Digital Safety DiscoTech: Celebrate your progress

Prepared by Samuel Mendez.

Our Digital Safety Kit for Public Health helps public health professionals and students reduce the harm of online harassment and anti-science aggression. But we recognize that it can be hard to know where to start. And we know it can be hard to make time to act on our recommendations on your own. So, we’re offering this DIY Digital Safety DiscoTech guide to help you create community spaces for digital safety at your organization. This section is about celebrating the progress you make at the discotech. See the full DIY Digital Safety Disoctech guide for more. 

Taking even one action for digital safety means you’re better off now than when you woke up today. Don’t take that for granted! Take a moment to celebrate your progress.

Take a breath, stretch, and have some water.

If you can, watch a music video or listen to a song:

And take a moment to read this poem:

“A Jelly-Fish” by Marianne Moore

Visible, invisible,
A fluctuating charm,
An amber-colored amethyst
Inhabits it; your arm
Approaches, and
It opens and
It closes;
You have meant
To catch it,
And it shrivels;
You abandon
Your intent—
It opens, and it
Closes and you
Reach for it—
The blue
Surrounding it
Grows cloudy, and
It floats away
From you.