As #HIV devastated the gay community, many turned to cannabis for relief as cannabis eased the pain, nausea, loss of appetite, and anxiety caused by both the disease and harsh antiviral treatments.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/marijuana-legalization-supports-queer-people-e4a009aa02a2?sk=c8efe30136068d7356d6e61e18863b64
In his foreword to Critical Romani Studies (Vol. 4, No. 1), guest editor Dezső Máté critiques the neglect of Romani LGBTI and feminist voices. The issue spans art, literature, and politics.
https://doi.org/10.29098/crs.v4i1.150
Full issue accessible at https://doi.org/10.29098/crs.v4i1
In Queer Roma (Routledge, open access), Lucie Fremlová explores how anti-Gypsism shapes queer Roma identities, using personal stories to challenge myths of compulsory heterosexuality, homophobia, and Roma sexual backwardness. @InclusiveLucie
https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367822699
#pride #pridemonth #intersectionality #roma #romani #RomaniStudies #lgbtq #queer #lgbtqiaplus #lgbtqiap #LGBTQIApride
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# Crowdfunding Genital Autonomy Collective tabling to bring Intersectional Genital Autonomy to Pride
We're doing public outreach **tabling at events this Pride season** for the first time solo as an organization!
We're entirely community funded and **do not want to be beholden to systemic grants**, so **we need your help!**
Any amount even a few dollars makes a big difference. 
https://www.gofundme.com/f/end-circumcision-support-genital-autonomy-for-all-at-pride
Your donation will help us create outreach materials like zines/buttons/stickers/etc, cover hosting costs of our free support groups, allow us to continue working on research, and advocating for intersectional genital autonomy for all.
This year we're raising awareness about a timely topic: **Hadachek v. Oregon**, a lawsuit challenging the female genital cutting ban to expand it to **protect all children** including **protecting intersex children, and boys from circumcision**.
We will share how it will benefit trans, intersex, gender diverse peoples and other marginalized groups specifically. TIGD people are uniquely receptive to supporting intersectional genital autonomy when given the chance.
Circumcision harms more than just boys, and Oregon is ready to stand for bodily autonomy for all people!
#genitalautonomy #intactivism
#intersex #trans #transgender
#CGM #MGM #IGM
#FGM #genitalintegrity
#circumcision #intactglobal2025 #intactglobal #hadachekvoregon #GAC #bodilyautonomy #childgenitalcutting #cgc #mgc #fgc #igc #genitalautonomycollective #genderdiverse #intersectionality #activism #oregon #pride #activism #lgbtq #genitalautonomycollective
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#YESquote: You Exist Too Much / Zaina Arafat - "It’s the idiosyncrasies of #culture that keep me an outsider & leave me w/ a persistent & pervasive sense of #otherness, of #non-belonging." #Pride #DiasporaVoices #Intersectionality #CulturalDisplacement
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Hey #leathercommunity, #kinkcommunity , #rubbercommunity. As I've been thinking about what's going on. We can no longer afford to "not rock the boat" and we must stand together with #authenticity in #solidarity for #intersectionality and show up for #socialjustice. Our existence is inherently political. Remember the poem, "first they came for".
Thinking about signs related to our identities saying that we stand with/for relevant causes under attack by fascism.
Too many people focus on the minutia of WHY someone gets detained by ICE. Were they here illegally? Did they break the law? What did they do wrong?
They legitimize the horrors ICE perpetrates by insinuating if a person has done one of those things, they “deserve” it.
No one deserves this.
My latest article is about why we undervalue disabled lives, but I believe the themes apply to all marginalized people.
This is a powerful moment for intersectionality.
A chance for us to work together & fight systems of oppression that have caused harm since the dawn of time
No one is expendable:
https://www.disabledginger.com/p/why-do-we-undervalue-the-lives-of
Gender identity, societal vs. personal:
My struggle with intersectionality
One difficulty I have with terms like “men” and “women” is that people have radically different conceptions of what those words mean, and those meanings have changed dramatically in the last 50 years. Growing up in the 1960s and 1970s, during a time when we openly talked about “liberation,” those terms were very broad, and we were trying to broaden them to include in “man”anyone who identified as a man, from Liberace to Joe Namath. Similarly for the gender term “woman.”
The concept of “man” that I learned as an adolescent and young adult included so much more than it does today. In those pre-intersectional days, with our goal of broadening genders to be free and all-inclusive, my spouse and I tried to raise our kids to be comfortable being whoever they were. We tried not to make assumptions about sexuality or gender.
When our eldest told us they were non-binary, I was so happy that they felt comfortable being whoever they are. But, it meant I finally had to dive into the world of intersectionality because words had changed so much.
So, while I still identify as a man, it is as a half-century-old, pre-Reagan, liberated man with a very different identity from what is portrayed by the media in our 21st century fascist hellscape as a “man.” In current intersectional terms, I would define myself as a queer, assigned male at birth, pansexual, and non-binary person.
Part of the reason that I enjoyed Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time so much is because in the future/alternate reality of the book, they had taken the broadening step to its logical conclusion and eliminated the words man and woman, replacing them with the word person, and the universal pronoun “per.” My difficulty with intersectionality has always been that it divides instead of unifying, it focuses on the prison of ever more detailed gender roles rather than on the liberation of defining one’s own personal gender identity and throwing out the concept of gender-related roles in society entirely.
I understand the personal and political realities that make intersectional identities so important for marginalized and oppressed communities and individuals. But I still long for a world where we can all just be the people we are, instead of fitting our identities into ever-smaller boxes.
This week is National Nursing Week, and yet we can do better in advocating for structural changes that empower nurses. Click the link in our bio to read the latest blog post written by our primary investigator, Dr. Tara Horrill, and her reflections on nursing week 2025!
#politics as a concept is never not dangerous. It didn't just start to be this year or the last. If it did to you, you might google "solidarity" and check your #privileges
# Hadachek v. Oregon Intact Global 2025 Press Conference
Please let me know if you find more news coverage on this. We at the Genital Autonomy Collective spoke about intersectionality at the Intact Global 2025 press conference and hopefully some of the news will also mention that. The Hadacheck v. Oregon case will expand opportunities for trans, intersex, and gender diverse people in ways that more people need to be aware of. Circumcision impacts gender affirming surgery options, and impacts our freedom as well, and we're fighting with the broader genital autonomy movement for our shared rights.
An excerpt from my speech:
"Genital cutting is often talked about in the categories of male, female, and intersex, but those categories are not distinct in reality. People inherently defy those arbitrary boundaries. Because of this, many of the children assigned male at birth and subjected to penile circumcision, or other childhood genital cutting, are transgender, intersex, and otherwise gender-diverse
... Circumcision, by removing genital tissue and creating scars, physically limits options for adults seeking genital surgery. This stands in the way of our freedom to make the choice for ourselves as adults just like it does for boys and men. We are working with the intactivist movement for our shared freedom." https://www.youtube.com/live/S4-Cva6dVu4?si=uO4-J9OzUMfypDZD&t=5127
With attention and advocacy opportunities the challenge is bringing, The Genital Autonomy Collective is in need of more volunteers to help. Please message me if you're interested in supporting intersectional genital autonomy for all children in Oregon. While we welcome help of all kinds, we specifically need help with: Graphic design, web design, contacts with press, fundraising, social media management, writing, non profit experience, academic research opportunities, tabling events, etc.
Intact Global is also looking for Intersex plaintiffs who have experienced Intersex related genital cutting in Oregon at any date to add to the Equal Protection Challenge against forced, non-religious genital mutilation. As well as trans plaintiffs who have experienced penile circumcision in Oregon to add to the legal challenge.
Please email me at Allie@autonomycollective.org if you'd like to come forward as a plaintiff or are interested in volunteering. If you're in need of support on violated genital autonomy or would like to help advocate you can join a group at our website: https://autonomycollective.org/groups.html
Alliana,
Founder of the Genital Autonomy Collective
#genitalautonomy #intactivism
#intersex #trans #transgender
#CGM #MGM #IGM
#FGM #genitalintegrity
#circumcision #intactglobal2025 #intactglobal #hadachekvoregon #GAC #bodilyautonomy #childgenitalcutting #cgc #mgc #fgc #igc #genitalautonomycollective #genderdiverse #intersectionality #activism #oregon #portland #pnw #cascadia
in my opinion, there are 2 key takeaways from 'white fragility' by robin diangelo:
1. racism is not an ‘either / or’ binary but rather a continuum &
2. the challenge is to accept and grapple with this truth.
full review: https://idealistatheart.com/white-fragility-by-robin-diangelo/
#book #books #bookstodon
#nonfiction #reading #amreading #read #review #bookreview #bookrecommendation
You can be both privileged and marginalized at the same time. That's because, you can be privileged in one aspect of your life and marginalized in another.
It's easy to have a "no politics here" policy when you are privileged. Everything is politics if you are marginalized
I agree overall, but:
>We have to stop letting our distractions that categories whether it be race, religion, gender, sexuality, and even political affiliation.
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>Together we are strong and the #oligarchs need us more that we need them. The real fight is the #classwar
Oppression is a weed that comes in many flavors. Class is but one. If we only tug on class, the garden is still riddled with weeds and will struggle to bear fruit. We've gotta tug on all of them, in unison, to be effective.
I am so glad that Activist Witch (Ysha) has shared this post on Kofi and discussed the importance of #intersectionality as it is crucial to not only #Activism and #intent for #witchcraft, but also to our everyday lives.
Many people have both marginalized and privileged identities. One doesn't erase the other for any of us.
We all need to stand together in #Solidarity
https://ko-fi.com/post/Intersectionality-101-N4N61CKBFA
@racebannon, I think this ties together quite well with your Medium article quite nicely.
The U.S. has become a fascist state. People are being grabbed off the streets and illegally detained, deported and disappeared.
Marginalized groups are watching their civil rights vanish.
Disabled people are fighting funding cuts, threats to healthcare and mask bans.
Tourists from Canada, the UK and Germany been detained for weeks without any form of due process.
It is no longer a safe place. Stop traveling there. Stop vacationing there. Stop looking the other way and get radicalized. Get involved. Find ways to resist.
Whatever happens, don’t tell people to “just leave”. People are trapped. It costs money, time and resources that most don’t have to be able to relocate. Many countries would take you if you’re disabled or trans. Leaving is NOT the answer.
We have to recognize this as a powerful moment of intersectionality and work together to save as many lives as we can.
There are more of us than there are of them.
Also don’t be afraid to take breaks. You don’t need to be informed 24/7. You don’t need to fight every battle. Rest and recharge when needed.
And please wear a mask. It’s much easier to resist when you have your health. Include disabled people in the resistance effort. We have so much to offer. Don’t leave us behind.
Aha!
These ‘48 laws of power’ could go some way to explaining why autistics don’t do very well socially 
(From the bestselling '48 laws of power’ by Robert Greene)
Published in the special issue "Negotiating One’s Place in the #Mountains" (2024):
"Reflections on the Conditions of White, Straight, Male and Upper-Middle Class Normativity in the #RockyMountains (USA)"
> The text proposes avenues of reflection in an attempt to identify the mechanisms by which the hegemony of a normative white, straight, male and upper-middle class body is constituted in the historic place of the #WildWest myth.
New in our electronic #collection:
Belonging and #Identity in #STEM #HigherEducation
https://uclpress.co.uk/book/belonging-and-identity-in-stem-higher-education
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