Ceasefire talks are everywhere and people are holding their breathe for the news. We are awaiting our first night going to sleep without wondering if we’ll be bombed or if we’ll wake up.

But we are also scared. Scared of that moment that the adrenaline wears off and we realize what we lost. Scared of our new reality. Scared of going back to our homes that’s now nothing but rubble.

I know in the year after the ceasefire, we will not be allowed to rest. We need to rebuild our homes, our schools, our hospitals, etc. We need to keep going. That’s what we Palestinians do, we keep going.

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Engaging with Black Americans as if they are entirely an antagonist towards the achievement of the liberation of the third world is a shortsighted move that funnily enough the revolutionaries of the 20th century many of these bloggers claim to be followers of explicitly expressed the opposite opinion - that Black Americans are the most likely group within the United States to support global revolution and are naturally sympathetic allies for the struggles of the third world so the third world should support Black liberation in turn.

Awful lot of talk about Black American’s participation in United States imperialism which is not a bad thing in of itself but when that’s extended towards a general hostility towards Black Americans that you compare to the Ku Klux Klan while not promoting the building of solidarity between the Black masses and the third world masses on shared concerns and erasing and flattening the role of domestic racism in American imperialism (which includes you comparing Black Americans to their lynchers) then I have to wonder if your goal in these conversations is actually to clarify the demarcations of struggle or that global liberation will require an opposition to domestic tools of imperialism, capitalism and racism. Because the revolutionaries of the past made these distinctions, why aren’t you?

Being Friends With White People is great game but watch out for the 1/8 chance QTE where they hold you hostage in a confessional booth & start solemnly recalling their racist past to you. in my casual playthroughs i usually tell them to stop but for my any% runs i started hitting them with the "people like you made my life really hard growing up" dialogue option and it tends to end the interaction quicker, which gives you more time to focus on drinking enough to fastforward the night or day, depending on your build

The erasure of Blackness from 'stemme' & 'stud' and why it bothers me

This is more of a vent post/social analysis then 'what is stemme 101' but to summarise stemme stands for stud-femme lesbian. A stud in basic terms is a Black lesbian with masc presentations and roles. A stemme is a Black lesbian with fem and masc presentations and roles. Stemme is a Black lesbian term but according to tiktok it's 'just being masc and fem' and 'has nothing to do with race'. And that pisses me off.

Black gender nonconformity is barely represented. There isn't a 'how to be GNC whilst Black 101' and it gets really isolating tryna figure yourself out with no one to help you. Tomboy and androgynous representation is predominantly white. Being tomboy or andro is associated with having short straight hair or a buzzcut on a white body. Black women in hip-hop and R&B helped to shape Black masculinity and femininity in pop culture. Aaliyah, Queen Latifah, Left Eye, Da Brat etc. helped shape the Black tomboy aesthetics we see today. A large chuck of queer masculinity borrows off of Black, especially Black American, masculine aesthetics. The durags, the chains, the caps, the trainers, the AAVE etc. it all goes back to hip-hop culture.

Black women aren't allowed to be masculine. We're masculinised but we can't be autonomously masculine (people don't get this distinction when this topic comes up but that's another post babes x). Despite Black women, especially darkskin Black women being called mannish and strong we don't actually get to reap the benefits of being masc. We don't get to be the positive masc traits like being smart, brave etc it's only the negatives. And this is 2x harder if you're trans. It gets really confusing as a dark-skinned Black girl excluded from femininity growing up whilst also being so feminine and girly apparently you're on the end of misogynoir. Stem(me) basically summed up my relation to gender pretty well. There was never a word for this experience growing up.

So when I go to look up stemme and it's predominantly white lesbians in snapbacks I don't get a good feeling. And when I see shit about how stem 'had nothing to do with race' I'm fuming. Even more so when people say STUD had nothing to do with Black lesbians. Huh?? Black women's representation is already lacking in most areas even for cishet Black women. But Black GNC identity is SO rare. We can't even have a niche of a niche. That's how little Black culture matters in society's eyes. 'What do we use then?' Chapstick. Tomboy. Tomboy femme. Butch. Masc. The dozens of representations that have always represented your experiences. You're gonna be fine I promise you.

The main thing that set off this vent was seeing some tiktok user make a video crediting herself for defining stem as being masc and fem and ignoring all the Black lesbians that called her out and the audacity for her to say it 'used to mean that' and that 'terms evolve' .

Taking Black lesbian terms and changing their meaning is not evolution. It is theft. Erasing Black tomboys and erasing the literal stud from stud-femme, stemme, is just continuing the erasure of Black LGBTQIA identities in a society that already doesn't want us around. Stemme has always been stud-femme and I'm gonna always honour that, even if I stop using the label for myself, even if no one else will.

Great news: you can also listen to Black people trying to educate you on classism, racism, fascism TODAY.

Olivia Butler was just one of very many Black women who were trying to incite people to listen to "extremists." This book wasn't fortune telling, it was a cautionary tale.

Her books aren't a set of predictions. They're a mirror of the reality that ignoring Black activists can create.

Imagine how much worse we'll be in 2050 if we continue to follow the same white liberal voices that insisted voices like hers were too radical to take seriously.

Who are you being told is "too left" and "too radical" today?

Ill tell you: they're Black and other organizers of color telling you capitalism, classism, imperliasm, and racism are weaved together and must be dismantled as such, even if it takes violence and threatens your first world comforts.

Can I ask how some of you are genuinely so antiblack racist that you that you had the impressive ability of turning a dialogue about US soldiers of color benefiting from imperialism into a harassment campaign against Black bloggers on this site?? Like stop

It’s so weird and embarrassing and you’re being an insufferable freak. Please stop. On behalf of all Arabs, and especially an Iraqi whose family’s homeland was devastated by US imperialism, we don’t want your thinly veiled antiblackness masquerading as support. Yes, all US soldiers are agents of imperialism—and yes, specifically targeting Black Americans with that narrative is racist. Yes, claiming Black Americans do nothing to combat imperialism is racist. Yes, not acknowledging that Black Americans don’t benefit from imperialism on the same level as other Americans is racist. And I’m also tired of you all targeting my beloved Black mutuals who work overtime to educate you when they absolutely aren’t obligated to?? Stop it

Saw apologia for the US military! I don't want to see that! this is a blog that hates US soldiers and some of you don't hate them enough!

Separating myself from the conversation happening here where white bloggers r intentionally going after black bloggers on this site and making posts specifically targeting their outrage towards black americans in the military instead of talking about americans of color as a whole (Hispanic Americans for example r equally represented as black americans in the US military) I've blocked accordingly and have noticed that the specific targeting of black americans in discourse about imperialism comes from anti black leftists especially bc black americans are the most oppressed group in america and there has been active genocide against them since America's birth

This post I'm making is because I'm noticing language that tries to absolve soldiers in the US military and I'm hearing the tired myth of "us soldiers actually come from poor brown and black communities that are prayed upon by the US military" and I thought we were past this apologia? It's a fact that white Americans/middle class are more represented demographic and once an American becomes a soldier they literally uphold and unleash violence in the countries they are stationed in. Even if a soldier doesnt commit violence their status in foreign countries is inherently superior to the locals because they have near immunity to do whatever they want. The US military is responsible for sex trafficking rings! And not just abroad but right in this settler colony where many indigenous activists are blaming the US military for the disappearance of native girls.

The US military is racist many of the people who join are racist even if they are racialized in america.

"The military promises free education it's a cycle of violence :/" No no I don't wanna hear excuses the people they kill are also poor and want education and want a good life.

These soldiers r not passive bots just following orders they are disgusting irredeemable demons walking this earth. And if my take is uncomfortable then I suggest you start reading about US soldiers from the point of view of Iraqis, Somalis, Vietnamese and other peoples whose countries have been devastated by US soldiers. Once you do, you will rightly hate them all. The problem is that the American high school education system forces you to read from the point of view of a US soldier and in terms of "diverse voices" they give you at best the "pacifist/unwilling US soldier" to read from like the memoirs of soldiers in Vietnam who did not want to be there. Those povs shield you from the worst horrors they committed in that country and make you empathetic to US soldiers. And even for those like myself who were actively conscious they were being fed propaganda, id still suggest to read what US soldiers have done and continue to do on their own without any direction!

Plus acab includes the US military so remember that. I know the US military panders to marginalized people in this settler colony but it's no excuse. We're entirely aware of how many vets r on the streets to be still falling for it. Truthfully I think people give US soldiers way too much benefit of the doubt. Many who join r entirely aware of what it upholds and believe in it. Like Muslim US soldiers r the most islamophobic losers out there and that was due to internalized Islamophobia but it's no excuse? They're adults not children

With the wildfire in cali nows a good time to remimd everyone that state uses slave labor and forces prisoners (majority black) to help them fight fires, abolish prisons now

Kinda glad the rich, powerful, and famous homes are also on fire in contrast

me whenever i see “malibu/pacific palisades/bel air is on fire!” headlines

these people can afford to hire ‘private firefighters’ like

The fuck is a private firefighter i hope his house is nothing but ash upon return

The fuckin homeless and prisoners rn?? Patients?? Idc about an actors house!

Child slave labor now.

considering the fact that the memorials I’ve seen have been a number of black folk who don’t seem wealthy, if your take on LA burning has been “well that’s what those rich people get,” you should feel bad. i hope you feel very bad