The Association of Internet Researchers has decided that we will ramp down our use of Twitter, effective immediately.

Instead, we are shifting our activity to Mastodon, where for a few months we have been running our very own server. 👏👍

This means that we will not be tweeting during the #AoIR2023 conference. Instead, we will be posting on AoIR’s Mastodon instance (https://aoir.social).

Membership of this instance is a benefit of AoIR membership. AoIR members have recently been sent an invite link; if you are not a member of AoIR, why not join and also get access to our online community?

https://aoir.org/aoir2023onmastodon/

In March of 2023 a family-friendly drag show in Wadsworth OH was threatened by anti-LGBT protesters including Proud Boys, Patriot Front, and Neo-Nazis. Show organizers asked for volunteers to help protect the show and its attendees. Leif was one of many people from Central Ohio who answered this call for volunteers. On the day of the show, attendees and supporters were outnumbered nearly 2-1 by anti-LBGT demonstrators from all over Ohio. While escorting families out of the event, Leif was assaulted by anti-LGBT protesters who hit him in the head with a megaphone. Police stood by and allowed this to happen. Leif feared for his life and the lives of the people he escorted - including children and a person with a service animal - and he took swift action to end the attack. FOR THIS JUSTIFIED ACT OF DEFENSE HE IS BEING CHARGED WITH THREE COUNTS OF ASSAULT!

Do trans people have the same self-defense rights as everyone else? The law throughout the whole US allows a person to use force in defense of human life. Ohio is a ‘stand your ground’ state. This means a person has no “duty to retreat” and may use force in self-defense or defense of others, if they feel their life is in danger. The police and the state of Ohio have chosen to prosecute a trans man with criminal charges instead of the transphobes who assaulted him. Weare going to fight back using any and all legal means necessary.

We need YOU to help us fight to the finish! Here’s what you can do:

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Pack the court on October 11, 1:15pm, at Wadsworth Municipal Court!

It’s just so funny that there are bootlickers out there saying “so these aUto WoRkerS want to work just four days a week?? For the same pay!?!”

Yeah man. We all do. Please grow up and realize most people don’t want to spend their lives at work.

White people: *create the gender binary, spend hundreds of years violently stripping non-white folks of our indigenous gender systems, create nazi ideology, pass laws that bar trans ppl from hrt & healthcare, ban books that talk about us, kill allies that support us*

BIPOC: "hey I think this blocklist will help keep us safe"

White people: "THESE PEOPLE ARE UNIQUELY TRANSPHOBIC AND WILL KILL US ALL IF GIVEN THE CHANCE, THIS BLOCKLIST IS A GENOCIDE, GET THEM!!!!!"

#TheBadSpace #fediblockmeta

Legal opinion is pretty clear: "in general, children of any age can make their own decision about the change of [...] name."

If anyone tells you otherwise, show them this: https://buff.ly/472Nzdk

Alt text: Legal opinion is pretty clear: "in general, children of any age can make their own decision about the change of [...] name. Illustration is of a written document.

#Deedpoll #Trans #Transgender #NonBinary #TransRightsAreHumanRights #TransRights #Equality #LGBTQI #LGBTQ #LGBTI #LGBT