What would you do if you were already free?

Jack | 1995 | he/her/she/him (no they/them) | trans butch dykefag | Ozark hillbilly in the PNW | ex-christian | post-civ anarcho-carelordist

[jackawful]

Hey y'all, I don't tend to use this blog for donation posts even when I myself am financially struggling, but this New Year's Eve I have a cause that is very, very close to my heart that I want to share with you.

I would like to urge those of you who can to financially support the Antifascist Internationalist Front Myanmar.

When the military took over Myanmar's government, protestors took to the streets in 2021. The government started killing people. And the people started shooting back. Former student protesters have largely fled to the jungle to form coalitions with existing local militias to oppose the military dictatorship. This movement recieved some attention in small leftist outlets in 2021 and 2022 for their use of 3D printed firearms, but overall, international support has been hard to drum up and it seems most westerners have forgotten about this civil war entirely.

I, and many other anarchists in the imperial core, saw ourselves in the young protesters in Myanmar. Particularly for those of us in the US, it was a striking picture of what might have happened if our 2020 uprising and the attempted J6 coup had gone slightly differently. The military dictatorship tortures those it captures, including by use of sexual violence, and uses indiscriminate airstrikes on civilian areas, resulting in horrific death and displacement.

The AIF is a group of internationalist fighters collaborating with local pro-democracy forces to fight the military dictatorship in Chin State. In addition to fighting on the frontlines themselves, they provide trainings to local people, with an emphasis on gender equality amongst their trainees. Fighters in the AIF are a mix of locals and internationalists from other countries: people who looked at the uprising in 2021, empathized with student fighters, and decided to step in and help - by leaving their homes and going to fight alongside the people of Myanmar themselves. You can learn more about their experiences here:

Anti-Fascist Perspectives On Revolutionary Struggle In Myanmar: Dispatches from the Antifascist Internationalist Front (zine)

Lessons From The Hills (zine)

Aung Ya Mie: Women's Struggle & Internationalism (The Dugout Podcast)

Azad - Myanmar Antifascist Internationalist Front (The Tiger Bloc Podcast)

The Western Volunteers Fighting In Myanmar (Popular Front Podcast)

Recently, their drone program has successfully destroyed supplies and killed multiple fascist military commanders. They need your help with funding so that they can continue the fight.

You can donate directly to the AIF here:

@AIFMYANMAR on venmo & paypal

$AIFMYANMAR on cashapp

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[madness-narrative]

“Much of what is labeled psychiatric disease is grief that has never been expressed or properly felt, or validated. If we have unexplored trauma, then it’s likely we have unexplored grief too. Some of us need to begin a grieving process that never started in order to heal. Some of us have a life-time of grief that needs to be allowed and experienced. We can choose to challenge our culture’s fear of grief and the dark emotions and begin to heal and turn it around. Grief is subversive, undermining the quiet agreement to behave and be in control of our emotions. It is an act of protest that declares our refusal to live numb and small. There is something feral about grief, something essentially outside the ordained and sanctioned behaviors of our culture. Because of that, grief is necessary to the vitality of the soul. Contrary to our fears, grief is suffused with life-force. It is riddled with energy, an acknowledgment of the erotic coupling with another soul, whether human, animal, plant or ecosystem. It is not a state of deadness or emotional flatness. Grief is alive, wild, untamed and cannot be domesticated. It resists the demands to remain passive and still. We move in jangled, unsettled and riotous ways when grief takes hold of us. It is truly an emotion that rises from soul. – by Francis Weller, from Entering the Healing Ground: Grief, Ritual and the Soul of the World Grief, like all the other difficult and/or dark emotions often gets pathologized, but it is an important part of life, without which we would not be human. Grief need not be pathologized even if it takes a long time.”

— Monica Cassani, Grief is subversive

[murderofsomeone]

every movie poster just looks like this to me now

[silly-blue-gosling]

[abortionado]

They’re calling me every slur under the sun over on twitter for this post

[cilceon]

Would you sell liquor to this baby

Yes

No

I don’t think life begins at contraception but I’d still sell liquor to baby

Voting ended onAug 6, 2025

Wait hold on rb canceled that’s the wrong word wait no stop

[toopunktofuck]

ayn rand failing to understand that sesame street is for young children

[threegoatsinatrenchcoat-deactiv]

god this is missing the best part JIM HENSON I think Ms. Rand and my character Oscar the Grouch would have a lot to talk about actually. I am laughing out loud at this idea. AYN RAND Why would I want to talk to him. What has he achieved or trying to achieve. JIM HENSON He has achieved what I think is the ultimate goal of your way of thinking.

[threegoatsinatrenchcoat-deactiv]

lmao

[tallulahshorts]

Savage

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

I can’t believe I never knew that Jim Henson straight up murdered Ayn Rand. 

[nonbino-chaos-fox]

[Image descriptions: two screenshots of a transcript of a conversation.

Yoko Ono: My favourite is Big Bird. He is so tall and gentle.

Ayn Rand: To be honest I find it to be senseless entertainment. I prefer the celebration of men and what they can achieve.

Jim Henson: Do you have children Ms Rand?

Ayn Rand: What do children have to do with what I prefer? /ID end]

[altonin-deactivated20180325]

if you want to actually start to end homelessness, you need to give homeless people unconditional homes, including when we use them to do drugs or sit around drinking. either housing is unconditional or it isn’t

someone sitting at home alone, an active alcoholic, squandering your charity, drinking all day is better situation than a street homeless alcoholic. someone using drugs in your charity house is better than them doing the same w no shelter

most of you would not like most street homeless people, I definitely don’t and didn’t when I was street homeless. for every one person who uses unconditional shelter to turn themselves around, someone else will do jack shit and very slowly, if ever, work through the issues that made them homeless, will maybe never be able to live independently. still better than street homelessness, still worth doing. ultimately either you believe that shelter should be universal or you don’t

homeless people actually can’t be rehabilitated if you want to end homelessness. we either affirm the right to shelter for the worst drunken, lying, filthy, cheating, self destructive homeless people that exist, genuinely irredeemable wankers, or we concede that shelter is not a right

[funereal-disease]

This post is the distilled essence of everything I believe in.

[theaudientvoid]

Concept: in a setting where vampires exist and can only be harmed by symbols of faith (crucifixes, etc.), a James Randi-style skeptic/supernatural debunker witnesses his family murdered by vampires, and dedicated his life to hunting down what he believes are a cabal of ordinary serial killers with a blood fetish and some cheap plastic fangs. They die when he shoots them with an ordinary gun, granted holy status by the sheer force of his belief that they are actually just ordinary humans who will die when shot.

[official-torfmoor]

The reason the sun burns vampires is that all the plants worship it.

[thepariahcontinuum]

That is the single most insane addition possible and I love it.

[fallout-lou-begas]

really exploitable image of batman for this website i think

[bituin-describes]

ID: Batman points to Talia al Ghul on a gurney as he tells a doctor, "—get the testosterone into her now! Because if you don't—," he scowls, "—I'll make you regret it." ED

[guerillas-of-history]

Two Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC- EP) guerrillas enjoy ice cream during a gathering near San Vicente del Caguan, Colombia, 2001.

(Photo credit: Paul Smith)

[brucebocchi]

perfect headline. no notes

[brucebocchi]

LEAVE HIM ALONE!!!

[trappedinavelociraptor]

[hermit-gunsmith]

They left the best one off

[nobrashfestivity]

Bruce Conner, Untitled, 1968

 Felt-tip ink on paper 

more 

[blondebrainpowered]

GIF by Guillermo Anguita

[rivetgoth]

When people talk about all art being political (hard agree) they always talk about the content, themes, etc present within the art itself. Which obviously I get and obviously is a huge part of it. Of course. But I’m personally always struck by the politics surrounding the more metatextual elements of the art; that is, stuff like access to the tools needed for the creation of the art. I mean the literal materials of which an artpiece is made. This is a low-hanging-fruit example but I’m reminded of that Disney adult who tried to claim art isn’t inherently political by being like “I just drew a stick figure on a napkin, is that political? 🤣🤣” & while I think there are multiple different angles from which one could criticize this blatantly pathetic argument, I remember being really struck by like… the flagrant “waste” of implicitly throwaway resources that many parts of the world just literally don’t have and/or that carry with them deeply fraught histories of capitalist labor exploitation and destruction of natural resources. Like. Napkins?? The apolitical canvas that is paper napkins?

[flower-cute-posts]

i think we've invested enough in ai infrastructure actually (Available HERE)

[storyweavingspider]

*speaking from a ghostly web in a corner of the room* Remember your roots this pride month young queer,,, paying to get into a city-sanctioned pride party and walking in a pride parade where DHS and police is advertising how lgbtq friendly they are isnt who you are,,,

[storyweavingspider]

342,500,000 of us in this damn country and somehow not a single white person with an accuracy stat above 10% and basic planning abilities willing to take one for the team again.

Like yeag I’m sayin shit more bluntly on main rn but the fact that I see news of a Black person being lynched more often than I see news of someone at least trying to do something more useful against any piece of our current state of affairs is wild.

[storyweavingspider]

I try very hard to ride the line of not saying/doing things that will get my account of 13 years terminated but it’s like.

The right wing is constantly doing vigilante shit and imposing life, interpersonal, economic, and mental consequences on marginalized folks and those who support them for the crime of existing and being oppressed. They’ll publicly lynch 16 year old Black girls, 19 year old trans girls, burn down abortion clinics, shoot up literally anywhere, destroy/damage houses, and so much more.

And we.. protest and maybe do graffiti. Organize to “vote blue no matter who” type bullshit. We don’t even punch Nazis anymore lmfao. A lot of the non-white organizers and activists who became publicly known for stuff like taking down confederate flags, action in 2020, etc. in the past decade are dead or in jail now, often likely because of vigilante/cop action.

Iunno. I’m one Black tranny cripple and my literal ability to do.. anything, anymore is minimal. But I feel like I’m losing my mind watching almost nothing happen here while elsewhere resisters are literally dismantling weapons factories piece by piece until they can’t function.

And I just know if I hop on Facebook or Twitter and scroll for a couple minutes I’ll see another lynching and no meaningful material action and I’m so fucking tired.

[storyweavingspider]

I just tested this. I opened Facebook, scrolled for 11 seconds, and learned about Paris Harris, a Black trans woman, being shot in Dallas. She was 21.

“Paris was loved, remembered as “unapologetically Paris,” and deserved to be named with dignity.”

They won’t stop killing us, harming us, hunting us.

[storyweavingspider]

TW; child death, racial violence, racial violence via the court system, torture of a child

Opened Twitter, scrolled for 27 seconds, learned about Jor’Dynn Duncan, a 7 year old Black girl who was tortured to death over months with 90 stab wounds, by three white women (step-grandmother, step-mother, and step-sister) in Long Island after courts granted the step-mother custody over her.

[storyweavingspider]

This isn’t even counting the swaths of missing Black and brown children/teens, the trans/queer people nobody cares enough to report, the people we won’t know were gone until a body is found, the immigrants disappeared into concentration camps, the cities like Memphis literally under occupation right now.

They will keep doing this to us, all folks like us, until they can’t anymore. And I don’t understand why nobody is taking more than the most milquetoast action while we die and die and die

[aromanticduck]

No, I would not steal a car. However, if I had the ability to create a copy of someone's car that I could have for free while the other person retained their original car, I would definitely do that.

[flipchild]

a genderless burger experience