"but it's because women were at the forefront, but they got kicked out because of misogyny of men. And that has never left. That's still there. And we see that today by, you know, gay women spaces or sapphic spaces. You don't have a lot of that. And it's all the built-in misogyny."
Landon Cider in "Give it to me Straight"
Thinking about this and how I feel like transmasculine people very much face the same belittling when it comes to how we interact with the rest of the queer community. That we don't know our own experience, we don't have "community", we are women invading male spaces and yet at the same time men invading womens spaces.
i know there's virtually no media coverage for it, but australia did turn out yesterday for palestine across our capital cities. brisbane adelaide melbourne and sydney all came out, and several of the crowds were the biggest they've been since the protests started. we're still here, and we still care, even if murdoch wants you to think we're silent
Rapper Macklemore posts on Instagram a song in support of Palestine called “HIND’S HALL” that will be on streaming platforms soon and all proceeds will go to UNRWA
hey boss i can't come in today it's a sunny day and there's a lovely breeze coming in through my window, yeah it's rustling the branches of the tree outside that's finally bloomed so it's pretty serious
"Although important discontinuities separate lesbian butch experience and female-to-male transsexual experience, there are also significant points of connection. Some butches are psychologically indistinguishable from female-to-male transsexuals, except for the identities they choose and the extent to which they are willing or able to alter their bodies. Many FTM's live as butches before adopting transsexual or male identities. Some individuals explore each identity before choosing one that is more meaningful for them, and others use both categories to interpret and organize their experience. The boundaries between the categories of butch and transsexual are permeable."
-"Of Catamites and Kings: Reflections on butch, gender, and boundaries" by Gayle Rubin, The Persistent Desire, (Joan Nestle) (1992)
sorry but this is important. in a globalized world with more than enough food for all crop failures do not need to lead to starvation.
the world food program estimates it would cost about $40 billion to end global hunger for a year. less than a quarter of elon musk’s current net worth, or less than half of what joe biden has spent funding the genocide of palestinians.
even if there was not enough food to feed everyone, as may happen with climate change and ecological collapse, the choice of who does and does not eat will always be political. the distribution of power is the definition of politics, and that includes the power to eat.
remember that during the irish ‘famine’ ireland was a net exporter of food. it was the bread basket of england. it was only the potatoes that the irish relied on for subsistence that failed. and i’m pretty sure even the blight itself was political, a result of human monocultural farming practices. potatoes aren’t even native to ireland, or europe.