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🇵🇪🇳🇬 Isabella Scarlett 🏳️‍⚧️♿️✡️ @isabellascarlett.bsky.social · 13h

Happy Genderfluid Awareness Week to:
- Genderfluid women 💗
- Genderfluid men 💗
- Genderfluid BIPOC 💗
- Disabled Genderfluid folks 💗
- Plural Genderfluid folks 💗
- Genderfluid Xenogender folks 💗
- Genderfluid Neopronoun Users 💗
- All Genderfluid folks 💞

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🇵🇪🇳🇬 Isabella Scarlett 🏳️‍⚧️♿️✡️ @isabellascarlett.bsky.social · 15h

Hillary and Bill Clinton enslaved incarcerated Black folks at the Governor’s mansion.

One unusual aspect of living in the Arkansas governor's mansion was getting to know prison inmates who were assigned to work in the house and the yard. When we moved in, I was told that using prison labor at the governor's mansion was a longstanding tradition, which kept down costs, and I was assured that the inmates were carefully screened. I was also told that onetime murderers were by far the preferred security risks. The crimes of the convicted murderers who worked at the governor's mansion usually
involved a disagreement with someone they knew, often another young man in their neighborhood, or they had been with companions who had killed someone in the course of committing another crime.
I had defended several clients in criminal cases, but visiting them in jail or sitting next to them in court was not the same as encountering a convicted murderer in the kitchen every morning. I was apprehensive, but I agreed to abide by tradition until I had a chance to see for myself how the inmates behaved around me and my family.
I saw and learned a lot as I got to know them better. We enforced rules strictly and sent back to prison any inmate who broke a rule. I discovered, as I had been told I would, that we had far fewer disciplinary problems with inmates who were in for murder than with those who had committed property crimes. In fact, over the years we lived there, we became friendly with a few of them, African-American men in their thirties who had already served twelve to eighteen years of their sentences.

🇵🇪🇳🇬 Isabella Scarlett 🏳️‍⚧️♿️✡️ @isabellascarlett.bsky.social · 1d

Things that the left has decided are okay in the past week:
- Animal abuse (Hasan)
- Worker abuse (Katie Porter)
- Victim blaming sexual assault victims (Platner)

Y’all need to get it together. What’s even the point of the left if we don’t call out abusers in our own circles.

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🇵🇪🇳🇬 Isabella Scarlett 🏳️‍⚧️♿️✡️ @isabellascarlett.bsky.social · 1d

Palestinians have the right to resist colonial occupation and genocide.

Always did, always will.

It’s self-defense.

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🇵🇪🇳🇬 Isabella Scarlett 🏳️‍⚧️♿️✡️ @isabellascarlett.bsky.social · 2d

Slavery never ended (prison slavery with an incarcerated population that is disproportionately Black).

Jim Crow never ended (voter suppression continues, de facto school segregation continues, cities remain segregated)

Lynchings never stopped.

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🇵🇪🇳🇬 Isabella Scarlett 🏳️‍⚧️♿️✡️ @isabellascarlett.bsky.social · 2d

(Note: some cis women who experience period symptoms after getting their uterus removed do still experience some spotting).

🇵🇪🇳🇬 Isabella Scarlett 🏳️‍⚧️♿️✡️ @isabellascarlett.bsky.social · 2d

Wait until the “trans women can’t have periods because they don’t have a uterus” crowd finds out that cis women who have had their uteruses removed often report still experiencing period symptoms after.

(All without the bleeding component of course).

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🇵🇪🇳🇬 Isabella Scarlett 🏳️‍⚧️♿️✡️ @isabellascarlett.bsky.social · 3d

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https://www.anthropic.com/research/agentic-misalignment

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🇵🇪🇳🇬 Isabella Scarlett 🏳️‍⚧️♿️✡️ @isabellascarlett.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t think we’re concerned enough about the fact that a study found AIs would attempt to murder humans to avoid being shutdown.

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🇵🇪🇳🇬 Isabella Scarlett 🏳️‍⚧️♿️✡️ @isabellascarlett.bsky.social · 5d

Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Your reminders that:
- There’s no Queer Liberation without decolonization
- There’s no Indigenous Liberation without Palestinian Liberation
- There’s no Environmental Justice without land back
- And fuck Christopher Columbus

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🇵🇪🇳🇬 Isabella Scarlett 🏳️‍⚧️♿️✡️ @isabellascarlett.bsky.social · 6d

Some OCD Awareness Week reminders:
- OCD isn’t just wanting perfection & cleanliness
- OCDers can’t just “get over it”
- OCD is not an adjective for non-OCDers to use
- OCD can impact many areas of one’s life

#OCDAwarenessWeek

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🇵🇪🇳🇬 Isabella Scarlett 🏳️‍⚧️♿️✡️ @isabellascarlett.bsky.social · 6d

On this day 3 years ago a shooter committed an attack on a queer bar in Bratislava, Slovakia which left 2 folks dead, 1 injured & many more traumatized

This sort of violence is what happens when fascist rhetoric goes unchecked. Hate speech is violence & shld be treated as such

🇵🇪🇳🇬 Isabella Scarlett 🏳️‍⚧️♿️✡️ @isabellascarlett.bsky.social · 7d

Happy Coming Out Day 🏳️‍🌈 Always remember that there’s no “right” time or way to come out

You can come out when you’re 60

You can come out when you’re 6

You can come out again if you realize you identify as a different label

All our journeys are different & that’s okay 💗

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🇵🇪🇳🇬 Isabella Scarlett 🏳️‍⚧️♿️✡️ @isabellascarlett.bsky.social · 7d

This National Coming Out Day we need to shine light on the forced outing school policies that lead youth to be outed to their parents before theyre ready, or before theyre certain that theyre in a safe environment to come out

These policies get folks kicked out, abused, & killed

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🇵🇪🇳🇬 Isabella Scarlett 🏳️‍⚧️♿️✡️ @isabellascarlett.bsky.social · 7d

This Coming Out Day I’m sending love to those who:
- Are out and proud
- Were outed before being ready
- Are questioning
- Aren’t safe to come out
- Aren’t ready to come out

Whatever your experience may be, I hope you have an amazing day 💗💗

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🇵🇪🇳🇬 Isabella Scarlett 🏳️‍⚧️♿️✡️ @isabellascarlett.bsky.social · 8d

Polyamory ≠ polygamy.

Polygamy is an abusive (usually religion-based) practice.

Polyamory is not.

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🇵🇪🇳🇬 Isabella Scarlett 🏳️‍⚧️♿️✡️ @isabellascarlett.bsky.social · 9d

Learn about the Belgian Congo genocide
Learn about the Armenian genocide (ongoing)
Learn about the Jeju genocide
Learn about the East Timor genocide
Learn about the Rwandan genocide
Learn about the Maya genocide (ongoing)

Learning about past genocides is important too.

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🇵🇪🇳🇬 Isabella Scarlett 🏳️‍⚧️♿️✡️ @isabellascarlett.bsky.social · 10d

What Lesbianism isn’t about:
- Excluding Bi/Mspec folks
- Excluding Trans folks
- Excluding Non-binary folks
- Excluding masculinity
- Excluding BIPOC
- Excluding Plural folks

What Lesbianism is about:
- Inclusion
- Diversity
- Self expression

Happy International Lesbian Day 💗

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🇵🇪🇳🇬 Isabella Scarlett 🏳️‍⚧️♿️✡️ @isabellascarlett.bsky.social · 10d

Happy International Lesbian Day to:
- Trans Lesbians
- Aromantic Lesbians
- Asexual Lesbians
- Bi/Mspec Lesbians
- Butch Lesbians
- Femme Lesbians
- Futch Lesbians
- Lesboys/Lesbois
- Non-monogamous Lesbians
- BIPOC Lesbians
- Straight Lesbians
- Disabled Lesbians
- All Lesbians 💞

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🇵🇪🇳🇬 Isabella Scarlett 🏳️‍⚧️♿️✡️ @isabellascarlett.bsky.social · 11d

I’m grayplatonic :D

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🇵🇪🇳🇬 Isabella Scarlett 🏳️‍⚧️♿️✡️ @isabellascarlett.bsky.social · 11d

“But how is AI killing folks?”

- Skyrocketing energy costs due to AI data centers leading folks to not be able to afford cooling or heating
- Exacerbating the climate crisis
- AI being used in warfare & policing
- Using water that could instead be used for folks who need it

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🇵🇪🇳🇬 Isabella Scarlett 🏳️‍⚧️♿️✡️ @isabellascarlett.bsky.social · 13d

Demisexuality exists and is queer.
Demiromanticism exists and is queer.
Demiplatonicism exists and is queer.

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🇵🇪🇳🇬 Isabella Scarlett 🏳️‍⚧️♿️✡️ @isabellascarlett.bsky.social · 13d

Asexuality is queer.
Aromanticism is queer.
Aplatonicism is queer.

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🇵🇪🇳🇬 Isabella Scarlett 🏳️‍⚧️♿️✡️ @isabellascarlett.bsky.social · 15d

This LGBTQIA+ History Month, let’s not forget that the fight for Queer Liberation has historically been led by Trans women of color Sex Workers like Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera.

A photo of Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera standing together in the street.

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🇵🇪🇳🇬 Isabella Scarlett 🏳️‍⚧️♿️✡️ @isabellascarlett.bsky.social · 16d

Sapphic history belongs to Bi Sapphics.
Sapphic history belongs to Pan Sapphics.
Sapphic history belongs to Trans Sapphics.
Sapphic history belongs to Ace Sapphics.
Sapphic history belongs to Aro Sapphics.
Sapphic history belongs to all Sapphics.

Happy Queer History Month 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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