Reminder.

I try to take an “honor system” approach towards who should and shouldn’t get to be in queer spaces.

There are some trends I’ve noticed, for instance the call to include kinksters and polyamorous people, which I….ah…..let’s just say I have Some Reservations™ about saying those things are inherently queer.

But! I’m not going to make a fight about it. It’s not something I’ll be losing any sleep over. For one, there’s a YUGE amount of crossover between those examples and many queer communities. Don’t even try to act like there’s not, ‘cause you’d be lying. Even if they’re “”“just relationship details”“” and something that The Straights can still do, they are also Ours™.

But for two, and more to the point, there’s just the age-old fact that nobody “looks” queer. You can’t tell someone’s identity just by looking at them and if you think you can then you’re an asshole. Unless you’re going to post somebody up at the door to interrogate every single person who comes through, and thereby create a space that’s inherently hostile and uncomfortable for everybody, there’s no telling.

And we also have to, simply must, hold space for questioning people. I’ve spoken before about how being around so many bomb-ass trans people during a dark time in my life not only gave me the courage to come out myself but quite literally saved my fucking life. I think a lot of us have similar stories.

So my take on who gets to be included more or less boils down to “Are they respecting the space?” The people who don’t need to be there are, inevitably, going to behave like they don’t need to be there – and hey, a lot of those individuals are going to be of queer identities; we might come close, but we ain’t quite perfect.

Honestly, a lot of exclusionist talking points, when you get down to it, really just sound like cop-outs, like attempts to pass the blame along and pick out scapegoats because we don’t want to confront the extent to which our identities and spaces have been commodified. Statements like “We shouldn’t have to share space with our oppressors” or “The cishets are invading our community” are, on the surface, not incorrect. But, Listen. The “invaders” are *not* asexuals or pansexuals or nonbinary people or whatever innocent people that you gremlins have decided to turn into today’s scapegoat.

The invader wears a badge and carries a gun. The invader wants to sell you rainbow vodka. The invader is roping off the Pride event space and hawking $100 tickets.

So how about we start excluding the *real* invader.

my new favorite thing is birds either blatantly ignoring bird-repellent spikes or actually using the spikes to support their nests

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Direct action pigeons are the working class heroes of the cityscape

Victory for Scott Daniel Warren!

Oh absolutely Detroit Police Chief James Craig!  When a group of neo-nazis threatens to show up with firearms at the Pride festivities to commit terrorist acts “worse than Charlottesville,” 100% the right thing to do is provide them with a free police escort to get them to the Pride event safely instead of warning the people they’re targeting.  I’m completely certain that if any other group showed up at another event in Detroit with guns after threatening to commit violence worse than the act of domestic terrorism that killed one woman and injured 19 others in Charlottesville two years ago, you’d do the exact same thing. What’s that, Chief Craig?  Did you actually say that “both sides” were wrong in this event?  And that the people trying to defend a Pride event from the armed gang of neo-nazis who had vowed to commit a terrorist act at the event were “looking to cause trouble?” How is if that you even have a job with an attitude like this in a city that’s 83% the kind of people the nazis your officers escorted want to murder? I guess when it’s the same police department with officers moonlighting as drug mules; officers fighting each other in the streets; whose response time is slower than pizza delivery; whose SWAT team shoots & kills a seven-year-old girl napping on the couch in her living room, then this is the kind of quality policing you’re accustomed to. 

Cops & the Klan go hand-in-hand: Motor City edition

The #MeToo and Time’s Up movements have brought huge attention to the challenges women face at work, but a new survey finds that 60% of male managers say they’re uncomfortable participating in regular work activities with women, including mentoring, working one-on-one or socializing.

According to the survey, released by LeanIn.org and SurveyMonkey, that’s a 33% increase from last year.

Senior-level men also say they are 12 times more likely to be hesitant about one-on-one meetings with a junior woman than they are a junior man, nine times more likely to be hesitant to travel with a junior woman for work than a junior man, and six times more likely to be hesitant to have a work dinner with a junior woman than a junior man.

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This is ridiculous, don’t say things that you wouldn’t say to the men, don’t touch them in ways you wouldn’t touch the men. Be professional and that is all.

Men arent stupid, they know what they’re doing, they know how to behave around women, they are now playing dumb and saying they’re “uncomfortable doing work activities with women” but what it really boils down to is “there are consequences to my actions for the first time and I’m scared”

After Escaping a Kansas Zoo, Fugitive Flamingo Seen in Texas for the Second Time in 14 Years

After Escaping a Kansas Zoo, Fugitive Flamingo Seen in Texas for the Second Time in 14 Years

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German Boat Captain Faces 20 Years in Prison For Saving Refugees

German Boat Captain Faces 20 Years in Prison For Saving Refugees

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Some radical queer stickers seen around Stockholm, Sweden

UNLEASH THE ANTIFA MEMES!

This month is Antifa International’s fifth anniversary, so we’re unlocking the meme vault and posting like three a day every day all month.  Enjoy!

Daily reminder that men wanting to fuck you means nothing!!!!

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We mourn. We remember.  We stand with the LGBTQ community against hate and violence.

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Why are we silent???

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If y’all wanna know the true power of hate, just remember that Alan Turing, the breaker of the enigma code in WWII, was driven to suicide by being forced to undergo chemical castration as a punishment for his homosexuality.

Historians say he saved 14 to 21 million lives.

I’d also like to say in the time we studied WWII in school, the history textbooks never mentioned him. I had never heard of the guy until I watched “The Imitation Game” which I 110% recommend you watch if you haven’t.Alan Turing was a blessing to humanity who saved (once again) 14 to 21 million lives, and he is left out of history because he was gay.

And this is just one example?? So many brilliant and heroic people are left out of history because of their race, their gender, their sexuality, their religion, and it’s just because some bigots in positions of influence get to decide what parts of history are remembered.

This man has had a profound effect on the world, it’s estimated he shortened the war by 2 years, saved countless lives and was the father of modern computing. Without him the world would be a very different, and very dark place.

He wasn’t just chemically castrated. The injections they have him were intended to decrease his libido as part his sentence for “gross indecency”. About 2 years after his trial he was found dead in his apartment next to a half eaten apple that was filled with cyanide (which became the inspiration for the Apple logo).

Turing is one of the most amazing people in all of history. He developed our modern method of computing (see: the Turing Machine) and advanced computer science by immeasurable amounts. And he dies when he was 41. Just imagine if he lived in a world where he was accepted. Imagine the technology we would have today and how many more lives would have been saved. No person deserves what Turing got, especially not someone as brilliant as him.