If you can’t get someone’s preferred pronouns right, how can we expect you to lead a revolution?
“If you are reading this in the United States or Canada, whose land are you on, dear reader? What are the specific names of the Native nation(s) who have historical claim to the territory on which you currently read this article? What are their histories before European invasion? What are their historical and present acts of resistance to colonial occupation? If you are like most people in the United States and Canada, you cannot answer these questions. And this disturbs me.”
Qwo-Li Driskill (Cherokee), “Doubleweaving Two-Spirit Critiques: Building Alliances between Native and Queer Studies” (via nepantlastrategies)
Earth First! Journal Dumps Deep Green Resistance Over Trans Erasure
From Earth First!’s blog:
In light of DGR’s continued assault on trans people, with language and analysis that denies the struggles of trans-people and even goes so far as to deny the value, worth and power of their existence in radical movements, labeling trans people as somehow “not real,” or as Post-Modern manifestations of individualism, the Earth First! Journal collective will no longer print or in any way promote DGR material. While we don’t need to agree with an individual or organization to find their words or actions relevant for discussion we will not continue to include those whose core expression of values continues to promote exclusion and oppression.
We may continue, from time to time, to publish articles that cover DGR actions and philosophy in order to continue the dialogue around the very serious concerns that have been raised over DGR’s organizational values and practices.
We formally request that Lierre Keith look deeper into the issues effecting trans communities in order to understand the damage her attacks on trans agency and motivations have caused and will continue to cause. Likewise, we request the same thing of all DGR organizers and furthermore request that DGR create gender inclusive workshops at future DGR gatherings.
After being kicked out of DGR for opposing their anti-trans feminist stance, seeing what I knew would happen finally happening is interesting.
One: “I told you so.” Two: DGR doesn’t own anti-civilization theory. Three: We all deserve better than DGR in order to stop industrial civilization from murdering the planet.
Dear DGR, being anti-trans* isn’t revolutionary.
Sweet like sow sap: girljanitor: TAL9000: indigenous american…
TAL9000: indigenous american technology
I would make an actual blog post about this but I’m too lazy
but basically
people who are like “native americans didn’t develop technology that contributed to the world”
like, I don’t think people fully understand, those awesome foods and plants you guys found on these continents? yeah they weren’t just laying around, people had to develop them. they had to carefully over generations turn that weird little teosinte into the delicious and edible maize.
indigenous americans were so fricken awesome we invented corn, pumpkins, beans, chili peppers, chocolate, tomatoes, potatoes, vanilla, cotton, tobacco, rubber, and a bunch of other stuff. I N V E N T E D
people think indigenous americans were lacking technology because they think technology only means dead things made out of wood and plastic and stone. when we actually have been specializing in the technology of life all along
YES. And not just stumbling around, neither, muddling through biotechnological innovation. Folks like to forget that many of the meticulously-built agricultural laboratories, test gardens, and geoengineering sites where this research and development was done are still there centuries later. Not just careful breeding programs, but orderly examination of what moisture levels, altitudes, soil conditions, constructed microclimates, and planting patterns were ideal for these crops to thrive. They came up with findings whose brilliance modern agricultural science is only recently coming to understand.
Especially for the food crops, we’re also talking what are at this point worldwide staples that sit at the backbone of most cuisines that you love. Respect.
Remember that one time about a bazillion colonizers died needlessly of pellagra because they didn’t understand and refused to admit Native technology existed?
Remember that time that white people were all like “we’ve discovered the benefits of alkalized water! zomg!”
“I sometimes wince when I hear people - even longtime activists - complain that corporations are taking over “our” government, as though the government was ever ours in the first place, and as though corporations and governments are actually separable, as opposed to functionally separate components of the same machine.” - Derrick Jensen”
(via nothinbuttherayne)
“Humans aren’t the ones “transforming” – read, killing – the planet. Civilized humans are. There’s a difference.
It’s the difference between old growth forests and New York City, the difference between 60 million bison on a vast plain and pesticide- and herbicide-laden fields of genetically modified corn. It’s the difference between rivers full of salmon and rivers killed by hydroelectric dams. It’s the difference between cultures whose members recognize themselves as one among many and members of this culture, who convert everything to their own use…”
Derrick Jensen: The Age of the Sociopath (via auntieimperial)
![ryall-:
The six women of the Knitting Circle meet every week to talk, eat cake, and make fabulous sweaters. Until the night they realise that they’ve all survived rape and that not one of their assailants has suffered a single consequence. Enough is enough. The Knitting Circle declares open season on rapists, with no licenses and no bag limits. With needles as their weapons, the revolution begins.
A novel by Derrick Jensen and Stephanie McMillan: The Knitting Circle Rapist Annihilation Squad will be available soon! In the meantime, we have patches which can be sewed or ironed on. [x]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/56db790176d186819e259b56d3f9a690/tumblr_mjayhrXk5i1qcyvzwo1_400.jpg)
The six women of the Knitting Circle meet every week to talk, eat cake, and make fabulous sweaters. Until the night they realise that they’ve all survived rape and that not one of their assailants has suffered a single consequence. Enough is enough. The Knitting Circle declares open season on rapists, with no licenses and no bag limits. With needles as their weapons, the revolution begins.
A novel by Derrick Jensen and Stephanie McMillan: The Knitting Circle Rapist Annihilation Squad will be available soon! In the meantime, we have patches which can be sewed or ironed on. [x]
“Police in Eugene, Oregon, dumped six jars of pepper spray onto one environmentalist’s face before spraying pepper into the eyes of citizens who had stopped to see what all of the fuss was about. These police also used a cherry-picker to approach two young women locked-down demonstrating in trees, then raised the women’s skirts to spray pepper onto their genitals.
This is how our system works.
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Derrick Jensen, A Language Older Than Words (via pl-anteater)
“An act of violence will set the movement back ten years? Good, we only have another several thosand years to go, then. The existence of an environmental movement at all is an acknowledgement that something is desperately wrong with the culture. A healthy culture would have no need, any more than it would need battered women’s shelters or drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers…And ultimately I don’t give a shit about the health of the movement, any movement anyway. I care about the health of the landbase.”
Derrick Jensen on the inanity and futility of pacifism in the anticivilization movement (excerpt from Endgame Volume II: Resistance)
“When we realize the degree of agency we actually do have, we no longer have to ‘hope’ at all. We simply do the work.”
Derrick Jensen (via moonmilked)
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