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Originally posted by Opacho
I bet you have a tumblr.
Anyway: Disgusting. BLM should be ashamed. They're always so angry.
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Originally posted by Communion
OR they probably, y'know, have read a history book, sis.
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OR I've lived and embodied this frustrating ass country for 22 damn years. For me it makes little sense to try to include marginalized folk into the state structure when this very structure is used to cannibalize on moments like these -- "Pride," "BLM," etc. The state feeds off protests like these. Moments and events like these -- they're pretty fleeting -- a month or so later they're forgotten by the normative masses. A radical change needs to happen so that all minorities, be they disabled, black, fat, old, or
all of the above, thrive. A state that is founded upon a white, settler, imperial and colonial supremacy cannot achieve this since such transformative potential will contradict its colonial, imperial structures.
What Toronto -- and Canada, more broadly -- needs is a radical anticolonial, antimperial politic that decolonizes LGBT spaces. What this might look like is questioning the state: Why does Pride exist? Why is it held every year? Why is there a lack of "equality" and equity in normative spaces? Surely many people want "equality," but how can A really equal B? Won't B always be different from A? A = B? ... I think that a radical antiimperial, anticolonial politic might look like an activity or future that disrupts what difference means. Perhaps hope for better futures and decolonized ways of being in relation lie not in homonormative, homonationalist structures but in transformative, transsectional politics. This means coalescing around a belonging-in-difference, where difference is not broken in millions of pieces, but is, rather, embraced in a way that is decolonizing for colonized folk, be they black, queer, trans, etc.
One option? Have trans, fat, disabled people who are also old, sexually flexible, and of colour run the show. I'm sure a different, anticolonial way of being will be produced out of this mess and, dare I say, catastrophe.