You remember him, in a famous photograph from Germany in 1936, where he refused to perform a Nazi salute. Then came the backlash for Twitter. A number of users joined a 24-hour boycott of Twitter from Nov. 6 noon. The numbers kept growing and soon some well-known names like AltNews Co-Founder Pratik Sinha, social activist Kavita Krishnan, journalist Shivam Vij and even popular musician Vishal Dadlani started moving to Mastodon.
Read more at: https://www.bloombergquint.com/technology/exit-twitter-enter-mastodon-why-some-indians-are-switching-to-this-social-network
What else do you call it than an attempt at cultural genocide when your people's highest literature is grabbed by the dominant world power, forced out of the context of your people's lives and experiences, and repurposed as a propaganda tool to violently attack your people?
Tbh our society going to complete hell because of the vapid dildos from a garbagey 90s game show retaining their cultural currency against all odds? That tracks
Bill Gates: quietly spends a lot of money building himself a solid brand as a cuddly entrepreneur turned philanthropist who is using his money to enrich the world
Also Bill Gates: (seeing mild mannered Liz Warren and screeching) "If you even think about touching my wealth, I'm lining up behind the fascist!!"
In 2015 and 2016, I was doing research studies on trauma to make money. I was traumatizing myself for science, because I was so broke. And that's not even rare for us, is it? We do these studies telling cis people about how they've fucked us over, because they don't listen otherwise. I feel so mad sometimes.
I have friends who've done sex work to make money to survive.
I used to go to a trans employment support group where another trans guy told me he sold plasma until he moved here, where it's illegal.
The only jobs they told us about at this group were, "re-traumatize yourself in front of cis people and tell them your story".
I participated in this project they told me about, where a grad student "helped" me tell my story to an audience. I had more writing experience than he did.
politics, "team based politics"
I don't want people signaling their leftist cred by yelling "trans rights" in a crowd, (though I do appreciate that to some degree...)
I want people actually spending time working on educating their neighbors about trans issues, helping poor trans folks get housing, food, shelter, etc. Pushing against transphobic media that perpetuates negative and deadly stereotypes.
anyway, reading about Churchill's antisemitism is a great time to revisit Aimé Césaire classic argument that Hitler's greatest sin, in the eyes of his white European contemporaries, was applying colonial logics to other Europeans.
http://www.rlwclarke.net/theory/SourcesPrimary/CesaireDiscourseonColonialism.pdf
It pisses me off that I am 1) extremely lucky by trans standards and 2) that my story is not even that uncommon among people of my age and gender identity.
Hi. I am a trans person in 2019. I spent a lot of time and effort helping out with grassroots community organizing alongside wealthier cis people for free, wound up homeless twice, lost housing once to a gentrifying landlord, ate dumpster-dived groceries, got boomers up my ass calling me lazy and a spendthrift when I was saving every penny from my shit gig economy job, then moved into tech because I needed to be in a field that would actually give me money to live.
Trans, guy of center, well over 18.
I'm in tech and it feels weird.