Paeyonce

She/Her ■ DM if you have Guillotine ■ DSM City Council public enemy #1

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[Paeyonce @Awkward_Orange]

My sister gave an incredibly moving speech today standing on the back of a car to protect herself from the police. She has been arrested, targeted, and brutalized but she will NEVER be silenced. This is a message that everyone needs to hear.

[OPE! Pac @OpePac]

It is actually good and correct that Biden waited so long to drop out of the race.

Now we don't have to go through a lengthy democratic voting process! We can just skip right to the good part of the DNC hand-picking the Nominee. 😊💪💙
#VoteBlueNoMatterWho #OpePac

[Paeyonce @Awkward_Orange]

Fuck dsm city council. I re-download this godforsaken app for this so you better use this link to email them: https://t.co/DEqPX7I6ve

[ACLU of Iowa @ACLUiowa]

🚨 The Des Moines City Council is fast-tracking an ordinance that will cruelly punish people experiencing homelessness for sleeping in public and fine them $120.

[ACLU of Iowa @ACLUiowa]

🚨 The Des Moines City Council is fast-tracking an ordinance that will cruelly punish people experiencing homelessness for sleeping in public and fine them $120.

[Paeyonce @Awkward_Orange]

Email Council: https://t.co/DEqPX7HyFG
I made a mailto link, just add subject and your name and feel free to customize.

[Des Moines People's Town Hall @peoplestownhall]

🚨🚨Des Moines City Council just announced that they are holding two emergency meetings early Monday Morning (7/22/24 at 7:30am) to rush to make homelessness illegal in Des Moines.

[Paeyonce @Awkward_Orange]

If you see anyone riding this bike in the neighborhood pls ask them to give it back to me :(

[Oliver Weilein, Iowa City Councilor @Ollie_XVX]

Downtown Iowa City Starbucks is on strike!! Come join the picket and stand with your baristas on strike in response to Starbucks illegal union busting and their refusal to allow pride decorations. Picket will be from now until 10am, then 3pm until 6pm.

[Hüseyin Dogru (Back-Up) @redstreamnet]

Today is the 54th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, a riot against discrimination and police violence led by Black and Brown LGBTQ+ people which lasted three days and would give the impetus for the Pride marches we still know today.

On June 28th 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn — a gay bar in New York and one of the few places where LGBTQ+ people could safely gather at the time. Police locked all the exits, collected the IDs, and performed genital checks to arrest all those who were not dressed according to gender norms. Several patrons defied police orders, however, causing the police to carry out violent arrests, while those who were spared formed a crowd outside the inn.

What followed isn’t precisely clear as there are many accounts of the evening, but to some eyewitnesses, Black gay civil rights icon Stormé DeLarverie was arrested and punched by the police, which triggered the riots as she called to the crowd, “Why don’t you guys do something?”

People started fighting back. Black and Brown LGBTQ+ people like Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, and Stormé DeLarverie were at the forefront of this fightback.

Stonewall changed everything in terms of the struggle for LGBTQ+ rights. Before, the gay rights movement was focused on integration. The goal had been to prove to cisgender and heterosexual people that LGBTQ+ people weren’t a threat.

After Stonewall, LGBTQ+ activists rallied behind the cause of “Gay liberation” instead of merely “integration.” The riots also paved the way for organized action, leading to the creation of the Gay Liberation Front, which championed and demanded the right of LGBTQ+ people to express themselves fully without fear but also fought against other forms of oppression, like racism, supporting, for instance, the Black Panther Party.

While Pride Month is celebrated every June to memorialize the Stonewall Riots, recent efforts have sought to conceal the fact that it was a riot, downplaying its revolutionary roots.

Despite Pride’s commercialized image today, Stonewall threw respectability politics out of the window and represented revolutionary anti-oppression politics.

[Paeyonce @Awkward_Orange]

@Jordie_Sue Lol what? 😆

[Paeyonce @Awkward_Orange]

(Yes they spelled my name wrong lmao)

[Paeyonce @Awkward_Orange]

If you've ever wanted to learn linocut/printmaking and also want to make sure my class doesn't get canceled, sign up to take my workshop at the Ankeny Art Center! 😁
https://t.co/o2Lh3HdKVb

[Paeyonce @Awkward_Orange]

Asparagus Haul! 😍🛍🌱

I was foraging in this ditch when a random man came over and offered me a bunch of free Asparagus from his garden if I picked it myself! Sometimes I love the world.

[Paeyonce @Awkward_Orange]

Jamie deleted their Twitter so I can post quotes of them on here now 😈😌

Follow my art insta to see more deranged stuff like this

[Paeyonce @Awkward_Orange]

@kateobroderick He's got the right ideas!

[Bridget for Dsm City Council @bridget4dsm]

If you also want to see more community fridges and fewer cops you can help me build that vision by donating to my campaign!!

https://t.co/72dJiRJ012

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

Carolyn Bryant Donham, the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago, has died at 88.

She got to grow old.

Emmett Till did not get that opportunity.

Rest In Power, Emmett. 🕊

[Tony Hồ Trần @TonyHoWasHere]

Hey! This placed tricked me into getting an STD test there after I thought it was a normal place to do such a thing. It wasn't! The "nurse" lectured to me about the dangers of premarital sex in a locked room for 2 hours and then made me pray with her! It was violating and weird!!

[Nani 🏹 @lenubienne]

Please know that this bill is meant to legalize unaccompanied migrant child labor. Do not be fooled, be horrified.