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You can vote harder — or you can do things harder than voting

Remember this? “Listen, kiddo, I get it. I don’t like the two-party system. I think our country is corrupt and, quite frankly, I don’t wanna vote for Biden; it feels like voting for a Republican, but I’m gonna do it! You wanna know WHY ? BECAUSE THE ALTERNATIVE IS A FUCKING FASCIST. A FASCIST. IT’S […]

May 3, 2022

Keifer @DannyVegito · May 2, 2022 seriously don’t know how the “VOTE” people aren’t completely embarrassed right now. everything you threatened us with is happening. you won the election and lost everything else Dems are in power and trans people are in more danger than ever, roe v wade may be struck down, republicans somehow are more imposing from a losing position, and nothing is being done to expand voting rights. the “VOTE!!” people can’t even make voting work!

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Asking the rules why are the way they are isn’t rude

(But try telling neurotypicals that.) Sometimes the explanation for “the rule” is that people like to be able to mutually share a fiction with one another without piercing the fiction with direct reference. A lot of debt among equals works this way. You may pay for someone’s dinner or do them some favor of labor, […]

December 26, 2021

image of cartoon with text written into a book "Asking the rules why are the way they are isn't rude"; next panel is cat from Tom and Jerry labeled "neurotypicals" reading the book and fuming about it

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Memes

The ritual magic of exercising agency

Don’t misunderstand: the fundamental problem in your life may well be “Shit Life Syndrome” due to capitalism or a health condition you can’t get treated due to capitalism and medical ableism or something else. Even “just” depression is fucking real, and it’s not your fault. You also aren’t entirely helpless, and while “just do something” […]

December 13, 2021

Tumblr @hakuteeth Not to offer advice nobody asked for but fixing ur sleep schedule is life changing @spyrogf Things that actually work if u try at them: -Drinking water -No longer making self deprecating jokes -Making sure to take time out of the day to relax and take a breather -Lighting candles -Counting ur breaths in and out if ur having a panic attack -Getting up and trying to do one thing even if u can’t do everything maybe brushing ur teeth but not having the energy to shower @chronicallysickchick Taking a shower if you can, putting clean clothes on if you can’t, even just a clean set of pjs. Washing your face.

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Memes, Ritual

Bodily autonomy includes sterilization

Twitter Big Nawl @afroSHIRLDr wouldnt tie my tubes cuz i wasnt married and maybe someday my husband might want kids. Medically, my body belongs to a man I havent met [Jan. 2, 2017] Source Black women in particular have been targeted for forcible sterilization for generations (e.g. “Mississippi appendectomy”) but not allowed to self-sterilize, terminate […]

December 13, 2021

Twitter Big Nawl @afroSHIRL: Dr wouldnt tie my tubes cuz i wasnt married and maybe someday my husband might want kids. Medically, my body belongs to a man I havent met [Jan. 2, 2017]

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Memes

The future of cruel and wishful thinking

You may be inclined to say “haha me”, but if you are not the sort of person whom news would describe the death of with “pre-existing conditions” or “comorbidities”, you are probably not thinking about this tweet right. Overwhelmed, people have said, “I’m over this.” Out of sheer exhaustion, so many people have said “it’s […]

December 11, 2021

Tweet by Dr Cait S Kirby: Some people are canceling plans due to new COVID data. Some people aren't canceling plans due to COVID because they're making unsafe choices. Other people aren't canceling plans due to COVID because we just haven't made a single plan to do anything besides exist since 3/2020

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Finding out your friend is a scab is worth ending a friendship over

If they’ll betray the working class to help some capitalists break a strike, who knows what else they’re capable of? Now, if you’re the sort of person who feels sympathy for the scabs and who thinks their “economic anxiety” justifies them taking jobs that starve strikers and their families, the best thing for you to […]

December 7, 2021

@QueerSatanic finding out your friend is a scab is worth ending a friendship over if they'll betray the working class to help some capitalists break a strike, who knows what else they're capable of

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Memes

Womanhood is good, expansive and resilient

Tumblr @testosteronebutchI get so frustrated when I see fellow sapphics saying that womanhood is necessarily constricting to us. Like, womanhood is so diverse and doesn’t have to be limited by the gender roles pushed on us by a heteronormative society. My butchness and masculinity don’t mean I can’t be a woman, even if I experience […]

December 7, 2021

Satanic Antifascism logo of “three arrows” with an inverted pentacle on top; the arrows are in lesbian/sapphic pride colors.

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Memes

“Reformed fascists” have a lot more work to do than just showing up

This is a really good framing for how to treat fascists, including so-called “reformed fascists” So often centrists, but also white “united front” leftists, allocate all their empathy to the fascist because they think “what if I had gone down that path?” In so doing they reveal that, whatever their rhetoric, they think politics is […]

November 27, 2021

Twitter @BrandonLBradfor Deradicalization spaces are important, but they cannot be the same spaces built by/for vulnerable populations to feel safe. Incels need an offramp, but it can't be the women's shelter.

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Memes

When white supremacy trumps “male privilege”

Tumblr @doberbuttsI had the cops called on me once (on TDoV lmao) because I was in a field with Creed offleash tweaking our heeling. The woman who reported us said that there was a “black man with an aggressive dog” and that we were scaring her. There was no one in the field with us […]

November 23, 2021

@doberbutts And because I talk about intersectionality- This is why trans men are repeatedly saying we do not have male privilege in the way that is being assumed of us. Especially not trans men of color, and especially especially not black trans men. Sometimes, in some situations, I am regarded as a man. But I am always black. It is not safer to be a black man. A white woman tried to get me killed or arrested so she could run her aggressive pit bull in the field next to both of our houses. She knew who I was. She was our neighbor. I passed her several times walking Creed. Her dog was always offleash in that field and out of control when on leash walking on the street. Don’t tell me she has any right to fear me because “well you’re a man” when I have every right to fear how she is going to wield her whiteness as a weapon against me. That could have been my name on the next tagline for a week.

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Memes

Whether arson is violence or pacifism depends entirely on what’s being burned

Construction is not more valuable than destruction when what’s being built is a concentration camp; the maintenance of a prison factory is not a neutral act just because it preserves the status quo. When colonized and enslaved people set fires to homes of their overseers, broke the equipment for mining or sugar processing, and killed […]

November 11, 2021

Punk anarchist Baphomet with top surgery scars throwing a Molotov cocktail that was lit by their cigarette. Arms have tattoos of queer communism, satanic antifascism, and squatters symbol as well as usual "solve" and "coagula"

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