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

They hate #trans people so much that they would crumble the entire empire just to destroy what we represent.

My trans siblings, don't you dare *ever* forget how much power you wield through the magic of your existence.

We crumble empires.

Today's post is a follow-up on yesterday's post concerning #trans & #queer history during the #Holocaust.

I highly recommend watching *Cabaret* right now, with the full context of queer and trans history in early 1930s Berlin. Haunting & uncanny how much it feels like today in the US, with much to learn from.

https://www.revoluciana.net/pt-2-hidden-histories-of-the-holocaust/

"I can't remember all those pronouns"

Says the generation who spent the majority of their lives memorizing a unique 7 digit number for every friend, family member, and favorite take-out place that they knew.

Today's post concerns #trans and #queer history during the #holocaust on the occasion of #holocaustremembranceday Queer and trans readers (most of my mutuals on Mastodon) are likely familiar with much of this, but cis/het people are often ignorant, and it may be useful to share with any in your life.

https://www.revoluciana.net/pt-1-hidden-histories-of-the-holocaust/

"I could remind you of the picture you've seen a thousand times of #Nazi s burning books. I could remind you that when you were taught about these burned books, you were not told what information was contained within the books.

Those books were from #Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexual Science. The books were about #queer people. The books were about #trans people."

"I'm a heretic and I've said it before and I'll say it again:

*Books are not sacred.*

It's not the simple burning of stacks of paper that is the atrocity. That's not what people are aiming to destroy when they burn books. It is the destruction of humanity, culture, knowledge, ideas, and collective memory. Those books contained information on our medical needs and how to address them, they contained records on our existence, histories of our #queer and #trans peoples and cultures, and even our mythology and legends. Tens of thousands of books were burned, so many of which had no copies elsewhere stored in the world. It was essentially the burning of the Library at Alexandria for queer and trans people. This is called #memoricide and is an aspect of #genocide."

Why teach about book burning and its horrors, but to not teach about the content of the books?

The answer: *complicity*

"Every time you are shown those images without the context of what these books were, the person making a decision not to tell you this context becomes one of the book burners. They are not physically burning those books, but they are contributing to the legacy of destruction of our humanity, culture, knowledge, and collective memory. There is no distinction between lighting the match and purposely hiding the knowledge. They are one and the same. This is complicity with memoricide, with #genocide."

"When it comes to #queer and #trans people, effects of memoricide are especially heightened. Without our histories, stories, and connection, we are often left isolated. It doesn't make us any less queer or trans, but it does make us feel like there is something wrong with us, often something disgusting or monstrous. Something that deserves to be suppressed or cut out. Something that deserves death, either metaphorical or in the most real sense."

"Furthermore, this doesn't happen only within ourselves, but our societies. We are not allowed to exist, to know ourselves, to find ourselves, to #liberate ourselves. As a result, we often either suffer a lifetime of pain, or we don't survive at all. The #genocide of #queer, and especially #trans people, is so efficient and pervasive, that people don't individually even need to consciously know they're doing it to us. #Memoricide is often enough to do the job. It's enough that society has already been deliberately designed this way through cycles throughout thousands of years of history when we have been out and open, and then crushed under the forces of #colonization, religious #oppression, and #whitesupremacy."

I often really wish people were taught sign language in school.

Even a compromise of like, a foundation of 25 basic signs, would be wonderful and make the world a better place.

Meanwhile, people who can't type with more than two fingers demand kids learn cursive in school.

@elexia This is so right. Stepping back every time they step toward you means you walk yourself off the edge of a cliff and they never even had to land a punch.

Your opponents have to feel you might swing back, and moreso, that you could put up a real fight.

"#Queer and #trans people bear their own complex histories of oppression and genocide... But again, queer and trans survival and resistance has often been built on the shoulders of tactics learned from and spearheaded by queer and trans people of color, specifically."

"Remember, the #fascists want you to feel afraid, exhausted, and helpless. They want you to spend all of your time watching it unfold while you struggle to keep up with the tsunami. It is intentional. It keeps you from taking action. It allows them to undergo their terror unopposed."

"They're not just censoring information they don't want you to know, they're manipulating your emotions & draining your energy & time. In fact, they're often happy to keep you informed as long as you remain glued to your phone doing nothing, feeding the monster, the algorithm, the #fascist takeover"

For those who feel lost and struggling with what to do and lost in the #doomscroll and feel ill-equipped to deal with the #fascism we find ourselves surrounded by.

I wrote this post for you on how to take your first steps toward #action and #resistance.

https://www.revoluciana.net/first-steps-under-fascism/

#trans #queer

"Accept that you are not paranoid, you are having an authentic and rational response to what is happening and that anyone pretending this isn't what it is, is either lying to themselves in an attempt to feel better, completely oblivious, or they are lying to you"

"Lately, the more you read, the more terrified you get. You see the overwhelming amount of terrible things unfolding and you feel powerless to stop them.

This is by design."

"There are two reasons. Sure, they want to achieve the goals laid out in their actions. But there's something more: it's a psychological trick. This is something people experienced in intelligence operations are very familiar with."

"It's too late to read 1984, that's a cautionary tale. Now is not time for caution, but for action. Sure, read it. But that's not the assignment, that's extracurricular."