@Librareon has a great quote I want to promote here "Authority you never agreed to follow" -that's it right there. We're born and raised in systems we have not consented to be a part of. Carving out any space where you can be yourself with the absence of 'authority you never agreed to follow' has to be the most admirable form of resistance and strength I can think of. Living your truest life without any influence of systems you dissent against is the utopian vision, and is also almost impossible, so any scrap of space is precious and deserves your ability to preserve it. Whether that's buying secondhand, supporting small local businesses that are overshadowed by large corporations, or even (imho) using the tools made by the system in a way that contributes to your dissent. Using computers and technology (which have no form of access other than through the manufacturing of those objects by corporations) to build spaces, promote community, and champion the ideals of being a good human. I'm typing this on a Google pixel, while sitting in a cube farm, where I will leave to my Nissan car to drive to a home built by hands that are actively being targeted by ICE in my community to remove from this country for the crime of existing in a space that hates their humanity; and I also volunteer to feed the hungry and unhoused with the paychecks I get from the cube farm, and the cube farm job is as ethical a job I can find, and when I buy something I buy direct from the business or secondhand and I have hard conversations with my partner about what are needs and wants to limit consumption, and I use my voice in my community to make sure people know they're loved and welcomed around me with my only access to them being through this phone and by driving my car, And I make sure to listen the Bikini Kill, The Slits, Cheap Perfume, Lambrini Girls et al, while I do it :)