Today we’re talking about some hot takes regarding gender that I think should become more talked about positions for the right reasons instead of the wrong ones. These opinions are frequently found in conservatives and people who generally don’t like us queers very much. Instead of rejecting some of these claims, I think we should build on them instead. We cannot prove the patriarchs wrong. We will always be an affront to them and appeasing them will never grant us true autonomy.
Here’s a poem for you about trying to find the language to talk about the world we live in and if that is even possible or worthwhile. In the face of climate disasters, fascism, surveillance Capitalism, ongoing genocide, and indifference in the imperial core, we cannot lose sight of what we are fighting, and how to fight it.
“There will be no need to fear or hope, only to look for new weapons.” -Postscript on the Societies of Control, Gilles Deleuze
Here’s a poem for today. I wrote this for a woman I met last year and tried to help who was stuck in the endless limbo and uncertainty of the asylum system. I don’t know where she is now, her situation was very precarious and communication with her never easy. But I hope she’s okay.
And let me be clear on one thing: Borders kill people and destroy families and lives. Tear them all down, set their bureaucracies on fire. Every checkpoint and every guard is an affront to life itself.