nothing soft and sweet, its beautiful and terrible

21 y/o ~ english, español ~ she+ طالبة اللغة العربية 𖥧𖡼𖤣𖡼𖤣𖥧 Ⓐ 𖡼𖤣𖥧𖤣𖡼𖥧 i'm a white settler and i'm tma. talk to me (on signal? *blink blink*) about anarchism, folk punk, trans lesbianism, history, anthropology, printmaking, urban studies, street medic work, the wire, judaism, photography, ursula k le guin, etc. ⍼ in 21 years everything you have learned, it turns and it betrays you [...] if you want something you've gotta do it yourself

[mist-etc]

i dont know how many

miles it will take me to escape

out of this forest i feel

growing up around me

and i dont know how many

burn marks i will leave before this place

catches on fire and i

burn down my anxiety

[anarcho-loser]

I’m so scared of getting a parasite I think I might end up with scurvy instead

[anarcho-loser]

Considering calling out of work tomorrow to go see pigeon pit…

[lesbianshepard]

waaaay back when I was a cashier in retail we would talk about dumb shit while unloading the truck, and we got to the "what would you do in a zombie apocalypse" me and another worker were like yeah we would just die. End it all, we can't fight or run or shit. I refuse to put that much effort into survival.

And my manager was like no!!!! If that happened, I would drive to find you guys in my truck and we could eat stuff from my wife's garden and I would make sure everyone I know survived!! I would carry you all on my shoulders away from the zombies!!

Anyway, random shout out to that guy. You were too kind for retail management, Devin.

[lesbianshepard]

also afterwards everyone who was talking about their cool bunker fantasies were like "Damn, Devin's right, we should also be considering helping people around us." which is the only recorded instance of a retail shift making people better human beings.

[mist-etc]

im sick, im so fucked up

[mist-etc]

add more details: wuh

[mist-etc]

but the children!! think of the anarchist trash children!

[mist-etc]

happy birthday to your most annoying anarchist friend's favorite historical event

[luckyashell]

Never underestimate what these lyrics could mean to a scared trans kid

[mist-etc]

pigeon pit discography in the morning and black dresses discography in the evening.. what a life

[mist-etc]

im having fun

[mist-etc]

pigeon pit discography in the morning and black dresses discography in the evening.. what a life

[mist-etc]

the estradiogenic lesbian insanity has hit me

[standwithdaanes]

As part of this process, the Kurdish movement offers a potentially useful tool to help the global Left break old attachments in pursuit of new organizational alternatives: its unique model of criticism and self-criticism. During daily or weekly sessions of what’s called “tekmil,” comrades in a given collective or commune systematically identify selfish, patriarchal, destructive, or unhelpful behavior patterns in themselves and their comrades. Unlike the bitter haranguing associated with a Maoist struggle session, criticism in the Kurdish movement is seen as useful only if it leads to generative change. Tekmil is intended to be calm, productive, and therapeutic. Militants are not supposed to criticize the actions of individuals in isolation but rather refer to the aspects of their upbringing and socialization that have engendered the counterproductive behavior in question. For example, they might note a university-educated male comrade’s patriarchal replication of intellectual hierarchies, a city-dweller’s disrespect for the natural world, a Western internationalist’s Orientalizing fetishization of violence. At the same time, the individual being criticized has the responsibility to take the criticism seriously and implement concrete steps toward its resolution—for example, that patriarchal male comrade might step back from leading group study-sessions, volunteer for extra kitchen duty, and ask other male comrades to monitor his behavior in conversations. In a sense, tekmil is marked by the same spirit as Adorno’s “negative utopianism,” expressing hopes for the new only through a radical assessment of the failures of the old. It seeks to cultivate revolutionary new personalities and collectives through a critique of what is capitalistic, patriarchal, and individualistic in the old. And this radical, negative, constructive process can help us not only on the individual but also on the organizational scale. As Nunes writes, “Perhaps we should start from the assumption that everything has failed.” Recognizing state socialism’s ultimate defeat by imperialist capitalism and the bloody suppression of would-be anarchist revolutions is not an excuse to wallow in melancholy for what could have been; it is an urgent reason to rethink both sets of tactics.

from Hope Without Hope: Rojava and Revolutionary Commitment by Matt Broomfield

[mist-etc]

you gotta love that the wire has such disproportionate yaoi potential almost entirely because david simon is a chronic ignorer of women. and by "love" i mean "get annoyed"

like give me my yuri, tf?

[mist-etc]

pigeon pit discography in the morning and black dresses discography in the evening.. what a life

[mist-etc]

[mist-etc]

[mist-etc]

im doing so good guys