Tag: Cisgender
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How Do You Feel?
I am starting to dread this question ‘How are you?’ because I have two choices: lie and I feel like shit, or answer truthfully and I feel like shit. This video by Michael Henry sums up the dilemma and loneliness of lockdown, and that dilemma. This time of year always has these thorny issues of…
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RC 321: Coronanation Pt 2: The Event
‘We’re In This Together’ the announcements lie at Poundland as the death/infection stats go up and even the Prime Minister has met his Karmic comeuppance after cutting the NHS and screwing up this whole pandemic affair being in intensive care. He should Corona Coco! I hear even New York are planning to bury the dead…
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Jonathan Pie & Extinction Rebellion
Let me say here – if it’s not been obvious – I support Extinction Rebellion (XR) and Greta Thunberg. I find the people who criticise protest to be twunts of the highest order – protest is nearly always good (fascists marching through black/brown/Jewish neighbourhoods or Orangemen doing same can get in the sea though) but…
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The Racism Game – Baratunde Thurston TED Talk
Amazing, funny and thought-provoking look at how racism is reported by Baratunde Thurston, but also how we can flip the script, and change the system by each of our actions. How gentrification and white (and usually cis/straight) fears lead to ‘drone strikes’ on those who look or act different, but that it doesn’t have to…
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Grenfell was no accident – middle classes and radicalism
Love this interview from Owen Jones with Frankie Boyle who speaks so much truth to power, about austerity, Theresa May’s failure-as-success, gentrification, and DUP. He’s right especially about Grenfell Tower, which was murder – corporate murder by neglect, although I’d argue the Tories just want the poor to die or go away and it’s more…
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I’m a trigender pyrofox
“I don’t appreciate you referring to me as a cisgender human male, I’m a trigender pyrofox!” Oh how I love Cyanide & Happiness…many thousands more to go.