#racism resistance

[smilepilled]

if you, as a transfem/trans woman (+ intersex optionally for some people), are falling for the same ideological falacies from radical feminists, then you must either:

purge it from your mind by its roots (understand that radfem rethoric is built on white supremacy, classism, eugenism and bioessentialist BS)

force yourself to experience the seven stages of grief over and over again until you either decide to start the uprooting of those ideas >> OR << lose yourself to their theological obsessions.

you will not be "one of the good ones" by bowing your head to people who would trade you for a half baked muffin. you must listen to your sisters & siblings outside of circles filled to the brim with radicalized people. do not be fooled by fancy words and nice arguments, as those are less valuable than actual comradery.

— intersex trans lass

[sayruq]

[alwaysbewoke]

they've always said that the reason why slavery revolts didn't work in america is because america had one thing these other slave revolts didn't have working against them: poor white people.

[hussyknee]

Video description:

Preface reading: "Rafeef Ziadah, 12/11/11, London". The video begins showing a young woman on a stage, her hair cut in a sharp, short bob, wearing a gauzy black dress with red accents to match the stage wall behind her. She speaks into a mic in a blend of Canadian and Palestinian accents:

Transcript: "I'll start with this poem I wrote. This poem—when the bombs were dropping on Gaza I was the media spokesperson for the coalition, doing a lot of the organizing, and we'd stayed up to about six o'clock in the morning perfecting every soundbite and by the end of—you know most Palestinians get tired and start pronouncing our "P"s as "B"s so we could become "Balestinians" by the end of the day. So I was practicing my "P"s all night, and the next morning one of the journalists asked me, "Don't you think it would all be fine if you just stopped teaching your children to hate?"

I did not insult the person, I was very polite, but I wrote this poem as a response to these types of questions we Palestinians always get."

Today, my body was a TV’d massacre. Today, my body was a TV’d massacre that had to fit into sound-bites and word limits. Today, my body was a TV’d massacre that had to fit into sound-bites and word limits filled enough with statistics to counter measured response; and I perfected my English and I learned my UN resolutions—But still, he asked me, "Ms. Ziadah, don’t you think that everything would be resolved if you would just stop teaching so much hatred to your children? Pause. I look inside of me for strength to be patient but patience is not at the tip of my tongue as the bombs drop over Gaza. Patience has just escaped me. Pause. Smile. "We teach life, sir." Rafeef, remember to smile. Pause. "We teach life, sir. We Palestinians teach life after they have occupied the last sky. We teach life after they have built their settlements and apartheid walls, after the last skies. We teach life, sir." But today, my body was a TV’d massacre made to fit into sound-bites and word limits. And— "Just give us a story, a human story. You see, this is not political. We just want to tell people about you and your people so give us a human story. Don’t mention that word: “apartheid” and “occupation”— This is not political. You have to help me as a journalist to help you tell your story which is not a political story—" Today, my body was a TV’d massacre. "How about you give us a story of a woman in Gaza who needs medication?" "How about you? Do you have enough bone-broken limbs to cover the sun? Hand me over your dead and give me the list of their names in one thousand two hundred word limits." Today, my body was a TV’d massacre that had to fit into sound-bites and word limits and move those that are desensitized to terrorist blood. But they felt sorry. They felt sorry for the cattle over Gaza. So, I give them UN resolutions and statistics and we condemn and we deplore and we reject and— These are not two equal sides: occupier and occupied. And a hundred dead, two hundred dead, and a thousand dead. And between that, war crime and massacre, I vent out words and smile (not exotic), smile (not terrorist) And I recount, I recount a hundred dead, two hundred dead, a thousand dead. Is anyone out there? Will anyone listen? I wish I could wail over their bodies. I wish I could just run barefoot in every refugee camp and hold every child, cover their ears so they wouldn’t have to hear the sound of bombing for the rest of their life the way I do. Today, my body was a TV’d massacre And let me just tell you, there’s nothing your UN resolutions have ever done about this. And no sound-bite—no sound-bite I come up with, no matter how good my English gets—no sound-bite-no sound-bite-no sound-bite-no sound-bite, will bring them back to life, no sound-bite will fix this. We teach life, sir. We teach life, sir. We Palestinians wake up every morning to teach the rest of the world LIFE. Sir.

End transcription.

I think this twitter thread gives some necessary political context for the poem, so you can really understand the cruelty and barbarity of that question, and why Western media insistently shies away from "political" answers:

Cursory Google check corroborates all the info except for the number of peace settlements Israel's rejected. I can't find the exact number off the first page of Google and my head is throbbing too much to look deeper. I'm going to leave that for y'all to fact check.

(I went and looked Rafeef Ziadah up to check whether she's still alive (because that's what we do with Palestinians now) and she's safe in London, teaching Politics and Public Policy at King's College. You can find the rest of her poetry here.)

[sbrown82]

Beat they ass…but make it fashion!

[whereserpentswalk]

You are fucking psychotic for suggesting that there should be no exclusively women’s spaces after the history of women’s victimization and subjugation in every single micro and macro way imaginable since the beginning of civilization. What next? Black people can’t have spaces strictly to themselves? Muslim people? You wouldn’t say that, because your ideology has brainwashed you into oppressing women even further although we are just as vulnerable and oppressed as any other minority group that you’d defend. FEMALE ONLY SPACES. The fact that you don’t see the need for that and even protest that is REPULSIVE.

If there were still openly legally distinct poc only (and likewise white only) dorms, bathrooms, prisons, sports teams, or changing rooms throughout society, I would be protesting them. I'm honestly surprised you're so brazen to admit that you wouldn't be protesting them. I'm against far more subtle forms of racial segregation in society but that's beside the point of your hypothetical.

Like, the system that you're describing, where poc and white spaces are legally distinct almost everywhere in public the same way gendered spaces are, was known as Jim Crow in America.

Like, congrats, you caught me, I view the idea of a men's prison, a men's sports team, a men's bathroom, or a men's dorm, the same way I view a white's prison, a white's sports team, a white's bathroom, or a white's dorm.

[hole34]

sure, call me pro-hamas

i don’t know about you but i certainly believe in the right to resist oppression

is it really terrorism to even try to take down an apartheid who’s taken your land, killed your family, raped and starved and abducted your people and beaten your friends?

a victim of rape is allowed to hit their rapist, hamas is rightful resistence

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Trump’s fascism revival faces working-class resistance

By Gary Wilson

Trump’s anti-immigrant rants are meant to whip up racism and are a diversion from the real cause of the loss of jobs and housing — the capitalist profit system.

Trump’s policies won’t stop U.S. capitalism’s decline. But their purpose is to enforce austerity while diverting working-class anger away from the capitalist ruling class.

They won’t succeed, however. The opposition is already there. Around 40% of those registered to vote did not do so. Although Trump got 51% of those who voted, he actually got only 28% support of people of voting age. Three out of four in the U.S. did not vote for Trump. There was no overwhelming mandate for Trump or his policies.

This opposition can be mobilized into action to put a stop to the racist attacks, the anti-trans assaults, the sexism, and violations of women’s right to make their own choices, the union-busting and economic hardship.

[chaiaurchaandni]

israeli terrorists shoot Palestinian man carrying aid until he dies

inna lillahi wa inna illayeehi raajiun

[sayruq]

Lol

[alwaysbewoke]

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

Repost from @themasgd:

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As trans and racialized Muslims, we find ourselves at the intersections of identities targeted by white Christian nationalists, both liberal and conservative. Led by Black and Palestinian Trans Muslims, MASGD hosted a group of trans and racialized Muslim leaders from around Turtle Island to discuss the connections between anti-trans and anti-Palestinian politics and legislation. This work took place during Pride Month, a time of protest and resistance for queer and trans people everywhere, and coincides with months of university encampments, both offering glimpses into utopian community possibilities. These efforts provided an opportunity to create spaces beyond anti-Black, anti-trans, anti-unhoused, and anti-poor systems and to build systems of care and pathways for transformative justice to thrive, such as supporting unhoused community members and food distribution.

Go deeper with our toolkit: themasgd.org/beyond-single-issue-advocacy.

[houseofpurplestars]

Friendly reminder that you can support Palestine without any liberal addendums. We don't need to see your "not hamas supporter" or "not antisemitic" credentials every five minutes.

"Free Palestine" is a full sentence.

[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

I want to challenge this, because I feel it’s genuinely unfair.

This spring, in a lot of places, the fash were stirring up resistance to housing refugees in hotels, and they specifically targetted a hotel in Newquay. The vast majority of people who were targetting this hotel were not Cornish, and came to protests from outside the county. This response was not specific to Cornwall, but was happening at refugee hotels across the UK.

Every time the fash turned up or planned to, there was huge antifascist resistance, organised in particular by Cornwall Resists and Cornwall Anti-fascist network- but with support from a huge number of local organisations. Yes, anti fascists did come down from Bristol etc to support, which was hugely appreciated, but the majority of people there each time were local- and ultimately each time they defended the refugees in the hotel from fascist violence- at personal cost, given the violence of the police towards us.

Equally, more recently, the prison ship that will be used to house refugees (the Bibby Stockholm) was being outfitted in Falmouth, and a huge amount of local resistance was organised. Further more, some of the dockyard workers actually refused to work on the ship, which is believed to have slowed down the refit.

I’m not going to say there’s no racism in Cornwall, because obviously there is- but I do think that this picture of Cornwall as being uniquely racist compared to the rest of the UK is both tired and dangerous. Not least because the right wing are organising everywhere- including in your own back yard.

Anyway, we’re actively fighting the fash, the racist police and the racist policies of the UK government- on the streets and through organised actions. Are you?