Refuse To Be A Human Billboard

I lost my job and maybe that's a good thing.

I had my first fancy job with healthcare and a salary. I was the creative director and brand ambassador of a program called Revolution of One, funded by its parent organization, the Foundation for Economic Education, a well-respected libertarian non-profit.

I loved my job; I had funding for culture-shifting projects that brought the concept of freedom—both political and psychological—to new people in new ways. I hosted a conversation with free thinkers Africa Brooke and Ayishat Akanbi on owning your voice amid collective pressure to conform. My video with Kimi Kaititi reached left-leaning viewers and helped them consider why minorities like Kimi and I found social justice stifling and how we realized it wasn’t what it claimed to be. I wrote content for social media that encouraged people to defend their values, believe in their individual ability to improve their lives and communities, and be honest even when a culture of groupthink makes it hard.

That program is dead now because it los…