moving forward

peach. 26. they/she. black. tma.

[madame-peach]

Educational Tags

Hi! I try to tag any educational content on the following topics:

transphobia ~ transmisogyny ~ reproductive justice ~ misogynoir ~ antiblackness ~ abolition

If you’re looking for where to find those /taggged pages on my blog, click the emerald next to my blog title and you can find them under “Educational Tags”.

Last edit: 5/23/22

[madame-peach]

if trans men have afab privilege than trans women have amab privilege lmao

what on earth is afab privilege? what on earth is amab privilege? how is it a privilege to be assigned something at birth by some random person who you will never meet again, and that assignation determines so much of how your early-mid-late life unfurls?

[theinternetarchive]

marsha p. johnson with a stuffed snoopy doll, december 5, 1987.

[madame-peach]

The power is ours. We must organize against corrupt politicians and the fascist, warmongering, billionaire-backed Congress. This challenge is quite literally existential.

[bloglikeanegyptian]

a comic i started in november 2023, then didn't know how to finish as the numbers kept growing higher and higher. then they grew too high not to finish it

[identitty-dickruption]

countering the reactionary urge to cling to the biological as "real" and "natural" could be a real point of coalition for disabled, intersex, and transgender/transsexual politics and it really should be. "the natural body" as a construct does not serve us and we do not have to keep making concessions to it. what makes my disabled transsexualised body any less 'natural'? why are we using 'natural' and 'biological' as short-hands for 'real', 'normal', or 'good'? what is there that truly divides the social world from the natural/real world? what merit is there in divorcing the social body from some imagined from of non-social body? something to think about

[sovietnam]

[transmisogyny-explained]

A Twitter thread by Nightling Bug 🗝 (@nightlingbug)

I’m begging TME people to understand that transmisogyny isn’t something trans women start experiencing at transition, but — like vanilla misogyny — is a ubiquitous force that maliciously shapes our entire lives from infancy onwards

The main difference between how vanilla misogyny & transmisogyny operate in childhood is isolation. Transmisogynistic oppression goes unnamed, isn’t shared by your peers or role models, is never called out by an adult. Imagine experiencing misogyny entirely alone.

All systemic violence tries to masquerade as personal violence, but transmisogyny has an unbeatable stealth factor. They’re picking on that kid “because he’s annoying.” Sad, but we all secretly agree, don’t we? He brought it on himself. Maybe it’ll cure his personal deficiencies!

The ONLY reason to talk over trans women about when transmisogyny starts is to serve this argument:

“Transphobia is many trans women’s first experience with oppression, which is why [transmisogynistic stereotype]”

and turn it into transfeminized debt

(OP then links to another Twitter thread which you can read here.)

Even if it were true that transmisogyny “starts” when we begin to transition, that still wouldn’t make it most trans women’s first experience with oppression. Most trans women (even trans lesbians) identify as gay or bi long before realizing they’re trans. And, of course, there are many other factors to consider — Trans women can be POC, neurodivergent, mentally ill, chronically ill, disabled, intersex, etc., and the affects of marginalization on those axes are undeniably present throughout one’s whole life. Needless to say, the idea that trans women act “aggressive” or “entitled” due to some kind of residual male privilege is horribly transmisogynistic in any context.

[theconcealedweapon]

[madame-peach]

Peach Odita-Honnah's review of Gone Girl

4/5: “Flynn demonstrates an adept writing style which impressively encapsulates the intricacies of the quite complicated conflict between Ni

[tamarrud]

Re: green colonialism 

When Zionists talk about Israel making the desert bloom, they are using the most insidious language to describe Israel’s ecocide of Palestinian ecosystems and biome, which is an often overlooked casualty of colonial violence.

One of the worst perpetrators of this ongoing ecocide is the Jewish National Fund (JNF), an Israeli organisation that disguises itself as an environmental NGO yet owns around 13% of the occupied land in Palestine (which I’ll bring up a lot below). The JNF can be considered the main reason Zionists love to brag about the number of tress and forests that they have planted in Palestine, while skipping over the part that addresses what trees, where they are planted, and why they're planted in the specific areas.

As for what kind of trees, the JNF planted vast swaths of non-native trees, mainly pine and eucalyptus trees, in place of indigenous arboreta. Both trees are invasive species; pine is not indigenous to the land, and therefore it is not a sustainable plant. Pines planted by Israel often fail to adapt to the soil which requires replanting them over and over again. Additionally, they require huge amounts of water, which in turn affects water systems and aquifers around them. On top of that, the acidic pine needles that the tree sheds tend to destroy all surrounding small plants, gravely affecting the livelihood of Palestinian shepherds whose animals depend on grazing the land. Lastly, and not to forget, that these invasive plants are more prone to fires. As Palestinian scholar Ghada Sasa put it, zionists have "converted Palestine into a tinder box" over the past century, which was evident in 2010’s Mount Carmel wildfire, which was the worst in Israel’s history. Ironically, this fire revealed underneath it agricultural terraces constructed by Palestinian farmers, which were purposely obscured by Israel when constructing the park. 

With that, and as for where these forests are stationed, they are often built on top of the ruins of depopulated Palestinian villages. Take for example Birya Forest, Israel's largest man-made forest in the north, and was strategically planted over the ruins of six different Palestinian villages, one of which was 'Ayn Zaytoun (meaning spring of olives), a farming village that used to home 1,000 Palestinians, who were ethnically cleansed by Israel to make way for this forest. Other examples include the Canada Park or Carmel National Park. In places like the Jerusalem Botanical Gardens, the ruins of demolished Palestinian homes can be spotted among the pine trees, and in this particular case, it’s the ruins of the village of Ajour.

Finally, the reason why the JNF seems to be fixated on pine trees for example is primarily because to them, pine trees help evoke an imagery of European wilderness, and this is evident with Jewish settlers nicknaming the Carmel National Park "little Switzerland", despite it being partially built on top of the ruins of the Palestinian village of al-Tira. Additionally, pine trees grow fast, which works in Israel’s favour to attempt to accelerate the erasure of Palestinian history and memory. The JNF usually distributes pine saplings to settlers to plant annually, and they understand that while these cost nothing, yet, in their own words, there will make a forest in 10 years’ time.

This is all scratching at the surface of Israel’s green colonialism and ecocide in Palestine, and I should probably make another post to talk about Israel’s deliberate destruction of Palestinian farmland and crops to build its Jewish-only roads and separation apartheid wall, or how it pays tax incentives to Israeli companies with the highest polluting rates to move to the West Bank, or how they drained the oldest documented lake in history despite scientist warnings, or the continued destruction of olive trees (about one million) by the state of Israel and its violent settlers. But in any case, at this point no one can buy into Israel’s green-washing of its genocide, especially after seeing what they had done to Gaza’s lands, particularly fertile lands. 

Simply put, Zionism has employed every method at its disposal to try to erase Palestinians and their history, including planting trees. 

[depsidase]

[sleepy-giraffe]

Oh no it’s one of my hyperfixations.

So fun fact I am currently in school to learn how to build affordable housing. They don’t teach you how to murder strip malls so I must learn this on my own. Someday the two will fuse and I will be an angel of death for shopping centers. This is my calling.

There have been attempts to turn malls into affordable housing. Sadly retrofitting commercial properties into habitable living spaces is usually more expensive than just making a new building. All that big empty space with uniform climate control is cool and all but it’s not habitable living quarters. you know what it’s GREAT for????

HYPER-LOCAL AGRICULTURE BAYBEEEEEEE

Indoor farming got a bad rep recently because it couldn’t become profitable fast enough to satisfy the capitalists funding it. But these places have loads of height for more space-efficient vertical farms, and while plants won’t need the blasted AC of most shopping malls, they probably do appreciate a steady climate (something that’s getting harder to find outdoors).

“But wait,” you say, “the food court has all those fully outfitted kitchens. It would be a waste not to incorporate that into daily living.”

hello????????? Literal farm-to-table restaurants that grow their vegetables right across the hallway are you KIDDING ME??????????????? (better keep that shit cheap tho no gentrification on my watch)

“But wait wait wait,” you say again, “how can it be *local* farming when there’s no housing nearby? Also this isn’t about food we need fucking housing????”

I hear you, man, I hear you. But you know what is right around a shopping mall? Acres upon acres of the most depressing use of land in history: fucking dog shit crusty ass empty fucking parking lots.

The amount of space these bad boys take up is STAGGERING, and it’s often enough to fit an entire neighborhood. Just check out what this one architect in Maine did to replan the Portland mall (they won an award for it):

*everything on that map that’s in color is currently flat cement*

One mid-sized mall in Maine can fit an entire downtown area WITH GREEN SPACE in its parking lot, and *still have room for parking.*

So yeah, the housing in malls idea is cool thinking. Think bigger. WAY bigger.

Think of all the space strip malls and their parking lots take up. Imagine all that space becoming housing and small businesses and third spaces and NATURE.

These stores are dying fast. The real estate is cheap as fuck. It is extremely doable within the next decade. We just have to fucking do it.

[xxcosmicaura]

remember kids

[profeminist]

“Fuck #Ice shoutout to my Mexicans , pass this shit”

-  Fabio Ochoa @QuePasaWindow

UPDATE! HOW TO GET / PRINT THEM!!!

kropotkinisrecruitin

Hey! This is the link to the cards, a good resource for anyone who needs them or wants to provide them to their community. https://www.ilrc.org/red-cards

https://www.ilrc.org/red-cards

[profeminist]

I just checked today - August 18th, 2024 - and they are still available! https://www.ilrc.org/red-cards

[s3znl-gr3znl]

ICE raids are set to start as soon as tuesday (JAN 21, 2025) in Chigago so make sure you know your rights, your community, and your plan.

ICE MUST have a warrant to search/enter any property. they will lie and manipulate you to allow them on the premises but if they arent holding a valid document in their hands they cannot legally do anything

They may say something like "our warrant is in the truck," tough shit, have them bring it to you, DO NOT FOLLOW THEM ANYWHERE. Do not leave your property if confronted.

If you are taken, say nothing until a lawyer is present. The exception is if there are bystanders present/filming, then you should shout your name and whats happening

If you are witnessing a raid in your community, wait to warn others via phone as the cops may be monitoring nearby communications and may use that to select their next targets. Warn by code or word of mouth

escape if the opportunity presents itself, but dont be stupid.

[boymanmaletheshequel]

Reminder that it has been confirmed by ICE director Thomas Homan stated in his interview that Chicago will be ONE of the cities targeted Tuesday. If you live in a blue sanctuary city, consider either evacuating temporarily, finding a safe place to hide out, or stay home and DO NOT open your door for ICE. Stay strong and stay safe. And remember “LA MIGRA”

[madame-peach]

Peach Odita-Honnah's review of Spring on the Peninsula

2/5: "I believe Shin possessed true intentions to move and create with Spring on the Peninsula, yet I don't believe the text I read moved or

[madame-peach]

disidentify.