Alea Iacta Est

On this day, 4 July 1972, students at Fort Street Boys’ High School in Sydney went on strike when they were told by the principal that their shoulder-length hair was too long, and that unless they cut it they would be prevented from sitting their graduation exams. 100 students held a mass meeting on the lawns of the school, and voted to immediately strike. The next day they were joined by more students, ran their own strike flag up the school flagpole, and gave interviews to TV crews arguing for democratic control of the school by students and teachers, rather than the education authorities. After the strikers returned to classes, the schoolauthorities retaliated and suspended six students “for inciting a strike” and for “gross insolence”. 200 students then held another mass meeting and went on strike again, while the school’s unionised teachers issued a statement calling for the withdrawal of the hair rule. In a bid to end the unrest, the NSW Department of Education interviewed and reinstated the six students in early August, while no further students at the school were harassed for the length of their hair. More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/11258/fort-street-high-school-students'-strike

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If you are a white person in a racialized person’s life, especially as a partner or close friend, you should go out of your way to ask regularly “hey is there anything you have been holding on to that I did?” and critically both fix it and NOT DO ANYTHING TO PUNISH THEM FOR TELLING YOU.

I'm seeing a lot of tags from white people saying something along the lines of please tell me if I fuck up and like that really goes against the point of the post. Racialized people have to swallow so much racism on a daily basis and it's impossible to tell who is safe to confront.

To emphasize

shirley jackson casually asking the pharmacist how much arsenic would be necessary to kill a family

Got a great ad encouraging people to dismantle surveillance equipment and then sell the guts at a pawn shop

theres a guy who got permabanned from the elden ring subreddit for self promotion for posting too many videos of him no-hit parrying various enemies and bosses but after every successful parry he turns and looks at the camera. and bc hes always wearing the albinauric mask its like: