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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.

[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

[genderqueerdykes]

the reason why trannies HAVE to stick together is because at the end of the day, cis people can and will prioritize their needs over ours. i witnessed a fight that broke out at one of my local gay bars where a cis male drag queen attempted to assault one of the two transfeminine security guards because he had too much to drink and had apparently has trauma from assaulted before by a cis woman's cis male friends after being called a faggot.

... so he thought it was appropriate to try to pass this trauma on to someone more marginalized than him. i got involved and his cis female friends decided to try to tell me to back off because it "didn't involve me." i noticed the only people telling me to back off and stop protecting the two trans women security guards... were cis. all of the trans people who gathered to see what was happening jumped in to help keep those women safe, and neither of those women told us to leave, or that it didn't involve us.

of course it involved me, because i don't just stand idly by and watch cis people attack my trans sisters. it will ALWAYS involve me.

i don't care what his thought process was or what was going through his mind- there is never an excuse to pass your queer trauma on to someone else- especially when you are cis and that person is trans. events like this just go to show that queer people are still capable of queerphobia.

that guy got his ass thoroughly beat, by the way, and is permanently banned from that bar. he accomplished nothing and lost everything.

please learn from this fool and check any and all desire for queer infighting at the door and understand that we HAVE to be here for each other. trans women, men, wo/men, nonbinary people, genderqueer people, gnc people, agender people, multigender people, crossdressers, transsexuals, transvestites, every stripe of trans person HAS to have ALL of their trans siblings' backs, no matter what we identify as, because a lot of cis people really struggle to prioritize our needs or treat us as humans, really.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

[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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[peoplesprincessgeorge]

Jos Verstappen's criminal history

This is a masterlist of all the things Jos has been accused off, because I fell down a rabbit hole and need to organize it. I will not be including anything about Max. 1998 - Jos and his dad, Frans, fractured a mans skull after an argument at a go-karting track. They were both given 5-year suspended jail sentences after reaching a settlement with the unnamed 45-year old victim out of court. x x x

2008 - Jos was accused of assaulting Sophie Kumpen, Max' mother, using threating language, slicing her tires and violating an existing restraining order. He was cleared of assault, but given a fine and a suspended three month sentence for the other allegations. x x 2011 - The media reported that he had assaulted an unnamed 24 year old girlfriend, but Jos claimed it was only a discussion. De Telegraaf were the ones to break the story. x 2012 - Jos was arrested for attempted murder after it was claimed he drove a car into his ex-girlfriend. The victim later dropped the charges (probably related to the fact that the pair got married, and later divorced, after this). This was when Max visited his father in prison, as reported told in Viaplays "Verstappen: Anatomy of a champion". x x 2016 - Frans Verstappen accused Jos of assaulting him, reporting the incident to the police, but later retracting as it was "It’s just a private matter between myself and Jos" x. De Telegraaf was the one to break the story and talk to Frans. x I have tried to source everything to the best of my ability, but a lot of this is mostly covered by tabloids so they're impossible to entirely avoid.