Corridors r.i.p 2013 mtl
no wonder they were so effin good! switch has 3 arms, and clayton had gigantic pedals. wtfthefuck hari stop texting people in the middle of the set.
They were so good! Such a great part of the night.
Solidarity and attack/ fighting back/ striking first/ confronting oppression/ accountability/ the false idea of community within the anarchist scene/ running away/ my crippling and ever present anxiety/ my dog/ what to make for dinner/ how to continue having meaningful projects in montreal/ and you know, the struggle.
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Doom! Doom! Doom!
MADDY IS FREEEEE!!!
Fuck yes!!!
Fuck yes! This is fantastic news!
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ALSO IF ONE MORE PERSON PRAISES THE BETRAYAL ZINE AND DEFENDS GUELPH RAPE APOLOGISTS AND THEIR BUDDIES (WHO THE WHOLE FUCKING ZINE IS WRITTEN ABOUT) I AM GOING TO FUCKING CUT YOU. FOREVER.
holy fuck.
if i learned anything tonight (and over the past couple weeks since the slowdance or actually in the past couple of years), it’s that there is no fucking space for survivors.
people will always talk about how complicated it is and how they can’t take a stance one way or another.
people will always continue uncritical relationships with rape apologists without ever questioning them.
people will always shame other people about their coping mechanisms. cause y’know, there’s the “right” way to be a survivor.
you can front all you want as a radical, political, safer space or person, but ultimately it all comes down to social capital and people being fucking cowards.
so so so tired of feeling like i have to constantly fight for space to even feel okay for a minute.
so tired of seeing my friends in tears.
tired of having to justify my hatred for rape apologist pieces of shit.
there are some seriously amazing people though (shayla, astrid, rosie, all of ethel st, rowan, etc..) who will have your backs no matter what though. super thankful for them
and, corridors and second wave mom fucking kicked ass tonight! so stoked to see those bands.
hate being a whiner on tumblr, but just feeling so frustrated after tonight.
wanna talk to people more about all this stuff but feeling terrified.
Help me raise money to be a lot less miserable in my body…
[reblob, plz?]
Hey y’all, so after many years of just trying to deal, I’m trying to raise money for transition-related costs in my life in hopes that I will be a lot less miserable in my body. I know that most of you have probably heard me be critical of people who ask for money for transitioning expenses on the internet, and in many ways this remains a contradiction that I have a hard time logically overcoming in my head because of my problems with how these things normally unfold, so let me just be clear about what makes me uncomfortable about this: I hate having to make myself into a sexy and/or pathetic enough trans woman to elicit sympathy from people, I hate that every thing I’ve ever said and every desire I’ve ever had and every physical feature of mine will likely be analyzed to deem me worthy of support, I hate that if I was a trans man I would make more money, and I really hate that people might be more willing to give me money than really important projects of trans women’s collective resistance (seriously if you only have a little bit of money please give it to Gender Anarky or Niara or any number of people who are living my worst nightmare ad surviving as gender-variant people in men’s prisons). I think that these are all valid reasons for hating the culture of transition-fundraising, and I think that these things also remain critiques shared by most trans/gender-variant people I love and respect.
So why am I trying to do this then? In short, I’ve been in a pretty bad dysphoric/anxious headspace for the last many months and I’m starting to realize how important dealing with these things is for my personal sanity. I’d like to really not have to have a panic attack every time I can’t get a close enough shave and get a good night’s sleep rather than get up to pee every hour at night because of these terrible testosterone blockers. I’ve been doing this whole trans thing for many years and despite my desires to access things that would make my body feel better, I’ve instead put all of my time and energy and money into paying my rent and starting/continuing what I would consider vitally important political projects. And I don’t regret this for a second, but it’s catching up to me now and my gender dysphoria is a lost worse than ever before to the point where I can barely deal (I’m only remotely dealing because I finally have access to free hormones). So for my own well-being, I am choosing against my better judgment to do something for myself and start raising money for permanently removing my facial hair and getting an orchiectomy. In total that’s probably around $6-7,000, which seems like insurmountably large amount of money for me, but maybe actually isn’t that much for normal people. In any case it would make my life like a million times better. Anyway, I know that I’m rambling, but if you feel like you wanna help me out, reblog this and/or donate below. If you donate I’ll give you a million tarot card readings and/or draw you a really pretty picture of your favorite animal and/or do pretty much anything that you want. Sorry to bother people and thanks in advance.
-luna
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[Disclaimer: seriously if you have like not money, just keep your money and reblog/encourage your more money-having friends. And if you have a little extra money, maybe just give it to Gender Anarky or Niara instead of me. For more info: genderanarky.wordpress.com and freeniara.wordpress.com]
That shitty moment when
feeling validated means seeing your friends cry too
The band that I am in (Second Wave Mom) is playing our first show this thursday night at Squalor!!
https://www.facebook.com/events/142664332578657/
We are playing with Corridors (it’s their last show!), Late Lunch (weirdo no wave) and La Riposte (sober vegan hxc).
There will be dancing and punx and sassy attitudes and friends and everyone should come!!!
La Riposte is my new band and this is our first show, this Thursday.
Corridors is my crappy band. We are playing some show Thrusday. I ove arts and crafst
Super stoked!
SOMEBODY GIVE ME A FUCKING JOB ARRRGGGGGH.
everything today is horrendously sad
forecast says: winter and prisons forever
June 11th 2013 callout
June 11th is the international day of solidarity with Eric McDavid, Marie Mason, and all longterm anarchist prisoners. If you are planning on
doing an event for the day, please email us at june11[at]riseup[dot]net. You can find resources, information about events from previous years,
and word on upcoming events at june11.org. Read on to see our thoughts on what it means to do longterm solidarity, on how Eric and Marie
inspire us, and to learn how June 11th began.~~~~~~
The state stole Eric McDavid and Marie Mason from us in 2006 and 2008 respectively. In the years since their arrests, repression has come to feel less like a specific event and more like an inescapable, ongoing nightmare. Sentenced to 22 years and 20 years, Marie and Eric remain in cages to this day, and know this nightmare more intimately than most.
Lately, we hear lots of talk about the end times, and total environmental collapse seems imminent. But what do these forces mean to those inside prison cells? And what do they mean for us on the outside? We are trying to save both each other and some shred of wildness on this earth. Our task is difficult, and sometimes seems impossible, because the harder we fight, the more repression we face. Every day we lose more species, more land, more friends… and this process shows no signs of slowing. How do we survive and continue to struggle in the face of this reality?
If winning was our only goal, it would be easy to quit. But although we may fight to win, we also fight because, in this situation, to fight means to live. From the outside it’s easy to equate a prison sentence with the end of everything… but Marie and Eric are still fighting. With both our love for them and our hatred for their jailers intact, we fight alongside them.
That means not only continuing our struggles on the outside, but also engaging with the imprisoned in ways that keep them connected to their friends and communities on the outside. The state has kidnapped our friends, and we must ensure that the state is not successful in its attempts to isolate and destroy them. Our struggle can only continue if we struggle together.
June 11th is a means to that end. June 11th is about remembering— not in the way that we remember a fact or history, but an active remembering: a re-membering, a putting back together. It is often easier for us to raise money and generate material support for people who have just been arrested than for people who have been locked away with many years in prison ahead. This day is a time for us to concentrate our energy, resources and love on those people, who cannot be forgotten.
June 11th has also become a staging ground for building our international ties of solidarity. The last two years have seen an incredible show of support from people outside of the US for Eric and Marie, and some efforts within the US to show solidarity to long-term anarchist prisoners in other places. This year, we hope to have more translations, more cross-referencing of struggle, and a further broadening of solidarity that does not take away, but adds. We refuse to recognize their borders; we aim to make that refusal more tangible.
June 11th is only two months away. Hold a fundraiser, plan a noise demo, host a letter-writing night, or use your own context and imagination to explore other possibilities. Use your creative energies to show your comrades that they’re not alone and that we will continue to struggle for them, for the earth, and for total liberation. They have tried to destroy us, that’s what they do—but Marie and Eric, Justin Solondz, Marco Camenisch, the grand jury resisters of today and tomorrow, and so many others show us how to survive those attempts. Let’s make June 11th a celebration of our shared survival and resistance.
<3
the June 11th crewplease reblog, please spread the word!
CeCe’s back in St. Cloud: Show her some love!
Our sweet CeCe got transferred to Stillwater and back again. Please send her much love by sending her a letter, book or the good vibes!
Dear CeCe Supporter,
As was previously announced, CeCe was transferred to MCF-Stillwater, at her own request, at the beginning of March. She was enrolled in the Atlantis treatment program there, which operates in a separate unit from the general population. She was glad to be at Stillwater for a number of reasons, but was quickly frustrated with the program because of issues ranging from blatant transphobia in the program to the snitching culture that is fostered within it. We are unclear on the specifics, but she was kicked out and placed in segregation within a few weeks of being there, and received an additional 30 days onto her sentence as a disciplinary measure. After repeated pleas from her and her advocates to remain at Stillwater and be placed in the general population there, she was instead transferred back to St. Cloud recently. She remains in segregation.
We are still unsure where she will be placed for the remainder of her sentence, but in the meantime we are calling on folks far and wide to write to her immediately! Send her your love and let her know she is not alone, that we are all watching out for her, and that we got her back!
Chrishaun McDonald
OID#238072
Minnesota Correctional Facility-St. Cloud
2305 Minnesota Boulevard S.E.
St. Cloud, MN 56304Keep an eye on this website, or sign up for our mailing list, for the latest information.
With many thanks and lots of love,
CeCe McDonald Support Committee
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i’ll puke all over anyone who uncritically deploys the concepts of community or safety around me
don’t care/exposing assholes is my occupation
this nice message was in response to calling out the “identifying as a lesbian” thing
I’m not so sure about this folks. it’s not really my style at all to reblog & analyze or openly share my opinion on things like this usually but I just wanted to respectfully offer a different perspective.
before I came out as a trans I was ridiculed when confiding in friends my confusing feelings that inside, parts of me felt like a girl & a lesbian, even though at the time I was identifying as a queer boy. I really wanted to have sex with dykes & my fantasies were often about sleeping with girls in ways that my body couldn’t physically make a reality.
before & while I came out as trans I was in a long term relationship with a girl who when we started dating identified as a lesbian. many people did not understand our relationship, but between the two of us it really did feel like two girls sleeping together. being with her in this way helped me come to terms with & embrace my trans identity.
i don’t think it’s fair to make assumptions about people’s gender identities so quickly, especially when this person says several times in their message that they “aren’t sure what their gender is supposed to be” & that maybe they don’t feel like a man. they even say it made a lot of sense being in a relationship with a lesbian. this is an experience I can heavily relate to. being with queer women really helped me come to terms & accept my buried & hidden trans feelings & desires.
this person also is expressing a theoretical fear of being riducled for possibly wanting to change their pronouns. I bet they have thought about pronouns & gender a lot & it might be negative reactions like these that are keeping them closeted.
obviously the survey question thing is sketchy but honestly, I used to be a drunken fuck up who made a lot of bad decisions & often blamed them on alcohol/intoxication. I don’t know if that one question so quickly makes this person a creep (in my opinion).
please don’t hate me. the world/tumblr is terrifying & I relate to this person’s experience.
also forgive me if there are parts to this interaction that I don’t understand. I’m only going on what is posted here.
Thank you for writing this Ryley, I think this is really, really important. I’ve been seeing a lot of this shit recently, and I’m really tired of it. I know this person is sketchy for a lot of reasons, and should definitely be called out, but this in particular sucks. I think we need to be really intentional when talking about things so we don’t re-create shitty dynamics (which i see a lot). I wanna write more about this later when I’m not on my phone, but just wanted to thank Ryley for this. This sort of stuff has been bothering me for a long time.
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holy fuck.
exhausted. first demo ticket tonight. how i avoided it the whole strike till now, who knows.
fuck the pigs.
up all the sweet punks i got to hang out with tonight after the demo (and during it!)
stoked for the summer.
