I can’t feel my hands or feet anymore. The cold is destroying us, the storms won’t stop, and the shelter gives no protection. My family is shaking, my mother is in pain there is no warmth, no safety.
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This is a real family in real pain. We urgently need help. Even a reblog can make the difference between life and loss.
the floating head of wisdom
Please don't fall victim to internet misinformation. There is no floating head. It's a regular horse, it's neck is just hidden due to the position of the camera. I made an image to help you understand the what's actually going on.
Thank you for the clarification
Some major updates from people in Iran and leaks:
This is a humanitarian crisis. The people of Iran need your support more than ever. Amplify their voices, and don't let the regime get away with its crimes in darkness. Hold your governments and media to account to make sure that they support the people of Iran and not support the regime.
All eyes on Iran.
Basically, it boils down to this:
What all this adds up to is that even leaving the moral dimension of the act aside, from a purely pragmatic perspective, reblogging that callout post accusing a random trans woman you've never heard of of being a dogfucker or what-have-you is an action which, in a worst-case scenario, will contribute to ruining an innocent person's life, and in a best-case scenario, is likely to accomplish nothing whatsoever.
Folks often justify reblogging callout posts without performing due diligence under the rubric of "better safe than sorry", but any realistic assessment of the likely outcomes will tell you that the true "better safe than sorry" course of action is to keep your damn mouth shut!
"But I thought we were supposed to always believe allegations of sexual misconduct" well, the thing is, "false allegations of sexual misconduct are rare" and "false allegations of sexual misconduct disproportionately target specific visible minorities" are both true statements. There's no algorithm for being a good person – you really do have to think this shit through every single time it comes up.
Just letting you know; if you’re thinking of making a low budget indie game (or know someone who is) but not sure if you should just have text for all speech or cave and use AI voices, you don’t have to do either.
There are a lot of people out there who voice act as a hobby who’d do it for very cheap. My housemate is one such hobby voice actor and I asked her if she or her friends would take the job if someone contacted them saying “I’m making a short indie game and need a voice actor for this one character but I can only pay you 5$” and she immediately said yes. They already do it for free as a hobby so being paid anything is just a bonus, and it would be a fun little job. All she’d ask for besides the 5 bucks is being put in the credits to get her name out there.
So if it’s something that ever becomes relevant to you, just search for voice actors on YouTube and you’ll be able to find them pretty easily. They’re not going to sound like top level professional voice actors but they’ll have a lot more soul than an AI voice.
Oh, my God, it feels like the first days of the war all over again. Bombing everywhere in Gaza right now. It you scroll past this without sharing, please question your humanity.
I just got a call from my mother while I’m lying in a hospital bed. She was screaming as my younger siblings cried in terror. The bombing was very close, and they survived by a miracle. Please donate to help evacuate my family and keep them alive.
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the lesbian computer from portal was right. given the circumstances ive been shockingly nice
insane like/reblog parity on this post btw
my lesbian ass appreciates it.
it's really easy to be kind to girls who are pre-E. it's free. doesn't cost anything. just saying. be kind n all that.
Reblog to let a girl who is pre-E know that you love her, now!!!!
I want to tell y’all a story.
This aint fun, aint easy, but it’s mine. But it’s not just mine. I’ve heard it so many fucking times from other Black folks, from other transfemmes, whispered behind doors because they’re scared it’ll happen again.
We deserve to tell our stories.
Share this, because even if you don’t need this story, there are others who do. The number of other Black transfemmes I’ve met at this point who went through similar, who told me that *this was their story too*, is too fucking many.
We can’t let fear stop us from speaking.
We deserve to speak about what happened to us, what was done to us, how we are just another one in a long chain, spread across numerous communities.
We are being genocided, and we are running out of time. We have to stop sacrificing each other because we’re all traumatized.
Yeag we’re all human and we do fucked up shit to each other and were traumatized by living in a white supremacist society but we can’t keep playing the same fuck-fuck games we have been because we are fucking being killed. We’re being forcibly erased. We HAVE to save each other.
I think this essay is really valuable and important as a first-hand account of a black trans woman being falsely accused of abuse and sexual assault.
It's also important to note that while some of the accusers described are far right people that inserted themselves into queer spaces... that is nonetheless a scenario queer organizers need to think and talk about, need to plan and adjust for. We can't be sitting ducks for bad people who do malicious trolling IRL the way others only do online.
Finding out how these far righters are able to make accusations that wield that many consequences is really important.
I also think this essay needs to cause some reflection about established concepts like Catherine McKinnon's approach to consent and the notion of transmisogyny itself.
It's disturbing people use McKinnon's model to be radical about consent, because McKinnon's model addresses sexual assault after it occurs, rather than removing the incentives. And importantly, McKinnon's model allows people to imagine that they are at their most radical when they ruthlessly cut off people who are accused of committing harm, even when there's a complete lack of evidence. Also, McKinnon's model lets powerful people get away with assault (think of Joe Biden's defense after he was accused) while less powerful people are convicted in the court of public opinion without evidence. What better tool could far right trolls that want to weed out promising progressives (or have fun with their favourite victims) ask for?
I also think it might be more productive to think of each uniquely black transfemme experience detailed as it's own specific problem:
An issue like housing may affect black transfemmes more than most people, but as long as we demand a minimum standard in housing for everyone, we are excluding no one. So transmisogynoir isn't strictly a necessary concept to tackle that.
And the targeting that occurred is a good example of how a specific fringe hate group (white supremacist bigots on the far right) picks victims who are queer because they are the black people who don't have as much support and ability to fight back.
To me at least, it seems that a lot of intersectional labels (from transmisogyny to lesbophobia to transmisogynoir) often obscure rather than clarify these causes. Everything becomes part of a mysterious intersection of discriminations with fluid effects that mysteriously cross-pollinate and nobody can figure out the next steps in their own liberation except to say which group they would like to see protected.
What's perhaps most interesting in the essay are the "allies" that kick the author out of her community spaces. The management people that repeat transphobic accusations like "you tower over them" with zero self-awareness. Or ask to "put yourself in the shoes of a traumatized person"...I can't decide if that's a consciously bigoted remark to erase the author's history with trauma on purpose or if it's a unconscious and uncaring attitude, treating people as non-traumatized by default ("I mean you are chatting with me right now. The trauma can't be too bad."). Either way, it's horrific.
Hopefully people can pick apart what went wrong here and learn lessons from each example given. With reflection and dedication, this kind of exclusion won't repeat itself.
What I think is important to note about my stories is that these primarily *aren’t* nefarious right-wingers who have infiltrated queer spaces. In fact, only one of these people I’d describe as having any kind of right-wing mindset.
The vast majority of the people who did this stuff, who in each situation I had known for months and liked or even loved, were some flavor of leftist, and self-described as anarchists, abolitionists, antiracists, transfeminists, and similar. These were all people who believed they were acting in the best interests of their communities in what they did to me, and handling it in a suitably “progressive” manner.
Assuming anyone who behaves this way, who takes these actions, to be some malevolent outsider striving to cause harm and disrupt queer spaces, rather than this being a symptom of unexamined and uneliminated Whiteness and White Supremacy within each of these ideologies, simply supports the continuance of this behavior by assuming that anyone who perpetrates it is an “other” instead of realizing that any of us with enough unexamined beliefs and actions are able to further it in service of maintenance of Whiteness and White Supremacy.
In my mind, despite being the one who this shit was done to, none of these people were doing more than trying to utilize and maintain the existent systems of Whiteness while otherwise behaving in line with their own preferred ideologies. These are the organizers themselves. These are the people showing up to rallies, protests, etc. it’s easy to fight against a wrong when it comes from an “other” vice when it comes from yourself and the unexamined tendrils of white supremacy you haven’t ripped out of your own beliefs and actions yet.
We have to be able to look at our actions and behaviors not through a lens of “I believe in antiracism therefore all actions I take are antiracist” but through a lens of “I was raised in a white supremacist society, how might I still be enabling it even if I think I’m doing better?”
because at least in regards to the last story, the mediator thought she was behaving in a way that furthered antiracist goals and that I was baselessly bringing up racism as a defense to prevent accountability for my actions, rather than reviewing the things she had said and going “oh, even if it wasn’t my intent, I did say some transmisogynoiristic things here.”
It's interesting to find out as an adult that a lot of things you were taught to regard as "pretentious incomprehensible nonsense that fancy pretentious intellectuals pretend to understand in order to impress other fancy pretentious intellectuals who also won't admit that they don't get it either" are actually perfectly comprehensible. It's just that the people who raised you were either too stupid to get it, or too stubborn to even try. Yes I do actually understand how the cinematic visual symbolism of something that would make no sense in real life represents the characters' emotions in this scene.
I understand everything except wine. I just don't have a strong enough sense of scent or taste to tell the difference beyond what colour it is.
Notice there hasnt been a wednesday this year
Suspicious.
Six days and still no Wednesday. I think it's safe to conclude that there will be no more Wednesdays ever
I thought today would finally be the day, but alas. Tuesday 2. Twosday, if you woulge.
This is not a figment of the imagination…this is a picture of a reality unfolding now, behind walls, far from cameras and the spotlight. Thousands of Palestinian prisoners languish in jails, many without trial: children, doctors, students, parents…their bodies shackled, their pain unheard. They are not asking for the impossible. They are asking the world to know that they are human beings…and that their lives matter.
