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Most of the “keep up the work after the protests have ended!”-type posts I’ve seen are mostly focused on like, reading Black authors and listening to Black voices and unlearning racism, and obviously all of that is absolutely vital - but no amount of individual self-reflection will be able to dismantle institutional systems of oppression. So I wanted to put together some resources for continuing to build a culture of noncompliance and resistance to the police and prison system even after things have calmed down
But first, be aware that the protests aren’t over. It’s June 29th and there are still events and actions being planned regularly across the nation, and they still need your participation and support. If you’re able, please keep your focus there; this list is for what can be done long-term outside of the protests
- Know your rights. Giving the police any more information than you absolutely have to will never and can never benefit you or anyone else - positive evidence given to the police is regularly thrown out in court, whereas negative evidence will be used against you. Know what to say and what you have the right to refuse. You don’t have to answer any questions without a lawyer present, you don’t have to give the police access to your house or car unless they have a current warrant signed by a judge. They will try to intimidate you - learn your rights and don’t let up, don’t ever cooperate with the police
- Don’t snitch. If you see someone breaking the law in a way that doesn’t hurt anybody, keep your mouth shut. If cops knock on your door asking you questions about your neighbors or anyone you know, don’t answer
- Don’t call the cops. If you can solve the problem in a different way, do it. Cops have on multiple occasions murdered the people they were called to help (or bystanders) without provocation. Don’t be complicit in that. Learn how to handle situations as a community or with the help of qualified experts
- When you see an interaction with the police happening, stop and observe. If necessary, film the interaction. Organize and work with groups such as Copwatch to observe the police and hold them accountable
- Use proper opsec, especially if you’re involved with anything that might make you a target for the cops. Downloading Signal is a great simple place to start
- Learn about jury nullification, and spread the word. When serving in a jury, you have the right to vote not guilty on a defendant that you believe did commit the crime but doesn’t deserve punishment for it. Don’t be complicit in unjust punishment
- Refuse to do work for the police or prison system. Workers keep the world running and the state relies on our compliance to keep our neighbors under their thumb. We can shut it down
- Continue to support bail funds, even for non-protesters. Cash bail is unjust, and people shouldn’t be in jail just because they can’t pay
- Continue to support legal defense funds as well, such as that of the National Lawyers Guild
- Write to prisoners, either by yourself or with groups such as the Anarchist Black Cross or Black And Pink, and organize/support books to prisons programs, commissary funds, reentry programs, and other forms of prisoner support
- Organize and support community-run crisis response organizations like the CAHOOTS program in Eugene, Oregon or the Birmingham Peacemakers in my hometown
Here are some other organizations to join that are doing good work in this area:
- Black Lives Matter is obviously a huge voice in racial justice right now. The list of “official” chapters on their website is very incomplete, though, so you may have better luck doing a web search for “[your area] black lives matter” (beware of fakes though)
- Showing Up for Racial Justice is another very active and widespread racial justice network
- Critical Resistance is a grassroots prison abolitionist organization founded by Angela Davis
- The Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement is another active prison abolitionist organization
- The IWW’s Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee works with prisoners to organize strikes, phone zaps, and other actions combating injustice in prisons
- Again, the Anarchist Black Cross does great work supporting political prisoners through letter-writing and more. The link I’ve been including is to an unofficial federation of ABC groups, though - there may be a group in your area that’s not part of that federation, so a web search for “[your area] black cross” may be better
- Black And Pink is a prison abolitionist organization focused on queer people and people living with HIV/AIDS
- Antifascism is of course an important aspect of racial justice and community safety. See @antifainternational‘s guide to getting connected to your local antifascists - though, again, beware of fakes (the “antifa checker” accounts on fedbook and twitter can help)
The police state and prison industrial complex rely on the complicity and cooperation of all of us to function and be effective. By building a culture of noncompliance and active resistance, we can drastically reduce the state’s ability to oppress communities of color. Don’t let the struggle be forgotten with the changing of the news cycle - keep up the struggle until all are free!
Boosts and additional resources are very much appreciated!
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- Watch for and report speed traps using navigation apps that support that feature. Signal them to other drivers on the road - common signals are flashing your headlights for cars, and repeatedly patting the top of your helmet for motorcyclists
- Fight for an end to the War On Drugs and the stigmatization of addiction, and for adoption of much more humane and effective harm reduction strategies instead. Support and organize community-run harm reduction organizations like the People’s Harm Reduction Alliance in the PNW, as well as larger NGOs like the Harm Reduction Coalition and the North American Syringe Exchange Network
- Get involved with local mutual aid groups. Uplift your neighbors and work together to build a better life for everyone. Strong communities make police obsolete
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go check out Rescue Bots: LIVE it is the beautiful post-canon short fic about zoom calls between the Burnses and Sigma-17 and I've been rotating it in my head since first read-through.
anyway this comic is brought to you by me having never drawn a single character depicted here before. new experience but all for the vivid image of heatwave hiding in supply rooms to get away from his feral students. medix is in front bc he's the responsible one but we all know who caused the explosion
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Constructicon! Wedge I've wanted to draw ever since I joined the transformer fandom, the little scout is informing Laserbeak of what he saw so far on the city, it doesn't seem to be much to be honest.
Background was taken from New York and put on blender only to be drawn over in photoshop, so new skill I'm probably gonna use again someday
NO RENDER UNDER CUT
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This is a really interesting article about the history of opium and also the guy being interviewed literally did go from “antique opium pipes and lamps look really neat!” to deciding he’d try it out more and more and becoming addicted to the drug through the same antiques he was collecting
Martin: However, this Austrian was somehow able to get enough raw opium to prepare his own chandu for smoking. And I had this bright idea—bright at the time, I thought. I said to him, “Well, you’ve got this high-quality opium for smoking, the type that isn’t even being produced anymore. You’re the only one that’s got it, and I’ve got all this great, old paraphernalia, some of it in pristine condition.” So I asked him if he’d be interested in combining the two. Over the next few years, he and I collaborated. I’d go out and visit him every month or two in the rural area where he lived, and he set aside a room in his house specifically for smoking. We decorated the room with Chinese antiques like scrollsand a traditional opium bed.
Collectors Weekly: So you made your own opium den?
Martin: That’s exactly what we did. I was going through books and getting ideas, and we tried to make it as authentic as possible. As I was still collecting and still getting different pieces of paraphernalia and pipes, I would bring them to his place and we would try them out to see how they worked. In old books, we’d read about how some of the old smokers preferred a pipe whose stem was made of sugarcane to one made of bamboo, while others preferred bamboo to a pipe made of ivory. The old books said this, but why? That’s what I wanted to know.
when larping goes wrong
oligopsoneia
you, a fool: posts nazi memes “ironically,” ends up as actual nazi
I, an intellectual: smokes opium “ironically,”
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I remember researching the black plague and how they ran out of space for burials…
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UnMasked Thoughts: 7 - Medium, face masks and paint markers
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Image description in alt text and under keep-reading
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the fact that huge, furnished, powered, and functional medical facilities & hospitals will sit literally abandoned and in decay for so long in the United States that it’s practically its own genre of urban exploration should be a much bigger indictment against capitalism than it is treated as
like when a teenager or young adult making these videos of these facilities comments “makes you wonder what happened here” I just want to scream: the bank happened. insurance brokers happened. private equity happened. it devoured the system that created it as a means to an end. it took value from your community and annihilated it systematically. it’s coming for us all
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that’s not getting better. i want to be angry.
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friendship w me is challenging bc i will take mdma and sit on your lapppppp
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looking at any kind of trans supplies focused online shop is depressing because there will either be a complete absence of anything for transfems or like. a really sad transfem section with 5 items at the end of a list full of binders and packers and harnesses
on a queer sex positive online store. depressing
"nonbinary bodies" HMMMMMMM
My transfeminine body can be as nonbinary as any transmasc I'll fight any motherfucker who says different
thebreastformstore.com For breastforms + care, shapewear, wigs, shoes and jewlery
enfemmestyle.com For clothing, breastforms + care, shapewear, tucking and wigs
translife.uk For clothing, cosmetics, breastforms and tucking.
I get the frustration, but ultimately if you want stores that do sell things specifically for trans feminine people, searching for them and sharing them is the way to go.
If you are looking for lingerie style bras for a flat chest, those are marketed towards cis woman, who had cancer related breast reduction surgery.
And I get that it is frustrating that a lot of these thing are also marketed towards crossdressers, but the reason for this is the same as to why a lot of binders are marketed as "sports bras": sellers put every (vaguely) related term into their website in the hopes of selling to more people. Which obviously isn't great either, but at least I can better tolerate it, knowing it is marketing bullshit and not misgendering me for the sake of it.
Been a long time since I did the legwork of finding places but here's all my bookmarked lingerie brands that make lingerie for transfems and have transfem models.
Carmen Liu Lingerie - trans woman owned lingerie company that makes bras and panties specifically for transfems, also has plain cotton kids' underwear.
Juniper & Eve - cis woman owned from what I can tell but her starting point with the company was "make lingerie for a trans woman friend" and underwear types are sorted by style (flat front, gaff, or pouch front) rather than by gender.
Origami Customs - I kind of think of OC as more transmasc-focused but since I last checked their site they've added the option to select gusset width on non-gaff undies which I'm pleasantly surprised by. They also do custom sizing at no extra cost.
TomboyX also does breastform bras and tucking panties now but idk anyone who wears them so I can't comment on that specirfically. Just buying their underwear over the years I feel that the quality has dropped off while the prices have doubled. I get stuff on sale only. YMMV.
The only super specifically transfem
I wanted to add on my small local store, the Tool Shed. They carry breast forms, compatible bras, gaff underwear, shapewear, some accessories like adhesive tape and wash, and dilators and lube. They also have a TONNN of books for sale (I checked and the "books and media" section for trans and intersex topics has 279 items)!
The above link is for their trans focused site, but they also have a larger collection here that includes all their trans products along with regular sex toys (and even MORE books.)
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Fuck moon’s taking poison damage
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me and stevo talk about the commodification of alternative crowds
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I was typing an entire post about food issues and why I don't like wet food, until I remembered that unlike in Dutch, 'wet food' has a specific meaning in English. Just straight up deleted everything bc all I could see myself as was