Black, nonbinary, 33, some flavor of neurodivergent. Education and mental health M.A. Solidarity with all oppressed peoples. Death to US Empire. Admin of blackqueer.life I mute vote shamers. #BlackMastodon #BlackFediverse #BlackFedi #BlackQueer #QTPOC #WoT
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Last Notes npub1dymefjknh5xl87mx797egqmjn7v4r7nk7f3glfu5qv63er67afhqpqrav9 carl marks Black person: gee, I wish we could restrict replies on certain posts to just certain people... White people in the replies unironically: THIS WILL BRING ABOUT FASCISM!! NOBODY FOLLOWS ME BUT A LOT OF PEOPLE FOLLOW YOU! HELP!! I'M BEING REPRESSED!!!!! not an exaggeration npub1dymefjknh5xl87mx797egqmjn7v4r7nk7f3glfu5qv63er67afhqpqrav9 carl marks @npub1t9c…rtt4 wait I'm confused why did you whitewash him npub1dymefjknh5xl87mx797egqmjn7v4r7nk7f3glfu5qv63er67afhqpqrav9 carl marks "Oh but the economy is so good, and here's numbers and graphs proving it, and don't forget the stock market because-" PEOPLE ARE POOR JOSEPH! WE CAN'T AFFORD TO FUCKING LIVE! WHY DO WE EVEN HAVE THESE DINGBAT ECONOMISTS AND THEIR USELESS MODELS IF THEY DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY ABOUT HOW FUCKING POOR EVERYONE IS npub1dymefjknh5xl87mx797egqmjn7v4r7nk7f3glfu5qv63er67afhqpqrav9 carl marks https://www.newsweek.com/hillary-clinton-says-pro-palestinian-protesters-uneducated-middle-east-1899106 Let's just be honest... let's just be real... Hillary would have been a terrible president too. npub1dymefjknh5xl87mx797egqmjn7v4r7nk7f3glfu5qv63er67afhqpqrav9 carl marks If I could put the people who have saturated as many of our waking moments with ads as possible in a blender, I would do it npub1dymefjknh5xl87mx797egqmjn7v4r7nk7f3glfu5qv63er67afhqpqrav9 carl marks Wait wait hang on, has anyone thought to check in to find out where the Senate Parliamentarian stands on this? I have definitely been led to believe they can singlehandedly block legislation if they want to. Maybe the Parliamentarian can step in. Here's hoping! npub1dymefjknh5xl87mx797egqmjn7v4r7nk7f3glfu5qv63er67afhqpqrav9 carl marks A sneaky racist watching a loud racist do something racist racistly: "Do you have any evidence of them being racist? I haven't seen them do anything racist. Why are you looking at me like that, I'm on your side!" This is not an exaggeration. npub1dymefjknh5xl87mx797egqmjn7v4r7nk7f3glfu5qv63er67afhqpqrav9 carl marks "I see you're suffering from a collective problem that doesn't apply to me. Have you tried this individual behavior?" -another white man npub1dymefjknh5xl87mx797egqmjn7v4r7nk7f3glfu5qv63er67afhqpqrav9 carl marks Y'all y'all y'all! I'm so excited! I haven't really touched my medium account in years, but I decided to dust it off recently and try to write more regularly. So, I revised my recent essay on gender binarism and white supremacy and posted it, and I plan to continue on and write more as time goes on. Writing is one of my fave creative outlets. If you like, you can see my essay here: https://evasblog.blackqueer.life/gender-binarism-and-white-supremacy-69df9b7c1cd7 npub1dymefjknh5xl87mx797egqmjn7v4r7nk7f3glfu5qv63er67afhqpqrav9 carl marks Just a friendly reminder from your local Black queer, only discriminating against a subset of a marginalized group doesn't mean you're not marginalizing the group. Like (just to take a totally random and hypothetical example) if you're misgendering multiple trans people, and all of them are Black, you're not only being racist/antiblack. You're being transmisic too. You're doing both. https://blackqueerlife.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/112/152/544/229/935/442/original/bc571c6ba5e46610.png npub1dymefjknh5xl87mx797egqmjn7v4r7nk7f3glfu5qv63er67afhqpqrav9 carl marks @npub1grx…uxfe as another active tiktok user, I think you are grossly mischaracterizing the typical user of Tiktok. While I share your concern for what young people who are still learning media literacy are exposed to, most of the young tiktok users I interact with on and offline are better at critical thinking than older generations, not worse. They have not been exposed to mainstream corporate media in the way older generations have, and a lot of the content they consume is peer-generated. This is the double edged sword of all social media, yes, but tiktok in particular is actively being used by thousands of young adults right now as a tool of instruction in how to deconstruct USA imperialist propaganda. They are teaching and learning media literacy in real time. This is stuff that I can tell you, as an educator, is barely being taught in schools any earlier than college. And we can see the impact this is having on public opinion right now! We've never seen public pro Palestinian support like we're seeing now, and Tiktok is a huge part of the reason why. This info is not being filtered by massive corporate networks; people are watching a genocide happen through their phones. They're pissed about it, and they should be. The gov't moving rapidly in a bipartisan way to restrict public access to Tiktok is among other things an attempt to control the flow of information. That facet of it, at least, ain't passive at all. npub1dymefjknh5xl87mx797egqmjn7v4r7nk7f3glfu5qv63er67afhqpqrav9 carl marks It has come to my attention that there are a lot of racists that are very upset about the community building and boundary setting that Black folks, some people of color, and a handful of white folks operating in solidarity with us have been doing on the fediverse. Furthermore, there are a lot of other white folks (also racist) who are very concerned that the first group of racists is feeling excluded. To that I say, good! Whiteness has never reacted well to losing power. Reactionaries are created in response to progress by oppressed peoples, and given how frothing-at-the-mouth angry a bunch of these folks have become, we are doing a fantastic job. Ro has made this point many, many times. It makes sense that they are pissed at us because we are removing their ability to operate with impunity. They were never going to take that lying down! Of course they hate losing power! This just means we need to keep going. npub1dymefjknh5xl87mx797egqmjn7v4r7nk7f3glfu5qv63er67afhqpqrav9 carl marks @npub1ja0…gtz3 please do! npub1dymefjknh5xl87mx797egqmjn7v4r7nk7f3glfu5qv63er67afhqpqrav9 carl marks Hello Fediverse! I am coming before you all today to promote my new instance: blackqueer.life! You may have seen my post on my old account about it a few weeks back. I wanted to wait until I finished migrating my old account over here, got the instance up and running to where I wanted it, etc before promoting it fully. We all know Fedi isn't always kind to Black users, doubly so for Black queers. My instance represents my attempt to continue the amazing work some folks are doing in the Fediverse to make these platforms more accessible and safer for all users, ESPECIALLY marginalized folks. When I joined the fediverse, the first thing I was searching for almost from the beginning was an instance dedicated to or centering Black queer people explicitly. While there are a few amazing communities like that out there, many of them are either not federating, offering limited federation only, or are currently closed to new users. This allows them to have much greater control over the content their users are exposed to, which I have tremendous respect and appreciation for. Hell, I've got alts in some of those places! However. As a newcomer to Fedi, it was not overly easy for me to find these places and gain access, which I recognize is somewhat by design. Limited or no federation meant the only way to locate them was by word of mouth and extensive research. This is where BlackQueerLife comes in. I want to build a place where Black queer, trans, and GNC folks can feel safe making a home while also being able to venture out into the rest of the fediverse. I want somewhere they can use as a landing pad. I want as many multiply marginalized Black folks off of corporate hellsites like Twitter and Bluesky as possible. We are not safe being corporate playthings. Most importantly, I want every Black queer person who joins Fedi to know that they have somewhere they can go. I don't expect that all would necessarily want to join, but I want all Black queer fedizens to know that they are welcome to. So if you see this, please boost this post to spread the word. If you already boosted the other posts that have gone out about this instance, no pressure. Thanks so much! @npub13vy…lczv @npub1amh…t78z #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackFediverse #BlackQueer #BIPOC #QTPOC #LGBTQ npub1dymefjknh5xl87mx797egqmjn7v4r7nk7f3glfu5qv63er67afhqpqrav9 carl marks @npub19fc…ay3c I used to really love Dave's stuff but his recent crap about trans people soured me on him for good, sadly. npub1dymefjknh5xl87mx797egqmjn7v4r7nk7f3glfu5qv63er67afhqpqrav9 carl marks As someone who so far strongly prefers fedi to twitter, bluesky, etc, some of these posts about how much nicer it is here feel real questionable to me when you think about how much whiter this space is than most others. "There's so much less drama" or "I just got so tired of the discourse" I bet you did! I bet you did. There's just something so telling about white ppl endlessly expressing their preferences for predominantly white spaces that just... Yeah. npub1dymefjknh5xl87mx797egqmjn7v4r7nk7f3glfu5qv63er67afhqpqrav9 carl marks INTRO POST! I am a Black and nonbinary educator. I am trained in education and mental health, currently working towards becoming a therapist. A student of the Black radical tradition, reading mostly communists and anarchists. Currently on Kwame Nkrumah, George Jackson, Kropotkin, and Mao. Hobbies are reading SFF (Wheel of Time is my fave), gaming, playing/DMing DND, and writing. #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #QTPOC #DND #Communism #Anarchism #Leftism #WheelOfTime