Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥

Trayvon Martin should be turning 31 today. He should be surrounded by friends and loved ones celebrating him.

He and his family were robbed of that because a grown man stalked him and killed him.

Without accountability.

Compersion is legitimately one of the best traits i have cultivated in myself over the last couple years.

compersion isn’t just a polyam concept btw, you can feel it in lots of contexts! ex: other trans people self-actualizing.

it’s delightful to celebrate other’s joy in addition to your own. 💕🥰

There are truly so few people across the entire political spectrum who aren't indifferent to or don't hate & resent children or exploit them. Epstein is just the very tip of the iceberg of mass disregard for children's personhood. As a single parent it's hard to trust literally anyone with my kids.

Solidarity With Children by Madeline Lane-McKinley

Trust Kids: Stories on Youth Autonomy & Confronting Adult Supremacy edited by carla bergman

Hidden in Plain Sight: The Tragedy of Children's Rights by Barbara Bennett Woodhouse

Children in Slavery Through the Ages by Gwyn Campbell

Tell me 5 classes you took in college

(undergrad, 1997-2001)

Gender & Politics
Mediated Bodies
African-American Absurdist Playwrights
Nietzsche & Foucault
Ethical Theories

No need to imagine. The country incarcerates children as young as 9 years old daily in youth prisons and jails. Those children are routinely sexually and physically assaulted and also emotionally tortured. They are fed terrible food and given barely any education. This country has done this for yrs.

Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps

The spirit that I read the people who are saying 'we warned you about this' wrt to the imperial boomerang & other types of roosting chickens we are dealing with right now, exceptions aside, is less about trying to be right than it is about hoping that if there is a next time they will be listened to

Best case scenario, I'm not going anywhere, but eventually I'll be taking my kids to school, I assume 😅

I have no specific plans to leave, I just don't like to be trapped 😅♐

Evil will tend to start eating itself...

Oh my 🥺🥺🥺❤️‍🩹

Bail for Kyle Rittenhouse Set at $2 Million in Kenosha Protest Shooting (Published 2020)

Remember when Kyle Rittenhouse killed people after walking around like this at a protest?

www.nytimes.com/2020/11/02/u...

My brave warrior hunting for a spot to pee 💜

🥰 It's my way of saying I care about you. 🫶

You probably know, but leave a trickle of water running through your tap so your pipes don't freeze!

Supposedly we're getting ice later tonight after 24 hours of steady snow, which we haven't seen in a long ass time, so in case we lose power I also got shelf stable (almond) milk 😂

Shoveled the first 6 inches while it's still fluffy. I'm not trying to give myself a heart attack on the day I'm actually ready to go somewhere.

But, anyway, while I am a deeply political animal most of my political work is done offline. This shall continue. My politics are clear, both in how I live and in my written work, and my social media is not apolitical. It's just not where I organise.

But what folks don't realize, is that an antiblack society is a society built around death. Slaughter and necromancy ass settler colony. The violence is *never* limited to only Black people, and by not opposing Black death, you give you ok for ALL manner of life to be obliterated by this society.

The reason why you don’t know how to process what is happening is because you found it permissible when you were under the illusion it could only happen to other people.

I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc...

Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

🫂 I'm hanging in there! We gonna outlive all this bullshit or at least take it down with us, huh? Love you, friend!

Go ahead and make fun of people who rush out to buy milk before a snowstorm – I just know you have a sad little life where you don't even care about being able to drink hot chocolate while gazing out over the quiet blanket-covered land sparkling with frost.

I keep seeing leftists from outside of Minneapolis say they’ve seen all this before, and no, you haven’t. I’ve been at this for 30+ years and I haven’t either. It’s not what you’re picturing. This is something else

Maybe if you count Honey Buns 🤮

HARSH AND FALSE 😤 (The truth is, I'm always ready to fight, now I'm gonna fight for Dunkin 😂)

I've never seen a population more united. If people can hold onto that unity, if people can accept that different people will have different ways of confronting fascism, if we can remind NGOs and orgs that they can join but not control the resistance, then, well, people here will write history.

It's genuinely a leaderless (or leaderful) movement, decentralized in a way that the state is absolutely unequipped to handle. There are a few basic skills involved, and so people teach each other those skills, and people are collectively refining them.

I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.