doe @exiliaex@masto.anarch.cc

theyre those everyday positions of power you try to brush under the rug, every racist uncle and family member you force your kids to hug

you can see pedophilia in a child holding a teddy bear but you cant see it in your own families.

youre not saving kids.
at best youre just using real blood to up the stakes for your internet attention games.
at worst youre trying to get queer people killed.

the easiest way to tell whether someone actually cares about victims of child sexual assault or whether theyre just using our trauma to instigate moral panics is whether they talk about dismantling power structures and educating the young... or whether theyre inventing evil cabals.

the "cabals" are your pastors, your preachers, your bosses, your fathers, your teachers, your husbands, your cops, your wives, your fathers

the normalization processes of capitalist/state society are fuckin weird. it's bizarre that we're all coordinated to one singular time, and that we're imprinted with celebrations and festivals by a machine that just wants us to produce value

oh the variety of rituals and festivals and practices that we could've known as living practices...

trans deer

damn, masto can't make lists of people you don't follow?

we have, throughout history, shown that truth to be a farce.

the state doesn't protect us. the structures which constitute the state are built on our exclusion. rights don't protect us. rights are a record of a history of subjugation, in which the subjugated refused.

we protect us.

only when we assume our freedom in practice, when we coordinate our abilities with one another to protect one another, do our "rights" become anything more than words scrawled on paper.

iberal democracies have tried their hardest to convince the public that any political act not done through their institutions is illegitimate.

the institutions of our society are built on structures which inherently exclude. because of this society produces its own resistance.

our history, as queer people, has been the history of demanding recognition against a society that wants to define us away, failing the "objective" criteria of the structures it claims as truth.

because like, i thought that the only way it populated was either a relay which connected instances and published their collective stuff in the federated timeline, or like, if you follow someone that would show up on that timeline...

wait maybe i misunderstand how the federated timeline works. are you telling me that i can see things there from accounts i dont follow on instances, so long as i follow someone else on that instance...?

i think i'm going to have to run my own relay server to connect to a few other instances that seem cool

faun is gay