queeranarchism:

notsoterriblymisanthropic:

property-is-theft:

property-is-theft:

queeranarchism:

If you’re new to actions with an arrest risk and you don’t have experienced protestors with you, there’s stuff you can find online about having a legal team, writing the name of a lawyer on your body, saying NOTHING to the cops except the name of your lawyer, etc. That’s all good advice.

But let me give you a bit of advice that is just as essential as all that:

If one of your comrades gets arrested, and you know they can be held for 6, 9, 12 hours, depending on where you are, you get a group of people together and you wait outside the police station.

You may be tired, you may be stressed, it may be freezing, you may need to take turns, but you take whoever can still physically and mentally bear it and you go to that police station and you wait for your comrade. You can spend the time taking care of each other, drinking hot drinks, doing whatever gets you through, but you wait.

And when your comrade gets out, you make sure they do not walk home alone in the dark thinking about the fucked up experience they just had, you make sure there’s a big fucking crowd of their comrades there to greet them with hugs and hot drinks and a cigarette if they smoke.

And whether the arrested comrade that just got out is happy or sad or pissed off, you take that for what it is and give that space and you support that. And you get them a hot meal and you hang out with them and you offer to let them stay at your place or you stay with them so they don’t have to spend that night alone with their thoughts.

You do this every damn time, regardless of whether you really like that comrade and regardless of how you feel about the thing your comrade got arrested for, regardless of how often they’ve been arrested. Because you never know how shitty their experience is going to be in there this time. 

Trust me. This is absolutely essential. Once you’ve been arrested and have felt the difference between walking home alone or having your friends waiting for you, you’ll understand.

Be good comrades

Seriously if you are serious about building networks of mutual aid and solidarity ya gotta show it when they need it most

Also this is always important but like especially vital for occasions when there also fascists getting arrested and processed at the same station.

True!!!!

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socialjusticeichigo:

socialjusticeichigo:

tscum act like we’re just deciding to dress in a gender nonconforming way and going “Whelp, I’m dressed in a way that doesn’t match with the social expectations of my agab, looks like I’m trans now!”

And I mean, we don’t even all dress in a gender nonconforming way. So that alone should discredit the idea that it’s just us being gnc.

Most of us know damn well we aren’t the gender we were assigned at birth. Many of us showed signs of this in childhood (though not all). The very idea that people view me as a woman is fucking weird as hell to me. It’s wrong. I know it’s wrong. It completely clashes with my inner sense of my gender.

I’m not just gnc. I’m trans.

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socialjusticeichigo:

diskhorsedudes:

theblondlesbianfromthesnakehouse:

I will never get angry enough with people who appropriate the Q slur and use it to be unique.

Stop calling entire groups of people Q-r, we don’t like people assuming we’re comfortable with a slur. Stop putting the Q at the end of LGBT, it’s a useless repetition and we don’t like people assuming we’re comfortable with a slur. Stop saying you’re Q-r because you haven’t found a better label, it’s a slur with a specific meaning and not a good for all identity. Stop calling other people Q-r especially if they said they aren’t comfortable with a slur. Stop normalizing the use of the Q slur in books and internet pages/blogs, we don’t want straight people to assume we’re comfortable with a slur and that it’s okay to describe anyone and use it commonly.

This has been a PSA, enjoy pride month.

1. You have no right to tell other people what labels they can and can’t use for themselves. That’s none of your business. Also, way to invalidate those that have trouble pinning down their orientation and therefore find comfort in calling themselves queer. You are essentially forcing isolation onto those that have no other way to describe themselves and that’s pretty much gatekeeping.

2. Way to completely shit on the decades of work that elders in the community put into reclamation.

3. Queer people have said over and over again that if we are talking about queer people and the queer community, we mean those that actually identify as queer. If you’re not someone who uses queer for themselves, then we aren’t talking about you. Move on and stay in your lane.

4. I’m queer, I love being queer, and I’ll never stop being queer. I’m here, I’m queer, get used to it. Otherwise leave queer people alone. Your opinion will never stop us from loving our identity.

….Anyway, who else here is queer as fuck?

o/ *raises hand*

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luckyladylily:

genderqueerpositivity:

(Image description: a piece of paper taped to a beige wall with words in black font; the words say “It’s okay to use microlabels to better understand and describe your gender and sexuality. There is nothing wrong with wanting language to talk about your identity.”)

Blue, Sky, Navy, Indigo, cobalt, cyan, azure, sapphire, lapis.

I can think of nine different shades of blue off the top of my head we have different names for and there are many, many more. We give micro labels to everything, from colors to wood to cars because micro labels are useful and conducive to understanding. And yet applying them to gender and sexuality is supposedly a step too far. I call BS.

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yiddishanarchy:

yiddishanarchy:

HELP (Rent/Not Dying)

Hey y'all. I’m R, I’m a trans gay disabled Jew. I am very sick physically and undergoing tests to figure it out, and I recently went through the worst suicide attempt of my life, so working is not an option currently. I have no money so I’m not eating (or doing much self care in general), and my rent is due in 16 days. This month I was barely not evicted and I don’t want to be evicted this month, either. Please please help if you can, and thank you for reading!!!

Paypal: transdragoning@gmail.com (donate button on sidebar too)

Square: cash.me/$RDonations

Venmo: @Rabbie-Davis

Hey everyone, I now have 14 days to make rent. 💜

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queeranarchism:

forcesunleashed:

moralistically:

forcesunleashed:

happy Pride month let’s remember that abolishing gender markers is an infinitely better option than having non-binary markers

I don’t know about y'all but I don’t need the government having me on a list of Known Trans People

I genuinely think the only reason they’re on ID’s currently is so that if you’re in a medical accident, people can see your ID and know how to treat you. which does actually suck for all trans/nb people, but medicine works that way (unfortunately).

I’m actually trained in EMS and basic life support, and that’s incorrect. Generally medical emergencies are unrelated to your sex characteristics or endocrine system, and if they are, the patient will generally disclose to us first.

There are no emergency medical treatments that differ based on assigned sex. If we are treating you for sex characteristic based emergencies, we directly treat your organs, we generally don’t need to know what your ID says. Especially because your ID can say male or female and we still wouldn’t know what your reproductive system looks like.

Additional:

Most medication right now that has a standard ‘men’s dose’ and ‘women’s dose’ makes dangerous assumptions based on weight and would be far more effective if body weight and length were considered.

Our ID’s don’t have our blood types on them. Or any other truly life saving information. Clearly that is not what they are for.

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revolutionarykoolaid:

Today In Solidarity (6/12/18): As we remember the two year anniversary of the Pulse massacre, it is important that we reflect on narrative and who gets to write history. In the weeks following the tragedy, police were lauded as heroes for their response. In reality, they dragged their feet in responding to the shooting, sprayed bullets indiscriminately into the club, and have used the opportunity to muscle their way deeper into queer spaces, potentially threatening the safety of them. Survivors have recently filed a lawsuit around parts of this reality. 

Intermittently, we must remember that the victims of this massacre were predominantly Latinx, some even with hazy immigration statuses. The reality is that to this day member of the Latinx LGBTQ community (in Orlando and across the country) experience xenophobia, racism, and classism at the hands of police/authorities. We must not allow the Pulse tragedy to be white-washed. We must demand accountability for the lives lost not just at the hands of terrorists, but due to the cavalier and reckless way police acted in response. #nojusticenopeace #noprideforpolice

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fromacomrade:

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queernuck:

socialistexan:

vortexsophia:

semiautomatic-lonelygirl:

vortexsophia:

semiautomatic-lonelygirl:

But arson is illegal. She was arrested because she committed a crime

an attorney literally said to what you have mentioned, “under this logic every cigarette in public is “arson” that is NOT how this works. THAT is NOT Arson

ARSON: arson is defined as the malicious burning of the dwelling of another. Please note that the definitions of “dwelling” and “of another” are the same as they are in the context of burglary. In order to be convicted of arson, a defendant must have actually caused some damage to a dwelling, using fire.

Lighting a cigarette is not the same as setting a flag on fire in a populated area. She was convicted of attempted arson & reckless endangerment of others. She was in the wrong

She was absolutely NOT “convicted” of anything she was arrested for the above, in which case the DA will facepalm and throw out the “arson” since arson  literally is defined as “intentionally setting fire with the intent to cause damage and having cause damage”  A flag is absolutely NOT a structure. She will be pleabargened with public disturbance. 

watching haw many fucking 19 year old bootlicker idiots on hear scream arson, makes me have 0 confidence in the LGBTQ community as having staying power to overcome this administration…

Burning flags is protected under the 1st Amendment as political speech, flat out. The police violated her first amendment rights by jailing her for expressing a political opinion that is explicitly protected though legal precedent because they didn’t like being mocked.

Where are all the Status Quo Warriors that scream about Freeze Peach when a Nazi gets punched? Not here when this is literally the state trying to silence dissidence.

people are really getting heated about the “synthetic materials” shit as if American flags don’t get burnt all the time, are really concentrated on the act of flag burning so singularly that they are unable to even consider the symbolic irony of their defense of police over a transmisogynist arrest.

cop boots are ugly as fuck, if you wanna lick a boot find a leather daddy.

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