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people think I'm kidding when I say that I believe shoplifting from corporations is okay. you need/want that thing? take that shit and try not to get caught (some security guards can be really fucking violent so be careful).

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please do not forget that the gaza genocide is REAL. no matter how much the algorithm is placing clips of the genocide in your feed along with memes and funny tiktoks, remember to not get desensitized. real people are loosing their families and their lives. real people are starving. real people are getting bombed. never forget that.

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We will not be free while...

Feminism must necessarily stand in solidarity with all other liberation struggles, because none of us will be free until all of us are. If we seek the emancipation of oppressed genders, we must also speak about all marginalized people.

We will not be free while our sisters are incarcerated in prisons or psychiatric hospitals.

We will not be free while our sisters are being forcibly medicated.

While our trans sisters are being murdered, violated, or erased.

We will not be free while our Palestinian sisters are enduring genocide. We will not be free as long as wars exist.

We will not be free while our migrant sisters are deported, exploited, or left to die at borders. In fact, we will not be free as long as arbitrary borders drawn by occupying states exist.

We will not be free while our sex worker sisters are persecuted.

While pleasure and desire are still restricted by moralist rules.

We will not be free while our sisters living with HIV or other chronic conditions are stigmatized and abandoned by capitalist and exclusionary healthcare systems.

While our Indigenous sisters remain victims of (neo)colonialism.

While our black sisters are criminalized or killed by the police.

While our sisters' sexualities are not celebrated.

While our young sisters are treated as property of adults or our grandmothers are discarded by capitalism.

While our intersex sisters have their genitals mutilated and are denied healthcare.

While we, non-binary people, are erased.

We will not be free while we are exploited by the ruling class.

We will not be free while there are people without food or shelter.

It’s not enough to break with patriarchy and sexism. The abolition of private property, social classes, and the State is necessary. We must overcome capitalism, racism, colorism, neocolonialism, heterosexism, cissexism, allosexism, dyadism, amatonormativity, psychophobia, ableism, ageism, speciesism, and ecological domination.

Feminism must be intersectional and include everyone within it. We must fight for total liberation!

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IF YOU ARE HUNGRY, I WILL OFFER FOOD.

IF YOU ARE THIRSTY, I WILL OFFER WATER.

IF YOU ARE COLD, I WILL OFFER WARMTH.

IF YOU ARE IN NEED, ASK AND I WILL GIVE.

IF YOU ARE IN TROUBLE, ASK AND I WILL HELP.

I DO NOT DO THESE THINGS WITH THE HOPE OF BEING REWARDED.

I DO NOT DO THESE THINGS OUT OF FEAR OF PUNISHMENT.

I DO THESE THINGS BECAUSE I KNOW THEM TO BE RIGHT.

I SET MY OWN STANDARDS AND I ALONE ENFORCE THEM.

I AM AN ANARCHIST.

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True freedom will not be a possibility until everyone understands that all oppression is interconnected, and none of us can be free until we are all free.

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you actually do need to center all trans voices in feminism, and that includes trans men. if you cannot wrap your head around the fact that trans men belong in feminist movements - without erasing their identity as men - you are part of the problem and you are not an ally to trans people.

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“how to create feminist man” NOOOO! You need to create a feminist PERSON. Imposing gender IS a problem in itself.

Fuck if your child was born with a penis or vagina, they're just a person, they don't know their own gender yet unless they state what they are.

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There are actually people surprised that there are incest shippers in the Gumball fandom????

What? The cartoon that had an entire episode focused on jokes involving a character having accidentally fallen in love with his brother disguised as a girl? That had an entire episode with jokes focusing on a character having been accidentally kissed in the mouth by their grandmother? That had a scene in an episode where a character literally says he is the only one who can kiss his brother, acting in jealousy when people wanted to kiss said brother in the kissing booth? That had an episode where a character got EXTREMELY jealous of his brother spending time with the latter's girlfriend? Wow, it must have been a huge surprise this fandom has incest shippers.

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Monogamy is privileged, even in “non-monogamous” spaces

In mainstream US society, monogamy is presented as the default–or only–way of relating. Most people have not seriously considered non-monogamy in any form, and may have never seen it represented positively, if at all. If a “non-monogamous” option is considered, it is some form of polyamory, in which one can have multiple “partners,” but all parties still value and define relationships on the basis of rules, exclusivity, and control. There is little revolutionary about having more than one partner; polyamorous social norms are still explicity Monogamist. In most ways, polyamory is simply monogamy with more people.

In subcultures or spaces where non-monogamy is widely accepted or even the norm, this is seen as a personal choice or “relationship style.” Even when someone considers themselves a Relationship Anarchist (or other brand of unpartnered hooligan), this is regarded as an individual choice or identity rather than a political position or strategy. This makes it harder to recognize that the prevalence and systemic power of monogamy significantly influence our choices, and that people who oppose monogamy cannot choose at all whether they are exposed to or indirectly governed by others’ rule-based relationships.

Even people who aren’t participating in monogamy or other rule-based relationships are expected to prioritize and uphold Monogamist agreements. Guides on polyamorous dating advise asking questions like “Do you abide by hierarchy in your relationships?”, “What are your rules with existing partners?”, and “How do I know you aren’t cheating?” When there is conflict between pro-monogamy and anti-monogamy perspectives, the ethical rightness of choosing monogamy is assumed. Deviation from monogamy is so routinely assumed to be unethical that many people in non-monogamous relationships feel the need to address this without prompting through adopting the label of “ethical non-monogamy.”

If people participating in monogamous arrangements (or vocally supporting them) want validation or support for their behavior, they can look essentially anywhere around them. The dominance of Monogamism assures that there will always be somebody (usually many people, including authority figures) loudly saying that they are right and good for supporting monogamy. Monogamist messaging abounds in every kind of media and field of discourse. Even in the most deviant spaces, it is exceedingly rare for monogamy to actually be marginalized; meanwhile, anti-monogamy is suppressed and subject to near-universal disdain and ridicule.

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People like to take extreme stances on recovery when it comes to paraphilias. I've seen people say that everyone with paraphilias have a disorder and need to get help. Often, they say that to shame us. Our paraphilias make them uncomfortable so they want us to stop having them. They think that "recovering" means "getting rid of" paraphilias...which is so unbelievably hurtful and wrong.

On the other side of things, I've seen people say that recovery is impossible. They think that paraphilias can never be harmful and no one would ever actually struggle with it, or that recovery is a “lost cause” for those of us that want it. This is also hurtful and wrong.

It's true that paraphilias aren't inherently disorders. Not everyone with a paraphilia (yes, even if it’s one of the “big 3”) needs help. If nothing about it is causing problems, there's nothing to recover from. But some people develop paraphilias that cause them distress, impairment, and/or put themselves and/or others in harm’s way. That's what paraphilic disorder is. Whether someone decides to get help for it is up to them, but it is always possible to recover and feel better!

We are not lost causes.

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A lot of you genuinely believe intersex liberatuon comes second hand to trans liberation and that trans people matter more. Intersex oppression is just an additive to trans oppression and shouldn't be a main focus. And I'm getting sick of it. I am sick of intersex people trying to make ignorant peritrans people listen just to be met with a bs analysis of oppression about how we "all suffer" so it [intersex oppression] doesn't really matter.

Perisex trans people need to realize intersex people are a minority in their own right and the oppression we face is not transphobia misdirected.

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one more time for the people in the back because im sick and tired of explaining consent laws:

you are allowed to have sex with whomever you want when you are 18. this means whomever.

you are also allowed to have sex with people 3-4 years older than you if you are a minor. This means, depending on the state where age of consent is 15 that mininumly aged person is allowed to legally fuck a 19 year old without it being stat rape. 16 -> 19/20, 17 -> 20/21, 18 -> 21/22. it's a way to give minors legal rights to fucking without jailing all of them for fucking each other.

this means that a freshman (14) dating a senior (17/18) is not predatory and actually normal dating within their age group. pretending like there is a huge difference between 1 year is not actually preventing rape from happening.

can yall stop being so fucking annoying about consent laws now. 14 and 18 year olds are not that different mentally and that is why age of consent laws exist. to protect children who want to fuck each other.

now, we can talk about whether or not romeo and juliet laws should go up to 3-5 years or if they should be more narrowly defined (i think 3 or 4 years is perfect limit imo) but to just paint every senior boy who dates a freshman girl as a sex predator just upholds patriarchy :) and doesnt protect girls from actual rape :)))))))

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Pluto in Aquarius

Pluto entered Aquarius last year, and with it came many assumptions about what could happen — including the belief that Pluto in Aquarius represents a massive technological leap: an era of conscious artificial intelligences, the fusion of human and machine, brain implants, automated cities, and algorithms that predict humanity’s every move. It’s an imaginary fed for decades by science fiction, neoliberal governments, and corporations profiting off the promise of 'progress.'

But Aquarius is not linear. Aquarius does not promise constant advancement as if history were a straight line toward the peak of modernity. Aquarius is rupture. It is disobedience. Pluto is death and rebirth.

When Pluto enters Aquarius, it doesn’t strengthen what Aquarius represents — it destroys what has already become corrupted within that archetype. And what could be more corrupted today than technology itself?

We are surrounded by promises of digital freedom, yet we are more watched, manipulated, and isolated than ever before. Technology has become a tool of surveillance, emotional dependence, and hyperproductivity. The machine that once symbolized innovation now traps us in addictive cycles of dopamine, information overload, and alienation.

Aquarius cries out for freedom — not control. And Pluto, in this sign, might remind us of that in the most radical way possible: not by evolving technology, but by dismantling its current form.

The point isn’t to deny advancement — it’s to ask: Who is benefiting from this so-called “progress”? Who profits from sustaining this digitalized system that disrespects human rhythms and exploits our data?

Pluto in Aquarius might carve out space for another vision of the future, one where liberation doesn’t come from perfecting machines, but from critically stepping away from them. This Pluto could mean:

The collapse of Big Tech as models of power;

A rebuilding of natural, spiritual, symbolic technologies;

A deep critique of the myth of progress, efficiency, and the capitalist logic of “always more.”

After all, Aquarius is also the sign of anarchy, of anti-order, of the vision that shatters expectations. And the greatest shattering of expectations today might be exactly this: that instead of becoming a humanity glued to screens and brains wired to the cloud, we choose a new way of living.

What if the Aquarian spirit realizes that technology has already served its purpose? That it has become a prison? And Aquarius — cannot stand any prison.

That’s why Pluto in Aquarius may very well mark the end of the digital age as we know it — not as a regression, but as an unexpected revolution, a call to true freedom — the opposite of what we expect (which is, in itself, deeply Aquarian).

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self-identified transsexuals with binary genders keep talking about how their experiences are "wildly different from nonbinary ones", but notice how they never mean "i have binary privilege and the chance to actually be seen as my gender" but instead "nonbinary people aren't nearly as oppressed as me because they basically have cisgender privilege".

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someone called me "divisive" for pointing out someone's binary language in a transgender-specific post, so here's a reminder:

it's people putting humanity into two gender boxes doing the dividing, not nonbinary people wanting to be seen.

it's the people separating good valid transgender men and women worth fighting for from supposedly invalid nonbinary people who aren't even worth mentioning doing the dividing, not nonbinary people pointing out systemic exclusion.

it's those excluding nonbinary who are being divisive, not nonbinary people taking up space.

most of the time calling nonbinary people divisive is absolutely ridiculous.

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“trans-inclusive radfem” yeah, cool. you think cis AND trans men are evil. great. such an improvement to the belief

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I think it's stupid that people won't believe the "out group" will help them.

Perisex people can be allies to intersex people

Cis people can be allies to trans people

Non queer people can be allies to the queer community

Transmasc and transfems and transneutrals all help each other

Men can be allies to women

White people can be allies to black, brown, hispanic, asian, and native people

Abled bodied people can be allies to physically disabled people

Neurotypicals can be allies to neurodivergent people, whether that's toward intellectual disability, mental health, learning disability, cognitive disability or other stuff

We're all in this fight together: don't forget it. Be an ally to the groups you're not a part of. Help people you see needing help.