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magnusthrust · 17 hours
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gravityroom · 8 days
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juanitahass · 9 days
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bartrawlip · 11 days
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tahkawtistic · 11 days
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Hey, fun fact! See this young man? He was found dead in a forest. They chopped his hair off while he was intoxicated and tossed him in a forest. He was murdered. The media says there was "no foul play" surrounding his death, too. His name was Cole Brings Plenty, and he was murdered at age 27. Murdered. Stop covering it up. Stop lying to protect the people involved. They killed him.
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mikelitt222 · 21 days
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prototypesteve · 28 days
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Variants
Here are a few variations on that raise/lower calligraphy, colour-styled for a few justice-seeking and/or equity-seeking groups who I’m trying to be an ally and advocate for.
I’ve also attached a few black, grey and white versions that anyone familiar with blending modes like screen, multiply, add, lighten, darken etc should be able to tweak with their favourite pride flag, or their cause’s colours.
As always, image descriptions are in the alt text.
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astrid-delacour · 1 month
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Nex Benedict's attackers will not face charges for murdering them. It’s not fair! It’s not fucking fair!! THOSE GIRLS KILLED THEM. THEY INTENTIONALLY AND MALICIOUSLY BEAT NEX’S HEAD INTO THE GROUND! THEY MURDERED NEX. But they’re not being charged because Nex poured some water on their head. Because people like Nex, and me, and my friends we’re not allowed to be angry, we’re not allowed to fight back. We’re told it’s our job to educate them, and make allowances because it’s what they’ve been taught. Even though their beliefs and what they’ve “been taught” is what’s killing us!! I’m so cautious of who I come out to because I don’t want to be next. I don’t want to be the next kid who’s murdered and never gets justice because our society has decided our lives aren’t worth living. I don’t want one of my friends to be the next kid who’s murdered. I am terrified of just existing. Nex Benedict deserves justice. Queer kids deserve justice. Every queer person that has ever been killed just for living deserves justice.
Rest in Power Nex Benedict.
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yegactivist · 1 month
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Solidarity with Search the Landfills by Paula Kirman
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magnusthrust · 16 days
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decolonize-the-left · 1 month
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Reminder that Nex Benedict is one person in a long line of missing and murdered indigenous women and 2 spirit people.
Yes they were queer but that wasn't all and I do not want that to be lost in all of our grief. The intersection of their queerness and their indigeneity can not and should not be separated from each other.
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the-cimmerians · 2 months
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In a letter released Friday evening to the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the United States Department of Education Office For Civil Rights has declared a formal investigation into alleged Title IX violations at Owasso Public Schools. They are also investigating potential Section 504 violations and Title II violations under the Americans with Disabilities act. This is in response to a letter alleging a pattern of abuse, bullying, and harassment of LGBTQ+ people at the school, and the impact this might have played into transgender teen of Choctaw heritage Nex Benedict’s death.
The letter states that it will look into two potential avenues under which violations of student’s civil rights might have occurred:
Whether the District failed to appropriately respond to alleged harassment of students in a manner consistent with the requirements of Title IX.
Whether the District failed to appropriately respond to alleged harassment of students in a manner consistent with the requirements of Section 504 and Title II.
The letter comes after a formal complaint from HRC asking for an investigation into the school as well as superintendent Ryan Walters. HRC alleges “Nex’s death is the natural consequence” of anti-LGBTQ+ sentiments perpetuated, in part, by attempts to paint transgender and nonbinary people in girl’s bathrooms as inherently predatory. According to HRC, Nex first began being bullied shortly after the state’s transgender bathroom ban was signed into law.
“We are deeply concerned about the failure of Owasso High School to address documented instances of bullying, violence, and harassment against Nex, which occurred in earnest over the course of the previous school year and were in violation of Nex’s rights under Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972,” says the complaint from HRC.
This is the first federal response to the death of Nex Benedict in Oklahoma that has been made public. According to HRC, other efforts to bring a federal response to discrimination in Owasso Public Schools are still underway. These efforts include a second letter asking the department to open a full investigation into discriminatory practices by Superintendent Ryan Walters. Ryan Walters, the complaint notes, has recently appointed Chaya Raichik from Libs of TikTok, whose posts were followed by threats to a teacher in Nex’s school district who he admired. They also include a call for a Department of Justice investigation into Nex’s death.
State Superintendent Ryan Walters has recently come under fire for fundraising with an anti-LGBTQ+ extremist, Ron Causby, who urged his daughters to “kick the shit” out of transgender people if he encountered them in the bathroom.
In a statement provided by HRC, HRC President Kelly Robinson says of the letter, “Nex’s family, community, and the broader 2SLGBTQI+ (two spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex+)  community in Oklahoma are still awaiting answers following their tragic loss. We appreciate the Department of Education responding to our complaint and opening an investigation–we need them to act urgently so there can be justice for Nex, and so that all students at Owasso High School and every school in Oklahoma can be safe from bullying, harassment, and discrimination.”
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gravityroom · 21 days
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Content warning for discussion of serial rape, murder, and gender-based anti-indigenous violence.
It’s been more than 20 years since police raided the B.C. farm of one of Canada’s most prolific serial killers, but according to Palexelsiya Lorelei Williams, those painful decades have “flown by.” Her cousin, Tanya Holyk, is among more than two dozen women who were murdered or suspected to have been murdered, by Port Coquitlam pig farmer Robert Pickton. The serial rapist — now in his 70s — was charged with 26 murders in the deaths of women who disappeared from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, but only convicted of second-degree murder for six of them.
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evelynstarshine · 2 months
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in highschool i was attacked by another student, he was supported by the school because his mother was on the board of trustees and my family was considered the wrong type of people (my dad was publicly gay). I don't remember about half a term before it and the week after because of head injury and have trouble from it today. School didn't call emergency services and as my mother didn't want the inconvenience to her life, she refused to allow police or etc to be involved even after the hospital and my aunt tried. I just feel like, we need to recognise that what happened to Nex isn't new, this happens all around the world all the time to Indigenous, Queer and minoritised kids. It's just now we live in a world where it's sometimes possible for the families of victims to get the world's attention. Like it's about Nex, that is important, never let anyone say it's not. But it's also important to remember the hundreds, maybe thousands of other kids who have died under the same circumstances who never got to be remembered and how this is a systemic problem not one bad set of uniquely violent bullies.
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