Home! How lucky tohave one, how arduous to make this scene of beauty for your family and friends. Friends! How we must have sounded, gossiping at the dinner table last night. Why, that dinner table is this breakfast table: “The boy in trousers is not the same boy in no trousers,” who said? Discontinuity in all we see and are: the same, yet change, change, change. “Inez, it’s good to see you.”
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nevr gonna quit spamming my own patches.
new ones coming soon too. n____n
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Hi, I don’t know if you’ve heard but recently the Supreme Court made it legal for people to record the police. In the wake of another shooting of an unarmed black teenage boy in Florida, I just really want people to know this and know they can help protect themselves and people the care about. This is just one more way you can defend yourself if ever harassed by the police.
A lot of people think it’s illegal and many police will try to maintain it is, but it’s not.
· When in public spaces where you are lawfully present you have the right to photograph anything that is in plain view.
· Police officers may NOT generally confiscate or demand to view your photographs or video without a warrant.
· Police may NOT delete your photographs or video under any circumstances.
· Police officers may legitimately order citizens to cease activities that are truly interfering with legitimate law enforcement operations.
· Note that the right to photograph does not give you a right to break any other laws.
· If you are stopped or detained for taking photographs:
o Always remain polite and never physically resist a police officer.
o If stopped for photography, the right question to ask is, “am I free to go?” If the officer says no, then you are being detained, something that under the law an officer cannot do without reasonable suspicion that you have or are about to commit a crime or are in the process of doing so. Until you ask to leave, your being stopped is considered voluntary under the law and is legal.
o If you are detained, politely ask what crime you are suspected of committing, and remind the officer that taking photographs is your right under the First Amendment and does not constitute reasonable suspicion of criminal activity.
"Resisting Amnesia had a huge influence on my understanding of historicizing processes and my writing about STAR and Sylvia Rivera. So I was sad to learn on the same day both that Adrienne Rich passed away and that she helped edit &; is thanked in the acknowledgement section of infamous The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male. Drawing from her essay, I imagine Rich would say “Challenge your sense of historical erasure and nostalgia about my life!"
It’s International Women’s Day. I’ve spent most of today thinking about how to include trans women in this day, and why International Women’s Day needs to be explicitly trans woman-positive, not just implicitly. Because of cis feminists’ history with trans women, that inclusion needs to be said, and said out loud!
I only got my education about feminism’s problems with race, class, trans folks, etc., comparatively recently—as in, a few years back. Keep in mind, I’m only twenty. This International Women’s Day, I ran across something that’s been in my consciousness for a hell of a long time: the first feminist text I ever read. I was raised by an ardent feminist, and more or less as soon as I could understand it, my mom showed me this letter by Abigail Adams:
Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If perticuliar care and attention is not paid to the Laidies we are determined to foment a Rebelion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.
That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute, but such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of Master for the more tender and endearing one of Friend. Why then, not put it out of the power of the vicious and the Lawless to use us with cruelty and indignity with impunity. Men of Sense in all Ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your Sex.
Pretty great.
But it’s fucked up, right? That my only feminist image as a kid was a white cis woman of able body? Abigail is great—but we need more. I’ve moved beyond her while keeping her with me—I have more images now. Take June Jordan, for example, queer Black feminist poet:
That’s her. If you’d like to read one of her poems, “Poem About My Rights,” I encourage you to click here. (You should read it because it’s an incredible poem, although TW for rape, misogyny, and racism.)
Obviously, the be-all end-all of my feminist role models isn’t Abigail Adams and June Jordan—there are so many more andherearea few. But today I was thinking of these two women, and how they combine to make me think of the educational journey I’m on.
Abigail Adams: My first feminist education, and a stone cold badass. My past, my childhood, the beginning of my thinking. What my mom gave me.
June Jordan: The woman I think of as my feminist role model these days. Both an artist and an unapologetically angry and political queer woman of color. I give her poems to my mom now.
June and Abigail, Abigail and June—and Monica Roberts, and Julia Serano, and more and more and more: never less, always more. Always moving forward. Never moving back.
More not less. Never one story.
(If anyone recognizes this cartoon of Adams and tells me why I in particular might be sentimental about it, I will make them a mixtape. Serious offer. Ask box.)
