The encampment will be telestreamed (at least until Google pulls it):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkABIJZJXmk
Anyone know enough about #Owncast to provide technical aid to #StudentSpring?
#Palestine #BDS #BorderWall #colonialism #liberation #LandBack
feel like this is actually a more accurate assessment
the revolution will not be televised could not predict the internet and lowered cost of self-broadcasting but it was able to predict that the revolution will be demonetized and thus suppressed in the algorithm and made impossible to search for
thank goodness we're not modernists
spending all this time examining my actions under the framework of post-post-structuralism has helped me realize that perhaps my time would have been better spent pursuing direct action
Theory without action is to side with the oppressor.
Action without theory is to invite the oppressor inside.
and trying to seek the happy medium in yourself, rather than in solidarity, is to fail to identify the oppressor entirely
Narcissus contemplating a puddle.
makes me think about the issue of trans men and complicity
being told you're narcissus and to seek your answers in the puddle
i'm sure you are familiar with the phenomenon of weaponizing white guilt and the concept of privilege to convince white folks that taking certain actions is anti-racist
but those actions are in fact, subjugation of another group
yes?
[intermediary]
Trans men are often fed a narrative that because "men" are a privileged group they gain male privilege by transitioning. And so they need to be careful not to abuse that privilege.
For white trans men especially, this very often results in an unhealthy level of constant self-checking.
It's built on a faulty premise, but especially when you've been at risk and subject to male violence, very easy to believe.
But because the guilt and privilege being weaponized here is actually an axis of marginalization, it is harder for trans men to reject it due to a lack of power and support.
So trans men, especially white trans men, are more likely to engage in this type of complicit behavior. Sometimes this is done directly, calling on internalized transphobia and the unhealthy narratives directly. Sometimes it's sought out as self-harm, in a misguided attempt of penance.
saw a lot of it when online trans spaces in the 2010s were TIRF-heavy
grand narratives are powerful because they appeal to our desire to make patterns
wanting to be male is the ultimate narcissm. if you are looking for the answer to the problems of the world, go look in a puddle.
like most things that are powerful, they reinforce the status quo
@[email protected] "Two leftists, three opinions," or sumfin. The goal, at least as far as lumpentheory is concerned, is to avoid rendering everyone to be angry at as one big something. For reasons both existentialist & accountabilitist, must ward against any elision of kyriarchy, of tensegrity, into mere trope—phantasm as empty vessel, waiting for any sundry reactionary fool to fill it. Lest we let the skeleton of language articulate us, rather than the other way round. Thank you for the discussion.
@deilann Yeah, you notified me of having bookmarked something else of mine weeks or months back.
But yeah, your above quoted speaks to a common resort to shame that is only legible in a #GriefTaboo culture.
Is the same logic behind anti-CRT argument that we ought not teach history because it might make white children feel bad about themselves.
When we refuse, in the name of happiness, to teach generations how to sit uncomfortably with emotions, tensegrity holds firm:
The urge to destroy food is the urge to go maskless during ongoing #pandemic. The urge to reject grief. The urge to refuse trauma. The urge to render one's pain as someone else's problem. The urge to be right, true, and good, and damn anyone who would suffer as a consequence. The urge of the electoralist; the urge of the moralist. Not a matter of kind, nor even of degree, but of #normalcy. We destroy food every day. Not children, but adults. Not in name of conflict, but in name of commerce.
"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.
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