"More veterans die by suicide every two days than were killed in action in 2019."

Dean Spade: "Where there are U.S. military bases, there is intense sexual and gender-based violence. This includes sexual violence towards women living near military bases, towards sex workers of all genders, towards women inside the U.S. military, and harassment and sexual violence towards people perceived as weak or as gay or as trans. This is just a normal part of what U.S. militarism is. It's inseparable from the culture. Rape as a tactic of U.S. militarism is as old as U.S. militarism itself, going all the way back to the systemic rape of Indigenous people to colonize and settle North America."

"Trans inclusion in the military, like marriage equality, does nothing to redistribute wealth, stop police violence, housing and health care crises plaguing queer and trans communities."

“When it comes to trans advocacy, we want to ask what reforms will save trans people’s lives. The answers are clear: access to housing, income, food, childcare, health care. Military inclusion advocacy does not make the list.”

"What is effective and pragmatic is whatever reduces contact with the police".

by Wren Sanders, 2021, https://www.them.us/story/case-against-lgbtq-military-inclusion-explained 🧵

#pinkWashing #veterans #military #performance #authority #advocacy #livesWorth #civilRights #grievable #grievability #precarity #precariousness #gay #LGBT #LGBTQ #trans #transGender #queer #BlackLivesMatter #TransLivesMatter #DefundThePolice #abolitionism

The Case Against LGBTQ+ Military Inclusion, Explained

Sylvia Rivera Law Project founder Dean Spade explains why LGBTQ+ activists on the left have long resisted attempts to cast queer and trans inclusion in the military as a step toward liberation.

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Watch Rebecca L. Walker six minutes on risk assessment and "moral status": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rQi2uNqwxk

#ethics #grievability #grievable #values #science #Parr #ChapelHill

Ethical dilemma: Whose life is more valuable? - Rebecca L. Walker

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"The people of Gaza urgently need humanitarian assistance and must not pay the price for the actions of others."

Statement by Norway’s minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Espen Barth Eide, on the UN Works and Relief Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA): https://www.regjeringen.no/en/aktuelt/statement-on-unrwa/id3023172/ @palestine

#EuropePalestine #ihl #grievable #grievability #Norway #UNRWA #control #Palestine #governance #aid #relief #refugees

Statement on UNRWA

Statement by Norway’s minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Espen Barth Eide, on the UN Works and Relief Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).

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Israel-Gaza war live: Israeli hostages mistakenly killed by IDF in Gaza were holding makeshift white flag, official says

On seeing them, one Israeli soldier shouted ‘terrorists!’ to the other forces, initiating fire at the men, according to Israeli media

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"We can see the division of the globe into grievable and ungrievable lives from the perspective of those who wage war in order to defend the lives of certain communities, and to defend them against the lives of others — even if it means taking those latter lives."

from Judith Butler’s 2009 book “Frames of War: When is Life Grievable?”: https://conversations.e-flux.com/t/judith-butler-precariousness-and-grievability-when-is-life-grievable/2826

#killing #warfare #war #recognition #grievable #grievability #ethics #power #relations #JudithButler #Gaza #Ukraine #Russia #quotes

Judith Butler: precariousness and grievability—when is life grievable?

http://greatermalaysia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/paris-attacks.jpg Verso published these thoughts from Judith Butler’s 2009 book “Frames of War: When is Life Grievable?” on the occasion of the Paris attacks. Read the full version here. Precariousness and Grievability We read about lives lost and are often given the numbers, but these stories are repeated every day, and the repetition appears endless, irremediable. And so, we have to ask, what would it take not only to apprehend the pr...

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