provisional self

it's hard to live on what they feed you here it's hard to live on what they feed us it's murder and treason

[thisurlwasnttakenbutnowitis]

Please watch I Think You Should Leave on Netflix

[intactics-deactivated20211231]

any ideology founded on the rejection of the Other requires the existence of the Other to function

[elugraphy]

川の畔の巨大発電所→詳細 Abandoned giant power plant in river side.

[durbikins]

[baddreamland]

Saul Steinberg, Country Noises.

[stimman4000]

people will be like obviously im not transphobic i only hate trans people who don’t tell you they’re trans and ones that won’t shut up about being trans and that don’t pass and that pass too well and who think kids should be allowed to transition and who transitioned late and ones who watch anime and who are nonbinary and ones who make transition gofundmes and ones who are activists and who are gender nonconforming and who conform too much to stereotypes a

[shirkers2018dirsanditan]

scientific institutions aren’t “corrupted” by racism or sexism, they developed specifically in the context of white and male supremacy. modern medicine developed, in part, to provide a biological basis for oppression and to pathologize the vast majority of the world’s population, all women and all “nonwhite” people. not only that, but many of the major developments in medicine have directly been at the expense of marginalized people. oppressive regimes also often rely on scientific institutions to further subjugate the population.

[shirkers2018dirsanditan]

some sources to further read if anyone’s interested!

medicine and imperialism:

colonizing the body, chapter 5, david arnold

curing their ills, chapter 5, meghan vaughan

toward an anthropology of immunology: the body as a nation-state, emily martin

ethical variability: drug development and globalizing clinical trials, adriana petryna

science and authoritarianism/imperialism:

japanese doctors’ experimentation in wartime china, jing bao nie

administering colonial science: nutrition research and human biomedical experimentation in aboriginal communities and residential schools, 1942-1952

the humanitarian impact and implications of nuclear test explosions in the pacific region

medicine, misogyny, and racism:

interrogating bodies: medico-racial knowledge, politics, and the study of a disease, melbourne tapper

the woman in the body, chapter 7: premenstrual syndrome, work discipline, and anger, emily martin

the growth of medical authority: technology and morals in turn-of-the-century obstetrics, judith walzer leavitt

“scenes of an indelicate character”: the medical “treatment” of victorian women, mary poovey

[becuzitisbitter]

Once we become visible, our days will be numbered.

The Coming Insurrection

[delinquent-subject-deactivated2]

“The panoptic mechanism arranges spatial unities that make it possible to see constantly and to recognize immediately. In short, it reverses the principle of the dungeon; or rather of its three functions—to enclose, to deprive of light and to hide—it preserves only the first and eliminates the other two. Full lighting and the eye of a supervisor capture better than darkness, which ultimately protected. Visibility is a trap.” Discipline And Punish

[kulluto-remade-deactivated20201]

trump really rolled back healthcare protections for lgbt people during pride month AND on the day of the 4 year anniversary of the pulse nightclub shooting. i don’t know why i’m even shocked at this point but i still feel physically ill

[kulluto-remade-deactivated20201]

while this is going to affect lgbt people in general because we are now at risk of being charged higher premiums or fees for being lgbt or at risk of being completely denied healthcare for simply existing it’s especially going to affect trans men and trans women. i know there is a lot happening right now but please don’t let this go unnoticed. they are purposely passing these anti-lgbt laws right now because they know with the protests going on it’s an ideal time to do so. it’s an evil, underhanded tactic. don’t let them get away with keeping us in the dark about this.

[wodneswynn-deactivated-deactiva]

This post made by Anarres Gang

[skeletrender]

anybody else’s fb timeline full of ppl who were so close to realizing out loud that their society (if not their whole civ) relies on an armed force that operates outside of “the law” to maintain the violence that the whole thing depends on until they saw some celebrity say “actually let’s just defund the bad cops” 

[guerrillatech]

"Many people outside of the twin cities aren't really aware that there is basically an honest to goodness autonomous zone there now"

- a comrade

[sinthomosexual]

I think so many recent theories and models of police abolition or dissolution are illustrating how deeply authoritarian-minded people and institutions can be in the U.S. as a cultural tendency. (not limited to the U.S. obviously but our culture is like a full capitalist white supremacist flanderization of it.) the rush of every variety of person or profession to theoretically fill the gap of “police” with themselves as the social machinery of control in our societies should be something people are making a note of and actively questioning, is all I’m saying.

We shouldn’t abolish or defund the police only to turn over the tools of social control, suppression, marginalization, and systemic exploitation (all still in incredibly colonialist / racist ways) to someone else with slightly better PR. like I think falling in line with the schulmanesque model of ‘state-dispatched college-educated social worker response teams’ is not the direction we should be heading in immediately as a goal or aspiration. like even completely not addressing the actual ways these various entities (like in social work and education and law and NGO activism) have worked to reinforce the cultural status quo we’re in, we still just need a better model than “well there has to be some specific group of people summoned to maintain what I think the social order should be. my demand for a better society just means choosing who that is.”

[sinthomosexual]

this is also on the heels of one of my friends in the twin cities area being like, “uh, we might need to talk about how some of our community patrols seem to be thinking more and more like cops and it’s making me uncomfortable....uh, how do you have community patrols without them becoming mobs.....advice pls.....”

[autismandstuff]

A cool technique for time management.

[cosmicastrogazer]

This is handy, and VERY well shot; I followed it with no problems even with no sound. In fact I don’t even know if there is sound, because I’m in a doctor’s office and I forgot my headphones.

[quousque]

oh SHIT gonna have to give this a shot

[ratfuck]

A million angry, unemployed, fucking restless new yorkers vs 36,000 worn out demoralized cops

[anarchopuppy]

Keep the protests up until all the cops quit after one too many 84-hour work weeks

[demonius-darkblade]

It’s only a trickle but it is starting :)

[confusedbyinterface]

“Tell me, Wu Guang, what is the penalty for rioting?”

“The police will shoot us with tear gas and rubber bullets and arrest us, Chen Sheng”

“And for peacefully protesting?”

“The police will shoot us with tear gas and rubber bullets and arrest us”

“I see. And if we stay at home?”

“Ah, then they’ll just shoot rubber bullets and cs pellets at us through our doorways and windows.”

“Well then…”

[kropotkindersurprise]

June 3 2020 - CEO of ANTIFA, Chairman al-Paca, personally inspects the troops and the strategic placement of caches of bricks, while Subcomandante Quackers leads the paid, out of town antifa supersoldiers in the charge against the riot police, at the Portland anti-police brutality demonstrations. [video]/[video]

[zvaigzdelasas]

This is innapropriate please blur Paca’s face & rethink this

[kropotkindersurprise]

Tell the chairman I’ll take down the gifs when my delayed riot payments finally come through!