i don’t have the money to take petra to the vet, but she’s almost entirely stopped eating, so i made an appointment on friday.
if you’d like to throw a couple of bucks our way so i can still pay my bills afterward, we’d really appreciate it. if you don’t like using ko-fi, my paypal is tokidokifish@gmail.com.
I don’t even know what to do. We’ve got bills coming due, and we need grocery money. It’s sweltering and the power bill is up because I can’t sleep in the heat and then I get really sick, so we run the AC. I send out resume after resume, and either get no answer or the occasional negative one. I’m at my wits’ end.
Please, if you can help and are minded to, we’d very much appreciate it.
Boozhoo (hello), my name is Ken, I am a disabled Ojibwe artist from northern Wisconsin. I am writing this post because I am having a hard time making ends meet and any donations I could possibly receive at this time would be greatly appreciated. Recent events have left my bank account depleted and my cupboards bare, I have some food but it will not last and I still do not know how I will cover all the utility bills.
I do have PayPal, that is really the best way to donate at this time, the email I use for that is: baapimakwa@gmail.com, or you can click here.
Really starting to worry as July comes to an end new bills are coming and I’m already in the hole due to multiple emergencies, including the family vehicle breaking down (it was replaced but with a $490 van that needs a lot of work), there is not enough food to last and we don’t even have the gas money to get to the foodshelf.
The big difference between liberal LGBT identity politics and revolutionary queer politics is:
That the goal of liberal LGBT identity politics is to present four (or 5, 6, 7, depending on the acronym) clearly defined LGBT identities with an easily digestable narrative to them to so that LGBT people may be understood, incorporated into societies notions of normalcy and turned into respectable citizens under capitalism.
While the goal of revolutionary queer politics is to complicate identity, to defy definition, to disrupt clear narratives, to continue to be confusing and paradoxical, so that queer people can not be incorporated or turned into respectable citizens and can continue on their struggle to destroy normalcy and respectability, which is a struggle that connects us to all struggles against oppression.
If we seem blatantly sexual or grotesquely unfuckable, if we make polite company uncomfortable, if we seem self-contradicting, if we wear slurs like badges of honor, if we’re bad rolemodels, if we seem weird or dangerous, that’s the point.
This also intersects with neurodiversity. The goal of neurodiversity is not to make autistics fit in neatly into the system where everyone “tolerates” us, it is to dismantle the ableist system entirely.
Cool this post was for and about queer people tho. Please make a new post.
Actually, I was very happy to see the comment by autpunq. It’s valuable to talk about the similarities in our struggles and the choice between assimilation and radical liberation is one many groups face.
Queer neurodiverse people have done a lot to challenge the concept of normal and it’s vital that we keep talking about how our struggles connect and mirror each other.
As a queer neurodiverse person, I still think it would have been more appropriate as a separate post.
As another queer neurodiverse person, I found it a useful addition and I find that always making your own post runs the risk of overlooking the interconnectedness and similarity of our struggles under the same oppressive systems. So I’d love to see more conversations about how radical queer, neurodiverse and mad struggles intersect and interact and if any folks wanna talk about that, I think they can comment on this post.
To add on to this, the history of queer people and neurodivergent people have largely been connected in that the system labeled us as mentally ill or freaks or abnormal. Homosexuality used to be a mental illness and GED/GD (read: transsexuality) still is a mental illness. In order to transition, you still have to go through a ridiculous amount of psychotherapy to make sure that that’s really the thing for you. By separating the two communities, you’re separating centuries of combined struggle within the two communities
Yup. AND the radical Mad communities for that matter. We need to resist the temptation to focus only on those groups that can claim that they are not medically ill, both LGBT and neurodiverse communities have had a tendency to focus on the ‘not mentally ill’ narrative at the expense of community members that are mentally ill.
Our story absolutely includes people that are mentally ill and we need to acknowledge that as queer people we are also disproportionately struggling with mental health because of how violent the world treats us and as people labelled mad we are disproportionately queer because it makes no sense to many of us to follow societies messed up ideas about sex and gender.
Our focus should never be “we were labelled mentally ill and freaks when we’re actually sane and normal”. No no no no. We may look back with horror to times when we were forcibly locked up in institutions for being gay and bi and trans, but we should look with the same horror at the now where we are forcibly locked up in institutions for experiencing the world in a ‘mad’ way. It’s the same violence.
It should be “we were labelled mentally ill and freaks and abnormal and regardless of whether that was true, that made us the target of violence. Fuck that. We’ll be freaks and mad and queer all we want. We’ll be whatever the fuck we are and we want the violence to stop”.
We’re united in the struggle against the violence we face when we are branded ‘not-normal’ and in knowing the potential for liberation in being not-normal.
in case ur like… on the fence…. read this…. theyre talking about the destruction of property by “anarchist extremists” with antifa who subscribe to “antifa ideology” which literally means… anti-fascist ideology… things r heating up. this fbi agent saying white supremacy is statistically showing no uptick is not a fluke… it was the fbi that conducted cointelpro and it was the fbi that classified blm activists as black identity extremists.
Yeager draws a solid line between left-wing extremism and Islamic extremism, asserting they should be considered together. “All violent Islamist terrorist groups are politically left in their economic and governmental structure ideology,” he wrote in an email to VICE News. “They should be included in the violent-crimes data of leftist terrorism.”
Antifa is the new face on a thing Yeager has been warning the FBI about for years. At the GovSec conference four years ago, which caters to FBI, Homeland Security, and other government officials, Yeager focused on Juggalos (fans of the group Insane Clown Posse, whom the FBI classified as a gang in 2011) and the hardcore punk scene, among other groups. And at a different FBI conference two years ago, Yeager presented on “politically Leftist Domestic Terrorism,” focusing specifically on the veteran advocacy group ActUp to fight the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, PETA, and Black Lives Matter.
“In the late 80s and early 90s there was a vocal group of radical feminists who believed that pornography inherently harms women, not just in its production but also in its consumption…
These anti-pornography feminists teamed up with the religious right and managed to get anti-porn laws passed. In particular, a law was passed in Canada preventing the importation of “obscene” material”..
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Guess what was seized first? “The Joy of Gay Sex” and the like. Guess what businesses started finding all their shipments seized or delayed – sexually explicit or not – to the point where they were being put out of business? Gay bookstores. Guess what wasn’t seized at all? Mainstream porn made for straight men…..
Here’s the key point: Strossen is a legal scholar who’s looked at a lot of attempts at censorship, and you know what she found happened every time? When you try to censor pornography, even in the interests of protecting vulnerable people, that censorship will be applied first, and hardest, against the people who are most vulnerable.They won’t come for actual abusers, they’ll come for the abused, and prevent them from accessing resources, education, talking to each other, creating art to express themselves, or organising against those who are actually causing harm.
This is old, old business, we’ve seen it more than once before, and it never goes the way the antis think it will. Censorship is a tool that gives power to abusers and lets them inflict more harm on those who are abused, vulnerable and discriminated against. Don’t fall for it.
Okay so the OP here actually pulled this info from the end of a very long thread, and while this info is important, deserving of its own post, it was kinda shitty of them to do so without crediting @sassbandit3000, who did the work, shared this information, and made these arguments in the first place. And it’s also on me for not checking who should have been credited for that info in the first place.
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