Identity, in this month of Pride, is an opportunity for reflection on the process of self-actualization. There is a common and fundamental misunderstanding about this process, which should be dispelled even if you are unfamiliar with the term ‘self-actualization’; it is not something that you have to decide or come into once in some grand, total finality.

I just want to start a flame in your heart I'm going to reach you all I need to do is reach you and it's over and we can finally get to work building the kind of strength it will take to rip down our oppressors and sing life again

The outbreak of World War I derailed the thrust of the movements for sexual and gender emancipation and for women’s rights in Germany. ... In each of the capitalist countries, the bosses appealed to the workers to unite behind them in battle. ... Going along with this right-wing, murderous patriotism put the brake on every social movement - gay, trans and lesbian, women’s rights, workers’ and socialist struggles - because it gave the ruling class the upper hand, strengthened the right wing and set back the progressive movement.

fuck your attachment to Whiteness fuck "a more efficient military" fuck "he has to appeal to conservatives" fuck the man who chose his SS totenkopf tattoo "off the wall"