Notices by 🌈Lucy🏳️‍⚧️ | Revoluciana (revoluciana@chaosfem.tw)

Tell your trans friends and family you support them today.

More importantly, tell them no matter what happens, you're going to support them tomorrow, too. And every day after.

Because of the tireless work of my wife's advocacy, we just learned that the hospital is again making bigger fixes to the pronouns and preferred name documentation in their computer systems.

Speaking up works. But you have to learn to be loud, even when people who wish society was a library keep pointing to imaginary "be quiet" signs.

@roadriverrail 🫂💜

@NicolaElle @pdcawley

Can we start a radical optimism thread? Because I need a #radical optimism thread. And I think you need a #radicaloptimism thread.

News. Quotes. Music. Thoughts. Whatever.

I'll start:

"You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time." --Angela Davis

If this gets any traction, please boost, especially the replies. You and I are not the only ones that need this right now.

Caption this pic.

Pride is liberation, and liberation is for all of us. It's not just for the *queerest*, it's not just for those who earn it, or prove themselves, or are visible enough. It's not just for the loudest of us and it's not just for those of us who have suffered and have been punished the most for our queerness. It's not only for those of us who know we are queer-- it's also a light for those who are still yet to find their way out of the dark.

Pride is liberation, and liberation is for all of us. Pride is for you, too.

- If you're in the closet, this month is for you.
- If you're ace/aro/intersex/2 spirit, this month is for you.
- If you're bi/pan in a straight-passing relationship, this month is for you.
- If you suspect you're maybe queer but confused and can't quite figure out why you feel that way, this month is for you.
- If you are just *a little bit* gay, maybe, you think, possibly, maybe not, but kind of, maybe someone passes by occasionally and you say "daaaaaamn," but not going to ever act on it, this month is for you.
- If you feel like your assigned pronouns fit, but you feel like a woman but not a woman the same way as other women, or feel like a man but not a man the same way as other men, this month is for you.

I say it almost every day.

There are no ends, only means.

I feel that if people believed this, if they internalized this, they would no longer be satisfied with complicity.

The more I speak about #Biden's complicity in #genocide, the more desperate people are to tell me I must vote for him in *six months*.

This is what they focus on. Not the genocide happening *right now* but a vote that will happen in *six fucking months*.

They say the only way to stop the genocide is to make sure he stays in office. Again, they say the only way to stop genocide is by keeping the same person committing it in power.

Mind you, I haven't *once* indicated who I'm voting for, because it isn't the point. But also, I have ranked choice voting, so it's *really* not relevant. I don't have to vote *for* Biden to still vote *against* #Trump. I just have to rank the damned candidates, with Trump last. But again, this isn't even the point.

The point is that so many people who claim to care about genocide don't, and would rather focus on fighting me on my individual #vote 6 months away than a genocide happening right now.

Yes, I'm serious. The *only* reason I use Facebook is to force people who know, or have known, me personally to be regularly and frequently exposed to radical ideas and radical shitposts.

I think people think I'm joking when I say this. I am 💯 serious about my radical shitposts.

Agitprop memes *work* y'all.

You will *never* get them to read your favorite theorist or revolutionary, but you know what??

They *can't. look. away* from shitposts.

People say I need to vote for Genocide Joe in November. They say yes, he's committing genocide, but the other guy will do *worse* genocide.

And I need y'all to really let this sink in, that people are saying that you need to vote between genocide and worse genocide.

And everyone is still sitting here like this entire system is still to be trusted. Like it doesn't need to be completely dismantled. Like they are going to vote and then be satisfied with the results, pat themselves on the back for getting Joe elected if they're successful, and act like there's nothing they can do, and they'll just let the genocide happen because it's better than worse genocide. Because hey, it's progress, and they did their part so that "at least it wasn't the other guy!"

When are people going to wake the fuck up?

I kind of laugh when I call myself radical, because for me, the things I say or share are not really all that radical. They just feel natural. If you're reading this on Mastodon, you're also probably like, Lucy's not really all that radical, because you're already exposed or radical yourself.

But for liberals/conservatives, it's *amazing* how some incredibly simple concepts of even just basic empathy can feel world-shifting and dangerous.

I've been told before that I'm not *that* radical, and I'm like a) you're a cop trying to get me to incriminate myself by proving you wrong, or b) you are right. None of what I say should really be considered that radical.

Everything I say is rooted in the idea of empathy and not wanting to be complicit in harm. That's it. That's what it boils down to. This is why I always say there are no ends, only means.

When you see the suffering every day in the world, when you experience it, when you understand that it is connected, when you see that your complicity enables it, when you understand that justice delayed is justice denied...

When you see, how do you not become radicalized?

When you see, how do you not believe in the need for revolution?

Ignorance is bliss.

Willful ignorance is complicity.

Ignorance is bliss.

Willful ignorance is selfish cruelty.

Ignorance is bliss.

Trans HRT is not merely 100+ years old, it's *thousands* of years old. Western medicine would have you believe otherwise, but it's a lie, and I hate to see it repeated so frequently.

Transfems specifically have been using the same ingredients cis women were using for HRT for most of the 20th century, but transfems have been using those ingredients for, again, *thousands* of years. Pregnant.Mare.Urine... Pre.Mar.In... Premarin.

"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)"

-Walt Whitman

It's no small step to educate yourself.
It's no small step to start voicing your opinion.
It's no small step to share radical memes.
It's no small step to make space to educate others.
It's no small step to protest and rally.
It's no small step to yell.
It's no small step to give.

But until you start refusing to be complicit, and until you start taking direct action to make change, the revolution will not fully manifest itself within you.

If you're not manifesting the revolution outside yourself, then you haven't finished manifesting it within yourself.

Before election: "Leftists, you have the power to pull the Liberals to the left! Just vote!"

After election: "You Leftists are the ones that make us Liberals look bad (to our reactionary friends)."

"You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere."

*The Dispossessed*
Ursula K. Le Guin