yinx1:

cheer-deforest-kelley:

This is heart wrenching.

Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhura) has been suffering from Dementia for years. She’s lots most of her money, the home she loved and there is a fight for her conservatorship

Her sister has set up a GoFundMe site for her. The link is at the very bottom of this post. Please share this information.

Read the article below and please donate if you can. Even a couple dollars will help.

https://www.al.com/life/2021/08/nichelle-nichols-star-treks-lt-uhura-faces-heartbreaking-conservatorship-fight.html

Nichelle Nichols, Shields Up!, organized by Marian Nichols Smothers

Help Legendary Nichelle Nichols Recover from Tragic Elder Abuse Perpetrated by … Marian Nichols Smothers needs your support for Nichelle Ni

gofundme.com

https://gofund.me/376980a8

Y’all went hard for Free Brittany over conservatorship now do the same for Nichelle

(via lesbianhyuga)

For documentation sake, and to celebrate my own coming out via self congratulation, I’ll do the share pride thingy:

Hey I’m Roxy

I use they/them pronouns

I’m ok identifying as queer, genderqueer, enby, non-binary, bisexual & demisexual

BIPOC Inclusive enby flag by @itslittletunny on Twitter

Enby Bi flag by @beesprites

Happy Pride, I finally feel like I can celebrate this month without shame. Phew 😮‍💨

queeranarchism:

masaotheheckindog:

queeranarchism:

Solidarity, not allies.

The more I look at it, the more I think one of the worst thing to happen was that people started replacing the concept of solidarity with the concept of allies.

Solidarity was this amazing idea that we’re all getting screwed over by the systems and the way we fight back is by working together. And that means doing work against forms of oppression that you don’t experience and following the lead of people who experience that form of oppression because it’s their struggle. But you’re there as a partner, as a comrade. And you know they’ll be there for you if you need help in your part of the struggle. That’s solidarity.

Allyship has none of that. it’s a one-way relationship that carries in it a form of authority, and where there is authority there is harm. The failures of this system are everywhere.

• You have the exploitative savior ally who is always looking to find the most oppressed group to ally themselves for in order too look like the coolest person, pushing themselves into spaces and exploiting people’s struggles for ally points.
• You have the perfectionist ally who will only ever do work once they’re sure that they’re found the most perfecrt ‘grassroots’, never problematic in any way movement, rehardless of where their help is actually needed and useful.
• You have the drone ally, only ever following directions and wasting all their potential to contribute anything meaningful, terrified of doing any thinking or acting for themselves that may at some point set them ‘called out’. 
• You have the oppressed person or group who sees allies as convenient punching bag to work out their rage on, piling on them the hatred and contempt they wish they could pile on the system.
• You have the oppressed person or group that treats allies as defined entirely by their allyhood, ignoring that they have struggles of their own and treating them as disposable. Shouting ‘allies to the front’ when the police brutality hits without a thought to the previous traumas and vulnerabilities of individual allies.

In all of these ways and more we are hurting each other, feeling unsafe around each other, becoming estranged and embittered with oneanother.

The concept of privilege has brought us some very useful things that help us be better activists and better humans to each other, but when I look at the way that is translated to the concept of allies, I mostly see us being worse activists and worse humans to each other than we are when we act out of the concept of solidarity. Being in this fight together means taking care of each other.

the ally who is terrified of doing anything wrong or harmful and puts me (when I’m the one in the more marginalized position) in the position of comforting and reassuring them. And I genuinely feel bad for them in their fear and insecurity. It’s not their fault this is creating more work for me. It’s liberalism that tells them they have to repent and self flagellate, in order to disctract them from understanding the same material oppression that hurts me likely hurts them as well in one way or another.

It’s liberalism that tells them they have to repent and self flagellate, in order to disctract them from understanding the same material oppression that hurts me likely hurts them as well in one way or another. 

Holy fuck that’s so well put.

(via queeranarchism)