#collective liberation

[jewish-kulindadromeus]

The annoying thing about all that seemingly bullshit hippie nature connection shit is that it's absolutely true

there is no fundamental difference between you, me, a random person in a random country across the world, the fly that just landed on your house, the grass growing down the street, the fish you ate for dinner, and the bird that's sitting on my computer

everything on this planet is connected and everything influences everything else and we are all inheritors of this spherical-ish rock's collective 4.6 billion years of history

we are all the same, fundamentally, just with a few changes here and there over the course of countless millennia, and we all rely on each other. eating is just the flow of nutrients and energy through the biosphere. everything dies because the planet changes and before we figured out how to modify our behavior during our lifetimes genetic mutation was the only way to adapt to that change. everything evolves. everything feels. everything yearns.

there is no "us verus them" for anything - not man versus nature, not man versus man, not man versus deity

its just Us. Us and Us. There are some of us who insist there's a "them", and that's a problem. But ultimately, they are still part of the "Us"

so it sucks, but the minute you start seeing literally anything as "the enemy" instead of "someone who has been horrifyingly mislead, because the vast majority of beings on this planet just want to do what they think is the right thing" you've already lost the plot

there is no enemy

there is no evil

we made up evil to try and make sense of actions we couldn't understand

there is only our planet, and everything on it, and we are all connected, and we all have to work together

I know that goes against your deep primate instincts, because you have to have a little selfishness to survive and that's where that lives, and sometimes that selfishness requires hurting others or protecting yourself from hurt

but the burden of being the first species (probably) aware of all this means we have to try to ignore that monkey inside of our chests and remember that there is no enemy. there is no them.

there is only us.

[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

[campgender]

couldn't find this posted elsewhere so wanted to highlight this excellent article about Coretta Scott King's work & legacy, especially in loving Black queer people & working for queer liberation

image description: two screenshots from the Autostraddle article "How Coretta Scott King Leveraged MLK's Legacy to Fight for Gay Rights." the text reads:

In the mid-1980s, when President Ronald Reagan wouldn’t even acknowledge the disease, Scott King – with the help of her assistant Lynn Cothren, an openly gay man — used the King Center to create a welcoming environment for the LGBT community, especially queer black people who were suffering in the middle of a generational genocide from HIV/AIDS. After the death of a close gay friend, she hosted a day of memorial at the Center and encouraged participants to sew stitches on a panel that would become part of the AIDS memorial quilt.

On March 31st 1998, at the 25th Anniversary luncheon for the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, King spoke out against strands of conservatism in black communities that had kept some members reluctant to join the gay rights movement. She stated, “I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the rights of lesbian and gay people and I should stick to the issue of racial justice… but I hasten to remind that Martin Luther King, Jr. said, ‘Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.’ I appeal to everyone who believes in Martin Luther King, Jr.’s dream to make room at the table of brotherhood and sisterhood for lesbian and gay people.”

end image description.

[blackstarlineage]

[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".

[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

[actiwitch]

“I usually don’t mention that I’m vegan but that has evolved...I think it’s the right moment to talk about it because it is part of a revolutionary perspective – how can we not only discover more compassionate relations with human beings but how can we develop compassionate relations with the other creatures with whom we share this planet and that would mean challenging the whole capitalist industrial form of food production.

I think the lack of critical engagement with the food that we eat demonstrates the extent to which the commodity form has become the primary way in which we perceive the world. We don’t go further than what Marx called the exchange value of the actual object- we don’t think about the relations that that object embodies- and were important to the production of that object, whether it’s our food or our clothes or our iPads or all the materials we use to acquire an education at an institution like this. That would really be revolutionary to develop a habit of imagining the human relations and non-human relations behind all of the objects that constitute our environment.

The fact that we can sit down and eat a piece of chicken without thinking about the horrendous conditions under which chickens are industrially bred in this country is a sign of the dangers of capitalism, how capitalism has colonized our minds.

I think there is a connection between the way we treat animals and the way we treat people who are at the bottom of the hierarchy. Look at the ways in which people who commit such violence on other human beings have often learned how to enjoy that by enacting violence on animals.”

- ANGELA DAVIS, american civil rights activist

[iwriteaboutfeminism]

It is reasonable for people to want lower grocery prices.

Don't let your politics forget that.

[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

[carp3-di3mm]

Your biennial reminder that just because someone lives in a red state doesn’t mean that bad things should happen to them. I don’t want to hear about how they “should’ve gotten washed away in the hurricane,” or how marginalized people should “just leave”, or literally any other thing wishing harm on entire regions of people.

The opposite of liberation is dehumanization.

[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.