Hospitals don’t have evacuation plans in place to care for fat and disabled patients in the most disastrous moments. TW: mention of “ob*sity,” murder, and general anti-fat anti-Black violence Earth’s climate is changing. Drastically and rapidly. Glaciers are melting; ecosystems are shifting; temperatures are changing and sea levels are rising. But what is perhaps most...
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The Slave Harriet Would’ve Shot: On Killing the Abolition Mammy
They will make you an abolition mammy for the sake of everyone else’s freedom and extract your sacrifices from your flesh to build the world after this one. After the abolition mammy is sacrificed, what is left of the world? By Hunter Shackelford I am the slave Harriet would’ve shot. I am the slave who...
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Jackie Hill Perry Cannot Separate Herself From The Antagonizing Nature of The Church
Jackie Hill Perry somehow thinks that she is separate from the anti-Black, anti-fat, colonialist nature of the Church. She is not. Days ago, an accomplished poet by the name of Jackie Hill Perry was invited to discuss her relationship to the Church and her sexuality by KevOnStage—a popular YouTube personality. The hour-long conversation between the...
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Instead of Posting Black Boxes To Your Instagram, Abolish Whiteness
While Black folks are being beaten, tear-gassed, and arrested en masse right now for protesting—risking our lives in more ways than one—white people are posting… black boxes. I have been organizing for a little over six years now. My first protest was the day of Mike Brown’s murder. Since then, I have seen white people...
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For Marginalized People In Georgia, The Fight For Survival Intensifies
In Georgia, stay-at-home orders are quickly coming to an end, but the conditions which led us to being quarantined are not. Governor Kemp recently signed an executive order to reopen a number of businesses in Georgia. In that executive order, he names that while few businesses are open now, the majority of them are set...
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Leaning Into Insecurity and Ugliness As An Essential Politic
I want us to know Insecurity as intimately as we know the marginalized pieces of ourselves: as valid, as identities, and as political. insecure[ in-si-kyoor ] adjective subject to fears, doubts, etc.; not self-confident or assured: not confident or certain; uneasy; anxious: not secure; exposed or liable to risk, loss, or danger: insecurity[ in-si-kyooredē ]...
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We are Witnessing The CDC’s Violent Eugenicist History in Real-Time
To this day, the CDC continues to refer to “obesity” as an epidemic, and has even gone as far as to say that fat people are at “higher risk” of contracting and dying from COVID-19. CW: This essay explores anti-fatness and eugenics, and mentions death, medical genocide, and more. Towards the end of February, many...
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Committing Harm Is Not The Same As Being Abusive
In conflating harm with abuse, we contribute to disposability politics and stray further away from a more just future of accountability and healing. This essay discusses sexual violence and mentions r/pe My queer parent, Hunter Shackelford, and I sit around and talk a lot. For hours, most days. At the genesis of our relationship, one...
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Affirming Trans People Means Caring For AMAB-Nonbinary Folks Too
Showing up for amab-nonbinary people means giving a damn about trans folks who ain’t got no interest in proving or performing our gender. In November of last year, I attended a rally coordinated by Black Womxn For, and hosted at Clark Atlanta University, for Elizabeth Warren. I hated it, and I wrote about all the...
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Surviving Capitalism Through The Protection of Community
What I learned from these two years is that capitalism is not something you ever truly survive. You are a slave to the world until the world is no more. CW/TW: mentions of sexual assault, gun violence, houselessness, and more in the following essay. Reader’s discretion is advised. I have written some very hard pieces...