truly a bummer that in so many places it seems to be so much easier to be part of a community when you're a hateful or ignorant fuck with terrible opinions
Listening to the Strangers podcast with the author of "A letter to the trans teens thinking of giving up", and it's a really needed wakeup call imo to us trans adults who tend to catastrophize the state of things.
"ople, you know, who have been living as a trans person in the world for like, let's say 10 years or less, and often like five years or less, were responding to the Scarmetti decision with panic. And we're saying things like, you know, this is. This is going to kill trans kids. This is a death sentence for trans kids. Not being able to access the gender affirming care that they have been able to access will be deadly for trans kids....
" ... I think that that being the only public and visible response, particularly from trans adults, I think that's also dangerous because they can hear you. Like, the young people are looking to us for information and for guidance and for community and to be there with them. And the overwhelming response from the sort of adult trans community was like, welp, that's it for you, kid. Bummer. And, like, tearing their hair and, like, grieving and like, oh, these kids, like, they're dead. That's it. They're dead. And I was like, they're not. They're not fucking dead yet. Like, be here with them, you know, like, we don't. We don't need to propagate this narrative that there is no future for trans kids without a Skrmetti win. Like, do you really think that the trans community, the existence of transness, the ways that we care for each other, the ways that we, like, bear each other up and make space for each other and get each other what we need in ways that have already been invented and have been being used for decades and decades and in ways that haven't been invented yet? "
The featured zine from Strangers In a Tangled Wilderness this month is "A Letter to the Trans Teens Thinking About Giving Up", and it seems to me its a great one to stick all over places that teens might find themselves in your city. It's half size (print as usual and cut once), so easier to be discreet about giving it out or picking it up: https://www.tangledwilderness.org/features/a-letter-to-the-trans-teens
They also have a podcast out with the author, find it on @ChannelZeroNet
(Last boost) who can think of something that’s not a national flag to put on one’s vehicle (as a hotel towel white person) that could potentially serve the same function of ICE pulling you over and wasting their time
occasionally i check the front page of reddit and today one of the top posts for me was "genuine question: why are so many people who still wear masks queer?"
i swear, some motherfuckers out here like "yeah our praxis is anarchist militancy inspired by the uprising of 2020" and then someone asks "what are you up to lately" and the answer is like "uh, we did this campaign to legalize street vending?"
If capitalists are going to demand the censoring of any queer/kink/sexual/nsfw content on all their platforms, i think it's time we see more street art and other public expressions of that content outside of spaces controlled by payment processor moralists
oh no, your kid saw some titties and a bondage scene graffitied on a wall? damn, shouldve let us put that stuff on tumblr bruh
Obligatory: these pigs and their media always lie and though I’m sure people did cool shit and obviously deserve urgent support, it may not be the particular cool shit they’re accused of
But seeing Armed Joy in a cop news article is a treat
Hi fellow U.S. poor people: here's a reminder that if you're not on SNAP and medicaid, you should at least look into whether you qualify. Yes those programs are being chopped back somewhat BUT there are also lots of people who qualify but don't even apply
If someone offered you $50-300 of groceries for an hour filling out forms would you take it? Yeah? That's SNAP
That's our money, so get what's rightfully ours/yours
You want them voted out. She wants them dragged from their homes naked in the middle of the night and taken to The Hague. I want them thrown in a pit of hungry crocodiles surrounded by homeless folks with long guns. We are not the same.
Someimes In the city where we burned a precinct a few years ago (we should do that again some time) and sometimes in the great plains livin "the good life" in the heart of empire. if you're local say hi!white anarcha queer/trans weirdo. be my friend & co-conspirator. I talk a lot about radical politics, repression and resistance. zine bitch. wear a mask. frequent #distroism. occasional sportsballtooterTestimonials:“Give off bad bitch vibes”“Angel of terrifying and awe inspiring proportion”