your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
so am using a cane these days after being unable to walk a few steps w/o fatigue or vertigo. am happy as it's what i need to get better from #cancer.
but the excitement of walking to my new oncologist's office, which is at a subway entrance, was squashed by Hochul deploying armed Nat'l Guards in our subways. that means cops are everywhere in the area.
cops kill the disabled at alarming rates. am now a disabled BIPoC.
am not the enemy, fascists are.
so push Democrats away from fascism.
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
here's the thing:
since 9/11 am almost always stopped on account of either looking Arab or having an incorrectly sounding Arab name (Sabater is shoemaker in Català).
so now that i have no hair thanks to #cancer, i wear a head scarf. so not only am i looking MORE Arab. now that i use a cane thanks to #COVID19 and #chemo, am also being surveilled for a potential weapon.
that's exactly what happened when i went to a store next door my oncologist.
fascism is here NOW and affects me daily.
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
partisan Democrats really have the gall to tell BIPOC, LGBTQI, disabled people to calm down, that WE are the problem.
you are calling us, the victims of the fascism that is already here, the enemy.
you have the fucking gall because it's easier than doing the work of fighting fascists.
guess what? they won & you let them win.
the elites have so normalized fascists, you look at me, a BIPOC woman, disabled by cancer & COVID, as the enemy and not actual fascists.
so stop attacking us.
Exiled New Yorker - Connie
I’m so sorry you’ve been deemed suspicious.
My son has been profiled for years because people think he looks vaguely Middle Eastern.
Pulled off public transportation, searched and had his possessions confiscated.
I don’t see it.
They’d be better off profiling ME.
I’m the one with the bad attitude and the pigsticker in my cane.
(Very sharp pointed metal rod in my Victorian Gentleman’s cane)
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
oh! very last thing:
i came of sexual age during the middle of the #AIDS #pandemic.
had it not been for ACT-UP many of us GenXers would have been dead by now. they FORCED the mainstream to reckon with the virus's devastation and the Reagan and Bush policies that were nothing but #eugenics served over "kinder, gentler" platitudes.
AND YET, i'd cringe when Larry Kramer would talk about USGov's fascist health policies.
Larry, you were right. fascism been here for a long ass while.
Ryan for a permanent ceasefire
@blogdiva btw, I'm 99% certain that jacketed person is the artist / photographer / writer / musician / etc David Wojnarowicz.
His book _Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration_ is incandescent in how it lights up Reagan-era eugenics. Really a formative book for me that I can't recommend highly enough.
Also, since it can't be said enough: fuck cancer!
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
and let me just say this:
at no point have i said, do not vote for democrats. at no point whatsoever.
what i have been saying is: VOTE WITH YOUR PROTEST BOOTS ON.
because 2024 is the year you have to push back against the corrupt #cartelization of the party.
the oligarchs pushing the party into fascism are the same funding the loudest of nazis taking over the Republican party.
the more billionaires fund Democrats, the further into fascism the party goes.
PUSH BACK.
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
oh. and #fuckCancer
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