Endangered Bodies NYC

Pro-immigrant, pro-LGBTQIA+, pro-fat. Black Lives Matter. RESIST.

[tattooedsocialistfeminist666]

I don’t think that cis men truly understand why women, trans, and nonbinary folx are hesitant to share their political beliefs.

It’s because your fellow cis men continuously threaten to destroy our entire lives for having opinions about issues that affect us.

Those of us who are able to put ourselves out there face an onslaught of violent threats, including rape and murder. When cis men are unable to compete with us intellectually, they attack our appearance or attempt to hack our online accounts. Our private information is often shared publicly for doxxing purposes. And our families, including small children, are not immune from these threats.

It’s not that we’re not into politics—it’s that we are forced to wade through the sludge of constant threats of violence from cis men for expressing our beliefs and we are so, so tired.

[tattooedsocialistfeminist666]

The same people who scream at women outside of Planned Parenthood are laughing at babies being teargassed at the border.

Spoiler: It was never about being “pro-life” and always about control.

[endangeredbodiesnyc]

[ssleep-to-the-freezingg]

Girl - Donna Missal

[feministism]

[tattooedsocialistfeminist666]

His name is Jordan Blue. While his entire class at Baraboo High posed doing the Nazi salute for their prom photo, Jordan refused to participate.

During these dark times, you have a choice. Will you be a Jordan or will you be a pathetic follower?

[endangeredbodiesnyc]

[tattooedsocialistfeminist666]

This election season, we saw millions of new voters register, including millions of Latinx voters. Muslims, black people, Native Americans, LGBT people, and so many women were elected to represent us. For the first time in our nation’s history, over 100 women were elected to the House of Representatives.

Last night was historic not just because of these facts, but also because we took back the House in spite of massive voter suppression efforts. Our sham of a democracy forced us to wait in three to five-hour-long lines. Our sham of a democracy purged us from the voter rolls. Our sham of a democracy changed our votes from Beto to Ted. Our sham of a democracy “ran out” of paper ballots for voters. Our sham of a democracy demanded that Native Americans living on reservations present a home address or be disenfranchised.

This election season, rich, out-of-touch white men did everything they could to take away our voice.

But you cannot silence a movement. To everyone who voted for harm reduction: thank you. To those who were beaten, castrated, burned, and murdered so that people other than white men could vote: thank you.

I am so proud of us. And now, we must keep fighting the good fight so that one day, we have a system that is truly by and for the people. 

[endangeredbodiesnyc]

That Time White People Burned and Pillaged a Black Community on Election Day

The 1920 massacre in Ocoee, Florida, involved whites lynching, castrating, and removing hundreds of blacks from their land in retaliation for them trying to exercise their right to vote.

On Election Day, hundreds of black Americans were burned, lynched, castrated, or left homeless simply for attempting to exercise the right to vote. Women and children were not spared from the carnage.

That was 1920, not even one century ago.

Remember the people who were literally set on fire, who were hanged, who were castrated, who were beaten, who lost their homes and their families just so people other than white men could have a voice.

Vote today and fight every day.

[tattooedsocialistfeminist666]

I am voting because after two years of seeing the worst of America, I have the audacity to hope that tonight we’ll see the best.

[rprimroseqt]

[endangeredbodiesnyc]

[endangeredbodiesnyc]

This week has been a nightmare. From the anti-trans rhetoric coming from the White House, which directly affects multiple people in our community; to the pipe bomb scares, which forced an evacuation blocks away from some of our members; to the murder of 11 members of a Jewish synagogue; to the election of a far-right fascist in Brazil, we no longer have words to express the pain and fear in our hearts. We stand with everyone who is grieving this week and hope for better days when everyone’s humanity is recognized and respected.

[endangeredbodiesnyc]

There are some who want to silence us with their blind hatred. 

Hope will never be silent. Love will never be silent. Truth will never be silent.  Death will come before our silence. 

[tattooedsocialistfeminist666]

I am in awe of those who stare into the face of greed and power and corruption and humanity’s incredible capacity for violence and dream of a world where the most vulnerable of us are treated with dignity.

The resisters we have come to know as heroes — the abolitionists, the suffragists, the leaders of the Civil Rights movement — were always dehumanized and abused by the dominant culture of their time.

Our past is violent oppression and our present is blind complacency.

Fight for the future.

[endangeredbodiesnyc]

The cis members of this collective will not patronize or work for any business that discriminates against trans people. That is our pledge.

[endangeredbodiesnyc]

We are absolutely shocked that someone attempted to bomb Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, CNN, and Debbie Wasserman Schultz when our sitting president's rallying cry is "lock them up" and he refers to half the country as an angry mob and harasses his opponents in unhinged, 1 AM Twitter rants. How could this happen? Didn't see it coming. Such a surprise.