Insisting that "queerness is not a mental illness" has been one of the biggest mistakes that has been done in the fight for queer liberation and it set liberation back massively.

It justified mental illness as a concept, and thus justified the colonization of the mind and left the door open for the colonization of the body through that, a massive blocker for anybody trying to access care (but especially trans people).
It accepted a view of the mind and body that is not grounded in autonomy, but colonial practice.
Mental illness as such doesn't exist, there are self-desired and self-undesired mental states and it is on us to choose which once we want and which once we don't, altering them with whatever practice and tool we see fit.
But what racial-class paternalism instead creates in the world right now is a colonial hierarchy of not-self desired mental states, connected to the concept of whiteness and measured by how productive one can be. This is what the statement "queerness is not a mental illness" supports.
This of course also ends up driving a fundamental rhetorical wedge between queer liberation and mad liberation, since it puts queer liberation solely in the the realm of assimilation and rejects any notion of an anti-colonial view of the world.
It puts limiters of how far the abolition of ableness (and through that whiteness) can go.

In the end "queerness is not a mental illness" is a saneist, assimilationist, pro-whiteness and pro-colonial statement.

Queerness is a mental illness in that it goes against what neurocolonizers see an acceptable mental state to be, it is a disablility since it goes against the expectations set by colonialist structures. And if we don't accept that, we will never be able to get queer liberation.

Pride walk: Anti-colonial block

De Dam (Monument), Amsterdam, zaterdag 19 juli om 13:00 CEST

FiTe QLuB, Baque Flamingo (source)

Pride is a protest! On Saturday 19 July we will march with many Queer & Trans collectives during the Pride Walk in Amsterdam. We want to form a radical decolonial block that speaks up about the injustice that is happening in Palestine, Sudan, Congo and many other Global Southern countries in the world.

Together with our friends, lovers and community we want to make the Pride Walk political. There is no celebration in gen0cide. There is no joy in police brutality. There is no Pride in borders and nations. Come and join us.

Meeting point: Monument at the Dam

Meeting time: 13:00 o'clock

Meeting day: Saturday 19 March.

https://acties.todon.nl/event/pride-walk-anti-colonial-block

Estados Unidos gasta más que nadie en guerras (74% del presupuesto militar mundial), mientras que el Sur Global crece freneticamente. China lidera en 57 de 64 tecnologías clave, Estados Unidos sólo en siete.

Los BRICS+ y el comercio Sur-Sur se dispara a medida que las naciones abandonan el dominio del dólar. Desde los golpes antifranceses de Burkina Faso hasta el reurgir de la izquiera en América Latina, las naciones se sacuden el dominio occidental.

https://thetricontinental.org/es/dossier-tricontinental-aniversario-sur-global-soberania/

#SurGlobal #antifa #foreverwars
#powerviolence #brics #trump2
#iceraids #immigration #racismo
#racism #racismoestructural #neocons
#neonazi #fascism #anticolonial
#anticolonialisme #anticolonialism

Content Warning: This video contains images of explosions and acts of state violence. Viewer discretion advised.

Israel just bombed Damascus while Al-Jazeera was live on the air. That’s not a military strategy — that’s fucking psychological warfare in HD.

Let’s be clear: this ain't some 4D chess by Netanyahu. This is just raw, unhinged colonial bloodlust. The same freak show who’s kept the slaughter going in Gaza, the West Bank, and poked at Iran — even when it pissed off their sugar daddy in DC.

Remember when Trump tried to cozy back up to Syria? Yeah, the Zionists just spat on that too.

They want you to watch. They want Syrians to feel the terror live. It’s not enough to kill — it’s about making people feel powerless in real time. That’s the fuckin’ point.

Israel and Zionism are a death cult — and they need to be stopped.

#FreePalestine
#HandsOffSyria
#ZionismIsTerrorism
#StopTheGenocide
#IsraelIsATerroristState
#FuckZionism
#NetanyahuWarCriminal
#LongLiveResistance
#FromTheRiverToTheSea
#AbolishTheApartheidState
#SolidarityWithPalestine
#AntiColonial
#SmashZionism
#EndTheOccupation
#DecolonizeEverything

"Any desire to raise our children in a non-violent way is simply an ancient call to return. To reclaim. To rebirth and to rebuild a community that no longer requires violence to feel secure."

— Carly Butler

https://looselipsmag.com/essays-columns/de-colonial-peophttps://looselipsmag.com/essays-columns/de-colonial-people-and-parents-will-change-this-world-if-we-let-them-we-are-playing-the-long-game-and-the-only-ones-who-dont-want-us-to-succeed-are-the-ones-who-want-to-financially-benefit/

https://jerseycounterinfo.noblogs.org/all-power-to-the-escapees-death-to-ice-and-fire-to-the-prisons/

All Power to the Escapees: Death to ICE and Fire to the Prisons!

All Power to the Escapees: Death to ICE and Fire to the Prisons!

Anonymous Submission To Jersey Counter-Info

A few days ago riots broke out at the federal ICE detention center, Delaney Hall, in Newark, NJ. Detainees faced increasing abuse and starvation from their jailers and fought back, reportedly setting fires and knocking down an internal wall used to contain them.

At the same time, Delaney Hall was swarmed by waves of protestors who slowed operations and drew the attention of ICE and other federal pigs away from the events occurring inside.

Protestors stood their ground and prevented ICE vans from entering the facility and thinned out the number pigs helping to prevent the riot from being quelled.

During this juncture 4 men, who were kidnapped and imprisoned at Delaney Hall by ICE, were able to make their escape from the heavily fortified facility. As of now, they are still free, liberated from detention.

Because of the brave actions of the individuals detained inside Delaney Hall and the protestors outside, 4 people were able to escape and gain freedom.

It doesn’t matter how fortified the state’s prisons or detention centers may be, how many federal pigs there are, what weapons they have to brutalize people, solidarity can and will WIN.

Keep fighting, by any means necessary.

“making an enemy of the Irish people is one of Israel's biggest mistakes”

by Deaglan O’Mulrooney in the spectacle on Substack

@palestine
@israel
@UKLabour

“when a genocidal state takes on the people who invented anti-colonial struggle”

https://open.substack.com/pub/thespectaclemag/p/making-an-enemy-of-the-irish-people

What does a kid hurling himself into the Mediterranean in occupied Palestine have in common with a Mohawk kid diving into the river at Kanehsatà:ke?

Everything.

Joy stolen between airstrikes.
Freedom found between raids.
Laughter echoing off the water while the land beneath is colonized.

This clip is from our next film, A Red Road to the West Bank — a journey of solidarity between Indigenous struggle and Palestinian resistance. Between memory and the now. Between all of us who refuse to be erased.

Watch it.
https://kolektiva.media/w/fFqz2GJRATXsfb4KTJqXBK

Share it.
Help us finish it: https://amplifierfilms.ca/redroad

What connects a Mohawk kid diving into the river at Kanehsatake with Palestinian boys leaping into the Mediterranean in Acre?

Joy.
Freedom.
Resistance.

This short scene from our upcoming film A Red Road to the West Bank draws a line between two colonized lands, two childhoods, and one shared spirit: claiming moments of life, even when the world tries to take them away.

Watch the clip.
https://kolektiva.media/w/fFqz2GJRATXsfb4KTJqXBK

Help us finish the film: https://amplifierfilms.ca/redroad

#SethRogan in 2020: "As a #Jewish person I was fed a huge amount of lies about #Israel my entire life. They never tell you there were #people there. They make it seem like it was just sitting there empty like oh the door's open! I would never live in Israel. It doesn't make any sense to me"

“As the saying goes, left-wing or right-wing, it is still the same bird… that bird is settler colonialism and its Eurocentric understanding of the world.”

https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/erasure-as-solidarity-black-peoples-unions-kieran-stewart-assheton-on-settler-left-paradigms/

https://t.me/AntifascistSolidarity/55843

If you have trouble understanding the left and right of politics then by all means come to this website and its easily explained.

https://politicalcompass.org/

A First Nations elder and #Sydney-based lawyer are taking the #government to court over the right to speak the truth about #Gaza.

https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/confirming-its-legal-to-speak-about-the-right-occupied-peoples-have-to-armed-resistance/

https://t.me/AntifascistSolidarity/55300

These are probably the most #based #Jewish #people on #Earth right now, #fighting from the inside of #Israel to give the land back to #Palestinians

#Traore
#anticolonial
#globalsouth

On Traore's achievements to date.
"Promoting pan-African unity and national self-reliance while surviving coup attempts, Traoré is positioning himself as a radical anti-imperialist and has drawn fire from Washington and Paris"
Traore: “Why does resource-rich Africa remain the poorest region of the world? The heads of African states should not behave like puppets in the hands of the imperialists”
His speeches are everywhere.

https://www.mintpressnews.com/ibrahim-traore-burkina-faso-west/289538/

15 years ago, a gang of anarchists, Indigenous land defenders, and assorted shit-disturbers took on the 2010 #Vancouver #Olympics and said: Fuck your colonial circus.

From chucking pies at politicians to wrecking corporate crap and smashing colonial symbols, we weren’t there to politely protest—we were there to disrupt.

I break down how we built an anti-capitalist, anti-colonial resistance that didn’t ask for permission and sure as hell didn’t apologize. This is a firsthand look at how it all went down—and why that fight still matters.

Watch it. Share it. Remember it.

#FuckTheOlympics #NoOlympicsOnStolenLand #AnarchyWorks #2010Resistance #AntiColonial #subMedia

https://amplifierfilms.ca/the-night-david-eby-got-pied-or-how-to-successfully-organize-an-anti-capitalist-anti-colonial-anti-olympic-movement