We are so lightly here

okay, i’m curious. let’s play a game. reblog this post and put in the tags the name of a fictional Indigenous character.

okay wait hold on a minute. wait

Tumblr discovering thee original transmasc colonizer!! Tbh I haven’t read the Cabezón Cámara book yet bc I am worried it will give me an aneurysm but someone in the notes who tried to read it says it may be more satirical than this lets on? But who knows. Also frankly let’s read more primary sources of historical trans people ok (although to be clear there are questions about the authorship of the historical document here.)

Me: yeah and then after the good friday agreement they released all the republican prisoners but the republic of ireland had to basically renounce their claim on the north and they normalised the ruc as the police service of northern ireland, and the republic is basically run by american money so exploitation never really ended anywhere in ireland. and I know we already went over jamie bryson when we were talking about flegs. so now that I’ve explained it, do you still think presbyterians have revolutionary potential or are they unwoke forever now?

The reason that I personally am often thinking of the Habsburg Empire is that I think a somewhat odd meme has taken hold of large swaths of the public that ethnically homogenous nation-states are a “natural” form of human political organization and that diversity and multiculturalism are newfangled impositions. In truth, not only has pluralism always been part of the American design, but pluralistic polities are also very historically normal.

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