☕️As I wait for my laptop to reboot, some coffee talk thoughts: 1. Many cis women think they are afraid of trans women but what they are afraid of is facing how the patriarchy & misogyny has divorced them from their own sense of self & are triggered by bodily autonomy in others.
People DEMAND that we be sexually exploitable, that we be thirsty, available, that we basically offer ourselves to them. The sexual exploitation of trans women is structurally organized in most queer spaces. Of course that fucking leads to awkwardness.
The problem is not male socialization you morons. Many people are this way because we created spaces where sexuality should be reclaimed without ever learning how to claim it in the first place. We have fucktons of autistic people struggling to see social cues and who are in
Just in case you want to know what the future looks like, right now in Gaza AI algorithms based on data from unmanned drones are coordinating the annihilation of families in refugee camps located in a giant open air prison.
Episode 104 - Computer Power and Human Reason, Part 1
In collaboration with @AaylaInsecura of @swampsidechats, reading Computer Power and Human Reason by Joseph Weizenbaum
https://t.co/SeWWUY4xed
Bombing a refugee camp in the West Bank. No Hamas, no excuses, just genocide and ethnic cleansing. Every silent or encouraging Western leader is enabling this.
This is really tough to watch and to swallow. There is no remorse here. They laugh as they discuss the people they killed, the young girls they raped. It’s horrific.
This documentary was done by an Israeli filmmaker Alon Schwarz. It’s called “Tantura”.
PRESS RELEASE: #GAZA: 3,195 children killed in three weeks surpasses annual number of children killed in conflict zones since 2019.
Spokespeople Available
https://t.co/nLpsyLh3LI
Benjamin's "philosophy of history" is beautiful & generative but there's something that rings false & consolatory at the moment, and I think that's captured by a phrase in a quite pissy letter from Horkheimer to him: "the dead are really dead." (or the slain are really slain)