any ‘social contagion’ logic presupposes (white, cis, tme, straight, abled, sane) ppl - especially those under 18, are 'pure’ by default and thus in imminent danger of corruption, even possession, by unnamed forces of evil. (and, conversely, that those who cannot meet those criteria are vectors of sin –– i mean, symptoms. we can see this in very obvious ways re: discourses of trans contagion, sex ed as grooming, and the like, but it’s definitely also worth considering the overlaps w/ Madness & neurodivergence:
before existing anti-trans moms had the main stage, discourses of “feminine contagion” were already being whipped up by many of these same moms, worried that their daughters’ [sic] bodily autonomy was the 'evil’ at the root of their disordered/disorderly eating, their self-injury, their suicide. fear of anorexia-as-contagion (and self-harm/injury more broadly) is rooted in this fear of bodily autonomy as a force of corruption, and as such, demands to “recover” in normative ways demands a kind of exorcism. it presumes that the Bad Part of us is unnatural and removable, because the person we are Ought To Be occupies the role prescribed to us already. cissexism, ableism, saneism, entangled once more.
one other interesting example of this - and by interesting i mean evil - is 00’s A$ rhetoric around the “I Am Autism” video/campaign. Again, autism is a thing that comes in and “possesses” the hitherto “pure” child and must be cured - eradicated - battled. it’s no coincidence that the most violent anti-trans bigots rest on the relationships between gender noncompliance and noncompliance with alimentary/behavioral norms, not because there is some magic genetic link between them, but because they are all expressions of willful & “impurifying” autonomy.
This is my tribe. Many of us in our home countries live off selling handmade goods, especially the mochilas. Weaving is an important Wayuú tradition. Every pattern and assortment of colors tells a unique story, and it’s important to our cultural identity. And right now with the crises in Venezuela and Colombia, a lot of us are struggling financially. Please always purchase directly from indigenous communities!
In case you dont know it is dangerous to boil water in the microwave! It can form hotspots rather than heating evenly and when you disturb (grab it) it can explode hot water/steam and cause burns!
Adding a chopstick or coffee stirrer is said to help prevent this by providing neucleation sites throughout the liquid, but to be on the safe side, I would suggest not to use it for this purpose. You can always use a regular ass pot! Enjoy your warm beverages! ☕️🫖🍵
@lgbtqcreators creator meme: [5/8] lgbtq+ celebs “I had to free my own mind of what, at that time, what I felt like masculine adrogynous energy looks like. I was living in my own binary, and I was like there’s no way that I can be androgynous with bigger boobs now. How I feel inside is the thing that I needed to work through.” — JANELLEMONÁE
If we can keep the Presidency in ‘24, retake the House, and have a true majority in the Senate (not relying on independents or red state Dem sellouts) we can impeach these bastards. We can pass all the legislation we have been demanding since the 1960’s including ending assault weapons sales. Insurrectionists can be jailed, everyone can have decent pay, unions, healthcare, affordable prescriptions, housing, student loan forgiveness and the whole enchilada.
We’re only a few seats from controlling the House of Representatives, and we’d only need about three in the Senate depending on how sellouts Manchin and Sinema fare.
We would no longer be held captive by billionaire neo-Nazis and the Fairness Doctrine can be reinstated to curb right-wing media. Citizens United overturn, Roe reinstated, militias ended, open carry ended, castle laws ended, stand your ground ended, affirmative action brought back, no more book banning, etc.
We are so close. We keep losing because 40 million Dems and Dem leaning voters stay home. We massively outnumber the RepubliKKKans but we have to turn out in large numbers to smash them once and for all.
The Republikkkans are implementing their endgame and this may be our last chance to stop them.
This is fucking idiotic. Literally had all three in 2020. And in 2008. How short term is your memory?? And 1992. And 1976. And from 1960-1970.
If we have been demanding those things for that long, why hasn’t it happened any of those times???
Because lesser evil is still fucking evil. You cannot hope and pray for lesser evil to start being good once you give him another chance!
Americans are in an abusive relationship with the Democrats.
Americans stay home because they hate both parties. They arent secretly Dems.
The purpose of Democrats is to crush leftists.
Things will only change when we have a true alternative. Not bought by corporations. Working for LABOR and socialism. Likely this will come in the form of grassroots union organizing revolt/revolution, not through the mainstream political system. General Strikes. Exactly how all the previous changes have happened: just as Abolition, Labor, Sufferage, Civil Rights, Gay Liberation, and Enviornmentalism all did before us. People power, not politics.
Until we have the courage to do that, it will continue to be puppet theater disagreements while the government works together as a whole to push further and further to the right.
Until either the US collapses or climate change kills us all.
we cannot begin to act like intersex transphobes and transmisogynists don’t exist, and it is actively dangerous to perpetuate that these demographics don’t exist. There are absolutely intersex circles that frame their ideology around the “disordered male/female” idea.
Intersex and trans solidarity is key to keeping both of our communities alive- but intersex TERFs are a thing. Intersex transphobes who align themselves under the DSD label are very real and just like transmasc TERFs will use their marginalized status as a weapon against others and a justification of their exterminatory behavior.
Intersexism is a core culture issue of TERF and other transphobe rhetoric, they often operate under and agree with the medicalization of intersex bodies or the “disorders of sexual development” label. TERFs believing that their own intersex female body is just disordered further justifies their idea that there is an ideal framework surrounding the idea of being “female”, and inherently means it’s something trans women cannot obtain- regardless of intersex status. It is still rooted in transmisogyny.
