Forrest Sterling

| Queer | 🍉 Free Palestine, Fuck the IOF 🖕 "#reading list" for my list of recommended books if you want a more technical understanding of environmentalism

[forrest-sterling]

You can do this yourself. You can have this. You can make your world a more beautiful place. You can have a space full of native wildlife. All you need to do is find some native wildflowers and wait for their seeds to mature. Find or organize a seed swap and prioritize native plants. Liberate some seeds or plants if you happen to find some at a store. It doesn't have to be a yard either. It can be in a nearby park or along a sidewalk next to your apartment or in an empty abandoned lot down the street. You don't need permission, you just have to make sure you aren't caught. Wearing a hi-vis vest and looking confident and professional can carry you very far.

A suburban residential landscape featuring Texas native plants.

GETTING NATIVE PLANT LISTS FOR YOUR REGION ON BPLANT.ORG — Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't

Visit bplant.org and follow the link below. After arriving on the main page, click on “REGIONS”. You will arrive at a page with a map on it.

[hodddaad]

Extreme cold

hunger

fear

and a complete lack of security—

[hodddaad]

this is our current situation, mine and my siblings My old grandmother, out in the open '.

[hodddaad]

These feelings are incredibly difficult and painful for us...💔

I hope you can help us by donating what you can and sharing our story with the world so that someone might help us. Thank you all

[hodddaad]

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[hometoursandotherstuff]

[forrest-sterling]

[herssian]

"there is no way you're not using chatgpt for at least a few things here and there no matter your stance on it" what the FUCK are you talking about

[allykatsart]

[forrest-sterling]

Cain Culto - KFC Santería feat. Sudan Archives

Fuck Trump Fuck ICE Free Palestine

[guerrillatech]

[radicalurbanista]

you can’t support autistic people and support the police. No amount of paint jobs or sensitivity training can stop police from killing with impunity

[anarchopuppy]

And fuck the jigsaw puzzle imagery advanced by the eugenicists at Autism Speaks. We’re not a “puzzle” to be “solved“

Half of all people killed by cops have a disability, because cops aren’t trained to recognize or deal with people with disabilities and very few places have people who are trained for those situations easily accessible during emergencies. So the cops come in and do what they’re paid to do - murder anyone who’s inconvenient to the state

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

All of this except:

More training absolutely will not and cannot reduce the number of disabled people cops kill.

Cops kill members of vulnerable populations because they can get away with it and are even incentivized to do so, not because they need more funding to learn to recognize and interact nicely with members of a vulnerable population.

A lot of these murders happen after a police officer was explicitly informed about the victims’ disability (see the case above!) and “wellness checks” on disabled people with their disability as the explicit reason for the call are frequently violent. In some wellness checks, police start firing without saying a single word to the victim.

Having disability experts available doesn’t help—see the case above where the police killed the social worker lying on the ground with his hands up!!

The issue is the incentives, not ignorance or insufficient funding. “More training” just means more funding, and we should be pushing for interventions that reduce police funding and their incentives to do harm instead.

[bananonbinary]

tony's chocolonely mildly pisses me off every time i eat it. like yeah i get it ur doing a whole symbolism thing about unfairness and whatever, but its actually SO DIFFICULT to eat fucking. gerrymandered chocolate. your symbolism is ruining my chocolate experience.

who approved this.

[bananonbinary]

like. ur already more expensive. i understand this. i am willing to pay more money to have slave-free delicious chocolate. why must you punish me further by making it a goddamn puzzle to break a piece off.

[closet-keys]

Tony's Chocolonely does not ensure a living wage for cocoa workers in West Africa (see 2020 report by Voice Network).

Food Empowerment Project maintains an updated list of chocolate brands they recommend based on the following standards:

transparency about the country of origin for cocoa

if sourced from Western Africa, the workers must own the companies/be in charge of the profits from their labor (this standard is because child labor and slavery have been widely documented for decades in this area)

if sourced from Brazil, the workers must own the company and/or be in charge of the profits from their labor, or the company must be going above and beyond to support the workers and their families (this standard is because "child labor and slavery only recently have been documented in cocoa in Brazil" and they are "giving Brazilian companies that are trying to address the issue by supporting the workers and their families the benefit of the doubt.")

this isn't perfect, obviously, but it is much more grounded in the rights of workers than the various certifications (e.g. Fair Trade, Rainforest Alliance, etc.) you'll see on product packaging

[depsidase]

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

Queer Palestinian Books for Pride Month

[inspirato]

🇰🇷 🇵🇸 Corée du Sud – Des étudiants et des jeunes se mobilisent pour soutenir la Palestine

[treecitysessions]

[edwordsmyth]

Los Ponchos Rojos entering La Paz to overpower the police and defend the Bolivian people's mass-uprising today.

[anarquistaantifascista]

[mortalityplays]

periodically I'll get a bunch of outspoken white supremacists and self identified nazis frothing themselves up into a rage in my notes, and every single time I trace the reblog chain back to block them at the point of origin I find that they showed up via some clutch of terfs. EVERY time. and these people always present themselves as 'pro woman' just asking brave questions left wing radicals. whose followers and mutuals are at best one step removed from white pride Q guys calling immigrants filthy degenerates and calling for the global slaughter of arabs. I can't stress this enough: every time.

[enbaluka-tokyo-drift]

[forrest-sterling]

The radfems are radfemming again. I don't get how they manage to be one of the most obnoxious and persistent hate groups online. I think it's the co-opting of radical imagery to try to legitimize their conservative politics and targeting of minorities as something cool and edgy. It's like neonazis who dress punk and co-opt countercultural imagery to try to make their violence seem like legitimate struggle instead of violent oppression, except they seem to only exist online (probably because nobody in real life wants to be around their hateful rhetoric and they're incapable of even organizing themselves). In both cases they just come off as whiney losers who would rather assume the role of oppressor than end oppression for everyone. I'm sure they're screenshotting this and passing it around, they've done it to me before. It's how they reinforce their in-group vs. out-group dynamic. Can't wait to see what my replies look like tomorrow.

[forrest-sterling]

How Decriminalisation Reduces Harm Within and Beyond Sex Work: Sex Work Abolitionism as the “Cult of Female Modesty” in Feminist Form - Sexu

Background Sex work has a long history and takes different forms, but the associated precarity and danger, particularly where poorer women a

Radical Feminist Harms on Sex Workers

https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4010&context=facpub

Feminism needs sex workers, sex workers need Feminism: towards a sex-worker inclusive women’s rights movement

This one is by the International Committee on the Rights of Sex Workers, an organization led by sex workers, in case you wanted to actually hear what sex workers think about sex work

Radical feminists' objection to sex work is profoundly un-feminist

Radical Feminist or Closet Conservative: A Selection from Laura Kipnis’s Unwanted Advances (2017) — Likeville

“It’s long been true of mainstream American feminism that the most supposedly radical factions have been closet conservatives, dedicated to

Not that I expect any of them to read scholarly literature, let alone literature that conflicts with their current worldview, but hey, here's some stuff to read if you're also getting a bunch of radfem bullshit on sex work showing up in your feed