oi guys for the love of fuck, i’m not gonna be nice about it
if you’re a non black poc, or worse, white, do not fucking make this about you. do not make it about aesthetics. do not make it about anything other than it is.
rebloging myself bc someone asked: the point of this post is beyond whether you can or can’t reblog it. the point is whether you should or shouldn’t.
if you’re a non black poc, or a white person, what you’re called to do now is to stand in solidarity.
see someone making BLM into a relatable aesthetic? call it out
see a post with donation links? reblog it and donate if you can (x), (x), (x)
the MN freedom fund itself is bringing attention to other fundraisers. check their twitter.
if you’re not from the US learn about what is happening in YOUR country re: black communities and learn how to help them
do not speak over black people
deplatform racists
go to a protest (with the necessary precautions)
sign petitions
do not donate to anything shaun king posts because he has a history of asking for money in the name of BLM and then the money vanishes. the mn freedom fund has made the clarification already
etc etc etc
listen to black people, and stand with them. interject in the situations that you can, and educate yourself and others. as riots and protests spread know many states and cities freedom funds will need donations. check with national bail fund network, or free them all.
don’t ask me if you can reblog, ask yourselves how can you contribute. you shouldn’t be asking if you can help, but how. it doesn’t begin by reading theory, it begins by caring about people
And of course, naturally, the people of 4 Chan had to come and completely take the fun out of pride month. For those who don’t know- there are people threatening to seek out small queer bloggers on social media platforms and dox them, out them, and harass these people with disturbing content. This is called operation pridefall. It starts June 1st, and is supposed to escalate throughout the course of pride month.
This means that we all are being forced back into the closet during what is supposed to be our month, some of us into total isolation as the internet acts as the sole place to be completely expressive. By refusing to go into the closet, we run the risk of being doxxed, put in harms way. By closeting ourselves, they succeed in silencing us. They have placed us between a rock and a hard place.
But they are not the first to do this.
For centuries we have been fighting, forced to hide in the shadows, and hurt when taking a stand. Queer people have been made to be like the vermin in the walls, hiding, surviving.
They have made us like cockroaches, and so cockroaches we will be. They want to take away our pride month? Let them try. We are resilient. We are strength. We have survived in every condition and our community will continue to not only survive but thrive when they wish to see us silent.
We are cockroaches, so let’s survive this motherfucker.
Now- my plan.
Operation Queerantine:
Unfortunately, it is not safe to be out in the same way that it has been on the internet, as they will being actively seeking out queer people through the tags, blog names, and search engines. So be it, but they can not infiltrate our private spaces.
I am creating a group chat here on tumblr called the “Queerantine Bunker”. Everyone who interacts with this post or otherwise requests to be apart of it I will individually add to that group- and on June 1st, unfortunately, I will close the chat for the safety of those inside. Inside of this chat- I, and Mod Lia, will create pride related memes, celebrate various pride days, perhaps do queer Netflix watch parties (if I can coordinate it), share queer history, and otherwise celebrate pride month within an online quarantine. They can try to take our pride away, but they never will be able to. We will do what queer people do best, stick together and motherfucking thrive, looking after eachother and keeping eachother safe.
They want to isolate us, and they will fail. Feel free to also do this in your own group chats, however our service to you all is creating this space.
Remember, on 12am June 1st I am closed for entry requests. Just interact with this post and I will add you to the chat.
Remain here, queer, unswayed and unafraid my dearest cockroachmotherfuckers.
-Mod Cass
Spreading this for those who need it
(I want to request that I don’t get added to the group, I’m not LGBTQ+ or anything)
(that doesn’t mean that I don’t think this cause is good: it is)
It did a random, IP-based(?) decision on whether or not Thanos’s snap would have killed you. (I say IP-based because it didn’t change, no matter how many times you refreshed)
It has been literal years but every time I see Martin’s tweets posted somewhere and his word is shared as truth while her post is not shared it sort of reiterates the fact that we trust men to speak about feminism more than we believe women who experience it.
Reading her account of how their boss treated her blows me away. Men are so emboldened that they will literally admit to illegal discrimination casually and face no consequences.
In all the years of seeing this post I’ve never seen a link to her side. Didn’t even know she’d written one.
Adding screenshots of her post. His whole post is there without needing a link. Hers should be, too.
Also, she posted this is 2017! It’s fucking 2020 and I’ve seen his side of this for years, but it took 3 years for her side to make its way to my dash…
