work in progress website in progress: but anyway, my name is francis and i am at least 1/16th of the sunkern-plus system. i am a white tme epicene polygender (specifically epicene/collgender bigender as francis laine, and epicene/pxngender bigender as francis george) autistic, adhd obsessive compulsive, possibly borderline, median system.
the body is 27 years of age. we are alterhuman: currently, i, francis laine, have quite a few fictionkin-related types that i might make an ordered list of in categories, as well as multiple endel (dan hibiki, my icon, is one of the main ones), and multiple psychological otherkin, though some are a combination of spiritual, endel, and altercast. i am a quoisexual schrosexual grey aromantic quoiromantic otherwise unlabeled person who feels some connections distantly to the bi and pan labels yet not quite.


NireBryce
@NireBryce

this pride I'd like to see less nationbuilding of community and more the realization that it's a coalition and you can't flatten it.

I've been on about this before so I won't bore people, but like, seeing especially the NGOs moving to homogenize us the last four or so years is very interesting because it's basically for marketing reasons, and I think a lot about how especially newer-to-the-movement people haven't realized that while trying to make their activism like, trying to Build A National Identity That Flattens Many Disparate Cultures But For Queer Things.


IkomaTanomori
@IkomaTanomori

Embrace your hyper local queer communities.

Like actually go give hugs to your local queers if they're okay with that. Do ask first unless you know them really well.


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I don't know how anyone these days could think assimilation would work, even if it's into a different thing.

calls for unity somehow never mean unity in the coalition compromise sense, or the minorities-in-minorities-must-still-be-elevated-within sense

also the plain old problem of people who arent infiltrating but are highly liberalized and have no incentive or intention to ever examine that

these people are given the benefit of the doubt for "still learning" and allowed to occupy positions formal and informal that let them do great harm to persons and causes

it is adjacent at least to the problem of moneyed larpers acting in extractive ways with the people around them

i was told years and years of personal stories in movement spaces, the most horrible shit included, on top of what is publicly documented. i managed to get
jaded while being increasingly isolated. how sad is all of this?

for me it comes down to trust, we gotta start choosing to win sounds cheesy, but we keep failing a prisoners dilemma at the first step every time. because we do not trust each other with our needs, we lose. it is the responsibility of those with a social power to protect those who are menaced by that social power. what else is isolation and atomization? what else is necessary for exploitation to continue?

you can see why i have joked about starting a warrior cult in the past, that seems WAY simpler than this nonsense. why figure out who you can trust online when you can have blooded warrior siblings seeking the mysteries of the riddle of steel ("why do cop cars burn") etc etc

but in, you know, minecraft, because i can barely walk rn 🫠

that's what happens when the schools are targeted by the side that wants people ignorant, yeah. the people who don't hate you, tend to drag things down.

until they learn. But we have no actual community structure that allows for onboarding, so the learning doesn't happen ever because it never occurs to people taught those things.

but also? there's a lot of infiltration in the sense no one thinks about -- NGOs that only exist as paid jobs if they keep showing they're doing their purpose and so insert themselves everywhere, careerist politicians and organization leaders looking for cred, etc.

but people keep giving them important roles instead of scut work, because they defer to false authority and credentials -- even people who've been in movement for a long time and call themselves anarchist, at times. It's hard to un-train people after years of it. COVID helped; people seeing the CDC and gov response. But not as much as I had hoped.

for me one of the scariest parts of the pandemic is and always has been how revealing it is of the priorities of people around me.

ah. we are in an actual life or death situation and i cant trust a whole lot of people to even try. i live in a new world now. every few weeks for the forever time we live now