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“i wish stupid people didn’t reproduce” is how the liberal expresses their yearning for eugenics in a socially acceptable way and it’s not cool to ever let them off the hook for that
It is all of our faults
I am complicit in the election of Donald Trump.
I voted for Hilary in the general. I think I even gave her money. But I let my fear of being dragged for not being far enough Left keep me from engaging at a deeper and more active level. Because of the admittedly fucked up things she's done and said and the positions she was taking, I didn't take the risk of looking uncool and urging people to support her. I didn't canvas, I didn't phone bank, and I could have given a lot more money. I ignored the part of me that knew Trump would win, and so I failed to use the platform and tools at my disposal to prevent a dystopian future that I saw coming.
That dystopian future is now. And I *still* see people saying "it wasn't my fault." I *still* see people saying "it was your fault."
It is ALL of our faults.
We, collectively, did not do enough. It is on us as a collective and we are all in this together. At different stakes, yes. But none of us are getting out unscathed.
We have to move past a frame where the thing we believe is at stake is our own personal guilt or righteousness. Your innocence and purity do not matter. Results matter. Getting out of this alive matters. Keeping each other whole enough to keep up the struggle for liberation after Trump is gone matters. We needed your vote in 2016, but we needed more than that. We needed your passion, your effort, and your money. We needed your enthusiasm.
It is too late to fix 2016. Trump has already done incalculable damage, and there is future damage we will not be able to prevent. But this is not the moment we give up and let Trump bring Hell into being on Earth--this is the moment we step up. Because whether you’re a radical, a progressive, or a moderate, you have something you can contribute. Something only you can contribute to the struggle for liberation, the struggle for a very literal survival.
The dehumanization is in progress. The camps are already here. The gas is not. But if it comes, you will never convince yourself it wasn’t your fault.
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Can we figure out a way to do this to student loan debt.
I would read Ayn Rand to pay down my student loans
Our library ran the expenses and realized we spent about 3,000$ MORE than what we got back in trying to collect late fees. So? We dropped them completely. No late fees. Period.
If you keep a book, it auto renews two times. Then it comes up as overdue. If your overdue items exceed a certain amount, your account freezes. You can’t use any of the local libraries anymore until you return the items or claim them lost and pay for them. If someone else is waiting for the book, you can’t renew. Its that simple.
And guess what. Not only did we save money, but we /got more materials back/. More materials were turned in than declared lost as compared to before. There was no stigma to it. If you had already paid for the item, the money was credited back to you.
Because the people late fees actually affected were children and elderly adults - people unable to regularly get to the library. And the stigma of late items was dropped. Attitude and mindset are important.
we still have no late fees. And we are considered to be one of the top public systems in our state. People from out of state PAY to get library cards for a year because our online Overdrive system is amazing, and we have a ton of partnerships and interlibrary loan systems in place. AND we suffer less losses of both materials and patrons due to our “no late fee” policy.
Serve your public. Don’t belittle them.
The moon landing was faked, but only because the real one made for bad television
We are not optional people.
Never ask someone to treat their own existence as something other people have the right to reject. And never make excuses for other people who do.
OK, so cis women talking about trans women's "male privilege":
We're paid less than cis women. Our unemployment & poverty rates are umpteen times higher.
We have less access to a cis man's income than het/bi cis women do (through marriage) We are judged on our appearance more than cis women Cis men exhibit greater entitlement to our bodies than cis women's We are fetishized and exoticized, our value reduced to how a cis man wants to fuck us. We suffer street harassment as much or more than cis women. We experience alarming levels of sexual and intimate partner violence, while being excluded from the resources to deal with them. Huge portions of our healthcare costs aren't covered, even by plans that supposedly are trans inclusive. Doctors don't take our pain seriously. Our reproductive rights are not respected under law in most countries in the world.
Transmisogyny is a thing. We experience it. Be thankful for the cis privilege that allows you to believe we have male privilege.
Oh and also our girlhoods aren't the same as cis boys' boyhoods. It's way more complicated than that. But that's a distraction--we. do. not. have. male. privilege. in. the. present. tense.
Centering the most marginalized in the fight for trans access to bathrooms
Why the fight for trans restroom access has to be intersectional.
It's crucial to center trans people of color in our resistance:
1)Because black people are more likely to be perceived as threatening, black trans people are more likely to be policed in restrooms under the logic of someone being a threat.
2)Because black people and other people of color are often seen as devious or fraudulent, and the central logic of transphobia is the logic of fraud vs real, people of color's genders are more likely to be policed.
3)Because people of color are generally subjected to heightened scrutiny, BIPOC trans people are more vulnerable to bathroom surveillance.
4)Because the current focus of these efforts is on schools, and (in general) it is more difficult for people of color to transfer schools than it is for white people if their school decides to be gross about it.
5)According to the US Trans Survey, 3.2% of Middle Eastern and Asian trans women had been sexually assaulted in a restroom *in the past year*, along with 2.8% of Native and 2.4% of multiracial trans women, compared to 0.6% overall (which, as far as I can tell, is still significantly higher than cis women--I can't find *any* statistics on the incidence for cis women).
6)4% of undocumented trans people and 3% of Native trans people had been physically attacked in a bathroom in the past year, compared to 1% overall.
7)50% of undocumented trans people have had problems accessing restrooms in the past year, and 36% of native people. 23% of undocumented trans people and 18% of native trans people had been flat-out denied access to a restroom in the past year--double the overall rate (9%).
5)Trans people of color--and especially black trans women--are most frequently targeted for hate violence. As bathroom panic increases, so will hate violence.
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It's important to center youth:
1)Because the current locus of this shit is schools
2)Because the degree of surveillance common in k-12 schools makes it almost impossible for trans youth to use restrooms without the permission of school authorities.
3)Because trans youth are likely to be surrounded by people who know their trans status and have free reign to target them for bullying and harassment.
4)Because, in general, youth have little agency to change their circumstances compared to adults (moving, finding a new job or social circle, accessing medical care, etc).
5)Because the totality of the previous 4 points means that trans youth getting high school educations at all will be dependent on getting *every single school in the country* to give trans students equal restroom access. Without an education, long-term economic prospects are harmed, and trans youth are funneled into the school-to-prison pipeline.
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It's important to center trans women:
1)Because trans women are being explicitly demonized and targeted for harassment and violence.
2)Trans women are more likely to be perceived as trans, due to the heightened cultural stigma and surveillance.
3)Trans women are more likely to be sexually assaulted in restrooms. (the USTS only gives data about the racial background of trans women who are sexually assaulted in restrooms, but doesn't explicitly say that that's because trans women are more likely to be.)
4)Trans women--and especially black trans women--are most frequently targeted for hate violence. As bathroom panic increases, so will hate violence.
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It's also important to include trans men. Trans men are the most likely to avoid public restrooms (75%), compared to 59% of trans people in general.
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It's important to center gender non-conforming people, and all trans people who are consistently seen as trans:
1)Because it's generally true that there are no gendered bathrooms visibly trans folks can use without fear.
2)45% of trans people whose trans status was usually visible had problems accessing restrooms in the past year.
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It's important to center sex workers.
20% of those working in the street economy had been denied access to a restroom in the past year, and 39% had had issues accessing bathrooms in the past year. 4% had been sexually assaulted in a bathroom in the past year.
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A reminder: all trans people are affected by policing of restrooms. Those who are not being centered are still way vulnerable compared to cis people. There needs to be room for everyone who's affected, which--again--is all trans folks. But we are not all affected equally, and it's crucial to lift up the voices of the most marginalized among us.
Source: Chapter 17, US Trans Survey (starts on page 224)
If you used to be mad about Milo getting denied a platform, but you aren't anymore, then it was never about free speech. You were just mad that marginalized people were influencing what was acceptable to say.
Which rights?
We have a right to safety and education. Milo's speech acts target us for harassment and violence, and as such it denies us those rights.
Trans people's, black people's, immigrants’, and Muslims' rights to education and safety, to staying out of jail and out of poverty? Those things *matter*. They can’t trump speech every time, but they ultimately they matter more than a bigot's speech matters.
Systemic tolerance for individual harassment is a form of state violence and a driving factor of trans poverty and criminalization. The state permits harassment that keeps us out of education and jobs, and then criminalizes us for surviving through the street economy.
We have the right to lives free from harassment and violence. We have the right to an education, to housing, to meaningful work, to living. I know we are used to thinking about Maher, Milo, and #PunchingNazis in terms of speech, but make sure you are considering what rights you are willing to violate for their speech.
Please start listening
Everyone who said Trump:
1)Was just trolling, 2)Was just saying he'd do this shit to get votes and not serious about it, 3)Didn't really want to be president and would just let Pence run things, or 4)That the GOP wouldn't sign on and let him do it,
I hope you're listening to the people who told you you were wrong.
Trans woman is two words
I am seeing nospace "transwoman" more and more often these days.
Stahp.
We're not 5th gender, trans is a thing about us but not about our womanhood. The only difference between my womanhood and a cis woman's is that mine is invalidated and made to seem less real at every turn.
This is one of the ways that happens.
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It’s our lives we’re fighting for, not abstract ideals.
About #FreeMelania:
1)Yes, it's abuse.
2)YOU ARE NOT HELPING. Making it a freaking hashtag *puts her in danger*. Now she has to be even more hypervigilant, be even more careful to school her expressions perfectly at all times, not just when he’s looking. She might get beaten because of this hashtag.
3)Y'all better not be pulling this shit on your friends or acquaintances in abusive relationships, you are making their lives so much harder.
(and yeah I know I’m adding onto the hashtag, but it’s already too big for Trump to miss. Facebook lists it as a trending topic.)
On the Women’s March ‘Guiding Vision’ and its inclusion of Sex Workers
I am proud of the work I’ve done as part of the Women’s March policy table – a collection of women and folk engaged in crucial feminist, racial and social justice work across various intersections in our country. I helped draft the vision and I wrote the line “…and we stand in solidarity with sex workers’ rights movements.” It is not a statement that is controversial to me because as a trans woman of color who grew up in low-income communities and who advocates, resists, dreams and writes alongside these communities, I know that underground economies are essential parts of the lived realities of women and folk. I know sex work to be work. It’s not something I need to tiptoe around. It’s not a radical statement. It’s a fact. My work and my feminism rejects respectability politics, whorephobia, slut-shaming and the misconception that sex workers, or folks engaged in the sex trades by choice or circumstance, need to be saved, that they are colluding with the patriarchy by “selling their bodies.” I reject the continual erasure of sex workers from our feminisms because we continue to conflate sex work with the brutal reality of coercion and trafficking. I reject the policing within and outside women’s movements that shames, scapegoats, rejects, erases and shuns sex workers. I cannot speak to the internal conflicts at the Women’s March that have led to the erasure of the line I wrote for our collective vision but I have been assured that the line will remain in OUR document. The conflicts that may have led to its temporary editing will not leave until we, as feminists, respect THE rights of every woman and person to do what they want with their body and their lives. We will not be free until those most marginalized, most policed, most ridiculed, pushed out and judged are centered. There are no throwaway people, and I hope every sex worker who has felt shamed by this momentarily erasure shows up to their local March and holds the collective accountable to our vast, diverse, complicated realities.
Janet Mock is the best, y'all
This is old news to anyone who does this work regularly, but: It is FUCKED UP how the resources you need if you're disabled are set up to only be available if you have a non-disabled person helping you.