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Ky Schevers
@reclaimingtrans.bsky.social
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Humyn-born-humyn/cyborg passing as a retrans transmasc butch/dudedyke. Former detrans radfem now fighting against anti-trans activism & conversion practices. Fun fact: radical feminism does not cure transmasculinity! Co-founder of @healthliberationnow.com
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In Belmont Cragin on Chicago's northwest side this morning, a rally is opening in support of day laborers outside the Armitage/Cicero Home Depot.

Activists are calling out the corporation for continuing to allow ICE and Border Patrol to stalk and attack immigrants in their parking lots.
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Another busy day of snatch & grabs in Los Angeles. Mid-city & Ktown hit hard once again. The feds are just driving around & kidnapping vendors & lone individuals off the streets. They intend to inflict terror on our communities.

Organize your neighbors & look out for one another
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Never call a trans person cis, regardless of presentation or what type of healthcare they're using ffs this is not complicated.
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@wanlittlehusk.bsky.social helped me put together a food/food donations resource sheet that can be distributed tonight at trick or treating for anyone in the greater chicago area - or any time after!
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At least 2 people — both citizens — were detained by immigration agents in Albany Park Friday. blockclubchi.co/4hDz8Cu
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About a decade ago she was in DGR & working with Lierre Keith & Derrick Jensen. A TERF who came out of DGR helped create the propaganda bridge to push TERFs into the far-right & antisemitic conspiracies. Now unsurprisingly she's fully embraced fascism.
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Jennifer Bilek apparently enjoyed watching Tucker Carlson’s interview with Nick Fuentes. Back in August she published a guest post by Kari A. Jaquesson, a Norwegian conspiracy theorist & Holocaust denier. Not long before that she disavowed feminism. She’s gone from TERF to pure fascist.
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From an Evanston resident filming an arrest at Oakton/Asbury ~an hour ago:

"He was being very violent with her, I said ‘You got to stop that,’ and he said, ‘Step back or I’ll fucking shoot you.‘ I step back, and then I continue to record, at which point he turned around and pointed a gun at me.”
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Deplatforming Nick Fuentes was what kept him from being mainstreamed, it worked. Elon's replatforming of all of these people and allowing actual Nazis around is why the US government is now publishing white supremacist propaganda regularly.

This is not a new debate. Deplatforming works.
Mind-blowing stuff from Robby Soave.

"Podcasters should not avoid Fuentes." Of course they should. Deplatforming Nazis is good. Not amplifying them is not censorship.

Also laughable to claim Fuentes has been deplatformed. His growing reach is directly tied to MAGA destigmatizing naked racism.
Deplatforming Nick Fuentes Won't Stop Antisemitism
Tucker Carlson's interview of the right-wing podcaster has begun a debate on how best to combat antisemitic, racist, and white nationalist views.
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Wait you mean coming together to kill Palestinians ISN'T the basis for stable political coalition with a bunch of people whose idol is Adolf Hitler?????? Who could possibly have guessed???????????????

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
The Jewish right discovering in real time that the Trumpist right, and the open bigotries it has unleashed upon the US body politic, is not in fact going to spare Jews, is quite a trip.
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If you’re going to get into radical feminism in the fucking 2020s then don’t be surprised if other feminists see you as going backwards & choose to keep going the other way into actual feminist liberation that can take down fascism, white supremacy/colonialism & capitalism along with patriarchy.
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Radical feminism has never been the most radical strain of feminism though it certainly had a historical impact that created problems that have lasted into the present day. We’re still undoing the damage, we don’t need to go back & keep making the same mistakes!
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Seriously, I've read thousands of pages of material from the second wave. It's not like I don't think there's some good writing, analysis & culture from that period of feminism, I'm just critical of which feminists & feminist theories people are picking to venerate or revive out of all the options.
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Which radical feminists they pick is so fucking revealing too. Why Dworkin & Firestone instead of Dunbar-Ortiz, who if you read her current work can actually help you understand what the fuck is happening in this country right now, much better than fucking Right-Wing Women?
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It’s so suspect to me that a section of mainly white feminists, queer & trans people want to go back to one of the whitest, most racist forms of feminism while the entire global political landscape is shifting to the right & getting more racist & nationalistic.
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You want an early radfem who’s pro-trans, how about Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz? She isn’t perfect either but she wanted radical feminism to be anti-imperialist & anti-capitalist & actually tried to go underground to fight the US empire. Now she writes about settler-colonialism & Indigenous history.
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I guess maybe we do need to dig up some old work from the second wave but not racist assholes like Dworkin or Firestone. No, some people apparently need to reread The Bridge Called My Back, y’all need some Barbara Smith, Elly Bulkin, Pat Parker & Audre Lorde.
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I don’t see how you can be an anti-racist feminist & not be critical of radical feminism. Unless you want to be an “anti-racist” SWERF or something. There’s a long history of feminists of color & anti-racist white feminists criticizing radical feminists for racism going back to the 70s!
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The way anti-leftist radfems like Dworkin talk, women who worked with the left, who focused on more than just “women’s issues”, which to her meant porn, sex work, rape etc, were just pawns of male leftists. Groups like TWWA were hardly pawns & saying that they are is racist & sexist.
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In contrast to white radfems who shunned “the male left”, TWWA chose to work with mixed-gender leftist groups primary those made up of people of color both because their political goals aligned but also to introduce anti-sexism into leftist struggles like anti-imperialism.
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No wonder TWWA didn’t want much to do with white feminists. While many surviving members of TWWA now consider themselves feminists, when it was first created they didn’t see their group as feminist because the white feminist movement was so racist & disconnected from most women of color.
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One time TWWA attended a women’s rights march in NYC organized by NOW but were almost barred from marching for carrying a banner that read “Hands Off Angela Davis!”. The vice president of NOW told them their banner had nothing to do with women’s liberation!
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It’s not like white radical feminists didn’t have access to analysis that looked at racism, classism, capitalism & imperialism. It was there, it’s just that a lot of them weren’t listening or were using sexism among male leftists as an excuse to focus on themselves & what most impacted them.
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Like check out We Were There by Patricia Romney, a history of Third World Women’s Alliance, a socialist group of radical women of color founded in 1970. They had a journal called Triple Jeopardy, which named how they were fighting sexism, white supremacy/imperialism & capitalism all at once.