Twitter has suspended my account

Someone saw fit to report a tweet, in a reply to both Robin Bradford (@Tuphlos) and Suzanne Brockmann (@SuzBrockmann) about Mike the slimy lying shit-sack Pence, that I was *threatening* and *harassing* someone, so twitter ‘safety’ suspended my account.

Here’s the ‘offending’ tweet:

I was given the option to have a temporary suspension *if* I deleted the tweet, or start an appeal process with twitter.. Meaning, I would be *punished* either way.

So I sent an appeal request, as follows:

Unfortunately, this means that I cannot let anyone at #TeamHydr8 what happened (or remind them to drink more water and take care of themselves) for however long Twitter ‘safety’ takes to read my appeal, if they even do.

Fuck you, fragile anonymous asshole who reported that tweet as harassment and incitement. May your boy Pence rot in hell right alongside you.

UPDATE (1 hour after appeal):

#RomanceforRoe Anthology

Because #IAmProBodilyAutonomy/#IAmProAbortion, I am hosting a transcript of the screenshot below for Jackie Barbosa (tweet here), who’ll be editing and publishing a Romance for Roe anthology, all proceeds to benefit pro-choice charities.

Transcript below the cut.

Musings on privilege

A few days ago, I had a conversation with a friend about politics, sexism, authoritarianism, and more. At one point, he mentioned that he despises the way privilege is often deployed to shut people up.

Which is a fair criticism, as we’ve all seen cries of “privilege” used to police what other people say and how they say it.

On the other hand, privilege exists, most people have at least some in one area or another, and it shields them from other people’s experiences and suffering.

Thing is, people rarely see their own privilege, however limited it may be, and therefore tend not to be receptive when it’s pointed out to them.

Like, say, people who have the privilege of choosing what they engage with, and how. Another form privilege manifests is in what we even see happening in the world around us.

White people, do not do this

This past weekend, that hateful “March for Life,” wherein right wing organizations and schools bus people in to DC to march for the “right” of men to control the lives of anyone born with an uterus, took place concurrently with the Indigenous Peoples March.

One of the schools that sent teens and chaperones to march this year was Covington Catholic High School, an all-male private school in Kentucky. There are long and terrible threads on twitter¹ with personal stories of survivors from both the school and the all-girls school across the street, which Covington assholes have nicknamed “whore school.” Charming boys, no?

At one point, a fairly large group of kids from Covington was facing off with four older members of another hate group, the Black Hebrew Israelites, and things were tense and likely heading to violence, when Omaha Elder Nathan Phillips, on his way to closing the Indigenous Peoples March at the Lincoln Memorial, intervened, placing himself between the two groups–and becoming the target of the white kids’ ire, once they were deprived of their original target.

There is video² and a plethora of articles about this harassment. There are interviews with witnesses AND with Nathan Phillips. Go google them.

There are also people defending the “boys” or rather, specifically, the white male teen wearing a MAGA hat, smirking with hateful disdain to the face of an elderly Native man.