently experiencing is an opening, if we take it. Reach out to someone in the military today. Remind them that they have liberal friends and relatives who remember they’re people, and are willing to help if they need it.
Military Connections Find Out How »
As the school year approaches, skip the Starbucks gift certificate. Instead, pick up gift certificates to a locally owned coffee shop, bookstore or lunch stop. (And don’t forget some campus-area comforts for kids going off to college!) It’s easy to do! Check the chamber of commerce and other local-business-boosters.
Local Gift Certificates Find Out How »
