acetone_kitten @acetone_kitten@anarchism.space

it's great how some of my mornings now start with me doing the walk of shame down a literal back alley

except honey, i ain't ashamed of _shit_

yeah they might arrest some of you. figure out who's willing and able to take that risk and get them to the front. get the NLG to show up to your cons and for god's sakes buy them food and drinks. these are all things the activist left worked out years ago. if cons are important to you, you will, sooner or later, someway or another, need to defend them.

do you want to really have your trans friends' backs? do you want to make safety and space for joy for them? start thinking about this. learn from the people who've been doing it for awhile. teach your friends. turn your friend groups into affinity groups. learn how to look at a space and think about its tactical affordances. understand you might NEED these skills. the fascists will come for cis queers too if you let them take your trans friends https://350seattle.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/a-tiny-blockades-book-1.pdf https://beautifultrouble.org/toolbox/tool/blockade/

actually i'm going to say this out loud. @matoakit raised the possibility of furry cons getting raided by the cops in states where being trans is illegal. i think the furry fandom should prepare for that possibility NOW by learning civil disobedience tactics. hotels have lots of weird escape routes and chokepoints that are perfect for soft blockades. set up comms systems to coordinate helping vulnerable people escape while most of the crowd keeps the cops away from them.

@matoakit i hope what happens is we learn to get in the cops' way. i hope we learn how to do soft blockades and dearrests and whatever else we can borrow from the civil disobedience scene. i don't go to furry cons anymore, but maybe you do. maybe you've been on a panel. maybe you'll be on another one. a con hotel is usually a place with a shitload of chokepoints and escape routes https://350seattle.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/a-tiny-blockades-book-1.pdf

everything, absolutely everything i need to know i learned from the ursula k leguin short story _the day before the revolution_:
- fight injustice til the last fucking day of your life
- accept your mortality but also spit in its eye when you can
- be as horny as you want
(https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ursula-k-le-guin-the-day-before-the-revolution)

by placing the spork in the spoons slot of the silverware drawer rather than the forks slot, we reproduce the European patriarchal trope of marking as feminine that which cannot readily be categorized, and thus Othering it. it is also notable that the fork penetrates, while the spoon is receptive, and the spork is not regarded as being in the same category as the fork despite sharing its penetrative capacity. in this paper

love this thing where buses that run every 30+ min just... no-show. no service advisory, just MIA. glad i learned to drive, bitterly mad i'm being pushed to do it more by a systemic failure that could be isolated or not, but will almost certainly happen more and more on a long enough timeline. love to be perversely incentivized. & of course i'm one of the lucky ones [for now] who can make a choice that's better for me & worse for the world, instead of just wearily enduring the increasing suck

@nessotropheion accurately wrote in their notes from today's session: "xhaare having to constantly come out as a new starship in every conversation is exhausting"

Xhaare: "hello i'm Xhaare and my pronouns are star/ship" <waits with gritted teeth to have to explain shipself>
also Xhaare: "my 'i swear on my life that i did not murder Axatur Tempye, i could never have harmed such a beautiful man' hull stencil is raising a lot of questions already answered by my hull stencil"