dom brassey in motion

I work for Title Nine and volunteer with The Beat Within. Follow me @domlet The views represented on this blog are my own; they do not necessarily reflect the views of organizations with which I am affiliated.

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We need to win 2018 races + deal w/ political dysfunction and dysphoria in America. #Civics fighters to the front. #resistance #resist Repost @gradylove (at Boston, Massachusetts)

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#intergenerational truths + laughs. Diane Sabin @domlet @BoiSociety @EvolveBenton and Dri Batista @butchvoices #BV2017 #BVSOLIDARITY #butchvoices #oakland #queercommunity #gayeveryday #butch #boi #stud #millenial #genx #xennial #boomer #lesbians @lwtech #lesbiansofig #lesbianswhotech #queerintech #leadership #elders (at Oakstop)

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#intergenerational truths + laughs. Diane Sabin @domlet @BoiSociety @EvolveBenton and Dri Batista @butchvoices #BV2017 #BVSOLIDARITY #butchvoices #oakland #queercommunity #gayeveryday #butch #boi #stud #millenial #genx #xennial #boomer #lesbians @lwtech #lesbiansofig #lesbianswhotech #queerintech #leadership #elders (at Oakstop)

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Join #BV2017 BUTCH Voices Solidarity Walking Tour in #Oakland tomorrow, Sat, August 19. Leaving Oakstop at 5pm. Join us for a local queer/POC-owned business walking tour, led by @domlet Dom Brassey, around the neighborhood where BUTCH Voices is taking place. From @oakstop we will walk in solidarity with the people of color in this community whose lives and creativity we cherish. Check out all the details and the tour map on the BUTCH Voices website. #BVSOLIDARITY #butch #butchvoices #resist #butches #stud #bois #moc #masculineofcenter #QTPOC #LGBTQ #ag #dom #tomboi #socialjustice #beyondthenod #solidarity #resistance #butchesofinstagram (at Oakstop)

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Respect. #Repost @jessicasabogal ・・・ Was glad to be with two of the most brilliant artists of our generation as they began an amazing journey today. @jessicasabogal and @tlynnfaz began their WHEN WOMEN DISRUPT series today, a multi city and state initiative to wheat paste visual questions of identity (race, gender, love) and social responsibility across Southwest areas that voted overwhelmingly Trump in this last election. Learn (and support) this start up initiative: whenwomendisrupt.com #Repost @markgonzalesco #whenwomendisrupt #womenareperfect #stoptellingwomentosmile #wemadeamerica cc: @joseiswriting @ajplus #poc #peopleofcolor #antifa #antifascist #art #intervention #publicspace #psa #allyship #movementbuilding #movement #resist #resistance (at Los Angeles, California)

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Pure Narcissism. With this Brand Empire I will sell water. Repost @cnpatete Bald fade on this babe today!! She's rockin' it!! Thank you domlet for your time this AM!! . . . . #faded #fadedcutss #hair #cle #clevelandhair #imwithdino #dinopalmierisalon #androgynous #andro #androhair #butch #butchdyke #softbutch #baldfade (at Studio Palmieri)

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#Repost @theurv ・・・ #sanfrancisco #lgbt #transrightsarehumanrights #lgbtq #trans #worstbossever #notmypresident #queerpride #allyship #chosenfamily #nottodaymotherfucker #nottodaysatan #resist #weareworthy #equalrights #equalsacrifice #asktell #antifascist #antifa #antiauthoritarian #humanrights #riseup #fightback #whosestreets

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Reno. That hard shine. #nightscape #hotel #technomad #cityscape #selfie #casino #reno #renonv #nevada #gsr #sierranevada #grandsierraresort #loveislove #overwithatwist (at Grand Sierra Resort and Casino)

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Magic. Since the day she was born. #mafemme #femme #paris #gaycation #latergram #summerfashion #teachersbelike #parispride #gayparis #marriageequality #loveislove #queerpride #queerfamily #chosenfamily #magichour #parcdelavillette (at Parc de la Villette)

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#Repost @ladyfennel ・・・ Couples, San Francisco, 1975 photo: Crawford Barton. Via @lgbt_history #queer #lgbt #lgbthistory #freelovers #history #crawfordbarton (at San Francisco, California)

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BBC: #LiuXiaobo 11-year jail term was handed down in 2009 after he compiled, with other intellectuals, the Charter 08 manifesto. It called for an end to one-party rule and the introduction of multi-party democracy. Mr Liu was found guilty of trying to overthrow the state. He was a pro-democracy figurehead for activists outside mainland China, although many of his compatriots were unaware of his struggles because the authorities rigorously censored news about him. The dissident won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010 for his "long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China", but he was not permitted to travel to Norway to accept it. He was the second person to receive the award while in prison - the other was the German pacifist Carl von Ossietzky, who won in 1935 while incarcerated in a Nazi concentration camp. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/40597514 #china #humanrights #liuxiaobo #politicalprisoner #freespeech #democracy #dissident #stateviolence #repression #politicalrepression #prisonhealthcare #statesanctionedviolence #freespeech #nobelprize #riseofchina #dictatorship #tienamensquare #1989 #martyr #censorship #housearrest #legacy #thingstodobefore61 (at Jinzhou, Liaoning, China)

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BBC: Liu Xiaobo’s 11-year jail term was handed down in 2009 after he compiled, with other intellectuals, the Charter 08 manifesto. It called for an end to one-party rule and the introduction of multi-party democracy. Mr Liu was found guilty of trying to overthrow the state. He was a pro-democracy figurehead for activists outside mainland China, although many of his compatriots were unaware of his struggles because the authorities rigorously censored news about him. Mr Liu's absence at the 2010 Nobel ceremony was marked by an empty chair The dissident won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010 for his "long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China", but he was not permitted to travel to Norway to accept it. He was the second person to receive the award while in prison - the other was the German pacifist Carl von Ossietzky, who won in 1935 while incarcerated in a Nazi concentration camp. Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei told the BBC: "China is such a society [where] the government is very arrogant and will never listen or negotiate or tolerate these kind of ideas. It's not only Liu Xiaobo, before him... millions lost their lives." bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-40597514 #china #humanrights #stateviolence #repression #politicalrepression #politicalprisoner #prodemocracy #incarceration #liuxiaobo #freedomfighter #resist #freespeech #tienanmensquare #uprising #prisonhealthcare (at Jinzhou, Liaoning, China)

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Shout out to @MarineRom, extraordinary organizer of #lwtparis @lesbiantech Lesbians Who Tech first-ever Summit in Paris #lwtsummit and all the wonderful Parisian techies who came out to build community at @google Paris. #lgbt #lgbtq #queer #womenintech #queerintech #gendernonbinary #gendernonconforming #nonbinary #enbie #androgynous #genderisover #gayisgood #gayliberation #parispride (at Google Paris)

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The Marches des Fiertés, Paris Pride with @axlz, 2017. #marchesdesfiertes #parispride #paris #gayparis #france #lwtparis #gaypride #lesbianpride #queerpride #queer #nonbinary #lesbian #lesbiansofig #dyke #dykesofinstagram #softbutch #lgbt #lgbtq #protectqueerkids (at Ile-de-France, France)

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"There are 65.3 million people who have been forcibly displaced from their homes because of war or persecution. The largest number, 11 million, are from Syria. 33,952 people flee their homes daily. The vast majority remain in refugee camps, whose conditions cannot be defined as humane under anyone's definition. We are participating in the degradation of humans.Never have we had numbers this high. This is the highest number of refugees since World War II." "I am an Arab. I am an immigrant. I am a Muslim. I've also spent the last 12 years of my life working with refugees. Oh -- and I'm also gay. It makes me really popular these days." "We have seen advances in every aspect of our lives -- except our humanity," says Luma Mufleh, a Jordanian immigrant and Muslim of Syrian descent who founded the first accredited school for refugees in the United States. www.ted.com/talks/luma_mufleh_don_t_feel_sorry_for_refugees_believe_in_them #refugeecrisis #refugees #displacement #syria #syrian #resettlement #diaspora #instability #worldwars #middleeast #conflict #immigration #emigration #teacher #teachersbelike #lesbian #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #leader #womenleaders #ted #tedtalks

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"Gay is Good" came from "Black is Beautiful." Black Panthers inspired the Pink Panthers. And Black Power ignited the student anti-war movement and the Stonewall riots. Straight people colonize Dolores Park (SF) during Pride because Gay Pride is the best thing that ever happened to straight people: "Coming out" means having the courage to stand in the vulnerable space outside protected cultural norms. It means finding and creating a whole person who has never been tested before. And taking pride in that courage and creativity. These are the gifts of queer people to the entire world: The primary + irresistible tenets of our queer culture. So, when we look all the way back in our history, it's important that LGBTQ people in the U.S. honor that our movement has a heritage from the organizing work of generations of Black People -- whose #civilrights organizing continues today as #blacklivesmatter -- who resist dehumanizing violence in every form and build on vibrant traditions of separatism and integration, nonviolence and militance, indulgence and austerity, celebration and mourning. In 1969, our movement exploded into mainstream culture because we followed their example: Their Black Pride in the face of humiliation, violence, and exclusion + their Black Power, bravery, beauty, music, tactics, and memes. Whenever our culture is colonized, let us remember whose work made this freedom possible, whose colonized land we now call America. And whose water we must protect. When we remember those who lost their lives under the German Nazi regime in Europe, let us care for the refugees of today's wars and today's fascism. Syrians, Ugandans, and the detritus we have made of our city poor in our Silicon Valleys. May our gay pride teach us that ghettos are the groundwork of concentration camps. They always have been. Whether we call them war zones, homeless encampments, prisons, detention centers, or economically disadvantaged neighborhoods. Keep this in mind as you think about #gentrification today. Who builds the house. And who gets to call it home. Thank you Lillian Faderman for The Gay Revolution and Karl Soehnlein @kmsoehnlein for your #30daysofpride posts in 30 days (at Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe)

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When we remember those who lost their lives under the German Nazi regime in Europe, let us care for the refugees of today's wars and today's fascism. Syrians, Ugandans, and the detritus we have made of our city poor in our Silicon Valleys. May our gay pride teach us that ghettos are the groundwork of concentration camps. They always have been. Whether we call them war zones, homeless encampments, prisons, detention centers, or economically disadvantaged neighborhoods. Keep this in mind as you think about #gentrification today. Who builds the house. And who gets to call it home. Thank you Lillian Faderman for The Gay Revolution and Karl Soehnlein @kmsoehnlein for your #30daysofpride posts in 30 days