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For Anarchy, Autonomy, Abolition. We are guided by Black Power, Gay Pride, Disability Justice, Trans Liberation, Class Struggle, and Pan-Africanism. #9
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Pinning this to the top. Emergency crowdfund for a transfemme in need of housing
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Her name is Ashley Diamond and there's an ongoing crowdfund in support of her going on.
Trans woman raped 14 times in men's prison finally released after suing state twice
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All pictures of Isa, please delete them. Isa has been found and is with community/friends. This has been confirmed for us by contacts on the ground and close to her. The ask is for people to delete photos that were shared during the search efforts. Please honor and respect that
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Go mourn. But don't be shocked. This was part of how this shit works, mind you. But go mourn, so that when you're done, you do what you must to defend yourself and your community through study, solidarity, spirit, and struggle. Because this ruling was a message to be honest
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It’s funny how cis women will acknowledge that they be needing to be taught womanhood, whether from a mother figure, auntie, grandma, whatever; but when they discuss trans women, it is a requirement that our womanhood be static. And that is solely because ppl think femaleness...
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Gender and race rely on two different appeal to nature fallacies in order to rationalize two different functions of the dominant "genre" of human (itself an ethnoclass project in Wynter's phrasing). Questions like this are completely ignorant of how and why both are constructed.
If folks can change gender according to how they feel inside, should folks be allowed to change their race according to how they feel… inside?
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Haiti is on fire now. Haiti been hot. Haiti will be hot so long as the US and West continues to try and punish them for revolutionary struggle. Currently DR is engaging in ethnic cleansing practices on the Island right now. Fuck all colonizers. Black Liberation Matters.
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This is also why when “mutual aid” is reduced to a crisis intervention model, and not a touchstone for solidarity, political education, and movement building, we end up in a cycle of sharing requests and ppl getting mad at folk who burnout rather than organizing a revolution
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The world was not a utopia prior to colonialism. Class and hierarchical struggles DID exist back then. Not to the same degree of intensity but there existence prior does play an important role in the modern struggle against capitalism-imperialism. We must understand this.
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Don't know who told yall that the heart of queerness is merely "resistance to binaries" lmaooo but it's actually about resistance to the way gendered labor divisions constrict our autonomy on behalf of colonialism and capitalism. They will use a binary or even a trinary if needed
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There's a popular tweet tht goes like "I shouldn't need Marx to learn how to care for ppl," and yes thas true. A revolutionary should be able to just be loving; but revolution isn't just about care, tho that's part of it. Care as a concept doesn't address how value is produced
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Please remember that class struggle predates capitalism
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Make room for the fact that some people speak or write the way they do because the literal process of doing so in a particular way is what helps them understand what they are thinking or writing or talking about. Accessibility also includes the needs of the communicant too
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“Nonbinary people don’t owe you androgyny” yall say... while only respecting, befriending, supporting light skinned, thin, monied nonbinary folk or folk who are desirable in other ways.
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Solidarity with those still in the trenches. Uprisings have not stopped. We see yall. We will get free. Black August salute.
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White leftists, especially non-Jewish ones, who condemn Israel but shout down at Black radical critiques if settler colonialism in the US (and how it shapes the reactionary class character of white peoples on this soil) are not principled anti-Zionists at all whatsoever.
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Anyways Free Palestine. Free Aotearoa. Free Turtle Island. We want an end to apartheid and occupation everywhere. An end to all enclosures, domination, exploitation, hierarchy. We want all power to all the people, from below, thru the margins, in self determination
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Thread on resources related to Black struggle, African history, cisheteropatriarchy, queerness/transness and gender variance, class and hierarchies:
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Not all "leftist infighting" is bad. Some of us do not have the same goals, interests, etc. Some of us have values that are not commensurate with each other. Some of us have positions and principles that deserve ruthless criticism. And some of us deserve to get our shit rocked fr
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Neither nonbinary nor "binary" trans people are the primary causes of each umbrella's struggles; furthermore, the act of treating these umbrellas as mutually exclusive does more harm than good, especially for Black TMA people.
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Instead of saying “dont panic, organize,” tell yourself “I am panicking, but I must do my best to organize.” Dont neglect your very human emotions because that can and will become a contradiction in the long run and fuck the work up. All strategy should account for burnout.
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Next it’s gon be “Marx-ish” starring patrice, opal, deray and produced be shaun king
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..: is what legitimates womanhood. This is a very cissexist logic, therefore. Trans women are women of transgender experiences, plural. There is nothing static about our womanhood and just like cis women have to learn from elders and define womanhood on their own terms so do we
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The way the welfare queen and transgender scammer tropes both position Black Trans Women is so violent.
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The life of Black trans women & transfemmes shouldn’t be based in construing us as everyone else’s priests and warriors, as ur shamans and militants, your resources for spiritual and political inspiration. “Protect them because they always ride for us” is some paternalistic shit
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Also nonbinary as a concept =\= genderlessness, even in the Black context. There are nonbinary ppl who are genderless, yes. But nonbinary Women exist. Nonbinary men exist. Nonbinary is an umbrella term. Some nonbinary identities are neither gendered nor genderless, making...
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The question “what about rapists and murders” to defend the torture chambers that are prisons and uphold modern slavecatchers IS a racialized dogwhistle that also disingenuously ignores the fact that prisons/police statistically UPHOLD rape culture at various levels of society
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May the death of bell hooks, of Malidoma Patrice Somé, and so many other Black elders who gave alot to our contemporary cultural, political, spiritual self-understanding remind us of what Fanon had to say: each generation must discover our destiny. The next pioneers r around you
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The only difference is that we have had our womanhood denied us because of the imposition of racialized biological sex categories and therefore must confront institutions and attitudes in the general society and in our own culture that denies us the right to legitimate our gender
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Reminder: transness cannot be compared to blackface. Gender diversity is culturally produced (endogenous to the class dynamics of a given indigenous society) while race is culturally imposed (exogenous to the class dynamics of a given indigenous society).
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Every bad behavior isn't a diagnosis. Some people just need to get they ass kicked. They don't have to be a narcissist or whatever. They just a bitchmade mf. Let's bring back actually dissing niggas instead of relying on ableism so much yall niggas contribute to fascism otherwise
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Ah look at antiblackness and cisheterosexism intersecting lmaoooo. A dimorphic and bioessentialist view of human gender always leads itself to Eurocentrism
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One thing about Haiti, they will strike, protest, rebel. This month we honor the ongoing struggle and remember the Black republic born of the earth’s first successful slave revolt.
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The pandering that took the teeth out of the summer 2020 rebellions been working hard. Everyone hitched their hopes to the Democratic party and to the ways all these companies have ratcheted up their pandering and representational marketing schemes. Plus folks are tired.
Every day I’m shocked that widespread riots haven’t started in the US. It’s pretty impressive
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The logic behind comparing transness to Blackface is the same as comparing gender self-determination to cultural appropriation (ie, calling oneself "transracial" a la Rachel Dolezal). Both are entirely uninformed about the actual dynamics involved in how race and gender develop
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The only reason "race" or "fatness" are reductively framed as risk factors for any medical condition is because antiblack fat phobia requires isolating a structural disablement to the individual. Bioreductivism is inaccurate. The reality is doctors ignore Black esp fat ppl
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The particular area in the Bronx where that awful fire took more than a dozen lives... is one where there's been continuous reports of people not having adequate heat or clean water access for years now. There are claims that a space heater caused the blaze. Dis was a class issue
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Cis women can reclaim those racialized biological sex categories for the sake of legitimacy (to a degree) in order to make their womanhood seem less inhuman by trying to align their gender with the nuclear family and other bourgeois models
This is how cis sexism operates
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CPS is literally being used rn to punish families that don't want their children in schools during a pandemic. And that's just one example of how the family misregulation system, the miseducation system, and carceral State work together against the working class Black community.
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In all, nonbinary erasure, anti-transmasculinity, and transmisogyny are weilded in queer/feminist spaces, often but not exclusively by cis women, in order to police not just gender identity, behavior, expression, presentation through reactions to trauma from cis men, but ideology
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Antisemitism is not a problem of Black culture. It is a problem of Christian religious nationalism and bourgeois interests. Christian religious nationalism and bourgeois interests have taken an outsized voice in Black struggle, and Minor Patriarchy plays a huge role in why.
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You cannot hold someone accountable who has no relationship of solidarity to you upon which a process can actually succeed. True transformative justice praxis has to be proactive and grounded in a culture of revolutionary study and movement participation. The reactive angle...
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Gender relations emerge internal to cultural dynamics whereas racialization is imposed onto one culture by a dominant culture as part of class/colonial oppression. The latter historical process means forcing the dominant gender relations onto the gender relations of the exploited
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The N*p M*n*stry is not run by someone working class. Several times when folks have tried to point out how the focus on rest can be problematic if it's immaterial, NM has responded by essentially painting such critiques as somehow not as woke as NM is. When really it's abt access
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A number of people are practicing prosperity gospel but calling it ATRs. Alot of people are pushing “pull yourself by your bootstraps” but calling it manifestation. Alot of people think they are healing or levelling up when really they just fixating on boujie class interests
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Stop framing misogynoir primarily around "denial of femininity to exclude one from white womahood", and shift to "the weaponization & racialized anatomical/sex reduction to position one along a continuum of animalistic, demonic, threatening contradistinctions to white womanhood"
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Neither Malcolm NOR the Panthers were MLs. They were part of Black radical traditions which include but exceed what is thought of as “the Left.” Stop tryin to subordinate our political self determination to yt ppl’s supposedly universal claim to ideology.
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We are not against online activism. We are against so-called organizing that uncritically uses what amounts to nothing more than a marketing technology (“social media”) and its connections to clout culture as their primary sphere of political activation and movement building
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Black Trans women and transfemmes deserve life, land, liberation, love, and to have our labors respected, to own the fruits thereof.
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Using they/them for a trans person when that isn't their pronouns is a form of misgendering. It's wild how cisheteropatriarchy was able to coopt gender neutrality to uphold transphobia. More gender neutral nonbinary ppl should call that out rather than tryna scramble to benefit.
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The day revolutionaries are ready to understand that studies of care work is as important as studies of militancy/opsec, the better all our organizational methodology will be. It is militancy and care work. It is care work and militancy. Not just one. Not just the other. But both
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bell hooks no longer being with us is actually mind blowing tbh.
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bell hooks, like any theorist, didn't have all the answers, but her work cannot be underestimated for its role in pushing ppl around class. So many were upset when she called a certain celeb on her bs despite how cogent the critique became in under a decade esp post Black Panther
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Rest in peace Winston Smith. Rest in peace Makhia Bryant. Rest in peace Antonio Mays, Jr. Rest In Peace Oluwatoyin Salau. Rest in peace Monster Cody. Rest in peace Dee Dee Thomas. Rest in peace Tony McDade. Rest in peace to all our sibs. We shall see yall in the whirlwind.
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If you are doing redistributive and mutual aid, solidarity aid, etc your formation should just assume you will get scammed at least once and strategize accordingly. No need to be vitriolic and start tryna pattern the welfare state. Btw scamming =\= when privileged folk try to
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So radfems mass reported Bl3ssing on here, in part with the help of some of yalls leftist faves, and now her account is permanently suspended. This was just after she did a long recorded space critiquing the notion of Sex Class Theory
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Same with the BMI and the notion of “asperger’s”
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If 11 year olds can shut down internet to get out of class imagine what they gon do once they have class/anti-colonial consciousness? There's a reason they brought police in, and why more broadly the ruling class is doing what it's doing. Protect and politically educate our kids
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If you aint done so yet, pre-order a copy of this text by our comrades.
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A friend can't visit you in the hospital. The nuclear family and monogamy are forced onto people by institutions. Ppl can do all the unconditioning they want: we have to change the system so there is room to find fulfillment in multiple relationships.
Saw this tweet talking about adult friendships being hard. Are they? Or have we all been conditioned to think that anything outside of romantic relationships doesn't need to be nurtured, steadily fed and committed to?
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Therefore, trans liberation is about reclaiming gender relations that were forcibly denied us during the process of colonization and racialization. This is why Black queer/trans culture does not resemble that of white queers; but also why Black cis/straight ppl don't necessarily
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It's been alot we dealing with. Always remember: care work AND militancy. Militancy AND care work. None of us were prepared for what it would be to struggle and study in the midst of a pandemic and climate crisis. Integrating Disability Justice and healing into praxis is vital.
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SQuAD is a Black Anarchic Radical formation inspired by Marsha P Johnson and Kuwasi Balagoon. A small, hood-based collective, they focus on mutual aid, political education, and self defense for Black trans women and other non-cis and TGNC folk/maGes. They need $$
Venmo @ SQUAD_
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To suggest one cannot change gender bc one cannot change race is you truly taking what Oyeronke Oyewumi called Western "body reasoning" as a given. It's overlooking the fact that the actual crux of Transness is a struggle for bodily autonomy and against colonialism/racism.
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Butch, masc, and tomboi trans women/tma folks deserve better.
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We just saw a set of tweets calling us academic theory nerds. People just don’t like that working class Black ppl can be committed to study, know our shit, etc especially where Black maGes are concerned.
Hoodcommunist is primarily ran by two working class/poor Black women with no degrees. It’s interesting how people project academia on them.
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It seems alot of ppl forget that "carceral" refers to a repressive technology within the State (and civil society), comprised of institutions that keep colonial-class relations in place through forms of punishment and paternalism and surveillance directed against poor, ND, Black
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Gender self determination is our position too. Gender abolition is informed by a white lens that ignores the endogenous or internal dynamics of societal development and roles involved in "gender" as it exists for colonized people and national liberation.
I don’t wanna abolish gender. I wanna abolish the gender binary. I want indigenous gender identities that colonizers attempted to destroy to be respected. I want gender self determination & I want a system that doesn’t arbitrarily value some genders & demonize others.
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Gender is cultural. And if white supremacy can restrict or expand its ethnic composition to conserve racial capitalist domination, it will certainly apply the same mercurial flexibility and rigidity regarding gender/sexual lifeways *within* the white context.
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Purity culture and rape culture go hand in hand.
Extreme modesty and purity culture is sexualization. I wonder when we’ll be able to talk about that.
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Patriarchy is about domestic labor exploitation that upholds the property interests of a European landowning and free class. It uses biology to marginalize and erase the possibility of gender relations (manhood, womanhood, and more) which transgress against that framework.
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You will not get far as a revolutionary if you do not remind urself that the universe is filled with wonder & mystery and that the tools for understanding it that we have are not, never were, & must not be static unchanging: for they must always be updated to demystify the world.
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There are intersex TMA people who were coercively assigned 'male' at birth. There are intersex TMA people who were coercively assigned 'female' at birth. Coercive gender assignment is neither a noun nor adjective. It doesn't describe gender identity nor dies it describe 'sex.'
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The struggle on the ground in NYC is about to get ugly. With the new mayor, new jails, these pig ass game buses, the surveillance technology disguised as an easier use of the transit system, ongoing housing crisis and the pandemic, as well as the war on houseless/MI/queer folks
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"The working class don't care about pronouns" "the hood don't care about theory" bro maybe it's just they don't wanna hear that shit from yo square ass. Maybe you embody the whiteness and elitism you think our people categorically associate w those things. Maybe you have no drip.
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This pro-drug/anti-drug debate hella mystified. Addiction is a disease not a moral flaw. Ableism in movements is actually more of a security risk than being ill and the fact that yall bring up security when speaking of Disability proves that u recognize how the State uses ableism
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Girl, bell hooks would say worse things about you than she said about Beyonce lmaooooooo keep her name out yo Top Opp ass mouth
Our nation lost a prolific author, activist, and trailblazer. bell hooks’ profound and positive influence will be with us for generations to come. May she rest in power.
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And at some point, especially as we watch climate change talks get folded into a green capitalism project, where water futures are being sold, where a "green economy" is merging with the surveillance state & NPIC u gon need theory even if it's basics to understand our oppression
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We wanna dance with somebody!!!!!!! ASHLEY IS FREE! So much more to come soon, but for now, please support Ashley & welcome her home by donating!
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get allowed to occupy the dominants gender norms/institutions in the way that white people can. These are things that can be studied but yall get on social media trying to ask nonsense questions because yall wanna hold onto silly ideas of cisheterosexism.
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Harriet was disabled. Frances Thompson was disabled. Malcolm talked about how Jim Crow, Jane Crow, and the medical industrial complex impacted his mother and his childhood. The Panthers supported the Disability Rights sit in materially. And we as Anarkatas hold Disability Justice
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The works of George Jackson, Sanyika Shakur, of Black revolutionary feminists like Claudia Jones & transfeminists like Nsambu Za Suekama, of BARs like Kuwasi Balagoon & Lorenzo Ervin, of pioneers in Black radicalism like du Bois & Robert Allen; an analysis of Jim Crow + Jane Crow
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So instead of “fuck organization” or “join an organization” we say “get involved in group study, building solidarity, practicing care, and in revolutionary struggle.” And we also say “let’s talk about the various formations that can give shape to participation in this.”
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A white person cannot be "transracial" because one cannot just insert themselves into the cultures, lineages, historical experience, etc of exploited/colonized populations who have been racialized (through appeal to nature fallacies created around skin color, hair type, etc)
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NYC invests in cops over infrastructure because they know that the logical result of ecocide is mass resistance. Capitalism is reaping the whirlwind or storm—literally and figuratively. The Man is focused on suppression and we must respond in kind. We need a root-grasping science
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Support Rahrah!!!
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This Black History Month, remember that Afro-Carribbean radicalisms have powered the global Black revolution time and time again.
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Some Leftists try to do the whole thing of "well there is a secret group that ruins everything: but it's capitalists, not Jewish ppl" and while well intended it doesn't address how the very juxtaposition of Jewishness w the ills of capitalism has roots in antisemitic rhetoric.
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Every serious revolutionary collective should not just be studying operational security and militant strategy/tactics, but also survivalism skills, care work methods (particularly from a DJ/feminist angle), conflict resolution models (including accountability & tj/rj frameworks)
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It never dawned how me exactly how anti-abortion laws relate to the full extent of white supremacy until I heard a Black elder discuss her childhood. Her mother worked in secret to assist women with self-managed abortions. Demanding a pre-choice world is segregation nostalgia.
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Pronouns don't equal gender. Presentation don't equal gender. And still: catching strays from the ways transmisogyny is the fulcrum of cisheterosexist/patriarchal reaction... when you know you are non-TMA... is still a position of privilege by comparison. Point blank period.
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Thread of community members to whom we been offering regular/consistent support:
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We need an orientation toward struggle that is not reactive. Things are about to move fast again. But our movement infrastructures are unsustainable.
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Malcolm X’s ideas are cooptable. The Black Panthers’ ideas are cooptable. Pan Africanism is cooptable. Black nationalism is cooptable. Every one of our struggles are cooptable bc the Man will stop at nothing to douse the fires of revolution. We should hold onto all our struggles
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If, in your mind, patriarchal behavior from cis women is simply "internalized misogyny" but from other marginalized genders its always explained in a way that paints them never as victims, always as opps, you may be relying on a TERF derived theory of patriarchal oppression.
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It’s more than just the criminalization of anarchism at work. It’s also the attacks on trans rights, critical race theory, the backlash against “wokeness” and “cancel culture” AND the way the Left, incl. anti-colonial factions, tails these things with their anti-idpol’ism
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Schooling =/= education. School as institution has continued to be a facet of State and ruling class control, of alienation for workers, carcerality, of acculuturation and abuse in the colonial context, and of class solidarity for elites, the maintenance of a social ladder
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Pronouns are more akin to titles or honorifics, at least in the ways Black people have expanded that conversation to include familial language like "sib" or "dawg" or "love" or "fam." And when we think of it that way, this gender struggle becomes a question of cultural genres.
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Today we remember the anniversary of the burning of that precinct, the catalyst of Taylor-Floyd Uprising, the culmination of the Black Lives Matter decade and generations of abolitionist (including Black nationalist, feminist and anarchist) struggles. The event which shook the US
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Unfamiliar =\= inaccessible
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