wandering child of the earth

Do you know just how much you're worth? they/them • IDs don’t have copyright, feel free to copy image descriptions I have written. If you’re the OP, please add the ID to your original post. Topics: intersectional feminism, inclusionism, racism, amatonormativity, sexism, exorsexism, allosexism, ableism, colorism, more than can be named, etc. I’m tired & on queue. Bi nonbinary flag by @beesprites Art by @casanovakevin

[fellahimedia]

This is how I feel when people are like "how is x politician saying x an example of liberal zionism??" Because we answered this several times over years, several political thinkers and authors. People are not engaging with our politics and thats why this movement in the west is so confused and not militant

[enbyzombies2]

[three tweets by twitter/x user fawnn404, reading as follows;

"not to be rude but some of you are trying to derive an understanding of Palestine entirely from tweets reacting to other tweets reacting to other tweets. every day i open this app and discover another argument that was already answered in Palestinian literature 30+ years ago

Palestinians are not merely subjects of history but producers of theory. there is a whole archive of palestinian memory, strategy, critique, self critique, philosophy, and historical analysis. twitter is not a substitute for it.

u should all be engaging with palestinians as thinkers rather than as sources of tragedy."

/end id]

[biglawbear]

Rainbow capitalism was good actually, for many reasons.

It wasn't that long ago that banks and companies would refuse to serve gay people. People are going all the way up to the Supreme Court to enshrine the right not to serve LGBTQ people in their business. Rainbow capitalism showed which companies were safe to do business with and it pressured other companies to do the same.

Likewise, companies did and do try to discrominate against LGBTQ employees. Rainbow capitalism let employees be open about their identities and feel safe. The 50 year old gay man marching with Bank of America may have hidden his sexuality for decades because it wasn't safe to come out at work.

It helped set top down societal values and norms that LGBTQ people are a welcome part of society.

It pressured companies to adopt nondiscrimination policies and DEI policies.

It made companies donate to pride celebrations and LGBTQ causes.

with mixed success, it provided powerful and visible allies for political change, like the Respect for Marriage Act. Businesses pulled out of North Carolina and forced it to go back on a bathroom bill.

The drawdown of rainbow capitalism has real consequences. Pride celebrations losing corporate sponsorships means they are not able to hold those celebrations. DEI programs are being rolled back. Companies are buying less from queer owned businesses. Support for gay marriage is actually decreasing in polls.

Are these all cause and effect? No. Is it sometimes just a lagging indicator? Yeah. Are fair weather allies like big corps really not great? Yeah.

Like we're seeing greater threats to LGBTQ people and rights now than in 20 years and if you're still complaining about rainbow capitalism or having to qualify it by saying "I know rainbow capitalism is bad but" then I think you've lost the plot as surely as we've lost some of our biggest most powerful and most visible allies

[juicetrump2]

ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good in Minneapolis Gets Cushy New Job

Jonathan Ross is still avoiding accountability months after he shot and killed Renee Good.

[scarlet--wiccan]

May 16 is Romani Resistance Day, which commemorates the uprising of Roma and Sinti prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

In May of 1944, Roma and Sinti prisoners staged an armed resistance against the planned "liquidation" of the gypsy camps, which would have led to the mass murder of approximately 6,000 Romani. Thanks to the efforts of the Roma and Sinti interned at Auschwitz, these execution plans were staggered and delayed for several months. We hold this day to honor their bravery, mourn their deaths, and memorialize that which the Romani community endured under the Nazi regime.

You can learn some more about Romani Resistance Day, and the ongoing effort to preserve the Berlin memorial to murdered Roma and Sinti against Deutsche Bahn's railroad development, by listening to this episode of Smith's Kushti Podcast.

The ERRC's Romani Tea Room has also put out an episode collecting stories from descendants of Romani Holocaust survivors.

[scarlet--wiccan]

Tales of Roma Women’s Resistance-- FRIDA

Romani Resistance Day Is About More Than Memory-- Margareta Matache

[makingqueerhistory]

Botswana officially erases ban on same-sex intimacy

Dick Bayford, Botswana's attorney general, removed anti-gay language that courts struck down years ago. (Photo courtesy of the Sunday Standa

Local LGBTIQ+ organisation LEGABIBO welcomed the government’s move, describing it as “a necessary and long-overdue step toward restoring dignity and aligning our legal framework with constitutional values of equality and human rights.” The group said the change sends “a clear message that LGBTIQ+ persons are not criminals, and that their lives and relationships deserve protection, not punishment.” LEGABIBO noted that the colonial-era provisions had long cast a shadow over the lives of LGBTIQ+ people in the country.

[kropotkindersurprise]

[cyanide-sippy-cup]

For anybody not caught up: Tennessee just passed a new map that pretty much makes it so black neighborhoods have no power in local votes. Two things about this. While protestors were chanting "No Jim Crow", white Tennessee lawmakers were caught laughing on video. On top of this, Representative Justin Pearson and his brother KeShaun Pearson were arrested for trying to give their takes on the matter (which is not only their legal right but literally his job). If you give a shit about black people, help fight this. We can't allow a return to Jim Crow.

[icemankazansky]

Heyyy guess where I live

A local paper had some great photographs, all taken by Nicole Hester:

The day before, Rep. Justin Pearson tries to attend a Senate Committee meeting and is barred access by the Sergeant at Arms.

Lawmakers and protesters link arms as the descend the capitol steps.

Once inside the chamber, Democratic representatives continued to stand together with arms linked.

They continued standing together with arms linked as votes were cast.

Democratic representatives take a group photo protesting the redistricting.

Rep. Justin Jones burns a photo of the Confederate flag with the words, We will not go back.

And stomps the ashes.

KeShaun Pearson being escorted from the building by the Staties.

KeShaun Pearson (left) being taken into custody. Rep. Justin Pearson (right) showing his support of his brother.

Additional information: State lawmakers have been gunning for Pearson and Jones nearly their entire terms. Most notably, in 2023, the House expelled them for participating in a protest at the Capitol. Their districts had to have special elections to have them reinstated.

Pearson is one of the plaintiffs of a lawsuit seeking an injunction against the redistricting.

The city most affected by the redistricting is Memphis, where locals are fighting against xAI's data center, which has been operating with very little oversight and is poisoning the people who live there. Here is a previous post on that with more information and more sources.

[playwrongs]

Questions I think to myself a lot when confronted with certain kinds of Online Posting:

Do you want a better world, or do you want revenge on those you think aren’t doing enough to improve it?

Do you want a more just world, or do you want to see bad people suffer merciless punishment?

Do you want a less oppressive world, or do you want the reins of power for yourself?

Do you want to do the right thing, or do you want to feel righteous?

[doberbutts]

Anyway. This has been black theory for, like, ever. Y'all just don't like actually listening to black people 🤷‍♂️

[krayttahrei-adragonsfriend]

[ID: A facebook post from Martez Files with the text:

"I raised cisgender heterosexual Black boys (and mentored dozens of Black boys) who do not hate women, queer folks, trans folks, or themselves. I am a brilliant teacher, a dedicated parent, a tireless mentor, and a deep reader. I read a book and 5-7 journal articles every week, and I have sustained that practice for the last decade. I am not moved by patriarchy's pull. We will confront every system of violence that targets Black people, or you will be dismissed. I will not sit idly by. Here is a slide from my dissertation defense, which I defended five years ago, but the urgency I named is prescient now."

The slide is titled "A Note to Those Who Love Black Folks" and has the text:

"As a young activist, so much of my life was about performative perfectionism. As an adult activist and organizer, I have been confronted with building the worlds we imagine-the real challenge. Please take time to heal. Recharge and fight again later. You need your energy for the many fights ahead.

Mothering wisdom taught me to recognize this world for what it is and navigate it with care for vulnerable bodies and in solidarity with those on the margins. I want to be, what Alexis Pauline Gumbs calls, community accountable. Community accountability has often guided my praxis and communal exchanges. I want to demonstrate that I honor space with other marginalized and oppressed people. If this has not been clear, I stand in complete solidarity with Black, Brown, and all oppressed people actively working to dismantle all systems of violence. This means that the life-and-death of Black cis women, cis men, trans women, trans men, and non-binary people are not an inconveniences, derailments, or perversions of the larger Black freedom struggle. As Assata noted, "It is our duty to fight for our people!" Moreover, this duty is now even more imperative than ever. We cannot sit by idly, as our siblings are slaughtered by cops, by John's [sex work patrons], by romantic partners, and by vigilantes. We should protect them in life and venerate them in death."

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Edit: Corrected the source of the post

[guardian-angle22]

Yasmin Benoit for Thistle and Spire

[isuggestlandback]

You know how right wing media runs off of BIG SCARY EMOTIONS instead of fact?

Left wingers do this too. Except instead of "THEY'RE EATING THE CATS AND DOGS" it looks like:

"No one else will ever accept you."

"You're too oppressed to be understood by anyone but us."

or

"Anyone outside our group is dangerous."

Check in with yourself about how online communities make you feel.

Do they make you feel hopeful, or hopeless? Connected, or isolated? Accepted, or tolerated?

Do they encourage you to think for yourself, and use critical thought? Or do they ask you to accept without thinking and toe the line? Is there open communication, or are differing opinions bullied into silence?

Beware of anyone who tries to isolate you.

Beware of anyone who tells you no one else will ever love you like they will, that no one else will ever accept you.

Beware of anyone that tells you life is nothing but pain, or that there is no hope.

Hopeless, lonely people are easily controlled.

I know things are scary right now. I'm scared too.

Look out for people who WANT you scared.

Try to find spaces that make you feel like change is possible. Look for people who make you feel empowered to do something!

Look for the helpers.

[shereeluvssinners]

Via the Grio

Wunmi Mosaku

[melovibes57]

Happy international Asexual day 🙌🏽

A message from Yasmin Benoit and The Humans Right Campaign on IG

[umbralwaves]

Rebecca Nagle: Last week, Trump’s lawyer was asked if Native Americans have birthright citizenship and he waffled. “No, I think the clear understanding that everybody agrees… is that the children of tribal Indians are not birthright citizens.” Justice Gorsuch then asked if Native Americans r citizens thru their parents who are lawfully domiciled here. The lawyer responded “I think so… I have to think that through.” Native Americans were carved out of the 14th amendment, but were later granted citizenship by Congress. Most Native Americans also have citizenship through their parents. The Trump admin is using the example of Native Americans to say the 14th amendment only granted citizenship to formerly enslaved people, and should not extend to immigrants. [Watch]

Why? Land titles. The Doctrine of Discovery.

[eisenkrahe]

Last year JK Rowling personally funded a group called Sex Matters to amend UK law so that trans women *overnight* went from legally women to legally men. This has resulted in mass exclusion of the trans community from numerous organizations, along with ongoing violent assaults on both trans and cis women alike.

With the new Harry Potter series she will be making a reported $20 million per-season renewal + other performance dependent royalties. She has been open across multiple interviews regarding her intentions to use said funds to push forth even more trans targeted legislation in the years to come.

This isn’t a “she gets paid no matter what” situation. The more eyeballs on this show the more money she has to actively harm vulnerable communities. By engaging with it you are directly supporting this and otherwise making a conscious choice to consume HP over doing the literal very least possible to not destroy the lives of trans people across the world.

If my stating the objective facts above upsets you then feel free to unfriend and move along. Your nostalgia-goggles feelings for a tired, problematic franchise mean nothing to me compared to the welfare of my trans friends and loved ones."

If you care more about badly written children's books and imaginary wizards more than you do about real people in the real world do it far the fuck away from me.

Don't try to be in my life.

In fact, you are cordially invited to eat shit and die.

[waknatious]

DO

NOT

WATCH

THIS.

[whiteshakira]

remember the author of "the boy in the striped pajamas" btw this is him now

[wheelzyx]

Cause it's not like the Nazis burned literal libraries of trans history and research.

[nealashitposts]

maybe the guy who thought the Nazi's put internment camp prisoners in stripes doesn't actually know a damn thing about fascism

[echoesofsense]

The Centre for Holocaust Education had to put out an educational guide countering the misconceptions caused by his wretched book.

https://holocausteducation.org.uk/research/the-boy-in-the-striped-pyjamas-in-english-secondary-schools/

[emeraldspiral]

#bring back that post talking about the pajamafication of the holocaust

[shofarsogood]

John Boyne admitted he did zero research for the book. He just wrote it off vibes.

Of course this asshole is a terf.

[ellisnyeland]

Please never ever forget that John Boyne is the Zelda recipe guy as well.

(Not because it's in any way comparable to the other stuff, but because it's very funny.)

[asparklethatisblue]

remember trying to watch a video about that fuckass to figure out what exactly was going on, and within five minutes his terf crap was brought up. disgusting individual

[aquahater]

wanted to bring people's attention to the new anti trans bill that's been proposed in India. This bill literally erases our identity and our autonomy so it would help if more people were aware of what is happening to us in this country

^Community-led Mobilisation to Reject Trans Bill 2026. Please look into it.

Signing the Collective Statement on Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill 2026

Collective Statement on Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill 2026. Note: Translations of this statement in multiple I

[aquahater]

Maybe I should've been more assertive making this post but

THE RIGHTS OF INDIAN TRANS PEOPLE ARE GOING TO GET TAKEN AWAY IN JUST A FEW DAYS. I THINK ITS NOT TOO MUCH TO ASK FOR EVERYONE TO AT LEAST CARE.

I know I was being vague in the original post, and i apologise, genuinely. But to specify, this bill takes away our rights for self identification. Our identity will no longer be in our hands, no longer ours to determine, no longer our own but for medical institutions to determine. It's plain erasure.

Our lives are miserable enough as is in this country so it literally takes nothing for the 90% white userbase of this site to sign this petition or spread awareness. That's all that it takes from your side.

Fellow indian trans people or allies can use this this link to email your member of Parliament about the Trans Bill, made by members of the Queer Against the Trans Bill Collective.

https://webionite.com/reject-trans-b

[twelfthdr]

thank you op for putting together this info! the final link appears to be broken (on my end at least), here it is again:

https://webionite.com/reject-trans-bill/

Email your Member of Parliament | Reject Trans Bill 2026

[black-sasuke]

Protect black women. Fuck the state of Georgia.

[gerbildine]

Same Georgia that, last year, kept Adriana Smith’s brain dead body corpse alive because she was 9 weeks pregnant, against her families pleas by the way. They even forced the babies birth date earlier because she was decomposing! As of 2 weeks ago he was finally taken out of NICU but is still to this day, entirely reliant on oxygen, because he can’t breath on his own. And who pays for this? The government and hospital used a dead black womans body for an experiment after all, so of course they’d at LEAST foot the bill right? Just kidding it’s the family that wanted to put their daughter and grandson to rest of course! It’s only $600,000+ USD!

​

​And to those of you who think you’re safe because you’re ready and wanting to start a family so obviously youre not getting an abortion anyway! So what?? Think again!! Because you can now be charged as a “would be killer” for using pain killers during pregnancy because the same ingredient just HAPPENS to also be found in abortion pills!

They literally used these women as experimental test runs for what they can get away with and they’re getting away with it!!

Justice For Alexia Moore and Adriana Smith