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I really do think he’s gonna declare martial law on Easter. Things are ramping up.

I spoke with PinkNews about trans history and photography. We discussed visibility, the celebration of trans kids, and the erasure of trans people of color from history! Read it here: https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/05/06/trans-history-colour-photos-eli-erlick/

My girlfriend and I talk a lot about our different generations of queerness, because she was doing queer activism in the 1990s and I wasn’t.

And she’s supportive of my writing about queerness but also kind of bitter about how quickly her entire generation’s history has disappeared into a bland “AIDS was bad, gay marriage solved homophobia” narrative, and now we’re having to play catch-up to educate young LGBTQ+ people about queer history and queer theory. It gets pretty raw sometimes.

I mean, a large part of the reason TERFs have been good at educating the young and queer people haven’t is, in the 80s and 90s the leading lights of TERFdom got tenured university positions, and the leading lights of queerdom died of AIDS.

“Excuse us,” she said bitterly the other day, not at me but to me, “for not laying the groundwork for children we never thought we’d have in a future none of us thought we’d be alive for.”

If I may add to the discussion, I think a big issue with online activism is that people are so concerned with looking like a good person that they don't understand the reasons why someone might do something that technically goes against leftists principles. It's so easy to judge someone for not boycotting certain establishments that are objectively bad (and I'm all for boycotting if possible don't get me wrong!) but people often seem to forget that not everyone has the means to boycott. Where I live, the only way I can get basic necessities is often through Amazon or other big retail chains. I'm not proud of it but I literally don't have a choice right now. Like you and a couple of the other anons have said, a big issue with online activism is that people are so concerned with doing things that they believe are the markers of a good person that they forget that part of being a good person means being open to conversations and understanding why people do or don't do things. And this includes the people they have deemed as "bad people."

Yes that is a good point! 'There is no ethical consumption under capitalism' is not an excuse to never even try to be ethical in your choices, but it's also not actually a progressive position to demonize people with no effort put into understanding their practical, structural realities.

CNN

President Trump signs order seeking to end federal funding for NPR and PBS | CNN Business

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday directing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to end federal funding for Ameri

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If this is not tax fraud, the laws need to be rewritten.

Here's my fkn' hangup: The guy with the bow tie shot up FSU and was killed! The guy with the spectacles on killed two people and injured five! He's still alive! Why? I know the answer! I dare anybody else to admit the answer! And wouldn't you know it! The goofy looking dude is the son of a cop! Just exercising his second amendment rights I'm sure! We'll see him at a dinner party with Trump, Vance, Musk, and Kyle Rittenhouse by this weekend...!

Ya see the difference? 🤭 💕

It's less of a "I look wrong" now and more of a "oh I need to clean myself up" lol it gets better.

Promise ❤️