It is so hard to be trans right now, y’all. Like, I can’t speak for everyone but I’m white-knuckling it pretty much constantly at this point. I hope cis people are understanding how much is at stake for us in this moment: It’s literally our right to exist as ourselves that is being stripped away.
A reminder that Girl Scouting of America has welcomed trans and nonbinary girls from the first one that asked, has always had lesbian and bi members and adults, never declared bankruptcy to avoid paying for sexual assaults, and never poached the other side to recover from said bankruptcy.
being trans online is like [posts a silly joke] [sees news abt government trying to exterminate us] [like funny post by trans friend] [more news about gov wanting us dead] [repost funny joke] [trans friend shares horrible news about insurance issues/sexual violence/abusive family] [sees funny post]
this whole thread is fucking amazing. just folks doing so much more than every federally elected official.
there’s a link in there to help fund this for people who aren’t in the whistletown, USA area.
that’ll make sense if you read the thread. so…read the thread.
HEY, LEFTISTS AND PROGRESSIVES
REPEAT AFTER ME
ANARCHY DOES NOT MEAN CHAOS
ANARCHY MEANS ANTI-HIERARCHY
WE LIVE IN CHAOS RIGHT NOW UNDER FASCISM
FASCISTS CREATE CHAOS, THEY CREATE DIVISION, THEY CREATE INTENTIONAL CONFLICT AND COMPETITION
STOP MAKING UP THE DEFINITIONS OF WORDS
The phrase "professional activist" is functionally meaningless. It's a term that politicians and corporate targets have used for generations to discredit anyone who's effectively challenged them. Anyone who deploys it in earnest to discredit deeply committed people is broadcasting their ignorance.
As ICE operations begin in Maine, local organizers are raising money for rapid response via the Solidarity Fund. Donations urgently needed, starting to hear of arrests as of last night www.mainesolidarity.org
Good morning. They're going to sell you the lie of provocateurs.
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Hate to say it, but we all have a new responsibility. I don't like it any better than you do. We have to make a good faith effort to find out if videos or images are real before we share, and delete if we find out after the fact that we shared AI.
It sucks.
This is such a beautiful tree!
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
Trans people need to be careful about talking about DIY. Yes talk about it in the general sense, quote the facts and figures but be careful. Don't give away sources to cis folks. Don't talk to journalists about the details. They're coming for it.
I had this exact same experience!
I believe the inhabitants of the internet are responsible enough to know what to do with this.
trans people who kill themselves because they aren't allowed to be themselves are murdered
the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist
I dunno, the size of the No Kings crowds yesterday made me feel slightly less hopeless? That morale boost isn't necessarily worth all the effort, but why take away that one positive morale boost by pointing out the obvious?
The teeny tiny No Kings things in very red areas are so huge
Say like five or six people show up. None of them knew each other before. Suddenly they’re all friends. And maybe from that you get a group that does longer-term organizing that can punch *way* above its weight considering where it is
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography
Democrats seem to believe that they can turn a big dial that says "transphobia" up and down with no consequences. But all they're doing is bolstering a fascist drive to wipe trans people off the face of the earth. It's disgusting and shameful and it needs to end www.thenation.com/article/poli...
I've betrayed no one for being me.
When I see people online, even in jest, suggest that people living in Republican-controlled states should be abandoned because of their politicians, I feel a deep heartache. New York CREATED Donald Trump and none of y’all are ever talk about it the way you disparage Alabama or Mississippi.
Out of all the awful bullshit policies, I'm actually least upset about renaming it the Department of War
Let's do that, actually. Let's get real uncomfortable with it. Let's talk about how much more we spend on the War Budget instead of health and education
Liberals are starting to say shit like, "trans people asked for too much too fast," and I'll remind your souless asses that we actually didn't ask for anything. we were minding our own business and quietly improving our healthcare and you (cis) decided to do a pogrom against us for no reason.
Omg I hope there's enough material about this for a whole episode one day! 🤞
one of the most consistent things I find in history is that if someone is really famous for something other than being an anarchist, their anarchism will be stripped out of basically every reference to them.
if i had a Molotov for every time someone on the Left told me anarchism is impractical and not good for the "revolution" well, empire would be on fire!
#loveeachothernotthestate
