Si esto pasa, cualquier mínimo de solidaridad de la población gringa con México se acabará en el instante que un sicario se chute a uno de sus pobres soldados, ejemplos de virtud y moral.

Walmart pays poverty wages knowing their employees will be subsidized by SNAP and Medicaid and so they'll be able to show up to work. Those employees then use their SNAP subsidy to buy their food, often at Walmart!

The Walton family are "worth" around $500 billion. Your taxes partly pay SNAP.

A 2020 study found that Amazon—which shares owner Jeff Bezos with The Washington Post—is one of the largest employers of people on SNAP.

Practically every day we encounter someone who still has no idea ICE shot and killed someone in Chicago already. This happened before many people tuned in (and many have already tuned out again).

I think there is an idea on here that Access to Medical Transition is the most radical/root Material Demand, which is why there is a certain anger when that framing gets questioned. But I believe that while obviously access to medical transition is part of the agenda it's far from the most important

Western Hemisphere gives away the game that this is an undeclared war on Latin America, and views this entire continent and the oceans between the others as the US sphere of influence. This was known before but this is blatantly said and on the blood of civilians in fisher boats.

@faefyx.bsky.social Just FYI

Screenshot of a quote tweet by @simon_bazelon on June 15 2022. Text reads "A deeply researched and characteristically excellent piece on a contentious subject, by the person who taught me how to write". Quoted tweet is of @emilybazelon publicizing her infamous New York Times Magazine article "The Battle Over Gender Therapy".

At the very least, they seem to be related 🤷

Like I dunno, I feel like if transphobia that positions itself as trying to "save the center-left" no matter the consequences to us runs in the family, that should be notable.

web.archive.org/web/20220615...

...Isn't this report written by Emily Bazelon's son? As in, "my shitty NYT article targeting trans kids that is now being used by the state to take away their health care, invade their privacy and force them to move out of the state/country", that Emily Bazelon?

the massachusetts state court records website is down for maintenance. the screenshot is of the error message which says 'the public is currently deactivated. please try again later.'

the public is currently deactivated.

Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro raises death toll from police raid to 132 Rio state governor put death toll at around 60 on Wednesday, but warned that the real figure was likely higher.

A majority of the mainstream media is trying to spin it as getting rid of gangs/fighting the war on drugs. Don't fall for the lies. The Governor is a fascist monster. Things are not good in Brazil just because they've charged Bolsonaro. I wish more people could grasp that simple fact!

This is the part that pisses me off the most.

It's easy to go "well maybe Dworkin had a point in x y z" when it's not your literal body on the line.

And for the love of god, stop trying to use their own strategy against them. It won't work. You cannot tear down the master's house with the master's tools and all you accomplish in the meanwhile is retraumatizing your own peers.

If you can't understand how this works, you have no business analyzing either movement. You won't be able to come up with an effective counter-movement nor will you be able to help build the supports necessary to prevent exploitation from happening in the first place.

There is a direct line between SWERF collaboration with the Right and criminalizing sex work and TERF collaboration with the Right and criminalizing being trans. And not just because they view trans people as "walking porn". The strategy matters just as much as the rhetoric used.

The same thing has been happening with detransition. The TERFs, GCs and Christian Right replicated their success pushing the Nordic Model by adapting the same strategy to gender identity and transition, complete with a fresh pool of people to exploit. And it's working.

But the people they cart around to pass them get no support whatsoever. The Rescue Industry is set up for just that - "rescuing" people in actively violent situations they need to leave. Exit services are critical but a lot of us have years or even decades behind us before speaking up.

This strategy has been wildly successful - for the politicians, carceral feminists and lobbyists who would rather have sex workers behind bars (under the guise that they're "trafficking themselves") or in such precarious positions that they get assaulted by clients or the cops and can't do shit.

You show up to testify again, and again, and again. You're shoved in front of cameras. You give speeches and book interviews. You pour out your soul in hopes that people will listen.

You once again become their bitch, just with your trauma and your voice instead of your body. You have no control.

The people who want to pass these bills - the politicians, the carceral feminists, the lobbyist NGOs - sell you a sweet-tasting depiction of compassion laced with pity and they promise to take the pain away if you just help them. But the sweetness is anti-freeze. It poisons you from the inside out.

Trafficking survivors know the churn. They catch you when you're emotionally vulnerable, have nothing, and are eager to prevent what happened to you from happening to anyone else. You fly from place to place, for bill to bill, recounting the most horrifying aspects of your experience to strangers.

The SWERF movement in collaboration with the Christian Right set up the framework for carting out victims to pass bills at their own and other people's expense. This strategy was easily replicated using detransition and if you can't make that connection then your theory is shit.

It's absolutely revolting to me that there are people in the community who are wanting to do this. Traitors, all of them!

Trying to reclaim Dworkin and MacKinnon for transfeminism is deeply bourgeois: why would I sell out my sisters that work the corner because some of the people attacking them wouldn't attack me, a trans civilian?

Tsunami Merging waves of feminist thought from established and emerging Mexican women writers, Tsunami arrives with seismic, groundbreaking force. Featuring personal essay, manifesto, creative nonfiction, and...

Anyways if you want good books on the relations between transfeminism and other feminist currents, read TSUNAMI, which features trans authors such as Lia García and Alexandra DeRuíz alongside cis authors such as Yásnaya Aguilar Gil, Valeria Luiselli, Brenda Navarro and Dahlia de la Cerda

Read this thread: I always try to call out anyone who cites Dworkin without disavowing pretty much everything she did in her lifetime (including help write legislation that censored queer magazines and books) and this is why.

I told some Boomer communist-feminists the other today that the online Left were rehabilitating Dworkin and they are all like "you've got to be shitting me"

I’m not the only former detrans radfem who was harmed by Dworkin’s work & knowing others is one reason why I’m so critical of Jude Doyle’s take on Dworkin in his new book. Dworkin’s work hurts trans people, including trans sex workers & trafficking survivors.

Also "which figures are considered second wave" is always qwhite suspicious

Like Audre Lorde is technically second wave. So is Angela Davis. But nooooooooooo we need another valorization of a whorephobic zionist for some goddamn reason

I think the worst thing white feminists are OBSESSED with is with in current feminism is “reviving second wave feminism”.

LITERALLY WHY?!

There are thousands of feminist writers who deserve reappraisals but it always the same three stale done to death radfems.

At least do first wave or something!