love is an act of resistance
14.02.2025 20:57
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love is an act of resistance
simply repeating the straight reporting of what is happening in the executive branch makes you sound like you have lost your mind.
Literally same!
The Justice Dept. orders investigations of any city and state officials who obstruct immigration enforcement. Image: Two men in dark coats stand outside the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building in Washington. The Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building in Washington.Credit...Rod Lamkey Jr. for The New York Times The interim leadership of the Justice Department has ordered U.S. attorneys around the country to investigate and prosecute law enforcement officials in states and cities if they refuse to enforce the Trump administration’s new immigration policies, according to an internal department memo. The three-page memo, intended as guidance to all department employees for carrying out President Trump’s executive orders seeking to limit immigration and foreign gangs, asserts that state and local officials are bound to cooperate with the department under the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause and could face criminal prosecution or civil penalties if they fail to comply.
"Hitler orders investigations and charges of officials who refuse to turn over Jews."
AOC: I don’t care what Elon Musk is doing behind the presidential seal, but in this country we hate Nazis. Kind of like a foundational defining thing. Two of the foundational things about American history is that we beat the confederates and we beat the Nazis.
Or when they’ve been posting about how “LGBT rights are under attack”. Like when other cis people read that they think gay marriage not trans genocide. It really doesn’t match the energy of the moment
I am not a man.
Evan Urquhart is not a woman.
No matter what Trump's government said.
So much of what Trump wants to do targeting trans people will depend on cisgender people to enforce his policies and police our bodies and spaces we exist in.
So much can be stopped by people refusing to do so.
Trans Liberation Now.
Trump can sign his orders, they can pass their bills, ban our existence. None of it changes who we are.
Being trans is a gift and one I am so grateful to have received. No fascist Trumpist nationalist bullshit will ever change that.
Get some rest. Stay safe. Keep fighting.
Jael, I’ve really appreciated your writing in this space. Having your work as one of the few reliable sources of accurate information has been really essential to staying informed
This makes so much sense as a cis lesbian in close community with a lot of trans lesbians
More and more I am convinced that the only effective queer activism is going to be loud, unrelenting, and confrontational. Yes it will also be useful to have "friendly" and respectable queers who can do diplomacy and negotiation but those folx will need a stick and we need to be that stick.
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This is great work.
Another way to say these businesses are “erasing progress” is that they are re-segregating. The latter more pointedly gets at what’s at stake.
i spent a month investigating how republicans could cut off access to trans healthcare for most americans, and how democrats can likely stop them — but it’s unclear if they will.
tw: president of wpath warning of mass suicides
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The thing is, trans people aren't even the end game for conservatives.
We are just the ritual sacrifice on the alter of white supremacy to resurrect the demons that are 1950s misogyny and racism
The struggle for trans rights is an always will be a struggle to allow people to have autonomy over our own bodies.
As is the struggle for reproductive rights.
Any person cis or trans who values the ability to have autonomy over their own bodies should be paying attention to this struggle.
I think there is genuinely little grappling with gender dysphoria not so much as a mystical force from some internal self but the logical consequence of being denied autonomy of your own body and freedom over your own life which are, in fact, life-threatening conditions
my not-unprofessional opinion is this trans youth care ban would not be before the Supreme Court at all if not for Alliance Defending Freedom (aka the people who brought you Dobbs) and would not be treated as a "tough" issue for "even liberals" if not for the New York Times
The possibility for regret is a consequence of having freedom of choice. The only way to remove all possibility of regret is to remove all possibility of choice.
This is a mask off moment.
What about the regret of trans children and adults who regret not being able to transition earlier? It is so plainly discriminatory to deprioritize trans people’s regret over detransitioners regret.
This should be said everywhere. Allowing discrimination like this against trans people undermines bedrock principles of constitutional rights across the board.
4/ Then I would ask the person how they would feel if they were constantly assumed to be the wrong gender
3/ and then I would talk about how trans women share many of those same connections to womanhood. The primary difference is that they were born into a society that tried to force them into a gendered category that felt wrong
2/ And if they try to talk about biology, I personally would respond “I’d be pretty offended if you tried to reduce my womanhood to my biology alone. It’s much more complicated than that” and then talk about all of the complex expansive things womanhood means for me personally.
1/ If somebody is asking me this question they better be ready for a long conversation. Because to answer this question we need to talk about what makes anybody the gender they are. What makes them whatever gender they are? What makes me a cis woman?
Responding to a comment asking whether it would be better “debate whether gender ideology has gone too far” he responded with this comment, where he says the movement for trans rights was tacked on after gay rights was “won” after federal marriage legalization. It’s infuriating
This absolutely tool responded to a comment being like “why shouldn’t we just debate ‘gender ideology’” like this. What a tool
A framing I’ve found useful when talking with fellow cis people is talking about how the attacks on trans people and the attacks on reproductive rights are the same fight in many ways. They’re both fundamentally attacks on our right to be able to make choices for our own bodies.
'The readiness to repudiate identity politics & group them under “bad woke” is less about policy and more about the fact that social justice never really found a home amongst liberals, who were happy to capture its energy but not its demands.'
The week's column
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"Our greatest power to resist oppression and death comes from our connections with one another, our ability to create community structures through which we can give and receive care, make art, share pleasure and raise our collective voices."
@razorfemme.bsky.social
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Genuinely that’s why I think community care is going to be such an important part of resistance under this administration. The work will be so exhausting, we have to commit to showing up for each other as human beings as well
