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a couple of links if you can help out a few black trans women. i will be adding more as soon as i gather new ones but if you have any links or are a black trans woman yourself in need of help add to the post

Hey guys chicago essentially trapped protestors downtown by cutting off all public transit in the loop / downtown area and raising the bridges that allow cars and walk ways out of the loop (downtown is kinda like an island due to the Chicago River), then threatening people with arrest if they’re not gone by curfew (which was announced 30 minutes before it began - and when I left earlier it took 45 minutes to get out of downtown by foot due to the mayors closures.) it’s quite literally impossible. one bridge is open AFAIK but only to the north side. Chicago Freedom School is funding ubers to help ppl get home and sheltering those who can’t

Feel like I should give another update to this

It’s important, therefore, to know who the real enemy is, and to know the function, the very serious function of racism, which is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language, and so you spend 20 years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn’t shaped properly, so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Somebody says that you have no art, so you dredge that up. Somebody says that you have no kingdoms, and so you dredge that up. None of that is necessary. There will always be one more thing.