Trans kids have occupied the NHS building in London for three days now. The UK has no trans healthcare & over 16 young ppl have taken their own lives waiting on help. Trans kids deserve better x.com/leemurrey/stat…

Daily Tune #2565 - "Colonial Motels Part II" by Erica Dawn Lyle noticerecordings.bandcamp.com/track/colonial… A relentless squall of shuddering, scouring electric guitar. Notice Recordings

Thanks to The Moderns for playing a track off my new release, Colonial Motels, out now on Notice Recordings

58 years ago, July 18 1966, queer youth group Vanguard began picketing Gene Compton's Cafeteria in San Francisco. The conflict at the cafeteria, a meeting place for gay and transgender people, soon led to the Compton's Cafeteria Riot, a major flashpoint in early LGBT struggles

Peter Plate "look at the landlord" 1979

Inside The Wire 487: Erica Dawn Lyle The musician and film maker takes a punk approach to psychogeography, transformation and the radical politics of improvisation. Read the interview by Xenia Benivolski inside our new issue: thewire.co.uk/issues/487

Gary Webb would have turned 69 today if he wasn't shot twice in the back of the head for exposing the CIA's connection to the crack cocaine epidemic. Thank you for your courage, Gary. Your legacy lives on and continues to reverberate today. Happy birthday, legend!

Thank you juggaloreporter.bsky.social for this thoughtful write up in the Chicago Reader. See you Thursday night at Elastic Arts, Chicago!

Today all charges are dismissed for eight activists facing felony charges related to a Cop City protest in 2022. The state knows there was never a legitimate case to begin with. These charges were simply used to terrorize the public out of opposing the police's political agenda.

39 years ago, October 27 1985, the longest act of civil disobedience in SF began when two men, Steven Russell and Frank Bert, chained themselves to the door of the Federal Building to protest the government’s response to the AIDS crises. The ensuing occupation lasted 10 years

Palestinian liberation protestors mobilized outside SNL to protest a surprise appearance by Kamala Harris. Demonstrators both for & against Harris gathered on 6th, with criticism of Harris’s support for Israel’s genocide outlasting brief cheers as her motorcade passed.

Yet to this day I hear my father's 1970 attempt to liberate George Jackson was unrealistic

54 years ago, November 3 1970, indigenous UC Davis students and organizers from the American Indian Movement began a several month occupation of a decommissioned army communications camp near Davis, leading to the creation of California's only indigenous college: D-Q University

Happy birthday Alice Notley— thank you for teaching us how to listen for other possible worlds yalereview.org/article/tausif…

55 years ago, November 20 1969, 89 Native American activists occupied Alcatraz Island. The occupation, led by an ad-hoc group calling itself Indians of All Tribes, continued for nineteen months

What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious, criminalized life?

NOW: One arrest as HUNDREDS March to NYU Langone Hospital to protest for Trans Kids Gender affirming care, after NYC hospital canceled appointment for 2 children to receive puberty blockers on President Trump’s Trans Care executive order.

I have love in my heart for everyone!

Won't you please join me on my birthday in supporting the important work of Miami's trans-led grassroots mutual aid organization, TransSOCIAL in their work to help support trans people in Florida in this time of great oppression?chuffed.org/project/florid…