Speaking from my lane as a trans person, there's nothing I want more than to tear this gatekeeping system to the ground.
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But I also know that GOP control is measurably worse than not. And incrementalism sucks but incremental steps forward are significantly better than a boot in your face.
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I have but so much energy. And any energy I spend fighting Christian supremacist bullshit just to *exist* in public is time away from my fight elsewhere.
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And don't get me wrong. I'd have to be spending energy fighting bathroom bills and anti-trans legislation cuz no one else is showing up for us.
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So taking that off the table just let's me focus my energy more on opposing fascist policies. It gives me room to breathe.
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All these manarchists crowing about false binaries and how we need more options, well, Tuesday morning we had two options cuz we hadn't done that work soon enough.
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But in Cville, we did that work. And we elected a radical black woman to represent us and speak for our most marginalized communities.
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So fucking miss me with the 'how dare you celebrate a GOP loss, it's not an anarchist win' bullshit.
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I'm a trans woman. I am glad that some people will on the local level breathe a sigh of relief, but no, i can't see this as 'revolutionary' or anarchist. It doesn't NEED to be, but i'm not expecting much change.
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I am neither saying that people shouldn't be celebrating because it's not revolutionary. But please don't paint this as coming solely from cishet white manarchist dudebros. I have very complicated feelings about it and would appreciate them being treated as such.
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As a side benefit of decentering manarchism, I no longer feel obliged to have a huge, unkempt Kropotkin beard.
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