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Millie

@milliemixie3103

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At the risk of getting canceled for NATOposting: yes I do think there's some terminally online communists who are - for lack of any better word - campist and utterly delusional about what the nature of the modern Russian state is. Frankly part of the reason I stopped talking about the war in Ukraine with most anglo communists is how casually psychopathic a lot of them are about fratricidal warfare between two reactionary despoilers of the Soviet legacy cause one side is "based" and the other isn't. Touch some fucking grass tbh.

The modern Russian and Ukrainian states are both moral fucking atrocities and the result of the plundering of the Soviet people's legacy. The only major difference between them is in one the bourgeoisie has aligned itself against the United States and in the other the bourgeoisie has collaborated with the United States. The result has been a bloodbath that would make the Soviet revolutionaries who dreamed of a future without war weep. It's everything fucking Bandera and Solzhenitsyn and all of the other vile fascist filth the Soviet people struggled against for decades wanted. I don't know if people are just afraid to confront how dismal the situation has become or are just suffering from their own material disconnect with what is happening but get some perspective.

one big advantage of reading theory is that you will learn that marx & engels & lenin have all already issued sharp and clear rebuttals to almost every cheap anticommunist gotcha hundreds of years ago and so you will become completely immune to them

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“parents have a right to try to control what their children read” [kill bill sirens blare and blood starts seeping from the walls] wrong answer try again!!

In other words, what gender regimes share with capitalism is that they are naturalised: gender regimes appear as ‘ever thus’, in just the same way that capitalism’s specificity as a system is obscured by just-so stories that anachronistically extend distinctively modern practices and institutions onto the pre-capitalist past.

Rosa Lee, Judith Butler’s Scientific Revolution: Foundations for a Transsexual Marxism

When turning to trans communities, I should first clarify that what I have in mind is not any one entity called ‘the transgender community’. The notion of a unified community is one mostly appealing to career politicians, who are fond of imagining they might be able to interact with an entire tier of potential voters, through taking a single ‘representative’ out for lunch. In reality, trans people are prised apart and mutually alienated in much the same way as any other group: differences in class, race or ethnicity, and gender position still ensure that even a pair of trans people in the same city might be unlikely on various grounds to even meet.

— Jules Joanne Gleeson, How Do Gender Transitions Happen?

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popoppy

“Wrong Century” by Tomas Kucerovsky

the look of wistfulness on her face just punches me straight in the heart

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emmbutt

this is literally my favorite piece that ever comes up on tumblr and if you want me to change my mind well then goOD LUCK WITH THAT

Anonymous asked:

genuinely curious, if you think "it's a girl!" and "it's a boy!" categorisations are inherently oppressive, do you believe a world where gender isn't recognized in any meaningful way before the child has means to define it for themself to be the best alternative?

I’m going to use a different abolitionist example to illustrate what I mean: when people advocate for abolishing the nuclear family, they are not saying “get rid of parental relationships” or “get rid of fathers.” They are identifying a specific social relation that is used as a building block of society and advocating for a world where it doesn’t exist, because its existence is the foundation of certain forms of oppression. The western social model where children are raised in private detached housing by a maximum of two parents (and realistically, mostly by their mother - a huge problem in itself!) who have complete control over their material, emotional, and social needs produces a fucking huge amount of adverse outcomes - abuse, trauma, dysfunction, poor health - the list is nearly infinite. And this family model also inherently reproduces class, race, and gender by virtue of the fact that children inherit those things from their parents and are forced to exist in those contexts. And even in individual cases where it doesn’t produce abuse, even if you have very good parents who are not abusive to you in any way, that social relationship is still oppressive, in the same way that having a cool boss doesn’t mean that wage labour is good. A society where children are not entirely dependent on one or two people for all of their needs, where they are free to form meaningful relationships with adults outside of strict categories of family, where children are not legally and socially treated like the property of their parents, where bloodline is not privileged as the dominant mode of intergenerational transfer of knowledge, culture, skill, wealth, etc, is a much better world!

“Gender abolition” is, I think, a poor term for a similar goal, and one that has a lot of reactionary baggage (baggage that is not coincidental - I think its imprecision as a term is useful for terf politics). Abolition of patriarchy is probably more precise - I am advocating for a world where gender is entirely non-coercive, where gender does not produce any oppressive social relations. You can engage in gender as a culture in the same way you can engage with different forms of art, in a way that is purely voluntary. This configuration does not prohibit the possibility of trans people; we would just exist in an entirely different form than the current western, medicalist, patriarchal, white supremacist context we are forced to navigate.

So yes, I think for gender to be truly emancipatory, it needs to be engaged with as a voluntary form of human culture, as a form of art that we do with ourselves and our bodies, and to do this we need to abolish sex distinctions on medical records, gender markers on state documents, gendered facilities, and many, many other things.

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BANK ACCOUNT NEGATIVE BRO

uh oh! guess whos bank lied about how much money it had in it!!!!!!!!!! if u guessed me ur right!! ur sooo smart!! um yeah i could use some of that fabled financial support!! i wanna get some personal food and some monster bc ive been so sleepy recently. also as the warm months are getting closer i need to get some new clothes including a new bra and some new underwear and socks. pls consider helping out as i am frequently in need of money. disability doesnt pay much

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hello I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. The anonymity of tumblr means that I associate my idea/image of you with your icon and sometimes I look at people’s icons and I’m like ‘hmmm….what is that and why?’ 

so pls reblog this and comment in the tags the meaning behind your icon and why you chose it. this is a social experiment. do it for science pls.

generally not super into shapeshifter characters being revealed to have like a singular True Form. isnt it much more interesting to imagine a creature so fluid and ever-changing that even they cant identify any one body as the "true" self, or simply dont see the need to?

is this you? yes. this one too? yes. but then which one is the real you? define "real" define "you" theyre all me. even the ones that are someone else? especially those.