...And the beauty of not falling in line.

Ya'll asked, we complied: the desirability episode part 2!

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The Episode:

Conventionally Attractive: What else does the convention govern beside attraction?

Conventionally attractive is just a euphemism for white eurocentric beauty ideals that white people themselves both control and regularly fail (and when they fail it, they shift the goalpost ever in their favor)

-GOP-1s/GLP-1s: A global "rightward" conservative drift coinciding with a boon in the weight loss drug industry, a billion dollar social media attention economy focused mostly on how people look and a concurrent decline in advocacy for Congo, Sudan, Haiti and the ongoing genocidal violence against Black people in this country may be revealing an uglier truth about white supremacy than once thought before.

Who has capital and who doesn’t all wrapped up in who is beautiful or not, another such binary created by the State

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This episode is dedicated to the life of Selamawit D. Terrefe, George Jackson and Jonathan Jackson. Rest in Power. Free Em All

Join us for a very special Black August episode with our Black Loves, the only two light skin friends we have left: the illustrious Deme Brown (she/her), Brooklyn community advocate, screenwriter and director (@Demegawd_) and Dr. Isaiah Blake (he/him), Phd, East New York BK all-day, geography student at UC Berkeley and writer (IG: @isaiah.iman.blake)

Questions to consider:

If desire is a matter of life and death, if how you look determines if you live or die and how you live and die, what are we going to do?

Since desire is currency the more you have, the more you the want the more valuable you are, what does that mean for our relationships, especially Black trans, non binary, agendr tgnc and queer people? How are people able to separate how they treat the people they are in relationship with and how they think about, view and in turn, treat others?

What does social media necessitate in terms of how we perform accountability and connection to one another?

-Interracial Dating and Partus Sequitur Ventrem

-Black Revolutionary Love

-Epstein Files and Noam Chomsky

-Sites of Return

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This episode is dedicated to the life and memory of Adriana Smith

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The episode (note, there is a 6 second breather in the beginning, don't worry, just breathe, we still here lol)

"Happy" Pride** with a major asterisks

No pride with genocide

Everything you are being told about Iran in the mainstream media is a lie derived from the same binaries that harm trans/tgnc and queer communities particularly us Blacks and whatever imminent fear you have of "WWIII" done already happened and/or is already happening in someone else's world and if you Black, already happened to people who look like you just 40 years ago.

Queer as in hella glitter and chocolate babies and watermelon woman and i am your venus documentary and diana ross and patrik ian polk and brandy full moon and june jordan nem and stud step baby daddies and allofthat and especially queer as in an unequivocal ten toes stance with the people of Iran and all oppressed peoples across the globe opposed to western hegemony and white supremacist colonial violence.

-Jojo Siwa, white queerness/white queer community only caring about the aesthetic

-love island bombshells and actual bombshells

-Skrmetti Ruling

IRAN (Israel is actually the only country in the Middle East that has nuclear weapons but I aint seeing too many tiktoks or NYT articles bout them)

-Van Jones saying we should support trump??

--Whoopi Goldberg and cross-cultural solidarity (she ain't lying)

-90% of Israelis support bombing of Iran?

-MAJORITY civilians killed in Iran but media is not reporting, many more have fled Tehran (capital of Iran)

-Iran, gender binary, transphobia and anti-blackness link

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Recommended Reading:

Closing excerpt from The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians by Noam Chomsky

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-Said another way, all the lies white cis men have told Black cis men about manhood (p1)--Happy Pride!

- They thought they found "aMerIKA" and the nigga they say "founded" it never made it to North America but fast forward centuries later and ya'll still believe it

- They said they descended from Aryans because the word had a ring to it, used to create the myth of a superior race but now they hate the actual Aryans (in and near Iran) and want to bomb them

-They named themselves Caucasian after mountains that they have no relationship to

-They wouldn't know an anglo saxon if it hit them in a head which would be virtually impossible for them to do because anglo saxons never existed...

-Misogyny, racism, transphobia and homophobia are a hedged of protection against their own insecurities (“I didn't get to be a fire engine when I was little but I’m a man tho!” head ass)

-They spend all night and day on reddit, thecoli, twitch and tiktok studying how to be anything and anyone other than themselves...but yet, we still believe what white cis men tell us a man is?

Okay.

Pride Episode! Happy Pride

-[ ] Ms Rachel

- [ ] Gentrification - changing NYC

- [ ] masculinity. Question for Black cis men: who are you!?

- [ ] Bernie Sanders on the Andrew Schulz podcast

What is masculinity if it’s not wielded?

Brooklyn gentrification on the heels of white settlers to South Africa being imported here

What does it all mean bro?

Goalpost of what it mean to be a man can be moved backwards and forward according to their agenda

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...under global racial capitalism and whose lives are seen as valuable in the first place? What makes a life worth living to those who decide whether we live or die? Valuable and worthy enough to suffer, to fight and resist said suffering without validation from those causing it. The racial capitalism episode part 1.

Recommended Reading:

https://antipodeonline.org/geographies-of-racial-capitalism/

https://ia801806.us.archive.org/20/items/AgainstInnocenceRaceGenderAndThePoliticsOfSafety/against-innocence-READ.pdf

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Episode dedicated to the memory of Sam Nordquist (Rest in Power)

Free Melissa Atwell-Holder, Rumeysa Ozturk, Mahmoud Khalil NOW

Free Em All

Justice for Momodou Taal Now

Alt Episode Titles:

There were no executive orders to ban sundown towns but there is one in West Virginia named Eleanor--wonder why?

What Happened to Black People Predates the Creation of Fascism and is Far Worse

Who Said the US was a Democracy?

When Will White People Segregate Themselves from Black Culture

Aint no skims at Walmart however...follow us

Recommended Resources:

PREA law: https://theappeal.org/trump-executive-order-trans-prisoners/

Carol B Anderson talking about Prince Edward County Virginia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBYUET24K1c

Treaty of Paris 1783

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Substack: https://lovetoballsholedo.substack.com

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"Racism and racially structured discrimination have not been deviations from the norm; they have been the norm"---Charles W. Mills

"White supremacy forced white americans into rationalizations so fantastical that they approached the pathological."--James Baldwin

Alt episode titles:

Hegemony, Iniquity, Occlusion

Dehumanization, Erasure, Indoctrination

We've been here before, we've never left. The place where a z*on*st and a n*zi can exist inside the same washed up, recycled shock jock racist tech magnate bureaucrat, use thee quintessential anti-semitic gesture on national television and be defended by the head of a million dollar anti-semitism watchdog org that mostly just targets Black people. Yes, even here: a place where neo n*zis came up short in Lincoln Heights, Cincinnati the first all-Black, self-governing community north of the Mason-Dixon Line, and got ran out, they shit took, their flag burned. The pork escort service was no match for Black love.

Happy Black History, Present, Futures Monf and 365 days of the year in my anita baker voice. Sending you all our tender love no matter where you are, what you are going through, whether it's genuine fear from a place of privilege, comfort from having felt a false sense of safety in the promise of a democractic administration or a delayed reaction to living under a Herrenvolk democracy, join us for the first episode of the year in our attempt to ease the collective anxiety with a little, gentle, reality check and reminder of where you are and more importantly, who you are, from the Federal Act-Rite Administration (with love).

Everything's going to be okay.

Know Your Rights, Resources about ICE:

https://baltimorebeat.com/know-your-rights-in-english-spanish-and-french/

https://maketheroadny.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/KYR_FLYER_ENGLISH-single.pdf

Shout out to the 'Nati, Stand Up--Dialing in from the Resistance:

https://www.theroot.com/welp-thanks-to-cincinnatis-black-community-neo-nazis-1851762684

Excerpt from Queering the Color Line by Siobhan B. Somerville

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...What we finna do come tomorrow?

...especially if the overseer of your choice doesn't win

...will you fear power or contest with it?

A hallmark feature of any presidential election in a racist country is the continued psychological warfare against the colonized, especially Black people, who, along with Arab Muslims, will be inevitably blamed, scapegoated or strategically pitted against one another in service of the powers that be, for no other reason than if we were to coalesce our efforts toward our own interests and liberation, that could signal the end of empire and all the symbolism, pomp and circumstance that they hope will keep us distracted and placated.

We are living in a lie, a constant paradox:

Black people are no better off from the open theft and profiteering of our culture by white people but appropriation masked as "multiculturalism" in the media is at an all time high and judging by the decreasing numbers of Black folks in physical public space in major metropolitan cities, is showing no signs of slowing down (if you can just "be" Black, why would you need Black people?). Record numbers of white people are using tiktok and other technologies to fine tune their mimicry of what they think Blackness is while at the same time decrying we won't be "replaced"; Vanity fair is publishing articles about the "radicalization of america's white young men" and giving a well known white supremacist a whole spread about how wealthy "conservative extremists" are calling themselves "anti-imperialists" in a fake populist rebrand while a privately owned newspaper is upset at its billionaire owner for blocking their presidential endorsement and also regularly publishing Israel centric propaganda around freeing the hostages when there are twice as many or more Palestinians held captive before oct 7? This is sometimes peppered with actual unbiased coverage of the genocide here and there (to some individual writers' credit).

The US says it is committed to protecting Ukrainian sovereignty after Russia's attempts to annex their land but not that of the Palestinian people...who also had their land stolen?

In 2021, Kamala Harris was quoted saying wars are fought over oil but in a few years it’ll be over water

Elon Musk is building what will be the world's largest supercomputer in South Memphis, TN in a predominately Black community and authorities there greenlit the project with no community input or oversight in a part of the city that is currently plagued by a water crisis, replete with lead and other pollutants. This is 3 years after the community started a successful grassroots resistance movement that stopped two companies who were planning to build a major oil pipeline right in the middle of a historic Black neighborhood. They did the bulk of their organizing during and despite of a Trump presidency.

European investors are buying farmlands in water rich areas, mostly in Africa and even in parts of the US to sell to areas that are water poor and dividing up last remaining farmland on earth to take advantage of what they call...

“Empire crops”

This has been happening under democractic and republican administrations. So again, what's going to be our answer? Will it b a departure from what colonialism wants, thinking about something other than yourself? What's it going to be after you slip that paper in that box?

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This episode is dedicated to the memory of Rashad Pridgen (Soul Nubian). Rest in Power, my love

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Intro: Fannie Lou Hamer's Credentials Committee Testimony (1964) for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party which she co-founded.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRCUUzpfV7k

Alt episode titles: Vote and/or Die

The Revolution Will Not Be TikTok'd at the DNC

Voting in this country was created as a means of giving those least empowered the veneer of control over a democratic system that was designed to be autocratic really and only with the interests of a small few white people in mind. And by those—I mean those constitutionally considered human.

The constitution and declaration of independence could have been written w the blood of Black indigenous and Indigenous/First Nations so much of it was spilled to birth the current system whose efficacy and legitimacy we all find ourselves in constant debate about online and elsewhere.

So yes ima think voting is the only means to achieve change or the most powerful change in a system that tells us routinely how to go about change and how not to go about change so that nothing will ever change, because if I stopped believing that, I’d have to actually do something more than what I’m told, I’d have to imagine, I’d have to create, I’d have to divest from whiteness, I might not make a million dollars, I might make a million enemies, I might have to go out after I vote and hit the streets and never leave, I might have to care about people the system has deemed undesirable and disposal

I mean that’s a tall order for the average person in a white supremacist capitalist society that works me til I’m broken and breaks me til I’m dead

I’ll take the fucking sticker instead!!

Is that how the song goes?

Join us for a special election episode exploring:

Electoral College Origins and Inexplicable Explanations for Its Continued Use 200 plus years later

Kamala Harris criticism - unprincipled and legitimate, misinformation and who it serves surprisingly, a critique of Harris is an endorsement of trump? The anxiety and fear around critiques of Kamala being co-opted and bastardized by white supremacists

People online defending electoral politics by positing that there are no revolutions happening despite the fact that current revolutions happening everywhere...maybe even next door.

- [ ] Mayamar

- [ ] Kenya

- [ ] Venezuela

- [ ] Cop City

- [ ] Land back campaigns

- [ ] Palestine

Outro: el Hajj Malik el Shabazz

"Democracy is Hypocrisy Sticker"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNfAFfu6VD0

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Alt episode titles: Somewhere Over the Chase Bank, There is Community and Solidarity

They Just Want Our Money, Not Our Pride: The Rainbow Capitalism Episode

Intro Audio Excerpt: Sylvia Rivera (Rest in Power) interview from NYC Pride 2001

https://x.com/ben_0207/status/1800675695661842651

Who does rainbow capitalism benefit most? Who does it protect?

What it is and what it is not

Who gets seen in rainbow capitalism and who gets left out?

What do we do without white cis het corporate crumbs? Will we be forced to rely and lean on each other, community, village and return pride to its roots as a riot, a protest?

Rainbow capitalism is racism, facism, the anti-thesis to queer. It's not the queer celebrities making millions from marketing to and profiting from Black and Brown queer and trans folks on the margins that are going to save us, just US.

If we are fighting for us to take back our resistance and liberation from the very apolitical, corporate, white pride structure. And we're fighting to liberate ourselves and to liberate one another, and we're doing so with a strong framework of solidarity, the question is not necessarily what's our responsibility, what's our response to anti-blackness, transphobia, cisheteronormativity, imperialist capitalism that attempts, with gusto, to pervade our movement and end our lives?

The Origins of Pinkwashing and its connection to the apartheid state of Israel

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Editors note: the podcast about the genocide in Sudan I referenced is called, Society of Strife, NOT Society of Destruction.