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@doux-amer / doux-amer.tumblr.com

you mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.

The discussions around the murder of Renee Good are such a clear case study for the need for intersectional frameworks. There are lots of claims that she is the “first US citizen killed by ICE” which not only is not true, she is not even the first of 2026. There is both a massive erasure of the victims before her, and an erasure of Renee’s own identity and connections that made her a more acceptable target for both murder and smearing.

Everyone MUST contend with:

1. US citizens are falsely labeled as non-citizens or had their citizenship “stripped” and are deported and then sometimes killed elsewhere

2. US citizens, Lawful Permanent Residents (LPRs), are “deported” to places they have never lived and are at the mercy of new countries, sometimes those that will kill them or imprison them again

3. Lawful Permanent Residents are killed in custody

4. US citizens are disappeared from their homes and record of them is lost

5. Native Americans born and raised on these lands with US documents are placed into legal limbo and killed and imprisoned and sometimes deported to places they have never visited let alone lived in

6. US citizens killed on US soil or abroad taking peaceful action against an armed oppressor if not attacked going about their days, are routinely distanced from their citizenship, when it serves the narrative

Palestine: (Saif Musallet, 20; Tawfic Abdel Jabbar, 17, Mohammad Alkhdour, 17; Aysenur Eygi, 26; Amer Rabee, 14)

7. Renee was a queer woman with a masc wife and her identity is being used as justification for her murder and proof of her “corruption” when it isnt completely omitted outright

8. Renee’s wife’s identity and attitude is also being used to justify Renee’s murder

9. Renee was politically vocal and is being held up as proof of “left-wing extremism”

10. Renee is being labeled a domestic terrorist using language, ordinances, and memos that have been coming out for a long while

Renee is the latest in a long line of murders and violence that will continue on, and it is crucial to understand that no this is not new, yes it is just as important to care about nonwhite citizens and non-citizens of all races, yes your legal status and loyalty will be called into question once you are dead and it helps no one to make excuses for why the murder is legal, yes “it could happen to (you)” but understand why it hasn’t—what makes you different—and as the differences get smaller and smaller, recognize when is the time to do something about it

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It’s about cis men threatened by masc women, it’s about queer identity fearmongering by fascists, it’s about the sanitation of queer identity by “ally” media, it’s about opposition to government brutality warranting a death sentence, it’s about the history of agents killing and deporting people left of center, it’s about the erasure of Black men’s deaths compared to white victims, it’s about how labels like “terrorist” have allowed for a deep and wide erosion of rights, it’s about the long history of police brutality caught on film, it’s about the label of “non-citizen” and how a division between “legal” and “illegal” is used as justification for violence and death, it’s about how truly VILE the entire immigration system is, it’s about the long history of neighborhoods coming together to protect their own and how we owe our safety to that—not cops, it’s about prioritizing US white citizen’s lives over the lives of Black and brown migrants, it’s about the hypocrisy of what allows one to be considered a citizen—and how those who have been on this land the longest hold some of the fewest rights, it’s about how this didn’t start with Trump—not second term and not first—and how it wont end with Trump.

It’s about human rights and dignity, it is about personhood, it is about autonomy, it is about privacy, it is about restriction of movement, it’s about nationalism, it’s about the erosion of real safety for the sake of heightened militarization, it is about genocide, it is about ecocide. It’s immigration and cop city and Palestine and land back and white supremacy and BLM and every type of bigotry that aims to define whole groups as “less than.”

It’s about everything!

If this isn’t your hard line into involvement, nothing will reach you, because it’s about all of us.

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