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okay then let’s make more content about the Black characters

Like the tumblr tags of movie with a cast of 98% Black characters should not be overflowing with fan content of the white antagonist who is written specifically to be racist

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as a trans guy who’s been on HRT for like 5 years, I look like a butch lesbian. I have very little facial hair on my actual face (neck beard city) but I try to shave what I do have verryyy carefully before I go out because otherwise I’ll look like a woman with stubble and uhhh. I’m not sure if anyone knows this but. Women who have the appearance of stubble or facial hair are not treated as “women” when they’re out and about.

So in the 5 years of my medical transition I’ve never once been mistaken for a cis man or any kind of man IRL. I have been mistaken for a lesbian and a trans woman though. And I’ve been treated accordingly.

But on the internet? Well I’m treated like an invasive species by cis women, a joke by cis men, and a barely tolerated presence by queer people. Oh except if I try to say anything. Then I’m told I need to shut up and listen to WOMEN because my voice has no value as a MAN because I’ve never experienced misogyny the way women do and my life and reproductive rights aren’t at risk every election and obviously I can walk safely down a dark street with no repercussions at all.

Just another fabulous day in the life of a trans guy.

Trans men do not benefit from patriarchy. This is exactly why you’re getting shit over this take. The patriarchy hates trans men and constantly tries to detransition us. What about trans men who don’t pass? Do they really benefit from male privilege?

Even stealth trans men do not benefit from patriarchy as their ‘privilege’ is contingent on no one knowing they’re trans. The second people know, that goes out the window. Not ONLY that, but stealth trans men face issues as well, such as access to reproductive healthcare. And like we’ve said multiple times: you’re leaving out men of color in this conversation. It’s such a white take which makes sense bc you’re white but it’s extremely ignorant. All men are not equal under the patriarchy, and not living up to the idea of what a man is has severe consequences for those who don’t. I seriously implore you to listen to especially black trans men on this topic. Black masculinity is very demonized under the patriarchy.

Instead of lecturing to trans men on how oppressed we aren’t, try to learn something and stop hiding behind “I’m just saying what trans women say”. Guess what? Trans women are not immune from having bad takes or parroting radfem talking points.

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diversity win! some of the people colonising & ethnically cleansing native americans were newly freed Black folks!

I dont really fuck with american pop culture and its discourses anymore but Beyonce celebrating ethnic cleansing with her tour shirt is tooooo on the nose

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leftists who think they're soooo progressive because they don't support the christian church: "just out here doing the lord's work my gender neutral siblings in christ :)"

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love when guys hold their dicks when they’re putting them in someone’s mouth. like woooo here comes the airplane

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the way some of you talk about permanent markers tells me all I need to know about ur childhoods

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[SPELL CONSUMED: Wash self & bedding]

[BONUS ACTIVATED: +5 to mental health]

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honestly expected that last pic to be from "whattimeisthiscat" or some shit but nope. just swampjawn.

definitely one of The Pics of all time…

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sleep-eat a borgor in the shower for optimal mental health

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*is a cis woman*

society: sit down and shut up!! no one wants to hear your whiny female opinions, little girl!

queer spaces: sit down and shut up girl!! no one wants to hear how your straight-passing ass is just sooo oppressed —

*is a trans man*

society: sit down and shut up! no one wants to hear your stupid dyke opinions. go home to daddy sweetheart

queer spaces: sit down and shut up!!! no one wants to hear your oppressive MAN opinions! listen to WOMEN when they explain THEIR experiences!

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so like… do we ever get to talk or…?

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no no you don’t get it!! if we distance ourselves from all of The Worse Faggots(tm) and socially ostracize them so they’re easier for the government to make disappear then we’ll get the privilege of being the last ones sent to the work camps☝️😃 it’s all about finding a middle ground taking the high road being practical being smarter choosing the lesser evil being realistic accepting slow progress and choosing the bus going furthest from the work camps !!!!!

there's probably a better way of wording the last part but like come on it doesn't matter if we're all the same to fascists

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naked. yes.

what are you wearing rn and is it representative of your style

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tumblr fawners are always looking for their next idol to tell them who they should be today

Tumblr users will spontaneously gain superiority complexes about the most asinine shit in the world.

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me looking through my own blog: fuck i was so real for this. op your mind is so beautiful. you are always so right.

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y’all so addicted to haterology that good vibes & grooves upset you. disgraceful.

you seem like you unironically enjoyed electroswing circa 2012

this website's hate mail game is insane

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Jurassic Park (1993)

Huge, dangerous (possibly milf-like?) creatures are following me

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Something I’ve noticed is that leftist movements tend to turn practical, thought out tactics that were part of a larger plan for liberation, and remove them from their context. Then we often use these tactics as symbolic ways to mark our distaste for empire and harken back to older movements. However, these tactics are often already accounted for by the system, and sometimes are actively encouraged as ways to harm our people and defang our processes.

Here is an example;

In the Civil Rights struggle, getting arrested en mass was seen as an important part of the process of freedom. The civil rights leaders realized that the areas they were in did not have large enough jails to confine them all, and that if they filled the jails up, the police simply could not confine everyone else in the movement. Getting arrested in coordinated ways was a noble and helpful sacrifice that kept your brothers and sisters from getting arrested. Due to less strict sentencing at the time, and the ability of the movement to scare the police into releasing people, getting arrested often wasn’t the utterly disabling and free-life ending process it is today. (That’s not to say getting arrested was easy on people; the police brutality of the time was incredibly intense.)

Those who spent time in jail were given almost a reverent status. That had gone through much suffering to keep others from the same fate. Often, their ability to taking confinement completely off the table for the rest of the activists is precisely what allowed for certain other actions to be successful. Paying for legal defense and moderate bail costs was something of a drain on the movements scant, resources but it could often be worth it due to the role arrests played.

However, the state responded to this, and turned it to their benefit. The next fifty years saw a prison boom. Now, economically deprived small towns were made to bid and beg for prisons to be built in there areas; not only to lock people up, but also because working at the prison was presented as one of the only jobs left in rural America. Additionally, thisdrove the labor minded population to be further in conflict with other movements in some areas.

As the capacity of the government to capture and confine increased, the capacity of the movement to fill up the jails and prevent further arrests did not. Now, the system was hungry for more and more bodies for its endless rooms. It further instilled and mechanized the capacity of prisons to force labor, undercutting labor movements. Sentences became longer, parole became stricter, fines and restitutions increased to exorbitant amounts. Those who went in for petty arrests often never came out.

But, the feeling that getting arrested was a noble and venerable goal did not leave the movement. Some transitioned tactics; instead of filling up the jails to allow others to act without recourse, they sought to get arrested in test cases, as they had seen work occasionally before. But this too became more and more difficult, as the legal system realized it did not have to play by its own rules. Slowly but surely, the legal mythology that because it is written and because it is fair, it will be ruled so, began to overtake the minds of activists; even as they failed time and time again to win this way, they still threw countless of their friends into the mouth of the enemy, and condemned them to life in prison.

Even this had become a shadow of itself by the 2000s and 2010s. Arrest became an aesthetic goal instead of a practical one. The most radical in the movements were culturally encouraged to throw their lives away for petty protests that none would see, and would have no material impact on the operations of the system of dominion. The reality that getting kettled at a non violent protest could land you with the same jail time as a political assassination did not dawn upon these activists until long after hey were already in jail, and already disconnected from the movement. Their friends would gather all their meager savings towards bail funds, oftentimes going into debt, or otherwise extracting money from the rest of the marginalized communities supportive of the activism. Those funds would then go to the government in the form of bail, and then right back towards operating the same policing systems that targeted them. In this way, the main economic output of the leftists movement of the time was to fund the very systems of policing that they sought to destroy; and to get themselves and each other locked in cages in the process. Instead of developing practical systems of change, radicals were taught to emulate key aspects of the tactics of prior generations that had specifically been recuperated into the goals of the state.

Those who saw the futility in this were readily pushed towards the defanged and self acknowledged pointless marches of the nonviolent liberal movement, which never had any goal other than to once again emulate the visual aesthetics and personal emotional fulfillment of past movements.

We see this pattern play out all the time. People insisting on the radical importance of a leftist print newspaper in a time when print journalism is dead. A fetishization of industrial unionism in a town where no factory has been for three generations. Arguments over whether to support long defunct governments and long dead leaders for some tactical benefit which will never arise from reality.

It is long past time for us to realize that the process of achieving human liberation does not come from symbolic actions, nor from following the playbook of past movements. We must learn our history, yes, but not to emulate it; instead we must learn it to understand its failures and its successes, and, most importantly, how our movement ancestors interacted with the material conditions of their time to create multifaceted plans that met the needs of their people and made successful guerrilla war upon dominion.

We need to imagine ways of making change that are suited to the times that we are living in, the problems we face, and the opportunities that we have. This utterly necessitates that we get deeply embedded into the places and communities around us, that we listen with open ears to the problems our people are facing, and that we fold those ever more towards opportunities of liberation and care for one another.