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[genderqueerdykes]

"Prison cells are disproportionately stacked with poor, disabled, Black, and Brown people; Black trans women, who are often at the intersection of all of these identities, are the most overrepresented group inside prison walls. A study by the National Center for Transgender Rights and the National LGBTQ Task Force found that almost half of Black trans women in the United States have been incarcerated. Once inside, their abuse rates are extreme. The abolitionist group Black & Pink surveyed 1,100 queer and trans people in lockup, and one out of three described being assaulted by prison staff. Groups like Black & Pink and the Transgender, Gender Variant, and Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP) have made themselves known to the system, so the system must employ ever more devious ways to cloak the abuses."

Toshio Meronek, January 2023. Excerpt from the introduction of the book Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary, authored by Toshio Meronek and Miss Major.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I didn’t know that outside of music SA usually stands for assault and not soprano/alto. I posted to my choir’s Facebook group to announce that we’re doing a treble-only group this year and it read “The whole choir just got SA’d!!” I then got interrogated by Rivers Cuomo after that, who then beat me to death.

[genderkoolaid]

Though I have a UTMB prescription for my hormone treatment, I am still at war within TDCJ with trying to obtain my T injections, boxer shorts, hygiene products, razors, and basic pronoun respect. These past five years have been a nonstop battle against the horrors of prolonged solitary confinement. I've been a victim of numerous assaults during my time here. I've been punched, stomped, kicked, and spit on by officers. I've been purposely placed in a rec cage by transphobic officers where I was assaulted by four inmates. I've been denied gender-affirming clothing. I've endured broken bones, bruises, and wounds that were left to heal without medical attention because I've been denied medical treatment. It’s the luck of the draw weekly on whether or not I receive my T injections week to week, depending on medical supply, availability of staff, and the mood or personal opinion of the selected officer chosen to escort me to the infirmary. One officer doesn’t like the fact that I’m trans and refuses to take me to medical. My transition sometimes stagnates due to the inconsistency of my T injections. My body suffers silently from the weeks when I have to miss a dose of my hormonal therapy. I’ve been denied razors to shave, and when I am given razors they’re dull, causing me to get razor burn. Out of sheer malice, I am given women’s hygiene products such as deodorant, body wash, and shampoo, causing my pH balance to be off-kilter and creating irritation and inflammation. With no resources or outside support, there’s no coalition or aegis for protection or help for me to live as a trans man in prison safely.

[lecoindecachou]

In a conversation on Reddit about a Jewish grandmother being assaulted in France for wearing a Star of David, someone kept asking me whether what's been happening everywhere really counted as a rise in antisemitism or if this could be seen as a 'reward' of Israel's actions, like. Wtf are you talking about. I mean, I know what they were talking about, they were saying all this antisemitism wouldn't be happening rn if Israel just... disappeared from the map I guess, but also WTF ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT. Do you also think random American Muslims deserved to be assaulted after 9/11 or do you reserve that line of thinking for Jewish folks?

[mysterycitrus]

very tempted to whinge at length about nightwing #93 and the consequential fallout in fandom again because like. dick grayson’s two long term romantic relationships being with women who were both a) assaulted and traumatised through loss of agency to varying degrees and b) reclaimed that agency and used their power to help others would perhaps impact his worldview on this issue. dick loves korys passion despite her pain and loves babs’s perseverance through adversity. regardless of personal gripes w babs or korys characterisation in comics i think there’s a way to include them in his recovery without them just shaming him for being assaulted. idk man.

[sharkgirldick]

I don't have time to forcefem you in whatever dumbass cutesy way you were hoping for. Put on the maid dress and take the tablets or I'm beating the shit out of you.

[applesdotexe]

my mom is letting my abuser -- my brother -- back into the house because he has nowhere to go and she misses her son and wants to give him another chance

mind you she has bailed him out of jail multiple times to free him of charges of assault, domestic assault, armed criminal action, property damage, theft, etc that he caused to my family. namely me and my sister, but also to my mom, so i'm really confused as to why she is granting him the ability to even visit

like he's choked me and he's thrown my sister into doors before stomping on her stomach. he's threatened to kill any children she may have and has told me (AFAB) and my sister that "women are only good for being raped". my sister has a 4 month old daughter now so we are very scared

anyways when i filed a restraining order today my mom tried keeping me away from doing so because "it's not necessary" and "he doesn't deserve that". she prevented me from reporting my assaults multiple times in years prior so i wouldn't ruin his reputation or chances at having a job

am i in the wrong here. i've been in therapy for over a decade due to his actions

[newsfromstolenland]

Three men were injured after trying to subdue a man armed with a knife during afternoon prayers at a Montreal-area mosque Friday afternoon.

The incident happened at around 1:40 p.m. at the Centre Culturel Musulman in Châteauguay, an off-island suburb of Montreal.

Châteauguay police got a 911 call reporting that a man had entered the building on Saint Jean Baptiste Boulevard with a knife and then got into an altercation with people who were inside, said police spokesperson Nadia Grondin.

The three men are in their 50s and their injuries are not considered life-threatening. One of them was sent to hospital.

Police arrested the suspect, a 24-year-old man, who is set to be questioned by investigators.

[...]

In a statement on social media, the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) said it was "greatly concerned" by the incident.

"We are in touch with the local centre and will provide more information as it becomes available. However, we do not have information at this point to make a suggestion as to the motivation behind the incident, and we encourage our community not to speculate as the investigation continues," the NCCM wrote on X.

Full article

Tagging: @allthecanadianpolitics

[communistkenobi]

Without exaggeration transphobia has made me disabled. not through direct physical assault or bodily harm (although that has happened to me) but through intense chronic stress and terror, through the trauma of being unhoused and exiled from my family, through intimidation and harassment by people at school and at work, by the apathy and complicity of every administrator and person in power I’ve ever begged for help, by being cut off from therapy because it’s too expensive, by the constant harassment and dirty looks I get in public, by being treated like I’m some administrative freak of nature because I slightly altered my first legal name and gender marker and that’s apparently never happened before in the history of humanity. the toll that being trans has taken on my health has produced chronic pain and “scary” mental health problems that make me unable to fully participate in society. this is part of the reasoning behind the idea that disability is socially constructed - oppression produces disability, it is disabling, and your marginalised status is constantly reinforced through every social and environmental structure you come into contact with. As a trans person I feel a deep abiding solidarity with all disabled people because I believe we fundamentally face the same root oppression - medical violence, environmental and structural exclusion from public space and daily living, pathologisation, being treated like you’re doing administrative terrorism to every institution you interact with because their systems were all built to exclude you, and a daily barrage of news media and public discourse about how you are an acceptable target for death and destruction. I think any trans person serious about our liberation needs to have a very good understanding of the plight of our disabled comrades, because we cannot escape this current historical moment without them

[obi-wann-cannoli]

On previous reads, I hadn’t paid close attention to Vinson’s injuries after the chamber but now I am and just. sitting here shocked. He was vicious to those women.

Also I’m pretty sure the ‘beatings in the lower city’ that the other ladies mentioned in the bathhouse (that caused the goddess’ temple to be harsher in cases brought to them) - it’s Vinson’s victims

[one-time-i-dreamt]

[genderkoolaid]

A Swiss trans man, Morgan Zuli Bahon, was beaten by a group of men after his ID outed him as trans. They dragged him out of the bar he was in and into the street. He is recovering with a fractured nose, a concussion, a damaged retina, a sprained ankle, and the attack triggered his multiple sclerosis and has led to migraines. Unsurprisingly, the comments of that article are full of victim-blaming "it wasn't a hate crime, you're too masc!" shit.

If you speak French, you can watch the video where he explains what happens on his Instagram.

[nyaskitten]

I've seen a scary amount of people interpret the Mechanic's scene with Zane in s6 as sa when it is... nowhere near that??? That is organ harvesting he does, NOT sa.

It's very clear he sees Zane as nothing but an object with clean and pristine parts, and it's clearer that Kryptarium is smart enough to not let him have super sophisticated parts.

This is not a man sa'ing someone, this is a man preparing to do an amateur organ harvest on a robot with a shitty prison spoon... PLEASE stop inserting themes that DO NOT exist into a kids show... you can be uncomfy with him for organ harvesting, you can pick any of his suspected 37 crimes... but making up sa as one of them is just weird.

[mysterycitrus]

this is just stream of consciousness wrt to an ask i got

i don’t read much dc fic but a primary point of avoidance for me is the fallout of nightwing #93 because to address the situation with nuance u would have to disentangle devin grayson’s particular brand of sexualised racism (both by rewriting tarantula to be latina and her interpretation of rromani characters generally) and understand the context for dick grayson’s character prior to that point, and how it’s affected modern interpretation for his character.

i say this as someone who is attempting to include this in a fic, because it is hard to emphasise exactly how damaging it’s been for his character long term. part of it is fundamentally misunderstanding what constitutes assault on the part of the comic writers, sure, but i would also encourage people to just…. consider the context. why are u writing other people enacting revenge on tarantula on a survivor’s behalf? why are u uncritically engaging with devin grayson’s racism? why are u writing characters violently slut-shaming a survivor of assault when they would never ever react that way (roy harper, donna troy)?

and why is jason todd always there, for some reason

[linusbenjamin]

Either I take off my shirt or he would take off your hand. I just listened to Merle beating the shit out of you in the other room. What could I do?

[hpdcultureis]

tw intrusive thoughts, mentions of sa & stalking

HPD culture is having intrusive thoughts about being stalked or obsessed over or even assaulted just because you're so impossibly attention starved that you want somebody to want you to that level and then of course your brain equates this to positive attention and you feel ashamed over having the thoughts and feeling the slightest bit good about it for even a moment

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