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Exclus went full circle.

"I'm attracted to one gender" -> "I am bisexual". Lolgic!

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“Who was I now—woman or man? That question could never be answered as long as those were the only choices; it could never be answered if it had to be asked.”

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

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I feel I should specify when I talk about the vast majority of Israelis supporting this genocide it's not to call for violence of them or even to demonise them. It's to call attention to Israel having a genocidal education system which dehumanises Palestinians from the moment Israelis start school. Ilan Pappé did a study in 1994 of the Israeli education system and raised the alarm that it would raise a generation who are even worse than those who first colonised Palestine in 1948. We're seeing the truth of that now.

I raise this point because we're seeing this attempt by politicians and the media to claim that it's just Netanyahu who is to blame for this genocide and not a systematic problem that requires boycotting, divestments and sanctions to push them to correct. This lie is being pushed because they do not want to change the status quo which allows for Israel to steal Palestinian land and homes and keep Palestinians under military occupation.

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verso books has made books on palestine, mass protests, and student rebellions free to download on their website

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Transfem to Transmasc solitary must exist as much as any trans solidarity must exist.

Protect my boys.

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remember woodys roundup

i feel like i just had a flashback

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For today's Trans Day of Remembrance, here's some of my favourite photos in the Archivo de la Memoria Trans Argentina, a trans-led collective dedicated to build an audiovisual archive to proteger, construir y reivindicar la memoria trans argentina a través de fotos, videos y recortes de diarios, además de diversas piezas como DNIs, pasaportes, cartas, notas, legajos policiales, artículos de revistas, y diarios personales [to protect, build and revindicate Argentinian trans memory through photos, videos and newspaper clippings, in addition to various pieces such as ID cards, passports, letters, notes, police files, magazine articles, and personal diaries]. The archive has + 15.000 pieces from the beginning of the 20th century to the 1990s. The collection continues to grow thanks to donations of material made by the survivors themselves, and their families and friends.

If you're a Spanish speaker, please visit the Archive's pages where you can read about each piece and its protagonists.

You can support the AMT thru the info in their site.

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environmental storytelling

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if you only want to abolish sex work and not all work, you're not concerned about women being coerced and exploited, you're just concerned about women being whores

All of my in person sex work clients and the majority of the phone ones were more respectful and less traumatizing than the average Target shopper was when I worked there through six departments in two years

The one TRULY disrespectful and potentially dangerous irl client I've had doing sex work ended up getting his ass beat and getting booted without a refund. At Target, for an entire year, a child employee (16) was forced to hide in the breakroom any time one specific stalker came in looking for her. Management wouldn't ban him.

Just. Thinking about that sex work clients post. Yes, some of them say horrible things. No worse than any retail or call center customer. Ever.

When the pervy guy calls the hotel reservations line jerking off and moaning, my supervisor had a duty to keep him on the line and keep trying to book him even though he just hung up when he came after making her uncomfortable for 20 minutes. Phone sex averages $2/minute and you can hang up on anyone for any reason, they might just get a refund.

Why are sex work customers and clients seen as the inherent slimebags? When they're the ones exercising an understanding of consensual exchange of money and services within specific limitations. Not the multiple people who reached over my register to touch me when I was 18. Or the woman who told me I was everything wrong with the world and I should die bc we were out of soft pretzels when i was also 18. Nobody's ever said soulcrushing shit like that to me as a sex worker lmao, "ugly fat whore" is just facts

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“Release The Hostages” is such an interesting statement. The Israeli hostages taken by Hamas are often used to justify the starving, bombing, r*ping and killing of thousands of civilians in Gaza. These Israeli lives are placed above that of the starving children, of the mothers who have lost their babies, of the women and girls r*ped by the IDF, of the fathers, brothers, grandparents, of the disabled Palestinians unable to get to safety or access essential medical services. So we wonder…

Do Zionists think that flattening Gaza, where the hostages are, with near constant bombardment, is in any way productive in releasing the Israeli (settler) hostages?

Do Zionists not think it’s incredibly strange that Netanyahu rejected a hostage deal from Hamas, because he’s way more concerned with “absolute victory” (complete destruction of Gaza) than rescuing the hostages?

And finally, do Zionists not find it even more strange that the most technologically advanced and sophisticated elite Israeli military, complete with Mossad agents, resort to bombing Gaza beyond repair as opposed to… infiltrating the ground to rescue the hostages themselves…?

If you think bombing the location where the hostages possibly are is saving anybody, and if you think Israel are doing any of this or anything to rescue them, then you are beyond help.

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This problem is nothing new, but this specific example with these numbers puts it into a fucking brutal perspective.

To put these numbers a different way: A Taco Bell burrito that used to cost ~7 minutes and 20 seconds of minimum wage work now costs ~30 minutes and 30 seconds of minimum wage work.

You used to be able to work at Taco Bell anywhere in the country and make enough money in one hour to buy at least 8 burritos (maybe 9 if you're a manager or something) and feed, like, 3-4 people a decently-filling meal. But now, the same amount of work at the same job will get you one meal for one person. And this change has happened over a mere 15 years.

Remember this whenever you see rich people demonize younger generations for our financial situations, when they call us irresponsible for not investing a ton of money in savings accounts.

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My roommate and I are financially unstable while he does through a long, complicated diagnosis process that started as we stopped being homeless. I interviewed for a job and was told I got the job and then ghosted, but I've applied for a few others too.

Right now, we need help with bills. We got my laptop fixed, and we are fine on food, but my roommate also has an appointment coming up with his gastrointerologist. The goal below will cover bills and that appointment.

Dm me for proof or details

I dont mind. I have his medical records, proof of bills, etc. I will do art for any who gives $50+ and I also take commissions, just contact me at my art blog @theartistrans

Dm me for zelle

$creepiecrippl

V: tab-99

$25/$652

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if you're just joining us, george takei is having to educate jk rowling on holocaust denial

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"Sex work is work crowd/liberals/pimp lobby: women in sex work want to be there! stop taking away their agency you puritanfeminists!

89% of prostituted women worldwide: We want to leave but feel we cannot or do not know how."

"Imagine wanting to abolish slavery in a country, but the 11% of those enslaved who are under slightly better working conditions don't want slavery to be abolished. Would it make sense to reconsider abolishing it cause of that 11%?"

idk where this is coming from but brother i'm a communist, the extraction of surplus value from labor is always exploitation. ask the millions of migrants in the US and UK whose visas are tied to their employment with no option to change employer lest they be deported how they feel about their options to seek other lines of work. no liberation takes places when a brothel is raided and the formerly prostituted women sew jackets at the sweatshop down the street instead.

if abolishing specifically and only sex work and not work as an institution is your aim, you do not care about making sure women are not exploited and marginalized, you only care about making sure they're not whores. we are not even remotely engaging in the same conversation so go find someone else to type words at

#sex work #what even brought this on 💀

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by "anarchist past" they mean "was part of an organization that gave food to the homeless" btw

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Yesterday, Sunday 25th February, a man self-immolated outside the Israeli embassy in Washington D.C. His name was Aaron Bushnell, 25 years old, a member of the US Air Force. Whilst burning, he screamed “Free Palestine” in protest against the ongoing genocide and refusing to be apart of the US Military’s complacency.

Self-immolation is a historic act of protest; during the Vietnam War, Thích Quảng Đức, a Muhayana Buddhist monk, self-immolated in protest of the persecution of Buddhist Monks by the South Vietnamese government.

We believe Aaron Bushnell’s spirit will see a Free Palestine, may his memory be a blessing and may it fuel this revolution. May his sacrifice be a call to action for those who should have ended this seige on Gaza, on Palestine, decades ago.

You can read a thread on Bushnell’s sacrificial protest here, however we must warn you in advance for disturbing details. As much as his protest is important, please don’t put yourself in mental anguish if you know you cannot manage something like this in this moment. Come back to it when you can, as his noble sacrifice should be honoured.

His passing will not be in vain.