SARA MRAD Couture Spring/Summer 2022 - part 2
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Sokka heard that story before. Of course he did, the turning point of Zuko’s destiny, the single bravest and most noble (or stupid) thing he’s ever done. He retold the thoughts that went through his head back then, the repercussions… but he left out a single detail. And it’s that detail that changes everything.
I need to see his soulmark. Sokka thinks, heart hammering in his chest.
this logic is so irrelevant. no one promoting this sort of bill actually cares about this. they know full well that drag performance and theatrical cross dressing is perfectly fine and a type of performance. the stupid lists of plays you can't do is absolutely 1000000% irrelevant to the discussion.
And talking about this hurts trans people. I have well educated; well considered; liberal freinds who i had to sit down and talk through the ramifications of this step by step because they have no idea what its like to be gnc in this world.
This is so they can criminalize being trans in public without running afoul of any thin claims of equal treatment and discrimination. Thats the point. The same way they used the drug war to criminalize being left or black; they are criminalizing drag to get at an ideology and a people they want to commit genocide on; but can't openly.
Fascists do not care at all about the logic'd "gotcha" of the liberal thought. They don't care. They found a way to get the result they wanted (criminalizing queer people) and they don't care how silly they sound doing it so long as they have power.
Spare me these absolute miss the point liberal ass takes and talk about how now; anyone who is deemed too gender nonconforming and is even potentially in proximity to a child can be charged with crimes.
What kind of terminal theater kid Hamilton-brain do you have to have to see something like this and immediately think "WE HAVE TO WARN PEOPLE, THE PLAYS!"
The reason you bring up the plays is in order to sway some judge somewhere, someways down the line, that this law violates some form of free speech. This is why you bring up the list of plays - because you are hoping that the system isn't broken enough that somewhere in all the litigation and apleals, you will encounter a judge that isnt fascist-poisoned enough to see how much this hurts the entire entire country to let laws like this stand, and overturn the law.
yeah like i saw someone saying ‘who cares if it goes against jewish people’s religious freedom (to perform purim skits), this is about TRANS GENOCIDE’ and it’s like, well, actually, the fact that it specifically violates people’s religious freedom is fucking crucial. we all know this is specifically to kill trans people and that if it shuts down liberal arts and non-christian celebrations along the way that’s just a bonus to these fascists.
but the thing is also that states rights can be countered by federal protection and if a state law compromises freedom of speech and freedom of religion, at the same time, that state law can get struck down as unconstitutional.
so, yeah. it does actually matter that this law designed to kill trans people is going to inconvenience a lot other people along the way. it is important to talk about how wide-ranging and absurd this thing is. that’s part of the fucking fight.
Moreover, if the law is not equally enforced, then that itself is something that can be taken to court.
If a theater puts on Twelfth Night and is not prosecuted, but a trans person is arrested just for walking down the street, then the discrimination becomes obvious, and they have to say the quiet part out loud.
It also highlights for civil rights attorneys a way to select a model defendant for a test case that even the most bigoted judge will be unlikely to want to convict and that will likely win in the court of public opinion. A pretty cishet white woman playing Portia in a Shakespeare in the Park rendition of Merchant of Venice, for example. An upstanding professional who is putting on a Purim play in synagogue. A locally-respected high school teacher and football coach who screens Les Miserable as part of an AP English class.
Selecting a model defendant for such a test case is a longstanding strategy. There's a reason Rosa Parks, a schoolteacher and grandmotherly figure, was the one who the NAACP called the bus boycott over, and not Claudette Colvin, a pregnant teenager who was arrested for the exact same thing as Parks just 9 months before. There's a reason that John T. Scopes, a football coach, was chosen to test the Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of Darwinian evolution in Tennessee (famously known as the Scopes Monkey Trial).
A test case that involves a "respectable" cisgender person dressing in drag for non-trans reasons, like drama, would be a great test case. No judge in their right mind, even the most bigoted and fascist among them, will be able to apply to wave away the First Amendment in the name of child protection in these cases. This is exactly what our allies should be doing.
happy PRIDE i’m here i’m queer and i believe the land should be given back to the proper indigenous stewards.
Non-Natives reblogging this are great and wonderful
Please remember that "land back" does not mean "indigenous people are mystical elves with innate epigenetic wisdom of land stewardship and they don't belong in big cities," nor does it mean "non-indigenous people can't be farmers."
What it DOES mean is that "non-indigenous farmers should be paying the equivalent of property taxes to the native governments their land was stolen from."
It means, "there's a great deal of indigenous scholarship on sustainable agricultural practices that farmers should be taking into account, because indigenous agriculture was more advanced than European agriculture at the time Europe invaded the Americas and western agriculture *still* hasn't caught up in terms of figuring out how to produce equivalently high crop yields without compromising the ecosystem."
It means, "non-indigenous farmers should be in an intellectual discourse with indigenous agricultural scientists and indigenous peoples that still do traditional farming, figuring how to repair the damage western farming practices have done to the ecosystem."
It also means that indigenous peoples should regain the right to sustain themselves on the land according to the practices they want, and they should have free reign to perform their cultural practices and protect their holy sites, as opposed to the current model where if they try to honor their dead on public lands they get violently removed.
I absolutely love the language of my mother’s people
I believe linguistically the term is called Comparative Reduplication! And while a lot of languages have it, including many Indigenous American ones, Yoruba culture holds a lot of influence over how Black Diaspora and AAVE have been shaped. It’s a good video.
This is SO COOL thank you for sharing this!
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