been back in town less than 24 hours and a beautiful trans girl has already talked to me about her new neck tattoo i fucking love this place

Cis people do face some stigma for resorting to "unnatural" medical interventions, but using these technologies to affirm their "natural", "correct" (assigned) sex has always been more tolerated than trans people changing ours. This is not hypocrisy; it's gender working as intended.

1) it's not gender-affirming care when it's being foisted upon ppl w/o their consent. this policy is *invasive* 2) anti-trans GAC legislation is *also invasive* as it's designed to take away control of our own bodies. LET'S CALL IT INVASIVE! LET'S PROMOTE BODILY AUTONOMY RATHER THAN MAKING GAC JOKES

back in Portland and already leaning back against a tree at my beautiful local park. i am overjoyed to be home again 🥰

This. Abolish ICE is not enough. "Secure" borders and no accessible legal pathways mean my friends and I will be finding human remains of people who came here asking us for help for years to come, this is not a world any of us should want to live in.

First 3 days of driving finished and one more to go. I’ll be arriving back home in Portland tomorrow 🥰

And another. This morning. Running for his life and hit by a truck.

This is Joan Sebastian Guerrero, the 26-year-old Colombian father and husband murdered by ICE fascists in broad daylight in front of his 3-year-old daughter. He was NOT the target of the ICE warrant. He was documented. He did everything right. ICE murdered him anyway. And yet… 1/2

Not to rehabilitate horseshoe theory, but the thing uniting technopessimism with techno-optimism is, more or less, technomysticism. To have beliefs that tech can somehow, unmoored from human agents who make it, be a force for either good or evil requires a view of technology bordering on magic.

sex is the gendering of the body. the patriarchal gender structure is hierarchical. sex is a weight, a yard stick to measure you & a night stick to beat you. "biological sex" brands a woman's oppression on her flesh, through which her value to the brotherhood is stamped. abolish sex to free sex

Movements simply cannot survive in a trust environment where snitches are ever welcomed back. We can talk about incentives and opportunities for snitches to reclaim their conscience. But absolutely none of that can involve social inclusion in the movement ever again.

I agree with this sentiment from Eric King and I am not fully informed on the minutia of what happened in the Prarieland case like I am in other cases. A few points though: 1) in the J20 trials there were no cooperation pleas and no one was convicted except for the handful of defendants that took

Today is my last day living in Missouri! See you soon Portland 🥰

Useful thread on how people with fascist backgrounds and Nazi tattoos often befriend and rely on support from people who won't question the Nazi tattoo within left wing spaces, to frustrate efforts of left wing people who have a problem with Nazis to actually address the Nazi background.

hopenothate.org.uk/chapter/who-... When people come out bearing tribute to her for her long political career, don't be afraid to speak ill of the dead.

I think framing the debate over who was supporting Planter as liberals vs leftists is just getting it completely wrong it was both liberal and leftist men! It's now liberal, leftist, and right wing dudes doing the apologism!!! The common denominator is men!!! Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Looking forward to the end of having to constantly defend Portland from the off-base opinions of people who have never lived there. Now *I’ll* be the one who gets to complain about the actual problems of Portland with other Portlanders.

DARVO is a real misery parade & when the abuser is nominally progressive, radical, etc it's often so so much worse, bc they'll twist & weaponize everything you believe in, every principle you hold dearly, against you. because they know the right words but they believe in nothing but their own power.

platner's playbook of using the language of liberatory struggle to imply that he is the victim of a conspiracy (perhaps by "zionists") is sickeningly familiar to anyone who has ever had to deal with the awful, miserable, drawn out process of removing an abuser from a radical or liberatory space.

I finally have a consultation with a Portland surgeon about my busted-up hip scheduled next month 🥳

"She should have come forward sooner" No dog, you (royal) should understand the reasons why more abuse survivors don't come forward *at all* about their abusers, me included. There's so much more at stake for us including our fucking sanity and safety in that whole mess. Fuck y'all mean "sooner?"

“She should have come forward sooner.” You should have dropped the abusive mercenary Nazi sooner so she didn’t have to go through the hell of coming forward publicly about his assault on her.

"sex change" meaning "the body is highly malleable (by self or others) & the way it is sexed is highly malleable (by self or others)" is a stronger position than "F and M exist, sex change is strictly F -> M or M -> F". call the former Liquid Sex & the latter Solid Sex because i like silly names

understanding the malleability of sex as a core tenant of transness is to me what informs my radical positions on bodily autonomy as a fundamental political issue because so many debates boil down to the question of whether or not you are allowed control over your own body and how it changes.

And another fucking thing to go back to the original post. The assumption that trans folk were passive and just let this happen embedded in this idea is infuriating. The GCs did not reach elites because we weren't trying. They shut us down and threw billions at this shit.

Sorry but every time someone points out a lesson we can learn from the right-wing it's entirely ignoring our material circumstances and goals. The TERF movement is funded by extremely wealthy right-wing American fascists and their goal is authoritarian control.

I’m about to be in the car for 4 days and would love to have some audiobook and podcast recommendations! It would be great to find a fantasy or sci-fi series that is exciting but also doesn’t make me work too hard. Major bonus if it was written/directed by a woman!

Monthly update to my website Destroy What Destroys You! Check out what I created and shared in June, what I’m working on now, and new additions to the library 😁 butchanarchy.noblogs.org/post/2026/06...

This is the Lee Cicuta Online Learning Centre.

Your regular reminder women get more time for killing their abusers than men do for killing their victims. Remember that before you flippantly tell women to just get a gun, just learn self-defense, to dismiss & silence their critique of domestic abuse.

A little less than 3 weeks now until I move back to Portland and I am so so excited and happy :)

I see this kind of comment, "but still the right will deny and delay..." Yeah they will. They will happily kill you and your relatives to suit their ambitions for a more brutal world built on wealth. It's not because they're stupid or ignorant it's because the waves of death do not matter to them.

Finally being able to clock certain fixations (or degrees of those fixations) as OCD obsessions and learning that trying to meticulously “reason” my way out of them only makes them worse has been a serious game changer in my life recently.

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Love and Solidarity to the Prairieland defendants, I’m utterly heartbroken for you. Your comrades won’t stop fighting for the day we see you free again 🖤

and that an important part is transfeminization constitutes the enforced border-zone of heterosexual sexual difference, so the abuse of trans women is such a commonplace form of misogyny that maintains the hierarchies of sex & sexual difference itself

i tell well meaning cis ppl that b/c trans women can't get pregnant & often have more variant genitals they are treated something like ontological sex dolls or sex toys under patriarchy (down to men's shame around using this machine) in a unique way and they kind of get it

The Prairieland defendants will appeal their convictions, but the entire court system is rotten—especially in Texas. We must completely discredit the tyranny of ICE and Donald Trump, creating a situation in which anyone who succeeds Trump is compelled to pardon those who suffered under Trump.

Follow the Prairieland case here and at @dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social, and give what you can to their defense: prairielanddefendants.com

please read this statement written by Benjamin "Champagne" Song and share as far and wide as you can: https://prairielanddefendants.com/defendant-writings/statement-by-benjamin-champagne-song/

A quintessential pillar of facism is the fascist and punitive crushing of anti fascist dissent. A few months ago, i was notified that alleged writings of mine were entered as seized evidence in the trial. *writings* Today is a horrifying day, and full solidarity with the Prairieland defendants.

Judge O’Connor stated from the bench that he is giving maximum sentences to the Prairieland sentences because “the state wants to send a message to anyone who shares a similar ideology.”

The ideology in question is opposing fascism. This horrific action is a shot across the bow at all of us—everyone who cares about their neighbors, who dares to dream of a better world, who opposes ICE terror and authoritarian repression. We cannot allow the state to disappear them.

The sentences doled out in the Prairieland case today are horrific. Des was sentenced to 30 years in prison for moving a box of zines. There is no pretense of "justice" here. The judge said, “the state wants to send a message to anyone who shares a similar ideology.” crimethinc.com/prairieland

Judge O’Connor stated from the bench that he is giving maximum sentences to the Prairieland sentences because “the state wants to send a message to anyone who shares a similar ideology.” Additionally, motions 29 and 33 for acquittal and a new trial were denied from the bench.

Federal sentencing has started. Zachary Evetts was just sentenced to 50 years by Chief District Judge Reed O'Connor. Maricela Rueda was just sentenced to 840 months / 70 years by Judge Mark Pittman.

Our existence is strongly contested, opposed, vilified, and provoking a massive worldwide reactionary backlash. Simply by daring to change sex and assert ourselves legibly as women we're doing plenty to "deconstruct gender roles" because the entire fucking world doesn't want us to do that.

in general i think works that position bodily sex as interpretable/malleable/unfixed/not separated from gendering tend to more directly challenge audience preconceptions than works that treat gender as something placed "on top of" a fixed unchangeable sex, which is why ppl try to deploy gnc-ness to

Queer theory seems to be one of those fields where apparently you can just say whatever and be respected as an expert as long as you do the thing where reversed order becomes ordered reversal.

The money and the desire and the demand and the plan and the malice are not the same thing as completion, fight like hell, they are announcing their plans long before they're close to completion, they're strategically ass backward, weak, cowardly pathetic fools