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They got into fist fights, dropped smoke bombs (confirmed by protesters, not by police), harassed, and physically harmed protestors, many of whom are QTIPOC, including elders in the community.

The VPD did nothing. 3 men were arrested and released 15 minutes after the march ended. They were not there to protect protesters. 

Some of my good friends were there and witnessed the mess of violence, many were scared that they were not going to be able to get out of the march safely. 

This particular neo-n*azi group has shown up at multiple protests as of late, including the protest against the Tr*ump Tower being built here. They are growing in numbers and in presence.

Check in on your POC friends, check in on your immigrant friends, your muslim friends, your queer friends, trans friends, disabled friends, jewish friends. The police wont protect us, the government wont protect us. Show up for us, we are not safe.

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It’s been some time ,but there’s an important topic I need to write about here and literally just get out of my brain, onto a space I can look back at it. 

Honestly, POC movements in this city don’t include non binary or trans folks. And if they do, it’s super sporadic. The same way trans movements very rarely include POC folks.

Yesterday, I realized how deeply I can empathize with people on this, maybe it’s because I go through it every day.

Like, that NEEDS to be talked about. Exclusion of non binary & trans people in POC spaces is real. The other day I was in a room full of ‘woke’ white queer folks. Who understand why its important to include ibpocs and yet, there were none in the room. And i wondered, where do all the POCS go? They blend in for survival. And what if they can’t do that? What if ‘blending in’ isn’t a fucking option? There is no space for them. There is no space for us. 

I felt so intensely how necessary a whole conversation on that was, but it was sort of glossed over because the only people who feel it this intensely and understand how harmful it is, ARE the people affected by it.

I read this article by Kai Cheng Thom, expressing that people join these movements oftentimes because they want a forever home. Maybe some people are okay with amatonormativity (the idea that romantic relationships are everything), and like, if they are, great. But many of us who come from fucked up biofams are inherently seeking community and love that hasn’t existed previously. So we end up in these spaces, but half of our identities become erased, depending on where we are. Because I know we group queer and trans and non binary all together in a box labelled ‘qtibpoc’, or ‘qpoc’, but actually trans/nb experiences are so fucking different, especially as racialized people and we don’t leave space for that or even discuss it. 

Even IN qpoc spaces, we don’t discuss trans/nb erasure. And I deeply empathize with people who go through that because I live it every day. 

I think white queers need to be more aware of these issues, but I’m unsure what that looks like.

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