December 2011
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Dysphoria Means Total Destroy
The last three weeks, every stranger I have come across has misgendered me, whether I’m femming it up or not. In the mirrored elevator doors at work my face looks tired, angular in all the wrong ways. With some unease, I recognize my dad in my reflection. Both my spiro and estro pills ran out today, and I’m flipping out. They’re probably going to arrive Monday, but they might...
September 2011
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We Would Like Not to be Dead
It must be admitted, we do not care about ‘the economy.’ Or, if we do, we find a certain thrill in watching the bankers and rulers of the world tremble as the cracks in their capitalist world appear. As the economy is collapsing, streets of major cities around the globe explode with defiance. England and Milwaukee draw some interesting parallels as the dispossessed and forgotten throw...
July 2011
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July 3rd and Civil War in Milwaukee
We enter into a war that we were already a part of.
The problem is not whether or not the taking, sharing, and thereby profaning property or the attack on the physical bodies of white people (in fact corresponding closely with value of the commodity of whiteness) is a poor revolutionary strategy. The problem is how to align ourselves with attacks on the social order while making our allegiances...
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We Now Hate the Word Diversity
For those unfamiliar with the story:
Hispanic News Network (an independent blog) with a fairly accurate accounting of events. One note: the composition of the group of victims was mostly white people. The demographics cited in HNN are incorrect.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (local newspaper) article
Local TV station WTMJ article.
To say that the events of July 3rd were unprovoked is partially...