'cancel culture', claims of 'silencing' from the very loud
Sara Ahmed in 2015:
“Whenever people keep being given a platform to say they have no platform, or whenever people speak endlessly about being silenced, you not only have a performative contradiction; you are witnessing a mechanism of power. I often describe diversity work as mechanical work. We know a lot about the mechanisms of power when we try to transform the norms embedded in a situation. The power of some to determine the discourse is often upheld by being concealed or denied. We need as feminists to offer some counter explanations of what is going on than the explanations offered by this letter. The narrative of “being silenced” has become a mechanism for enabling and distributing some forms of expression. Indeed I would even argue that the narrative of being silenced from speaking has become an incitement to speak: it incites the very thing it claims is being stopped.”
https://feministkilljoys.com/2015/02/15/you-are-oppressing-us/
grace petrie - they shall not pass
https://youtu.be/KDgp4Ovva9w
never gonna stop posting this song
#nopasaran
uspol, fascism, brownshirts
Trump Told White Supremacists to “Stand By” When Asked to Condemn Them in Tonight's Presidential Debate | them.
https://www.them.us/story/trump-proud-boys-white-supremacists-presidential-debate
He's literally just given instructions to his brownshirts to wait for his order
uspol, fascism, brownshirts
Proud Boys celebrate after Trump's debate callout
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/proud-boys-celebrate-after-trump-s-debate-call-out-n1241512
“The Proud Boys, a far-right extremist group, pledged allegiance to President Donald Trump on Tuesday night after he told the group to "stand back and stand by" during the evening's debate. Many people on social media who identify with the group echoed that language, saying they were “standing down and standing by.” One known social media account for the group made “Stand back. Stand by” part of its new logo.”
Defeat & Despair
'So everything in the world sucks right now. When you know that, how long can you remain in a fit state to do anything about it?'
https://youtu.be/SvAJ5Bj5ED0
And @shonalika put this out in FEBRUARY
Velociraptor: Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong #24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-3bImbSJCM
i love this show
i did get to have gongfu tea and then play mario kart 8 in the park with a new friend though. that was nice.
don't talk to me if yr cis
i don't wanna hear it
if you have something to say
it should be to your fellow cis people
trans people in the uk have gone through years of media-fuelled hell because the tories set up a public consultation on gra reform, only to be stabbed in the back by the tories, but it's jk rowling the billionaire author everyone is asked to feel sorry for because people pointed out her exploiting and smearing trans people as a way to sell more of her shitty books was a transphobic thing to do
and they wonder why we say fuck cis people
mixed race transbian who's anarchist and ex-sw and 'high functioning' autistic (though functioning is highly debatable) and who loves videogames (especially ones with cars in) and synthy electronic music.
if i forget to cw or caption images i don't mind being reminded.
occasionally rude but mostly wholesome, but definitely not suitable for minors.
formerly @thatsabinegirl on birdsite