Transgender Jane Morris

"gender isn't real" "money isn't real" nothing is real, it's all images and the spectres of reality, alluring as so to draw in the viewer, one might call it a spectacle...

One thing that is impossible to capture with Maslanka Symphony 4 recordings is the fact that by the end it should be loud enough to give everyone in the hall hearing damage, all windows in a mile should be fractured, the auditorium should be in imminent danger of collapse, etc. Now the problem is that at some point the microphones will give out on the recordings, so all recordings hit a limit on their audio levels and it simply does not get any louder. If you as a listener would like to recreate the experience of hearing Maslanka 4 live, starting at the choral section you should manually increase your computer sound output by a couple of ticks every 15-20 seconds such that when it ends you have permanently damaged your hearing. <3

Not just any flavour of riots, but these are race riots. People who were organising these riots should be treated, legally, as terrorist organisers. I don't think that will happen. They'll probably be prosecuted for more generalised categories of crime.

But treating these riots as terrorism would make it harder for people like Yaxley-Lennon to get funded for stoking up Islamophobia in the UK. (Yaxley-Lennon, BTW, is funded by his credulous British followers, but also by a range of bodies from abroad including a right-wing US think-tank, a right-wing Australian group and organisations connected to the Israeli government.)

But for the love of God, this fucking website is so annoying I am going to have to dig out some energy for this too.

If you are queer and white, whiteness is still operating in your favour. Yes, you are disadvantaged by being queer in this fucking transphobic, homophobic, queer-phobic society. And ALSO, you have privileges that queer POC do not have. You didn't ask for those, but you have them.

I was reading through the list of Fash who were brought before the court for going on these race riots, and I saw a pair of white men from Hartlepool, described as "partners" (living together, not business partners AFAICS), who went out fairly early in the chaos to violently vent their hatred of Muslims, refugees, brown and black people.

Yeah, white gays can be rascists and fascists too. They can go out with other white Fash and because they don't look brown, the white Fash won't immediately attack them in the same way they were targeting and beating up solitary South Asian, black and brown people on the street.

Congrats, white gay Fash couple, you got unearned visual safety from the other white Fash rioters.

Do you think they would have given a pass to a brown gay couple who appeared on their side of the line?

You have a visual pass that would enable you to move more freely through the current race riots than queer POC. You didn't ask for it. You may not want it. But you have it.

It's mostly up to you what you do with that. I saw photos of a counterprotest with a banner reading "Gays Against Racism", being held by (I think) a white person. Some people will take their ability to leave the house and travel ATM, without having to worry so much about being targeted for bring brown or black, and they will do that kind of thing.

But for the love of God, do NOT make your feelings about your own whiteness the problem of POC. Leave us out if it if you feel uncomfortable because someone is pointing out things like: white queer people benefit from whiteness. It is not our problem if you feel defensive about unearned privileges. It is up to you to figure that out, and if you can't do that in a contained way, at the very least stay out of our comments, mentions, etc.