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The first Pride was a riot against police brutality and racialized, structural violence. The Stonewall Uprising was led by Black and Brown Transgender women such as Marsha P Johnson and Sylvia Rivera. How are we observing Pride in 2024?
If a therapist claims to be “LGBTQIA+ affirming”, but is silent or “neutral” towards ongoing genocides escalating globally, what does that really mean?
All Oppression is Connected
Dear ones, can we see the connections between what’s being done to Congo, Sudan, watermelon, and the violent tactics oppressing Queer, Trans, Nonbinary siblings (always vastly, disproportionately impacting Two-Spirit, Indigenous, Black, and Brown communities?)
Imprisonment, stolen relatives/MMIW (missing, murdered Indigenous women), forced displacement/unhousing, exploitation/enslavement, non-consensual surgeries/bodily harm, the parallels go on and on.
DEHUMANIZATION is at the core – and for whose gain?
Collective liberation requires collective accountability
Those of us that benefit from/contribute to these systems of oppression (e.g. pays taxes, uses a laptop, drives an electric car), Pride CANNOT be a month-long party.
How are we taking ACTION, joining in resistance, revolting, divesting, boycotting, calling silent/complicit LGBTQ+ orgs into accountability?
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1) upper corner is skeptical or questioning emoji. “LGBTQIA+ affirming” and ”neutral“ towards gen*cide?
2) We cannot go on as usual, pivot the center, be moderate.
We will have to be willing to stand up and say NO.
Angela Davis
Black lesbian abolitionist, activist
Freedom is a Constant Struggle
3) My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you.
Audre Lorde
Black lesbian feminist poet
The Cancer Journals, Sister Outsider
4) No pride for some of us without liberation for all of us.
Marsha P. Johnson
Black Transgender woman activist, a leader in the Stonewall Inn uprising
5) NO PRIDE IN GEN*CIDE
NO PRIDE IN APARTHEID
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