transphobia/reality of laws 'banning drag' (long)
I am begging more people to understand that legal bans on drag are just an easier way to pass laws make being trans/GNC* in public illegal.
The claim that these laws are meant to "ban drag to protect children" is intended to hide the fact that they actually make "cross dressing" in public (aka "anywhere people under 18 could be") illegal.
That means if your ID says M and you are in a dress doing your grocery shopping you can be arrested. If your ID says F and you are wearing men's pants and a button down at your doctor's office you can be arrested.
This is not careless wording, it is a very pointed and purposeful way to get these laws passed before most people understanding their true intent and how they will be used.
They know people are less likely to oppose or work to stop a law that is "banning drag to protect children" from passing than a law "banning trans people from existing anywhere in public". They know that LGBTQIA+ people and our allies will not give as much time/energy to fighting what they think is a "ban on drag" than a "ban on trans people" because the level of importance and impact will seem lower.
They also want to stop drag and will use it to limit drag performances too, but the main targets/intent once these laws are passed is to use it against trans/GNC people so we literally cannot legally exist in any public space.
Their goal is to terrorize trans people out of existence, push us back into (or keep us from coming out of) the closet, and throw any of us who try to continue to exist in jail. Tennessee is now the first to pass one of these laws, but MANY states in the US have laws already being advanced that move them towards this goal.
It. Is. Not. About. Drag.
*GNC people like cis butches are also not the main target of these laws but will most likely be impacted more than drag performances will
Hey hey
Just fyi
If you're worried about non-white people becoming the majority where you live and think that it would be a bad thing
That's incredibly racist and you need to think about why you value non-white lives less than white lives
The existence of the sub-reddit /r/birdstakingthetrain/ presents us with a inescapable simple truth:
Even birds choose to ride the train, and THEY CAN FLY.
The US government has no excuse.
@ all of the teachers who go on about how wikipedia is an unreliable source but then treat their word and the textbook as fact
You are doing a bad job
Teaching kids that textbooks or teachers are a neutral source of factual information is a major part of the reason that people have a hard time recognizing when a source isn't reliable!!!
Like the fact that kids will say that they know a document is a reliable source of information because it was written by a historian or the government means that we have failed them horribly
This is #SocialMurder and there is no less severe word to call it, only worse.
I grew up in NL and the #ableism is horrific. I was kicked from schools for being chronically ill. I was ridiculed by doctors. I was denied care. I was subjected to degrading tests by the government for a chance at a measly benefit. I was bullied, hated, forcibly pushed away from society.
The first covid speech in the NL spoke of #HerdImmunity. Cold shivers down my spine. Obvious it was going to end like this.
2/2
The Outbreak Management Team of The Netherlands declared #covid endemic and advices to end testing, isolating and any #covid19 measures still in place (barely any). They proudly call this a milestone.
What about immunocompromised people? They just need to watch out and keep a safe distance from sick people, or kindly ask sick people to wear a mask when approaching them.
What about #LongCovid and other possible bad outcomes? Just gently ignore that. Shhh. We don't speak about those.
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yay, another fucking scrapebro
https://mas.to/@patrikcsak/109917221695178868
I wish them all the best whatever they are doing now, and wish for all of us still here to do the best that we can to make this a sincerely liberated social space and not just a bunch of nerdy flag waving hashtags-in-bio losers 2/2
Using this #FollowFriday to remember the friends we've lost from this space.
Deni, Swampy, Haf, Dumi, Ikora, everyone that stayed gone after PV closed or had to make themselves tiny and quiet elsewhere in this network; the ghosts of others I regularly stumble across in replies to old toots, and the people that are just about hanging on despite the shit they regularly face here. 1/2
I mean why is left unity, and often unity in general, trotted out to protect power & privilege? Why is it never like, "hey propping up white supremacy hurts left unity, knock it off." Really makes you wonder who "unity" is for.
Ik wil betaalbare huizen om in te wonen.
Ik wil toegankelijke zorg en onderwijs voor iedereen, naar ieders behoefte.
Ik wil een leefbare wereld voor mijn kind, en voor alle kinderen over de hele wereld.
Ik wil een coronabeleid dat mensenlevens nog waarde toekent, dat kwetsbaren beschermt en wetenschap centraal stelt.
Maar blijkbaar is dat te veel gevraagd...
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