My name is Alyx, I’m a transfem person who was just forced to leave my parents’ house for the holiday due to safety. A friend is helping to house me but I’d still really appreciate donations to help me buy food and basic supplies while I adjust.
little known fact if you touch me or my things without permission and then get upset and call me a child when i get mad maybe you need to figure out your shit
anyway animal rights activism will be inherently disingenuous and indeed actively harmful unless y’all recognize that 1) not every country has industrialized the consumption of meat to the extent that the west has 2) you absolutely need to prioritize human beings over animals given that basic humanity isn’t even afforded to a large fucking portion of the human population 3) your experiences are not universal and humans have been living off the land sustainably for literal millenia 4) capitalism is your enemy not poor people & people of color 5) stop fucking making slavery/holocaust anaologies. those are actual human beings. thanks
just saw a conservative blogger ‘fear-monger’ with the phrase “a nation without a border ceases to be a nation!”
and im like…you mean that nations are not intrinsic truths, but instead they only manifest themselves through the exclusion of the ‘other’??
you mean that borders are fictions that we are all encouraged to believe in, in order to create a feeling of national pride that is almost entirely based on being ‘not the other’, creating stigma and feelings of superiority?
you mean that citizenship and nationality are features of our cultures that are almost always decided arbitrarily at birth and through nothing else??
you mean that a world without borders would be a very big step in the direction of a world without nationalism and without fear/stigmatisation of the ‘other’?? yeah sounds awful….
hearing your target language in your everyday life is the most beautiful thing. music, poetry and novels only go as far but the absolute peak is hearing people talking about the most mundane things. friends talking, a parent and a child, someone talking on the phone or just tourists talking about getting back to the hotel. it’s the language in it’s raw beauty, the way it is lived every day and the way that it’s a deeply rooted part of people and their culture, not just something you study
