Pacifist abolitionists about to be like "this is not restorative" "this is not transformative" "this is carceral" like a bunch of goddamn fools.
Salute to the niggas who will throw down like this when the time come
This is a moment when we should remember: the enemy of our enemy is NOT our friend. Instead of learning from reactionaries we should just read the works of radical Palestinians. They been warning us. Also, we can just look to our own Black revolutionaries who been pro-Palestine.
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It's so foul how capitalism just gatekeeps life saving technologies from the masses of people. I really feel like a reparations proposal should legit be about free access for Afro-descent ppls with sickle cell, esp given how racists have done our ppl visavis the traits existence.
I want to remind ppl that any Hollywood project featuring the US military is done in consult with the actual military. With that in mind, a film like this coming out during an election year, when the US is so polarized already, chileeee. Sumn about this doesn't sit well for me
RIP Cashay Henderson, Black trans woman found dead. Media was misgendering her. This would be the fourth Black trans person dead I've heard about this month. While everyone accused us of being "divisive" for telling us not to gatekeep hashtags that were meant for our issues.
Very interesting how the trans woman gets misgendered and the trans man's manhood goes entirely unmentioned. She is misidentified as a "Drag queen" and he keeps being spoken of only as an "ex-army vet." Transmisogyny and Anti-transmasculinity in action.
SARS-COV-2 was detected in parts of Southern Europe as early as spring 2019. Anyone tracing it to Wuhan especially if they're talking about a lab outbreak are engaging in sinophobia, conspiracism, and misrepresentation of facts. Western scientists are on some bullahit abt this.
This is why ppl buy childproofing items for their home. A child's conception and perception of space and of danger is still in development. As opposed to pathologizing by calling a literal toddler 'bad' we should support parents in having resources to anticipate these things.
"Why are u making this difficult? I'm trying to pass my final" sounds like someone who will graduate into a career where they are fine with manipulating data or falsifying results in order to get sumn moving.
Mind you, the divide-and-rule is by design. It's why I decided to never go forward with working in the education system. It was too much and all 2020 did was make the internal contradictions too difficult to gloss over. But this problem been festering for a long time
As someone who used to think that having kids was unethical, I'm so glad that I outgrew such a violent ass eugenics ass thinking. It was such projection.
I used to be on that "men and masculine folks" analysis of misogyny. Then I watched a cis woman who pushed that logic heavy get outed for abusing alot of trans men and masc maGes. So I had to unlearn that and part of unlearning meant me and my comrades shifted gears in our org
taught my dad what “serving cunt” means yesterday. i realized i created a monster when he started saying “that was NOT serving cunt” every time somebody on his sports team did something wrong
This is something I would otherwise agree with but in this instance the "yall" is Palestinians literally dealing with carpet bombings. Who also encouraged ppl to do *what they can* and that the strikes be protracted. In lieu of capacity, we should try to fill in gaps for support
This sounds like a predator tho lol. Pursuing ppl younger bc they are less likely to call someone out is literally an act of taking advantage of a power differential (capacity for self-advocacy correlated to maturity levels and age)
once a 29 yo coworker started hooking up with our 19 yo host and he wasn’t a pedophile for that, he was just an emotionally immature man child who pursued a younger woman because women his own age would call him out on his selfish bullshit.
it’s a faux pas not a crime!
The ONLY reason sis gets such outsized criticism for her politics in ways other celebrities do not is because the other celebrities do not invest as much in visibly coopting civil rights, black power, subversive imagery and histories. That is it. Nothing further.
@LeDerpyPanda
Yeah it's so silly. Capitalist education in general wants to pack all learning into short periods to achieve standards. It's silly and unrealistic and that's why we are where we are now. But instead of questioning that, there's this divide and rule going on.
This is such a disgusting tweet and also illustrates why the idea that "cis men don't feel threatened by transmascs" is false. They don't feel threatened in a gatekeepy way that cis women direct to trans women. But they def feel threatened in terms of their sexual entitlement.
Cis women really think this will protect them but in reality cis men kidnap and violate women of trans experience disproportionately. Jokes like this are a risk to yourself and to other women --- cis or trans.
It's so annoying. "Gyatdamn" was an interjection. They shortened it and turned it into a noun. "Pookie" is an interjection that functions as an honorific sometimes but can be used as a subtle pejorative on other occasions. They turned it into a noun.
The first one isn't a boundary. It's avoidance. Huge difference. A generally speaking, avoidance that involve having an issue with someone else's autonomy easily become control strategies.
a boundary:
“i won’t date someone who posts risqué photos of themselves bc i know it makes me feel insecure”
not a boundary:
“if we’re dating, you can’t post risqué photos of yourself because i think that’s disrespectful”
i don’t make the rules 🤷🏽♀️
Sometimes that child isn't unmotivated. Sometimes the child is just clear on what the School is here to do and decides they won't stand for it and that they just gon live they life. And if u want to pathologize or villainize that response, I instantly know how u think of adults
Read EVERY word CAREFULLY:
As someone who PREFERS to face conflict head on, *eye* had to grow into an understanding that SOMETIMES rushing to IMMEDIATELY hash something out or demanding that others always move accordingly is itself a form of avoidance and not applicable 24/7
I would love for people to just say cis men instead of lumping all forms of manhood and masculinity together
non-cis men and masculine maGes are not organized in the patriarchy on the same plane as cis (het, gay, bi, etc) niggas.
Racism doesn't have to be explicit for it to be racism. Slavemastera banned drums here to prevent gatherings bc of fears of revolt. Yall are advocating banning certain clothing choices bc of fears of "crime." Both reflexes aim to conserve or protect settler property relations
Idk of it's just me but ppl will sooner respect a boundary if you don't use any diagnosis or social justice language or personal story to explain it. So yeah I just be like "I'm not doing that" "I'm not fw that" "imma do this instead" "imma stay here & [insert activity]" n dassit
I need yall to understand that
1) majority of cis men victims of r*pe or SA are harmed by other Cis men
2) Trans people (women, men, nonbinary) are all uniquely at risk of sexual violence and typically are also harmed by Cis men
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So "solutions" like this aren't solutions
We moved away from "women and femmes" toward "women and other marginalized genders" as an understanding. I became more intentional about trying to understand anti-transmasculinity and ultimately how cissexism informs alot of Black feminist thought. I dug into transfeminism more.
I think kids, minors, adolescents who are radicalizing should be learning about revolution but still enjoying their youth. Rather than joining existing orgs either led, founded, or filled with adults, yall should form ur own informal communities of study, affinity, and MA
You can talk about poverty, climate change, etc, but soon as you start saying parents are at fault for their kids' struggles by sheer virtue of their bringing the child into the world, you on some bullshit and a counterrevolutionary
Everyone can be abusive. But abuse is still patriarchal. And by and large even male victims are more often harmed by other cis men. Marginalize gender victims are more often harmed by cis men. So. We can name that abuse isn't 'gendered' but that doesn't mean abuse not abt Gender.
covid is arguably a hygiene issue and once we start shaming able-bodied ppl for not practicing covid hygiene, as we’d shame them for not bathing or brushing their teeth, it’s a wrap. no more leg washing or washcloth discourse. if you’re not wearing a mask, YOU NASTY!
Those who believe this myth are those who either target young queers to molest them... or yall know someone who targets young queers for that purpose and you're shielding the deed.
Not to throw salt on a wound but honestly this is the bed yall made and if you don't wanna have to lie in it maybe stop trying to undermine the one movement that actually critically reenvisions gender, sex, sexuality, kinship, etc.
The Black Church always wonders why choirs don't sound the same, why the music don't hit the same, why people don't shout like they used to: baby, you drove all those who can fly away. You separated yourself from that old time mojo. And you alienated yourself from Black struggle.
Nobody is a Semite, Hamite, or Japhetite. These are mythological constructs that were later racialized. The term antisemitism is not a recuperation of race science; it simply names a particular form of oppression. Zionists use the term ingenuinely but that doesn't mean mfs have
I always think back to the stories about the people who could fly to find inspiration. In one story, there's two slaves who decide to stop working and rest under a tree. Before doing so, they used their magic to ensure they didn't have to work. And after resting, they flew away.
Noname moving like every other leftist cis woman. Underestimating minor patriarchy within cultural nationalism just bc of "the culture.' Sis really said "if I can ignore rape jokes I can ignore holocaust jokes" like girl why not drive both out of "the culture"?
I feel touched starved too and sex don't even fix that. Like I used to go for hookups thinking it would but it didn't. So idk ppl hear that phrase and assume that that is what ppl talkin bout. Intimacy and vulnerability is bigger than sex and alot of us do lack that fullness
I think the term most applicable here is cisheteronormativity. Trying to concoct a "queer" explanation for misogyny is just the colonizer's manichaen paternalism in action.
Let's just start with the fact that the sexualization of all social life, & its assumption that sexual behavior/attraction/desire are defining features of personhood, are all foundational to why Asexuality is marginalized.
such ideas are global due to Eurochristian modernity
I actually don't think arts, humanities, etc are targeted bc of anything intrinsically radical about them. I think STEM is prioritized because it is germane with the military industrial complex.
Cis bisexuals who attack gay/trans folk and stay acting like "monosexism" isn't a symptom of how Homonationalism created a white/cis/bourgeois reduction of the term "Gay" in order to expand the culture of monogamy and Patriarchy + cishetero/allo-sexism that harms ALL of us.
Indigenous is a geopolitical and economic relation. There are Indigenous African populations because of how their nations, tribal and ethnic groups, and other community formations relate to the State form and colonial exploitation of land.
Then there are claims that the shooter is nonbinary. Unconfirmed claims. So here comes the exorsexism. Narratives that positions nonbinary identity as mutually exclusive with and even oppositional to or threatening to transness. It's all divide and rule, divide and conquer.
I'm praying that we are prepare ourselves for when the pendulum swings. Bc just like with Black struggle in 2020, the sudden and unprecedented support for Palestine right now will be met with a newly invigorated form of right wing backlash & much more sinister liberal cooptation.
The hatred directed at parents for having children in public comes from the same spatial configurations that yielded Ugly Laws, that birthed anti-loitering policies in the Black Codes, that criminalize public displays of gender nonconformity, that treat houseless ppl as contagion
As a Zillenial, I gotta say, yall Gen Zs who found a way to balance sex positivity with an emphasis on consent culture: I salute yall. It's sad watching yall discuss what ppl older than I put yall through. It's upsetting seeing yall get gaslit + framed as 'sex negative' for it.
It's 2024, this type of consumer-"feminism" don't work on thr girlies of today. Bitches need HOUSING. We need jobs. Education. We need freedom from SA. We need decolonization! And abolition. We want militarism/imperialism and setters states to crumble. Step yuh politics up, honey
Do I need to get on my soapbox again about how Stanley tumblers are only getting so much shit because it’s a female interest?
Go look at the price of a regular Stanley ($45) and the price of car mods, a jersey for any given sports team, whiskey, etc. and get back to me.
Part of Grand Patriarchy is when women only bring up misogyny to cover up their own participation in hierarchies, exploitation, etc. It's true that she is being scapegoated but that doesn't make her any less Patriarchal.
Ghislaine Maxwell breaks silence via an attorney on impending Epstein list release: "It’s all about men abusing women for a long period of time… and it’s only one person in jail—a woman."
I did these things so I could be better and in the process it helped me become free of shame about my nonbinary trans womanhood. It helped me learned to spot the covert transmisogyny behind "inclusive" radfems. It helped me see how narrow triangulating of patriarchy with "masc"
Cisheteronormativity is very homosocial. And when ur closeted, cishets of either "sex" do not include you in their homosociality. The boys never had "locker room talk" when I went to change for gym class. And when I was around the girls, my inclusion was conditional at best.
Interestingly: she is raging against revisionism of historical slavery while embodying revisionism of modern slavery (prison industrial complex). Smiling foxes beefing with snarling wolves; two sides of the same counterinsurgency (the ongoing aim to prevent another 2020 revolt)
Saying this in a world of corrective rape, forced birth, presumptive rape based on hypersexualization, forced sterilization due to eugenic assumptions about minority populations, and all the various aspects of a Patriarchal society that rely on Allonormativity is... ignorant.
Why does the law need to recognise you don’t want sex? How is an asexual not protected by existing laws?
It’s impossible to take this kind of distraction seriously.
The legal system is slavery but let's also remember: the medical system is too do callong for "hospitals not prisons" doesn't make you anti-carceral. Both institutions are vile
Sudan
Congo
Ayiti
Guyana
Nigeria*
Ghana*
The Horn (Tigray, Ethiopia, etc)
The Sahel (Mali, Burkina Faso, etc)
I want to gain non-authcom, radical, & transfeminist understanding of developments in these parts of the Black/Afrikan world.
*(already working on this w comrades)
I could go on and on but I don't wanna accidentally sound like Im trailing off into 20th century pseudolinguistic theories about the cultural difference between 'picture words' and 'naming words' or some shit (sorry to Miss Zora Neale on that one)
or "butch" actually obscures the many ways both cis men and all maGes are reproduced and produced by patriarchal violence. I had to shift so i could better understand the full picture and thus better show up for myself and in community. This why I fw a transfeminist materialism
Three solutions I always see in these public education convos:
1) parents just blame teachers
2) teachers just blame parents
3) parents and teachers just blame kids
Each angle is a distraction from the ruling class that obscures power imbalance from top to bottom
the hashtagification of multiple genocides bothers me when i see people lumping in things like Ukraine with conversations about the Congo or Sudan or Palestine. Pitfalls of national consciousness and pathology of patriarchy together are a problem for our solidarities rn.
Harriet Tubman was a militant. Harriet Tubman was also disabled. Her militancy was not achieved in spite of her condition, though. In fact, she regularly had fainting spells. But with that came visions, visions that she interpreted as divine leadings. That was hoodoo culture, btw
Transmisandry doesn't exist. But Anti-transmasculinity does exist. Trans men and transmasculine people are excluded from hegemonic manhoods and masculinities that are anchored on cisnormativity.
To that person who claimed Marsha was killed bc she was too "brick." No, Marsha was killed for the activism she got involved in after tossing bricks. Specifically, she was about to hold the pigs accountable for sumn, and so the cops had her killed. Ask people who were there.