Hasn’t been my experience. The LGBTQ community is incredibly tight-knit and politically engaged. One reason why liberal politicos are constantly hitting them up for volunteering and money.
As I got older and got to know friends and family coming out of the closet, I was genuinely amazed at how so many people were interconnected with one another, how often they socialized, how much culture came out of their community, and how the mutual-aid networks allowed the community to persist. Multi-generational trans communities primarily composed of run-aways and abuse survivors all helping one another to get work and housing and medical care gave me a glimpse into Actual Existing Socialism in my own backyard.
Julia Curlee, Caitlyn Jenner, Blair White, Natalie Wynn, Clara Sorrenti, [I can list more, but you get the idea]
Localized, for my safety, I am not going to discuss the queer spaces that have excommunicated me for my political acts. However I will engage in the discussion of “knitting” of who is allowed to tighten ingroups and outgroups of queerspaces. One of those “knitters” actively sent cops to transfolk, who are now in privately owned insane asylums, jails, and now “detention” centers. I am still dealing with someone blind in one of these for-profit insane asylums, fearing she might be “deported” anytime now.
I am saying this tribalism is a human problem. And it needs addressing.
Hasn’t been my experience. The LGBTQ community is incredibly tight-knit and politically engaged. One reason why liberal politicos are constantly hitting them up for volunteering and money.
As I got older and got to know friends and family coming out of the closet, I was genuinely amazed at how so many people were interconnected with one another, how often they socialized, how much culture came out of their community, and how the mutual-aid networks allowed the community to persist. Multi-generational trans communities primarily composed of run-aways and abuse survivors all helping one another to get work and housing and medical care gave me a glimpse into Actual Existing Socialism in my own backyard.
Julia Curlee, Caitlyn Jenner, Blair White, Natalie Wynn, Clara Sorrenti, [I can list more, but you get the idea]
Localized, for my safety, I am not going to discuss the queer spaces that have excommunicated me for my political acts. However I will engage in the discussion of “knitting” of who is allowed to tighten ingroups and outgroups of queerspaces. One of those “knitters” actively sent cops to transfolk, who are now in privately owned insane asylums, jails, and now “detention” centers. I am still dealing with someone blind in one of these for-profit insane asylums, fearing she might be “deported” anytime now.
I am saying this tribalism is a human problem. And it needs addressing.
Putting Caitlyn Jenner and Natalie Wynn on the same list is insane.
Oppression is oppression, whether it be by DemSoc liberals, or Conservatives.
Do note chief in oppression Julia Curlee.
My localized oppresor is still thriving now that ICE is fullswinging anarchists spaces.