#71 Resources for when you get cancelled

Plus a little note on what it has to do with addiction recovery

In my last post, Getting Cancelled, I promised to share resources, and this newsletter includes a number of ones I’ve personally found helpful for navigating cancellation (either as a concept or experience).

Simply investigating the subject of cancellation can feel like I’m sending a dog whistle to the “anti-woke” contingent that exists out there. I’ve found these past few years that just engaging with certain books or media or thinkers or questioning certain ideas can leave me feeling morally compromised (and has definitely raised a few of my friends hackles at times), as if questioning cancellation or call out culture equals Joe Rogan. I want to be clear: this is not that.

Another heavy part of publishing this is that I can feel at least a few butts clenching already at the prospect of providing aid to people who may or may not have done something unconscionable, or who “deserved” to be cancelled, instead of using valuable media space to highlight some other horror or the victims tha…