*The following is an op-ed from Katie Alice Greer of the overtly political D.C. rock band Priests, whose first full-length, *Nothing Feels Natural, *is out this week. *

Every single day is another opportunity to punch a neo-Nazi in the face, carpe diem to you on this Monday.

The way your attention, your time, and your dollars are directed can all be part of resistance to the normalization authoritarianism. Almost 50 creative laborers donated their platform and craft to raise $12,000 for Washington, D.C. organizations ONE DC (fighting displacement) and Casa Ruby (an LGBTQ shelter and resource center) at Friday’s sold-out NO THANKS show at the Black Cat. Asking creative laborers to work for free goes against my politics (performers who incurred undue cost to play this show, don’t forget to invoice us, please), but I did it anyway because from now on we have to think in terms of how capable we already are to fight for each other, and how essential these capabilities are to our struggle.

Casa Ruby founder Ruby Corado spoke at Friday night’s event about her vision for the future and the power of dreaming in the fight for humanity and survival: “Dreaming kept me alive. When I arrived in D.C. in 1986 I would sit […] and dream of putting purple satin sheets on shelter beds. Two years ago I opened the first hypothermia shelter for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.”

At last week’s Creating Change conference in Philadelphia, Corado saw a Nigerian woman who recently moved to America speak about sustaining a movement with an initial $18 she invested in selling peanut butter. “There were a lot of queer and trans people in the room,” Corado said, “and we looked at each other and said, ’Damn, we have a lot more than peanut butter.’”

“I say dreaming [kept me alive] because the reality I was living was fucked up,” Corado explained of living as a young immigrant trans woman and being refused employment from 11 jobs. Corado spoke frankly about sex work and how so many women sustain livelihood through “selling flesh.” This was particularly apropos after last week’s debate over Janet Mock’s line “…and we stand in solidarity with sex workers’ rights movements” within the Women’s March Guiding Vision and Definition of Principles. Economic justice for all women and fighting to protect women from violence means standing in solidarity with sex workers—feminism cannot be built on leaving them behind.

Now that it’s Monday, can I respectfully request no more pussy talk, please? I saw about a zillion signs featuring the word “pussy” at Saturday’s Women’s March on the National Mall, and a hell of a lot less about how many trans women are left for dead (literally or legislatively) every single day in this country. Feminism has to be for everyone—especially women who spend every day fighting alone, like so many trans women and women of color do.

Feminism is a fight for all of our mothers and our sisters (and our proverbial siblings who identify as non-binary), especially the ones who do not have the privilege our culture affords wealthy, white, cisgender women. It is actually a fight for our dads and brothers, too. It means building a vision of family that goes to the mat for people we don’t even know. Feminism is less dependent on how often we use the word “intersectional” in social media posts (though that can be useful), and more dependent on building relationships with women who look and live differently than us. Feminism is holding up signs (literally and figuratively) that say “I am here for YOU, and I will fight with all I have for us to be able to share the future together,” every single day.