I don’t care what you’ve been told in class. You really think you’re given the tools to influence those in power?
Listen to people who are oppressed.
Listen to people who know more of history, struggle and fascism than you.
Learn about fascism, alt-right; antifascism and leftism.
Learn about cognitive biases and apply this knowledge to call the status quo, the one that’s hurting people, into question, not to be an edgy jerk saying that maybe «nazis are not that bad».
I love how many privileged people tell that their stupid understand of free speech works to us, who for most of us have noticed for years that it doesn’t work at all how they think it does.
We couldn’t ban nazi and TERF as a whole on Twitter. Talking to them only made it worse. We would be suspended for telling it’s good to punch them, while they were allowed to spread their hate all day long.
They don’t get that their understanding of free speech is totally backwards and disconnected.
Announcing these things explicitly is good, even if you can't change the limitations of your event location:
You're giving people who have need of this information a way to establish their priorities, and if they *want* to face the risk or challenge to attend.
"I wish for a family."
"Don't you already have one?" asked the genie.
"I wouldn't mind a better one..."
"Do you wish for your current family to be..." the genie made a grim gesture.
"No! No I mean... I guess I like them but I have to be someone very specific for them."
"Understood."
With a solemn magical nod, the means of a new family appeared in my hands.
"A laptop?"
"With unlimited internet access and airline miles."
"Yesss."
Antikink rhetoric is ableist
Some people, due to being ND or disabled, cannot engage in vanilla sex.
Either it is too painful, uncomfortable or just boring.
For some with chronic pain, pain play is a way to gain control over the concept of the pain they experience.
Some autistic people gain no pleasure from vanilla sex due to sensory issues, but find pleasure in kink.
For some, vanilla sex isn’t something they’re physically capable of, or is very uncomfortable, but kink is pleasurable and comfortable to preform.
Some autistic people enjoy ‘unusual’ kinks, for some of us it is the only thing we sexually engage with.
Antikink sentiment directly harms disabled people and our sexual expression.
a bug, not a feature.
Genderless* cyberfae & co. at your service
assigned adult by the inexorable passage of time
don't use he/him or she/her pronouns for any of us without express permission
note that if we ever make you uncomfortable in any way please tell us so we know to stop. we're not always good at figuring these things out on our own