Alison (she/her)

At the moment, I believe its about age in the movement, not calendar age. Being queer is one thing. Being in the queer movement is another.

I'm back to do my white woman duty: publicly complain.

Airports that build far away gates, that build gates requiring a bus, & most especially far away gates that then require a bus. To go up f-ing stairs with carryon & 2 laptops... I'm on the 3 of 4 airplane doors. Not liking my chances.

Picture of slide showing program title and the organizers for this symposium

Today, I'm at AI and the Law by Northwestern University Law School.

🤚 Question: Why isn't a book like The Autobiography if Malcolm X on the banned book lists?

It can't be that it's not in libraries and it can't be that the haters don't object to it. So... what's going on?

The most impressive part of this article, was not mentioning that CVS Health gross profit for the quarter ending June 30, 2023 was $35.385B, a 12.89% increase year-over-year. #healthcare
www.npr.org/2023/09/29/1...

Anti-Abortion Lawyer Wants Names of People Who Donated to 9 Texas Abortion Funds The funds are arguing this amounts to a “hit list" intended to scare folks out of helping abortion seekers.

NEW: An right-wing lawyer is seeking the names of every donor to nine Texas abortion funds.

It's part of a larger "campaign of terror"—orchestrated by Jonathan Mitchell and others—to scare people out of seeking abortions and keep them trapped in states with bans

? Sounds like doxxing ? Unless they are just for orgs?

I literally remembered to take a multi-colored out before airport security only to find out if forgotten a out a different one once 🤦‍♀️

Any chance you're back in our mutual city? 🤞

Lyft now has ads. I don't know how I feel about this because in theory they have debt from competing with Uber and it's better than other options like raising prices. Then I remember: advertising and ownership and mind pollution and $ and just why?

It’s important to understand that this is the way all capitalists think about all the “little people” they exploit; this one is just saying it with no filter, which happens every now and then with people who have become accustomed to thinking of their fellow human beings as food.

A friendly reminder this Labor Day that unions didn’t win weekends and the minimum wage and laws against child labor and sick leave by being nice, polite, or respectful. They won by fighting. They won by striking and struggling and being radicals. And we have to do the same.

I'm not sure if you know, but how would it compare with George Lakoff?

If you think that requiring people to link their real names/identities to their online posts is a good idea that will make people more civil, I'm begging you to please read the 15+ years of work showing that it doesn't work and it endangers vulnerable people.

The police deploying drones in response to Black people celebrating the end of slavery is some shit you couldn’t write up for the funny papers.

See, what had happened was…

The flaw in this is that even just basic HTML is accessible, so you literally need to actively remove accessibility with stuff Ike outline: none; There's some baked in ignorance which devs absolutely can do something about.

It's a horrible cycle. For high and low needs people. And how 'easy' it is to get needs, but people won't know, cause it's no visible.

Maybe it would help you understand if I explain the movement is not equivalent to all LGBTs.

The movement is the people doing the work - the activists w/tiny to huge actions.

It's not that we lost momentum. It's that the white GL's

ABANDONED US

At the time, I thought the movement was wrong to try to stop it. I thought marriage would be the sea change we needed. We were just seizing the opportunity.

I was younger then. I thought assimilation would work.

There are also at least 5.6 million intersex people. & the rest of the alphabet.

Why do you think I'm not repeating what my elders taught me?

Heck, I was even in the room for years before it came up. Marriage was NOT on the agenda. The movement even tried to stop the white gay guy's lawsuit because it was the wrong thing at the wrong time.

Where did I say close to "all LGBTQIA are poly"? A white gay got GL a shot at what would make their lives feel =, hijacked, & then *abandoned*

Of course I want marriage & we should have it.

But it wasn't supposed to be the next thing & it wasn't supposed to prompt a mass exodus

~pre-2000s != 2000s+. Also: Plenty of structural barriers now. Marriage wasn't required to get any of those wins. It was faster, conformist, & re-enforced entrenched power. Ok, fine. Great, we got a piece of =. Then instead of pushing forward for something like ENDA/EQUALITY Act, we got abandoned.

"couples" itself is assimilationest. I'm saying it was a white gay & lesbian want. Maybe also others with a ton of privilege. But marriage was to avoid lawyer $ to setup inheritance. It was about conforming & getting invited to straight's parties. It was about being offended at not having privilege.

Made all the worse by algorithmic wormholes that exploit the transphobia that still inhabits most people's worldview to capture attention and send people down further and further towards fascist ideologies, stoking ambivalence among the tepid many and an obsessive paranoia among the radicalized few.

I disagree that's it's about "transitioning is a choice". I think it's about "when these kids grow up they're going to come to their senses because trans is a fad, not real".

& breast tissue removal really hooks them into the hate because men think they have a right to women's bodies.

Marriage was a fight that we had to get past to do the real work, like trans liberation and homeless queer youth. Then the white guys and lesbians said "bye!"

(And now HRC only started caring so they could raise money. So sick.)

Marriage into "love is love" into "be kind" is so disgusting. It's anti-queerness being done to unqueer us.

Marriage was a derailment so white guys & lesbians could forget about the rest of us. They were privileged assimilationests. They got theirs so now the movement is over. Wasn't something the movement wanted. It was some something rogue gays forced us into - at least the way it's been explained to me