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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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“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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“I Can Excuse Racism But I Draw The Line At Animal Cruelty”

There’s a much longer discussion to be had here on how racism (not speciesism) as it applies to dogs, how claims about “breeding” are also applied to people, and how class also plays a role. A German Shepherd owned by, say, Joe Biden that bites someone is going viewed differently than any pitbull terrier barking […]

April 5, 2021

@Complex UPDATE: North Carolina officer formally resigns after the video of him body-slamming a K-9 surfaces. SCOOB SAIBOT @BarkyBoogz on April 1, 2021, quoting image of own tweet from July 13, 2013: "Matter of fact, animals get better treatment in the legal system than black people

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Anticommunism and antiblackness in the United States

Dr. CBS [Charisse Burden-Stelly] @blackleftafThe interconnection of anticommunism and antiblackness is not about whether Black people like or dislike communism, but rather how anticommunism is a powerful technology of repression used to uphold white supremacy and Black subjection and, of course, racial capitalism.Dec. 9, 2020 In the power centers of the United States, specifically, it’s […]

December 9, 2020

Man speaking at microphone in front of crowd at the Arkansas State Capitol protesting school integration, with signs reading "Race mixing is Communism" and "Stop the race mixing," Little Rock, Arkansas

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Animals as allegory

Zootopia has the common fallacy of animal allegory fiction that altho its message is one thing (“racism/misogyny are bad”) everything else about the universe runs contrary to that because there actually are essentialist differences between animal species. Something you notice about Robin Hood is that, for the most part, there’s no rhyme or reason to […]

October 25, 2020

Twitter @NewGenderWhoDis These foxes exist in ideological opposition to each other and represent Disney's shift towards fascism. In this essay I will Feral housewife @suhmoyed reject modernity and embrace tradition image of two animated foxes, Nick Wilde from Zootopia as a police officer and Disney's Robin Hood

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