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[rejectnormalcy]

The “LGBT” political establishment has become a force of assimilation, gentrification, capital and statepower. Gay identity has become both a marketable commodity and a device of withdrawal from struggle against domination. Now they don’t critique marriage, military or the state. Rather we have campaigns for queer assimilation into each. Their politics is advocacy for such grievous institutions, rather than the annihilation of them all. “Gays can kill poor people around the world as well as straight people!” “Gays can hold the reigns of the state and capital as well straight people!” “We are just like you.” Assimilationists want nothing less than to construct the homosexual as normal — white, monogamous, wealthy, 2.5 children, SUVs with a white picket fence. This construction, of course, reproduces the stability of heterosexuality, whiteness, patriarchy, the gender binary, and capitalism itself.

If we genuinely want to make ruins of this totality, we need to make a break. We don’t need inclusion into marriage, the military and the state. We need to end them. No more gay politicians, CEOs and cops. We need to swiftly and immediately articulate a wide gulf between the politics of assimilation and the struggle for liberation.

We need to rediscover our riotous inheritance as queer anarchists. We need to destroy constructions of normalcy, and create instead a position based in our alienation from this normalcy, and one capable of dismantling it. We must use these positions to instigate breaks, not just from the assimilationist mainstream, but from capitalism itself. These positions can become tools of a social force ready to create a complete rupture with this world. Our bodies have been born into conflict with this social order. We need to deepen that conflict and make it spread.

Toward the queerest insurrection

Mary Nardini Gang Toward the queerest insurrection 2014

[mordantivore]

every time I see those "you have to go Log Off and Be In the Real World to do Real Leftism & Anarchism" posts I just unfollow, mute, and am assured that this person is wildly ableist You can teach people online You can raise funds & support mutual aid online You can connect people & build communities online You can provide peer counseling & support online You can talk to people without being at deadly risk of COVID online You can locate resources for people online You can even create & build things online, like 3D printing designs, for others to use. In 2020, a street medic collective created 3D printable eyewash cups to help the hundreds of thousands of people being tear gassed. You can absolutely bet a lot of disabled, exclusively-online leftists & anarchists printed those out and got them to their local medical collectives & mutual aid groups. You can *talk to people* online which is huge if you're nonverbal/selectively mute or cognitively impaired or autistic or any other form of neurodivergence or disability that makes real-time in person communication difficult There's a raging, unmitigated pandemic & I have spent years trying to find enough leftists & anarchists willing to mask & be COVID-safe so they can include me and my skills & knowledge & willingness to help. That's been vanishingly rare because most of the so-called left & anarchist community is not just ableist but actively eugenicist. There's no difference between "online" and "offline," merely the extent to which any particular activity may be suited or hindered by being in person or electronic. If you cannot grasp that, you need to sit with your expectations because they're ableist & exclusionary. If your revolution or movement cannot happen unless it is exclusionary to the disabled, it is merely another kind of eugenics.

I don't get to be "in the real world" because y'all are violently exclusionary & have ensured there is not a single safe space left for the immunocompromised. My life is worth more than your little project & I will not throw away what is left of my health, of my life, to prove myself to y'all. You want more people involved in your project or movement? Make it inclusive of the disabled & exclusionary to eugenicists, to ableists, to bigots, to fascists, to whatever form of hate & prejudice that is keeping people from joining, which starts with examining fundamental principles, ethics, and practice. The most radical projects are mask blocs, which are mostly run by immunocompromised people with significant mobility and cognitive disabilities. They get their funding & resources online, and at great personal cost to themselves, distribute masks while the rest of y'all LARP around and ignore the pandemic. That celebrated food not bombs movement? They're not masking & they're not distroing masks. Those John Brown Gun Clubs? Same thing, only with more classism, more ableism. The drag brunches are endangering the very communities they claim to be protecting, & ensuring that we immunocompromised, disabled queers are shut out from our communities. I'm not impressed at all with "offline" organizing. Most of it is ineffectual & feckless and above all, deadly. It's been three years & y'all continue to refuse to center COVID safety & immunocompromised needs which means you're refusing to center other disability needs, and I strongly suspect you're allowing a lot more forms of prejudice to swirl around your social circles too. When you become too disabled to do anything "real" in the "real world," you inevitable come to us survivors of this viral holocaust, lamenting how useless you think you are, asking for our help & our ideas when we told you all along-- be safe & inclusive for disabled people & you would succeed. Instead you kill us "for the greater good" and never once stop to think of the cost of your projects, your beliefs, your goals, because you refuse to admit that you were, in fact, the problem all along, not the people forced to survive on the internet.

[widebruh]

[yourfavealbumisgender]

From Under The Cork Tree by Fall Out Boy is Genderfluid and Queer!

[prowl-autism-extraordinaire]

queer is such a good word. im queer as in fuck you. queer as in odd. queer as in fucked-in-the-head. queer as in i hope you choke on it. queer as in a slur i laugh at. queer as in not like you. queer as in none of your business. queer as in a line in the fucking dirt. queer as in we’re here. get used to it. queer as in this is who i am and what i am. queer as in im different and i dont fucking care. queer as in with or without you i exist and ill keep doing it. queer as in queer

[prowl-autism-extraordinaire]

only one person has tagged this as “q slur” so far which is one person too many tbh, so. this post is inherently anti “q slur”. queer is a good fucking word and if you dont want people to see it on your blog then dont reblog this post.

“queer as in spiteful” doesnt leave room for queerphobic nonsense, thanks

[uncanny-tranny]

Whenever people say something along the lines of "hormones are useless if [reason]!" I just think about what testosterone has done just to my mental well-being. If testosterone had done nothing to my physical appearance or the way my body functions, I would still take it because there is so much more to it than if somebody looks or "functions" a certain way. Do you know what it's like to truly fucking smile - without outside stimulus? Do you know how fucking soul-wrenching the realization that I can smile now was? Because I have gone my entire life until these past few years, being unable to smile without outside stimulus and it destroyed me.

The idea that hormones are useless after a certain age, or for a certain "type" of appearance, or for people who are outside of the "standard" is, to my mind, no less than a psy-op. So if you are worried that hormones aren't "right" for you because you were told you were "too far gone," I am so sorry. Take the hormones if you still want to see how it helps you or how it changes you. You have nothing to lose but your chains.

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

AITA for telling my transmasc friend he's fucking narsty?

To clarify I (18F) am also transmasc I just havent gotten on T proper yet. My friend (19M) has been taking capsules for a full year now. Anyways he was talking about various things that gave him gender euphoria including spitting on the sidewalk? And when I was like dude that's gross he told me I shouldn't judge what helps alleviate his dysphoria but like dude. You're still being gross man it doesn't change because you're not cis. Anyways AITA?

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Voting ended onOct 9, 2023

What are these acronyms?

[dysphoria-things]

wtf??? you’re absolutely an asshole!!! that’s rude as hell!!! why are you so mad about spitting on the sidewalk???

[rejectnormalcy]

I'm mad because we're in the midst of a pandemic spread primarily by respiratory droplets and people are still acting like their "personal freedom" to spread their bodily fluids around where others have to deal with them outweighs anyone else's desire to not become sick, disabled, or dead.

[guerrillatech]

"Hey so it turns out that the people of earth accidentally did a global experiment to see if every individual could course correct climate change through mass personal change of habits, and it turns out, no! We can't! It was massive corporate activity all along!"

[godsinstrument]

also methane release increased during lockdown because we’ve triggered an ice age termination event and now expect 3-4° C of warming within our lifetimes ending with the complete melting of our polar ice caps (and all the consequences of that) as the planet leaves the ice age

link to study

[rejectnormalcy]

I'm a scientist who studies the atmosphere and climate. As a general matter you should always be extremely skeptical of anyone claiming with confidence that a specific warming scenario or feedback loop will occur. The climate is incredibly complicated and there is little that we know with absolute certainty.

While warming of 3-4 °C remains technically possible, the consensus among credible experts is that it is extremely unlikely. It is certainly false to say we should "expect" it. While large uncertainties remain in our predictions of future warming, most climate scientists agree that warming scenarios of 1.5-2 °C above the preindustrial average are most likely. I don't even see anything in the linked sources referring to a 4 °C of warming scenario, let alone claiming it is likely to occur, so I'm not sure where that claim originated.

My goal is not to downplay the severity of the problem we're facing - 1.5-2 °C of warming is plenty for catastrophic climate impacts, e.g., zero Arctic summer ice, and our predictions for how harmful these scenarios are likely to be continue to become increasingly dire. That said, spreading misinformation is harmful. The idea that outright apocalyptic scenarios are guaranteed is untrue and encourages complacency. Climate change has already gotten bad and is almost certainly going to get worse, but exactly how much worse it gets depends strongly on what we do over the next few years. Every 0.1 °C of warming that we prevent still massively reduces the negative consequences of climate change.

Everything I've said here can be corroborated by the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report.

[queeranarchism]

It is important that we are honest about what confronting cops can mean, especially for marginalized people, and clubs that trivialize getting police violence and arrested like XR have been rightly criticized for it.

BUT there is a specific kind of online leftists that will post "but the cops will shoot us :( :( :(" under every single rebellious post and that specific kind of leftist needs to shut the fuck up.

Like, I get it, you feel bad about not doing anything and so you convince yourself that you really have no choice, that the risks are always too great, and so you want to convince everyone else of the same thing so you're not alone in your fear and your suppressed sense of guilt.

Maybe you even think you're caring, putting cautionary messages out there so others don't get hurt. But if risk avoidance is your only mantra and you're not talking about risk management, about jail support, about how to get away with rebellion, then you are not helping, you're dragging everyone down into your sink hole.

Rising up and fighting systems of oppression is risky, yes. It is also necessary. It is also life saving. It is also beautiful. So when we talk about the risk of doing an action, the next question should be "so how do we keep each other safe and do it anyway?"

[otherbombdotcom]

From the lack of care for community health, to the constant thread of eugenics, and disproportionate effect on people of color and queer people the similarities between the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the ongoing covid pandemic are eerie.

[kropotkindersurprise]

July 27, 2023 - A tripwire takes out a full squad of riot police who were on their way to evict a squat in Brest, France. [video]

[multigenderswag]

If someone says "this rigid definition of a label doesn't account for the complexity of gender" and your reaction is to say "well the label is perfect and your gender is wrong" I think you have failed to understand queerness.

[mordantivore]

I need to remember when talking to white anarchists chances are extraordinarily high they don't see COVID as a problem & certainly not a solvable one and they will have no idea why someone will say that the fascist seizure of the so-called west has everything to do with society & government caving to the demands of capitalists & fascists to mandate spread to purge society of the weak while forcing everyone to continue to labor

there's just no fucking intersectionality or consideration for how creating medical apartheid and a formal policy of mass murdering the disabled could possibly be a huge part of why the nazis are sweeping through milestones

if most of your society decides it's fine to kill the disabled, of course the fascists will be emboldened because MOST OF SOCIETY HAS BECOME FASCISTS when they were clearly already sympathetic to fascist positions so the most ardent far right elements will be more free to do whatever they wish

If the normalizing of mass death explicitly along eugenics lines does not strike someone as a serious fascist victory & radicalization for society into fascism, idk what to tell them

I don't think there's any getting through to white radicals, generally, and certainly not for any anarchists who continue to elide the pandemic & the way it was immediately seized upon as a weapon by the ruling elites & their bureaucrats

y'all are so fucking eager to look past eugenics and go "gee willy shucks I just don't know how we got here but it sure is scary and bad!"

[rejectnormalcy]

I'm... baffled by these tags. I don't understand how it's possible in this person's view for people to simultaneously be taking the ongoing pandemic seriously and not masking.

Maybe I'm missing something here, but this feels like exactly what the OP is criticizing - self-described anarchists and radicals patting themselves on the back for having the "right politics" without making a serious (or even bare-minimum, which masks are) attempt to actually put those politics into practice in their communities. These tags read to me like "glad we're not like that. I mean, we're exactly like that, but we're the good people so it's fine."

I may not even have typed this out, but ending with ":p" really rubbed me the wrong way. People are discussing how they can't leave the house, how their governments and employers are using their blood to grease the wheels of capitalism, and how they've been abandoned by the communities that should be helping them. Maybe "teehee :p" is not the right tone to take when discussing how little regard the people around you seem to have for the safety of others.

[depsidase]

[mysharona1987]

Well, Fire fighter dude certainly didn’t hold back on his thoughts.

[mell-ominous]

"I had always sought to demonstrate that the social wrongs do not depend on the wickedness of one master or the other, one governor or the other, but rather on masters and governments as institutions; therefore, the remedy does not lie in changing the individual rulers, instead it is necessary to demolish the principle itself by which men dominate over men"

— Errico Malatesta, About my trial: Class Struggle or Class Hatred?

[a-book-dragon]

You don't have a male or female brain – the more brains scientists study, the weaker the evidence for sex differences

Rather than distinctly male or female, the human brain is much more like the heart, kidneys and lungs – basically the same no matter the sex of the body it's in.

rb to make a biological essentialist mad <3

[liminalweirdo]

“This collapse is a telltale sign of a problem known as publication bias. Small, early studies which found a significant sex difference were likelier to get published than research finding no male-female brain difference.”