Thing I wanna start doing: never again give an identity definition without adressing the power relationship that made the label relevant. So never again “Transgender is when you are coercively assigned a gender at birth and do not identity with that gender” without “… and as a result experience the systematic oppression of transgender people.” … Continue reading

queeranarchism: Less telling young protestors to ‘stay safe’. (aint no such things) More telling young protestors to write the name of a pro-bono lawyer on your arm, make sure the legal team and a friend know where to find your medication and prescription, don’t talk to cops and have a protest buddy.

I’m just gonna come out and say it: at this point I really hate pride and the thought that it’s coming up again makes me want to cry. I don’t want to see the rainbow covered floats of political parties that have contributed to the deaths of queer sex workers and queer migrants and queer … Continue reading

I don’t want police near me

femsaphique: Now that it’s pride month it’s time to remind you all… Police have a centuries old history of persecuting LGBTQ+ people and other minorities, and pride was originally started by a bisexual woman to commemorate those brutalised by the police. More specifically, it was originally organised to show solidarity with those attacked during the … Continue reading I don’t want police near me

Among those lamenting that ‘young LGBT/queer kids don’t know their history’ are too many LGBT/queer activists who mistakenly think that this means that our history should totally determine the present. As in ‘In the 60′s this term meant X so that is the REAL meaning’ and ‘Person A invented this symbol to mean X so … Continue reading

captaindjwalnut: yan6: The fact that the person who created transgender pride flag (Monica Helms) said the white line in the middle represents nonbinary and intersex folk is amazing and I’m grateful for her consideration of not just binary transgender people, but those whose genders are undefined and nonbinary it’s often forgotten that the transgender movement … Continue reading

Riots

infinite-liminal-beings: queeranarchism: elliegrine: queeranarchism: queeranarchism: While we’re on the topic of the kind of lawbreaking ‘civil’ society frowns upon, let’s say out loud for a moment that rioting in response to injustice works. Is it dangerous? yes. Will the media lie about it? yes. Will people in our own communities tell us that we’re ruining … Continue reading Riots

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