The Black Panthers basically Invented school lunches. Schools started offering free lunch because the Black Panthers were providing food to kids who couldn’t have any at home.
As you can imagine schools and parents liked having fed kids. They put pressure on politicians to enforce it legally through officially funded means. And politicians who didn’t want the Black Panthers gaining support, did it.
And so free school lunches were born. No more hungry kids.
But now… They’ve done away with it.
And you should be nothing less than outraged. Why is your family’s stomach worth cutting out of the budget while police get increases? While the military gets increases?
Our kids still matter.
This isn’t just fucked up, it’s anti-black cuz guess who’s STILL one of the largest demographics utilizing that program since the Black Panther’s started doing it?
israeli forces shot and killed another palestinian journalist. yes, again. it’s ghufran hamed warasneh, who was 31 years old and had just started her job a few days before israel shot her in the chest and killed her. and yes, they did also attack her funeral.
If you think these “anti drag” pushes aren’t going to be used against trans people for just existing in public, you really really need to read up on the vice laws which caused Stonewall.
If you think Stonewall was only trans women and transmascs/butches/trans men weren’t arrested during the leadup to the riot, you need to read up on who was there, who was arrested, and why.
They are coming for all of us. Your supposed respectability will not save you. We will survive this if we stick together, and only if.
From the Wikipedia page for Stonewall (warning for sexual assault mention):
The raid did not go as planned. Standard procedure was to line up the patrons, check their identification and have female police officers take customers dressed as women to the bathroom to verify their sex, upon which any people appearing to be physically male and dressed as women would be arrested. Those dressed as women that night refused to go with the officers. Men in line began to refuse to produce their identification. The police decided to take everyone present to the police station, after separating those suspected of cross-dressing in a room in the back of the bar. Both patrons and police recalled that a sense of discomfort spread very quickly, spurred by police who began to assault some of the lesbians by “feeling some of them up inappropriately” while frisking them.
Literally you need to defend men in dresses to fight against transphobia, period. The hate comes from the same root.
Attacking drag is attacking the right to present how you chose. And legislation against it will be weaponized against everyone, Cis, Trans, and otherwise.
Drag is a product of queer culture, and includes many many trans people in addition to GNC cis people.
Yes, you need to include Bianca Del Rio wearing a dress and makeup as part of her comedy, yes, you need to include a cis man who cross-dresses because it turns him on. As soon as you make it okay to go after one single group for wearing clothing that “doesn’t match” their assigned sex or perceived gender, its open season to attack everyone for their presentation.
Yes, there are transphobic and misogynist drag performers. The whole category of art is not, and tons and tons of trans people participate in drag and drag is what cracked their egg.
Also, it’s wrong to suppress anyone’s presentation, whether they are cis, trans, woman, man, non-binary, gay, straight, anything. I don’t care how they identify. If Trixie Mattel doing her thing makes you dysphoric, fine, don’t watch her. But it’s not wrong. It’s not grooming. It’s not anything wildly different from a cast member at Disneyland dressed as Snow White.
The (majority conservative) Supreme Court wants to cause a civil war, and they want to burn this country to the ground to rebuild anew. This is the goal, this is how they are going to do it, and we are witnessing in real time the fall to fascism.
So about 200 million people just had their 4th Amendment rights abolished, but they say nothing can be done about the 2nd Amendment?
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