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We're looking for existing or new illustrations and short comics (max 3 pages) for a digital fundraiser zine to support East African LGBTQIA+ refugees build a home in South Sudan.

More about the project here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Scotlands is so gorgeous, I miss it.

Also anybody mad at the Frog / acting like comedy is new to protest I beg of you to look at Boal

Especially invisible theatre and how its development worked in Brazil aka the country that just sentenced its right wing leader to time

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisib...

This is how I always understood. We, as in contemporary Americans view it as a "fancy" tea but say the Victorians did not. So depending on the era I'm writing in, I have to know what their tea times were etc.

American politics becomes what it becomes because when people were saying “ Americans don’t protest like the French, Koreans, etc”

Everyone leaves out the context of

How they stopped covering Black protests and no longer mention them

In case anyone was wondering why people like Warren are always talking about needing regulations on companies and tech...this is why.

Yeah there's a reason "Solidarity if For White Women" was a massive thing on Twitter all those years ago. Because it has been a very shitty element around a long time. I can't blame anyone who avoids feminism for that reason, if a space isn't actively intersectional it's going to be a problem.

The way AI is always used (because it cannot do anything independently, remember, it is not really AI) ends up misogynist and/or racist. Always.

Oh, yeah, the earlier movements had massive white supremacy. That's just a fact. It's the later movements by black women, trans and quee women, and women of color who forced the intersectional issue and thank god they did.

Yeah, if your "feminism" isn't intersectional then hey, guess what, it's not feminist. You're just another bog standard conservative who happens to not be a white male. How novel!

This version of "feminism" has been around for longer than I have and it's always been absolute garbage. Just like being politically anti-choice, transphobic, and racist is not feminist. Because they inherently don't believe in or practice intersectional equality.

I'm not going to give it views with a share, but no, it is not "feminist" for someone like Weiss to be head of CBS. She's awful and unqualified and anti-feminist herself. This is White Feminism TM "logic" whereby the only qualification for feminism is cis women in positions of power.

This is amazing. Rubella is sometimes called German Measles and it is highly dangerous for pregnant women to get. It causes profound birth defects.

Not gonna link the troll but Bari Weiss clearly represents “thought police” more than 100,000 Bluesky leftists scolding you for writing a defense of Weiss ever will, and ignoring that reality is clearly designed to curry the favor of thought police. You’re not a free thinker, you’re the boot licker.

This is so my jam on so many levels.

My wife brought home a sticker book and we were surprised to find a picture of me inside:

I interviewed one of these factory workers in Los Angeles. She gets paid three cents to sew a zipper, five cents for a collar, and seven cents to prepare the top part of a skirt.

This is how fast fashion brands like Fashion Nova can put "Made in USA" tags on dress shirts that retail for only $25

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:

— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

THIS. If a politician is willing to abandon today's Inconvenient Vulnerable Group in the name of political expedience? They'll abandon them all. And fascists will not be appeased by any of it, anyway. They just switch targets. That's how this works.

Every single time he's 1. getting something extremely wrong to a weird degree 2. wow, he is REALLY into the anti-christ. From Greta Thunberg to ::checks notes:: One-Piece apparently it's everywhere? I honestly don't know how people think like this and no one around them goes "hey, uh, what?"

The term trauma dumping was created to describe irl interactions.

It was created *before* online parasocial relationships allowed random people to wildly misperceive the intimacy level of their relationships with total strangers.

"On August 8, masked men in tactical gear surrounded the Van Nuys Community Job Center, and pointed weapons at my coworkers and me."

"ICE has raided our day labor sites at least 14 times since June."

"Refuse to let kidnapping become normal."
#California #USA #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

The regime gets more deranged every day. A rightwing conspiracy theorist assassinated a Democratic lawmaker - which the attorney general presents as an example of leftwing political violence in order to justify an authoritarian crackdown on the opposition…

We’re in incredibly dangerous territory.

When I was homeless in 2019, the Salvation Army shelter refused to give me a bed (even though they were available), because I was on immunosuppressant meds and they didn’t want to be responsible or liable if I got more sick or died on premises. They’d rather I die on the street.