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This is why we had Jim Crow instead of truth and reconciliation after slavery ended. People are so quick to absolve anyone who pays lip service to changing their mind about human rights violations instead of letting them live with the social consequences of their words

IT'S RELEASE DAY!

"Brown/Trans/Les", my second book of transfeminist essays, is out now---and so is the audiobook of "Trans/Rad/Fem", if you want to re-experience the original in a new format!

Itch: taliabhatt.itch.io/transradfem
Audible: www.audible.com/pd/Trans-Rad...

dental dams for kissing

look at them. murderers itching to murder again but these people chose to stay, to film, to witness, to risk being next, to risk having their families targeted, their names dragged through the mud before their bodies are even cold. i wish they did not have to be brave but i'm grateful that they are.

(the answer is cops, we need to abolish them too)

But if we abolish ICE who's going to kidnap babies and murder nurses and separate families and tear gas clergy and assault grandparents and enforce arbitrary white supremacist colonial lines in the dirt and wrap their cars around phone poles and dress like dorks and terrorize school children?

"Hopelessness isn’t natural. It needs to be produced. If we really want to understand this situation, we have to begin by understanding that for decades we have seen the construction of a vast bureaucratic apparatus for the creation and maintenance of hopelessness, a kind of giant machine that is designed, first and foremost, to destroy any sense of possible alternative futures." . - David Graeber

They want you to feel hopeless and believe that nothing can improve.

"If I should have a son, who one day comes to me and tells me of the daughter living in her bones - the flesh of my flesh, blood of my blood I will take her chin in gentle hands and kiss her forehead with soft lips. I will whisper nothing but, "You are beautiful. You are beautiful. You are beautiful." I will bury the ashes of my shattered son, and rise on the wings of my phoenix-born girl. I will speak her chosen name with confidence - I will say it like a prayer each night as I tuck her in to sleep. — For Leelah

brb crying forever at the thought of having a mom who loved me like this

practiceresurrection.tumblr.com/post/1067655...

#OtD 21 Jan 2019 workers at Italpizza in Modena, Italy went on strike against pay cuts. The mostly women and migrant workers were threatened by factory guards, and beaten and arrested by police, but organised more strikes throughout 2019 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9382...

The cover of Widdy-Widdy-Wurkey by Rose Fyleman, which features wolves at the top and bottom in stark blue on a tan cover

I want to talk about something I'm genuinely proud of, so here we go.

When I was a gosling my grandmother, who was an english teacher for most of her life, used to read my sister and I nursery rhymes from a book called Widdy-Widdy-Wurkey. It was something I looked forward to every time I'd see her.

Gonna put this as delicately as possible: if you are close with or the partner of someone who is having what appears to be a Very Bad Time, and they're insisting that they're being attacked, the second does not have to be untrue for your intervention for the first to be a very *good* idea

Better a faggot than a fascist

#OtD 6 Jan 1976 Madrid Metro workers went on strike demanding a pay increase and shorter hours from 44 to 40 hrs a week. The government sent in soldiers and police as scabs, but workers held out and won promise of no reprisals and new negotiations stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1061...

Echoing this to say that $1 a month to a creator whose work you like is equivalent to easily a thousand ad-supported views on their videos. Even a little bit of support makes a hugely outsized difference - pick your favourites and support where you can.

So when we said Newsom is a racist transphobe and y'all said we were wrong, he's literally praising the man who purposefully let AIDS run rampant to harm queer people and whos policies were horrifically racist. The consequences of his actions continue to damage people worldwide to this day.

listen to trans POC when we tell you that doomerism isn't the way, and that radical optimism has been the only path towards survival and freedom throughout our history!

more like COINTELAMATEUR

fuckton of new stuff up on our site, including hoodies and the audiobook of The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (which will be available through audiobook apps soon, it just takes a bit to disseminate. And the sequels will appear soon too, i just have to record them)

“History shows it clearly, austerity creates the conditions in which fascism thrives. When Gov'ts strip away public services, weaken safety nets and deepen inequality, people lose hope in democracy and turn to authoritarian strongmen.’” . - Richard Murphy

Being Anti-Fascist is important but we need to also be aware about Fascism's root causes.

It was meeting an out trans person that helped me realize I myself was trans.

It was other out trans people that helped me navigate transitioning.

And it was even more out trans people who inspired me to keep going when times were tough.

Now I am an out trans person, and I hope to inspire others.

If youre feeling disoriented by this week's extreme "nothing here worth saving" vibes, it's worth remembering that the memberships, size, employee and supporter base of these institutions have been shrinking for decades, but that has the monopolistic effect of making a small segment seem more total

there’s a string that pokes through my skin and hangs between my shoulder blades and if you pull on it all my bones come out

Paperback of “Anarchism and the Black Revolution” by Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin next to a red paisley bandanna

Reading, learning, and critical analysis have always been and will always be central to the cause.

human form sits near a dark wall on a smooth floor, its body changing. becoming amorphous, expanding to form new appendages and digits. only their right leg resembles their original human form. graphite and sumi ink (notably, scanned before adding stabilo highlights and definition)

and the reason I checked; I have a habit of scanning in stages as I go, and I forgot about this one until I was going through files today

—̷ ̴•̵ ̸o̵l̶d̸ ̷/̷/̷ ̷n̶e̷w̶ ̶t̸o̵ ̷b̷s̸k̸y̷ ̴•̴ ̴—̴(aug.2022) #DarkArt #Illustration

Yesterday was the birthday of movement ancestor Leslie Feinberg Z”L. Leslie was a trans and working class lesbian Jew who stood in lifelong solidarity with Palestinians and viewed her/hir work for LGBT and Palestinian liberation as deeply connected.

Kamille, angry: "Overtime is not something people should do!"

Good morning and Happy Labor Day

DS9 scene. Rom is a Ferengi hero who has a large bald head and giant ears and lobes that sort of connect to make a unibrow and a ribbed pine cone looking nose. He's wearing a jacket that looks like those lick and stick backsplash tiles you can get at Lowe's. He's pictured here standing in a corridor, talking to someone and holding/reading a PADD. Closed caption reads, "Workers of the world unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains."

Alt in pic 1 Happy Labor Day

Miles O'Brien in Star Trek Deep Space Nine saying, "He was more than a hero. He was a union man."

Star Trek celebrates Labor Day