If I hear anybody try to tell me this wouldn't have happened under Kamala then I will legit start planting charges

Not only would this have happened under Kamala but if it did it "wouldn't be the right time to criticize her" or whatever bullshit you all said back in the Biden era.

I haven’t been on this app in a while, but I know a Black man, Keith Porter, was murdered by ICE on New Year’s Eve (Rest in Power) in Cali. Just one of the countless Black people who’ve been murdered by ICE and other agents of the state.

I log back into this app and see the conversations around the white woman, Renee Good, who was just recently killed. And I can’t help but notice the stark difference in circulation of news and boosting of stories between both of them across this app…

Shit has BEEN happening to Black people across administrations and is currently happening to Black people under this administration, and is met by crickets. Yet when it starts touching white people, I see real anger start being felt from the gen pop followed by amplification and co-opting of Black terms and memorialization… I stg it takes everything in me to give af about yall.

"Friends and family of the 43-year-old man who was fatally shot by a Department of Homeland Security agent in Northridge on New Year's Eve gathered on Sunday to demand accountability and hold a candlelight vigil for their lost loved one."

"there's so many more trans women on this website than trans men" So close! We are actually just funnier than you.

Drag really is just another spin on "whitey's right to dress up as a stereotypical 'indian' chief."

Just look at how your average TME person mocks transfems for speaking out against drag. "mY cUltuRe iS nOt yOur coStUMe 🤪"

What the fuck?

Number one not all drag is dressing up as a woman. Number 2 that comparison is absolutely heinous. Comparing crossdressing as an art form to mocking a racial underclass is so culturally tone deaf.

But the most popular form of it is exaggerated, caricatured womanhood, done by men. You know this. I know this

And is it really tone deaf when I have literally heard transmisogynists say exactly that to trans women pointing out the exact thing I have? That and worse, because they just have to go deeper and nastier when it's about an issue that actually affects her as somebody TMA, to put her in her place. Trans women are a gendered underclass, and they are mocked ruthlessly and constantly.

Sorry you don't like how I point it out, by making comparisons to matters other people tend to care about (or at least pretend to for optics) at least a crumb more.

Why does crossdressing offend you so much?

Yes, still tone deaf. No ones arguing with the fact that trans women are mocked a lot but the idea that drag in and of itself is mocking womanhood is bar for bar what terfs say.

Comparisons that don't add up. White people mocking people of colour has been historically encouraged as a method of othering us. Drag and other forms of crossdressing have been oppressed and demonised because they normalise transgressing gender boundaries.

You can't just equate it with all crossdressing, it's a specific sub culture with specific history and baggage.

"In contrast with professional drag queens, who were only playing at being women onstage, [Esther] Newton learned that the very bottom of the gay social hierarchy was the province of street queens. In almost total contrast to professional queens, street queens were "the underclass of the gay world." Although they embraced effeminacy, too, they did so in the wrong place and for the wrong reason: in public and outside of professional work. As a result, Newton explained, the street queens "are never off stage. Their way of life is collective, illegal, and immediate." Because they didn't get paid to be feminine and were locked out of even the most menial of nightlife jobs, Newton observed that their lives were perceived to revolve around "confrontation, prostitution, and drug 'highs'." Even in a gay underworld where everyone was marked as deviant, it was the sincere street queens who tried to live as women who were punished most for what was celebrated-and paid-as an act onstage. When stage queens lost their jobs, they were often socially excluded like trans women. Newton explained that when she returned to Kansas City one night during her fieldwork, she learned that two poor queens she had met had recently lost their jobs as impersonators. Since then, they had become "indistinguishable from street fairies," growing out their hair long and wearing makeup in public-even "passing" as girls in certain situations," in addition to earning a reputation for taking pills. They were now treated harshly by everyone in the local scene. Most people wouldn't even speak to them in public. Professional drag queens who didn't live as women still had to avoid being seen as too "transy" in their style and demeanor. One professional queen that Newton interviewed explained why: it was dangerous to be transy because it reinforced the stigma of effeminacy without the safety of being onstage. "I think what you do in your bed is your business," he told Newton, echoing a middle-class understanding of gay privacy, "[but] what you do on the street is everybody's business." "

-Jules Gill-Peterson, A Short History of Trans Misogyny

The forms have changed, but the attitudes underlying these divisions did not go away, and it has never been TMA people enforcing them. Can you understand why we would be at least a little wary? Can you understand why this sanitized, safe version of the history of drag that gets bandied around would ring hollow to us and we wouldn't want to lend it legitimacy?

The Synagogue that was protested last night in Queens was hosting a real estate event.

They were selling stolen Palestinian land.

You're gonna hear a lot about how this protest is "antisemitic" or how it hurt people's feelings but I need you all to know that the counter protestors were chanting "We love ICE"

Fuck these fascists, fuck their synagogues, and fuck their feelings. Keep protesting the selling of stolen land.

"transfem hypervisibility is a privilege" and yet ive only seen other transmisogynized people posting about the FBI threatening transfeminists

Honestly, I don't know why you're so fixated on little things like "identity."

I mean, I kinda get it. Modern queer politics places 'personal chosen identity' as the only true sign of queerness.

If a character doesn't explicitly say they're queer, they're not really queer. Until a person goes through the ritual of "leaving the closet", they're not queer. If you don't say whatever it is that you are, speculation is forbidden and any statement to the contrary is violence. Queerness is stored in the choice of identity. Anything else isn't real.

But like you know it's not really like that. All of that is just downstream from creating a queerness that exists in a little box that everyone else can safely ignore. In reality, it's socially constructed, queerness exists at the intersection between you and the world around you. It emerges from the ways you fail patriarchal presentation, the ways your experiences differ from expectations, and what you do about that.

So like, it doesn't really matter whatever you say, I'm socially constructing your queerness for you when I keep you from wearing anything except dresses and force you to go on dates with me in them, so you're materially transfeminized regardless of how much you say otherwise.

fun little malware ridden true finale conspiracy

now lets not rewrite history

barret final fantasy really is the character of all time

preach it!!!!

felt like the non-scots should know about this

car crash of lexicographical unpersoning going on here

the author chose to gender the balls, but not the woman.

I can’t express to you how little I care about It being “queer history”, because every bit of queer history has scrubbed trans women out of it. Oh, it was historically accepted that trans men were a kind of lesbian? Why is that? Did they also accept trans women as lesbians? No? Funny how that works.

It’s historically important that we allow drag? Why is it that making fun of trans women is important to your history? Oh, it’s ok to look like a trans woman as long as it’s a costume and you take it off after? So what happens to the people who want to look like a trans woman all of the time? Oh, you pushed them out and they ended up homeless? Funny how that works.

These appeals to history don’t make you sound like you care about queer people. You sound like a conservative. Do you want to make queer spaces great again? Just make sure you exclude every trans woman just like you used to and then everything will be ok.

A lot of TME trans people talk about “queer history” in the same idealized way that statue PFPs talk about RETVRNing to the 1950’s.

In the midst of all of this, the reason people are harping on "imperial core privilege" is because, for example, I, as someone living in the US, do not have ongoing concerns of seeing elected officials in my country being airlifted out of here on blatantly-false charges and the small town I live in being bombed with no remorse.

it is dawning upon me just how many people seem to believe when we say the us empire is in decline it is a comment on its military strength

Do not forget the other victims of ICE

as much as we must mourn and stand in solidarity with Renee Nicole Good, please do not forget the other victims of ice raids, who are not white. Silverio Villegas González, a cook from mexico who was dropping his son off at daycare and was murdered Jaime Alanis, a farmer from mexico who fell off a green house at the farm where he worked to send money to his wife and daughter Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdez, a father and grandfather from Guatemala who was hit by a car Josué Castro Rivera, a garden from Honduras who was struck by a car And so many others who were killed or are dying in detention centres, prisons ect racial bias is always something we must be aware of, Renee will be focused on because she was a white woman and a US citizen, but do not forget all the other victims of ICE, may they all rest in power

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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