We’ve been here before

tikkunolamorgtfo:

vermiciousyid:

faithfulimage:

In
recent days bloggers have been discussing what gall it takes for the
Chicago Dyke March Collective (CDMC) to respond to its
antisemitism by dichotomizing, claiming to hold the moral high ground
with people of color while looking down on its enemies who are
allegedly white and who are allegedly Zionists. We have been infuriated while learning that
CDMC cried, “White tears!” after kicking a Jewish woman of color
from the 2017 Chicago Dyke March and did so again after Gretchen Rachel Hammond, a Jewish trans woman of color, was harassed and robbed of her job for giving a truthful account of what happened at the March. I was thinking
about what I could contribute to this conversation when I realized I
had already said pretty much all I need to say about this matter in a
zine I first published in the fall of 2015 (about a year and a half
before the March).

A
little background: For anyone who does not know, I was a core member
of CDMC in 2009. This is a recollection of one of my experiences as a
core member:

Keep reading

@tikkunolamorgtfo, relevant to your posts on their current Chutzpah Tour, this is documenting an old one they pulled.

This is an important read!