Ahh thank you so much Keri 🥹💛 (my partner smiled so wide when I read him your comment :3 )

I hope this will be a relevant read for those who currently face a similar kind of militant orthodox determinism, one that is rapidly burgeoning under a fascist regime that insists on erasing the voices of resistance, especially the voices of the marginalised.

The Unspoken Taboo Of Art: Or Why The Unintelligible Is Crucial For Annihilation Of Caste - 介面｜SCREEN In caste-essentialism, creation of life from womb is the only relevant form of creation. To reproduce an ontologically predetermined sudra from themselves, the purpose of creation is subsumed by servi...

My partner's first ever published essay! On the importance of unintelligibility in art especially for the oppressed, and recognising gender non-conformity as an intimately powerful tool to developing agency and defying hegemony.

onscreentoday.com/view/the-uns...

A sticker sheet featuring a cat doing various gym and fitness related stuff

Gym cat sticker sheet is up at chaioverdose.com 😬💛

journal page featuring 3 diecut stickers- one is a lucky cat, one is a cat in an apple hat, and the third is a cat saying "paper planners! because I don't wnat the govt. snoopin' around!"

My shop is finally reopening tomorrow with some new stickers (Saturday, Apr 18!) 🥲

The state's attack on self-determining gender identity is an assault on bodily autonomy. It is a key part of eroding personal agency as part of the larger effort to remove any opposition to the forward march of fascism.

Come tomorrow, most trans folks in India will likely lose their right to exist.

If you’re an Indian citizen, please email your MP before March 23 (Monday) to REJECT THE TRANS AMENDMENT BILL!
Click on the link to send an automated mail to your constituency’s MP!

Trans rights are human rights 🏳️‍⚧️

webionite.com/reject-trans...

Instead, Khera said, these systems create new and arbitrary hurdles for beneficiaries. “What these technologies are doing is creating fresh barriers for people to access their entitlements. Access to nutrition is now being made conditional on some random technology that is neither transparent nor consistently reliable, one that can be switched off by a failed scan or a clunky app.”

It's over all a report about how reliance on digital tech fails to actually support people who need assistance the most, which we see again and again. The facial recognition is just one part.

And as always, additional hurdles to "remove corruption" or prevent fraud exclude those in need.

For real 🫠

You can read the report here.

There is a reliance on smartphones, which these women might not have access to, as well as old photos for matching, using the tech like face id for phone unlocking. Little kids 3-6yo, are now required to participate in the biometrics, too.

That's just the start!

Would I be an asshole if I point out that a Pulitzer Centre funded report on Google AI causing many poor Indian citizens to be denied food rations, has used AI for its editorial illustration 🥲 the report is ofc valid and very important, but why use AI for your illustration 😭

Thank you so much 🥹

Thank you 💖🥹

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Thank you so much Keri 🥹💖

Thank you so much! Yes that is the perfect vibe 🥹💛

you are loved, and we will win

A cat reading cozily on a chair with some sunflowers in the back with some tiny spirit like cats

Made this for #anikeru55k dtiys on IG.
I like how cozy it turned out ☺️🌻

USPS must be fought for and protected. If USPS goes away, or is made private, it will negatively impact EVERYONE.

The USPS is a service and not a business. The cost for operating shouldn’t be seen as a business loss.
Stand up for the USPS!
💌
CALL YOUR REPS
5calls.org

Here’s the free pattern if anyone wants to make one

drive.google.com/file/d/11w5k...

Excerpt from the book “The invisible doctrine “. The highlighted text reads This seizure, exhaustion and abandonment of new geographical frontiers is central to the model we call capitalism. 'Boom, Bust, Quit' is what capitalism does. The ecological crises it causes, the social crises it causes, the productivity crises it causes are not perverse outcomes of the sys-tem. They are the system

Now reading “The Invisible Doctrine”. Also trying my best to not spiral into tears of rage and despair as I read about how it became “normalised” to pillage the planet and disenfranchise the population.

I'm really so glad to see you reading up and sharing though!! A lot of news on trans rights issues in non-Western countries often gets ignored or suppressed. Trans rights are human rights, and sadly, the struggle to get the state to acknowledge that is almost universal.

An even better source to learn about the impending threat to trans identities in India. Please read and share.

www.thenewsminute.com/news/this-bi...

thank you so much for amplifying this, Keri! It truly is so sad that a basic right that the courts had approved in 2014 in India is again under threat, and this time with a near-total erasure of trans identities and possible imprisonments. And HT is actually pretty okay tho quite stifled.

I had to look up what that was, and yes! it does really feel like it 💛

it really is so meditative to do this :3

Something so soothing about playing with a water droplet on a nasturtium leaf in a sunny garden.

A black and white illustration with text reading "Substack is creating a walled garden you have to share with white supremacists". The illustration shows a round brick wall holding part of quote, some flowers, and a draped nazi flag. this is surrounded by barbed wire

I have watched more & more friends turn to Substack in the past few months. PLEASE DON'T DO THIS! #Substack has well-documented problems with platforming literal Nazis, as well as writers spreading Covid misinformation, anti-vaccine propaganda, & transphobia. Long post here:
bit.ly/substacksux

Youtube screenshot of a video titled "Are you a symbolic capitalist? Am I?" by a channel called Reading is a Skill. The video features the speaker with a parrot on their head.

YouTube algo really popped off today.

A dog chomping through barbed wire with text that says down with the cis-stem. KC DSA Kansas trans ID ACCESS FUND WE ARE LAUNCHING THE KANSANS TRANS ID ACCESS FUND TRANS KANSANS DESERVE ACCESS TO STATE IDS WITHOUT FINANCIAL BARRIERS APPLY THROUGH OUR LINKTREE KANSAS CITY DSA WILL CONTINUE TO ORGANIZE FOR TRANS LIBERATION AND AGAINST THESE ACTS OF STATE VIOLENCE AN INJURY TO ONE IS AN INJURY TO ALL

KC DSA is launching the Kansas Trans ID Access Fund as a direct assistance initiative of Kansas City DSA designed to ensure that trans, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming Kansans can obtain and maintain valid state issued identification. 🧵(1/3)