none of us are free until all of us are free

over 25, poor, multiply disabled, angry at the many injustices in the world. please be aware we are not always able to communicate

[angry-venting-blog]

We do not owe you gentleness when we correct your bigotry

If you say something:

Racist

Ableist

Homophobic/transphobic/queerphobic/etc

Sexist

Religiously intolerant

Etcetera Etcetera

You are not owed gentleness or politeness when corrected.

People are allowed to be angry when they correct you. They dont even owe you correction, they are allowed to just call you a "racist fuckhead" or whatever and leave it there*

Also because some of yall dont get it

Being a POC/BIPOC does not preclude you from the ability to be racist

Being disabled does not preclude you from the ability to be ableist

Being queer does not preclude you from being queerphobic

Being a marginalized gender does not preclude you from the ability to be sexist

Being from a marginalized religion does not preclude you from being religiously intolerant.

So on and so forth

*this does not include thing like actual threats or suicide baiting. Use some common sense

[professional-water-drinker]

begging everyone on this fucking site to not say CSEM/CSAM when talking about fictional material.

[aw-tysm]

"We're not supposed to be honest when people ask us how we are?"

Uhm.. Actually, you can be. There's a lot of people who are honest when answering that question. They just do it in ways that don't come across so upsetting or depressing.

Many people sugarcoat their answers to be more palatable for a greeting, or for a start of a conversation. It can also just be a polite way of giving others an out for a potential depressing conversation they may not want to be a part of.

These responses usually come in forms like, - "How are you?/How's it going?" - "Could be better." "It's definitely going." "I'm still alive." "I'm getting there." "New day, new problems." "Well, I'm still here." "Same old." "It's not all sunshine." "It's moving along". "It is what it is." "Not great but I'll survive." "Hoping tomorrow comes quickly." And many more responses like this. These are all ways of basically saying "Things are kinda/very shit at the moment for me". But they just don't go into detail about it. They are being honest, without the extra information.

If the other person doesn't want to go further into this then they may just responed with something like "I feel you", or "That's relatable", or "Yeh, that's life". Which are basically ways of saying "I acknowledge things aren't easy right now", without having to go into a conversation about it. Not everyone has the emotional energy to deal with conversations like that in that moment and that's okay.

Honesty doesn't need to come with the extra information. A lot of people won't give the extra information and that's the difference.

[marigold-22]

I understand where your coming from (especially that last sentence) but also "you can be honest but only if you use the magic phrases. If you don't use the magic phrases you will make people feel bad." Is a really annoying sentiment. Yeah real sorry I ruined the social interaction by responding "bad" to the question "how are you?" instead of saying "I'm still alive" or any other variant on "bad (but in a way that's actually good and fine and all right)"

[angry-venting-blog]

Also, in my experience, a lot of people AREN'T accepting of any version of "bad". Even the magical hinting versions. They get very weird about it as if they didnt literally ask.

Like, in my experience people are only ok with very specifically elderly or *maybe* visibly disabled people responding like that.

So I get the post but its also just not entirely accurate as well as what Prev pointed out

[asexual-amanita]

Receiving social assistance money needs to be way less fucking stigmatized. Relying on a disability pension, or another income program is not a moral failing.

“But they’re not contributing to society!”

Maybe not by the twisted capitalistic standards of the world we live in, but all human life has inherent value, no matter how they contribute to others.

[yrfemmehusband]

Mutual aid request- please, even $1 helps

(Please help me stay out of sex work)

Venmo- A-sanders-

Cashapp- $bertsbeeswax

We are about 100$ short of our weekly payment, above is the total owed. Our weekly payments are $612.76 and we are at $509.

I'm currently working 3 jobs but needed to take unexpected time to deal with my health this week and last, and now we're coming up short. I don't know what else to do other than this. I'd be willing to dm more proof, above is our rent demands for compliance or possession. We cannot get evicted, I'm begging anyone with a couple bucks to spare to help us pay rent and possibly eat well/do laundry this week.

Sorry ive never done this before. Thank you in advance if you share or help out.

[therainatdawn]

GUYS ITS DISABILITY PRIDE MONTH EVERYBOY HYPE IT UPPPPP

RED - Physical disabilities

YELLOW - cognitive and intellectual disabilities, and neurodiversity (Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, Tourette's)

WHITE - invisible and undiagnosed diabilities

BLUE - psychiatric disabilities (Anxiety, PTSD, Bipolar Disorder, Insomnia)

GREEN - sensory processing disabilities (includes Deaf, Blind, and Deafblimd communities

BLACK - for the people we have lost

The colored stripes are placed diagonally across the flag to show how disabled people have to cut across barriers in society!!

[sluglover666]

Hot take, but even if you ARE punching up (instead of punching sideways at a group that is in the same boat as you), there's a limit to what you can say without sounding like a violent facist but woke this time.

Making fun of a group of people that are privileged over you is one thing, but wishing non-cartoonish violence and death on them ("they should fall off a cliff" vs. "they should be wiped out"), wishing sexual violence on them, dehumanising them, claiming that they're less capable of creating art or living meaningful lives, saying that their relationships are inherently shallow and fake - these things are fucked up. I understand venting and saying extreme things when in pain, but when you find yourself regularly posting about wanting certain people tortured and killed, you need to examine that.

When the only thing stopping you from completely dehumanising someone is your own judgement regarding their privilege level relative to yours, you are not a safe person to be around.

[darkladynyara]

[emfrots]

"convince your followers that their Oppressor Class (whether real or imagined) is less deserving of human rights" is the oldest and most reliable trick in the book to incite mass violence, and you're not immune to it because you're a Good Person with Correct Opinions. you will continue to be a potential breeding ground for fascist thought until you stop dehumanizing people in any context, regardless of whether they deserve it or not, or how serious you are. there can be no acceptable targets.

[standwithdaanes]

Rwandan genocide - Wikipedia

The Rwandan Genocide: From Colonial Roots to a Contested Future - Explaining History Podcast

In the spring of 1994, the small African nation of Rwanda was engulfed in a maelstrom of violence that saw at least 800,000 Tutsi and modera

I always think of the Rwandan Genocide when it comes to this. Thank you for bringing it up.

In particular, from that second link:

As we have already seen in this series of articles, Rwanda’s ethnic division between Hutu (around 85 %) and Tutsi (around 14 %) had deep roots in colonial rule. Under Belgian administration, identity cards fixed ethnicity as a rigid category, and the Tutsi minority was favoured for education and government work. After independence in 1962, this hierarchy inverted, and Hutu elites consolidated control. [...] When RTLM launched in July 1993, it combined pop-culture style with extremist ideology. This hybrid made hatred sound normal, even entertaining. Music, jokes, gossip, and death threats co-existed in the same broadcast. [...] RTLM’s language fused entertainment with ideology. It mocked Tutsis as arrogant “cockroaches” (inyenzi), accused them of conspiring to enslave Hutus, and encouraged listeners to “work” to eliminate them—a euphemism for killing. Humour, music, and familiarity disguised the lethal message.

[uncle-fruity]

I wish some of y'all would spend as much time harassing your deeply right wing government officials as you do harassing trans, nonbinary, and intersex folks. But you can actually feel the satisfaction in your cruelty when you don't have to face any consequences from the people you target, so I'm not gonna hold my breath.

[egregore-engine]

Watching older people struggle to use the McDonald’s kiosk genuinely makes me sad. It’s ever increasingly clear that technology literacy courses provided on a state level as a public service are necessary to assist people with the rapidly changing technology landscape. Society changes fast and rather than abandoning people to individualized solutions we need a socialized response to helping people adjust.

[oldgrwth]

It’s also important to recognise that while kiosks and self-checkout were marketed as conveniences, their actual goal was to shift the workload onto the customer so that companies could employ less staff. It was never originally intended for convenience or accessibility.

[han-the-human]

"Trans men are the white people of the trans community!"

No, you fucking dumbass, white people are the white people of the trans community.

Stop trying to act like you don't have white privilege just because you are trans.

[luxiomahariel]

if you tell an indigenous trans man to cut his long hair so that he "passes better" then im tying you to an anchor and dropping you in the middle of the ocean

[zmpl]

before we start posting that july is gay wrath month let’s consider that july is disability pride month first and foremost. the “be gay do crimes” memes can wait

[crabussy]

tumblr is actually almost usable if you just filter 400 terms and block 900 blogs and have anons off and have messages off and have comments off and have reblogs off and never post any of your opinions and never express mild annoyance at anything ever!

[hunterinabrowncoat]

not even two years after the 2024 racist riots and attempted pogroms, we are back to more racist riots and attempted pogroms.

a mosque in scotland had to be put into lockdown. they are going door-to-door with hit lists and addresses in northern ireland, setting houses alight. they firebombed an imam's house in manchester. people of colour are being targeted and attacked by racist mobs in the street in broad daylight.

and instead of widespread condemnation or wall-to-wall coverage, the UK media and political establishment is filling air time talking about the "legitimate concerns" people have about "illegal migrants"

[sodomit]

If I told you that there's a distinct group of people that account for the majority of cases of child abuse, murder, and trafficking, and they're being actively endorsed to do so by most governments worldwide, you'd think I'm about to tell you some bizarre conspiracy theory about pedophiles.

But no, I'm just talking about parents.

[sodomit]

Statistically, parents and other older relatives/caregivers are committing:

- 56.5% of child homicides overall, 77.8% homicides of children under the age of 1 year[1]

- 41% of child trafficking, 36% of child sex trafficking[2], much younger victims on average[3]

- 34% of CSA[4] and 48.6% of CSA for victims aged 0-6[5]

- 58% (father) and 28% (mother) of CSEM production[6]

- 13.9% of physical harm that resulted in hospitalization of children, teens, and young adults overall (0-19 years), 59.6% for children under the age of 4[7]

If any other distinct class of people was responsible for such numbers, we'd see mobs demanding their blood in the street. Meanwhile parents/families are always conveniently excluded from conversations about child abuse prevention. We are taught to operate under an assumption that safety of children is in parents' best interest, that they're our ally in prevention, and not one of the biggest roadblocks. And the idea of children's freedom to exist and express outside of their parents' zone of control is often explicitly opposed to the idea of child safety. But it shouldn't be.

1. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5862181/

2. https://www.iom.int/sites/g/files/tmzbdl2616/files/2018-07/Counter-trafficking%20Data%20Brief%20081217.pdf

3. https://web.archive.org/web/20250216133514/https://2021-2025.state.gov/the-misconceptions-of-child-trafficking/

4. https://rainn.org/facts-statistics-the-scope-of-the-problem/statistics-children-teens/

5. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/national-children%27s-advocacy-center_know-the-facts-over-90-of-instances-of-activity-7061792250145488897-_mk_

6. https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2021/02/new-research-shows-parents-are-major-producers-of-child-sexual-a

7. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1155/2020/8169030

[thefairytaler]

This is exactly what I mean when I say people will do anything in their power to distract from European Racism btw, you literally cannot even talk about Europeans doing actual literal pogroms without someone sweeping in to make it about something USAmerica had happen five years ago that everyone and their mom knows about.

Well, the European Pogroms are happening NOW so can you people behave? Like you literally cannot talk about literal pogroms without people jumping in to shit on an unrelated country because that country is on Turtle Island, I am fucking sick of it.

[zk-j]

“Where are the trans men in history?” See. When you're born a gender that was forcefully married off, who had to live most of their life indoors, when you had to raise children, and had a lobotomy if your family thought you were a tad too odd, it's kinda hard to come out as a trans man now ain't it.