Kiinnostava uusi tutkielma: «Saako olla ruskea queer? Isaac Senen "Kuuma jäbä" -teoksen ehdot suomalaisen popmusiikin mediakehyksissä» https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe202402238563
Ithaca cops got in increased budget, while Family and Children's Services terminated their entire outreach team, and now one of our main addiction recovery facilities is closing.
This is what it looks like to live in a dying, violent war empire. We are already fascist.
Benito Mussolini's definition of #Fascism is the melding of corporation and state
By that definition we've been a Fascist country since #CitizensUnited
It's just taken a little time for the gloves to come off
My own understanding is that Fascism is what we've been trained to call #Capitalism when it starts treating ytpipo the way it's been treating #BIPOC folks the whole time
I will be supporting the federal #NDP at next elections because I can't forgive #Trudeau over #Gaza#Palestine & can't get over #ForkedTongue on several other issues that are very important to me & many #Canadian#BIPOC voters
I don't even like NDP either but it's them or covert WS dude with a pretty face or full out fascist fuckers. Unlike USA - with no real decent election choices between racist sellouts - we still have some options in #Canada.
'Umbhoxo, Making Rugby an Afrikan Game’, corrects myths that #Black#Africans started playing #rugby or introduced to the sport 30 yrs ago when #SouthAfrica gained independence & tells a tale of how this #sport helped many Africans escape the harsh realities of #colonialism & #apartheid.
The #book is a collaborative work by Philani Nongogo, Bantu Siwisa, Hendrik Snyders, and Mzukisi Twala. #Historical analysis of the history of black Africans in rugby since the 1820’s.
I'm buying 2 copies. One for my little free community library. The other is to gift to the Intercultural Assn in Victoria for their #BIPOC library/educational resources. I also plan to write to schools to ask if they can buy a copy for their school libraries. This is how I try to do grassroots, individual citizen action on getting more #POCbooks into public schools & free community libraries.
Let's start a #mutualaid chain! Post any asks you have, particularly for #queer#trans and #bipoc communities, and we'll all try to help. To start, here's a cross-post from a friend:)
Please don't forge ahead with trying to create mutual aid offline communities, with pleas to public about how it helps BIPOC - without talking to or asking for input from us, first.
Please don't ever speak for us, when you haven't even made efforts to speak TO US, first. This is about respect for #POCvoices. I feel the same about disability rights fights - nothing without us; you need to remember to talk to us, first.
Indian Termination was a gov't policy from 1946-70 when the US wanted to end Native self-governance
A law passed by Congress on Aug 1st 1953, sought to end every tribe in California, Florida, New York, and Texas, and tribes like the Menominee Tribe (Wisconson) or Flathead Reservation (Montana) "at the earliest possible time”. Many Natives were also relocated off their lands. Over 3 million acres were stolen in this period
Today I discovered DeLila Black one of the many awesome #BIPOC#Musicians. She tells stories that make you shiver, it's amazing: https://delilablack.bandcamp.com/
(if you don't have much time, just listen to her newest single "Accountability"!)
Also, for those who follow(ed) James/Stephanie Sterling, you know her work from her time with an alternative rock project "Drill Queen" who wrote "Born Depressed", famously featured on their YouTube intro :)
Some still argue that abandoning Twitter is a form of cowardice or retreat — giving up the digital public square to the trolls and propagandists. But staying implies complicity with the breakdown of constructive discourse and the race to the bottom.
@Daojoan Some stay on Twitter because, despite all the hostility, it's still a far more diverse place when it comes to #BIPOC people than the #Fediverse.
"By supremacy I mean the spiritual alignment that some people matter, and others do not matter; that those who matter have earned life already and those who do not must earn it by being used by those who do matter; that if they cannot earn life, then they should be discarded for their crime of existing" https://armoxon.substack.com/p/bully-tactics