Notices by Masonic Cowgirl (julieofthespirits@kolektiva.social)

@siege the specific thing about British transphobia is that it's so widely permitted to the extent it's just Acceptable Voices Having Concerns, right? So you can get hours and hours of upper class white women having vague abstract rants about minorities. But the minute it seems Not Acceptable because it turns personal (this, or Sunak's comments about Brianna Ghey) it's not

@hakan_geijer we also need to retvrn to a diy aesthetic for the digital age

You made this poster in ten minutes in Ms paint? Sick

@AnarchoNinaWrites what now

@inthehands yeah, like Russia has a longer history of dealing with islamist violence than any other European country, why would this be anything other than what it appears to be

@inthehands that the attack during the Piknik concert was both Ukraine and the Islamic State because the latter is just NATO in disguise

All these conspiracy theories about how Daesh is a tool of NATO...does nobody remember when Daesh spent years attacking sworn enemy of the imperialist west France

The thing about separating the work from the author is that it's a social process, not an individual one. You can cite Heidegger nowadays without it being an endorsement of Nazism because the philosophy world spent literally decades discussing how fucked up Heidegger was. If you go to a Graveland or Peste Noire concert, though, because you personally feel you have separated the work from the author, you are just endorsing Nazism because the guy standing next to you is definitely a Nazi

@waitworry @AnarchoNinaWrites I mean most wealthy people don't actually have that much liquidity either, a lot of times when they end up in financial trouble it's something they could've paid off if their net worth was their bank balance, but it never is

@0utside0utsider @nae @nyx @larsfrommars I don't have any problems with that idea of trans women as being the lumpenproletariat of patriarchal reproduction, and I think it offers a materialist analysis of why trans women are so killable

@hakan_geijer yeah it could have the same effect as that autodestructive banksy piece

Destroying the Tesla Olmec Head artwork to try and keep the rent down

@fiadh @BlackAzizAnansi yeah, everyone is susceptible to it, and thinking you're not is just as dangerous as thinking you're immune to becoming an addict, or immune to covid, or any of the other things that people tell themselves

I love all of Jo Grant's looks in Doctor Who. I tried to imitate one of them once and I want to imitate all of them so that way the other dolls can go

@hakan_geijer @rechelon @jindra @whatanerd yeah, the hard part would always be in the details, but what I like about it is that it also reminded me of some of the better publishing industry initiatives, such as the Banff Centre - the dream would be to combine some of the best publishing industry practices with the best anarchist practices, although obviously we should not underestimate how much work it would take to turn it into something real and sustainable

@hakan_geijer @rechelon @jindra @whatanerd I like that idea, that a land project also serves as a publisher

@rechelon @jindra @whatanerd @hakan_geijer I think also one of the things that I think is necessary in these debates - because there is a genuine conflict of interest between creators who make very little money, and *every* step of book production costs money, not simply the writing part (there's also copyediting, page design, indexing, plenty of other costs along the way, and ensuring that information is freely available - is to ask what other models could we find that could ensure that creators get paid while also readers don't face a financial barrier to the book they want to read

@rechelon @jindra @whatanerd @hakan_geijer for example, most academics I know seem to not really care if someone pirates their texts, but that's also because they primarily get paid through a salary, rather than royalties

here the government also provides grants for people (especially young people) to write books, and I've never done it (there's a lot of bureaucracy involved) but many of my friends have, and they also generally don't really care if someone pirates their book afterwards because they got paid to produce the book to begin with, independently of its sales

I don't think either of those really apply to anarchist publishing, but they could indicate some directions we could go in

In Mexico, the biggest transphobic ideologue is a woman named Laura Lecuona. We didn't interview her. We glitterbombed her. Then we glitterbombed her again. We exposed her when allied cis journalists infiltrated her private talks, not by asking for her side. We got her talk at the Guadalajara International Bookfair cancelled, then got Siglo XXI to cancel her book altogether. And despite a drastically higher level of physical violence faced by trans people than the US, we aren't facing the legislation you all are facing. So far, we've managed to stop it. Take some notes

@jalcine I remember after Moise got assassinated a Dominican friend of mine going crazy because everyone online was acting like he must've been a good leader if he had been a victim of a CIA hit

@inthehands @adriano when Elon finally perfects his antiwoke AI I'm pretty sure we'll be able to finally euthanize this guy for being superfluous