Greetings. Wouldn't you like to be cheered by reading about a backfire where conservatives accused charities of "wokeness" and the people responded by giving more and becoming members in greater quantity?
There is a counterpart to this, though - there must be a much greater fight by cis people against transphobia, for the people who want to reign as fascists and authoritarians are trying to get you to hate trans people and align with the fascists. Giving them power because they promise to give you a simpler time where the people you dislike will be suppressed is working toward your own suppression, for only an elite few will be considered pure enough for them. We have the accounts of people who were caught in past purges of the authoritarians, so it's not like there isn't an example waiting for us to notice. (We also have accounts of the people who fought, often using the skills they had to hand.)
Transphobia is already starting to have consequences - we're already losing our children and teens who look at the legislative and executive onslaught and decide they're not going to survive it. Others have to exercise constant hypervigilance against the kind of people who call security on someone who's trans and just trying to pee.
Pixar employees released an open letter demanding that Disney, their parent corporation, stop censoring and cutting down their queer content in movies and take a stand against all the transphobia and homophobia running rampant in legislation these days.
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Last for tonight, the danger of a single story, and the single story revolving around a protagonist (or a very tight set of protagonists).
The suggestion that the antidote to despair is finding something to act upon, which might be large (or part of a large thing) or small, but is enough to keep a person going, even as the world seems to be coming to an end.
And a person booping a member of the marine community.
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There is a counterpart to this, though - there must be a much greater fight by cis people against transphobia, for the people who want to reign as fascists and authoritarians are trying to get you to hate trans people and align with the fascists. Giving them power because they promise to give you a simpler time where the people you dislike will be suppressed is working toward your own suppression, for only an elite few will be considered pure enough for them. We have the accounts of people who were caught in past purges of the authoritarians, so it's not like there isn't an example waiting for us to notice. (We also have accounts of the people who fought, often using the skills they had to hand.)
Transphobia is already starting to have consequences - we're already losing our children and teens who look at the legislative and executive onslaught and decide they're not going to survive it. Others have to exercise constant hypervigilance against the kind of people who call security on someone who's trans and just trying to pee.
Pixar employees released an open letter demanding that Disney, their parent corporation, stop censoring and cutting down their queer content in movies and take a stand against all the transphobia and homophobia running rampant in legislation these days.
( Significantly more inside )
Last for tonight, the danger of a single story, and the single story revolving around a protagonist (or a very tight set of protagonists).
The suggestion that the antidote to despair is finding something to act upon, which might be large (or part of a large thing) or small, but is enough to keep a person going, even as the world seems to be coming to an end.
And a person booping a member of the marine community.
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adrian_turtle, cmcmck, conuly, cosmolinguist, elf, finch, firecat, jadelennox, jjhunter, kaberett, lilysea, oursin, rydra_wong, snowynight, sonia, thewayne, umadoshi, vass, and anyone else that's I've neglected to mention. If you want to know where I get the neat stuff, my reading list has most of it.)
