it's interesting that one of the most explicitly antifascist pieces of mass media in recent years endorses sabotage of military facilities as one of the only effective means of resistance while also recognizing that such acts equally function as signal flares in a long-term culture war

There is so much pent up demand for joy and to believe in the future.

we're going to win, we have love

it bears repeating that CSA is fundamentally about power, it is not some innate perversion but a conscious choice made by real people who willingly let themselves become monsters in pursuit of a fantasy of total domination

This is true on the level of ideology, but the other thing shown clearly in the emails is that powerful abusers IRL have an interest in preserving trans women as an underclass of permanently available sex slaves Hence courting Ting

Apropos of nothing

genuinely a great thread, i think a lot about china's last emperor puyi and his post-revolution life

meaning making is a labor. labor is a meaning making. so-called use-value is at first a meaning. our meaning making has to be compatible with life. what is the meaning of this unforgivable tragedy and crisis? it is holy struggle. either we take back meaning or we fear rape kings and their rape gangs

I fully believe Trump will smash the authoritarianism button harder and harder as he feels the midterms wipe out approaching, I'm less sure that doing so will prevent or mitigate said wipe out

it’s weird but finding out that the modern trans panic was fabricated by the machinations of a pedophile cabal has actually improved my mental health substantially. if I keep sitting around being depressed all day I’m letting Jeffrey Epstein win, and I will die before I do that

We need a left whose critique of this tactic leaves room to recognize that it is not without some effect

SURPRISE my book is also partially about addiction oops

dark times ahead. but we are going to win

Persona by Aoife Josie Clements is a great book to read while depressed. You will certainly not regret reading Persona by Aoife Josie Clements while depressed

This is the kind of disposition I like.

I think that *cringe* is overused. I particularly think that it is overused by people who have a difficult time feeling and naming their feelings. That's a lot of people.

Instead of waiting, we need to build during peace time so that we can act during war time. A lot of what is happening up in MN was a result of community coalition networks that were built after George Floyd died being activated.

I also think about this essay on MLK and dignity by the philosopher Derrick Darby and in it he talks about the precarity of our status as “dignified beings”—the thin line between showing courage in the face of brutality and allowing yourself to be a brutalized body and an object of abuse

I have had that feeling before where in the middle of an action you feel how tangibly another world is possible, but this time I feel it across an entire city. So many here are seeing what life could be like if it were organized around different principles, if the rhythm were completely different

The American people are braver and better than our monstrous leaders, and we will win.

must read

would there be any substantive difference between vance and newsom? i guess it's different approaches to economics and foreign policy but in either case comes down to technoauthoritarian ecofascism?

you avoid the trap of "trans women are women because women is a meaningless term" which re-inscribes a centering of cisness by positioning "femaleness (sex)" as "more real" by talking about social structure + embodiment + desire + subjectivity in negotiating womanhood & manhood & heterosexualism

this strikes me as one of the more important (read: possibly even effective) pieces of its kind in recent memory

Andor was a textbook

All the arguing of hope vs. doomerism is making me tap the sign

not the first time, but maybe the first time i've really been aware of it in my lifetime - it often feels like the uprising in 2020 convinced electeds all across the board that people caring for each other and organizing in care and solidarity is the scariest thing of all

The level of consistent, everyday organizing and resistance to the state, outside of and beyond any particular movement or flash point, distributed across the entirety of the social landscape, is by far the highest it's ever been in my lifetime

Prison guards are flocking to ICE jobs and frankly this makes sense. Those of us who have been anti-prison organizers for decades have been saying that fascism already existed within prisons/jails. Our best teachers for how to survive fascism are incarcerated people.

Faggots & Friends

@catfitzpatrick.net Gendertrash From Hell is amazing. Seeing how organizing used to work has given me a lot of hope and ideas, but seeing that many things seem to have not changed sucks. Mostly, “theory mutilates surgery liberates” has started to radically shift my perspective on a lot of things.

flashback to me reading this prophecy from Kali Akuno in early 2022 and being like, ok guess i should get my shit together so i can try to be at least a little bit ready for that

“There's no ‘we’ of the Anthropocene. There's no single climate, there isn't even shared temporality: climate crisis is present for some, future for others, non-event for the wealthiest. We’re not ‘all in this together.’”

enough stories portraying missingno as an eldritch horror. why not eldritch love. #art #pokemon #missingno

It Was A Blacked Out Blur But I’m Pretty Sure It Ruled: America’s self-imposed lost decade 2008-2016

Groundhog Day: I wanna hear more about Bill the gay waiter who paints toy soldiers. Did Phil learn his story by sleeping with him? Also, if the Bill is painting Warhammer figures and is "gay" what are the chances "he" is really a man? Much to consider. Anyway samsara entraps us all.

Just realized i wrote a hybrid poem essay on how narrative opens possibilities and forecloses them wow so true thank you for this reading!

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10. Pre-transition childhood is also the focus of Winona Meridian Marks’ hybrid poem-essay “Sackcloth Ashes Opals Pearls,” which explores how narrative opens possibilities and forecloses them. An urgent argument for trans lit & a strong closer for @lilacperil.bsky.social's first anth:

America is a culture of child abuse. Ask any survivor - we find one another, we form networks and communities. The true scale of it would stagger and sicken you, and so it is buried, it is swept under the rug, it is denied and the survivors are silenced by whatever means are necessary.

what if the world loved trans ppl

having a regular journalling practice since well before you transition is so sick when you want to go back and read some of the most embarrassing Trans Thoughts you can possibly imagine

This is exactly it. You can have optimism in mourning: knowing that people will die and lives will be diminished but also believing that everything we do now matters and will help.

4 Worthy of the Event, @vivianblaxell.bsky.social: I cannot believe I got to publish a book this brilliant. Uncompromising, multitudinous, maniacal, sui generis and, among other things, the harbinger of the actual metaphysical argument with queer theory that trans studies has been waiting for.

Lowkey no weapon formed against us will prosper

OMG not with all the bots chiming in i should have known better