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my body is NOT. a “”temple””….it is a CLOWN CAR, and NONE OF THESE BITCHES KNOW HOW 2 DRIVE

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my friends constantly forget plans with me and it do be weighing on my mental health though

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ID: a small, scattered crowd surrounds a black guillotine being erected on a sidewalk by one person crouching by it and another standing. the camera pans around the scene.

August 27 2020 - Protesters demanding a $30 minimum wage for Amazon workers set up a guillotine in front of one of Jeff Bezos’ homes, after he became the first person to have hoarded over 200 billion dollars. “Give a good reason why we don’t deserve a $30 an hour minimum wage when this man makes $4,000 a second,” an organizer and former Amazon employee said. [video]

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been seeing a lot of ‘you can’t be punk if you do x bigoted behavior’ type posts lately and like,,, while that’s a nice sentiment it does nothing to change the reality that the alternative scene is rife with racism and misogyny and has been since the beginning and simply trying to define those people out of the scene will not get rid of their established place in it,,, those of us who are in this because we believe that the spirit of punk and alternative music is about standing up to oppression and anger that comes from a love of people who have been beaten down by the world have a responsibility to acknowledge the ingrained flaws in this subculture and its history and always be vigilant in taking active steps to transform it

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photo id: john mulaney in a mustard yellow collared jacket on a pink splattered purple background. he speaks to a child in the foreground. in the first slide he is grimacing with his eyes closed. in the second his eyes have opened and the angle of his head has shifted. the subtitles read "and people were like, 'this is very ground breaking!' but it was just very misogynistic." end id

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photo id: a picture of a poem on a page. the word "Him" is larger and a few lines above the rest of the poem like a title.

"Ah, there he is.

That motherfucker.

What a tool."

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a society that allows people to starve when there is food has failed. like. that’s it.

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Stormé DeLarvarie was a butch lesbian activist and drag king performer who is remembered (although not often enough) for her involvement in the Stonewall Riots (which she always chose to refer to as a rebellion or uprising as opposed to a riot). She was very active in the NYC LGBT community and worked as a bouncer for lesbian bars until she was 85 years old, and was called the "guardian of lesbians in the village".

Stormé deserves better than only being used by transmisogynists to discount Marsha P Johsnson and Sylvia Rivera. Her involvement in Stonewall and vigilant protection of other lesbians, as well as involvement in programs to assist women and children who were victims of abuse, should be remembered and she should be held up more often on tumblr for what she was, an extremely important person in LGBT history.

[Image description: two black and white photos of Stormé, a mixed race woman in androgynous style. The first picture is a head and shoulders shot of her in a suit and bowtie. The second picture picture shows her on a bench outdoors, wearing a more casual sweater. End description]

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When dealing with T.ERFS in an online environment it’s essential to block them and no platform them. Do not engage.

Is it possible to de-radicalize a T.ERF? Yes, there are people who’s lives are dedicated to de-radicalizing members of hate groups. However, you’re not going to manage it talking to them on Tumblr anymore than you’d succeed in converting a Proud Boy.

If you try to “debate” with them, or share their content in any capacity, you’re exposing it to more people - and some of those people might be disenfranchised, ripe for the picking of radicalization.

Block them. Do not share their posts. Do not share screen caps of their posts. Do not respond to their replies on yours posts. Do not answer their asks. Delete their Anon asks.

Donate to organization like The Sylvia Rivera Law Project, TransWomen of Color Collective, and El/La Para Trans Latinas.

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photo id: red text centered on a black background: "do you think/about me still?" the two lines overlap slightly

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HERE ON THIS BLOG WE GIVE A FUCK!! APATHY FEEDS THE MACHINE! WE ARE ALL ABOUT LOVING AND CARING DEEPLY FOR HUMANITY HERE!

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Our current landlady is the very image of one of those landlords who’d be spared the guillotine.

She’s an older, polite, maternal (white, middle class) woman who just happened to have enough money to buy a spare house, and is renting it to top up her pension. She reads The Guardian and asks after my family and does the occasional repair when necessary. She’s not one of those evil landlords.

She also just repeatedly lied to our faces about our contracts to try to get us to forfeit most of the rights we have as tenants. She also visits frequently, criticising how we live and reminding us that our home belongs to her. She also condescendingly and unnecessarily explains to us how boilers and washing machines and carpets work.

She explains to us how renting works.

She explains it with an indulgent smile, like a grandmother talking to a child, as if she’s being terribly patient about correcting our misunderstandings.

And she lies.

She lies because as much as she wants to convince us, everyone else, and even herself that she’s a good person, our entire relationship is based on the power she holds over us. She uses her wealth and position in society to extort payment from us, who have nowhere to live. We sacrifice to her the majority of the income we spend our lives earning, just so we can have a roof over our heads. But any time we don’t show proper deference to her, she could have us out on the street in weeks or months. We’d lose our home, because to her it is merely an asset which in no way belongs to us, the people who live there.

Today she repeatedly lied to us about our contract, and about the law, because she wanted us to have the minimum legal power possible. If I didn’t organise with a local tenants’ union, I wouldn’t have known my rights. And if I didn’t have the security of being a member of that union behind me, I never would have had the guts to challenge her. My housemate had no idea she was lying, and would have trusted her, signing away what few rights we had under the law.

As part of this tenants’ union, I’m always fighting with the worst landlords - the ones who keep people living in squalor, the ones with a dozen properties, the ones who are violent and abusive. But today has reminded me that even the “nice” landlords are still scum.

A genuinely good person who has enough spare money to buy a spare house (which is a lot of money! they wouldn’t need more!) would just let people who need a home live there, not bleed them of their income for the privilege of a warm place to sleep.

Never trust a landlord.

But more importantly, join a tenants’ union, and take back the power they hold over you. It was one of the most empowering things I’ve ever done.

In London, I recommend London Renters Union.

In Scotland: Living Rent.

In the rest of the UK: ACORN.

+ there are tenants’ unions all over the world, and housing co-ops where everyone who lives there part-owns their home and there’s no landlord to answer to