#activism without intersectionality is oxymoronic

[evelynswiftie8]

And I’ll add!!! If governments and major corporations took more responsibility for the climate crisis instead of perpetuating the myth that it’s all YOUR fault, the environment would be in a way better shape than we can even right now imagine AND disabled people would be able access the disposable supplies they literally need to survive without coming under fire.

The idea that disabled people aren’t worth their carbon footprint is eugenics disguised as activism, but I don’t think those just getting into environmentalism/activism have any protection from this line of thinking until disabled voices are centred in the climate conversation.

This is why I will always scream the importance of both nuance and intersectionality in activism. You don’t know what you don’t know, and think this is a really good example of a perspective people just don’t even think to think from, and that lack of perspective leads to very dangerous rhetoric of whether disabled people deserve to survive.

Some people don’t want to hear this but sometimes accessibility is not sustainable or eco-friendly. Disabled people sometimes need straws, or pre-made meals in plastic containers, or single-use items. Just because you can work with your foods in their least processed and packaged form doesn’t mean everyone else can.

[pretty-girl-boy]

I just think its so funny when t*rfs say being trans is a mental illness but….. the person saying it is queer. babe. do you know what they said about gay people in the 50s?

“____ people are predators! keep them away from children!”

“____ are perverted, their lifestyle is a fetish, they’re deranged.”

“being ____ is a mental illness, we need to get these people ‘therapy’ and ‘treatment’ to convert them to a normal, cisheterosexual lifestyle, because any variation from a ‘normal’ expression is obviously a sign of a defective childhood, abuse, or trauma.”

“being ____ is a choice. if you just tried hard enough you could be normal.”

you could literally swap “gay” for “trans” and you’d have an identical set of morals. and it’s embarrassing to not recognize that.

“we need to protect women because they’re a marginalized identity!!!” ? and what do you think being trans is? most trans people I know are very vocal about wanting rights for all women, cis and trans. we want the same thing, which is for people of marginalized gender identities to not face discrimination, violence, or harassment, and to have a life full of joy. you’re so close.

if you just left your corner of the internet to read from trans queer perspectives (Leslie Feinberg, Kate Bornstein, etc), you would see that trans people have always been here, and we have always been loved by members of the queer community.

to say otherwise is to impose colonialism and patriarchy on the beautiful and varied human experience that is gender, that is both universal and particular, that is nuanced and (for some) can be reduced to simple terms. how can you say trans women are men appropriating women, or that trans men are self-hating women, when indigenous people from tribes all over the world, for centuries and centuries and millennia and millennia, have created trans identities outside of capitalism and patriarchy? where is the motivation to appropriate another gender for power struggles or a fetish when you live in a culture that already has gender equality?

instead of believing that trans people are inherently bad, wrong, perverted, why not believe that all people should be given the choice to express gender freely and without judgment? wouldn’t that benefit cis women as well?

why not listen to someone talk about their experience in good faith, and see their humanity before you see the things you hate about them? would you not wish the same thing for yourself, from your oppressor? how can we achieve equality when we actively oppress one another and will not hear each other? what is feminism without intersectionality? it cannot exist. it is an oxymoron. you either fight for the liberation of all people (yes, including cis men), or you fight for inequality.

you will never achieve the freedom you are looking for without trans people. you can never nicely and cleanly separate us from a movement without shooting your own foot in the process. liberating us will liberate yourself.