tools for commensality 🧿RE: 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 zone—a small barricaded area where people have been permitted to demonstrate since President Trump’s 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
elilla&, autostopowiczka@inquiline for similar reasons I think clown protests are underrated—this used to be a trend but I haven't seen a gaggle of clowns cartoonishly standing off to riot police in a while