just being here with you is enough for me

annie/venus - she/it, vi/vim/vis | &ΘΔ✡ | transfem marxist-leninist | mutuals can ask for my discord

[userfish]

this is the craziest thing I’ve ever fucking seen

[communistkenobi]

something that's always stuck with me is Adorno's critique of liberal research on fascism - that liberal scientists believe you can approach fascism in good faith by simply asking Nazis what they think about the world and then writing it down. He argued that fascism is itself a bad faith ideology, and that Nazis will not usually answer the question "do you want to exterminate all minorities?" truthfully, especially not when asked by academics (who are all Marxists/Jews/etc plotting to destroy civilization). So in order to accurately capture fascist sentiment, you have to conceal your intentions and basically lie to them. And there are real moral imperatives for social scientists to do this, in the same way that journalists go undercover in white supremacist groups to report on their activities and beliefs. There's even that famous East German documentary where the directors lied to a Nazi military leader about being West German filmmakers, got him drunk, and then just filmed him saying Nazi shit lol. So like the conventions of science itself, the idea that good research is necessarily always transparent, is a political assumption that shapes how you conduct research and acquire knowledge

[mono-red-menace]

my friend needs help!

hey, my friend's struggling with money right now, and could use quite a bit of help.

she's been having a really hard time, with a job that's extremely hard on her physically and emotionally, in addition to facing repeated transmisogyny at that job.

any amount is helpful, but she's got quite a bit of things piling up at once. I'm attaching a screenshot of a message of hers about what all is needed and why

anything is helpful! even if you don't think it would be, if every person who thinks their help won't be enough donates even a few dollars, that can quickly add up if the post is spread enough!

here's her accounts!:

ppal

cashapp - $AbyssVoidheart

venmo - @VoidheartAbyss

[mono-red-menace]

my friend needs help!

hey, my friend's struggling with money right now, and could use quite a bit of help.

she's been having a really hard time, with a job that's extremely hard on her physically and emotionally, in addition to facing repeated transmisogyny at that job.

any amount is helpful, but she's got quite a bit of things piling up at once. I'm attaching a screenshot of a message of hers about what all is needed and why

anything is helpful! even if you don't think it would be, if every person who thinks their help won't be enough donates even a few dollars, that can quickly add up if the post is spread enough!

here's her accounts!:

ppal

cashapp - $AbyssVoidheart

venmo - @VoidheartAbyss

[mono-red-menace]

my friend needs help!

hey, my friend's struggling with money right now, and could use quite a bit of help.

she's been having a really hard time, with a job that's extremely hard on her physically and emotionally, in addition to facing repeated transmisogyny at that job.

any amount is helpful, but she's got quite a bit of things piling up at once. I'm attaching a screenshot of a message of hers about what all is needed and why

anything is helpful! even if you don't think it would be, if every person who thinks their help won't be enough donates even a few dollars, that can quickly add up if the post is spread enough!

here's her accounts!:

ppal

cashapp - $AbyssVoidheart

venmo - @VoidheartAbyss

[mono-red-menace]

my friend needs help!

hey, my friend's struggling with money right now, and could use quite a bit of help.

she's been having a really hard time, with a job that's extremely hard on her physically and emotionally, in addition to facing repeated transmisogyny at that job.

any amount is helpful, but she's got quite a bit of things piling up at once. I'm attaching a screenshot of a message of hers about what all is needed and why

anything is helpful! even if you don't think it would be, if every person who thinks their help won't be enough donates even a few dollars, that can quickly add up if the post is spread enough!

here's her accounts!:

ppal

cashapp - $AbyssVoidheart

venmo - @VoidheartAbyss

[mono-red-menace]

my friend needs help!

hey, my friend's struggling with money right now, and could use quite a bit of help.

she's been having a really hard time, with a job that's extremely hard on her physically and emotionally, in addition to facing repeated transmisogyny at that job.

any amount is helpful, but she's got quite a bit of things piling up at once. I'm attaching a screenshot of a message of hers about what all is needed and why

anything is helpful! even if you don't think it would be, if every person who thinks their help won't be enough donates even a few dollars, that can quickly add up if the post is spread enough!

here's her accounts!:

ppal

cashapp - $AbyssVoidheart

venmo - @VoidheartAbyss

[mono-red-menace]

my friend needs help!

hey, my friend's struggling with money right now, and could use quite a bit of help.

she's been having a really hard time, with a job that's extremely hard on her physically and emotionally, in addition to facing repeated transmisogyny at that job.

any amount is helpful, but she's got quite a bit of things piling up at once. I'm attaching a screenshot of a message of hers about what all is needed and why

anything is helpful! even if you don't think it would be, if every person who thinks their help won't be enough donates even a few dollars, that can quickly add up if the post is spread enough!

here's her accounts!:

ppal

cashapp - $AbyssVoidheart

venmo - @VoidheartAbyss

[tankie-transfeminist]

if you're a man, and you see someone say something to the effect of "men are misogynistic assholes" your reaction should not be "but I'm not a misogynistic asshole" it should be "I will do everything I can to not be a misogynistic asshole."

Instead of treating that statement like a personal attack to deny, you should treat it like a challenge for you to overcome. Instead of denying your complicity in patriarchy, prove your commitment to feminism. Instead of trying to prove that you've done nothing wrong, focus on doing something correct. I know that you can, if I didn't think men could do better, I wouldn't be wasting my time on the criticism.

Believe it or not, I actually want you to prove me wrong. I want men to surprise me with their feminism, to overcome that challenge, I would be delighted for men to prove that they are capable of more than complicity. If you think that you are, all I ask is that you prove it.

[i-am-aprl]

A tenured professor at UCI University, Dr Tiffany Willoughby-Herard speaking during her arrest for protesting the war on Gaza last night made stark observations about where tax payers money is going as she stood by her students as they protested against their university’s complicity in Israel’s genocide on Gaza, demanding divestment. They were confronted with law enforcement aggression and arrests.

[mettaworldpiece]

Home

On May 15, 2024, several hundred heavily armed police were called in to break up a peaceful encampment at UC Irvine in solidarity with the p

She showed up for her students now I’m asking you to show up for Dr. Willoughby Herard. This is the professor I researched under during postgrad, who guided me to precolonial African gender and family structures and an impactful researcher of Black and World history in her own right. There is no way to meet her and speak with her and not find yourself wanting to do more and to be more. Pls also understand that UCI loves to play hard but crumbles when the repression and censorship it attempts rises to an external level, the Orange Curtain (oc) loves its veil of supremacy. Pls sign and share with others who move for a truly and fully free Palestine and for the global liberation of all Black ppl

[boccher]

while people are discussing how misogyny shapes girl's bodies from childhood, we should especially consider how transmisogyny shapes transfems' bodies, all the dehumanisation we're subjected to on top of misogynistic standards. It's not just a coincidence that transfems are so often chronically ill and disabled from a young age.

From as soon as we learn to talk we're told our wants and opinions don't matter. When our self-expression is deemed off-limits, it's natural that food choices, experiences of pain & sickness, passions and aspirations cannot be our own either. Basic medical care is held over us in exchange for compliance. We're told our sicknesses aren't real. Exercise and fitness are used as a cudgel to coerce us into proving our masculinity. School sports and extracurricular sports are basically used as sexgendered hazing rituals, sexual & physical & medical abuse enforced by teachers, parents and same-age peers alike. Our relationship to domestic labour is that we're taught that domestic labour is how women prove they are women, so we take up that role aggressively as the only means of feminine expression we're permitted, but without ever being rewarded with recognition as women. And everyone else around us gleefully accepts the way we overwork ourselves to the bone. Medical transition is completely out of the question for most of us, so you'll very commonly hear how we tried to completely starve ourselves during puberty to prevent our body from growing, the only bodily autonomy we can afford. And what little choice we do have for medical transition is basically doctors subjecting us to years of puberty blocker monotherapy, widely known to cause lifelong chronic health issues, just to prove that we're really actually trans. Then once we pass that trial they continue underdosing us anyway.

And through that whole process we're horribly aware of the way that society talks about us, how the entire landscape of entertainment treats us as a punchline, how the news playing everywhere calls for our erasure, how laws shift to delay your medical transition another year every year, how grown adults will write fantasies about hunting down and dismembering us, and will actually coordinate harassment and assault circles to target us, how the police & parents & teachers & any authorities won't do anything to protect us against that, instead preferring to enthusiastically call you by your deadname over your grave. They all want us dead. And so we play the part. We hide, we shrink ourselves, recluse into the corners of society to find solace. Dissociate from our already neglected bodies. Hope that a safety net will divine itself upon us by chance when we have no control over the forces dictating our lives. And kill ourselves if it never comes.

That's only really covering the socially acceptable ways that we're physically transmisogynised. All the things that parents and society can pull while still calling themselves "inclusive", "supporting", "good parents". All the ways that are entirely protected by law. But we're not protected by the law anyways, we're seen as acceptable targets. If we're unlucky enough to be birthed by bigots, then we might be forcibly starved, shaved and bleached and lacerated, have our bones beaten and broken and reshaped, murdered, disowned and dumped on the side of the highway, kidnapped into evangelical torture camps or military service... The list of horrific things I've heard done to my sisters are truly endless

[mossy-cobble]

crazy how i find myself thinking i've got a handle on it all finally and then i see the ways that other people tangle their lives together so easily and live so easily together with their friends and i feel like that girl at the top of the stairs painting by norman rockwell

[mossy-cobble]

i'll always be here

[transattacks]

not seeing a lot of people on here talking about ICE murdering another man yesterday. His name was Lorenzo Salgado Arajou. He was a Mexican man living in Huston Texas. He was killed at age 52 and lived the past 35 years here in the USA, and was in the process of obtaining a work permit. He was shot and killed during a traffic stop that ICE claims was part of a targeted operation, and claimed he was “weaponizing his vehicle”- the same claim ICE agents made when they shot and murdered Renee Good.

During the stop, Lorenzo had 3 coworkers with him in his truck who have all been taken into ICE custody.

His family described Lorenzo as a hardworking family man who didn’t deserve to be killed. All he wanted was to provide for his wife and see his sons become great people. His eldest son recognized his father by his cries and pleas when trying to identify who the victim was.

The Salgado Araujo family has set up a gofundme to help with funeral and legal costs, and to help keep their family supported since Lorenzo was the sole provider.

Donate to In Loving Memory of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52 Years Old, organized by LULAC Institute, Inc.

On the morning of July 7, 2026, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was ta… LULAC Institute, Inc. needs your support for In Loving Memory of Lorenzo Salg

[stillnaomi]

"the cruelty is the point"

*looks inside*

it's material interests and the dominant ideology that emerges from them shaping actions

[rabbitkinglune777]

sheep sona named Sabbath(he/him)

[fleysh]

[bluesardine]

Some great additions from the comments.

[penny-anna]

what if on Taskmaster one of the contestants died in the middle of filming a task but after doing enough of the task for it to be deemed complete so since there was nothing in the rules to say you had to be alive throughout they allowed it. & then all the other contestants bombed so badly that the dead person won the task and in the studio Greg was there like 'wow you all managed to do worse than Christine and she was dead for most of it'

[penny-anna]

they don't sub in a replacement contestant for the studio shows so one of the chairs is just empty and sometimes when contestants are arguing their case on something they're like 'I think if Christine was still with us she'd take my side' and Greg would be like 'for fuck's sake stop bringing up Christine'

[penny-anna]

also everyone (Greg included) would dunk on Alex for 'killing Christine' with the task and Alex would keep nervously laughing it off and be like 'legally speaking we weren't responsible for what happened to Christine'

[penny-anna]

the interstitials for the season occasionally feature randomly inserted shots of Christine's lifeless body lying on the ground

[penny-anna]

obviously it would already have been announced that Christine died filming Taskmaster but during the show they wouldn't say which task it happened in so every time there's a Christine segment it'd be like is this the one where she died 🤔 let's watch and find out