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So thanks to a friend,I checked and several names of Nigerian tribes are trademarked.
Timbuktu, an outdoor clothing brand based in northern England, filed to trademark the word “Yoruba”.
They are not the only one,hoever.
Some examples of it being registered,or attempted to be registered
I think we should talk about it more,as it is cultural appropriation,stealing people’s culture to use as brand names,collections,or other stuff such as one i saw being used as POLO SHIRT brand name.
There's a big glaring hole in art and stories about trans women, even ones that are made by trans women: it almost never is about trans women older than, like, 25. And as a 40 year old trans woman, I gotta tell ya that is very painful. It's isolating.
Where is all the stories and art about middle aged trans women? Why can't I see women like me in art and books and shows and movies?
once you notice half of all memes are just a picture of a black person with unrelated text over them you really cannot unsee it
here’s a video that highlights how black suffering is always memed and played for laughs
can everyone please just learn martial arts already i keep instigating street fights in the hopes ive met a worthy challenger and now i have warrants. due to your weakness
Because the US is the center of a global capitalist military-industrial hegemony that goes out of its way to economically, militarily, diplomatically, or via espionage undermine any threat to its empire, all those who live within it are complicit regardless of status, marginalization, or suffering, because we are THE oppressors of the world not a bastion of freedom.
To react poorly to this information on the material state of the world is the same as any other oppressor’s reaction to the oppressed, and when those marginalized within empire do so, we are simply recreating the same dynamics we deride when, for example, a queer white person says they cannot be an oppressor because they are marginalized via their queerness.
All the marginalities, all the suffering, that those who exist within the bounds of the US empire experience are secondary to their presence in the center of a global empire because even those worst off here are still better off than their contemporaries in the imperial periphery.
If having this information pointed out angers you, enrages you, to know that you have a positionality that places you as the oppressor due simply to where you live, then maybe you should start figuring out how to take action in a way that makes it so that the US empire can no longer oppress the world.
And no, I don’t mean fucking “vote”. I mean actually learn and organize—whether it’s with other anarchists, other communists, other abolitionists, or whatever other anti-imperial group suits your ideologies. Don’t fucking rage at those oppressed outside the US Empire for speaking on the material and true state of the world, fucking find a way to act against it instead of venting your guilt and anger at the oppressed just like every oppressor always does.
Like girl we wasnt benefitting from chattel slavery as Black folks but the US began becoming an empire beyond the borders of North America in the 1800s and between the territories/puppet states, global domination of the US petrodollar, the 750+ military bases across 80ish countries, the ability to access broad and specific benefits of living squarely in the center of the empire REGARDLESS OF IF WE CHOOSE TO UTILIZE THEM OR NOT, cheap goods and yearlong access to a wide range of food due to our exploitation of the periphery and semiperiphery?
In 2026 for fucking sure we benefit from living in the heart of empire. The fact that so many of us can’t see the way that every single facet of life in the US empire is subsidized by our exploitation and domination of the rest of the world, no matter how shitty our lives remain as a group or community because much of that benefit goes to the cishet, the abled, the white, and most of all the rich? That we have the privilege of putting on blinders and not seeing the exploitation our every waking moment within the empire is built on, of pretending any of us are exempt, is itself part of that.
So after posting this I decided to look up the median annual incomes/salaries by country because I was curious of the actual degree to which we benefit and. Holy fuck. I knew it was bad but the degree to which even other Western/imperial core countries are worse off than the US is unhinged.
For reference, median is the average when discarding outliers (such as billionaires). Exact median incomes vary by country/year/survey, and racial poverty rates can vary heavily by locale. The 2026 federal poverty level is $15,960 for a single person.
In 2025, the median income in the US was $53,010. By race, it was as follows:
Asian: $70,002
Non-Hispanic White: $60,601
Pacific Islander: $50,000
Black: $45,050
Mixed: $45,001
American Indian: $42,691
Hispanic or Latino of any race: $40,000
Now I want you to take a look at a comparison of median annual salaries per some countries using most recent available data. This is an outtake of 43 countries, I chose it because it represents solely in USD and doesn’t require conversion, but it does show 2023 instead of 2025 US median for comparison.
First, let’s look at the very top, where the US sits at 5th highest.
Now I’d like to show you the point in the list where the overall median income for each country is lower than the lowest US median salary by race.
Like, France? FRANCE?? We have almost twice the median salary of fucking France, one of the biggest historical colonizers and exploiters of Africa’s wealth and resources??? The lowest median incomes by race in the US are still 10k higher *minimum* than Italy and Spain too???
And now I’d like to show you from the point on the list where the median annual income is below the US federal poverty level.
Mind you, this is from a website that gives comparisons for places workers predominantly from the imperial core may want to move to, this does not include many periphery countries that imperial core residents consider not worth moving to either due to standards of living, political or military issues, climate change destruction, or more.
“But Anonsee, the median isn’t every person, plenty of USians are poor and suffering!”
Comrade the conditions we consider the most horrible and inhumane in the US are just the standard of living (sometimes even higher than!) for portions of the periphery, often explicitly due to the exploitation, intervention, or genocide from the US or other imperial core countries.
Our poor and homeless often still are able to get or maintain access to resources such as phones, cars, medical supplies, etc. explicitly because the positionality of being the heart of the empire makes such supplies so comparatively cheap and the constant flow of goods enable us to access them secondhand. The conditions in places such as reservations that we point to in order to prove not everyone in the US benefits from the current empire are often still better than in many places in the periphery where we suck every resource dry for our benefit, and often don’t have the benefit of relying on diaspora or being within a day’s trip of accessing resources at the empire’s benefitted rates.
Our charity, our mutual aid, our earned income, our suffering, our hellscapes, everything here in the heart of the empire in this modern age is tainted with the blood and the enslavement and exploitation of the periphery from the richest capitalists down to the poorest among us. Every single piece of it, from our joy to our sorrow to our deaths. The fear of losing privilege is not unique to the whites, the rich, the cishet. It is also core to those within the empire who have reaped its benefits through their very survival.
To act like in 2026 any of us within the bounds of the US experience no benefit from living in the empire is a laughable negation if material reality, based on a reactionary assumption that there must be innocents left here. The continued existence of the US empire is proof of our collective complicity.
This is why it is the prerogative of those of us within the US to work in any way we can to end the stranglehold the US holds on the world, even though it means losing the benefits we have lived with our whole lives. Because things can’t stay the same, and the world is dying because of us. Living in perpetual guilt and inaction is useless, and you will not save the world alone, but we cannot keep pretending we are innocent rather than complicit, and we must find ways to take action even if it is “only” on the local or community scale.
Something should’ve started years ago, but it didn’t, so what we have is now. We cannot reform this without maintaining the enslavement and exploitation of the periphery, and that is untenable. We must act to create something new. We cannot wait for someone else to liberate us all.
I will say whilst I'm glad morality OCD is getting talked about a lot more lately I'm dreading the eventual "autistic sense of justice" treatment it's inevitably going to get. The morals in morality don't have to be and often aren't correct and even when they are having it doesn't make you more likely to actually act on those morals.
The idea you can obsess compulse yourself into being a good person is why your brain is tormenting you like this in the first place. Do not try and make your mental illness righteous do not treat it like good person who's too nicies disease or infantilize people over it.
erasing the mars symbol from the drawing because the girl in it deserves times of peace
“if i had a dick i’d stack donuts on it lmaoo xD”
okay sure. if i had a vagina id probably just go to the beach
TMEs when trans women lament not being able to go to the beach openly:
Because the US is the center of a global capitalist military-industrial hegemony that goes out of its way to economically, militarily, diplomatically, or via espionage undermine any threat to its empire, all those who live within it are complicit regardless of status, marginalization, or suffering, because we are THE oppressors of the world not a bastion of freedom.
To react poorly to this information on the material state of the world is the same as any other oppressor’s reaction to the oppressed, and when those marginalized within empire do so, we are simply recreating the same dynamics we deride when, for example, a queer white person says they cannot be an oppressor because they are marginalized via their queerness.
All the marginalities, all the suffering, that those who exist within the bounds of the US empire experience are secondary to their presence in the center of a global empire because even those worst off here are still better off than their contemporaries in the imperial periphery.
If having this information pointed out angers you, enrages you, to know that you have a positionality that places you as the oppressor due simply to where you live, then maybe you should start figuring out how to take action in a way that makes it so that the US empire can no longer oppress the world.
And no, I don’t mean fucking “vote”. I mean actually learn and organize—whether it’s with other anarchists, other communists, other abolitionists, or whatever other anti-imperial group suits your ideologies. Don’t fucking rage at those oppressed outside the US Empire for speaking on the material and true state of the world, fucking find a way to act against it instead of venting your guilt and anger at the oppressed just like every oppressor always does.
Like girl we wasnt benefitting from chattel slavery as Black folks but the US began becoming an empire beyond the borders of North America in the 1800s and between the territories/puppet states, global domination of the US petrodollar, the 750+ military bases across 80ish countries, the ability to access broad and specific benefits of living squarely in the center of the empire REGARDLESS OF IF WE CHOOSE TO UTILIZE THEM OR NOT, cheap goods and yearlong access to a wide range of food due to our exploitation of the periphery and semiperiphery?
In 2026 for fucking sure we benefit from living in the heart of empire. The fact that so many of us can’t see the way that every single facet of life in the US empire is subsidized by our exploitation and domination of the rest of the world, no matter how shitty our lives remain as a group or community because much of that benefit goes to the cishet, the abled, the white, and most of all the rich? That we have the privilege of putting on blinders and not seeing the exploitation our every waking moment within the empire is built on, of pretending any of us are exempt, is itself part of that.
So after posting this I decided to look up the median annual incomes/salaries by country because I was curious of the actual degree to which we benefit and. Holy fuck. I knew it was bad but the degree to which even other Western/imperial core countries are worse off than the US is unhinged.
For reference, median is the average when discarding outliers (such as billionaires). Exact median incomes vary by country/year/survey, and racial poverty rates can vary heavily by locale. The 2026 federal poverty level is $15,960 for a single person.
In 2025, the median income in the US was $53,010. By race, it was as follows:
Asian: $70,002
Non-Hispanic White: $60,601
Pacific Islander: $50,000
Black: $45,050
Mixed: $45,001
American Indian: $42,691
Hispanic or Latino of any race: $40,000
Now I want you to take a look at a comparison of median annual salaries per some countries using most recent available data. This is an outtake of 43 countries, I chose it because it represents solely in USD and doesn’t require conversion, but it does show 2023 instead of 2025 US median for comparison.
First, let’s look at the very top, where the US sits at 5th highest.
Now I’d like to show you the point in the list where the overall median income for each country is lower than the lowest US median salary by race.
Like, France? FRANCE?? We have almost twice the median salary of fucking France, one of the biggest historical colonizers and exploiters of Africa’s wealth and resources??? The lowest median incomes by race in the US are still 10k higher *minimum* than Italy and Spain too???
And now I’d like to show you from the point on the list where the median annual income is below the US federal poverty level.
Mind you, this is from a website that gives comparisons for places workers predominantly from the imperial core may want to move to, this does not include many periphery countries that imperial core residents consider not worth moving to either due to standards of living, political or military issues, climate change destruction, or more.
“But Anonsee, the median isn’t every person, plenty of USians are poor and suffering!”
Comrade the conditions we consider the most horrible and inhumane in the US are just the standard of living (sometimes even higher than!) for portions of the periphery, often explicitly due to the exploitation, intervention, or genocide from the US or other imperial core countries.
Our poor and homeless often still are able to get or maintain access to resources such as phones, cars, medical supplies, etc. explicitly because the positionality of being the heart of the empire makes such supplies so comparatively cheap and the constant flow of goods enable us to access them secondhand. The conditions in places such as reservations that we point to in order to prove not everyone in the US benefits from the current empire are often still better than in many places in the periphery where we suck every resource dry for our benefit, and often don’t have the benefit of relying on diaspora or being within a day’s trip of accessing resources at the empire’s benefitted rates.
Our charity, our mutual aid, our earned income, our suffering, our hellscapes, everything here in the heart of the empire in this modern age is tainted with the blood and the enslavement and exploitation of the periphery from the richest capitalists down to the poorest among us. Every single piece of it, from our joy to our sorrow to our deaths. The fear of losing privilege is not unique to the whites, the rich, the cishet. It is also core to those within the empire who have reaped its benefits through their very survival.
To act like in 2026 any of us within the bounds of the US experience no benefit from living in the empire is a laughable negation if material reality, based on a reactionary assumption that there must be innocents left here. The continued existence of the US empire is proof of our collective complicity.
This is why it is the prerogative of those of us within the US to work in any way we can to end the stranglehold the US holds on the world, even though it means losing the benefits we have lived with our whole lives. Because things can’t stay the same, and the world is dying because of us. Living in perpetual guilt and inaction is useless, and you will not save the world alone, but we cannot keep pretending we are innocent rather than complicit, and we must find ways to take action even if it is “only” on the local or community scale.
Something should’ve started years ago, but it didn’t, so what we have is now. We cannot reform this without maintaining the enslavement and exploitation of the periphery, and that is untenable. We must act to create something new. We cannot wait for someone else to liberate us all.
quarterly reminder to the white folk that just because you know racism is bad doesn’t mean you’ve stopped internalizing racist standards or ideals
take some time to consider the racial biases society has conditioned you to subconsciously subscribe to and have a good day 👍
to say that men are harmed as much as women by the patriarchy and citing men of color and gay men is outright erasure of women of color and lesbians. this is the quality of argument that critics of transmisogyny are bringing to the table. to believe that trans women are not uniquely targeted, you must implicitly deny the intersectional frameworks that help us describe misogynoir and lesbophobia.
The most basic, intractable fact about mental illnesses is that you simply cannot willpower your way out of them. The only exceptions to this rule are the ones I have, which continue to disable me due to lack of determination and other grave personal flaws
Is there a reason why transmascs are more likely to say that they were a "girl" before transitioning but the opposite is rare for transfems? How do we consider personal experience and societal trends?
the kind of overly simplistic interpretation is that it's a way of minimizing your social privilege, where as saying you used to be a boy makes people perceive you as having more privilege, and due to transmisogyny will often make people view you as a predator if you say this type of stuff openly
I think in reality there's a lot nuance with nonbinary identity and such but ultimately I do think it's mostly underpinned by transmisogyny and how people view privilege
I'm seeing DiscourseTM on my porn blog and I'm reminded of this one queer and trans literature class that I took a few semesters ago where I was the ONLY trans woman in a class of like twenty people.
to clarify, i enjoyed the class. The prof was nice, the people were (mostly) chill (that's another bit of my lore), the content and selection of novels was great, and overall the class was fun.
but TELL ME WHY in a class specifically created FOR TRANS PEOPLE, it was mostly cis queer women, and even among the small handful of enbies and trans folks, I was the only AMAB person. WHAT...
this is your daily reminder that anyone saying transfems are taking up too much space can go fuck themselves.
transandrobros will fight till their last breath to say trans men don’t have privilege over trans women yet i think it’s kind of funny i have never ever seen anyone argue that straight trans people don’t have privilege over lesbian/gay/bi/etc trans people.
"80% of autistic people are unemployed" statistic hanging over me like a knife
we need workplaces to accommodate us yes but we also need communism like right fucking NOW
if all else fails a 2 day work week should pay a comfortable living wage
i'm not sure most people who aren't autistic grasp how much of a disability autism is
