Queer Anarchism

And please don't describe your interest in a marginalized human body shape as 'kinky' or 'being into some freaky shit'.

Imagine what it means to tell a person that sexual attraction to their body isn't normal.

I love kink but liking a type of body is NOT kinky and it sure as hell isn't freaky. It's regular human-to-human attraction. It's as vanilla as it gets.

#frankly this is how people treat women (in varying ways depending on numerous axes but all stemming from baseline misogyny) #women are essentialized as merely a body by dint of the sexgender-class #of course this veers off from the premise of fetishism vs attraction to an extent but I wanted to draw #a connection to how being a woman whatsoever you are treated as a fetish (an object) (meant for sex sans interiority/essential humanity) #(disposable & easily damaged + replaced)

Oh yeah that's accurate.

Some of the items on the list are specifically about the stigma of 'I shouldn't desire this person' (like only want to date/fuck the person in secret and planning to eventually settle down with someone whose body isn't stigmatized)

But a lot of them also just come from seeing the other person as inferior, not a complete person and certainly not as important as your needs and desires. That is also how plenty of men see women.

dostoyevsky-official

for over a decade, i've seen posts warning against tearing down stickers because of razor blades behind the sticker. i've torn down hundreds of stickers, and i've never encountered this—i think the razor blade myth makes people less likely to tear down stickers

dostoyevsky-official

ok maybe take precautions and use a key to do it (which makes it easier anyway)

kropotkindersurprise

yeah, noone got hurt by this because if youve ever taken down a sticker it's extremely obvious if there's anything weird glued under the edges of the sticker, and even if you didnt notice it would be hard to hurt yourself. It's more dangerous with like A4 posters that you might try to rip down in one motion by hand. and then if you do it cautiously there is zero danger again.

kropotkindersurprise

I personally just tear down stickers (and save them for my fascist sticker collection!) and then cover the spot up with an antifa sticker. I have done this hundreds of times without ever finding a razor. I have torn down pro-israel stickers in those mentioned months and never found a razor.

I agree that people scaring others about possible razors are more effective at keeping nazi propaganda up than anything else, and that worrying about that is stupid UNLESSS youve heard a specific warning in your city in that month. So. ideally, if you havent heard anyone mentioning personally finding razors under stickers in your city this month, you should shut the hell up warning people about them, because its basically never an issue.

3liza

i also havent found any razor blades despite doing hundreds of sticker actions but i suppose it's always possible.

since i dont see sticker posts much i will take this opportunity to add that a good way to piss off the other side if youre engaged in a sticker war is to remove their sticker carefully, clean the surface (alcohol wipes work great for this) so its maximally sticky, and after you apply your sticker, cover it in a layer of any kind of grease. chapstick, baby oil, vaseline, doesnt matter. it will make your sticker impossible to put another sticker on top of, and extremely difficult to grab and pull off the surface without being physically injurious to anyone (including janitorial staff if applicable). im in favor of physically injuring fascists, but razorblades seem like a high risk for collateral damage. an optional step is using industrial adhesives or wood glue to glue stickers down but this is time-intensive. still, the "wheatpastes" i put up on capital hill with wood glue instead of actual wheat paste lasted like three years. all i had to do was dilute basic elmer's wood glue with water and apply with a spray bottle and brush if i was being fancy

"sex is real" is a very funny thing to say to a group of people who very famously change their sex on purpose

#i hate the click bait nature of this writing but the topic is cool

in abandoning discussion of the nuances of sex in trans discourse, we've ironically let bioessentialist, binaristic thinking fester and rot out our communities

we've stopped actually challenging the binary, we just slapped "amab" and "afab" over "male" and "female," and we treat transition itself like a mere act of dressup. we let blatant transphobia run rampant all the time as long as people call each other "amab" and "afab" instead of misgendering them directly

"afab bodies," "amab energy," "afab only housing," "amab behavior" THIS IS TRANSPHOBIA. YOU ARE MAKING ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT PEOPLE'S BEHAVIORS AND BODIES BASED ON THEIR ASSIGNED SEX. THE WORD FOR THAT IS TRANSPHOBIA

sex does not determine your behaviors. sex is not a binary. sex can be changed, and IS changed by medical transition, INCLUDING hrt

is it even a "trans" community if we don't hold these things to be true? how can a community of trans people who bind each other to their agabs like the rest of the world does be called a trans community? come the fuck on

danikriatura

The FBI cut the phone lines during the 1977 disability rights sit-in. Then they turned off the hot water.

They locked the doors from the outside. One hundred and fifty people were trapped on the fourth floor. Half of them used wheelchairs. The government assumed they would leave.

Kitty Cone was thirty-three. She had muscular dystrophy. Her muscles were failing, but her logistics were flawless. She knew how to organize people.

The federal government had promised to sign regulations protecting disabled Americans from discrimination. The policy was known as Section 504. They printed the promise on paper. Then they stalled. Without a signature, it was just typography.

The protesters entered the regional Health, Education, and Welfare building in San Francisco on a Tuesday morning. They took the elevators to the director's office. They brought sleeping bags and catheters. They informed the staff they were not leaving until the law was signed.

By sunset, the police surrounded the exits. Kitty sat near the windows. She organized the floor plan. She assigned committees for security and sanitation. She kept her medication in a small cooler.

According to federal memorandums released decades later, the strategy to end the occupation relied on medical attrition. The building was not equipped for long-term habitation. The FBI calculated that a population requiring ventilators, specialized diets, and daily medical aides would voluntarily evacuate if the environment became sufficiently hostile. They instituted a blockade.

The blockade went into effect immediately. No food deliveries allowed. No medical supplies permitted through the lobby. Guards stood at the main doors checking identification.

Kitty's muscles deteriorated faster under the physical strain. She couldn't walk. When the phone lines went dead, the fourth floor lost contact with the press. The government waited for the quiet.

Kitty dropped to the floor. She realized the barricades were designed for standing adults. The police had blocked the hallways at waist height. They hadn't blocked the linoleum.

The floors were covered in cigarette ash and spilled coffee. She dragged her body through it. She crawled under the barricades to reach the restricted elevator shafts and unguarded offices.

She carried notes in her pockets. She found a single working payphone the FBI missed. She called the local news desks. She called the mayor's office.

She crawled back. When her arms failed, someone pulled her by her ankles. The Black Panthers heard the news reports. They crossed the police lines with hot meals. The FBI could not stop them without a riot.

They shut off the elevators, so she crawled.

The occupation lasted twenty-five days. It remains the longest non-violent occupation of a federal building in American history. On April 28, the Secretary of HEW signed the regulations without a single alteration.

The protesters left the building the next morning. They went back to their apartments. The Rehabilitation Act regulations laid the groundwork for every accessibility law that followed. The HEW building still stands on United Nations Plaza. The elevators run on a schedule. The doors are heavy glass.

Kitty Cone: the woman who crawled under the barricades.

Source: Kitty Cone's oral history, Bancroft Library.

Verified via: National Museum of American History.

(Some details summarized for brevity.)

Let me settle the 'is it fetishism and is it bad?' debate once and for all:

Being attracted to any kind of body is normal. Fat bodies. Trans bodies. Disabled bodies. All normal. Being extra attracted to a specific kind of body is normal too. Totally normal to have a type.

Not unlearning the societal stigma attached to those kinds of bodies, the people who inhabit those bodies, and the people who fuck them, to the point where you do any of the following:

Only want to date/fuck the person in secret.

Reduce the person to the feature that you desire and ignore the rest of who they are as a person.

Expect the person to be a walking porn fantasy instead of a real person with their own sexual preferences and boundaries.

Would no longer love the person if the stigmatized aspect of their body changed.

Consider yourself superior to the person, think the person should be 'grateful' that you love their body, etc.

See the person as a temporary adventure while planning to eventually settle down with someone whose body isn't stigmatized.

Thank you for coming to me ted talk.

And please don't describe your interest in a marginalized human body shape as 'kinky' or 'being into some freaky shit'.

Imagine what it means to tell a person that sexual attraction to their body isn't normal.

I love kink but liking a type of body is NOT kinky and it sure as hell isn't freaky. It's regular human-to-human attraction. It's as vanilla as it gets.

sorry, but you were socialized christian. I just can't trust you in a trans space

they literally taught you that trans people were subhuman and that you were better than them. I don't know if you can be trusted around other trans people

they scapegoated and abused you for showing signs of transness? uh... no? christianity is the most privileged religion there is. stop whining

pocket-deer-belly

even the most dispriviledged people in the imperial core still hugely benefit from living in the imperial core. your access to cheap chocolates, coffee and tropical fruits is maintained on imperialism, your ability to join the army, fuck over foreign countries, and kill people to get out of poverty is a massive benefit exclusive to living in the imperial core. the whole reason border control is such a fucking big deal in the first place is to bar people who live outside of the imperial core from these privileges. you can experience racism, anti-blackness, some of the worst poverty in the imperial core and still be able to trade the life of hundreds of people in west asia for money, or benefit from the fact that other people do. i'm sorry the fact that some yanks have managed to turn their ability to generate wealth from participating in imperialist violence as some kind of grievance against them and not the people they kill (and benefit from killing) is fucking disgusting to me.

pocket-deer-belly

Just an fyi about your bmi post, many doctors are starting to move to waist to height ratio, which monitors visceral fat (the real killer, which anyone of any bmi can have an unhealthy amount of) and general health promoting habits, instead of just bmi

just an fyi, doctors have developed their phrenology a bit and are finding new ways to justify telling fat patients to lose weight instead of treating them like are you fucking serious

cuntpunkop-ed

such absolute bullshit. people distribute fat differently. there is literally no one size fits all method of determining "health". because what is bmi if not just a shield for doctors to hide behind and deny you care? there are no "normal" people. no one is the ideal "average" and once again this is a completely useless tool for the vast majority of the population

Size does not determine health. Size does not determine health. Size does not determine health. Measuring it differently does not change the fact that size does not determine health.

And also, unhealthy people still need actual health care from their doctors, not a lecture. Fuck this shit on so many levels.

shout out to privatizing a public park in order to get rid of a food serve for homeless people, stay classy Cincinnati

you don't understand, they have to sell Piatt Park to 3CDC to improve it because the city just isn't allowed to do construction on what they own outright, I guess

definitely not doing this because the city doesn't want to deal with it and 3CDC wants to gentrify the area to get tenants in the area since nobody is renting the buildings they bought up, NOPE!

is it normal to buy a building next to a park the same day that the city decided to lease it to you for renovations without doing any community outreach for the park redesign?

For context, we know that the park is being privatizated to get rid of it's weekly Food Not Bombs Food Serve, because the developer says so in their slideshow

I made the foolish decision to go to the 'For You' feed again today and it gave me

'Commercial content' (video ads posing as video posts)

That AUTO-UNMUTED even though I had not even previously unmuted a single video on 'For You'

That auto-unmuted AS SOON AS THE POST LOADED, long before I could scroll down far enough to actually see it (and then mute it and block the 'user')

So I was just scrolling when suddenly a loud noise started with no apparent source and no clear way to turn it off. And the noise happened to be ominous high pitched screaming, because why the fuck not?

I later realized I could just block the whole tab on my browser, but I gotta ask HOW do you design a website THIS BADLY?

#staff

Israeli soccer hooligans are notorious for constantly making rape threats and yet they never seem to be chastised by the NYT, the Economist, or the UN or anything really.

Official team chant from their website btw

Folks, we do not need to do this shit. There is a lot of REAL evidence of Maccabi fans singing these kinds of songs and threatening to rape people. So why lie about this being 'the official team chant'?

It took me 3 seconds to find this on maccabipedia and learn that this is one of hundreds of songs documented to have been sung by maccabi fans at least once (so no, not their anthem) and this one was shared with the statement

"Maccabipedia records the songs from the stands literally, without intervention, for the sake of the documentary project. The documentation on this platform does not express support for manifestations of violence/racism/harm" So no, definitely not official.

We don't need to do this. The truth about Israel's rotten nature is already on our side. Palestinians and others have risked and lost their lives to document that truth. We weaken our own knowledge base if we mix in obviously false shit for no reason.

radical-community-care

So I'm the first to admit I have terrible audio processing but it doesn't sound like they're chanting in german, let alone the words the original post claimed. I'm german native speaker btw.

What they are chanting, I have no idea. I don't know what language it is. I'm not here to defend hooligans or israel, just. Well I can't hear the words in this vid that it claims to have. That's all.

They are singing in Hebrew. This song is also listed on Maccabipedia, titled שיר_האונס, which translates to 'rape song'. There is a video there, so you can confirm it's the same song by comparing the audio. The lyrics are:

אתם משחקים תה קיצונים, שרים שירים על השואה וגם חושבים שזה מצחיק להתכחש למדינה אתם זונות של ערבים, אנחנו מתביישים בכם בסוף היום שער 5 אנחנו נזיין אתכם אנחנו נזיין אתכם, ואז נשתה לכם ת'דם ובכיכר העיר נתלה כל קומוניסט שבא לכאן ניקח לכם את הבנות, שאוהבות להשתולל כשנאנוס אותן נצעק, היום המוות הפועל!

(shir_ha'ons etam mischkim tah kitzonim, shrim shirim al hasu'a vegam hoshvim sheza metzchik lehitkachsh lemadina etam zonot shel arvim, anachanu mitbaishim bekam besuf hayom she'er 5 anachanu nezayen ethem anachanu nezayen ethem, ve'ez nista lehem)

Which translates to:

You play extremist tea, sing songs about the Holocaust And also think it's funny to deny the state You are Arab whores, we are ashamed of you At the end of the day, Gate 5, we will fuck you We will fuck you, and then we will drink your blood And in the city square, every communist who comes here will be hanged We will take your girls, who love to go wild When we rape them, we will shout, Today is the day of death!

('Arab whores' might translate more accurately as 'whores of the Arabs', not sure)

Like I said: the real evidence of how rotten they are is all there.

#cw: rape

hagiomoto

Israel says it's suspending humanitarian organizations that have failed to meet its new rules to vet international groups working in Gaza.

30 December 2025

This left only Gaza based mutual aid networks. That's why you need to donate to the following aid groups on recurring basis:

The Sameer Project

Dahnoun Mutual Aid

Mona's Initiatives

Hussein Team

kropotkindersurprise

Also consider donating to the Gaza Municipality, which is tasked with providing and repairing vital services such as roads, water supply, waste management and sewage treatment in Gaza City.

It's also worth noting that some of the organisations threatened with suspension are currently still active, such as Medecins Sans Frontieres.

I'm not mentioning this to compete with mutual aid groups. I love mutual aid groups! But I know some people can't use Paypal and other international payment options or have specific opportunities to transfer funds to a group that is registered in their own country, etc. So if you would prefer to give to a group on the 'suspended' list: check it out. They might still be in Gaza.

Israeli soccer hooligans are notorious for constantly making rape threats and yet they never seem to be chastised by the NYT, the Economist, or the UN or anything really.

Official team chant from their website btw

tesghosterone

it's been said a thousand times but "male loneliness epidemic" is just our entire generation's loneliness PANdemic. it's just the crisis of capitalism. almost all young people these days are lonely and depressed because of the crisis and decay of the system we live under and tbh the centering of "male loneliness" in this discussion is embarrassing but also a really understandable consequence of sexism & this current stage of culture war . "Oh won't someone think of the young men" oh won't someone think about class consciousness lol

bottom-growth

there’s two male loneliness epidemics. the unnecessarily gendered loneliness epidemic (see OP’s post) and “i am using lonely as a euphemism for horny”.

try it out. swap out “male loneliness” for “horniness” and the arguments for “guys need to have girlfriends, women need to stop being so feminist all the time” uhh makes more sense.

The unnecessarily gendered epidemic also isn't new and bringing it up has always more been a 'gotcha' against feminists then genuine care about loneliness. 'But what about male loneliness' has been an anti feminist line since the 1980s.

There needs to be shorthand for "I agree with the basic good that you are defending, but your obsession with winning arguments online has caused you to warp your whole worldview and deny the complexity of reality just to make sure every aspect of the world supports the basic argument that you are defending and you need to stop."

sugary--sheep

men are somewhat predisposed to rape and kill because they are more likely to be in a position to successfully perform the act and get away with it; it is more practical and the negative outcome is less likely, therefore the expected value is substantially higher. this is due to a number of economic and social factors and has very little to do with a penis or lack thereof.