'It’s pretty obvious that the Library made this a Pride Month thread to celebrate the fact that “biological sex” is a beautifully varied thing across species, and that a static dimorphic sex binary is not actually a default or natural state — in fact, that’s not even true for humans. But the Library got totally ratioed by transphobes.'

https://www.them.us/story/british-library-fish-sex-pride-tweet

The Scriptures tell us that God created Man in His own image, which has by no means proven a success. Parents follow the bad example of their heavenly master; they use every effort to shape and mould the child according to their image. They tenaciously cling to the idea that the child is merely part of themselves — an idea as false as it is injurious, and which only increases the misunderstanding of the soul of the child, of the necessary consequences of enslavement and subordination thereof.

As soon as the first rays of consciousness illuminate the mind and heart of the child, it instinctively begins to compare its own personality with the personality of those about it. How many hard and cold stone cliffs meet its large wondering gaze? Soon enough it is confronted with the painful reality that it is here only to serve as inanimate matter for parents and guardians, whose authority alone gives it shape and form.

The terrible struggle of the thinking man and woman against political, social and moral conventions owes its origin to the family, where the child is ever compelled to battle against the internal and external use of force. The categorical imperatives: You shall! you must! this is right! that is wrong! this is true! that is false! shower like a violent rain upon the unsophisticated head of the young being and impress upon its sensibilities that it has to bow before the long established and hard notions of thoughts and emotions. Yet the latent qualities and instincts seek to assert their own peculiar methods of seeking the foundation of things, of distinguishing between what is commonly called wrong, true or false. It is bent upon going its own way, since it is composed of the same nerves, muscles and blood, even as those who assume to direct its destiny. I fail to understand how parents hope that their children will ever grow up into independent, self-reliant spirits, when they strain every effort to abridge and curtail the various activities of their children, the plus in quality and character, which differentiates their offspring from themselves, and by the virtue of which they are eminently equipped carriers of new, invigorating ideas. A young delicate tree, that is being clipped and cut by the gardener in order to give it an artificial form, will never reach the majestic height and the beauty as when allowed to grow in nature and freedom.

When the child reaches adolescence, it meets, added to the home and school restrictions, with a vast amount of hard traditions of social morality. The cravings of love and sex are met with absolute ignorance by the majority of parents, who consider it as something indecent and improper, something disgraceful, almost criminal, to be suppressed and fought like some terrible disease. The love and tender feelings in the young plant are turned into vulgarity and coarseness through the stupidity of those surrounding it, so that everything fine and beautiful is either crushed altogether or hidden in the innermost depths, as a great sin, that dares not face the light.

— Emma Goldman,
The Child and Its Enemies

on the silence around COVID

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no fr

🦊 Doom.

You may not be a furry, you may not be into porn, but frankly, a state making it illegal to access either is just wrong

"Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history.

Revolutionaries have had ideals.

Lenin has none."

— Peter Kropotkin

Always remember, if any ML tries to give you shit about 4 “already existing communist states” (of which none of them have stayed true to communism), remind them that there are more than 8 anarchist demonstrations happening across the world right now.
https://redd.it/18uc5im
@COMPLETE_ANARCHY

Tr(ule)ing

Last year, we lost a beloved friend, Jessica Green. She was a weaver, a leader, a mother, a lover, and a revolutionary. For a long time our grief was too much for us to share. Please consider our hiatus as a moment of silence for her.

https://territories.substack.com/

🇵🇸 #Palestine - 🇮🇱 #Israel: Hamas fighter filmed ambushing an Israeli Caterpillar D9 armored bulldozer in Gaza. This footage is reportedly from Gaza’s Khan Younis area, where heavy clashes between Hamas and the IDF are ongoing.

Yesterday, during a protest against Argentina's new "anarcho"-capitalist president in front of the congress building in Buenos Aires, we saw one police officer wearing a "don't tread on me" insignia in imitation of fascists in the United States.

There's no such thing as "anarcho-capitalism." Anarchists are opposed to the state; "anarcho"-capitalists are just capitalists who oppose state regulation of the economy when it is inconvenient for them, but support and depend on the violence of the state.

Solidarity with those in Argentina fighting against capitalism, fascism, police, the state, and so-called "anarcho"-capitalists.

https://crimethinc.com/Argentina2023

Listen to Lidy Nacpil’s explanation of what is “Climate debt”

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1. Thé concept of climate debt is grounded in the fact that not everyone has contributed equally to the climate crisis.
2. It also acknowledges that everyone has an equal right to Mother Earth and the space it provides for everyone to thrive

So that if there are people who have exceeded their fair share in terms of the contributions they have made to greenhouse gas emissions then this people are in debt: Climate debt because they have occupied far more than they have a right to.

https://youtu.be/43DQG-C2A4g?feature=shared

hack everything 😤