Knitting in Public

[fruitcritter]

[legislacerator]

god i hate being gay and in my 20s i’m fucking obsessed with ikea

[lovl-y]

My neck, my back, my anxiety attack

[queeranarchism]

Wanna do direct action but you can’t run, can’t fight, can’t deal with stress, can’t risk getting arrested? Not near a community to support? You can still do something.

Like write to prisoners.

Prisons try to disappear people, isolate them, crush them. Don’t let that happen.

Write to activists in prison, write to trans people in prison, write to isolated prisoners, write to prisoners who no one else thinks are worth writing to.

Write to prisoners.

[hunterinabrowncoat]

Are there any programs or websites that help facilitate this which are based on the UK that you know of? Most of the info I’ve found tends to be US-based or just gov.uk general info about writing to someone you know in prison.

But given that I’m chronically ill or seems like a great way to actually do something and be an active part of change.

[queeranarchism]

Great to hear that you’re interested!

The Anarchist Black Cross is a prisoner support network that has chapters in a lot of countries and cities. In the UK there are:

London: https://network23.org/londonabc/

Brighton: https://www.brightonabc.org.uk/

Bristol: https://bristolabc.wordpress.com/

Other UK based groups include:

SOAS Detainee Support: https://soasdetaineesupport.wordpress.com (focused on supporting people in migrant detention)

The Bent Bars project: http://www.bentbarsproject.org/ (focused on LGBTIAQ+ prisoners)

The Empty Cages Collective: http://www.prisonabolition.org/

Prison Action London: http://www.prisonabolition.org/prison-action-london/

You can also find a prisoner to write to on your own via:

http://prisonersolidarity.net/data-explorer

Do check out some of the ‘do’s and don’t’ on one of these websites before you start, there are some basics like ‘don’t talk about illegal activities’ and ‘don’t stop writing without being honest to the person about the fact that you’re going to stop writing’ that are essential to know, and a lot of less important tips that just make it easier to start writing to someone you don’t know yet. Goodluck!

[queeranarchism]

Shoutout to @freackthejester for pointing out Black and Pink (http://www.blackandpink.org), that can help you find LGBTIAQ+ prisoners in prison in the US, with chapters in:

Dorchester: [email protected]

Boise: [email protected] – Chapter page

Chicago- [email protected] – Chapter page

Milwaukee – [email protected]

New Orleans- [email protected] – Chapter page

NYC- [email protected] – Chapter page

Providence – [email protected]

San Francisco- [email protected] http://flyingoverwalls.wordpress.com/ – Chapter page

[queeranarchism]

Someone also requested resources for Australia so I’m going to add those to this reblog chain:

Anarchist Black Cross Oceania https://www.facebook.com/abcoceania/

Anarchist Black Cross Melbourne https://abcmelb.wordpress.com/

Indigenous Social Justice Association Melbourne http://www.isjamelbourne.com/

Antifascist Action Brisbane has also hosted prisoner solidarity events (https://www.facebook.com/AntifascistBrisbane/)

And whenever there is no explicit prisoner-support organization, ask your local anarchists! Most anarchist groups do some prisoner support as well since supporting those who defy the state is basic anarchist praxis. This long list of Australia anarchist organizations probably includes groups that do some prisoner support: https://anarchy.org.au/directory/

Also contributed by people in the notes of this post so far:

Canada: Inmate Innk Calgary, http://www.inmateink.ca/

Japan (English-speaking prisoners): http://franciscanchapelcentertokyo.org/prison-outreach/

[queeranarchism]

Turns out people really like the extra resources on this post so here we go. Most of these urls were listen by Anarchist Black Cross Gent but I took out some dead urls and make them clickable.

ABC Argentina:

https://cnario.noblogs.org/

ABC Austria: https://www.abc-wien.net/

ABC Belarus: https://abc-belarus.org/

Belgium:

Anarchist Black Cross Gent

Binnen De Muren (ned.)

Getting The Voice Out (ned./fra./eng.)

La Lime (ned./fra.)

Brazil:

ABC Brazil: https://cnario.noblogs.org/

ABC Porto Alegre: https://cnapoa.wordpress.com

Bulgaria Prisoners Association: https://bulgarianprisonersassociation.wordpress.com/

Canada:

Toronto: https://torontoabc.wordpress.com/

Czech Republic:

ABC: https://www.anarchistblackcross.cz/

Antifenix: https://antifenix.noblogs.org/english-info/

Finland: https://www.facebook.com/Amrhelsinki

Germany:

ABC Berlin: https://www.abc-berlin.net

ABC Dresden: https://abcdd.org/en/

Rote Hilfe: https://www.rote-hilfe.de/

Mexico: https://www.abajolosmuros.org/

The Netherlands:

ABC Amsterdam https://abcamsterdam.wordpress.com

ABC Nijmegen: https://abcnijmegen.wordpress.com/

Peru: https://cnaperu.blogspot.com.es/

Poland: https://ack-bialystok.blogspot.co.uk/

Russia:

ABC Russia: https://wiki.avtonom.org/ru/index.php/%D0%90%D0%A7%D0%9A_-_%D0%9C%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B2%D0%B0

ABC Moscow: https://www.facebook.com/abcmoscow

Spain:

ABC Spain: https://www.nodo50.org/cna/

ABC Mediterráneo-Sur: https://www.cna-m.blogspot.com

Sweden: https://www.facebook.com/anarchistblackcross.stockholm

Switzerland:

Black Pidgeons Collective: https://blackpigeons.noblogs.org/

Rote Hilfe: https://rotehilfech.noblogs.org/

[captaincolossal]

Michelle Wolf on the White House ignoring Pride Month

[noctomania]

if you take nothing else from this, please never forget this screencap:

the hand gesture, the face, knuckles white with assertive certainty …the ocean is gay

[alwaysbewoke]

[wllford-deactivated20210619]

[fannishknits]

A northern Victoria woman turns her love of the environment into a fashion statement by knitting scarves out of recycled teabag strings.

[bernerstahp-deactivated20210328]

Them: I love romantic girls!

Me: Oh, you misunderstand- I’m a Romantic girl. I’m only interested in ghosts, Nature, and how the Industrial Revolution is crippling my spirit.

[marciabrady]

Cindy Brady dropkicking Bobby on The Brady Bunch, November 9th, 1973.

[armorabs]

[shawnphunters]

macaulay culkin was forced into his career by his father through manipulation, gaslighting and humiliation as well as physical abuse. at fourteen, instead of hitting him back like his father demanded, macaulay called the police and put a stop to the suffering that he and his family were facing. when his parents went bankrupt, macaulay offered up his own money to his mother and siblings and stepped up as the father figure to his five younger siblings. he’s publicly supported lgbt and pro-black charities for decades (x, x) and dedicated a good two pages of his book to naming conservatives and abusers that he hates. he risked his own reputation to defend michael jackson in court and treats michael’s daughter, paris, like his own. macaulay culkin is an amazing person whose made all of us happy over the years, and 2018 WILL be the year we repay him by supporting his hipster lifestyle website.

[astralsideburns]

it’s really good

[kaijuno]

This website is a goldmine let me tell you

[clevermanka]

Seriously though, I just took a look at it and it’s amazeballs. Some articles: I Saw Infinity War And Now I Can’t Talk To Anyone I Know 

How To Talk About Polyamory Until No One Wants To Fuck You 

I Unplugged For Two And A Half Hours And Now I’m An Objectively Better Person Than You

[hiddenlacuna]

UM YES BUT ALSO

Sexy Passover Tips For Seder

[niggazinmoscow]

It’s fucking prison camps holding 1,400 children. that’s fascism. 

[murphysmom67]

This is incredibly difficult to look at. I fear this will continue and he will commit even worse crimes against humanity. I believe the UN is sitting on June 27 to discuss the humanitarian aspects of Trumps decisions here.

[gatorfisch]

Glad to see major network coverage of this

[wheremyscalesslither]

So sorry that this isnt snakes but… wow.

[scrapbot13]

The quotes with his face are in Spanish as well as English. This is a reeducation center.

Remove children from parental influence, hold them long enough for them to captor-bond for survival, surround them with a new ideology 24/7. The youngest ones become blank slates, and the older ones wear down and adapt just to belong.

The next step would be to with hold all contact from their parents indefinitely. You could then punish them for speaking or learning their native tongue, and teach them domestic and hard labor skills and “employ” them outside of the camps to [insert synonym for “it builds character” here]. Since they aren’t actually citizens, minimum wage and labor laws don’t apply to them.

Ask the Native Americans and Austriallian Aboriginals how well this system works.

[theonion]

DAYTON, OH—Grumbling in quiet disbelief as he watched a 12-year-old struggle through the third syllable of “molluscivorous,” former Scripps Spelling Bee champion Alex Vinay spent Thursday afternoon sitting in front of the TV and mouthing bitterly along with current Scripps contestants. “Come on, seriously? It’s so clearly a Latin root, dipshit,” said Vinay to himself, rolling his eyes and shaking his head at the struggles of eventual runner-up Naysa Modi, 12, of Frisco, TX while mopping up a spilled Miller High Life with a faded Scripps 2012 Official Participant T-shirt that he had long since outgrown. “Back when I was in the Bee, they actually worked to make it a challenge. Now? It’s like the whole Scripps organization’s gone right down the shitter. I mean, look at this kid—you really need ‘lugubrious’ used in a sentence? Twice? You want the judges to come onstage and wipe your ass for you, too? Fucking moron.” At press time, Vinay had reluctantly torn himself away from the competition as his mother called him upstairs for dinner.

[weylandkonami-deactivated201803]

happy pride to all my friends and a happy kia summer sales event to all my straight friends

[profeminist]

[profeminist]

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BI / PAN PRIDE and VISIBILITY not ERASURE!!!

Happy Pride Month 2018!!!

[walterwhitemediocrity]