#collective liberation

[girl-revolution-utena]

thinking about what "something eternal" means in the series and maybe the answer is related to liberation.

I say this because prince dios showed anthy's suffering to utena as something eternal. we can interpret this as eternal suffering to oppressed people because anthy is racialized and mistreated because of this and, of course, "in the end, all girls are like the rose. utena see this and recognizes her pain and, instead of accepting it as something unchangeable, she decides to save anthy.

utena's approach at the beginning of the series is also wrong. she tries to "save" anthy as a prince, treating her like everyone else does: as someone without autonomy and without reaching to her in equal foot and being considerate towards her actual needs. in other words, anthy wanted understanding of her pain and recognition to her humanity instead of others treating her as a tool to feel good with one's chivalry. utena was selfish because she decided to live her prince fantasies through anthy.

at the end, she realizes that this is unfair and how it actually damages anthy. she reaches her in equal foot and both of them achieve liberation. so, all this time, the way to get "something eternal" was real connection with others. liberation through love and real understanding between oppressed people. recognizing each others pain and needs, and acting accordingly. wanting to help each other to be more autonomous because we are not free until we are all free. we shouldn't try to "save" others because we end up stripping them of deciding how their own well being looks like or how to works towards it. collective liberation means we all are interdependent to one another to be truly free. so what we should actually do is talk to other people as equals. don't show them "the path", you have nothing to teach. construct the path collectively and learn from each other.

utena's liberation was tied to anthy's. our liberation is bound to one another's. that's the key to meaning, to finally reach "something eternal".

[elder-millennial-of-zion]

I never want to hear the phrase “collective liberation” from people who think the Israeli/Jewish hostages should have just been left to rot in literal captivity, ever again.

[alwaysbewoke]

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries spoke at Al Sharpton’s National Action Network 2024 Convention, activists and organizers from Black Alliance for Peace and PSL disrupted the event. They denounced Jeffries and Sharpton as Black Misleaders, boldly proclaiming that the duo doesn’t represent the majority of Black/African people and instead provides a Blackface cover to U.S. imperialism. Jeffries received over $700,000 in Israel lobby funding in the last election cycle alone. Last year, Jeffries led a bipartisan Congressional delegation to the CARICOM Heads of Government Conference where NO HAITIANS were in the room as the the invasion and occupation of the country was planned. The collective liberation of Africa and Africans is not guaranteed without the liberation of Palestine, Haiti, or even the Borough of Brooklyn that Jeffries was elected to represent instead of approving more money to IOF-trained NYPD!

[yasyassie]

fuck your pride activism if it only includes cis, white able-bodied and neurotypical queers

fuck your pride activism if you forgot why we celebrate this month and who started it (black and trans working class ppl if you needed a reminder)

fuck your pride activism if you pretend to care about the community but then continue to buy from big companies that donate millions to anti lgbt politicians, perpetuate genocide, exploit other human beings and destroy the environment (but put a rainbow on their logo each june so it's ok)

fuck your pride activism if it continues to support israel and still falls for its pinkwashing and racist bullshit (about it being the only progressive country in the middle east etc)

fuck your pride activism if you exclude palestinian, congolese, sudanese, uyghur, armenian, (and every community suffering from genocide) lgbtq people from your cry for freedom

fuck your pride activism if it doesn't support the liberation of south and central american, caribbean, asian, romani, eastern european, sámi, middle eastern, native american, pacific islander, maori, aboriginal australian, indigenous tribes everywhere, and african people.

fuck your pride activism if you don't support religious queer people and reject their spirituality and connection to their faith as part of their identity

fuck your pride activism if you don't welcome queer inmigrants, war refugees and political refugees

fuck your pride activism if you don't uplift the voices of those who can't, those who are silenced, those who have to hide, those who fear imprisonment or death for being who they are

fuck state homophobia and opressive regimes

fuck homonationalism and the hypocrisy of the west

fuck capitalist and colonial pride

pride is for every single one of us

pride was a riot before it was a celebration and i intend to protest for an intersectional activism each and every day of this month

[living-and-dyking]

“repair” by molly costello

[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

“From Palestine to Stonewall,

Break the chains and let them fall!

The first Pride was a protest,

We will not stop! We will not rest!”

I and a number of other activists marched with @pawboston, a queer labor rights group, in order to spread our message of #NoPrideInGenocide. We handed out fliers against pinkwashing with action items for supporting Palestinian liberation (see last images). The outpouring of warmth and support was, as you can see, deafening in the best way!

It was another gut punch to come home to news of the Nuseirat massacre after such a positive day. I can only hope our resources will do some good, and that the passion for justice shown by the hundreds of spectators, marchers, and activists alike will help us aid in Palestine’s liberation.

Let @bostonprideforthepeople observe how they have become the very corporate, complicit, cop-ridden Pride we sought to escape from.

[flango87]

Thinking about how helpful an autistic guide to revolution and liberation would be. As in, why are we all talking in riddles. I see so much online about rejecting individualism, embodying liberation, beautiful poetic analogies and so on. And I’m like great! Lovely sentiment. Now what do I do with that. That’s always been an issue of mine in every scenario. I understand what you’re saying, I understand the sentiment, but I have no idea how to apply it to my life in a practical way. Obviously I’m not wanting someone to spell every little thing out for me, I just wish that a lot of mobilization had more clear practical action. I think it would be really helpful not only for autistic folks, but rlly everyone who feels unsure of what exactly to do. Like, we need to dismantle capitalism- ok how? We do it by embracing community and organizing- okkk, and how do we do that? What does embracing community mean for people of marginalized identities? What does embracing community mean in practice? What does organizing mean for young folks with no experience whatsoever? What does organizing look like in our every day lives? What do we do? Disabled ppl are repeatedly left behind in movements, and we can’t have collective liberation without disabled liberation, and how can we have that when so many actions are made inaccessible for so many people? Our work needs to be physically accessible, as well as accessible in the way it’s presented. I don’t know, just some thoughts. Poems and art and analogies are beautiful but clear and explicit explanations are also needed lol

[iwriteaboutfeminism]

It is reasonable for people to want lower grocery prices.

Don't let your politics forget that.

[r7-b7]

Y'know voting is like less than 1% of what you can do to make a difference in your life and everybody else's life, right?

Y'know voting once or twice for a white supremacist who's maybe less evil than the other white supremacist doesn't make you a good or morally correct person, right?

Be real.

Do you even know what's happening in your city? Do you even follow your town council decisions?

When's the last time you read a fucking book by a Black author about the Black experience in America in the 21st century? (Or literally anything focusing on race/sociology/history)

When's the last time you donated to your city or towns' mutual aid group? Not a church charity, not a non-profit, a mutual aid group. A group of your neighbors, your community members, who come together for no other reason than to give care to other community members. When's the last time you interacted with them?

When's the last time you offered anything to a houseless person? Do you offer them money or food or water or an umbrella to provide shade since most of our cities are eviscerating all of our tree canopies in a time of climate catastrophe and record houselessness?

Whose fucking land are you on!? You are most likely a settler, a gentrifier, and abusing your position as a "comrade" or "ally" to get away with not facing what violence you enact every single day. You are an uninvited guest using our resources and killing our indigenous ways. You are doing all of these things if you are not actively working against the colonial white supremacist model. You must be actively working against these systems or else you are simply part of them.

If you want to "stop fascism" or "save democracy" or "dismantle the system" you need to do it in your own home and in your own mind first.

[dysmotility]

you are debating body neutrality vs. body positivity.

i am discussing the radical fat liberation movement.

we are not the same

[padawan-historian]

Today marks the beginning of the general strike for Gaza. For those of you looking for more accessible, sustainable ways to participate, here are some ways maximize and manifest direct action

[destroyingangelneveragod]

Hold on I just had a thought about mad liberation and how specifically the imperial core carcelizes madness. This is highly shaped by specifically the work of Walela Nehanda, Riot Diaz, readings of "Sick of It" a disability justice and prison abolition zine, Lacey Weekes, along with learning I've done from my friend who I will name M until I get his permission to post his name.

I think western medicine as a societietal institution tries to medicalize, stigmatize, and remove divergence in cognitive function and unreality and erase the autonomy and realities of those of us who just happen to experience this. It's also a core example of why a narrow worldview of acceptable mind types limits human greatness, variance, and collective strength. It is a threat to have people look at anything in any way outside a very specific norm because if we look hard enough we can see society and it's pieces of acceptability, adherence to the norm, and complacency as they truly are. A prison of individualist making.

[urfaveautisticlesbian]

Hi there,

I normally do not make original posts nowadays with how hectic life has been (and I also have been experiencing creative burn out), but today I am here to tell you all about two families who reached out to me and asked for help.

First is Israa. Dr. Israa Hani is in need of financial help to exit from Gaza to Egypt to help her family survive and give her mother necessary treatment. She is a dentist who lost her dental clinic and her family members. Israa does not want to lose anything else. Please visit the first link below to read her full story and donate.

Second is Rawan. She is a mother of two daughters. Rawan is seeking help to survive while in Gaza, rebuild their lives, and get out of the occupation. Please visit the second link below to read her full story and donate.

If you can’t donate, please reblog and share with loved ones.

[headingalaxys]

About that distant future….

We’re already in that future you fear so much

It won’t start with gas chambers, bombings, & chaos 

It always starts in the meeting room with that legislation that we ignore, and then when it's down to the wire, the “us” vs. “them” ideologies/propaganda have fully set in. 

We want to protect what little we have 

It will continue to shrink because, in reality, they don’t care about you, nor I 

The heated battle of “good” vs. “bad” when both are rotted to the core 

But in blue, she’ll come saying, “I bring new hopes and joy” 

That’s a blatant fucking lie 

The quiet part has been said out loud: 

“Shut up. I’m speaking.” 

Once it’s all over, don’t be surprised when she follows through on nothing that was promised

Trust me when I say she’ll continue to chip away at the little bit of freedom you have

The orange one is no better 

We just seem to be slaves to the red or blues 

Why? 

I can’t really fathom

It’s not like what we have now works for the many but just those top few 

You have to remember the universal rules of negotiating away the liberation of one group to save your own sets you up to have the rest of your liberties taken away

And once you vote them in even after all the evils they’ve already committed 

There isn’t a single thing you won’t let them carry out

I suppose you won’t care though until it’s right at your doorstep 

Perhaps it will come when you become the new tool for the draft so that they can meet their ends 

It may come when you’ve been arrested because you no longer have a home

It may come when your child doesn’t return home

It may come when you’re at the end of a police’s night stick or gun 

It may come when you have no food to eat or have been scrapped from your job 

We live in a reality where free speech has a high cost 

It may come when you have a gigantic hospital bill you can’t afford to pay 

It may come when your house is underwater with no help on the way

It may come when forest fires are hungry and there is nothing to keep it’s appetite at bay

It may come when the air is thick with an orange smoke and it’s unsafe to be outside

(Hope you’re not poor because it’s now expensive to be alive)

It may come when you’re strapped down to a table….even if you and many others know of your innocence 

The oppressive atmosphere of the imperial hand will not just stop over there 

It will boomerang back to us 

And we will not be ready 

You want desperately for the anti- War voices to be gone

It’s inconvenient truths interrupting your decaying “peaceful” reality

But what will you do when there is no one left to speak for you? Will you fight? Will you cower?

For the system we continue to support wants nothing more but to consume us

That future you fear is already here it’s too bad you don’t want to hear

[camsnotdeadneitherisska]

I think it pertinent to share these

[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]