We are up to five states as of this morning that would take trans kids from parents if they get gender affirming care.

Weaponization of child services against trans kids is obscene and would increase suicide dramatically.

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https://erininthemorn.substack.com/p/five-state-bills-would-take-trans

#trans #transgender #transrights #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia

The Feast of the Ass is an old Christian festival which was mostly observed in medieval France, honouring the Donkey in the nativity story. Celebrations were held on January 14.
#Asstodon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_of_the_Ass?wprov=sfti1

A longish #BlackMastodon photo 🧵as we head into #MLKDay weekend with its mostly saccharine remembrances and "celebrations” of a complex prophet born Michael Luther King Jr.

The man, not the myth calling …

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“I confront [white guilt] every year, about a month into my course on racism, among [white] students who come to me in tears because they cannot deal with the racism that goes on in their families or their home towns or their student residences. Their tears are the result of genuine anguish, care, and a desire to learn and to change. I confront similar attitudes among my colleagues, and I am similarly gratified by their concern. But those who experience white guilt need to learn three things:

1) People of colour are generally not moved by their tears, and may even see those tears as a self-indulgent expression of white privilege. It is after all a great privilege to be able to express one’s emotion openly and to be confident that one is in a cultural context where one’s feelings will be understood.

2) Guilt is paralysing. It serves no purposes; it does no good. It is not a substitute for activism.

3) White guilt is often patronizing if it leads to pity for those of colour. Pity gets in the way of sincere and meaningful human relationships, and it forestalls the frankness that meaningful relationships demand. White guilt will not change the racialized environment; it will only make the guilty feel better.”

— “Women of Colour in Canadian Academia,” Audrey Kobayashi

A little green

#Nature #Photography #photo

Journalist collective Ignite The Right has just been suspended from Twitter, joining @igd_news, @CrimethInc, @chadloder, @VPS_Reports, and countless other research and news collectives to be banned from the platform by Elon Musk and Twitter's new deputy Trust & Safety Chief Andy Ngo.

Follow them on Mastodon: @UnmaskUTR

Ignite The Right is dedicated to documenting and preserving evidence of the white supremacists who organized and attended the deadly 2017 Unite The Right rally in Charlottesville.

In October, Ignite The Right famously exposed a Boston-area cop as a neo-Nazi and organizer of Unite The Right rally. The nazi cop was fired from the police force and the DA is reviewing every case he ever touched.

EDIT: Andy Ngo is not actually officially working at Twitter. "Deputy" was meant in the sense of a deputized citizen.