riley / seungyoon (승윤)

🔻♿️• korean marxist-leninist • they/them • 28

[Miss Transsexual April ☭🔻🏳️‍⚧️ @AprilsBooks]

I am stuck on an abuser's insurance. I dont know if medicaid will throw me off it again. im trying to get breast augmentation. if it does cover it ill just have this cover electrolysis

im sorry this is embarrassing I dont like doing this shit

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[riley / seungyoon (승윤) @blanktycho]

Actually, it’s more bio essentialist to assume that patriarchal notions are somehow “biologically determined” or develop somehow outside of material conditions or relationship to capital

[riley / seungyoon (승윤) @blanktycho]

wait hold on, how is it bioessential that patriarchy developed out of the advent of class society? Where property rights was delineated by inheritance through the patrilineal line? Patriarchy did not develop out of the abstract nor by biological determinism

[anastasia ♀️ @aletheia327]

I think it's deeply bio-essentialistic to suggest that patriarchy was just a byproduct of class society and the advent of property, because you end up just treating patrilineality as logically necessary and don't account for how men consolidated the power to carry any of it out.

[riley / seungyoon (승윤) @blanktycho]

I’m thinking around the expansion of surveillance apparatuses and the digital panopticon

[Cora Harrington @CoraCHarrington]

One of the things interesting about the replies to this how some people are convinced everyone is paying very close attention to them, and I wonder if part of that is because they pay very close attention to everyone else.

[riley / seungyoon (승윤) @blanktycho]

However, that does not mean that it is futile, and I think the disability movement could have a strong impact if there is that strong ideological clarity and strong political education. Less content creator industry and more political organization.

[riley / seungyoon (승윤) @blanktycho]

And I’m not disagreeing with your point! What I’m critiquing is a glaring contradiction within the disability justice movement in the US that allows for someone like Taylor Lorenz to amass a large platform and launch these harassment campaigns.

[null space @null_nullspace]

@blanktycho In material terms disease is exported from the metropole to the periphery and if people at the heart of empire saw themselves as obligated to practice disease control as part of daily life (ie masking) less of the colonised would be sick or die. Irrespective of Taylor Lorenz

[riley / seungyoon (승윤) @blanktycho]

Quite frankly, I think the disability movement in the United States is severely fragmented and it has been for a while. Many people who became newly disabled were radicalized by the ongoing pandemic and the structural abandonment. We need ideological clarity and political ed.

[riley / seungyoon (승윤) @blanktycho]

The artist currently known as bald!

[riley / seungyoon (승윤) @blanktycho]

@in_morse_code Katya’s Bjőrk and Aja’s Crystal LaBeija

[riley / seungyoon (승윤) @blanktycho]

@yvesandthemoon very that! and like you said there are many such cases where people gain large platforms, but don’t actually engage in organizing!

[riley / seungyoon (승윤) @blanktycho]

very important point that Nerdeen is raising here! Part of why Taylor can come on here and do the things that she does is because of the fact that she is not a part of any organization that she is accountable to.

[Nerdeen Kiswani @NerdeenKiswani]

The irony of non-Palestinians lecturing Palestinians about disability is that Palestinians are currently experiencing one of the largest mass-disabling campaigns in the world.

Many of us have spent years learning from, caring for, and advocating alongside disabled Palestinians in our families and communities. Believe it or not, we don’t need strangers explaining disability to us.

What Palestinian community asked for Taylor’s solidarity? What Palestinians is she accountable to?

This is exactly why organizing matters. No serious organization would allow someone claiming solidarity with a community to routinely speak to that community with this level of disrespect and condescension.

[Nerdeen Kiswani @NerdeenKiswani]

The irony of non-Palestinians lecturing Palestinians about disability is that Palestinians are currently experiencing one of the largest mass-disabling campaigns in the world.

Many of us have spent years learning from, caring for, and advocating alongside disabled Palestinians in our families and communities. Believe it or not, we don’t need strangers explaining disability to us.

What Palestinian community asked for Taylor’s solidarity? What Palestinians is she accountable to?

This is exactly why organizing matters. No serious organization would allow someone claiming solidarity with a community to routinely speak to that community with this level of disrespect and condescension.

[riley / seungyoon (승윤) @blanktycho]

@samah_fadil disability justice to people like Taylor is a brand that they can monetize on instead of a politic. It’s shameless opportunism

[riley / seungyoon (승윤) @blanktycho]

@madison_tayt idk why people were booing you, you were right!

[riley / seungyoon (승윤) @blanktycho]

Therefore, it’s easy for her to get on here and yell at people for not taking COVID precautions instead of organizing to get people better access to resources and PPE because the latter doesn’t involve getting speaking fees, elite parties, or podcast interviews invites

[riley / seungyoon (승윤) @blanktycho]

It is not lost on me that people like Taylor Lorenz are dogpiling on a disabled Palestinian woman because to them, disability justice is a brand they monetize and capitalize, instead of a materialist politic in the service of the liberation of disabled people.

[riley / seungyoon (승윤) @blanktycho]

I remember when she got on here and said that Cuba was “abandoning disabled people” as the US was mounting more attacks and sanctions against Cuba and honestly that shows the limitations of her disability politics starts and ends with individualism, not with internationalism

[riley / seungyoon (승윤) @blanktycho]

And honestly, I think that’s one of the issues that we’re facing is that there is some sections of the disability justice movement that has been co-opted by the ruling class and elite institutions. Where people treat it as a brand rather than a politic.

[riley / seungyoon (승윤) @blanktycho]

And quite frankly I really do think that the US disability movement as a whole really needs to contend with the debilitating nature of US imperialism as it relates to economic sanctions, militarism, and war. Anti-imperialist politics and internationalism must be at the center

[riley / seungyoon (승윤) @blanktycho]

I remember when she got on here and said that Cuba was “abandoning disabled people” as the US was mounting more attacks and sanctions against Cuba and honestly that shows the limitations of her disability politics starts and ends with individualism, not with internationalism

[سماح | 🧚🏾‍♀️samah @samah_fadil]

i see things are going extremely well for taylor lorenz over on ig, accusing a disabled palestinian activist of happily infecting & killing palestinians if it meant getting airtime, all because she didn't wear a mask on a podcast set.