Jess Mahler @jessmahler@wandering.shop

Autobiography of Sojourner Truth

Kindred by Octavia Butler

Souls of Black Folks by W.E.B duBois

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

Why We Can't Wait by Dr. Martin Luther King jr.

Autobiography of Malcolm X

The Mary McLeod Bethune Papers

Assata: An autobiography

My Grandfather's Son by Clarence Thomas

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

#amreading #books

Okay folks, I've been asked a question about managing needs and expectations in #polyamory. For future reference, as long as I have spoons and time I am always happy to answer questions for polyam folks trying to figure stuff out.

This will probably be a long thread, so hiding the rst behind a CW. Feel free to read along and share your experience/insights.

If you are new to the Fediverse and want to follow me, PLEASE at least have *something* in your profile and an #introductions post.

We were all new once, I get it. But I'm not going to accept follow requests from folks with blank profiles and no toots.

Give me some way to learn about who you are.

Logging off for shabbat. Take care all.

I just finished answering a question about consent when someone has a legal guardian/conservator/etc.

And the legal situation for folks who are considered intellectually disabled is an absolute *shit show* in many places.

It also varies *widely*.

Please learn your local laws! And they are shitty as most such, put some time into advocating for change.

Twitter thread from someone who has a better grasp on this than I do:
https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/1204576827618004993

I stand by my main point yesterday -- that Jews need to stand w/ other oppressed groups, especially including Palestinian-Americans. But this specific situation isn't a major ish. (Not a major ish for Jews or Palestinians, to be clear. Apparently it's expected to have no real impact and just be a show thing? I'm still missing info, so please reply if you know more!)

If you boosted my thread yesterday, please boost this as well.

Okay, so it turns out that the executive order Trump put out isn't *as bad* at it looked NYT didn't some shitty reporting and Anti-Defamation League has stepped into to say that the text of the EO is not a major concern.

Also, not just Judaism but Islam and Sikhism (word?) had been defined as races/nationalities by Obama-era DoJ not because we are nationalities but because bigots see us that way and target us as such.

For the first time in a while I get the P&K wordcount done early in the week, so Patrons are getting some fiction updates. If you are interested in #polyamory fiction, maybe check it out.

https://www.patreon.com/PolyamoryonPurpose

Just heard nesting partner say 'I am cooking all my flesh into leather for you.'

#gameing

The elites of nations across the length and breadth of Europe have used us, abused us, and discarded us so they could keep the rest of the 'lower classes' under their thumbs.

We've danced to their tune for a thousand years and more because we didn't know what else to do.

It's time we learned a new dance, with new partners.

The way to fight back is to *stop letting them use us to oppress others*

To say 'fuck you, *these* are our allies, these are the people we will support and stand beside'.

The elites *can't* redirect the legitimate anger at their oppression to us when we are supporting other sin fighting against them.

They can't say 'look, the Jews are responsible for your suffering' when we are there on the picket line suffering with our fellow oppressed groups.

But that doesn't mean we should ignore the threat to our own safety. The rising tide of anti-semitism and hate crimes that this bullshit will play right into.

And you know what? The best way to protect ourselves is *also* to support Palestinians and BDS supporters.

The way to fight back against middle minority oppression is not to butter up to the elites nor is it to fight back against the elites ourselves.

The right thing to do is to support Palestinians and BDS supporters. Not to fight the EO because it's antiSemitic. not to fight back because it indirectly threatens our first amendment rights (though it does)

But to fight back because /tikkun olam/. Because 'in every generation' we are called to fight for freedom. Because it's *the right fucking thing to do*.

Jews in the US have over a century of history fighting for civil rights. Time to fight again.

He is shutting down BDS supporters because by naming being Jewish a nationality, he makes attacking Judaism or Israel a hate crime under the Civil Rights act.

At the same time, he frames Jews as /not American/. If Judaism is a nationality, we are not *really* American, we don't *really* belong here. He is making our safety that much more precarious, waving the stick at the middle minority going 'you want me to stay on your side, don't piss me off'

At the same time, the elite makes sure the middle minority knows it has a target painted on it. That it will not just prosper, but *survive* only so long as it keeps the elites happy. Which gives the elites leverage to use to force the middle minority to aid in the oppression of other groups.

In this case, trump is framing the EO such that he is able to claim that his oppression of Palestinians is for the purpose of *protecting* Jews.

The 'middle minority' is a relatively privileged (but still oppressed) group who is set between the elites and the majority of the oppressed people of a country. When the people reach a point of being ready to fight back against oppression, the elites manipulate the situation to direct the anger against the middle minority, who are attacked, killed, driven out, etc

The rest of this thread is going to be some analysis, largely from a #Jewish perspective because, well, that's my perspective, so that's what you get.

If anyone knows of analysis from a #Palestinian perspective, please link in replies or @ me so I can boost.

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Okay, this is straight out of the middle-minority play book. If you aren't familiar, middle-minority is a tactic used by elites to set two oppressed groups against each other

This executive order is a direct attack on the rights of Palestinians and their supporters. I don't know what can be done to fight back against it, an EO is a very different thing from legislation and the President is usually the final authority.

But if anyone knows a way to fight back or any Palestinian groups that are organizing against this, please reply to this thread.

#racism