really wish "abolish the police" was trending with all the news, it feels like a lot of ppl have forgotten since the height of blm

Apparently if a warrant is issued, it will be for crimes against humanity

Aha, found it @asurrogateblog and @lord-pain !

Will never forgive whoever decided to cut this out of A Hard Day’s Night…

what kind of sick joke is this

pussy so tight we cant have sex

Has an imperial core ever been THIS loyal to a colonial project? Are we sure it's not the other way around?

maybe listen to the words of the resistance since theyre pretty clear on how the relationship goes

Annelise Orleck, Professor of History, Chair of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth

People are passing food and water through the gates to the Columbia University Gaza Encampment protesters.

Columbia has completely shut down access to campus to try to starve the encampment.

Just a reminder for people who may not know, in light of protestors at UCLA being shot in the face with rubber bullets— rubber bullets are not bullets made of rubber. They are metal bullets encased in rubber.

Despite being called “non-lethal” or sometimes “less lethal”, they are well known to cause death and permanent disability.

Here’s a photo showing their size— these are actual rubber bullets used during the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020.

Do not let them downplay the severity of what they are subjecting this students to for standing against genocide. Stay safe and stay educated.

how i think jane and paul's marriage would've ended lol

actually wait let's go on a road trip guys. sorry if the gas station is out of something you really like

History of Step

What is Stepping?

What is Step?

Stepping or step dancing is “a percussive dance in which the participant’s body is used to produce complex rhythms and sounds through a mixture of footsteps, spoken word, and hand-claps,” writes the African American Registry.

Step has its origins in Africa, as dancing has been a large part of traditional African culture for centuries.

Calling Step a "bizarre silent dance without music" has to be one of the wilder antiblack racist descriptions I've ever heard of stepping lmao. Anyway if you see the video, it's step!!! They're stepping!! It's a Black American form of dance!!

This is a genuine question no harm meant, but why do transwomen dislike it when people say they hate men? Like I'm a man hater (due to personal experience), but I don't group transwomen in because you aren't men and I dont see you as men... Maybe I'm just confused though but this is something I never really understood

first off i’m gonna swing in and say… we do not? i mean sure definitely some of us do but we’re a complex and varied group with a lot of different opinions. you may as well be asking me why Canadians like hot sauce or why astronauts don’t like horror films any time you ask me why trans people do or don’t like something.

secondly — i think you’re missing the woods for the trees here because that certainly ain’t my experience. if anything, trans women bitch louder and more openly about men than any other gendered group i can think of. i can think of a few reasons you might have come to this conclusion, though

you might find us having a problem with any attitude that acts as if the problem with men is of a biological nature. because it isn’t; it’s social. any attempt to locate the source of the patriarchy within the human body is reactionary drivel and transphobic by necessity. you MIGHT have seen trans girls having problems with people saying men are Like That because of testosterone etc. i think that “why” is pretty obvious here!

something else trans girls will often take umbrage with is attempts to criticise men that actually still reinforce oppressive ideas about gender. Julia Serano wrote that from a transfeminist perspective there are two types of sexism — traditional sexism (the belief that men are superior to women, femininity is lesser than masculinity etc) and oppositional sexism (the belief that men and women are two completely separate, non-overlapping, untransgressable groups), and both of these are used to victimise and oppress trans women,

you even fall into that in this ask! you state that you don’t “include” trans women in the category of men when you talk about hating men — don’t you see the subtle threat here? you COULD decide trans women are men and subject us to your righteous hatred of men — but you don’t, because to you we’re not men. you see why treating gender groups as rhetorical categories in this way might bother trans women? you demonstrated deftly here that recognition of our womanhood is dependant on how other people think about us. “I don’t see you as men” but you could choose to, decide to at the drop of a hat, and you could use that to violate us and get away with it scott free. This is an enormous part of how transmisogyny functions in day to day life.

additionally — you know i used to be a boy, right? like ok maybe i was never a man, i wasn’t in the closet long enough as a teenager to live as a man, but i did live as a teenage boy and so did almost every other trans girl on earth. many trans women right now are living as men. i think treating “men” as this discrete, concrete category of Evil People who occasionally shit out a “Valid Woman” to be adopted by the other side is transphobic; it absolutely upholds that oppositional sexism we were talking about earlier, for one. a lot of people are both men and women; this isn’t just a niche identity (although there’s fucking thousands of people identifying as gender fluid, bigender, genderqueer these days, so not even niche) but a material reality for a lot of people (even those who aren’t non-binary.)

i — and almost every trans girl i know — look at men as a category that intrinsically DOES include some trans girls, actually. every trans girl who hasn’t hatched yet and even many who have live years and years as boys or men — you may be including them as women “in your mind” but that’s such a binarist lie to tell yourself — you’re not on the look out to see perceived cis boys as anything but cis boys even if you personally rhetorically understand trans women to be women. you’ve opened the back door to sneak a few trannies into Fort Girl instead of, yknow, dismantling the idea of the gender binary.

so maybe it’s not that trans girls hate people talking about how they “hate men” — a lot of us do too — maybe it’s more to do with the fact that you’re acting like gender has two teams, Men vs Women, and you are very graciously allowing us to be a part of The Good Team (which definitely has no problems with how trans women are treated, historically (hint: this is sarcasm, cis women are as violent and oppressive to trans women as cis men are)) even though we were born in the disgusting Male Side. we don’t take too kindly to that.

As a rule of thumb, don't reblog donation posts or people asking for donations unless they've been vetted and reblogged by Palestinian bloggers. We usually go to lengths to verify this shit because we know scammers have been faking to get people to send them money, using the urgency of our genocide as bait.

It's disgusting this is what we're dealing with, but people are losing money because of some truly evil people out there.

Accounts don't just randomly spring up on tumblr without gofundmes while asking for someone to help them create a campaign. Fuck out of here with that shit.