@BrianLehrer homeless folx and people with mental illness don’t just come out of nowhere. The heavy policing is one example of what is terrifying the city with stereotypical trope AND destabilizing individuals sense of safety by doing nothing
🚨The TPUSA/BLEXIT event has moved to a new venue in Queens. New Yorkers: say NO to far-right transphobes!🚨
1) Contact Uri Zucker at Motif Studios 212.633.1111 [email protected]
2) Contact Tammany House 718.873.6881 [email protected]
Demand they cancel the event!
@BrianLehrer Please be mindful of your language used around masculinity and trans individuals: “it was clearly so important to you” to transition “what does masculinity mean to you?” How about not conflating gender with masculinity?
@Clash4Lyfe@NYCTSubway Dropped the same comment; ive responded to emergencies on trains and couldnt get to the car as quickly as I would have bc the doors fucking lock
@RN_Atheist I think you and I (radical social worker making about $30/hr) should take our riches, combine them, and open a taco hut on a beach with our loved ones. Much better use of our master degrees
After my friend’s dad died ~a decade ago I bought $80 worth of ceramic plates from Goodwill and then we got drunk and smashed them in an alley. (We cleaned up after.)
Healthcare workers: we’ve talked about our fatigue and sadness.
How are we dealing with our anger?
@DrSarahAxelrath NEED THIS TWEET. Was actually put on a CAP by my *lovely* director, whose been on FMLA for 90% of the past year AND denied my request to work remote after 2 back to back exposures and I contracted COVID and subsequently pneumonia.
Because at the end of the day, this is what we face. Erasure. Violence. Murder. This is an epidemic.
Jahaira DeAlto was 42. Her life, and the lives of the 21 murdered between January 1 and May 2, mattered.
I am also motivated to do more for my trans and nonbinary siblings in the form of radical acts of love and resistence as a form of facilitating social change, in community, in one on ones, in society at large.
As a nonbinary humxn of trans experience, some of the closest people in my life whom I love dearly are cis, both queer and not queer. What I am expressing is that I am heartbroken. I am devastated. I am angry.
Asking is always better than assuming. Work harder to move beyond allyship and into accompliceship. Respect my Existence or Expect my Resistence is not radical enough, does not express the urgency of this epidemic. We DEMAND more.
Lean in to that discomfort. Ask questions, without front load bearing labor without at least asking if the individual has the capacity. Express your love and care for your trans and nonbinary loved ones. Check in with your trans and nonbinary loved ones.
…the very core of who WE are and what our lives mean to us, in dictating what the embodiments and existences of what it means to be trans and nonbinary are.
If this is making you uncomfortable, I invite you to examine the "why" at the root of that discomfort.
…and day to day struggles, as well as the celebrations of beautiful trans joy and what it means to be trans and nonbinary are being dictated, branded, fetishized, commodified, and worse, made invisible, by a society and dominant culture which actively works against…
Microaggressions, ambivalence, a lack of agency, the tokenizing of your "trans friend" or "nonbinary friend" as a badge and a reason to think you understand our gorgeous, interconnected, diverse communities, as well as the oppression, isolation, disparities…