Casstivist

Banner by Willow Wainwright 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Intersectional queer activist in the UK. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 💚 Creating opportunities for people to use their voices to build a better world. 💚 💛🖤 #iWill Ambassador 🖤💛

[cass-iwill-movement]

Who am I?

Excellent question!!

My name's Cass. I'm a queer person from a quiet, rural part of the UK and, as of May 2025, am officially a #iWill Ambassador!

You can read about the #iWill movement on the other end of this link:

Youth Action: UK Youth Charity Empowering 10-25 Year Olds

Society often fails to listen to young people's views or recognise their ability to make a positive difference - it's time for youth action.

Every #iWill Ambassador has their own focus. Mine is, as this blog's banner suggests, building solidarity, fostering community, and promoting democratic engagement. I believe all three of those things necessarily come hand-in-hand and are essential for a healthy, functioning society.

There are lots of ways I, and many many other people (maybe even you! Whether you realise it or not) accomplish this. Right now, for example, I'm working on setting up a new space for young people in my town, but I also facilitate events to get other organisations to involve young people and people from diverse backgrounds in their decision-making structures, but I also spend my Saturdays helping at the local food bank. These are all very different things, but to the same ends. Laser focus has its place in activism, but I'm interested most in the holistic approach.

For the sake of transparency, here's a list of the organisations I'm involved with:

The #iWill Movement - ambassador

Volunteering Matters - activist

The Green Party of England and Wales - member

Palestine Solidarity Campaign - member

Mermaids UK - donator

Mind - donator

Switchboard (LGBTQ+ helpline) - donator

A bit more detail about what exactly this blog is for can be found here:

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[propalahramota]

"When you're trying to have a hot girl summer, but the governments decide to start WWIII😭😭"

Location: Bumfuck, Oklahoma

"Dying in WWIII wasn't on my 2025 bucketlist 💀🫣"

Location: Sydney, Australia

"Look at the strawberry varenyky I made"

Location: Kyiv, Ukraine

[fieldsarebreathing]

When I bought my fairy wings on Etsy:

[fieldsarebreathing]

Her Etsy shop if you guys wanted some lovely fairy wings from a wonderful and talented woman

[aspiring-weird-old-man]

@glasssymphony also makes gorgeous delicate miniature glass sculptures in Ukraine, and while I haven't bought one for myself yet I've seen other people receive theirs, perfectly packed and intact despite everything. ♡

[loud-idealist]

ITS. NOT. THE. GOVERNMENT'S. JOB. TO. PARENT. BRITISH. CHILDREN.

If you don't want your kid seeing things online, maybe don't let them?? There are parental controls, age verifications (yeah, so you can just put a different age in, but you can talk to your kids about that??), content warnings, etc. If your child sees something they don't like online, it's not the government's job to stop that from happening. It's yours.

Censorship is bad, no matter what form it takes. The Online Safety Act is censorship disguised as something helpful. This is just the start. It might be porn now, but they'll come for other things soon enough.

They're already talking about restricting Wikipedia, a website used by many people to help their EDUCATION. People are being forced to use other, sketchier websites as a resource instead, or they have to use AI. The government is basically making it harder for people to get an education.

Protecting children from harmful content online is their parents'/guardians' job. The government needs to focus on things that can't be stopped with good parenting, like... oh, I don't know, maybe crime or misogyny or the economy. The list goes on.

THIS ISNT THE GOVERNMENT'S PROBLEM.

[confessionsdiaz]

*through gritted teeth* the world is GOOD. people are kind. Humans are NOT inherently selfish. you will make it through this year. recovery is possible. people you don't know yet will love you. You are going to do things you can't even imagine right now. You are going to read a rlly good book. You are going to eat some rlly good food. You are going to experience joy again. Things can get better. Situations can change. You can choose to be kinder. The world can change for the better.

[homucifer-ryotan]

People in the UK especially, please don't give your ID to Spotify

[fintenciate]

Hey I saw you emailed your mp about the online safety act, I want to as well, but I have no idea what to write lol. Any advice?

for sure! heres the email that i sent to my MP:

Dear [YOUR MP]

As your constituent, I urge you to reconsider your support for the Online Safety Act 2023, at least in it's current condition.

I find it to be a profound invasion of privacy that I may be forced to share photo ID in order to use websites. I have nothing to hide, but I believe strongly that I should maintain the right to anonymity, and I believe that this could have potential ramifications for the state of online security. Put simply, I do not trust the majority of websites to keep my personal information encrypted or private, and especially with the increase of cyber attacks (see the targeting of M&S), this Act not only doesn't particularly protect children, but severely puts the majority of the UK population at risk.

I value my own privacy too much to risk putting my identity at risk by uploading my ID just to continue using the internet. The internet is becoming an increasingly dangerous place, I don't dispute that, but I believe there are better ways to make it safer-- ways that don't impact the general population's right to privacy.

Kind regards,

[YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS]

you need to include your address when you email them, because they need confirmation that you live within their constituency. you'll also likely get an automated reply (they get a lot of emails), and then a follow up from their secretary. you dont really need to do much more than this to express your opinion, but if you want to take it further, you can ask if they have any upcoming surgeries so you can express your concerns face to face. I've used that option many times, and have met face to face with a fair number of MPs (including Theresa May), and i find it can help put a human face to your very real and valid concerns.

at the end of the day, theyre YOUR MP. their job is to represent the people in their constituency, and that includes you! so make sure they know it!

[doberbutts]

Personally I don't really understand why we are so anti-solidarity these days, but I don't like it.

"I relate to your struggle because it sounds similar to my struggle, therefore I want to help you with this the way I would have wanted to be helped myself" is pretty much the baseline of allyship. For whatever reason, though, it's almost become a matter of stolen valor and stealing the spotlight, and frequently I see it rejected outright.

I just don't get it. Personally I am thrilled when someone who Isn't Like Me reaches out to share help or even just an encouragement. I don't really see it as an out group "making it about themselves" if they're just trying to say they've experienced similar and sympathize.

[ftmtftm]

The idea of framing oppression as "who has it worse vs who has it better based on a list of marginalized identities" is inherently flawed and foundationally anti-intersectional.

An intersectional lense is meant to be a tool to discuss the lives of marginalized people complexly and discuss the ways multiple systemic power structures that impact, oppress, and marginalize us simultaneously — not do math to figure out who is the most oppressed.

Kimberlé Crenshaw has talked extensively about how she dislikes the way intersectionality is misused to just add up different marginalizations and say "this demographic is the most oppressed group to exist". That is not the purpose of intersectionality in an academic context, nor is it the purpose of intersectionality in an applied context. It's a tool for analysis. A tool for understanding. A tool for giving language and voice to complex systemic issues while treating marginalized people like their entire selves.

It's not a tool to go "this demographic has it the worst ever" online to attempt to shut down other marginalized people.

It's like you people don't even know Kimberlè Crenshaw is also a foundational voice in the development of Critical Race Theory.

[nando161mando]

What political corruption looks like in the UK now...

Graphic showing that over 60% of political donations to Wes Streeting are from wealthy individuals and corporations linked with private health care companies.

[cass-iwill-movement]

What is this blog?

This is not my main blog and I don't intend on sharing the name of my main blog. This is for me to talk about the activism I do and any political issues or campaigns that I involve myself with.

This blog is for the more detailed, longer text posts. I also post images, videos, and shorter text posts on my instagram:

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I have my own, strongly held, rather lefty political beliefs and I would love to convince other people of them too, but the most important thing to me is that people, regardless of whether I love or loathe their opinions, feel comfortable within their communities and able to speak out about issues they care about and work towards lasting, passionate solutions. Especially if they're a young person, who are consistently amongst the most disenfranchised people in society, in spite of (or, more likely, because of) the fact that they have the most powerful voices.

All views expressed on this blog are my own and are not to be taken as representative of the views of any organisation or movement that I align myself with. If you have a problem with something I say, please don't immediately write off the groups I support, they may well have a lot that appeals to you.

[infectiouspiss]

kids deserve so much more respect and it turns out that saying that is a great way to locate the horrible people in any community <3

[infectiouspiss]

you'll say something as simple as "no child deserves to be hit" and people will crawl out of the woodwork to explain why they should be allowed to beat a 6 year old for spilling some water

[infectiouspiss]

you'll say "i think it's weird that adults literally have control over when children are allowed to use the bathroom" and up pops a teacher to say that when they're not shouting at the kids they teach, they're trying to stop them from hiding in the bathrooms

you'll say "i think children shouldn't be forced to eat food they hate" and here comes someone who feeds their kids plain rice and boiled chicken (while eating a nicely seasoned stirfry) claiming that it's okay actually and kids shouldn't be allowed to taste things

you'll say "i think kids should have bodily autonomy" and in comes someone who pierced their babies ears before it was even 24 hours old, frothing at the mouth because their kid wanted a haircut and thats somehow an insult

[infectiouspiss]

children are an oppressed class and everyone should be looking back at their own childhoods and making sure they don't ever make a child feel the same way they felt.