They Won't STFU

A blog about things we won't shut up about... and by things, we mean ideas and concepts that shake the very nature of our current heterosexist, classist, sexist, ableist, and racist society.

[18mr]

The International Hotel in San Francisco’s Manilatown was home to 150 low-income Filipinx and Chinese American elders. In 1968, real estate developers had plans to tear down the I-Hotel and displace its residents. This kicked off a 9-year-long grassroots fight against eviction. The I-Hotel’s empty storefronts were occupied by important cultural centers like Chinese Progressive Association and the Asian Community Center. As the struggle gained momentum, protests were joined by Black, Latinx, LGBTQ, and student activists, and members of religious communities.

The fight ended on August 4, 1977 in a 3 am eviction raid with hundreds of riot police. 3,000 activists formed a human barricade to protect the residents’ home but were violently cleared away by police.

The outcry over the I-Hotel led to a legacy of Asian American and housing activism. A new I-Hotel was opened in 2005 and continues to house low-income elders.

[newwavefeminism]

This brings me back to working at a charter school that really broke me down. But it was also a charter network with “woke” leadership and “diversity coordinators” at the network level.

Imagine my surprise when my black led leadership structure worked to instill in me that I wasn’t good enough for the work environment. Black leadership and white feminists claiming to be team #blacklivesmatter but only if you’re team #blackrespectability.

We affirm your identity, but not if I can label it as “unprofessionalism”

We build community, so long as you assimilate to our requirements of how to be a respected member of this community

We will cultivate leadership, once you prove yourself worthy via points 1 & 2 above

Again, I think these tenets are important. I think my point is that some organizations practice this in disingenuous ways, repackage it, add some neoliberal flair and turn around to gaslight you with it

[andywarnercomics]

In honor of Day of the Dead, here’s a repost of my comic about the San Francisco Columbarium and the man who spent 26 years restoring it.

This comic originally appeared on Medium at The Nib. Go check out my other work there.

[nitewrighter]

“Obviously ‘bihet’ offends a lot of bisexuals, so we need to come up with a better term for bisexuals in m/f relationships.”

How about… and hear me out… this may sound crazy…. but you… continue to call us bisexual… because (and I realize this gets confusing for you people so read this next part slowly) it turns out we continue to be bisexual regardless of who we’re dating.

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Okay, this shit gets me all heated up. I’m just a cisgay dude up in here, but I have Some Opinions about this nonsense.

Bisexual people in relationships with folks of the other gender are not only themselves still bisexual (I’m really ashamed of a bunch of all that this shit even needs to be said, like c’mon), but their relationships are queer.

Yes, I just said that straight people can be involved in queer relationships without they themselves being queer.

The reason for this is simple: folks who are in relationships with queer people will always have to deal with their partner’s marginalization impacting their relationship. Always. Even if their bisexual partner chooses to be entirely stealth about their queerness (and that’s their right, by gods, fight me about it), their relationship is still impacted by that very choice existing. It’s a facet heterosexual relationships never have to negotiate.

Frankly, bisexual folks have to deal with active marginalization from multiple angles: heterocentrist and homocentrist. And in case I actually have to say this aloud? We should not be fucking marginalizing our own, y’all. That makes you a bad person, and you should feel bad.

To sum up: Bisexual folks are queer as hell. Straight folks can be in queer relationships without themselves ever being queer. And FFS please stop harassing bi- and pan-folks already, man. It’s 2018. Find hobbies that are not shitty.

[nitewrighter]

I love this addition to my post so much thank you.

[miiriya]

[cornbreadoption]

[yayfeminism]

An 18-Year-Old Said She Was Raped While In Police Custody. The Officers Say She Consented.

When Anna said she was raped by two on-duty cops, she thought it would be a simple case. She had no idea she lived in one of 35 states where officers can claim a detainee consented.

“When Anna said she was raped by two on-duty cops, she thought it would be a simple case. She had no idea she lived in one of 35 states where officers can claim a detainee consented.“

One of 35..

[imoldbutimstillintothat]

What the entire fuck????

[sweetpetiteandnatural]

Reblog for the bloggers in the red states

[theconcealedweapon]

Police: “Obey us or we’ll kill you legally.”

Police: “That sex we had was consensual. They didn’t say no.”

[law-enforcement-scumbag-watch]

More evidence that the only good law enforcement scumbag is a dead one.

[anarchist-bakery]

What ever you do guys DO NOT LET THIS POST DIE! Boost this til it hits a million notes!

[byecolonizer]

#SuperBowl

3 of them killed 30 people. 3 of them killed no one.  Look at the differences in the mugshots.  

THIS IS WHY WE KNEEL!

The NFL is 80% black. They profit  billions off of Black Lives but can’t kneel or stand up for black lives. The nerve they got telling Black people they can’t protest against their own oppression.

BLACK MEN don’t need the NFL! The NFL needs BLACK MEN! The NFL is 80% black. THE NFL IS THE NFL BECAUSE OF BLACK MEN.

For clarity.

THIS IS WHY WE KNEEL!

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DON’T KNOW IF THIS HAS YET BEEN SHARED BUT THIS IS ABSOLUTE BULLSHIT.

I DON’T KNOW IF ALL OF US CALLING WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE BUT IT IS BETTER THAN DOING NOTHING.

If you don’t want to call, at the very least, reblog the hell out of this.

[numinous-queer]

alternately, you can write a message to the superintendent of the Harrison County Board of Education here:

http://harcoboe.net/page/contact

[finninsanelycoolish-deactivated]

Important addition.

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Also if your message is too large for that contact, email in to  Dr. Mark A. Manchin, Superintendent at [email protected].

[solitarelee]

Just some added details, it wasn’t the principal but the assistant prinicpal, Lee Livengood. If you google is name, a ton of articles about this come up where you can read more details. He barricaded the student (FIFTEEN years old iirc) in the bathroom, wouldn’t let him leave, demanded to see his genitals, and told the student “you freak me out” in front of the other students. 

This is the man in question. If you, like me, live in WV, feel free to spit on him if you see him. 

[newtgeiszler]

he should be registered as a sex offender

[drankinwatahmelin]

He IS a sex offender

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DON’T KNOW IF THIS HAS YET BEEN SHARED BUT THIS IS ABSOLUTE BULLSHIT.

I DON’T KNOW IF ALL OF US CALLING WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE BUT IT IS BETTER THAN DOING NOTHING.

If you don’t want to call, at the very least, reblog the hell out of this.

[numinous-queer]

alternately, you can write a message to the superintendent of the Harrison County Board of Education here:

http://harcoboe.net/page/contact

[finninsanelycoolish-deactivated]

Important addition.

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Also if your message is too large for that contact, email in to  Dr. Mark A. Manchin, Superintendent at [email protected].

[left-reminders]

[theglowpt2-deactivated20200101]

2019 is so fucked i keep trying to google “feminist quotes on marriage” and “feminist quotes on being a wife” etc and 99.99% of the results are articles titled like “Yes, You Can be a Feminist and Still Love Being a Wife” and “20 Feminist Quotes About Marriage You Need to Read Right Now” and then you click the listicle and no lie it starts off with one audre lorde quote taken completely out of context and is followed by ones by john green, joss whedon, and ian somerhalder. Empowerment culture has given everyone brain worms and the only people who Get It are tween girls on tumblr who say stuff like “i want to shed my skin and eat dirt”

[elliotputyourbootsbackon]

The modern everyday version of feminism being preached has become individualistic to the extreme. Women have been convinced that anything they choose to do is feminist simply because they are women exerting control over their own lives in order to achieve self fulfilment. the pro-wife, pro-consumer. pro-makeup, etc. brand of feminism isn’t progressive or revolutionary; it’s a brand of feminism that has been marketed towards us by big business in order to maintain the status quo and keep women subscribed to an economic system that is actively harmful to most of them.

Makeup brands target us with ads encouraging us to “express ourselves” by buying their products and upperclass white women who work as homemakers and mommy bloggers claim that all women can find fulfilment in marriage and motherhood simply because they have the luxury of finding happiness that way. It’s not feminism, it’s sanctioned conformity masquerading as individualism and empowerment. 

[la-laborista-republiko]

[chicanachicanohistorians-deacti]

[olcarcajou]

LOUDER

[thecringeandwincefactory-deacti]

Residential schools, Indian schools, Stolen generations, Lost children of Francoism, Germanization, q.v.

[clearancecreedwatersurvival]

Some reminders about Dr. King before tomorrow:

The United States Government was convicted in court of his murder.

He spoke out against police brutality, capitalism, and war.

He believed that white moderates were and are the greatest threat to civil rights, moreso than any hate group.

He was arrested over 10 times.

He was considered a dangerous radical by the majority of white Americans. 

He refused to condemn rioters, because “a riot is the language of the unheard.”

Any white person who voted for Trump who tries to use MLK or his words as a rhtetorical tactic to justify their bigotry and complain about people protesting can personally come to my apartment in the next 24 hours for an ass-kicking.

[mossluvrs-moved-deactivated2019]

as of this afternoon (january 7 2019) at least 12 indigenous anti-pipeline activists at unis’tot’en camp in unceeded wet’suwet’en territory have been arrested by the rcmp. those arrested include molly wickham (the spokesperson of gitdumden clan) and an elder. these people will not be released, and are being taken to prince george, where they will stand before a justice of the peace. 

due to this event, it’s more important than ever to support water protectors and pipeline activsts. here is the official website for the unis’tot’en camp so you can educate yourself on the issue. also please donate if you can.

it’s more important than ever to help support indigenous water protectors and anti-pipeline activists. please do what you can - anything helps.

[pigeonse]

I dont often add actual, comments but this calls for it. This is a personal issue to me, and i ask you at least read into it a little.

Molly Wickham is my cousins wife, and she was arrested yesterday with many others while protecting her lands. Her husband, also a protester, and their children (not around the protest thankfully) are safe, but the fact remains that my family was arrested trying to protect lands that are rightfully theirs from a pipeline which the hereditary leaders and chieftains were NOT asked about. this is legally shady and incredibly immoral. The fact remains that they are trying to build on land which is not theirs.

she is out of prison as of today, but she shouldve never been arrested in the first place in any sort of just system.

tldr; my family was arrested while trying to protect their lands from a pipeline they (as a group, including their leaders) did not agree to. She is alright now, safe and at home.

please read into and donate (if you can) to the links posted! thank you all so kindly

[la-laborista-republiko]