As a queer uterus-having person who has historically had a complicated relationship with my body, I have to say that the more the US government hates me, the more I appreciate myself. The more educated I am (no i am not talking academia) about the history of US imperialism, colonialism, and capitalism, the more radical I am. I hope this week has radicalized more of you now too.. Because it is all connected, the more I love myself, my body, and my community, the more powerful we all become against the settler state. The angrier we get the more powerful I become. My rage is stored in my bum, apparently
The only thing that should be globalized is dissent.
Because this is not new, this wasn’t sudden and we all knew it was coming.
Also — stop telling penis having folks to get vasectomies?? Hypocritical AF, no? Why yall suggesting that we move from telling one group what to do with their bodies to telling another before considering that the problem is the system? Im done with suggestions for the symptoms, we need to talk about the cause of disease, and we (white people) need to finally follow the lead of the Black and Indigenous communities who have been doing this work since long before 2020. Centering whiteness in these conversations is why no progress has been made. We must listen to and support Black and Indigenous women and communities if we are going to stand a chance against state violence
The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House (1984)- Audre Lorde:
‘Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society’s definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference — those of us who are poor, who are lesbians, who are Black, who are older — know that survival is not an academic skill. It is learning how to take our differences and make them strengths. For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. And this fact is only threatening to those women who still define the master’s house as their only source of support.’