Ice Quing @winter@rage.love

Don’t be afraid to tell someone “none of your business” to their face

🛑🛑🛑IMPORTANT PLEASE READ🛑🛑🛑

THE US GOVERNMENT is currently passing a bill that literally LIMITS OUR FREEDOM OF SPEECH on the internet. A violation of our first amendment rights. No one has heard about this bc our gov. is keeping it quiet from the mass media so it can just get passed!!!

we have the right to VOTE ON IT, but we can’t do that unless everyone knows about it.

if you have a link with more info. please share & stay aware

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link to the twitter thread I got this info from: https://mobile.twitter.com/azariarussell/status/1267907104628789251

you can message your representative to vote no on the bill under the ‘take action’ button at the bottom of this: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/join-eff-reddit-ama-earn-it

a petition against it: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/dont-let-congress-kill-encryption

another petition: https://act.eff.org/action/protect-our-speech-and-security-online-reject-the-graham-blumenthal-proposal

trayvon martin’s mother sybrina fulton, is running for office in florida please share/donate to her campaign if you are able!

https://sybrinafulton.com/

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@popstar @TapiocaPearl

Rivers Solomon has a short story up on TOR.com today:

https://www.tor.com/2020/06/03/read-rivers-solomons-blood-is-another-word-for-hunger/

I know a lot of us posted about ordering Chinese food when covid hit and I strongly believe we should be doing the same to support local Black owned restaurants in the same way now.

Just learned that George Floyd was a part of the legendary group Screwed Up Click back in the 90s. Billboard’s got a good summary of his career and links to several of his songs. https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/hip-hop/9391100/george-floyd-screwed-up-click-rapper

While we protest his horrific death at the hands of police brutality, I also want to learn about his life and celebrate it. Black lives matter, and his black life matters.

I am just tired of a very particular kind of white trans man being the voice and face of the community, and their very loud lack of suffering being held up as the norm for a community that is disproportionately raped, beaten up, unemployed, and homeless.

If you're a white middle class trans men, consider how that whiteness and that class privilege feeds into how people may perceive you, and how people might perceive a black trans man or a trans man who is not middle class and well-connected. Maybe don't rush to emphasize how easy you, personally, have it when people are talking about their pain.

Part of the whiteness of the trans male community manifests in white trans men emphasizing how trans men are seen as nonthreatening and treated more gently by TERFs than trans women.

That is not true across racial or ethnic or class lines.

Poor trans men and trans men of color are often viewed as aggressive, threatening, and dangerously mentally ill.

@popstar
Thank you for the reading suggestions. Some of my favorite novels I've read in the past year have been written by black authors.
* "The Salt Roads" by Nalo Hopkinson. Can't recommend enough! You might learn some history from this fantasy novel.
* "Binti: The Complete Trilogy" by Nnedi Okorafor. Sci-fi, 3 novellas collected together in one volume.
* "A Taste of Honey" by Kai Ashante Wilson. Fantasy, main character is a bisexual black man. 3rd work of his I've read

talking to your racist family might not work, but at the very least if you talk to them at all give em hell whenever the opportunity arises (use your own judgement on when is appropriate). spiciness is good. if they want a relationship with you, make it with the whole you, not just your work persona

getting spicier in the family group chat and got the rest of my family to agree that basically every job a cop does could be done better by a social worker without weapons

do it don’t say it. do it for black ppl don’t say it to do your penance for the day. that doesn’t help anyone but you.

I'm weary of people that make this issue about them in any capacity. How much they're going to miss out, how sad they're going to be, how little now theyre going to learn etc.

I'm not impressed by ppl that try to 'center' Blk voices by forcing us to view the situation thru their gaze. It's counterproductive & vain.

Blk folks aren't the heuristic device from which ppl gain respect for you. You're using us as a stepping stone.

Antiblk af

What's happening on the fedi in regards to BLM, anti-blackness & harassment, is leading Blk folks to leave and shift gears in response to how ppl are behaving.

This is not about white folks & how embarrassed or sad they are that ppl are leaving. It feels like its making mammies out of Blk thinkers on here. Dont. Theyre not here to provide you labor in any capacity.

This also isn't abt NBPOC-white passing folks. This exodus is not abt you. Most likely you've benefitted from it all anyways

oh wow it's more than that, lego is asking cop playsets to be pulled from shelves.

Life is really hard when you wanna call people out and name names but you are viewed as a black femme and therefore automatically aggressive and vicious and *insert dehumanizing vocabulary here*.

Honestly black users on mastodon are painted as magic mythical fairies in the stories of legends but don't actually exist OR heartless demon animals that will rip off your limbs and drink your blood and therefore we need to be caged and defanged or some shit and the metaphor isn't lost on me.

@mo I started reading "Hood Feminism" by Mikki Kendall (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/586743/hood-feminism-by-mikki-kendall/). She is a great writer, and from here too!