r/AccessibleAnarchy

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Apart from the ableism, this is a massive reason why everyone should be against wage labor. If you need your labor measured to get resources, how is that not going to be skewed towards oppressors who pretend they live in a vacuum?

a post by @ma1ybe that says "my classmate in med school studies for seven hours every evening and exercises daily. I used to ask him how did he manage it & he said, 'I'm very disciplined'. I met his wife yesterday. she told me how she cooled him three fresh meals daily, mowed their lawn, ran all errands, cleaned the house weekly, and handled all social plans. It made me wonder how many times 'discipline' means a woman doing all of the other essential work that keeps a life going"

u/East_Bridge_1739 — 20 hours ago

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biology isn't a binary, and models aren't reality. Saying that sex is reality is like saying the dictionaries tell us how language should be used. Sex is nothing but the model of applying the gender binary to the body, and right wingers clearly know this and use it.

A tweet of the text "Transmisogyny is the fact that I'd be arrested for showing "female" breasts in public, but then put into a men's prison because I'm "not a woman". Trans women are only considered women when it justifies more harm. We are never considered women when it would protect us from harm." This was posted december 5th 2018 and has 4.5k retweets and 16.6k likes.

u/GloomyGal13 — 22 hours ago

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Your lack of consumption could be helpful, but it will never outweigh the systematic destruction of the environment done by capitalism. The only way we stop this is by organizing, and so that should be your main focus. Please stop focusing on your consumption so much, its not that important

A tweet from vive con propòsito with a picture of an huge armored boat with the caption "The cost of filling the tank of this $300 million armored megayacht is $1.2 million" and a response from Shafeeq @Y2SHAF that says "It's ok. I brought my reusable bag to the store today so it completely balances this out."

u/RosethornRanger — 18 hours ago

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Disabled people as a class are not privileged or oppressors just because some of us get the support we need. Even in the best case, this support is conditional and systems are still not built around us. Our oppression is only stopped by things such as free access to resources

A Tumblr post by paranormal-paracosm that says "holds you by the shoulders. You are not jealous of disabled people with higher support needs. You are jealous of disabled people with better families and higher class status. Do not conflate the two

u/RosethornRanger — 20 hours ago

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One incredibly difficult part of this is how hard it is to find people who both like how you look and don't fetishize you, especially when people outside your class cannot tell the different and keep bringing those people who fetishize you closer.

A tumblr post by VisGrapplingHooks posted 1 day ago that says "women will be sexualized and objectified for particular attributes of themselves in ways that intersect with other hierarchies, the intersectionality of exoticism is an understated part of patriarchal sexism. fat girls will be fetishized for being fat, asian girls will be fetishized for asian features, fat asian girls will be fetishized for both of these things. non-op trans women will be fetishized for having penises, post-op trans women will be fetishized for simply having trans identity. there is no escaping and no way out because the common thread here is that all intersections are subsumed into the commodity form of womanhood. fem beingness is collapsed into a body-identity-commodity."

It has the tags "#intersectional feminism #feminism #'women' is a stand-in for fems as a social concept #the being-ness of womanhood is to be collapsed into the body-identity-commodity"

u/RosethornRanger — 19 hours ago

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I would like to remind yall that the united states is currently in the middle of a fascist dictatorship as well as an open genocide. It will never feel like a correct or good time to fight, you will not get a recruitment letter and be told "the revolution is here". There is only what you do now

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A tweet by lovable /liberal and his Old English sheep that says "It now appears that some ICE agents are stealing from people they're arresting. This agent was photographed with a gold bracelet he took off a man in Minnesota. Your thoughts?" and a response from kelly @broadWayBabyTo that says "The Nazis did this as well. They would steal the belongings from Jewish people as they loaded them on trains to the camps. Disgusting seeing it happening again." with a picture of an ICE agent with a large gold chain.

u/RosethornRanger — 2 days ago

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"we need to be pragmatic we don't live in a utopia... that's why you need to vote!": what does it mean to be pragmatic?

A classic longpost from yours, truly.

I do think there is a bit of a "voting does literally nothing" that anarchists do which annoys me because it's factually untrue, but doing very little is still in fact doing something. Anarchists doing this, however, pales in comparison to how much liberals overstate the value of a vote. Also, depending on where you are and what you're voting on, an individual vote can in fact have greater policy impact. The larger scale a vote is the more its outcomes are abstracted from policy. But at the same time... in the places where voting is most effective, public policy campaigning and petitioning is often more effective, while in the places where voting is least effective, public policy campaigning and petitioning is still far more effective. As a matter of tactical resource management, you are simply wasting time diverting resources towards voting. Even if you are not an anarchist, even if you are literally just a social democrat who likes vaguely progressive policy, you are still more likely to get those things through public policy campaigning, petitioning, meeting directly with politicians, holding public rallies and getting media attention, etc.

The reason conservatives in the US get so many book bans through schools is not because of who gets elected senator or appointed governor, it's because evangelical moms are showing up to every single city council meeting and school board meeting. They literally have coordinated campaigns to try to shape local, mid-level, and high-level policy in ways socdems and progressives seem to just... not. They're not even good at effectively navigating the state apparatus they fucking support. The most you get is "write to your local congressman" and then you get a premade email template link to send an email with despite congressperson staff reporting that those emails pretty much do nothing, though they note that their daily/weekly reports on phone calls do actually seem to have a big of sway. They know nothing about their systems then blame people for not doing the least effective by the books way to effect change in said system.

This isn't even about January 6th, this is about fully above-the-board action from organizations like Turning Point USA and Moms for Liberty. I was only recently that liberals learned that you could be a nuisance to the conservative legal system by inundating it with lawsuits and actually manage to block ICE officers for like a month (technically better than nothing and probably has actually saved lives) and who fucking knows how long that trend will last once another democrat takes the white house.

So, even within the system, the most pragmatic political option is not the vote. Politicians are humans and are thus far more susceptible to human connection than data sheets. They can speculate endlessly about why their polls or voting numbers go up or down, but a special interest group or a rally getting media attention connect the political message directly to the action in a way voting simply never will, because voting dissociates your actions from the political goals you want to communicate.

Being an anarchist isn't about ignoring the systems that surround us. We do, in fact, have to navigate them. Don't kill yourself to vote, if you can't find people to watch your kids while you vote then their safety takes priority, if you're immunocompromised and can't go to the ballot box for fear of getting COVID, then stay home. Vote if you want, but don't hedge your bets on it. No matter what political action you take within a state apparatus, it can always be undone if they want to undo it, so even for the other non-voting actions, don't hedge your long-term bets on it, either. Harm reduction is important, but do so in a way that's efficient and saves your energy for the things and people in your life that actually matter, and it's certainly not a long-term fix. You can't count on the people oppressing you who stopped doing so not to start up again as soon as another election happens.

There are pragmatic things you can do even beyond this level of political engagement: stuff like community gardening and local housing accommodation (including opening your home to people in need of it), community kitchens, etc. reduce the amount that people rely on those systems and are thus less susceptible to collapsing if the state apparatus is taking a rightward shift. You can get into stuff like mesh networking and decentralized, less-traceable communication so that vulnerable people are less easy to track and target by the state. You can ensure that you always, always record all your interactions with any officer of the law to ensure that it's all public. You can engage in public communications as a propagandist (kinda dirty word but I just mean anyone communicating political messaging to the public) and the shift of public opinion makes it harder for fascists to get away with things.

Voting isn't inherently pragmatic. Pragmatism is about maximizing impact, minimizing collective drain, and preventing burnout to ensure sustainability. Election campaigns have disproportionate ratios of effort to impact, drain huge collective resources, and lead to major burnout for the most politically passionate participants. Don't fall for phony pragmatism.

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u/GrapplingHooks_ — 1 day ago

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I often see these types of comments left on both. The issue isn't just whether or not there are people who like your kind of body, it is that with how social media works the opinion of the majority is upvoted and so seen a vastly disproportional amount. You don't get to see the people who like you

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A Tumblr post by eraserHeadAdult with two pictures of the same woman but the one on the right is fat, under the skinny version a commenter says omg she's soooo hot wow and under the fat version the commenter says "they look like they give good hugs" and eraserHeadAdult says "can I be real with you I'm gonna start biting people"

u/RosethornRanger — 2 days ago

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Gender under white patriarchy was born of race science in slave times, please read ain't I a woman by Dr. Bell hooks, and females by Andrea Long chu

Alt text: A Tumblr post by kirbyOfTheStars that says ">'mannish features' > look inside > literally just common physical traits among women of colour. you can't separate transmisogyny from racism. the radical feminism movement is so overwhelmingly white because their idea of what a woman is so thoroughly steeped in white supremacy." and a response from iSuggestRespectTransPeople "You can't separate transmisogyny from racism. Very important to remember"

u/Consistent-County845 — 3 days ago

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As an autistic person I can confirm, I have found no ways to communicate that actually consistently result in good faith from anyone other than other neurodivergent people going through the same thing.

A tumblr post by VisGrapplingHooks that says "you can know all the tricks for communicating as an autistic person and people will still take the least charitable interpretation of what you said and blame you for their misreading of your words, accuse you of backtracking when you correct them, and double down just to be shitty. no wonder so many of us are under the false belief that we don't use hidden meanings or implications when this is how we're treated."

It has the tags "#autism #actually autistic #neurodivergence #neurodivergent #there is no communication without implication #if you think you speak “directly” and have no implications you are wrong #but it's understandable why you'd think that way considering the Trauma"

u/RosethornRanger — 3 days ago

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I am not, and never will be a part of "the majority" when it comes to my identities, and I do not want to have to plead to them for my existence and needs. (Also, I have a short video on the topic uwu)

Two images of the spiderman glasses meme, the first has spiderman without his suit holding glasses. There is text next to it saying “Rule by majority” and the second with him putting those glasses on and the text “Cis control of trans people”.

video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fecrTAx9mQ

Alt-text and captions are available on youtube uwu

u/RosethornRanger — 3 days ago

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This is a lot of the reason why so many people are fighting against children getting access to hormones. Right wingers realize any normalization or social force putting the consent of the child as more important than their abuser will make it harder to abuse them

A tumblr post by yardsards that says "was doing a first aid course and it kept talking about how when applying first aid to a child you have to ask the parent for consent and how the child's consent is not enough unless you cannot reach the parent. and then immediately after there was a unit on shaken baby syndrome, and then mentioned abuse as a common source of children getting injured. and they didn't see the irony there. I later asked the instructor what to do about parental consent if the medical emergency was from the parent abusing the child and she was like 'you still need to obtain parental consent. you can report the abuse though' not even acknowledging how fucked the whole system is. I hate it here. youth rights now"

u/RosethornRanger — 3 days ago

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These types of lists are something that helps me a lot. With chronic pain I get really used to ignoring my body, and that means when things get worse it is often hard for me to actually figure out what is happening and why

Alt text: A tumblr post by the account by the name of Adhd-induced-happiness with the following text:

"A checklist of possible reasions I Am Upset, To Review When I can't seem to figure it out:"

-did not eat -new hyperfixiation and no time for it -have not done a creative in 24 hrs -Bad sounds -clothes are touching my body -cold -people -one (1) comment is stuck in my brain like a popcorn kernel -Last time I drank water was ?????? -Nervous nervous nervous nervous (In bold lettering) -got a Slightly Worse grade than expected -Last hug was ?????? -slept a full 45 minutes -Lonely....... -Guts are shredding (again) -have not seen sunlight in 24 hrs -stuck inside -too much screenitme -room is disaster area -have not talked to Person in a while -bored (In bold lettering) -imposter phenomenon (again) -no current routines -how long have I been working??? -Too Much Socialization

"And then. And THEN I may consider: -something is actually wrong.

A checklist of possible reasons for feeling upset, listing items like hunger, lack of sleep, missing hugs, and overstimulation, ending with the realization something is actually wrong.

u/RosethornRanger — 3 days ago

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Laws are not what is written on paper, laws are what is enforced. Many laws exist to make it so everyone is plausibly doing something illegal at any time (such as jaywalking). This means police have full discretion to do things like arrest anyone at any time.

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An image of a white guy cop staring at the camera with his hands on his hips over a pink background with the text "Look bud, I don't make the rules. I just voluntarily signed up to enthusiastically enforce the violence that they require."

u/RosethornRanger — 5 days ago

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A long, but good one. In essence, changing your environment is much more impactful on your life than using your willpower to power through things. Especially when you are disabled

Alt Text: Screenshot of a Tumblr post by ceebycee discussing how executive function aids habit-building, contrasting it with self-discipline, and describing the author’s personal experience with tooth brushing and neurodivergence.

The text states:

"Self-Discipline Isn’t Always the Answer"

"So I wasn’t really taught to brush my teeth every day as a kid. So I didn’t. I got to be an adult and realized “hmm teeth are expensive I need to start brushing them” and brushing my teeth twice a day has been on my actual to do list every single day of my college career. It’s a habit I needed to build."

"Have I successfully done it? Absolutely not. I’m pretty good about doing it at least once a day, but some days it just doesn’t happen. It’s not that I forget usually, I just had some aversion I couldn’t figure out, until last week."

"I’m at the grocery store, in the toothpaste aisle with my roommate, and I complain about how much I hate mint.

"I hate the taste of mint (In all caps) The taste and the smell, any kind of minty thing in any form, I hate it. (In all caps) But literally every “adult” toothpaste in the aisle was some type of minty disgusting nonsense. And my roommate was like “you know you could like get kids’ toothpaste? You like bubblegum right?”

"And yall, it was like the clouds parted."

"I got some strawberry bubblegum kids’ toothpaste. I brushed my teeth with it and it was a whole new experience. I have successfully brushed twice a day every day since, because the mental block I had towards it is gone!"

"I thought my lack of brushing was just a moral failing on my part; I was too lazy, too undisciplined, to build a good habit. But really? I just hate the taste of mint so much I didn’t want to brush my teeth."

"This made me realize that when presented with a change you want to make, a habit you want to build, if you're encountering resistance in yourself, you should lean into that resistance and really investigate what's causing it, then work on accommodating that."

"Say you hate washing dishes so they pile up and then you’re overwhelmed by how many you have to do. Why do you hate it? Deep down, what about it do you dislike? Is touching wet food super gross for you? Try thick rubber gloves while you're washing. Does the sound of dishing clanking together grate your nerves? Do them with headphones in and turned up loud. Do you hate the smell? Light some candles, spray some air freshener."

"Do these things instead of gritting your teeth and forcing yourself, then ultimately failing and getting discouraged by your “lack of self-discipline”

"TL;DR: When a task is consistently hard for you, relying on self-discipline, forcing yourself, and gritting through doesn’t always work. Lean in and listen to your discomfort, and find what makes the task hard, then try to accommodate that. Also, mint toothpaste is gross."

u/RosethornRanger — 4 days ago

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A tweet by the user 'madoka magicock" (@rifflexielian) that says "Terfs need to shut up about womanhood, my mom was raised to believe all women were less valuable than men and cried when she learned about trans women because the idea that someone would fight that hard to be a woman was radical for her and meant it was something worth being. This was posted 5:08 pm 2024-05-15 from earth and is at 52k veiws, 1.1k reposts, 17 quotes, 5.2k likes, 316 bookmarks. Underneath it also appears to be icons for a facebook post.

u/Only_Lecture4920 — 5 days ago

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Being a kid doesn't excuse bigotry, everyone who still gets nostalgic for xbox live cod lobbies aren't unpacking how they lead directly to gamer gate and neo Nazis

Alt text: A tumblr post by spiralMindz that says "white kids get to have quirky racist phases black kids don't get to be kids. Black kids get their lives stolen from them if they defend themselves from white kids 'going through a phase'"

u/Only_Lecture4920 — 5 days ago

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One thing I see a lot is people defining themselves as the opposite of whatever the oppressor believes. If we want to actually break the oppression though, we need to fight to be independent of it. You don't need to be more fem if you don't want to be

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A 4 panel meme of two birds talking to each other in a tree. The first says "I want to be a girl, but I don't like feminine things." The other says "your a tom boy". The next panel has the first bird saying "what?" with the second bird saying "being a trans tomboy is valid" The third panel has that first bird sitting there and staring. The final panel has them looking up and saying "what?" again. There is a watermark in the corner that says FalseKnees.com@2017

u/RosethornRanger — 6 days ago

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This is a good litmus test for spaces too. You can ask people whether or not they think children should starve, and the reaction will tell you so much about the space. For example, will they actually remove people trying to justify the starvation?

A tweet by Campbell Newman that says "It's not free. It's paid for by taxpayers. And why should people pay for the 'free' lunch of other people' children?" And a response from Roxy that says "Free lunches for children is such an easy litmus test. If you are against it. I can easily disregard anything you ever say and forget you exist entirely.

u/RosethornRanger — 6 days ago

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This is a good allegory to what it's like being in the queer disabled community. So much abuse has happened that a lot of people immediately think issues are their fault, or something they can/have to fix. It's hard

Alt text / image description:

A 4-panel comic with muted colours.

A person with neck-length black hair in a long white dress looks forwards with tears in their eyes and a slight nervous smile, saying: "right now, I'm in pain."

This person is revealed to be standing barefoot on a beach near the water, looking at another person with a long white dress and red hair, also barefoot. This second person asks, with a worried and shocked expression, "why?" "because of me?"

The first person responds "no, because of this fucking crab." while an orange crab is shown with its pincer grabbing one of their big toes.

u/RosethornRanger — 5 days ago