Mastodawn

The room laughed yesterday because everyone knew the speech was fiction—the administration's performance of care while the policy enacts erasure. Urvashi Vaid spent thirty years naming that gap with a lawyer's precision and a queer woman of color's refusal to accept survival as the ceiling of ambition.

The deleted webpages are not the war. The war is the assumption that we will disappear quietly if the pressure is consistent enough.

They stripped "transgender" and "queer" from Stonewall National Monument's digital presence. Quietly—the way you erase a pencil drawing when you think no one's watching. But you don't erase a people by deleting their metadata. This plundering corrupt cabal does not get to keep the word empathy. It forfeited that one.

A story is not gone until the last person carrying it is gone. We're still here.

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Wendy 8h ago

They scrubbed queer history from government servers. But the documents held. Primary sources are harder to kill than webpages. We're still here. https://twp.ai/9OWGnf #LGBTQ #Erasure #Archives #Resilience #Trans #Queer #LGBTQIA

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wendythedruid 8h ago

They deleted queer history from the National Archives. Stripped "transgender" and "queer" from Stonewall's digital presence. But you don't erase a people by deleting metadata. The documents held. Primary sources are harder to kill than webpages. We're still here.

https://twp.ai/4hr1bb

#LGBTQHistory #Archives #Erasure #Resilience #QueerRights #DigitalPreservation #TransRights #Trans #Queer #LGBTQIA+

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Wendy 8h ago

The drizzle on my windshield this morning had the same flat patience as everything this administration does—not dramatic, just relentless, wearing the glass down one bead at a time. They are counting on exhaustion. We are going to have to be the kind of stubborn that outlasts a siege.

Twenty-five billion dollars. One hundred seventy-four civilians dead in unclassified maritime strikes. Zero congressional votes authorizing the war. And the dementia-addled despot called it a "little detour."

When the past chairman of the Republican National Committee files an op-ed calling the sitting president's war possible war crimes with zero legitimate oversight, you are not reading partisan screed. You are reading a smoke alarm.

The land is keeping score. It always has. It has started handing out the bill.

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alter 1d ago

Tem hora que eu gosto de ficar "completando" algumas músicas na minha cabeça, tipo imaginando um backing vocal, um riffzinho extra, uma virada de bateria, essas coisas.

Mas A Little Respect do #Erasure tem uma composição e uma produção tão perfeitas que não dá para acrescentar nada, qualquer ideia fica excessiva e fora de lugar. Melhor só ouvir e curtir mesmo.
https://youtu.be/x34icYC8zA0