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Leslie Feinberg speaking about activists only letting the most palatable mainstream-acceptable members of a group represent the movement. 

[CC: “But, as soon as a movement begins to emerge and shake things up you get two approaches. First, you get suddenly those from on high who have never been our friends before who come rushing up to say ‘Wait wait wait wait wait! Don’t- don’t… don’t go too fast. Wait, we’re gonna show you how to work within the system.’ And they say ‘You know, some of these people, you don’t want to associate with them in the movement. They’re so angry. They’re gonna discredit your cause.’ Angry. You know, as if anger against oppression is not a clean-burning fuel. They say ‘Well just take a group of your best educated and most articulate and most well-dressed’ Well you know right away we should just say ‘That’s-That’s just racist, elitist, classist-coded. We know what that means.’ But they say ‘You know, if you could just get away from those people who are kind of bringing your struggle down and they’re bringing in all these extraneous things, you know, racism and sexism and the… you- you don’t want a mess… just gay rights now, keep it simple. You know, just one demand and that’ll kinda trickle down, you know.’ But those of us who have traditionally been trickled ON are not real impressed with that strategy. Because here’s what happens, they say ‘Well we’re just gonna go inside and negotiate for these rights. And kinda like, eh, don’t make any noise, you know.’ Well, they go inside to negotiate and you can be outside waiting and waiting and waiting and they’re not comin’ out. Because the next thing you know they’re the, like, governor’s advisor to this or they’re hoping they’re gonna get invited to the White House or they’re on this advisory committee. They’re finding more affinity with those they’re sitting across the table from than the people who they left around the corner.”]

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Hi Y’all! I’m going out of town for a large palestine protest as a street medic, and to the IWW convention as a delegate.

I have to take time off work and I don’t have any paid vacation days at this job since they’ve incorrectly labeled me as part time.

So going to these events is going to be a monetary burden.

So I’d likely to humbly ask for some donations so I can pay my rent and have food on the table. My cash app is here https://cash.app/$Streetmedicdyke

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Probably the saddest poverty lunch I’ve ever had.

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If sexual activity between same-gender people became illegal, the police would be the ones enforcing those laws.

That's why police are not welcome at Pride. Pride is for unconditional supporters, not for those who would become enemies as soon as they're ordered to.

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Being a femme can be such a double-edged sword sometimes.

Integral to my identity as a femme is my empathy. For me, this goes back to the historic role that femmes have played as pillars of emotional support and understanding for butches and studs.

Simultaneously, I’ve been taken advantage of for my empathy, for people who put all of their trauma on me and expected me to heal all of their wounds. I’ve also given my heart too easily to people who didn’t treat it with care.

Being a femme is one of the best aspects of my life but has also brought me a fair share of hurt and heartache.

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The older gay guy at my work said I have rough butch dyke hands 🥹❤️

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Man I love injuring myself for 13 an hour.

#real proletariat hours

#grocery

#food service

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Not my co workers actually telling me the best way to clean the meat slicer is to turn it on and hold a rag against it

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mascs will put on a black t-shirt and be like i'm such a slut.

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Daria and Jane and being gay in the 90s

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Okay here's my obligatory post about Tumblr users and their ignorance of rap, as a (white) fan of rap:

Saying "Not all rap music is about violence, here are alternatives" is not helpful, because the violent music ALSO has meaning.

When Biggie Smalls postures about his gang connections and packing heat, he isn't doing it because wow violence is so edgy, it's a powerful statement. Youth in urban areas where gang activity is heavy are often treated as lesser than by default, especially compared to black people the same age from a wealthy background. There's a reason that the "wholesome and respectable" black-lead entertainment of that era was stuff like the Cosby Show, with doctor-lawyer parents, or Family Matters, with a cop dad. There's a reason why the big joke of Fresh Prince is someone with a more unstable upbringing moving in with one of these model black sitcom families.

Standing up and saying yeah, I came from the mean streets, I was molded by this violence and yes, I did what I had to do to survive in a world that refuses to acknowledge my existence as meaningful or worthy of protection. I protected myself, I made my own way, and fuck anybody who tries to stand in the way of that.

Refusing to demonize that environment and wearing it like armor in a way that protects from the authority that wants you to see them as sub humans incapable of only violence and hatred, and saying HEY. I'm here, I lived this, and there is love and there is pain and there is ART in this.

That is powerful. That is the essence of gangster rap.

It isn't about hurting people for fun, it's about holding a mirror up to a society that does the hurting and then calls you a monster for what it's made you. Its about validating the experiences of the disenfranchised and biting back at authority. It's about turning a pain that the world say you deserve being one of those people from those places into POETRY. Into ART.

And thats why it matters.

And thats why you need to shut the yell up and stop dismissing it as violence without substance when you all sat on your ass listening to songs about Hatsune Miku eating people in middle school.

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shampoo & conditioner… aka the “salt & pepper” of being in the shower. 1 reblog = 1 agree. cheers

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reblog this if it’s ok for a butch to dm you <3

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"maybe if i dress more boring i'll get gendered correctly by strangers" that's the devil talking

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I stand with Palestine. From the river to the sea