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One Of These Days I'll Stop Swooning Over Every Girl I Meet, But that's Not Today
"reform the police"
The city of Albuquerque has been a test case for police reform since the cops murdered James Boyd in 2014. The DOJ stepped in, fired many of the officers, and has forced the APD to submit to federal oversight and adopt new accountability policies for the past six years. None of it has worked.
Valente Acosta-Bustillos was killed 3 months ago.
Max Mitnik was killed 2 weeks ago.
Clifton White has spent all month in jail for protesting.
All this time we've remained one of the worst places in the country for police shootings. Nothing has changed. I hope you'll think of ABQ when people urge you to push for reforms and half measures instead of abolition.
whenever it comes to identities you dont understand and you want to understand, its bad to come out of the gate with "this thing doesnt make any sense to me, how can you POSSIBLY be a he/him lesbian, he/him are MALE pronouns." because youre making it clear to whoever youre speaking to that youre coming not from a place of wanting to learn but instead from a place of reactionary confusion.
kill the part of your brain that gets defensive or frustrated when you learn about things that you find hard to understand
the 'I'll be your dad' statements
I know these are done in loving gestures, but they inadvertently are reminders that a figure that is supposed to represent unconditional love in fact represents trauma.
You, as a person, will not be my dad or someone else's dad that you are not already parenting or are going to parent.
You cannot step into someone's adult life particularly being the comparable age and assume the role of parent.
If anything it is accidentally hurtful.
People on masto have been taking down the bullshit reactionary arguments about how Pride is "inappropriate for children". Mads has talked about how those arguments relate to transmisogyny.
Apologies if I've missed it, but I'd like to briefly add that all these arguments are also racist, white supremacist specifically.
The hypothetical Child in these arguments, so innocent and fragile and needing of protection, is white. In reality, actual children of color, especially black children, face violence from fash and white supremacists and imperialists on all fronts. I'm going to let black people take the lead in discussing any details, but the information is out there if you look for it.
Also, at least on tumblr, while many well-meaning, good faith people may reblog "Pride is inappropriate for children" posts, the origins of the posts are fash and crypto-fash blogs. The fact that there is still hysteria about Pride parades in a year where a global pandemic has delayed parades indefinitely, indicates to me that most of these posts are a fascist, transmisogynist, racist psy-op.
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