Date: May 29th
Category: Everyday Resistance | Practical Action | Living History
Resistance isn’t just for the battlefield, the ballot box, or the barricade.
It’s in your shopping list.
Your bookshelf.
Your embroidery hoop.
Your inbox.
Today, as The Time Traveller’s Guild approaches the final chapter of our May Resistance series, we leave you not with fanfare — but with five quietly powerful ways to keep the rebel spirit alive in your everyday life.
Because if history teaches us anything, it’s this: small acts add up. Especially when they’re stitched into your routine like hidden messages in a suffragette’s sash.
🧺 1. Support Local & Radical Makers
The Luddites weren’t afraid of machines. They were afraid of exploitation.
Choose to spend your money (when you can) with:
- Small businesses with ethical practices
- Craftivists, artists, and printers with a purpose
- Cooperatives, community groups, and mutual aid projects
💡 Every purchase is a vote. Cast yours with intention.
🛍️ Start here: Guild’s Maker Spotlight Collection
📚 2. Read Banned Books & Share Hidden Stories
In libraries, prisons, and bedrooms across history, people have read in defiance of power.
- Choose books that were censored, erased, or ignored
- Read outside your own experience
- Gift books by marginalised authors
- Leave notes in margins (or a quote in a library copy…)
📖 The act of reading — and sharing — can be revolutionary.
🎒 Try our Guild zine “What to Read When You’re Ready to Rebel” – free this week!
💬 3. Write Letters (and Not Just to Friends)
Whether it’s to a local MP, a newspaper editor, a museum curating a questionable exhibit, or a friend who needs a morale boost — put words into the world.
- Print a pamphlet. Post a postcard. Start a zine.
- Write like Thomas Paine meets your nan.
- Seal it with hope, outrage, or a very good sticker.
✉️ Words travel. Let yours walk purposefully.
📬 Use our “Postcards of Defiance” printable pack — or design your own.
🌱 4. Grow Something, Even If It’s Just an Idea
Throughout history, gardens have been acts of protest:
- Dig for Victory (WWII)
- Guerrilla gardening (1970s onwards)
- Community food sovereignty projects today
You don’t need a field — a windowsill herb pot, shared seed library, or tiny green rebellion still counts.
🌼 Reclaim space. Nourish hope.
🕯️ 5. Remember the Forgotten. Name the Erased.
One of the most powerful acts of resistance is simply refusing to forget.
- Tell the stories that textbooks leave out
- Mark the anniversaries that go unnoticed
- Say the names. Write the names. Carry the names.
Light a candle, write a post, or create a patch for our community Memorial Quilt of Resistance (ongoing through June!).
📚 Want to Go Further?
- Everyday Resistance by Kurt Schock
- Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit
- Make Trouble by Cecile Richards
- The Ministry of Common Sense by Martin Lindstrom (for workplace rebels)
💬 Share Your Actions: #EverydayResistanceGuild
Which of the five will you try this week? What does resistance look like in your life?
Share your snapshots, thoughts, or creations using #EverydayResistanceGuild and tag @TimeTravellersGuild — we’ll feature your moments in our May 31 Resistance Month round-up.
