jade nguyễn's defense attorney

So my queerness is more worthy of protection than my Blackness, is that what we're saying? People talk about homophobia in the Black community, about how Black religious figures failed to make coalitions and hurt the civil rights movement, and there's value to that. But the other reality is that the wins the queer movement have gotten have disproportionately benefitted people that don't look like me.

If anything, this should be a part of the politics of the month! This IS on topic, we ARE the queer community, we always have been, and we have always been on the ground floor of every movement that pushed the needle.

But you wanted your fucking low quality corporate pandering more than anything else.

Fuck that, and you know that, fuck what pride has come to represent, and be used as a weapon against dissent.

There is a reason Israel knows that bringing up queer rights to camouflage their atrocities is worth putting money into. Because people hate spending time thinking outside themselves, especially when it comes to Black and Brown people.

DC fired a trans author because of right-wing pressure and spinelessness, but you think that the decisions they are making about queer rep are for us? You think that the organization who would do that so flippantly cares about queer lib any more than it cares about Black folk?

But this proves exactly why they do it. You will rush for any scraps they give, and then be complicit in being used as a shield for any other criticism.

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"Samson and Delilah" (2009), dir. Warwick Thornton

two spent swimmers

I think we're in an era of romanticization of radical action and radically compassionate life... that is somehow synonymous with inaction. I don't think you get to be cold hearted and friendless and then post videos of James Baldwin online. I don't think you should post posts about random acts of love and then be nasty to the people who know you personally.

There is this performative persona of compassion here sometimes, and this wanting of unearned solace and reprieve that does not match up with the lack of hardship in some of your lives. I think when you spend time claiming someone else's hardship and romanticizing their rest, you end up with white women reinventing colonialism and gentrification for the cottagecore of it all. You end up with communists who don't even understand the interconnectivity of race and class.

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"Samson and Delilah" (2009), dir. Warwick Thornton

Toomelah (2011)

Director & DP - Ivan Sen