Elenca's activism collection

[medievalpoc]

“Why Is My Curriculum White?” (2015)

https://www.luu.org.uk/campaigns/wimcw/

‘Why is my Curriculum White?’ is a national movement aiming to challenge the persistence of Euro-centric hegemonic narratives across curricula. This movement aims to encourage a broader diversity of course content and perspectives, to help provide a richer and more global education. 

photos via https://twitter.com/anaisdpedica/status/867367008962215938

[fikfreak]

Oooh this tea ☕️ is hot … shedding this kind of light on centuries of whitewashing is delicious

[tsunamiboostv2-deactivated20190]

Unfunny non-black gays: HAHAHAHA WIG! TEA SIS! IT BE LIKE THAT! DID I MENTION WIG? MY WIG IS SNATCHED #SHOOK #IM QUAKING

[tsunamiboostv2-deactivated20190]

Seriously though sorry to be “that” black person but I’m really tired of white gays (hell any non-black) using aave every 10 seconds! It’s not funny we been saying this shit but I guess it’s only quirky to act like a sassy black person, not be one. Because that’s how most of y'all see us

(non-blacks are encouraged to reblog dont say anything though)

[bigbigtruck]

This holiday season (and tbh any dang time), if you want to help some non-hypothetical children, please consider donating to RAICES, a nonprofit that provides legal aid to refugees and immigrants, with a focus on reuniting families torn apart by ICE. 

[heavenslittlemachine-deactivate]

people dont tend to think of heroin as a corporate drug, but this is a reminder that Heroin is the brand name for diacetylmorphine trademarked by the Bayer company in the 19th century - it was originally intended to be a “non-addictive” substitute for morphine in cough syrup, but found its true calling decades later by being introduced to black communities, criminalized, and then used to fuel Nixon/Reagans war on drugs which served to legitimize the prison slavery system. the “opioid crisis” has been a crisis since the mid 20th century, but is only being recognized now that the white grandchildren of the original manufacturers and distributors of these synthetic opiates are suffering from its consequences

[ladofthelakes-deactivated202308]

So my dad used to teach human evolution at the University of Minnesota, right? And his favorite thing was discussing Native American cultures and bashing misogyny. 

So he’d start off class by going “Raise your hand if you think you know why men hunted and women stayed back in the settlements” and most kids would raise their hands. He’d list off a few various reasons and kids would slowly start participating. Then he’d go “How many of you think it’s because men are stronger” and of course most of the males would raise their hands with a few girls. He’d then proceed to rip apart the patriarchal views they had all been taught. “No,” he’d say, “It’s because if five men went out and three or two came back no one would bat an eye. They’d grieve sure, but society would go on. Now if five women went out and three or two came back you know what would happen? Society would collapse.”

And it was true. For many Native American cultures the only reason women did what they did was because the men couldn’t do it. We are (usually) taught a twisted, self-aggrandizing form of history despite evidence suggesting the complete opposite of it. 

[muchymozzarella]

This was present in a lot of cultures in the past before white colonization (see: imperialism and genocide)

In Australia the Aborigines believed that women were more powerful than men and closer to gods because of their ability to give birth, and men would make themselves bleed just to be like women when they came of age

In the Philippines many people held practices which celebrated a woman’s first menstruation, encouraged free sexual exploration before marriage for young men and women, and believed women to be spiritual leaders, so that the only way a “man” could be one was to become a woman (transwomen were able and even encouraged to marry, and were identified as women within the community)

Also in the Philippines economic structures defined power, so a man who was poorer than his wife would take her name, and daughters would inherit and become heads of the family if they were the eldest

Westerners love to flout how great they are at women empowerment when it comes to other cultures that treat women badly, but actively try to hide the fact that there are thousands of other cultures who treated women better centuries ago than they do even today 

And that’s a fact. 

[wanderingtycho]

Turns out its the civilized white men who are backwards, barbaric idiots. Who’da thunk it? 

[socialistexan]

Europeans: “I don’t understand you Americans, if your working conditions, wages, and social safety net are so bad, why do you not simply unionize or strike?”

Americans:

[afloweroutofstone]

Also there’s literally so many restrictions on unions and strikes at this point that striking on any significant scale is nearly de facto illegal

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

WHY HAVE I NEVER HEARD ABOUT THE LUDLOW MASSACRE, WHY WASN’T I TAUGHT THIS IN CLASS

[elencaorange]

The Reagan one is about PATCO, the former Air Traffic Controller union. NATCA, the current one, has been forced to write into their contract since their creation that anyone who strikes will immediately lose their job, and the union itself will be dissolved. They were only allowed to unionize again BECAUSE they agreed to that stipulation.

[medievalthymes]

know what I hate? how uni’s have all of these “de-stress events” and preaching about mental health around exams but don’t actual want to fucking do anything about the shitty system of education they’ve created that literally makes kids have anxiety attacks and suicidal thoughts. yes education should be challenging, but it should not compromise your wellbeing for it. it’s like saying “yeah we realize the system is horrible, but here have free hot chocolate, it’ll make everything better”. the education system is flawed and broken and they know it, but they could care less. 

[berniesrevolution]

[zanmor]

these ones

[lavendermanna]

oh we can get even more specific than just a list of billionaires:

here are all of the scum who control oil, coal, and natural gas

here are the ones who run the factories

and here are the ones who extract the raw resources that the others need to make it all work

[libertarian-therapist]

23,000 people are reblogging a hit list

[bogleech]

Good.

[antifainternational]

German Neo-Nazis Fell for Art Project and Outed Themselves

Far-right extremists in Chemnitz went unidentified after riots this summer. On Wednesday, they learned they’d been ID’d after all.

Supreme doxxing skillz!

[sonneillonv-deactivated20220218]

While this funny, please read the article, because you need to know what these people have been caught planning.

[gendernihilistanarchocommunist]

ZPS set up a website with pictures of the 1,500 rioters they’d identified, but visitors to the site could only see 20 pictures at a time. So frantic fascists went to the site’s search bar to see if they’d been named.

“The first thing they’re doing is using the search function on the website to input their own name, or somebody they know, but who nobody else knows, in order to see if this website really works,” Ruch said, “to see if it’s really possible that we identified 1,500 people.”

The site received a traffic boost after a far-right website linked to it, Ruch said. ZPS built a map of names that appeared in the same users’ searches. From those searches, alone, they learned the names and associates of approximately 25 rioters they hadn’t previously identified.

“What we got was quite a network of who knows who, and who else was in Chemnitz,” Ruch said.

U.S. anti-fascists have pulled similar stunts. This summer, undercover activists cozied up to the organizers of a far-right march, and offered to make a website and coordinate T-shirt orders for the event. The website, which did not charge for T-shirts, asked participants for their names and addresses, supposedly to calculate shipping costs. Instead of sending free T-shirts, the activists behind the website published the names and addresses they received.

ZPS’s performances have previously landed it on far-right extremists’ hit lists. In April, German police arrested a soldier who was suspected of planning far-right terror attacks, which he allegedly wanted to blame on refugees. The man also reportedly kept a list of leftist figures he wanted to murder, among them ZPS affiliates.

A September investigation into the alleged would-be-terrorist revealed a larger ring of suspected extremism among Germany’s military elite. Germany’s FOCUS magazine reported that the criminal investigation had uncovered a network of far-right soldiers and officers planning for apocalyptic violence on “Day X,” when they would take over the country.

“It’s terrifying, but I don’t want to live in a country where I can’t do radical political art,” Ruch said. “We need to know who this is, who finances it, who the driving forces are.”

good on ZPS for sure but uhhhhhh holy fucking shit that bolded paragraph made my stomach flip upside down

[odin-n-out]

I know I’m That Guy™ , but it is possible to advocate for social reform without sweeping under the rug the very real tragedies and human rights violations that have existed under communist regimes

[odin-n-out]

I get that this doesn’t fit your edgelord communist aesthetic but it costs $0 to reblog this and let your followers know you aren’t advocating to repeat the mistakes of the past

[laughingfish]

this goes out to all the leftist tumblr blogs who ignore Venezuela’s pain and suffering and hunger under the dictatorship of Chavez & Maduro because Chavez made fun of Bush once at the UN and it was funny.

[hrefnatheravenqueen]

I always knew AfterEllen.com was cryptoTERF trash but looks like they’re really showing where they stand now.

[techsupportlesbian]

I don’t know how long this has been in the works but the last week of their Twitter profile is enough:

As well as supporting meghan murphy they are really pushing the idea of trans women as male predators. Miranda Yardley is an English trans woman who repeats TERF talking points for them and was very well received for opposing updating the Gender Recognition Act in the UK. The reference to Stonewall UK also suggests that the new staff are completely in bed with English TERFs, who have links to US Evangelical funding.

Stop supporting After Ellen, the name has essentially been bought out to promote a fascist agenda which wants to remove all trans people from existence and then work on doing the same to the rest of the LGBT community (whether individual contributors admit it or not).

[apsychicrage]

Yeah afterellen was bought out and no longer is an independant website. No surprise they’re terfs bc thats the kind of agenda straight men controlling lesbian websites love 2 push

[hrefnatheravenqueen]

Yah. Past AE peeps are NOT impressed with what’s happened, what with now being so openly transphobic, as well as literally erasing ALL work from authors who are trans-inclusive and all articles that spoke positively about trans people in any manner whatsoever.

Current AfterEllen staff is literally erasing the voices of all the women who came before them. And yet people still ask for proof of how TERFs hurt cis women. Well there you fucking go. A bunch of men and TERFs have decided that all of the cis women they disagree with don’t deserve to have a voice anymore than trans women do.

[techsupportlesbian]

Thank you @ritualofthehabit and @hrefnatheravenqueen for elaborating!

[commiemartyrshighschool]

Removing past articles is particularly cruel and damaging because as the writer in an above tweet pointed out, it can erase a huge body of their work. They might have their own digital or hard copies, but beyond being Orwellian it wipes out writing samples they can point to and can undermine their credentials when trying to cite their own work.

[odinsblog]

Therese Patricia Okoumou. Patriot.

[the-penandpaper]

UPDATE December 6,2018 @odinsblog

[odinsblog]

It is a very rare thing for me to disagree so hard with a progressive Black woman, but Therese Patricia Okoumou IS a hero. And she certainly did not let anyone down. Fighting for young children who were being caged and separated from their parents is never ever the wrong thing to do. What she did—resisting Trump and publicly speaking truth to power—required great courage. Okoumou is a hero and an activist. A social justice warrior in the truest sense of the word.

After repeatedly reaching out to the mainstream media and asking them to continue covering her story, she is being ignored by them now. But remember: they were happy to use her when she was the hot story and good for ratings. Now they apparently cannot be bothered to interview her, or call out the injustice of her impending imprisonment. (#WhiteFeminism)

If anyone knows of any lawyer or anyone who might be able to help Therese Patricia Okoumou with her appeals process, please reach out to her on her Twitter account.

[1dietcokeinacan]

One last hot take and then I’ll shut up: the reason adhd is framed first and foremost as a learning disability when it is in fact more apt to call it an emotional processing disorder is bc our society is only concerned w the ways neurological disorders impede a person’s ability to “function” aka get a job and contribute positively to capitalist society. How adhd affects interpersonal behaviors and emotional health is only relevant insofar as it relates to a person’s level of societal functioning PERIOD. There is no interest in improving our actual livelihoods

[1dietcokeinacan]

This is why girls are often not diagnosed w adhd until they are much older, bc they are forced to develop certain social awareness and self-surveillance capacities at an extremely young age and thus don’t perform “poorly” in the areas usually looked at to signify the disorder. But that doesn’t mean girls don’t take that distress out thru other avenues, just that the many alternative iterations of the disorder are ignored by professionals bc they don’t matter as far as society is concerned, as long as a girl is performing “well enough”

[literaryreference]

Yeah, this is what I’m always saying–the best-known symptoms are the ones that affect your schoolwork. I’d argue not even actually work-work–recently I was looking up some sources to support a point in an internet argument I was having about ADHD (I know, I know) and it was depressing the way that 90% of them assumed that you were the parent of a child with ADHD rather than someone who actually has it, and how laser-focused they were on how symptoms affect school performance. I mean, obviously there’s significant overlap in what affects school performance and what affects work performance, I just don’t think the thought process is even “this will make you bad at being a capitalist automaton” (except inasmuch as the school system is training for that) because you’re expected to have outgrown it by the time that’s relevant. BUT ANYWAY, I always thought I had my ADHD pretty well under control because it was caught early and so I was taught how to manage the symptoms that affected school, but as an adult I keep finding that it’s behind all these other problems that I have that I didn’t realize were related and was never taught to deal with, because as long as I was turning my homework in on time they didn’t matter.

[pelicanhypeman]

White Women Drive Me Crazy

White women are so dangerous because they’re allowed to be so soft — innocent until proven innocent.

White women, do me a favor and read this.

This line, in particular, gutted me:

We eat eggs and I tell Y about how when I was 8 years old, I taught my white friend, B (actually called Becky), how to count to 10 in Urdu. How at school the next day she looked at her feet as she shuffled past me, and the white teacher pulled me aside and asked me why I was bullying Becky, because Becky’s mum said I was bullying Becky, and that maybe it would be best if I didn’t sit next to her anymore. She suggested this with the kind of half-arsed, sad-eyed, apologetic shrug that white women perform when it is less of a scene to administer psychological warfare against a brown child than it is to challenge your fellow white woman.

That was my entire childhood.

[amazinghowyoulove]

I remember well the acute shock and confusion of that day. I had been so damn sure Becky and I were having a good time. I felt so guilty, despite my mother’s insistence that Becky’s mother was a racist bitch and that I had done nothing wrong. I felt frightened of myself and my potential to hurt innocent white girls without even realizing it.

We are taught to walk home with our keys between our fingers for protection from men in the night, but no one tells us how to defend ourselves from the white women who will try to ravage us from the inside out, with a smile, a comment, a betrayal, a vital inaction, a look. How they will choose comfort over effort, how they will read this and think I am talking about someone else, another pardon.

[godisablckwoman-deactivated2019]

Black activists are being lynched but there’s no media coverage

[gandalfwho]

Brazil’s Indigenous Tribes Are In Danger

12/01/18

So far from what I’ve heard Jair Bolsonaro, the nationalist president elect of Brazil has threatened to take away territory belonging to 900k indigenous people. He’s also threatened to shut down the country’s indigenous affairs department and has been quoted saying “It’s a shame that the Brazilian cavalry wasn’t as efficient as the Americans, who exterminated their Indians.” as well as “If I become president, there will not be one centimeter more of indigenous land.”

here, and here are some articles explaining more.

and here is one coming from indigenous leaders

It’s pretty evident people don’t seem care about South America and especially its indigenous tribes. Please please please keep an open mind and spread some word around. I don’t have a big active following but a little bit can go along way if people bring awareness to it.

Write to elected officials, someone up there will care. As far as helping with donations you can donate here to Survival International. Their mission is to prevent the annihilation of indigenous tribes. if you guys know of other organizations, maybe local, that can help please add them. 

Brazil’s indigenous people shouldn’t be threatened with violence. Please get the word out there.

[blackfemmejeanvaljean]

I’m glad that tumblr is moving onto it’s labor rights phrase but if you’re going to strike you need

clear and concrete demands (i.e. $15 an hour minimum wage, paid sick time, the ability to recieve your schedule a month in advance, etc)

unity. one person skipping work is not gonna make a difference. you’ll just be fired. an entire workplace striking will yield results

mutual aid. if y'all striking y'all not gonna get paid and people have bills and children. you need to raise money for a strike, find a sympathetic rich person or unionize and pay dues

this is not an overnight process. it can take months or years and if you live in major metropolitan area there’s probably already a committee of some sort (DM if you live in New Orleans and want to join one) if not you can form one or join the iww. you can’t just tell people to not show up for work with no plan. because most people aren’t gonna do that.