ive said it before but please continue to boycott starbucks until they finalize a fair contract with the union or at the very least stop making their workers inhale silica powder for the stupid ass blended refreshers. i know a girl who was out sick for a week with respiratory issues from ts
edit: sorry for my phrasing and implying these r the only reasons to boycott. heres a few more
If you remember the "very demure, very mindful" meme, the creator (a Latina trans woman) has recently been attacked for asking for help getting necessary dental treatments she couldn't afford. This video is not only a really good overview on Jools and what she has been through, but also explains how billionaires avoid paying taxes, the importance of financial literacy and social connections in actually consistently profiting off of fame, how queer trans people of color create culture and others profit off of it, and who gets the brunt of people's outrage at "the wealthy" vs who actually has systemic class privilege.
Impromptu sociology lesson:
This video made me think about sociological theories of wealth as something with multiple parts (not just how much money you have), particularly Pierre Bourdieu. Bourdieu theorized different kinds of capital:
Jools’ main source of capital is her symbolic capital. As discussed in this video, being an influencer does not mean consistent economic capital, and it doesn’t magically give her the cultural capital of someone like Charlie d’Amelio & co. to fully capitalize on her virality. While her follower count can be seen as giving her some social capital, her followers are “weak social ties” which can connect her to brand deals and spread her catchphrase, but not “strong social ties” that she can actually rely on for social credit (for example, having been in an upper-class fraternity and becoming friends with future politicians and lawyers and investors who you can rely on). Jools’ stronger relationships are with her family and friends, other working-class people with similarly limited economic and cultural capital.
The ONLY WAY she can actually make use of her symbolic (& limited social) capital IS to use the fact that a lot of people know about her to reach out and request assistance. This is why to me it is honestly insane that people are yelling at her for asking her followers for donations because “she has so many followers!!!” Her making a GoFundMe and asking her followers to donate IS her using what little actual capital she gets from being influencer! Literally the most direct and logical way for her to get the necessary economic capital is to do EXACTLY what she did!!!!!
People conflate these different types of capital and because celebrities are people you are encouraged to be parasocial about and also feel much closer to us than the actual owning class, people take all their repressed working class outrage at capitalism and target it at celebrities who are very visible and who we are often meant to wish to be. People think that ANY kind of capital immediately means you have a ton of money, and also that having a ton of money means you are actually consistently rich or even in the owning class. This is what happens when you have a lot of people who have justified anger at the rich, but have ZERO actual framework for understanding how capitalism as an economic system and as an ideology works. And this is always how stuff like antisemitism has then gotten popular, because people are more interested in blaming their problems on a fantasy version of "rich people" that draws on preconceived biases against marginalized groups, rather than the ACTUAL wealthy elites.
oh i did NOT just come across a post that said most murders of transmascs are not rooted in anti-trans hate and are actually committed by other transmascs, we have lost the plot so severely that there was never a plot to begin with oh my fucking god.
does sam nordquist mean nothing to you people. does nex benedict mean nothing to you people. does brandon teena, lucas knapp and onyx cornish mean nothing to you people. this shit has reached breaking point now i am no longer asking for this website to start caring about transmascs, fix your hearts or fucking die. genuinely evil behaviour.
it’s funny watching people assume that mamdani must have used AI or something to be able to pronounce chinese tones so well, meanwhile i had a conversation with the pakistani man at my local store a while back and he proudly told me that being a native urdu speaker meant that he could pronounce pretty much everything and he once won a bet by immediately nailing the pronunciation of his chinese coworker’s name so no i don’t think it’s AI i think he’s just fluent in several languages that help out with other languages because that’s kinda how languages work.
I write to you with tears in my eyes. The genocide killed our provider, the one who gave us food and clean water. My older brother was our support; he provided food for us and my mother, who was suffering from cancer. My brother was killed by a treacherous bullet to the head; he died instantly. My mother's health deteriorated afterward until she died from the hunger and disease that ravaged her body. My brother, my father, and I were left alone, with nothing to satisfy our hunger or silence our gnawing stomachs
Denying that intersex transfems who were afab/rfab/cafab are transfem, or denying that intersex transmascs who were amab/rmab/camab are transmasc is just another way of denying that intersex people exist at all.
Oh hmmm you don't believe us when we say we're transfem or transmasc? Because you don't believe us when we talk about our experiences with intersexuality and see us as cis people pretending to be special, right?
They do not see us as intersex and ignore our experiences with intersexuality, because actually acknowledging what we've lived through would mean that they'd have to accept that we're valid as transfems and transmascs.
It is obviously transphobic and intersexist, of course, but it also just plain denies that intersex people are (shockingly /sarcastic) intersex.
its always 'sex-based oppression isnt real', 'afabs are always talking about being afab', 'you shouldnt talk about how your agab effected you'...
until you ask what defines a 'tma' trans person to a 'tme' one
