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hiiii my babies!!! ian been on here 4ever cus i had used this page 4 a school project then started feeling exposed/watched but idgaf, this my shit fr

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can i get a kiss? :3

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Perfect Blue

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the moan butches let out when you cum for them that tells you they’re getting off just from watching and feeling you is enough to make you fall in love 🥺😵‍💫🫠

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Hey femmes have you ever thought, "I like masturbating on my own because I know the best way to get myself off but goodness it gets lonely"?

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Butches! Coming to a spot near you!

(Warning! Due to societal error many butches are too scared to make the first move, show your interest Today before they disappear of our shelves)

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Poetics of Black Becoming: A Manifesto/Syllabus by 7vyn

A Prelude:

i am 7vyn. that is a self-given name that i claim in exploration of my gender and its manifestation of xpression through the digital. 7vyn is dislocated and pixelated embodiedment. a dis-spirit(ed) alien(ated) straddling human and monstrous livlihood. as 7vyn and thru this account, i hope to host a pilot of a manifesto/syllabus that crafts a tangible imaginative world that centers decolonial praxis. i wanted to create a place where texts central to themes of interest for me could live together on the same throughline to think with, around, and beyond each other.

why syllabus?

this is a tradition that came long before my attempts at uniting the scholarly and the activist for more fluid models of knowledge production and sharing. some considerations that made the syllabus a useful tool for me include:

proclamation, this syllabus is not making an argument as much as it is just saying, uniting threads of information. this syllabus is not engaged in any larger debate as much as it is a declaration of a more considerate, passionate, just world and its maintainance and flourishing needs. this syllabus/manifesto is the bare bones of a lineage of thought greater than my own wing-span, so rather than declare and leave thought to the wind as many in the tradition of manifesto do, i insist on the collabortative intention and nature of this piece. as in, this syllabus can be added to. this syllabus will remain malleauble and engaged.

invitation to learning, this syllabus/manifesto is creating a sort of index library or guide map of thinking toward decolonization in a Black trans-cyber-anarchafeminist tradition. this manifesto is uninterested in interacting with and sharing knowledge in such a way designed to exlude nonmembers of academia. so, i use my institutional access to create knowledge beyond academic spaces, straddling the line between academia and activism and daring myself and other producers of knowledge and culture to be intentional about the the work we do to prioritize and care for our audiences of intention. because this is a collaborative work, i most aim for Black transfeminists with specific niches related to the digital and decolonization (broadly) or even beyond to progress and advance the thinking of this syllabus. i encourage all others to engage this manifesto/syllabus as a learning tool.

accessible. this manifesto does not privilege knowledge. by this i mean, i am not the owner of this knowledge, i am merely an assembler, a curator. i also reject bullshit academic vernacular because i believe that is a method of exclusion and i want everyone, even people this is not useful for to at least be able to meaningfully engage with the information offered. i elect to spark enthusiasm and curiousity, not headaches.

translatable. because i think of this manifesto/syllabus as a useful learning tool, i believe that it should also have a flexibility that supports it as a learning model. this means i currently understand the syllabus/manifesto as a zine, twine game, installation, digital exhibition, and on a decentralized platform. these are initiatives i hope to take up later in the life of the manifesto/syllabus, hopefully in direct collaboration with other scholars, organizations, activists, cultural & knowledge workers, etc.

this is a living document + post. i will return as needed to update information, offer specificity, add resources, activities, prompts, and more. this post will serve as the original and masterlist. below you can gain access to some preliminary writing on the sources I have decided to include, key concepts I am drawing from them, and why they are useful to my thinking (and potentially yours too!). as i may have stated earlier in this post, this is just the pilot of this project for me. so what you see as of now (5/17/2024) is just the bare bones of something i will be building outward as long as i need to.

Solidarity (tag: #solid, where strength lies)

Accomplices Not Allies by Indigenous Action

Insurrectionary Mutual Aid by Curious George Brigade

Power Makes Us Sick Issue #3

Resistance (tag: #push/pull)

My Gender is Marronage by Nsambu Za Suekama/Bl3ssing

Them Goon Rules by Marquis Bey

Rave:n by Kelela

Sabotage (tag: #set aflame)

Random Acts of Flyness by Terrence Nance

The Poetics of Difference by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

Play With The Changes by Rochelle Jordan

thank you for reading! my placemaking & writing on process does not end here, so stay tuned!

with care,

7vyn

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Play With The Changes by Rochelle Jordan

i am specifically discussing the remix album. similarly to kelela's Rave:n remix album, i thought it was important to evaluate the work after its been revisited because this could be understood as the most intentional part of the process. those that are selected to work on the remixes are chosen because they have more to add to the story through texture, rhythm, tempo, and beat changes. in come cases, an additional verse that drives the story home.

this album is loudly political. in the lyrical content, she discusses desirability, projections onto the black body (that kill!), a relationship to dance as a channel of liberation and freedom from what it is like to be attached to melanted epidermis. she talks about inquitable relationships that she dedicates more to. there are also just some great dance tracks on here! music is an important tool of organization for black queer maGes as revolution starts in the body, but underground clubs that play dance music may be sites of knowledge as well!

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The Poetics of Difference by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

i partially think of this piece alongside Hortense Spillers essay "The Idea of Black Culture." there is a call in Black literature to take hold of narratives of difference, reconsider how we discuss difference, how difference is encouraged to be discussed. i also think of think of this piece as the many ways Black queer marginalized genders have taken up creative forms to stake claim to resistance in ways the state is not privy to. how we use culture and history to channel liberation into our art forms. to me, this book provides a roadmap to all the ways revolution can be participated in through ignition, culural work, messengers, and map making.

relevant chapters:

there are only four!! and they are all critical

*will add link, specific references to forms, their creators, and where/how they are used in liberatory work, soon!*

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Random Acts of Flyness by Terrence Nance

afrosurrealist, avant-garde television program created/conceptualized by Terence Nance. for the purpose of this project, i will be focusing on the season 2 program: The Parable of the Pirate and the King.

key themes:

affirming blackness, decentering whiteness

black subconscious

coping with antiblackness thru interpersonal relationships

spiritual rebirth

rituals

blackness as a concept beyond bodily experiences

african diasporic takes on liminal space & bridge crossing

(black) human experiences beyond 3rd dimension

ancestral veneration

i am most interested in using this program to discuss the "work" we're all meant to be doing for liberation, but also work that is essential to building worlds that black queer maGes have the possibility of thriving in. also interested in this to explore black queer maGes relationship to work that is assigned vs work self-assigned/ancestrally gifted.

*will provide possible rituals and "work" for people to explore for themselves. will work on link. may just create dropbox?*

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Rave:n by Kelela

exploration of the rave as a source of life for the black queer + trans body. discussions of free labor being extracted, love unreturned, affection undisplayed alongside deeply sensual and mourning tracks. afrofuturistic lean, visually, with alien-like vignettes techno-like tracks. promotion of rebirth and transformation following destruction. call on renewal thru elements such as water.

will prob organize songs w accompanying themes, music video stills, interview references, and musical analysis soon!

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Them Goon Rules by Marquis Bey

blackness disconnected from the body, instead argued as a concept of fugitivity, the pirate. blend of radical thought and tradition from black studies and black feminism. specifically black/feminist/queer chapter is useful in discussions of blackness as a queer and trans form considering works such as Hortense Spillers' theory on ungendering during the middle passage. good deal of philosophical analysis that can be hard to digest combined with real life experiences to ground the theory, written in AAVE.

*working on making available via link*

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My Gender is Marronage by Nsambu Za Suekama/Bl3ssing

i cry every time i read this. black anarcha-transfeminist text essential to any transfeminists toolkit. key spiritual teachings from throughout the Black diaspora on gender variance in (spi)ritualistic practices. connects black transness to the expression of flight, a symbol of liberation. draws a solid black line relating black trans genders to the establishment of societies for formerly enslaved escapees.

what does it mean to be the source of the state's hatred? how does that kill? how does the state influence our families to reject us, abuse us? why do we resist? why do we persist? what does it mean to find camaraderie, find love? how does camaraderie gas our resistance?

nothing i say could be enough to encapsulate this reading, truly.

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Power Makes Us Sick Issue #3 -- There is no final stage of healing.

thinking of our bodies apart from currency to approach disability and healing from holistic outlook on care. removing western ideology from medicine's throne. working toward free clinics, herbalism's decriminalization, and medicine as a site of healing oppression's traumas. community medicinal knowledge as liberatory weapon.

following Kevin Quashie's theorizing of the commune (In Black Aliveness, Or A Poetics of Being, i include this zine to think through the logistical requirements of the commune in a time where health care has been majorly financialized beyond its routine brutality to black queer maGes physical, emotional, spiritual, mental wellbeing.

in the near future, i will define commune and discuss speculative readings that theorize communal care.

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Insurrectionary Mutual Aid by Curious George Brigade -- Give what you can, ask 4/take what you need.

key notes: Insurrection — an organized rebellion aimed at overthrowing a constituted government through the use of subversion, sabotage and direct resistance-calling in question the legitimacy and efficacy of the government. Mutual Aid — a voluntary giving or lending of resources, labor or goods to others in a shared community/communities with the expectation that the entire community will in turn benefit.

reaching across to provide help that we can -- of free will -- to those invisiblized and overlooked by the state and its respective "charity" programs. thinking of Octavia Butler as we make choices today in the creation of a transformed tomorrow. commitment, risk, preparedness: food, water, medications, power, communications, shelter. mutual aid is a suitable method of preparing for crisis, not just easing community members through individual crisis. in a time where black queer maGes find themselves more prone to violence by state handling of easily transmittable deadly disease in a time where commoning care dwindles, mutual aid becomes more essential than ever. mutual aid should be understood as essential to disability justice.

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Accomplices Not Allies by Indigenous Action -- Rock Solid Networks

key notes:

rethinking activism as an industry that is financialized, commodified, and exploited by neo-liberal careerists & nonprofit capitalists. Where struggle is commodity, allyship is currency.

"Ally has also become an identity, disembodied from any real mutual understanding of support. The term ally has been rendered ineffective and meaningless."

archetypes within ally industrial complex & respective interventions:

“Salvation aka Missionary Work & Self Therapy” / allies with a savior complex > nobody needs your saving! get a journal and tackle your own guilt, shame, and trauma!

“Exploitation & Co-optation” / self-interested allies > grifters who financialize struggle for personal gain, true solidarity owes you nothing.

“Self proclaiming/confessional Allies” / allies that can't practice what they preach > self-proclamation outs your intention of wearing the ally badge for woke points instead of letting those you are "allied" to decide if you are an ally in actuality.

“Parachuters” / "missionaries with more funding" > "experts" that know better but somehow cannot do better.

“Academics, & Intellectuals” / "unlearning oppression" > why not do away with it completely? why be an academic and not leverage your institutional resources?

“Gatekeepers” / control n power freaks > attempting to create dependency on your resources to maintain power is an enemy move.

“Navigators & Floaters” / projects from others pain > no risk infiltrators

“Acts of Resignation” / reisgning agency > weaponizers of privilege

time and time again, "allies" have proven to be untrustworthy in relation to care for and solidarity with black queer marginalized genders. organizing principles such as the ones above can be understood as life/death criteria for evaluating guests to the Black transfeminist movement or just nonracialized or nonqueer people seeking to be in our lives. individuals witholding the traits of any of the above should be understood as menaces to the wellbeing and care of black queer maGes.

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decided these ain deserve to b gatekept any longer