Notices by 🌈Lucy🏳️‍⚧️ | Revoluciana (revoluciana@chaosfem.tw), page 3

Lol, someone I know who has subscribed to my newsletter since long before I relaunched it in the present form made *this* the post that made them unsubscribe.

I mean. If you're so offended by me calling them Nazis, then you might want to question... are *you* a Nazi?

Fuck it, I wrote a full post about this:
Tldr; Fucking call them Nazis.

Because they are Nazis.

Here it is:
https://www.revoluciana.net/walks-like-a-duck-salutes-like-a-nazi/

I'm so tired of liberals who are like, wow, I don't want to sound crazzzy but that's eerily similar to *whispers* the Nazis.

Y'all, they look like Nazis bc they are Nazis. It looks like 1930s Germany bc they are literally following a Nazi playbook. It's intentional.

Because they are Nazis.

*[Edit: I decided after I posted this to write a newsletter entry about this. It's in my reply to this post.]*

#Tech help:

Best non-US domain registrars?

Trans is beautiful, but don't forget that #trans is also eldritch.

Remember

You hold power

With all the years I've lived and worked surrounded by death and destruction, I know that I'll never stop marveling in wonder, confusion, and despair at how the world can be *so beautiful* and *so brutal*, so often in the same places, and in the same moments.

My spouse just described CSPAN as TikTok for politicians and now I am dead.

How long is it socially acceptable to sit at a small table in a relatively busy (but not full, there are available tables) cafe in the rural US and type away on my keyboard?

Sorry. Let me clarify. How long is it acceptable for a visibly queer, neurospicy transfem to sit at a table?

Is there a punchcard to track my time, or like, I do what I want, you're not my mom and I don't do what she tells me, anyway, or what she would tell me if I'd spoken to her at some point in the last *sighs and waves in the general direction of spacetime as a concept*?

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.