#queer leftism

[ilysxmmit]

i hate the phrase "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear" SO much because it's SOOO STUPID!!

"if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear"

okay.

pull down your pants

and underwear

i need to know if you've shoved a live bomb directly UP your ASS!

go on.

wdym you refuse? are you guilty???? what are you hiding? it's a live bomb isn't it. TERRORIST!!! JIHADI ANARCHO-SYNDICALIST TERRORIST TO THE NTH DEGREE!!! GUARDS GET HIS ASS!

the thing that these skullfucking authoritarians don't get is that literally nobody, and i mean nobody, lives their life with zero privacy. even the people saying that bullshit slogan wouldnt accept total exposure. privacy is dignity.

nobody shits with the door open, nobody greets people with their medical licenses, and nobody wears a t shirt with their passwords on them. because these are personal. im allowed to hide things that are personal to me even if I don't break the law.

[aroacechillzone]

We Must Fight in Unison

This post is for the March 2021 Carnival of Aros which is about “Intersectionality and Inclusivity Within the Aromantic Community.” 

2020 didn’t give us much, but it did give many people, myself including, a lot of time to think. Many people used this time to learn more about themselves, including questioning their gender and orientation. Questioning gender in particular is quite common because gender is enforced by society. When you remove that pressure it’s much easier to start analyzing how you truly feel.

I’ve been identifying as aroace for about two and half years now. Even before that, I always had the sense that something about me was different from everybody else. But whenever I showed any kind of disdain for romance or romantic media, I was met with a “you’ll get it when you get older.” After a while though, those words started to wear off. Once I heard of the words aromantic and asexual, it took me maybe two weeks at max to start identifying with them. Since then, I’ve never questioned my orientation. I have no reason to and I likely never will. Even though my aroace-ness was easy to figure out, my gender isn’t. For the longest time I identified as cisgender because there was always this voice in my head that said, “you’re a girl.” I had a few meaningless thoughts about questioning my gender, but I never seriously considered them until December of last year. I’m still not entirely sure what my gender actually is. The chances are pretty high that I’m just a cis woman, but something about that doesn’t entirely seem right sometimes. I’ve toyed with the idea of genderfluid as well but I’m not sure if it’s my actual gender or my attitude about gender that changes. One day, I’ll figure it out. But quarantine not only made me question my gender, it also made me question my political beliefs. The older I’ve gotten, the further and further left I have shifted from the moderate Democrat base my parents rose me in. I’d say two events were the keys that shifted me from being a liberal to being a leftist: the death of George Floyd and the 2020 election. The outcry from the first made me really start to examine the mainstream narrative and my own racism as a white person. The second was when I lost faith in the general perception of American idealism liberals and conservatives alike. All of these pushed me off the “Overton window” of acceptable political beliefs into leftism. 

Currently, I identify as socialist. It’s a good catch-all label that sums up my political beliefs quite well. Capitalism always has and always will be a system that requires the exploitation of others in order to function. It creates and upholds discrimination based on race, class, orientation, gender, neurodivergency, and disability. The ultimate “goal” of capitalism is for the white, rich, neurotypical and able-bodied cishet men to be able to exploit the rest of society that does not fit any one of those definitions. This includes us a-spec people. We’re certainly not straight but we’re certainly not gay either. Many people say that we don’t experience “real” discrimination or experience it “less” than other groups. I always hated this narrative because firstly the discrimination we experience doesn’t change anything about our identities but also it kinda dismisses it what we do experience? Like yeah, I probably won’t get killed for being a-spec, but that doesn’t mean my struggles are any less important than any other allo queer person. Along with anticapitalism, one of my other core beliefs is solidarity. So many people in the queer community are so intent on driving wedges between in our to determine who is The Enemy™ who is using x identity to do bad thing xyz. I’ve said it on this blog before but all of this gatekeeping only benefits the very people we’re trying to fight against. If we divvy ourselves up like this we have no chance of achieving true equality and liberation. We only stand a chance if we unite. This isn’t just the case among queer folks, but all marginalized members of society. We have to collaborate and support BIPOC, the poor, disabled and neurodivergent people so we can all fight back together.  Taking it back to aromanticism, I find it absolutely wonderful that AUREA is taking more efforts to include aros of marginalized identities. As I’m writing this after the original roundup was posted, I enjoyed reading everyone’s thoughts on this topic. As a white, able-bodied and neurotypical person I still have a lot to learn and unlearn. I am and will continue to be the best ally that I can be. It’s time to stop letting our ignorance divide us.

[ilysxmmit]

conversation about minority rights between me (post-intersectional ultraprogressive deleuzoguattarian autonomist benevolent-egoist anarchist-communizer) and my communalist mutualist mom is like

mom: "i like gender equality! :3"

me: "the categories of "gender" and "queerness" are historically constructed systems of control that should become increasingly fluid and unstable. the deterritorialization of patriarchal identity matrices through post-molar spectral fluidity. real feminism and queer liberation is the dismantling of the molar gender binary and queerness through the intensification of biotechnological, social flux."

mom: "what is post-molar do you need a dentist"

[ilysxmmit]

MAY 26TH

IM OFFICIALLY 17

[ilysxmmit]

i love how MLs are like "oh but you're such a dogmatist!!" when i tell them to adhere to marxist ideals. yeah, i am a dogmatist regarding marx. stop doing state-managed capitalism please.

[ilysxmmit]

make liberals read Tiqqun and Endnotes

[ilysxmmit]

okie dokie turns out im not bisexual im a fucking lesbian who likes girls and femboys and feminine enbies

[ilysxmmit]

INTRO1!!1!1!1!1!1!

HAIII!!! :3 im ilysxmmit! (yes the exclamation mark is included and it's pronounced "i love you, summit". just call me sxmmit for short if you want.)

im a greek cypriot, and a post-intersectional ultraprogressive deleuzoguattarian autonomist ego-communizer (aka terminally online leftist)

im also a lesbian demigirl 🏳️‍⚧️

likes: cute boys (trans or cis), cute girls (trans or cis), cute enbies, communism (the "stateless classless moneyless society" kind, not the "authoritarian one-party state collaborating with the national bourgeoise and doing a social-democratic state management of the capitalist economy" kind), communal ownership, social equality, marxism, anarchism, post-intersectional ultraprogressive social views, benevolent egoism (like kropotkin), queer people, taoism, mazdakism, anime (JJK, danganronpa, JJBA)

dislikes: terfs, right-wingers, fascists, neo-nazis, third positionists, imperialism, colonialism (neo- or otherwise), conservatives, right-"libertarians", "anarcho"-capitalists, feckless vanilla centrists, liberals, MLs (unless you're chill), anti-leftists, anti-anarchists, anti-communists, assholes, zionists, anti-semites, islamophobes, transphobes, misogynists, racists, nationalists (nation-states = bad), people who act upon pedophilia, zoophilia, necrophilia (very bad) etc