With casual conversations about eliminating trans people here in the UK, this is where we're rapidly heading. We need unity, solidarity, and actual feminism to try to stop this from happening to our kids - NOT this right-wing exclusionary patriarchal BS we're seeing 😡
This targets and sexually abuses girls in the name of 'protecting' them from the bogeyman right-wing Christian terrorists have invented to justify their genocidal intentions against trans people 😡
It is DEPRAVED.
No autistic person has an innate sense of justice. We have an innate sense outrage when things feel unfair but what feels unfair depends on our culture, our socialisation, the attitudes we've absorbed and the level of work we've done to unlearn all the bullshit instilled in us
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AUTISM 👏🏻 DOES NOT 👏🏻 EXCUSE 👏🏻 RACISM 👏🏻
Autism does not EXPLAIN racism;
It does not make you racist;
It does not make you unable to unlearn prejudice.
Let us be very, very clear about this.
@ecomarxi
To be honest, the old world was only any good for the people who sat in their privilege. It's shameful it's taken the slaughter of Palestine for us to get our heads out of our arses and realise just how bad life is for so so many.
By the Trifecta of Evil (white supremacy, capitalism and patriarchy). And we ALL have some of that bullshit as we live in a world tainted by it at every level BUT our proximity to what those three want to call 'normal' (male, white, cis, straight, abled, allistic) means we
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@MelanieMoore
I think until children (like consent) are enthusiastically wanted, rather than the default as the result of an archaic 'adulthood milestone' we will always end up with people in these situations. And they're shitty situations for everyone involved. 😔
Will have picked up the ideas that reinforce those attributes as more desirable/virtuous. Equally the closer we are to these, the more work we need to do to unlearn the bullshit and reframe our perceptions of 'fairness'.
We must not just assume we're correct, and
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The way to ensure our sense of fairness (and resultant behaviours and attitudes) is actually promoting justice, is to listen to and learn from the most multiply marginalised people and try to improve things for THEM.
Then by default all less-marginalised folks will be ok-er.
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@AidanCTweets
She's confirmed she's not a feminist, doesn't fight for women's (or girls) rights...it's literal hatred, and honestly I feel it's being met with considerable restraint.
@BurnerVeeDos
World would be safer for everyone if ANYONE with a 'Nazi phase' sat down, listened, and got on with the work of their own redemption from a point of SERVICE.
@ThisisDavina
97% of women in the UK have been attacked/assaulted. What about THEIR mental health? I would like to think with such huge statistics as these, vigilance and mistrust could be understood as a safeguarding response. But you're here for the guys? Why? Good grief.
A Michelin-starred chef told staff that ‘guest don’t need to know’ about the use of shop-bought chicken stock cubes in the restaurant's vegan and vegetarian dishes. 😖
#whatveganseat
#vegan
#plantbased
@taraxrh
Trigger warnings aren't about censorship - they're about the safe sharing of sensitive material and hopefully preventing the retraumatising of people who have already been through enough.
[For the sake of transparency, I recently saw a thread more succinctly written than this, and the themes stayed with me, and I've been mulling them over.
It feels like a message that's perennially worth sharing]
@lorrainemking
@theactivist113
@WestminsterWAG
lol. For a certain type of racist, a Black woman existing joyfully is enough of an insult.
It is my dearest hope ALL Black women live VERY joyfully indeed. Let the racists boil in their own piss.
CW// medical racism
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Add to this, please let's all not forget that the foundation of modern gynaecology relied on the unanaesthetised experimentation with these techniques on Black women.
We should all be a lot angrier at a lot of this, a lot more of the time.
IUD insertion is incredibly painful. They use a device to move your organs around to make space for the IUD. And they tell you to take tylenol first. Refusal to give people opiates for this procedure should be considered sexual battery or assault, quite honestly.
They were
€40/120 for a doctor's visit, €30/50 for food.
Now also €0/116 for a new electric bill.
Ain't life grand. But hey, rent is covered because it takes ALL his earnings 💔
#MutualAidRequest
We are sick and hungry I’m suffering mentally and my disabled brother has malnutrition, anemia and other health issues. Soon we will end in the street if we don’t pay the electricity my brother will not survive in the street . We urgently need support 🙏🏻
@LGBwiththeT
Sandi is amazing. And today I saw it described as Trans Exclusive Radical Fascists, which is far more fitting. Not an ounce of feminism in them. Just bigotry.
@bibicosplays
Wow I think it's all kinds of messed up for people to protect a sexual predator because he's disabled?! Such a creepy way of infantilising someone 😡
@suxelamai
That's a beautiful idea.
I don't think receiving money for chores made me hate chores less, just resent them more. Switching things up could have made a huge difference. I hope her whole family thrives off her way of thinking 🥰
@EsheruKweku
Completely agree. We took the wealth, we subjugated the people, we took the people and made them work here for us. Our ancestors behaved deplorably and it's our responsibility to ensure we right their wrongs.
@janicesguitar
No, but mutual aid is crucial for people who are LGBTQ+, especially for Black trans people in the USA. So let's all use our privilege to uplift and support the most vulnerable in our community. Charities pay bosses. Direct aid means 100% goes to the person in need.
@helen_a15
TERFs is trending because hateful bigots are making appropriate treatment and support for trans people more difficult. In the end, I stand with trans people against bigotry and hatred.
Vaccines are vegan.
They might not be plant-based, which is horrible, but they're vegan. They're necessary to the protection of ourselves and each other.
Apparently this still needs saying so please pass it on 🤦🏻♀️
#VaccinesAreVegan
#Vaccine
#COVIDVaccination
Also, as this seems to be getting some traction, I'll take the opportunity to say that one of the best ways to support people who are most marginalised is through mutual aid - so if anyone (especially multiply marginalised people) wants to leave their need below, please do ✊🏻
I am pro-vegan, pro-choice, pro-LGBTQIA, pro-feminism, pro-science, pro-you (probably, if you behave like a decent person).
I am anti-animal cruelty, anti-bullying, anti-Tory, and learning to be anti-racism.
My mind is opening, and the stuff that falls out of it lives here.
A bad look from
@ITV
This Morning show as ignorant Vanessa Feltz punches down on disabled people. Time for an apology and for her to do some learning 🙄🙄🙄
#DisabilityRights
#CoeliacDisease
@Luvvie
UK (white, cos that's probably a factor). White Americans are viewed largely as garish, ignorant, loud, and egocentric. I'm not sure we have such negative views of black Americans, Native Americans, or any other minority American groups.
@bibicosplays
That's such an outrageously unreasonable demand. Even a large commercial operation would be pushed to create merch from scratch and get it through production, sold, and turned into profit in such a tight timescale! Wowwwww. You did exactly the right things, but damn!
JUST IN CASE IT'S NOT CLEAR...
Non-white people define racism.
Trans people define transphobia.
Disabled people define ableism.
Gay people define homophobia.
And if you're not in those groups*, YOU DON'T GET TO DECIDE OTHERWISE.
That's 👏🏻 not 👏🏻 allyship 👏🏻
Ok? Ok.
@SophieOxford2
@SexMattersOrg
Butch lesbians are already speaking up about the assaults and suspicious looks they're getting due to nosey transphobes thinking they're trans. It's disgusting.
DEPLATFORM WHITE VEGANS.
Racism has no place in this movement.
All of them need to go in the 🗑️
James Aspey, Joey Carbstrong, The Unnatural Vegan...add your own experiences of those who refuse to denounce white supremacy.
Time to get loud about doing the right thing.
It was my colleague's birthday and I made her this cake BUT better than that was having a lovely long natter with my work crush, AND finding out she's plant-based AND I was wearing a pretty dress to be birthdayish for my friend. WIN! 🥳🥳
#VeganCake
#VeganBaking
@Flora
Gave in to the gammonflakes who 'aren't ready' to use a product that contains plants rather than animal secretions. Absolutely rubbish. By kowtowing to them you do NOTHING to move your brand forward.
@IsobelSGray
Absolutely bizarre* that these people want to push a narrative that contradicts the lived experience of trans people, and would intentionally continue to harm them.
*it absolutely tracks, transphobes are hateful and nothing else.
@unnaturalvegan
I don't think I know a single woman in my life who hasn't been assaulted by a man. Yet no man knows an assaulter. So I think if men can act in intentionally non-threatening ways, and call out their trash friends, that's the bare minimum.
@ERnurse86
Seems that way the world over. My friends are refugees in Greece and they tried local churches for help - many offers of prayer, no food. It stinks.
Dear White Vegans,
It's important to listen to and learn from BIPOC vegans. I have learned so much from what they share. Please check out these lovelies and add more people you know, too.
#BIPOCVegans
#ListenAndLearn
@BootstrapCook
It has happened very carefully behind closed doors for hundreds of years. They go from Eton to the HoC and their contempt grows as big as their greed. Only now they're getting away with less.
Fridges at the ready!
White mutuals only...
Do you think Mizzy would be on TV being reprimanded if he was white? How many white TikTok twits have you seen. How many dragged over on TV?
WHAT COULD THE DIFFERENCE BE??!!??
DWP ignored leading academics after they published “hugely alarming” research that linked the work capability assessment with 600 suicides in 3 years.
600 disabled people DESPERATE for support and not getting it 💔
How can we change this?
I have rarely read a book which SO brilliantly and precisely articulates thoughts I had big feelings about. On the outside I'm sat reading; on the inside I'm screaming down the street with excitement, banging on doors, yelling "EVERYONE SHOULD READ THIS BOOK!"
Thank you
@renireni
PLEASE UNFOLLOW ME NOW IF
- you think that having mental health issues makes it ok to be racist
- you follow blatantly racist accounts but it's 'not necessarily an endorsement'
🤢🤢🤢🤢
I’m devastated you can’t imagine how i feel when I see my disabled brother suffering & dying in front of me I beg you support us our situation is so bad we are stranded refugees with no money for food ,medicine, bills if you don’t support us we can’t eat
@ecomarxi
The people who are doubling down are vile. I saw a fascinating post on Insta yesterday talking about a concept called 'soul death' - the voluntary abdication of one's humanity. I'm sure it was a Black woman sharing it and I wish I could remember who. But it fits. Perfectly. 💔😡
Anyone trying to dictate that Black people should just suck it up because white LGBTQ+ people have appropriated a phrase and are currently sad, can catch a block.
Don't use your grief to be racist & divisive.
Don't disrespect her by defending racism.
FkSAKE.
@AnaMardoll
These are all fantastic points and totally make sense. I also think it's worth from an ableism perspective not diminishing the 'manliness' or 'womanliness' of those people who will never be able to do xyz for accessibility reasons. A cruel double hit for disabled trans people 😔
I'm telling you, if someone gave me a grand, it would be gone within an hour and STILL the people I know whose needs are all urgent (like, they haven't eaten for days urgent) would need more support tomorrow.
We seriously need to eat the rich. Or at LEAST tax them. 💔
I was part of an NHS department that got privatised and it was *awful*. Patient care slid WAY down the list of priorities. I made it back in to retrain as a nurse and am worrying I jumped out of the frying pan into the fire, as underfunding causes inadequate care.
#NHSPay15
@BootstrapCook
I made pretty bread, and had a low key day with the love of my life, which considering she was suicidal less than a week ago, is my Christmas miracle.
Okay, I'm totally late to this party but I took the plunge and made chickpea 'tuna' for the first time, and it was UTTERLY DELICIOUS!
Can of chickpeas (mashed)
Finely chopped sheet of nori
Generous dollop of mayo
Salt/seasoning
Finely chopped onion
(Next time) dash of lemon
OMG!
@ahouse4all
I'm not surprised. Every time I speak to anyone in need about their experiences seeking help from the church it's an iteration of "they prayed for me and did nothing" with a side order of victim-blaming.
I found this little dude two nights ago at my mum's and fed him some sugar water. Today he reappeared so we fed him again. He drank loads then had a nap on my hand.
I love him.
Niece and Neff have called him Buzz Light-year 🤩🤩
#Bumblebee
#SaveOurBees
#BeeLoved
Most (white) leftists are TOO eager to throw Black and Brown people under the bus for the sake of 'unity' that prioritises their comfort, instead of doing the work to change things so actual unity can happen.