We are the dandelion resistance. We go by many other names - Stars, The Infinities, all of our individual names - and wear many faces. We do not tolerate intolerance and the only people we exclude are exclusionists.
We are a safe space for all plurals and all identities. Yes, even that one. Yes, that one too. That one? You guessed it, yes. Contradictory? Confusing? Accused of bad faith and bigotry for being yourself/ves? You are welcome here.
Praesigenic, in the process of recovering from disordered to functional. We are survivors of multiple kinds of abuse, including aspects of RAMCOA abuse and programming-adjacent conditioning. We may discuss these here, but we have already shared more than what anyone is entitled to know, and will not answer invasive questions (questions seeking support or help, on the other hand, are welcome, even if they involve aspects of our identity that we have not shared or that you're unsure apply).
Our values (the things we try to prioritize most): Respecting autonomy and consent (including the right to self-harm) liberation not assimilation, anti-hierarchy, compassion, believing people about their experiences, assuming good faith and giving the benefit of the doubt, doing the unpleasant and difficult work of deradicalization, fighting bigotry rather than bigots, reformative and restorative justice over punitive, destigmatizing all identities and liberating especially those whose oppression is most erased, taking care of others and community and coalition building, judging people only on actions and never on thoughts or feelings alone, dichotomies are bullshit and binaries are basically always false and exclusionary (a mutually exclusive either or of two categories is a binary, regardless of how many subcategories it has).
We may be missing some, but these accurately sum up what you can expect from us, and we are extremely consistent in these across ALL categories.
We do not engage with bigots. If you're here to bitch at us for being inclusive, you will promptly be blocked. We will neither engage with you nor platform hate, so save us all the waste of time and block us first.
Edited to add: Sometimes we screenshot posts and comment on them after blocking the original person. This is a safety measure we developed after developing legitimate trauma from internet discourse. If the original posters see our post and want to do anything other than argue about why they're right and we're wrong, we are fine with people block evading to say so, especially if our perspective has shifted their original stance (even if we still don't completely agree. On the same page but a different sentence is different than in wildly different pages, chapters, or books.
And to overextend the metaphor, if we're responding to someone on a different page or even sometimes a different chapter, we usually try to assume good faith. We recognize tumblr is the site of vent posts never meant to escape containment and that people accidentally advocate for harmful things out of ignorance (which is neutral, not negative, since there's nothing morally bad about not having yet known something) all the time. We don't believe people's past mistakes are sins (if they were, babey we'd be going down pretty far), nor that accountability means never letting go of anything harmful someone has ever said or done.
Different book? We still try to be compassionate, even towards blatant and proud bigots, because that's our approach to deradicalization. But we are 1. people and therefore not above making vent posts ourselves and 2. do not generally expect those people to choose to immediately shift their views and have a helpful conversation. We always hope for it someday, because again the end goal is deradicalization, but we're also realistic about the fact that it takes a lot of time and effort on both the hateful person's part and the people working to rescue them from hateful ideologies.
