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reblog to save a life
My cousin Sioban has her own practice now and she’s like, a respectable upstanding citizen and not at all a ball of creative garbage juice like me
Boosting for black women and girls who need therapy
this is how i found my therapist and i’m so happy
Free Black History Library
Please keep boosting this, free knowledge is so important people.
it’d be cool not to talk about the aids crisis like it’s ancient history and something else can be the “new” aids crisis. aids is the new aids. people are still dying. it’s not a prop.
#okay but its not a death sentence anymore #you can be managed on meds for decades #we actually know how we can treat people #this site is so annoying
hi friend, did you know that 1 million people died of hiv-related illness in 2016, including several thousand in the u.s.? did you know it’s a constant struggle for many americans with hiv to access the health care they need to stay alive and healthy, and that on top of that they deal with profound stigma, discrimination, and criminalization? did you know only half of people with hiv in the u.s. have the virus under control through medication? did you know there’s a hidden epidemic of hiv among black gay and bi men in the american south? now you do!
This week I had a lovely conversation with an older dyke who reminded me how much a lot of people have always hated TERFs and SWERFs.
She was talking about the time in the 1970s and 1980s when she was a young radical dyke and how many of the awesome dykes in the radical scene were trans women. So I asked her if there was ever any problem with TERFs and SWERFs. She didn’t know those words so I described them. Her reply was (paraphrasing a longer conversation):
“Oh, you mean the political lesbians? That’s what we called them at the time, no one really considered them radical. They hated everyone. They hated bisexual women who dated men. They hated us leather dykes and kinky dykes because they thought we were ‘copying the patriarchy’, they hated trans women. None of us in the radical scene liked them. A lot of them later left and admitted that they were straight but were presured to identify as lesbians in that group because being a feminist to them meant cutting all ties with men. They were like a cult. They often lived together and if you didn’t walk the political line you were dead to them. Intense stuff. ”
And like, I know her memories don’t have global relevance and there have also been places where TERFs had a much more prominent impact on the local radical women’s community, but still, to hear how despised these TERFs have always been by these truly radical dykes cheered me up a lot.
You mean to tell me, that hating TERFs is literally lesbian culture?
Jup, and actually it has been since TERFs first got started.
TERFs began to colonize the RadFem identity as early as 1973 at Radical Feminism’s biggest event: the West Coast Lesbian Conference. The conference was specifically trans-inclusive, but TERFs disrupted the event, demanding that trans attendees be removed. TERF icon Robin Morgan incited violence by telling the TERFs to “deal with” a trans women who was known to be in attendance.
When a group of TERFs tried to physically assault the trans woman, Radical Feminists stepped in to protect the trans woman. Instead of beating the trans woman, the TERFs instead beat the Radical Feminists. After the TERF violence, the conference still voted to remain a trans inclusive space, but the trans woman left the conference voluntarily to avoid further TERF violence and disruption to the conference.
Perhaps the most iconic Radical Feminist institution was the Lesbian Separatist music collective, Olivia Records. This collective is largely responsible for the rise of women’s music movement of the 1970s. The Collective was trans-inclusive and even helped trans women access trans medical care. TERF icon, Janice Raymond discovered this and began a campaign against Olivia and the trans member of the Collective. This resulted in numerous death threats to the Radical Feminist members of the collective and credible armed death threats against the trans woman. Moreover, TERFs threatened to financially destroy Olivia Records for being trans inclusive with a boycott.
Even though Olivia voted to remain a trans-inclusive space, the trans woman left the Collective to avoid further TERF violence and disruption to the Collective.
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Most of the media coverage around the MWMF casts this as a RadFem/Lesbian/Woman vs Trans issue. It’s not. The MWMF has come to represent a more nuanced struggle between TERFs who target both Radical Feminists and trans people in the name of Radical Feminism. The evidence reveals that almost from the start, the chances were that “there is still a better than 999 in 1000 chance that most Festigoers would welcome trans women”.
Moreover, the evidence reveals that the most iconic Radical Feminist institutions were designed to be trans-inclusive, until TERF violence forced trans people to choose between their own safety, the safety of Radical Feminists, the institution itself and leaving the space. As has always been, TERF aggression comes wrapped in the guise of Radical Feminism, for the purpose of colonizing Radical Feminism.
http://theterfs.com/2014/09/02/the-michigan-womyns-music-festival-the-historic-radfem-vs-terf-vs-trans-fight/
Good ass thread here
Hating TERFs is lesbian culture
The Whipping Girl (I’ve forgotten the authors name) has a great chapter on TERFs.
Whipping Girl is by Julia Serano and everyone should read it!
Let bi boys date girls
Who isn’t letting them……
Gay boys who see me with a girl and say I shouldn’t be allowed in lgbt spaces because I’m actually really straight
Straight girls who see me as their “gay friend” or who say they don’t care about sexuality but wouldn’t date a boy who’s had sex with a boy
Straight people in general who say “isn’t he really just gay” or telling girls that I’m actually gay and faking it with them
Gay people who say that because I have the option of dating a girl I’m the same as the straight people who oppress our community
Gay people who say I’ll never understand oppression or what it’s like to “actually” be gay
So there’s quite a few people not letting them!!
Keep reblogging this post all the comments are people showing how much they hate bisexual people
white people will steal aave and then when they overuse it will be like ‘can everybody please stop using the word ______ its so annoying now :/’
The book Building A Movement to end the new Jim Crow: an organizing guide is free on Amazon kindle today.
If you’re someone looking to get involved in racial justice work and learn some organizing skills for free, this is a good place to start
Thanks @noranelz for the heads up on fb
#massincarceration #activism #freeebooks #freebooks #racialjustice #socialjustice #kindlebooks #newjimcrow
You really need to see this…
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4619223/obama-dakota-access-pipeline
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So a state audit of CalGang, a database widely used in California to identify gang members, has 42 infants listed in it. Possibly because of “typos”. People are supposed to be deleted from the system if there hasn’t been any new info in five years, but the system had hundreds of files that weren’t scheduled to be removed for more than 100 years. A review of 100 individuals from 4 different areas showed that only 13 of those entires had substantial information that warranted an entry. 70% of the juveniles added to the list were not notified, violating a 2014 state law. 85.4% of that entire database is made up of black men and Latinos. 64.9% of the people listed are Latinos.
None of this information would’ve been made public if Shirley Weber, a black assemblywoman for San Diego, hadn’t pressed her inquires. This system has allowed officers to racially profile dozens of thousands of people, label 28 babies under the age of 1 as admitting to having gang affiliations, and destroy lives. A black woman is responsible for the public discovery of this. Eliminating racial disparities in office is crucial, and this is an important example of that.
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These “sidewalk counselors” are wearing attire that is very similar to PP’s logo and name to trick patients into thinking they are actual clinic escorts. These are the most deceptive ones I’ve seen yet.
Well this is fucking nauseating.
If you have to trick people into talking to you that means they probably do not want your help or opinion.
-Mod Rayquaza
PSA
Kelvin Peña Is Best Friends With A Powdered-Doughnut-Loving Deer Named Money
However, after some backlash, Kelvin decided to start feeding Money and the rest of the deer fam some healthier snacks. “It means a lot that he feels he and his fam can come through, so I respect them and I want them to be healthy, so I’ve been buying fruit for them,” he told BuzzFeed.
@speciesofleastconcern they were doughnuts
that is SO marginally better than marshmallows
EDITED TO ADD: feeding the deer fruit isn’t such a hot idea either. If ruminants get too much sugar it can cause bloat. Which can be fatal.
How about: feeding deer in general is a Horrible, Very Bad Not Good Idea. This is not cute in so many ways.
First off, let’s have our usual refrain: don’t feed the wildlife. It’s not helpful and can lead to all sorts of bad things can like bloat and population imbalances that will cause them to become pests. Deer habituate to people easily - it sounds like ‘Money’ already was, considering Kevin “walked up to him, and noticed he didn’t run away.” And this isn’t just one deer - it’s multiple deer, repeatedly.
Habituated deer are more likely to hang out around houses and eat gardens, get hit by cars… and hurt people.
Let’s examine those. It’s utterly stupid to approach deer, especially in mating season. They will fuck you up - just google for clips of ‘man attacked by deer’ to watch people literally get kick-boxed by deer standing on their hind legs. Loose dogs are often a huge threat to deer, but a good kick can also easily kill your pet. By the way, hitting a deer with your car can really hurt you and destroy the car - be ready to consider it totaled if it’s anything but a glancing blow.
Hopefully your neighbors like deer more than their gardens. See, according to a Maine government website on deer, “even when provided with optimal supplemental foods, deer will continue to browse on shrubbery, tree buds, garden plantings, and seedlings in the adjacent forest. At many feeding sites, deer may occur at densities that are 3 to 5 times higher than “normal” wintering density. When highly concentrated, deer can literally kill all vegetation within their reach in the vicinity (one to several hundred acres) of deer feeding sites.“ So say goodbye to your mom’s petunias or your neighbor’s heirloom blueberry bushes if you’re feeding deer.
When you feed deer, you screw up literally the entire ecosystem around them. They frequently stop migrating because they don’t need to, which means that certain areas don’t get grazed and have overgrowth problems and your area has too many deer because they don’t die off in the winter (nature’s built-in population control). This leads to a spike in predators in the area - big, toothy predators people don’t like in suburbia - and overgrazing, which in turn effects the survival of lots of other local species. Not to mention you’re screwing with natural selection by removing competition for the best food, so over time the lower quality makes whose genetics actually are detrimental to survival will not be weeded out. But hey, you’re getting warm fuzzy feelings, right?
Except… you can kill deer easily by feeding them. If you start feeding deer at the wrong time in the winter you can actually help them starve faster because you screw up the microorganisms in their stomach that need to be optimized for low quality browse, not human food. If you feed them sugar and they bloat, they die. If you feed them too much at once, they can die. If you feed them spoiled grain or moldy things, they can die. You can cause malnutrition in an entire population by drawing deer to a feeding site but not feeding them enough - they’ll stop grazing normally. High concentrations of deer also makes them a super effective disease vector.
The tl;dr is that feeding deer even healthy food leads to death, injury, probable death, ecosystem imbalances, disease, vegetation destruction, and more death. Not cute. Not good. Ever. Stop fucking with the wildlife because it seems cute, guys. (And massive shame on Buzzfeed for not thinking for a sec about maybe this being dangerous and a bad idea to promote).
I don’t think one could wake up to find out worse news than this…two women killed in one day. Both Black - the group that is oppressed and disrespected the most in our country..
#SkyeMockabee #KorrynGaines #SayTheirNames
#BlackLivesMatter #Amerikkka
Protip for men: if marriage is a horrifying concept for you and you think it is an evil trap, do not buy a ring and ask a woman to marry you
I’m way over seeing radical feminist bullshit on my dash. This isn’t even social justice or a real issue.
sorry that not marrying someone you dont loathe is radical feminism i guess?
women: don’t propose or get married if u don’t like the thought of marriage
men: what kind of sjw fuckery
the other bit that this implies is: If you like your wife, act like it. Even around your friends. Be open and honest about liking your wife, liking spending time with her, and not being resentful of the shared work of building a household. Let your buddies know you can’t hang out with them because you’d rather be home with your wife, whom you like, because she is your legit bff, even though you know your buddies are gonna mock you for it. Stand up to your buddies. Tell them mocking isn’t cool and you don’t want them to do it anymore. Challenge the other men in your life to be better men. That is what “don’t get married if you think marriage is an evil trap” implies to men who are married. And while it’s all completely reasonable I imagine that it’s scary as fuck when it’s just so much easier to har de har har the little woman’s such a nag, ain’t she, don’t we all hate being married so much? with other men. In that context, “don’t get married if you think marriage is an evil trap” is kindof a radical statement.
The number of guys I work with who are engaged who started pulling the “uh oh, life over soon, har har” shit that I have completely shut down with a simple “well if you don’t want to get married, then don’t”…*sigh* And they’re just like, hem, haw, welllll if I don’t then she might not stay with meee, which I respond to with “well, sounds like you need to have a pretty serious and honest conversation with your fiancee about your feelings then” and then the *panic!* look…When you remove that easy “hah hah ball-and-chain” narrative, watch the reaction. Some of them (to a female friend) will mumblingly admit that they love their fiancee and are excited to be married. Others…all you get is fear.
That’s the disservice we do men by refusing to teach boys how to explore their emotional needs. It hurts everyone. I watched three male friends walk into marriages I can tell they weren’t ready for and didn’t want, just because it was expected and they had no tools for emotional self-examination. Two of those marriages are (shockingly) in crisis, a couple years later. One has kids involved now. It’s more than a little heartbreaking. The marriages I see that are working? Are the guys with the emotional maturity to talk to their wives and who don’t care if everyone knows they’re in love with them.
SERIOUSLY.
