Anti-trans campaigners who threatened to bankrupt Dundee Women’s Festival with lawfare tactics were drowned out at their own event yesterday afternoon by a much larger crowd of queer people and allies, who danced, sang and chanted slogans in the City Square until the rather sad-looking gathering dissipated...

This is a really good reportback of the counter-demonstration against transphobic hate group "Women Won't Wheesht" that took place in Dundee yesterday

people think I'm kidding when I say that I believe shoplifting from corporations is okay. you need/want that thing? take that shit and try not to get caught (some security guards can be really fucking violent so be careful).

reminder to support your local strikes.

whether that be by joining picket lines, donating to strike funds, or just spreading awareness of any industrial action that's going on, any assistance helps.

don't listen to the anti-union rhetoric being pushed by the right, both in and out of government. the reason it's become so prevalent in recent years is that the establishment is so afraid of losing out on even the smallest amount of profit, that they'll do anything they can to suppress it.

“Masculinity and patriarchy are one in the same” is one of the ideological pillars of patriarchy. It frames masculinity as something that can only be affirmed via a dominance relation and renders all forms of counter-hegemonic masculinity invisible. Ceding that territory to patriarchy only serves to erase the butches, trans mascs, trans men, nonbinary people, etc. who explore and live out subversive forms of masculinity. We would be far better served by understanding masculinity as something that patriarchy attempts to capture, rather than something it inherently owns, therefore shifting our understanding of masculinity away from seeing it as a component of the enemy and towards understanding it as continuously contested territory. Patriarchy attempts to enclose masculinity, rigidly define it, tie it to domination and control, and punishes all unsanctioned expressions of it. This capture is not inherent nor is it complete. Trans and gnc people have been undermining that project since it began! Many of the positions explored above take for granted that masculinity is a real and consistently definable phenomena: invented, made material, and defined by patriarchy alone. They assume that patriarchy’s word on masculinity has been the only real word, cis men’s understanding of it the only real understanding of it, its deployment in rigid gender roles its only possible manifestation. Cis men have been at the wheels of centralized power and thus have had more means to make their own voices drown out the rest of us, but subversive masculinities have always been here, have always been a threat to the patriarchal narrative. Many also assume that when queer and trans people refer to masculinity we are always referring to a masculinity that at least gains its meaning from patriarchy. It is time to inform you that your imagination up until this point has been disastrously stifled. Certainly, popular conceptualizations of hegemonic masculinity are inherently patriarchal and gain their meaning from that system. However, it is too far to assume that trans people are always referring to the same framework of masculinity that cis men do. We create our own meaning even as we expand masculinity to the point of meaninglessness. I take testosterone and am seeking top surgery to affirm my womanhood. Glitter, dramatic eyeliner, platform boots, and extremely slutty deep-V shirts validate my sense of my masculinity as much as work boots and button-ups do. Some of us are simply not referring to patriarchal masculinity when we are doing masculinity and what we’re doing is not new. Not only is masculinity not inherently patriarchal: masculinity is not inherently anything at all! Masculinity, femininity, and all gendered terms are vibes-based only and vibes are always changing with people and context! They are not real! Their utility is in play and self-exploration and any insistence of inherent reality beyond that will itself necessarily refer to patriarchy.

read the entire essay by Lee Shevek (@butchanarchy) — she does an excellent job breaking down the problem with conflating masculinity with patriarchy, especially how that leads to vilifying masculine people who are harmed by the patriarchy.

pants update O.o

is your child a nihilist extremist? 🤔

Anarchism Must not be Criminalized:

Statement from 12 of the 61 People Indicted on RICO Charges in Atlanta

Labels are made up so it doesn't matter how many times you shit yourself over people you don't like identifying as lesbians it's not going to do anything. Labels and definitions and fucking words are made up and change everyday, linguistics is fake, seethe and mald and piss your pants more about it

“makeup/shaving/plastic surgery is a messed up industry that preys on people and needs to be criticized” and “people should be allowed to do what they want with their bodies and there are other reasons for shaving/makeup/plastic surgery other than beauty standards” are opinions that can and should co exist.

cutting up my clothes and using the acrylic paint I stole from my sister to make queer and political patches, knowing my apostle parents are gonna lose their shit.

I honestly don't care anymore if they get pissed. If they can repeatedly try to force their religion on me I should be allowed to express myself and my views however the fuck I want :)

ngl i feel like a lot of the 'online left'™ is less focused on actually fighting for socialism, and more focused on adopting the radical aesthetic without engaging in any real world activities that would further leftist causes.

like, prices of everyday goods are at an all time high, we are on the brink of ecological collapse, fascism is on the rise across the globe, and marginalised people are being stripped of their rights every single day.

and yet, while a lot of people are actually getting out there and taking direct action, organising, etc., some of us are too busy just ranting about how the world's going to shit, or arguing amongst ourselves on twitter, or just reading theory without applying said theory to the real world.

don't get me wrong, social media is an important vehicle for the spread of leftist ideas, theory is absolutely vital for understanding how the current systems operate, and our anger is completely justified. but none of these things can change anything without mass movements across the globe taking direct, revolutionary action.

basically, theory is nothing without praxis, and vice versa.

anyways, unhinged rant over lmao.

gonna go grab some breakfast :)

The rainbow flag can mean whatever the fuck you want it to

You do not have to chase after a checklist of gay rights and then pack up the revolution because everything is all okay now

You do not have to separate your demand for justice, for peace, for a better world from your queerness

You do not have to applaud that the HR department at Shell Oil is nice to any gay people they hire to burn the planet

You can just decide that your sexuality is anarchism and your gender is free healthcare if you fucking want to

You can decide that you get gender dysphoria from climate change and that the entire world being set on fire is indeed an LGBTQ+ issue thank you very much

You do not have to put your queerness into a discrete intellectual and political box separate from all the other things you need to be a thriving, breathing person

We invented like 18 new genders before breakfast, we can do whatever we want

Go ahead, call fiscal conservatism unqueer, it's fine

Finished the back of the unity jacket. Need to think of more to put on this one. Mainly trying to think of something to paint on the hood. Maybe a black head?