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Nonbinary people are not your enemy.

Nonbinary people are your siblings in the struggle that is systemic transphobia. Our collective pain, our collective erasure from society is the goal. We are allies to each other.

Gendered liberation is not your enemy.

Gendered liberation as a goal is there to allow us all to exist freely in the ways that are most comfortable for us all. The goal is to uplift us all, to liberate us all, to give us the ability to have autonomy and agency over our own expressions, lives, and bodies — this inherently includes you and your right to find comfort in your identity and presentation however it may manifest.

Gender abolition is not your enemy.

I know that's a scary sounding one. It used to scare the shit out of me too. Especially right now. Especially when, if you are a USAmerican trans person, our government is directly attacking our right to exist publicly and privately. Especially when TERFs and other radfems have completely bastardized the concept of abolition into a blunt anti-trans weapon.

Gender abolition is not about telling you that you have to stop being a woman or a man — especially if you're a trans lesbian or gay trans man. Gender abolition is also not about reassigning coercively assigned physical sex as the "true" marker of someone's identity.

The goal of gender abolition is the dismantling of the roles and structures we forcibly and coercively assign to gender identity, often with a focus on the impact of imperialism and settler colonialism on those structures (when done within a solidarity oriented framework). Much like other forms of abolition work — like prison abolition — it is a practice meant to dismantle and repair generations of systemic harm and trauma.

I know that that seems lofty, especially if you are white. You may feel especially disconnected from that struggle and simply want to exist in the world you're already familiar with in a way you are already familiar with — but this fight is bigger than just you.

Audre Lorde — notable black, lesbian, feminist scholar — once said "I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own." and in that same spirit, you are not free while any trans person is unfree, even when their shackles are very different from your own.

LET'S DO THE FORK IN THE GARBAGE DISPOSAL

LET'S DO THE FORK IN THE GARBAGE DISPOSAL

He seems to have created Hell. And Hellborn in Pride do refer to him like a deity- the Goetia blasphemy using his name. There are hellborn churches with hellborn bishops using (an edgy kid’s understanding) of an ‘anti-christ’ symbol (which, sooo funny if anyone ever tried explaining that one to Charlie). Its just always this really funny contrast in how much sinners cannot care less because thats what happens when you don’t govern or pay attention at all. And at least his own sin family seems to miss him! Theyre bribing him to come back and actually to hellborn governance again in the background shot of his bedroom. He has the potential for competence and respect.

Not to shamelessly self-plug but I AGREE and this immediately reminded me of a little tidbit of conversation from WFLT Ch. 4 that hasn't gotten its flowers and SHOULD.

I think Lucifer does kind of sort of think of himself as a God! Now, don't get me wrong, it's a "kind of sort of" thing in his head, not a full-throated proclamation. But he has this level of pride because he was left down in this creation-sandbox and built a whole society from scratch-- which! To be fair! Was very impressive!

But there is such a funny tension between Lucifer, who made the Hellborn and probably the Rings and all of this non-Pride-Ring-infrastructure... and then the goddamned motherfucking Sinners who came down here with their bad mojo and their evil habits and their rap music and their "building our own city" like the city he built wasn't good enough, and what the Hell!

I like to think that every time, in Lucifer's estimation, he "turns around for a second," the Sinners have done something horrible (in his opinion) and unauthorized (in his opinion).

And he does not realize this at all, but that's actually part of his punishment. It's not just being stuck in Hell with a bunch of sinners that he can't control; it's experiencing the literal exact thing he put his dad through with the garden and the apple on repeat ('I left my creation unpaused for literally 5 minutes and now everything is a complete disaster').

🧵 THREAD: This #PrideMonth, don’t forget that the fight for queer liberation didn’t start or end with marriage equality.

💪✨ We need to keep fighting for our rights.

Here’s are a few examples:

💋 Before the 2003 Supreme Court ruling in Lawrence v. Texas, same-smex smexual activity was illegal in fourteen U.S. states, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. military

👶 Before 2015, LGBTQ+ couples couldn’t adopt in all 50 states. Before the Supreme Court ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, laws varied wildly by state.

🏳️‍🌈 Before 1973, the American Psychiatric Association listed homosmexuality as a ‘mental illness.’ In December 1973, a vote was successfully held to remove it.

🗳️ Before 1974, there were no openly gay elected officials. That changed with Kathy Kozachenko, who became the first openly gay American elected to public office in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

🎖️ Before 2011, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” banned LGBTQ+ people from serving openly in the military.

💍 Before 2015, LGBTQ+ couples couldn’t get married in all 50 states. At the time, laws varied by state, and while many states allowed for civil unions for same-sex couples, it created a separate but equal standard.

From the article:

“If you look only at the trend of species declines, it would be easy to think that we’re failing to protect biodiversity, but you would not be looking at the full picture,” said Penny Langhammer, lead author of the study and Executive Vice President of Re:wild. “What we show with this paper is that conservation is, in fact, working to halt and reverse biodiversity loss. It is clear that conservation must be prioritized and receive significant additional resources and political support globally, while we simultaneously address the systemic drivers of biodiversity loss, such as unsustainable consumption and production.”

This massive meta analysis (for those not familiar, a study analyzing the results of many studies on similar topics) found that the vast majority of conservation efforts show much much better results than doing nothing. In many cases, biodiversity loss was not only stopped but reversed.

Forty years ago there were zero condors in the wild.

There are over 300 condors now, free and wild and breeding by themselves without our help.

We did that. We did. Lots of people said "that's stupid, you won't succeed" but people made condor puppets and they said "fuck you we're gonna try anyway" and they fed the babies and raised them up wild and did their best with their big human brains and human cooperation and WE FIXED IT!!!!

YOU ARE NOT THE FIRST GENERATION TO CARE.

YOU ARE NOT THE ONLY PERSON WHO CARES.

IT IS NOT HOPELESS.