I'm seeing openness to age verification laws within some left of center organizing spaces 😱

Folks, we gotta talk to our people to kill this harmful policy. Regulate dangerous big tech practices, not people!

LGBTQ+ kids in hostile environments suffer when they can't access community online.

Age verification also facilitates excluding representation of marginalized folks. Also, it is at odds with the right to repair — shouldn't we own our devices, and not the other way around?

Here's the full text of Audre Lorde's 1979 conference talk "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House": https://awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu/communication/masters-tools-will-never-dismantle-masters-house-oct-29-1979 (The text is from the collection _Sister Outsider_, and is posted at Iowa State University's Archives of Women's Political Communication, which I presume has the rights to post it there.)

And here's Tara Tarakiyee commenting on that talk, and how Lorde's argument is often misunderstood or misused in tech discussions, in 2026: https://tarakiyee.com/on-the-enshittification-of-audre-lorde-the-masters-tools-in-tech-discourse/

There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.

By Audre Lorde

#Intersectional #IntersectionalityMatters #SocialJustice #Equity #MentalHealth #HumanRights #SocialDeterminantsOfHealth #YMHC

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