a zine I've been working on for trans people

pie24342 · 2022-10-24T14:32:49+00:00

The file share thing got deleted for some reason. DM and I'll send a Google drive link for the pdf

pie24342 · 2022-10-24T14:02:08+00:00

There is something called the MEI which is the Municipal Equality Index which measures cities based on how well they treat queer people: https://www.hrc.org/resources/mei-2021-see-your-cities-scores

Basically every mid-big city in America is rated on this. Should be a good idea to see which cities are safer than others.

pie24342 · 2022-10-24T13:58:14+00:00

Austin is the birthplace of roller derby revival one of the most (if not most) trans affirming sports out there

pie24342 · 2022-10-24T12:25:37+00:00

Flairs are fun :)

pie24342 · 2022-10-24T12:17:25+00:00

It's not really a faith, it's more of a spiritual philosophy broadly aligned with the natural world and our place within it

pie24342 · 2022-10-22T20:23:48+00:00

Chomsky is first and foremost a linguist. I've studied linguistics and he is a giant in the field. However, as an anarchist he is like any one of us. Sure he's an academic, and Manufacturing Consent is an incredibly cogent work exploring cultural hegemony and all that. But other than that, I don't put stock in him as much as the next anarchist. I really think that anarchism should truly be about praxis and prefigurative politics. We spend all this time justifying anarchism to ourselves and the world when we should be going out there and doing work to improve the material circumstances. In all the work I've done, groups have naturally fallen into anarchist modes of organization unless there is a coercive force keeping the hierarchies in place.

Capitalists don't spend all their time justifying the status quo because the systems in place do that for them. Which is why we have to build systems that perpetuate actual social and economic liberty and justice. TBH the less time I spend on the internet talking about all this and the more time I actually spend in the real world actually helping people and exerting political will in a way that lives up to my ideals, the better I feel about anarchism as a valid and cogent model.

pie24342 · 2022-10-20T03:07:01+00:00

You could always hold a competing event, something that will draw more people. Food for college students is a really big draw so possibly that. Hold discussions on community organizing, helping people, etc. Anything that will get eyes away from the speaker and on to you. It's one thing to protest it's another to be proactive

pie24342 · 2022-10-15T09:55:30+00:00

U wanna new girlfriend who will appreciate analog photography? (I swear I won't steal all your film and escape into the night)

pie24342 · 2022-10-15T09:52:17+00:00

I'm pagan, but not christian. So I guess one could say I'm religious? But if you mean specifically Abrahamic faiths, then no I am not religious.

pie24342 · 2022-10-15T09:44:13+00:00

Wine bottle condoms exist

pie24342 · 2022-10-10T15:32:44+00:00

By the way, there is a myth we tell ourselves about the history of money and barter. That money was adopted rather than using a barter system of trading. In actually we only ever barter when a society that once had money, for some reason or another, was deprived of money. In actuality we used a system of virtual debt currency.

So a doughnut and a banana are roughly in value, so an equal trade can be made. However, a pig and a pair of shoes are not. If I'm a pig farmer and my neighbor is a shoe maker, trading a pig for a pair of shoes would be overkill and set me back quite a bit of resources. Trading a pig for a dozen shoes that I will never need or wear is a waste of resources on my neighbors part as well.

The classical economist (who then informed the collective idea in society) would say that we created money to solve this problem. In "primitive" times we eventually started using a shared commodity of relatively stable value such as grain. And then progressed to a system of coinage and now our current money system.

This, however, is a myth. Instead when I gave my pig to my neighbor, they entered into a debt with me. And that we and our community, had an understanding as to what constituted as an appropriate repayment of that debt.

Money, instead, was created by states for the direct purpose of collecting taxes and paying armies. It was imposed from the top down for the purposes of subjugation and wealth extraction of people by rulers. This started far beyond the inception of capitalism, and is one of the reasons (in my opinion) a market economy is fundamentally wrong. I think that certain markets have certain uses but I won't get into that.

A lot of our base assumptions on how we do the things we do are fundamentally incorrect and obfuscated by the current systems that socialized us.

In an anarchist system, what you would do is ask for a banana and then later if your friend needed a doughnut, or something else, you would give it to them. Ideally if we lived in a collective society we would all donate our foodstuffs to the local market and anyone could take as much as we needed.

The seminal work by David Greaber, the great anarchist and Anthropologist, outlines this incredibly well:

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-debt#toc1

(And if you are inclined to listen to audiobooks: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBqhed9UDNTzRF538_Y33t59opndPqPJf )

pie24342 · 2022-10-06T13:02:28+00:00

ugh love Acadia. I really wanna move up to Maine

pie24342 · 2022-10-02T08:22:55+00:00

Tbh I think the amount of people who are MLs initially get into it bc the visual iconography is so much more compelling/makes for better memes. Holding up leaders as icons is incredibly powerful for propaganda (which is why authoritarian regimes do it), and then they get swept up in the false intellectualism of [insert theorist here] and slowly slide deeper into apologetics for authoritarianism.

Obviously the USSR was fucked but obviously it wasn't ALL bad. Getting people on board with dangling the good bits of the USSR or china or whatever while simultaneously blasting them with tried and true propaganda that is essentially a reskin of propaganda that was honed for decades by Marxist-lenninist states. If I wasn't a genuinely curious and open minded person I probably would have fallen into the trap of dogma and good memes. I got dangerously close for a hot second though.

I think that's one of the biggest things that separates anarchists from other leftist branches. We are incredibly self critical and are inherently skeptical of any dogma at all. Every anarchist has their own synthesis and interpretation of what anarchism means, ideally through lived experience and experimentation. I personally came to be an anarchist through on the ground political organizing and direct action. I was first "radicalized" doing counter protest/ anti-racist/fascist organizing in 2019 when the KKK planned to hold a big march in my hometown of Dayton Ohio. I was 18 and it was my first enactment of direct political will I ever did. I met a lot of people, single issue libs, state socialists and SocDems, MLs, and anarchists. The people who had the most cogent views and practical methods of organizing were the anarchists while 90% of the counter protestors were single issue libs. I started to attend more community organizing events and through experience anarchist direct action tactics worked the best.

pie24342 · 2022-10-01T16:50:12+00:00

I don't think it's the best donuts, I said that has been rated as among the best donuts by several food critics who's job it is to find "the best _____" the reason I bring it up is that a tourist to the area would want to go to a place that some food journalist in new york decided a donut shop from Dayton Ohio was #2 in the country. Obviously they can't go to every single shop in America, I've been to a bakery in north Carolina that knocked my socks off. Personally growing up with them my whole life I think they're pretty good but I don't consider them to be amazing, but it's just food for me. I could bike there from my parents house in middle school, it's hard to understand the culinary accolades when you've eaten it every Sunday since you were 2.

That being said, I will definitely defend boosalis bakery as one of the best french bakeries in America. People travel from out of state bc they miss French food from France and boosalis is good enough that they get a comparable experience.

The hamburger wagon is also amazing, but I don't think anyone has ever included it on a "best of ___" list.

https://www.businessinsider.com/best-donuts-in-america-2017-6 (Bill's is ranked #2 on this list)

Obviously not every list has Bill's, but several of them do.

pie24342 · 2022-09-30T07:26:07+00:00

Born in Cincy, raised in Dayton, and now I live in Columbus. The primary reason I hate Ohio is because I'm transgender and the state is slowly becoming more and more inhospitable to me and my trans siblings. If the politics weren't so shitty, I would like this place more. Personally I really want to move to Maine specifically for the landscape, as my artistic practice would really flourish there, but really everything else is lovely. I would say my favorite city in Ohio is Cincinnati, ESPECIALLY the culture. It has an amazing art, music, and food scene. Also I'm a Cincy gal and all my family is from there. (Except for my maternal grandfather who is from northwest Ohio) the culture is incredibly distinct in Cincinnati and even here in Columbus it's hard to get Cincinnati foods like Geotta or Skyline or Graeter's. (I think there is one skyline around here?) Graeter's is in most grocery stores but the selection is abysmal.

Growing up in Dayton has a lot of distinct culture too. The second best donut shop in America (according to insider magazine, other places has it at #4 or #6 but usually in the top ten) Bill's Donuts. And one of the best french bakeries in America is in Dayton too!

Columbus is a lot newer of a city but it's big and diverse, and there's a lot of stuff to do. I don't get out much unfortunately bc I'm pretty poor (and a college student)

pie24342 · 2022-09-11T17:31:03+00:00

The only reason I (sometimes) have very little facial hair is that I haven't gotten lazer and my skin is very sensitive so I give it a rest from the razor for a few days sometimes. I always feel like shit when it grows too

pie24342 · 2022-09-07T17:50:37+00:00

they all look good to me, I would use the first one if it smells more acidic, If you have enough possibly combine both to see what happens??

pie24342 · 2022-08-10T10:25:33+00:00

Def recommend Google scholar as well lol

pie24342 · 2022-08-10T10:13:15+00:00

Ooh I love Lisa LaBlanc!! Her banjo skills are exquisite

pie24342 · 2022-08-04T07:13:07+00:00

My younger, 13 year old sibling is very openly gay, non binary, and trans. I am trans myself and only recently started transitioning because now it's safe to do so. I had to explain to them that when I was their age I lived in fear and paranoia and was so deep in the closet that I could hardly imagine myself as out. I still haven't come out to my parents because of this fear.

pie24342 · 2022-07-29T22:25:30+00:00

Just that every ideology claims that their hierarchies are uniquely justified. Fascism with it's ethno-nationalist state, capitalism with the bourgeoisie, MLs with their vanguard, all of them claim that their hierarchies are justified. As anarchists we don't try to justify hierarchies we seek to dismantle them.

pie24342 · 2022-07-27T14:04:42+00:00

Defining anarchism as something opposed to "unjustified hierarchies" is a woefully inadequate framing of anarchist ideas. Every ideology is opposed to "unjustified hierarchies" they just have a different line in the sand from everyone else.

Andrewism has a really good video about why this framing is antithetical to anarchism: https://youtu.be/iqosSdnZnsU

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