Oh, Chicago was doing it too!

https://unraveledpress.com/protesters-mock-ice-broadview-police-at-dildo-day-of-action-outside-detention-center/

#Chicago #ICEprotests #dildos

articulating more of why i think this protest repertoire is important:

IMO jiggling colorful dildos are semiotically effective in a way that many/most objects or symbols can't be--they kind of only look silly and because of the (queer) sex for pleasure element, they can't be reclaimed by fascism. there are very few objects like that

do i like consumption & plastic (silicone) waste? no. but as a collective improvisation to locate symbolic repertoires that contest fascists? i'm ok with it

a counterpoint here, i should not have said that categorically the fash can't claim dildos:
https://kolektiva.social/@kiwi/116400309122322932

anyway, my point overall is the collective improvisations (plural), not actually the dildos

@inquiline pretty well understood limitation of theory's failure to anticipate weaknesses in the model yeh?

i reckon it might be fair to say much of what's happening now's demonstration of that failure to anticipate and therefore to think outside of models

@oscarjiminy

if i understand what yr saying, i don't think that this is a failure by people doing dildo protests--the DC counterexample notwithstanding (it's important), the preponderance of semiotic meaning right now is pretty squarely anti-fash. symbols are polysemous and ambivalent, pretty much

i don't see how we "think outside of models". we think with models until we break or refashion them

what i'm trying to draw attention to here is not actually dildos but the collective improv

@inquiline i was being cheeky, the idea some symbol or other can't be appropriated is weird to me, can probly argue it's an emotional assessment

i had a friend who proclaimed trump yesterday's man when he came down that escalator. she didn't seem to think it was worth considering there was anything to consider