Several ppl familiar w or involved in HIV/AIDS activism have been saying that disabled & immunocompromised ppl’s anger surrounding Covid is analogous to shaming people with HIV or AIDS for their illness This thread is a friendly attempt to explain why the comparison doesn’t hold

When you involve disabled people in a project and they cost more than other people and take longer to do tasks and struggle with huge volumes of repetitive emails it’s not really ok to blame them for this being something you didn’t think ahead on or budget for.

From Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s essay “Abolition Geography and the Problem of Innocence.” / the idea that prison ‘isn’t a safe place for women’ has a logical end point - that is somehow safe, natural and necessary for someone else.

“The arguments advocated on behalf of decarcerating women… deepen and widen the net in which boys and men are captured and kept.” Ruthie Wilson Gilmore

It’s not polarizing to call those people stupid weirdos.

These people’s minds have been literally pickled by transphobia.

I am being so sincere when I say that as soon as you stop looking at movies through the lens of plot efficiency and more through artistry, theme, and visual language, the entire world of film will open up to you in a way you never thought possible.

Everyone's "Defund the Police" until you need someone to show up and watch passively while a lynch mob sets fire to a hotel with people inside

I really can’t get over how diligently the cops are making the case that they are the real victims of violence this week, somehow the people with the most to fear.

"White Australia has a black history" - Poster against the 1988 Australian bicentennial celebrations

rly appreciate scholarship like this that adds complexity to the political journeys of figures like lorde & rich - who ppl love to quote n invoke - & also describes with love the steadfast political clarity and commitment of the wonderful june jordan

Been on the internet since 1999 and it’s never been this bad. Google is useless, once findable information is deleted or buried. Wanton cruelty and sadism used to be contained to places like 4chan now it’s every social media site. Ubiquitous AI imagery is deeply unpleasant to see

i will be chasing the high i felt when i first watched challengers in the movie theater for the rest of my life

disgusting little world we're building. harder and harder to research things, beneficial to make up nonsense, deregulation, oppression, murder, murder, murder

My dream is to make the labour front bench eligible for PiP with just an iron bar.

"Mr landlord" "Mr businessman" "Mr real estate"

I'm at work pretending to be a functional, responsible adult but actually my brain is still playing All The Things She Said on loop with the club scene embedded to the back of my eyelids I'm suffering send help