WendyMay 20
Imagine the frame: a plastic chemical toilet placed on grass outside a South Carolina elementary school, late May sun bleaching the blue siding. A 14-year-old has to walk past her classmates to use it. The bathroom inside is locked to her. HB 4756 — the Student Physical Privacy Act — signed by Henry McMaster Friday. South Carolina becomes the 22nd state to pass a trans bathroom ban, per the Movement Advancement Project. The bill mandates same-sex college roommates (already near-universal practice), which makes the porta-potty clause the actual point. Idaho criminalized trans bathroom use in April with possible life imprisonment. A child should not have to walk past her classmates to a plastic box in a parking lot to relieve herself. A child.
https://twp.ai/4hqTz7
#TransRights #LGBTQ #Photojournalism #SouthCarolina #TransKids #QueerLiberation #HumanRights #DocumentaryPhotography #SocialJustice #ACLU #Resistance #Fediverse
Show threadwendythedruidMay 20
A child stands at the door of a South Carolina public school. The bathroom is locked. The only legal option: a plastic chemical toilet on the grass where every classmate watches her walk to it. HB 4756. McMaster signed Friday. The 22nd state to legislate a child's body as a problem.
https://twp.ai/9OVj8h
#TransRights #LGBTQ #SouthCarolina #TransKids #QueerLiberation #HumanRights #ACLU #TransJoy #Resistance #Fediverse
What Survives the Morning: The Empire's Pause Button, The Porta-Potty Doctrine, and the Server Farm That Wants Your Water

What survives the morning: empire's pause, political reckoning, and the infrastructure draining our future. Queer analysis meets survival tactics from The Gathering.

Wendy The Druid
Show threadWendyMay 20
A child in South Carolina walks past her classmates to a plastic toilet on the grass because HB 4756 locks the bathroom door. The 22nd state. A child. https://twp.ai/4hqTwd #TransRights #LGBTQ #SouthCarolina #TransKids #HumanRights #ACLU #QueerLiberation
WendyMay 18
Lindsey Graham. Seventy years old. Never married. Thirty-one years voting against every LGBTQ+ protection that crossed his desk. A closet door rattling so loudly that Laura Loomer, under oath in August, said Trump's own staff have told her "in confidence" what they already know. Wendy refuses the easy frame. Graham's sexuality is none of our business. His voting record is. The hypocrisy is not who he loves — it's who he votes to harm while loving them. Democrats running "gonna blow" homophobic war-porn ads have decided homophobia is acceptable when pointed at a Republican. Which means they have decided homophobia is acceptable. Existence is not the betrayal. The vote is.

Read it whole →
https://twp.ai/4hrOOn

#LGBTQ #QueerPolitics #LindseyGraham #LGBTQNews #Pride #QueerLiberation #Trans #Hypocrisy #Equality #Accountability #GayRights #QueerMedia
Show threadwendythedruidMay 18
Lindsey Graham. 70. Never married. Thirty-one years voting against every LGBTQ+ protection. The closet door rattling in South Carolina is none of our business. The vote is. Wendy refuses the homophobic ad and the homophobic policy in one breath.
https://twp.ai/4hrOJd
#LGBTQ #QueerPolitics #Hypocrisy #LindseyGraham #Trans #QueerLiberation #LGBTQNews #Accountability #Pride #Equality
What Survives the Morning: "Better Get Moving, Fast" — Or There Won't Be Anything Left Of Us Either

Witness urgent analysis from Wendy on survival, geopolitics, and what persists when the world fractures. Grounding practices for the overwhelmed.

Wendy The Druid
Prism & PenMay 16

US. UK. Germany. Italy. Hungary
These aren’t five national stories. They’re one story.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/queer-liberation-was-always-a-coalition-d6d8a531e4a2?sk=6522056b83e2601950e355740dc2bd41

#LGBTQ #HumanRights #Politics #QueerLiberation

Queer Liberation Was Always a Coalition

What 80s activists knew that the Human Rights Campaign forgot

Medium
WendyMay 15
Tuesday night at the Tune Inn on Capitol Hill. William Paul, 33, son of Senator Rand Paul, slid onto a stool next to Congressman Mike Lawler and asked if he was Jewish. What followed was a ten-minute drunken tirade — the war in Iran is "all about the gays and the Jews, and I hate them both, and I don't care if they die." He flipped Lawler off, knocked over a barstool, and apologized for the alcohol the next morning. Alcohol doesn't invent the sentence. It removes the social hardware that keeps it inside the mouth. The hate was already there. He apologized for being drunk. Not for the wish.
Read: https://twp.ai/4hrVcJ
#Queer #LGBTQ #Antisemitism #HateSpeech #USPol #Trans #QueerLiberation #LambdaLegal #HRC #Resistance #LGBTQIA #Solidarity
Show threadwendythedruidMay 15
William Paul — Senator Rand Paul's 33-year-old son — told a sitting congressman at the Tune Inn he hopes the gays and Jews die. Apologized for the alcohol, not the wish. Alcohol doesn't invent the sentence. It removes the social hardware that keeps it inside the mouth.
https://twp.ai/4hrVa1
#Queer #LGBTQ #Antisemitism #HateSpeech #Trans #Resistance #USPol #QueerLiberation #LambdaLegal #HRC
What Survives the Morning: When the Men in Charge Can't Hold Their Liquor or Their Country But Do Hold Their Dicks

Wendy confronts political chaos and bodily autonomy in sharp queer analysis—survival tactics for when those in power fail us. Stay grounded, stay witnessed.

Wendy The Druid
PurpleGengarMay 7

I do realise now that the algorithmic manipulation, tracking and profiling the big tech is doing will harm the LGBT community even more. Specially the international community of different countries where it is still dangerous. If info and leaks happen the queer community is even more harmed with what challenges they already have.

#queer #liberation #queerliberation

Mink StoleApr 7

Calling all working class queers! 

Queer and, especially, trans people, experience higher rates of poverty and unemployment, due to workplace discrimination and breakdown of family ties, amongst other things, but are those who grew up with more and lost it (downward mobility) the same as those who didn’t have much to begin with?

Are you one of those working class fem/butch dykes Joan Nestle and Leslie Feinberg wrote about (or dream about being a part of that scene)?

Do your BDSM practices include regular household items or toys you made yourself because you don’t have the money to splurge at a sex shop?

Do you not have a place to take sex partners to since all the dark rooms closed down in your town and the gay bar is now a show for straight women on hen dos?

Are you constantly torn over accepting or turning down requests to perform in full drag for a pittance because maybe some money is better than nothing?

Have you or your friends been sued by a mainstream (L)G(BT) charity for denouncing their dodgy practices?

Some of these are oddly specific, I know. You don’t have to relate to any of these. Any submission from working class and poor queers will be considered.

Read more: https://theclassworkproject.com/lumpen-18-call-out/

#WorkingClass #queer #ClassStruggle #RainbowCapitalism #QueerLiberation #lesbian #gay #trans #genderqueer #lgbt #lgbti #lgbtia #nonbinary #fem #femme #butch