tools for commensality š§æRE: https://assemblag.es/@inquiline/116393292245545697
this may be more important antifascist praxis than is currently acknowledged (the article about Mpls is strong on this point)
Oh, Chicago was doing it too!
Protesters mock ICE, Broadview police at dildo day of action outside detention center
The spectacle saw hundreds of phallic items, big and small, flood the designated free speech zoneāa small barricaded area where people have been permitted to demonstrate since President Trumpās mass deportation blitz swept through Chicagoland.
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
mivox is exhausted 
@inquiline If it makes you feel any better, actual silicone dildos are safe and inert. Not really āplastic wasteā at allā¦
(That said, theyāre also expensive, so Iād assume the majority being thrown at ICE are the cheap shitty ones, chock full of phthalates.)
as i understand it silicone doesn't degrade as in the form microplastics but it also doesn't really degrade much(?). but more to the point, you're right, people probably aren't shelling out for quality product to hurl at ICE!! just a guess š
@inquiline Pure silicone is like squishy pure glass: not going anywhere, but itās also not contaminating anything by being there either. š
(Source: Iāve been internet friends with one of the pioneers of platinum silicone sex toys for decades.)