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Rememberence is important not just for the poor souls who are duped into warring for the rich, but for the innocents lost in conquest of greed.
This rememberence day feels like a farce when some countries profit from the Genocide of Palestinians at the hand of a colonial project.
The history books will be written to say we were on the correct side of history only after the atrocities were done, and the money has been made.
Never again, means never again.
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D00M3D
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This sticker is now live on my ko-fi along with some other fun zines and prints!
https://ko-fi.com/s/19a4b87bd7
The new world is born through the imagination.
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glitching black hole sun
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By the time the sun has turned this desert into a sea of glass (original, 2023)
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Okay but can anyone articulate the mindset that leads older people to feel like they NEED to know people's gender identity all the time? Like what's going on there
Cause it feels like I've had a hundred xonversations with cis straight people around 40-60 years old that goes like
Person: Did you see that?
Me: See what?
Person: That. It, him, whatever they're called
Me: (Sees a femme with masculine features)
Me: What about them
Person: Well what is that? He's dressed in women's clothes, so is he-it, they- What does that mean?
Me: I mean. If you're concerned about pronouns you can probably ask
Person: But do I call it a Mister or a miss?
Me: Well uh. That depends on what they tell you but "them" is usually safe.... but based on their makeup, hair, and heels I don't think they'd be mad if you assumed thry were a lady
Me: So like. I'd say she's probably just. Here for the event
Person: That's fine, I get that, I don't have a problem with trans people, I just don't get how you're supposed to know
Person: Like how do you know if someone is transsexual or just cross dressing?
Me: Uhhhhhhhh
Me: I mean
Me: I don't know. Any cross dressers. Who would be offended by being pronoun'd by their outfit. But like.
Me: I guess if you choose wrong. And they correct you. Then you just.... apologize and use what they tell you?
Me: .... Do you plan on talking to them?
Person: No
Me: Then why d. Why does it matter
Person: I'm just trying to understand
Me: And that's great! But like. You don't need to
Person: What
Me: You don't need to. Necessarily. Understand. You know?
Person: Huh
Me: They're here for the event. You don't have to interact with them. In two hours they'll go home and you'll never see them again
Person: I'm just confused
Me: You're allowed to be confused
Me: You can stay confused
Me: It's not illegal
Like
I don't know how applied statistics works
Thats fine
I'm probably gonna die confused about that one
I don't need romance know the gender and physiology and medical history of a random stranger I'm never gonna talk to
Why do you need to know
Do you think they're gonna quiz you before they leave
Are you worried you're gonna get a bad grade
Lots of interesting explanations in the comments, but if we can get solutions-oriented for a minute, one approach, if the person seems to be coming from a well-meaning place, is to remind them of how, up until fairly recently, it was considered normal/expected/required for a woman's marital status--Miss or Mrs.--to be announced along with her name.
The first women to ask to be called Ms were faced with a lot of questions, both well-meaning and not, from people who felt entitled to the information that Mrs. or Miss would provide, or at least to an explanation of why the woman preferred to use the new prefix.
The elder in question may even remember/have participated in this transition! And now, a lot of people still use Mrs or Miss, but Ms is now a fairly standard option, and we generally accept that a woman's marital status is not necessarily pertinent information. If you ask a lot of questions about why so-and-so is a Ms, you're the one making it weird.
Similarly, we now sometimes don't know a person's gender. That's might feel a little strange, because we're used to that datapoint being fairly obvious from a person's appearance, but we don't actually need to know. If it becomes relevant, we'll find out; if the person wants us to know, they'll say something.
Letsbsee what happens when I put a zine in a tiny library
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Work by the always great @feathersalwaysmakepplattractive
Source: Tumblr - @feathersalwaysmakepplattractive
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In case any of you here also use X/Twitter.
Come hang out on mastodon on a small server and never be chased away by AI again!
Put the network in the hands pf the people!
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Peace is the white moderate's word. They would rather have a fake "peace" built on theft, injustice, and genocide than a real, liberatory peace which can only come through struggle and revolution.
During the Great March of Return in 2018-2019, a series of nonviolent protests by Palestinians in Gaza for the right to return to lands they were expelled from across the border, the IDF killed 226 people and injured 13,000. The injuries were often severe, with IDF snipers intentionally maiming protestors.