I'm kinda wondering how interested financially the community is in supporting more open alternatives to services. Like especially if you got breakdowns on how money was spent in some sort of monthly or quarterly email.
That taking time to remember Joyce Feinberg, Richard Gottfried, Rose Malinger, Jerry Rabinowitz, Cecil Rosenthal, David Rosenthal, Bernice Simon, Sylvan Simon, Daniel Stein, Melvin Wax, Irving Younger would always have to be set against the flood of costumes and candy. That grief would be made surreal by another capitalist season of fun and play.
I won't go on the history of how the fediverse has treated its Blk & WOC on here bc we know.
I think a big problem is that the femmes I know, are unapologetic, proud & strong in their Blackness/Indigeneity & Latinidad. This space was meant to be the space where we could all celebrate our id's without repression from the general social constructs that tell us to be ashamed.
And most of us femmes on here? We're not here to be a manic pixie colored sidekick
using my birthday platform to say that its super rude to ask people to cw text posts and you should just filter stuff if it bothers you that much instead of essentially telling people to shut up
@greatjoe It's not necessarily about her, but what she represents.
She's a white woman taking on the EVIL ANGRY VIOLENT BLACK GUY.
It doesn't matter that she's the instigator of all of it because people will latch onto that narrative because that's what white people are taught to believe.
I've been consistent about this from day one: you come at my people unprovoked, I'm going to deal with you. Fuck trying to understand people that want to harm me or my people.
There's plenty of room for us to talk and compromise and all that good stuff.
But there will be no compromise or negotiation as long as folks are actively trying to harm my community.
My desire to build healthy spaces does not include taking people shit because they feel like tossing it out.
The amount of harassment I've received from a single white woman user that has admitted to targeting me and is still allowed to be here on the fediverse says enough about the whiteness problem. And how white womanhood is protected always.