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In light of the JK Rowling news (again), here are some Trans and GNC people to buy books from or loan from the library.

In the wake of the Trump administration’s proposed policy to deny the trans community their civil rights, here are nine writers who are cont

#support trans artists #trans authors #gnc authors #jk rowling #jk rowling is a terf #fuck terfs

bolaneno

Asháninka girls in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest painting their faces with cosmetics made from urucum seeds and ashes

itsvukasin

Oasis with a blue wave, Acrylic on canvas (airbrush), 100 × 80 cm, 2025 Vukašin Delević

sapropel

My favorite thing about some land acknowledgments made by settlers is that whether intentionally or not, you are still commenting on who "should" "own" the land you are living on. It's one thing if you have a fully formed opinion on the philosophy of land ownership and have decided that an owner currently exists, but it's another entirely to unintentionally recapitulate settler cultural beliefs of land ownership in your designation of true ownership, rather than, say, stewardship or mutualism. You are commenting on what "territory" actually is and the philosophy of territorial boundaries. Even writing out the transliterated names of indigenous tribes, or God forbid an innacurate or pejorative name, in the language of the settler is a political statement. Choosing to call a territory an indigenous name or a name given by settlers in your acknowledgment, or using a dating system centered around the birth of Christ or not, are both political statements.

If you live anywhere that has ever been part of a territorial dispute between different groups of indigenous inhabitants, you are also weighing in on that territorial dispute. You are making value judgments of what groups of people have a legitimate claim to that territory and what that legitimacy actually encompasses. Your inclusion or exclusion of certain groups of people is a political statement. Even if you do not acknowledge ownership and instead you acknowledge something like "historical connection," you, as the settler, are arbitrating the requirements for historical connection. You are tacitly perpetuating a particular, political position of what actually constitutes legitimacy. It is in your class interests to promote a legitimacy that serves the agenda of the settler class, in dialogue with examples of settler-arbitrated legitimacy such as Native American blood quantum or birthright of Jews and aliyah to Israel. The settler class will never, ever promote a characterization of legitimacy that threatens its interests. Will you?

When you characterize legitimacy, do you reify biological race? What about ethnonationalism? Or is it based on a political relationship to occupation or colonization? Maybe it's based on time period? Do you believe that indigeneity is synonymous with legitimacy to a claim of territory or connection? Is the legitimacy of a so-called claim to land or connection an immutable aspect of a person, or is it something that can change? Are you going to update your land acknowledgment if this legitimacy does change? Are you monitoring information that could even change this legitimacy, or have you wiped your hands clean of further reflection once you typed up the land acknowledgment?

Beyond a superficial act of challenging original settler narratives, a land acknowledgment is not apolitical. The conversation does not stop after "I think colonization is bad" because you have commented on more than just your relationship to settler-colonialism. You have commented on your views of what settler-colonialism actually, materially does to the colonized's relationship with the land; on inclusion and exclusion within strata of settler hierarchies; on the philosophy of land ownership and "connection"; on the value of promoting certain narratives. So on and so forth.

When I think about land acknowledgments made by settler institutions, particularly in liberal academia, I think about the acknowledgments of places like Brown University and Northwestern University.

Brown University officially acknowledges the Narragansett tribe's relationship to the land Brown University was built on. Of course, other tribes such as the Wampanoag also lived on this land, but they are not included in this acknowledgment. Brown University, as a settler insitution, has made an official decision regarding what indigenous groups have "legitimacy" to a land acknowledgment and a relationship to the land, and it has commented on the nature of territory. It does this even though it continues to conduct business with and provide support to the settler class of Israel and its allies in committing genocide in Palestine, despite hunger strikes, referenda, and mass protest. Just last month, Brown has stripped back its promotion of DEI and "woke"-ness to appease the Trump administration. Reminder: the settler class will never willingly betray its interests or its position in the settler-colonial hierarchy.

Northwestern, meanwhile, promotes "gratitude and appreciation" for the Ojibwe, Potawatomi, and Odama peoples (and three other nations that weren't important enough to be named on the art piece) and makes a land acknowledgment to "honor" them. Do gratitude, appreciation, and honor feed hungry mouths? Do they inform settler legislation to enshrine indigenous autonomy? From further within Northwestern's excerpted land acknowledgment source, we learn that it is important we "build our mindfulness" regarding our role in colonialism.

The road of liberal mindfulness is paved with the thousands upon thousands of corpses of the people who needed something more than mindfulness. But mindfulness is safe, non-threatening, and completely co-optable by settler projects.

None of this is to say you can't make a land acknowledgment. What I am saying is that a "land acknowledgment" is a tool like anything else, it is politically complex, it is a tool that can serve settler interests, and it is in the settler class' interests for "land acknowledgments" to be thought-stopping measures that encourage complacency in settlers who might otherwise act in genuine solidarity with the colonized.

cyberpunkpavlichenko

Rubio report on Cuban subversion names Zohran Mamdani, Amy Goodman, Hasan Piker + orgs like DSA and Amazon Labor Union

“Many of the most significant upheavals in recent American political history — from the George Floyd riots to the rise of Antifa to the explosion of pro-terrorist activism on American college campuses — can be linked, in some way, shape, or form, to Cuban influence,” the report says.

As for who these supposed agents of Cuban influence are, the report is remarkably explicit. It names people like Ben Cohen (of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream fame), Mayors Zohran Mamdani and Karen Bass, media figures like Amy Goodman and Hasan Piker, and organizations like the Democratic Socialists of America and the Amazon Labor Union.

The implication is clear: Secretary of State Marco Rubio thinks there should be a modern-day blacklist of the political left in America. In fact, the report explicitly mentions the “blacklists, McCarthy-era investigations and prosecutions” of the 1950s and their effectiveness at dismembering the Communist Party USA.

The 100-page report, titled “Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism,” was released this morning.

necromancelena

Computer loves to be like "fuck! You sure you want to shut down? Youve got volume mixer open"

heyfruitcake

Now that everyone is discussing Nolan's Odyssey movie, I feel like it's a good time to let non-Italians know that the production dumped plastic props into the Italian sea. Weirdly enough I could not find any article in English about it but it's a fucking problem nonetheless.

I might translate this article later today. This one was the most complete one, even in Italian news it's not talked about that much.

Non è la prima volta che la produzione solleva un vespaio in Sicilia. A Lipari una squadra di sub sarebbe però già impegnata a bonificare i

ignitelimelight

They dumped plastic skeletons in environmentally protected areas, against the literal contracts they had to sign to get the permits to film in environmentally protected areas. Like they not only did a bad ecological thing that freaked out some divers, they literally broke environmental protection laws and their contract with the Italian government

thatsbelievable

heartsnmagic

deadsetagainst

australian sour patch kids have gluten in them i am truly at my fucking limit im crashing out im waging war against wheat idgaf anymore

amvs

oh is that one of those things where ableist companies put in traces of common allergens so they can just avoid the cost of making it safe

deadsetagainst

WHAT

amvs

A trend we predicted in 2016 continues.

US based but it’s similar reasons in other countries. and of course many companies have international locations. idk if that’s why it’s happening with sour patch kids but this is a thing

rosetintmyworld84

I cannot even explain how ANGRY I am at this.

My nephew is very allergic to eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, and sesame. Last year my sister discovered all hot dogs and hamburger buns now contain sesame. Not "may contain", but listed in the ingredients. This year basically every brand of sliced bread also now contains sesame, making it very difficult to find bread items he can eat.

They're just adding it to their products, so they can just list it as an ingredient and not bother with worrying about cross contamination. And they aren't even bothering with telling anyone. Capitalism is going to kill us all.

"Which brings us back to Kellogg’s. Back in 2016, the company found a way around the added burden and expense of complying with the FSMA: they simply began adding trace amounts of peanut flour to their cracker products. Doing so allowed them to list peanuts as an ingredient of the product, freeing them from having to prevent cross-contact.

At the time, Kellogg’s notified Food Allergy Research and Education (FARE) about the impending change and left it to them to warn the allergic community. In this case, Pearson’s didn’t even bother as near as we can tell."

gothiccharmschool

I wonder if that’s part of the reason behind my seeing an upswing in products adding corn starch or corn flour to things that didn’t have those before? <- rhetorical question, because I’m certain that’s what’s going on.

petaltexturedskies

"I asked Chat GPT" — well, I asked Mother Nature and she said your brain and soul are rotting inside of you.

willgrahamscock

I think we are focusing on the wrong thing when talking about mainstream romantasy adult books, instead of shaming straight cis women for reading kinky books, we should tralk about how most of the newer books aimed at that demographic are just conservative propoganda, rebranding patriarchy as a kink.

willgrahamscock

There's nothing inherently wrong about liking the types of kinks that are present, control, power imbalance, dark themes, but when you really look at the top performing novels (which they are mass prodicing at questionable speeds) it's hard to ignore the ever present morally grey man, who's posessive over the heroine who starts off as otherworldly different from the 'regular woman' aka damsel in distress), is cruel to everyone except her, and the fantasy world revolves around the control of women, especially when it comes to forced pregnancy.

willgrahamscock

I'm seeing a lot of responses to this saying "this is why I read queer stories" but you're missing the point! You can relate to queer media because you're queer, cis straight women should also have material that aren't turning their opression into kinks in almost every. single. book. If they want to choose to read those stories, that's absolutely fine, again nothing wrong with exploring those dynamics, but the concerning part is how fast they're being made with the rise of booktok, and the looming threat to women's autonomy.

Remember when all mlm stories were borderine assault stories in the early 90s-2000s? and how long it took for other queer stories to be made? we all used our voices to make a change, it didn't magically stop we fought for it to not be the only type of story.

lyricwritesprose

And the solution to this, for people who are wondering, isn't to try to suppress romantasy books because they're not "good for women." That's an old, old game and never goes anywhere good. The solution is not less kink and less porn. The solution is more kink and more porn.

Because when you think about it, the problem isn't that you can go to your chosen bookseller and find a story where Sparklia Special gets semi-forced to have babies for Broody McDarkenfay (it's okay, she's into it). The problem is that it is unnecessarily difficult to look a little further down the shelf and find a vampire princess domming the hell out of the hunter who knows he shouldn't love her. Reducing people's choices always serves the reactionary agenda one way or another. Expanding choices. That's where it's at.

(If this sounds like I am making a pitch that we should write porn to defeat fascism, that's…not entirely a mischaracterization. I mean, of course it won't defeat fascism, but I do feel that while we work to defeat fascism, we should at least have diverse and satisfying porn.)

headspace-hotel

Ive never thought about it this way but you're so right!!! The reason the romantasy books are all narrowly focused on submissive woman who makes babies for aggressive dominating dude is that this kind of fantasy is the most acceptable form of erotic fantasy for a patriarchal society that still broadly disapproves of women's sexual desires

Like there is kink, but it still ends up with the characters in a husband/wife type of relationship and the woman being submissive and birthing children and other stuff that follows the pattern of patriarchy... which makes it appear more "normal" and acceptable

Actually, I'm not even sure control and possessiveness as a kink has to be specifically patriarchal. you could have that dynamic for other reasons than one character being male and the other character being female

#kink #writing #romantasy #discussion post

allthecanadianpolitics

A CBC News investigation found a number of Facebook accounts run by people overseas impersonating real Albertan separatists.

You might think, based on the volume of her Facebook posts, that Nieta Aqila is an Albertan who supports separation. "I signed the Alberta independence petition" because "Canada is not a great country anymore," an account in her name wrote in a popular Facebook group called Alberta Independence that promotes the movement and has more than 100,000 members. In another post, Aqila said she was harassed and had rocks thrown at her as she canvassed for petition signatures. The account's posts have generated thousands of reactions, comments and shares in recent months as the issue heated up.

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