By day, deputy director & strategic comms director for natl gender civil rights org; writer of romantica; by night, shenanigans, political rage, & snark. Pronouns: She/Her D/s: a D who giggles (it's fun dammit) IFKYK: SoPo
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Last Notes npub1qyhfwwdjq4s6q29zsu9e46nnduuru9p8xyget34k3u5gwksd3dsqxjy8tr Delia Christina The younger Millennials in my office are telling me I need to listen to someone called a Chapel Roan or something. I have learned to take their recommendations. npub1qyhfwwdjq4s6q29zsu9e46nnduuru9p8xyget34k3u5gwksd3dsqxjy8tr Delia Christina And it didn't get better. This was truly WTF. Me: what the hell. đ€: Maybe it's time to move on. #copilot https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/113/007/971/496/167/484/original/9c43b044c9da2817.jpg npub1qyhfwwdjq4s6q29zsu9e46nnduuru9p8xyget34k3u5gwksd3dsqxjy8tr Delia Christina In that closed door meeting she had with protesters Harris made it clear she was NOT for an arms embargo. That says *everything.* If the US won't stop arming Israel and giving it air and sea support, the genocide continues. I wipe my hands of the rest of you. npub1qyhfwwdjq4s6q29zsu9e46nnduuru9p8xyget34k3u5gwksd3dsqxjy8tr Delia Christina Check in on your Black/Brown/POC friends in Britain. They are not ok right now. (Also keeping my mouth shut about the online beef between Afro Brits and Black Americans about who knows better where they come from. Seriously. Slavery vs colonialism. And we're beefing over homelands? LOL.) #raceriots #britain npub1qyhfwwdjq4s6q29zsu9e46nnduuru9p8xyget34k3u5gwksd3dsqxjy8tr Delia Christina This what I have to say about the significant core of folks still amplifying the US position on arming Israel and calling for an answer from the presumptive candidate: They are making very good points. Points that a significant amount of us agree with. They have every right to pressure Kamala to make her position clear. Kamala's team should take their position seriously -- especially if they want to win in certain geographies. What isn't cool is a bunch of folks who've decided to quickly fall in formation behind Kamala to pressure these folks to shut up. No. They should keep going. She wants to be the candidate, then she can struggle with how arming an apartheid state conflicts with that vision of EVERYONE HAS A SEAT AT THE TABLE, lady. What also isn't cool is a bunch of white leftist bros getting up in brown folks' faces to lecture us on solidarity. Y'all are the LEAST solidarity focused or reliable assholes on this planet. Shut up. https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/112/894/158/344/068/819/original/3cef4385c3f123fb.mp4 npub1qyhfwwdjq4s6q29zsu9e46nnduuru9p8xyget34k3u5gwksd3dsqxjy8tr Delia Christina Colleague: yeah, must be some weird cold we're having in July. Girl, it's Covid. You and your husband have Covid. #CovidIsNotOver npub1qyhfwwdjq4s6q29zsu9e46nnduuru9p8xyget34k3u5gwksd3dsqxjy8tr Delia Christina i have to meet my Amway Guy (snort don't ask) for coffee in a few minutes. I'll be able to catch up with the horses and cross country later! npub1qyhfwwdjq4s6q29zsu9e46nnduuru9p8xyget34k3u5gwksd3dsqxjy8tr Delia Christina @npub18x7âŠp6e7 I mean, at this point, LA is going to have to shoot Tom Cruise at the Olympic cauldron on a Tesla rocket from the Scientology building to beat this. npub1qyhfwwdjq4s6q29zsu9e46nnduuru9p8xyget34k3u5gwksd3dsqxjy8tr Delia Christina Over the weekend, my dad had a friend over the house who kept going on and on about Trump's 'genius.' I was mad until I realized it's the Dude Caucus at work: no matter how mediocre, most dudes will back each other up, especially when the alternative is to support a woman. In this very specific incident, it was a man of color caping for a fascist rather than say a Black woman could kick his electoral ass. I'm so tired of the patriarchy and misogynoir. npub1qyhfwwdjq4s6q29zsu9e46nnduuru9p8xyget34k3u5gwksd3dsqxjy8tr Delia Christina This case is HORRIFIC. The way that deputy deliberately calculated how to kill her and did so in just the most terrible way. I really hope there's no doubt in that community's mind that he needs to be taken off the street and put in prison for life. #SayHerName #SonyaMassey #BLM #BlackLivesMatter npub1qyhfwwdjq4s6q29zsu9e46nnduuru9p8xyget34k3u5gwksd3dsqxjy8tr Delia Christina Dying isn't what it looks like in the movies. In the movies you don't see the mess, the frustration, the sadness. Especially when you die poor. Dying poor in the US means you die hard and your family goes through the hard with you. The hard of hospice care -- when you're on Medicaid and have scant resources. The hard of estate planning -- when there is no estate. The hard of settling debt -- when there was no financial rigor in the first place.The hard of making peace -- when there is no peace for a man whose family trauma traps him in a cycle of self deception and anger. Who was the poet that said 'do not go easy into that good night'? Dylan Thomas? I want dad to die easy. I want his passing to be gentle and soft. But it's not going to be that. It's going to be struggle. That's what I cried about. That's what I'm grieving. That I can't even give my dad an easy death when he deserves and needs it. Gotdamn this is hard. #DadsLump #Adulting npub1qyhfwwdjq4s6q29zsu9e46nnduuru9p8xyget34k3u5gwksd3dsqxjy8tr Delia Christina What the HELL just happened. npub1qyhfwwdjq4s6q29zsu9e46nnduuru9p8xyget34k3u5gwksd3dsqxjy8tr Delia Christina Corps are beginning to line up in anticipation of the far Right being in charge. The signs are small here and there. Getting rid of data collection; getting rid of initiatives or subject specific project teams; pushing an overt USA First position. But these signs will grow bigger and more overt. The internal realignments around personnel, hiring, 'fit'. There was a tiktok of a French girl reading a letter sent from a small French town's reinvigorated Vichy-era militia to a Black woman living in that town telling her to sell her house and get out of town in order to cleanse the town and return it to its previous, more glorious 'French-ness.' Poor girl was in tears as she read it. She was stunned. There was another Nigerian creator who posted a warning to the US: the small signs we're seeing will only grow bigger. The future we dread is not in the future but now. DO SOMETHING. npub1qyhfwwdjq4s6q29zsu9e46nnduuru9p8xyget34k3u5gwksd3dsqxjy8tr Delia Christina Just read Parable of the Sower. It's literally the guidebook forward. Octavia Butler saw it and called it. npub1qyhfwwdjq4s6q29zsu9e46nnduuru9p8xyget34k3u5gwksd3dsqxjy8tr Delia Christina If i heard the local nazi down the street got a beat down, I'm not sending him flowers. Just saying. You people. We're sleepwalking into fascism and you want to take the high road of MANNERS. npub1qyhfwwdjq4s6q29zsu9e46nnduuru9p8xyget34k3u5gwksd3dsqxjy8tr Delia Christina If I was a Dem asked what I think this would be my short statement: History has shown us that political violence like this is a hallmark of authoritarian states. That it turned against the man inciting it shows how slippery and dangerous our current moment is. Come November we have a choice -- an America where a man like Trump, who believes lynching his political enemies is fine, sits in the white house while fires of political retribution burn across the nation; or an America where our fragile democracy rests in less unhinged hands, safe for the moment. ## npub1qyhfwwdjq4s6q29zsu9e46nnduuru9p8xyget34k3u5gwksd3dsqxjy8tr Delia Christina And there you are. All civilians being forced to leave Gaza. (See my boost.) 9 mos. 9 mos, tens of thousands slaughtered. 9 mos. Scores starving and brutalized. Nine months. The time it takes to grow a baby. What an efficient #genocide. npub1qyhfwwdjq4s6q29zsu9e46nnduuru9p8xyget34k3u5gwksd3dsqxjy8tr Delia Christina Mekka's threads are often like going to brunch with all your Black friends, and having all the white folks at the tables around you go noticeably silent as they eavesdrop and get really uncomfortable. LOL. It makes me inwardly chortle. npub1qyhfwwdjq4s6q29zsu9e46nnduuru9p8xyget34k3u5gwksd3dsqxjy8tr Delia Christina #Grantchester just made me yell 'That is TOTALLY inappropriate!' Just because the new vicar is hot does not mean you can just grab and lay one on him. npub1qyhfwwdjq4s6q29zsu9e46nnduuru9p8xyget34k3u5gwksd3dsqxjy8tr Delia Christina I'll do my duty but for once I'd really love the party to build a value proposition on something visionary, radical and truly progressive-- not "Hey, We're the Smaller Evil." Like, who runs on that? npub1qyhfwwdjq4s6q29zsu9e46nnduuru9p8xyget34k3u5gwksd3dsqxjy8tr Delia Christina It's SO bad. It basically destroys regulations, period. I hope folks enjoyed the turn of the century because that's where our govt just got reset to. npub1qyhfwwdjq4s6q29zsu9e46nnduuru9p8xyget34k3u5gwksd3dsqxjy8tr Delia Christina Everything about Christian fascists is about trapping someone in a situation they don't want. Their whole vibe is predatory, abusive, oppressive, and anti-liberatory. Don't wanna be pregnant -- for any reason? Too bad. We're forcing you to give birth. Don't want to be married to your jerk of a spouse? Too bad, suck it up, bucko. You married her - she's yours .... FOREVER. Don't want to live life as the wrong gender? LOL, jokes on you, there are only 2 genders and you already have one. Ugh. These people. The Christian Right is just full of effing horrible people who should never be allowed to have power over anyone. Period. npub1qyhfwwdjq4s6q29zsu9e46nnduuru9p8xyget34k3u5gwksd3dsqxjy8tr Delia Christina Headline: The Christian Right is coming for divorce next: OOH - Of course they are. OTOH - time to embrace the tenets of Adrienne Rich's anti-comp het classic essay (*Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence*) and reject marriage, period. (as well as childbearing and financial dependence on cishet men.) https://www.vox.com/today-explained-newsletter/354635/divorce-no-fault-states-marriage-republicans npub1qyhfwwdjq4s6q29zsu9e46nnduuru9p8xyget34k3u5gwksd3dsqxjy8tr Delia Christina Seeing that young Black scholar dip out of the Fediverse makes me tired. This is how white supremacist culture (in all its permutations and manifestations) deprives YOU of opportunity -- opportunity to grow, change, learn, be curious, be *more*. It's exhausting watching it happen, everywhere it happens. It won't stop Black brilliance and achievement but it will slow the pace of radical reformation. npub1qyhfwwdjq4s6q29zsu9e46nnduuru9p8xyget34k3u5gwksd3dsqxjy8tr Delia Christina I'm not gonna jump in on that thread about 'all men' but I am gonna say this: While it's true that not all men do X, it is absolutely more true that patriarchy socializes ALL MEN to accept or be blind to certain truths about their position, importance, and relevance in the world. Almost everything all men think of as 'natural' about their status in the world is not, in fact, true. It was crafted through oppression, suppression, and violence. It is also true that it takes an enormous amount of deliberate de-conditioning to throw off patriarchal thinking and praxis. Those for whom 'not all men' truly apply (which is a small enough number to be sad and pitiful) know this to be true. And so do the rest of us. npub1qyhfwwdjq4s6q29zsu9e46nnduuru9p8xyget34k3u5gwksd3dsqxjy8tr Delia Christina Benson is skeptical and thinks they're suspect. npub1qyhfwwdjq4s6q29zsu9e46nnduuru9p8xyget34k3u5gwksd3dsqxjy8tr Delia Christina Me: [googling] can...dogs...eat...bananas? Google: Yes. Benson: đïž đ
đïž đ mleh. npub1qyhfwwdjq4s6q29zsu9e46nnduuru9p8xyget34k3u5gwksd3dsqxjy8tr Delia Christina Brunch with a friend. We're both GenX. Me: M-, are you radical now? Him: Yes. Well, more radical than I was before. I mean, I'm a white guy. People are used to the bare minimum from me. But shit is fucked up and fuckit. I'm going to do more than that now and if that means radical then yeah, I'm radical. And then he went on an ACAB rant that was stupendous. This man was raised a good moderate Lutheran and his father was a Lutheran minister. He runs an arts/performance nonprofit in the city. He's got kids, an ex, a current partner, and a mortgage. He's not a black bloc radical. But he has stepped far away from his socialization. When good liberals are now ACAB, something is happening. npub1qyhfwwdjq4s6q29zsu9e46nnduuru9p8xyget34k3u5gwksd3dsqxjy8tr Delia Christina I swear, having a Black president literally made America go insane. When I think about how utterly wiiiiild everything is, I think, Hm, what was the catalyst? What was the thing that made half this country go completely bonkers? Barack Obama.