Dirty Boots: “Slacktivism”

Dirty Boots: Irregular Attempts at Critical Thinking and Border Crossing offers a Deep Southern, Generation X perspective on the culture, politics, and general milieu of the 21st century. I’m no activist. Never have thought I was. But reading recently about this new term “slacktivism” interested me immediately. Slacktivism is the practice of supporting progressive causes in name, but not actually doing any work. A person engaging in slacktivism might post or tweet about a cause or wear a graphic t-shirt about the cause, but never actually lift a finger to… Read more Dirty Boots: “Slacktivism” →