Hiiii my fellow anarchist cuties! :333, are you also all good citizins like me who would never take chemicals which make you happy because some 70yo wrote that I shouldn't on a piece of paper?, incase you are instead a bad person, come join us!

I just wanted to make people aware that I created a Harmreduction community on this instance(!harmreduction@lemmy.blahaj.zone) because I really think its something we need here, many queer people are turning to drugs, personally, I know more friends who are on “hard drugs” than are not, so I wanted to make a space on this instance for people to safely talk about harmreduction, reddit can be quite toxic and I feel the atmosphere here might be alot better and the people giving advice might be alot more informed already.

If you feel you can advice people, need advice or just occasionally enduldge, please join!

Also I am always there for anybody who needs advice, I am an intravenous polydrug user, amateur chemist, know a decent bit about injecting hormones right and even though I have puppy eyes, I don’t bite :)

... I also happen to be an economically neutral anarchist if that help :3

Lots of love!, Xea

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/6886431

In this research, my main interest is to associate trans narratives with anarchist political philosophy as a lens of analysis. I understand that the liberation of corporalities is fundamentally bound to the libertarian principles of self-government and self-determination, that is, in any ideal that defends freedom and the emancipation of trans identities. To reinforce the need for trans people to self-determine, I compose this study based on narratives that are mostly trans, integrating them with libertarian rhetoric from anarchist authors.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/6886437

In this essay, we intend to analyze the connections between some fundamental anarchist principles — such as direct action, mutual support, self-determination, revolutionary violence — and initiatives in trans movements to depathologize transsexuality and oppose institutional violence. Far from assuming essentialisms regarding “being trans” or “being an anarchist”, we have identified similarities between the political strategies of trans movements and the aforementioned libertarian concepts. Our inclination, given this assimilation, is to elaborate on tranarchism as a way of illustrating the practical proximity between the libertarian claim for self-determination, self-government and the indivisibility of freedom, and the trans arguments for depathologization, for a rupture with the State’s institutional policies and for an affront to academically legitimized knowledge about transsexuality.

Furthermore, we point to negative receptions of anarchist movements to ofter considered ‘identitarian’ issues (JEPPESEN & NAZAR, 2012) — such as gender issues — and claim that such receptions are not consistent with anarchist principles that oppose any imposition of authority. Despite common disagreements within the movements, there are libertarian tendencies in trans movements, especially when it comes to confronting the oppressive forces of the State and confronting intellectual oppression (BAKUNIN, 1975). So, using an anarchist theoretical framework, we present certain intersections between anarchism and trans movements, with the concept of tranarchism, as stated by Herman (2015).

Crossposted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/6565261

Artist: Loki Gwynbleidd

I hope it's alright to post this here. If it's not I'll take it down.

What are the differences between this community and !tranarchy@lemmy.blahaj.zone?

In general i think this is such a niche area that having two communities is for it is a bit overkill?

Foremost, do forgive me because while I am not new to modding communities I am honestly new at creating one from the ground up, so I do hope you can be patient with me as you and I both learn together how to get this ball rolling. With that said, it's been brought to my attention that it's probably best if I give a generation explanation as to what this community is all about, so here that post is, a 101 introduction to c/tranarchism!

What is tranarchism as a concept?

Let us start with a basic dictionary definition, and then we can delve deeper into the meaning behind the label. Simply put, a tranarchist is a trans person that holds to anarchist views.

For those of you new to anarchism as a whole, here is Anarchy 101 by Bob Black who does a far better job than I probably could in a short text to explain, plainly, what anarchist views are.

So what about tranarchism? Transfeminism developed as a movement for trans women to speak up regarding their own marginalization and to critique mainstream and radical feminist movements, built on the work that came out of the multiracial feminist movement, and in particular, the work of black feminists. Much like it, tranarchism is an intersectional movement and a subset of queer anarchism that exists because we believe forms of oppression and exploitation do not exist separately. They are intimately related and reinforce each other, and so trying to address them individually does not give us a full understanding. Anarchism believes we must fight all forms of oppression and hierarchies, and to tranarchists gender as it is understood, and gender roles are a form of hierarchy and oppression. Abolishing capitalism and the state does not ensure that white supremacy, patriarchy or transphobia will be somehow magically dismantled and so the tranarchist movement aims to create a working class consciousness of, among other, gender diversity.

So what is c/tranarchism for?

This is a safe space for all queer people and specially trans people to discuss anarchist theory, to request or inform of mutual aid, and importantly, to contribute much needed working class theory on gender and the diversity of the working class. This is a community and a communal effort for all trans people and anarchists to shape.

Further reading:

• Strengthening Anarchism’s Gender Analysis
• Gender and Classes
• Workers Solidarity Movement - Queer Opression

Note

I am but one person and I will have missed or over-simplified a lot of concepts, please do add your contributions either via message to me or as a comment in this post and keep the discussion going!

Hello all!

It is clear that Lemmy being in its infancy as it is, it still is lacking in tools to protect ourselves inside the Fediverse, you can block users and communities, but not whole instances, which while drastic, might sometimes be for the best. While I do trust we all choose our instances with care and their admins do defederate from instances that could be harmful to us, it is always useful to know how to protect yourself on a user level.

So here is a quick and simple tutorial on blocking out posts and comments from any Lemmy instance as needed using uBlock Origin. (Note: While this certainly applies to Desktop, some Firefox Android ports do allow uBlock Origin installation, so this applies there too.)

First, go to your uBlock Origin Dashboard (the gears at the bottom corner when you click the extension), then head to My filters, and once there add the following:

!Block posts and comments from a certain instance
!Substitute my.instance and blocked.instance with each respective instance url
my.instance##.post-listing:has(*:matches-attr(href=/.*@blocked\.instance/))
my.instance##.comment:has(*:matches-attr(href=/.*@blocked\.instance/))

EDIT: You can also use a more efficient post and comment filter by @ShittyKopper here.

That is all, I hope this is helpful to some of you, stay safe out there!