3 months of celibacy because i hate sex because i end up having sex to try to validate my sexuality because sex is always so disappointing because i hate reproductive labor because i say so because being queer isn’t about fucking all of the time because all i wanna do is…
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http://www.citypages.com/2012-05-09/news/cece-mcdonald-murder-trial/
I just read through a truly horrible and irresponsibly written article on Cece McDonald’s case. This shit is slanted like no other and works to further to incriminate and demonize Cece, as well as fashion a halo for white supremacist Dean Schmitz. I can hardly process this in greater detail, but the article is clearly dismissive of the significant roles that race and gender play in this HATE CRIME.
Take this for example: (beginning with a quote from the prosecuting attorney Michael Freeman)
’ “We see all kinds of crime by all sorts of people against all sorts of other people,” says Freeman. “We try to review it as racially blind, as sexual-orientation blind, as economically blind as we can be. The scales of justice have got a blindfold on them for a reason, and we try to follow that.”
What caused the tragedy outside the Schooner Tavern that night may have been bad timing more than anything else. It was the chance meeting of two people who couldn’t have been more different. Together, they were primed to explode. ‘
Oh yeah, and Dean Schmitz is so not racist because srsly, one his best friends was black, likeomgalready. This sentiment is actually included in the article.
Feel free to send this publication a proliferation of hate mail and criticism. Letter writing is important, whether it’s directly writing to Cece or trying to get accurate and responsible coverage of her case. Rage and the action it can produce is also important, I want to do something more with that.
Fuck racism, fuck transphobia, free Cece.
Inarticulate as ever,
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This guy tried to stage a “white heritage(Klan)” rally in my town, I don’t think he got the turnout he was hoping for. - Imgur
They are giving no fucks and I love it!
I love us so much lol
Bless. We are amazing.
YASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!! BLACK PEOPLE FTW!!!!!!!!!!!
Photo Bomb of the YEAR.
Look at you, Bloomington!
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Nonprofits exist to maintain society as we know it. Nonprofits often provide vital social services in the spaces left by the state’s retreat from postwar welfare provisions, services which keep women, queers, and trans people, particularly those who are poor and of color, alive. The initial postwar welfare provisions themselves were provided primarily to white families – through redlining or the racially exclusive postwar GI Bill for example. Social justice nonprofits in particular exist to co-opt and quell anger, contain racial conflict, and validate a racist, patriarchal state. These organizations are often funded by business monopolies which have profited from and campaigned for the privatization of public social services like healthcare and education. This has been argued extensively by many who have experienced the limits of nonprofit work firsthand, most recently by INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence.
Indeed, the exponential growth of NGOs and nonprofits could be understood as the 21st century public face of counterinsurgency, except this time speaking the language of civil, women’s, and gay rights, charged with preempting political conflict, and spiritually committed to promoting one-sided “dialogue” with armed state bureaucracies. Over the last four decades, a massive nonprofit infrastructure has evolved in order to prevent, whether through force or persuasion, another outbreak of the urban riots and rebellions which spread through northern ghettos in the mid to late 1960s. Both liberal and conservative think tanks and service providers have arisen in response primarily to previous generations of radical Black, Native American, Asian American, and Chican@ Third World Liberation movements. In the 21st century, social justice activism has become a professional career path. Racial justice nonprofits, and an entire institutionally funded activist infrastructure, partner with the state to echo the rhetoric of past movements for liberation while implicitly or explicitly condemning their militant tactics.
The material infrastructure promoting these ideas is massive, enabling their extensive dissemination and adoption. Largely funded by philanthropic organizations like the Ford Foundation ($13.7 billion), Rockefeller Foundation ($3.1 billion), or the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ($37.1 billion), the US nonprofit sector has grown exponentially, often through the direct privatization of the remnants of America’s New Deal-era social safety net. One need only hear the names of these philanthropic organizations to realize that they are or were some of the largest business monopolies in the world, whose foundations are required to donate 5% of their endowment each year, while 95% of the remaining funds remain invested in financial markets. We are asked to thank these organizations for their generosity for solving problems which they are literally invested in maintaining. In 2009 nonprofits accounted for 9% of all wages and salaries paid in the United States, generated $1.41 trillion in total revenues, and reported $2.56 trillion in total assets. This funding structure ties liberal organizations charged with representing and serving communities of color to businesses interested primarily in tax exemptions and charity, and completely hostile to radical social transformation despite their rhetoric. In other words, if you promote this line of political activism and theoretical analysis, you have a good chance of being rewarded – financially. It is possible, now, to live off of these politics – but who is losing in this game?
“With increasing frequency,” Filipino prison abolitionist and professor Dylan Rodriguez argues, “we are party (or participant) to a white liberal “multicultural”/“people of color” imagination which venerates and even fetishizes the iconography and rhetoric of contemporary Black and Third World liberation movements, and then proceeds to incorporate these images and vernaculars into the public presentation of foundation-funded liberal or progressive organizations. …[T]hese organizations, in order to protect their nonprofit status and marketability to liberal foundations, actively self-police against members’ deviations from their essentially reformist agendas, while continuing to appropriate the language and imagery of historical revolutionaries. Having lived in the San Francisco Bay Area from 1995-2001, which is in many ways the national hub of the progressive “wing” of the NPIC, I would name some of the organizations…here, but the list would be too long. Suffice it to say that the nonprofit groups often exhibit(ed) a political practice that is, to appropriate and corrupt a phrase from…Ruth Wilson Gilmore, radical in form, but liberal in content.”
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The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP) and allied lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) organizations stand in solidarity with Cece McDonald, a young African American transgender woman violently attacked by a group of people in a racist…
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Old acquaintances from high school: Yeah, I know it’s 4/20, but posting a picture of Hitler/Nazi birthday cake and wishing a history of genocide and white supremacy happy birthday, is not funny. It’s not a joke. It’s fucked up. It’s racist.
And to those other white assholes that commented on it with blank, spineless responses like, ‘Oh my…’ or whatever representation of uncomfortable passivity: fuck you too.
GIVE NO FUCKS, TAKE NO ORDERS, SMASH THE PRISONS AND THE BORDERS // April 11, 2012 // Portland, OR, USA // jail solidarity noise demo
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