• 31 May 2022 : https://discord.gg/PdgktqgQwc
  • 28 May 2022 : 『✦Empezamos bioshock o como vergas se llame en stream, y luego goose goose duck o lo que me salga de las narices uwu✦』 https://www.twitch.tv/0xlilith_sinclairx0
  • 19 September 2020 : 🙅🏽 momma bear 🙅🏽 papa bear 🙎🏽 • 🤔 • 💡 🙇🏽 zaddy bear 💁🏽 ✨👏🏽✨
  • 19 September 2020 : no need for apologies. 💕 you’re good.
  • 19 September 2020 : for the people who wondered if and when we might (would) see book burnings.... please understand the nazis LITERALLY studied the United State’s genocide of Indigenous peoples of both Africa & the Americas. “the United States” was, and continues to be, the blueprint for genocide. https://twitter.com/spettypi/status/1306671746729291783
  • 19 September 2020 : Lmao, I feel like I know at least three people who could’ve been the people to say this to you cause they said similar shit to me 🥴😂 like nigga i want feedback. halp. me.
  • 19 September 2020 : Any sci-fi recs?? Also, if you like fourth wall stuff sounds like you might already know this one but “Red Shirts” is still a personal favorite.
  • 19 September 2020 : Does not sound dumb. Sounds unique. And wonderful. Dumb is ableist against yourself and (respectfully) I’ll fight people being mean to my community 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕
  • 19 September 2020 : oof!!!! “learning the differences between shame and guilt.” This is so important & its *HARD* work. if you have spoons, got any recommendations for sources you might be using to help you learn that?
  • 19 September 2020 : I don’t believe that for a moment. The general answer could just be “any of the above” but we all have a starting point & the best starting point is looking for a direction that sounds interesting. Do you have any general questions our community might be able to answer here?
  • 19 September 2020 : WHITE FOLKS: Out of the following options, which one sums up what you’d be most interested in seeing local abolitionist educators focus on?
  • 19 September 2020 : NON-BLACK PEOPLE OF COLOR: Out of the following options, which one sums up what you’d be most interested in seeing local abolitionist educators focus on?
  • 19 September 2020 : BLACK, BROWN & INDIGENOUS FOLKS: Out of the following options, which one sums up what you’d be most interested in seeing local abolitionist educators focus on?
  • 19 September 2020 : #PDX #pdxprotest #portland We’re all aware we live in the epicenter of the our continual decline into authoritarianism. We have a lot of catching up to do on #communityeducation I’ve got a question for y’all about gaps in education. Could you answer the appropriate poll below?
  • 19 September 2020 : Here’s a two-part questions I’m wondering if folks can answer: - What’s your best coping tool? - Is it something you’d be down to describe in a google form that we could give graphic designers access to so we can share helpful tools (in multiple languages)?
  • 19 September 2020 : Here’s some ideas I have: - A giant telegram chat that’s literally just for people who are struggling with sobriety to chat. And then people can connect there and form support groups for folks struggling with different/specific substances. - A giant telegram for sobriety memes
  • 19 September 2020 : Where??? 🥴🥴
  • 19 September 2020 : Hey friends! Are you #sober (off something or everything) & struggling to hold on to sobriety while the world’s on fire? Me, too! Can this be a thread where we share things that could help us (collectively) support one another? #Harmreduction means community care. Chime in! ⬇️
  • 18 September 2020 : I literally spent 15 mins using advanced search to try & retweet this as a reminder but I fucking can’t so I just cut it down to what’s important. This is what I decided to give a friend for their bday but w/ the current state of the world, we’ve landed on no social media. Ttyl! pic.twitter.com/Jv0jtgPOhB
  • 18 September 2020 : I don’t know there’s a whole bunch of Black and Indigenous folks not exceedingly nervous about this because we’ve been taught our survival is a gamble every day we live, even pre war. This country’s been waging war against BIPOC our whole lives. I can’t imagine a 75/25 outlook. https://twitter.com/marlborofoils/status/1306757135200595971
  • 17 September 2020 : I truly adore your kiddos.
  • 17 September 2020 : To organize globally and fight for survival for each and every person we can.
  • 17 September 2020 : Get ready, America will collapse soon. Fear is healthy. Listen to it. Understand that sense of urgency fear is pushing into you. Hone it. Focus it. Sharpen up *that one survival skill* you want to be able to share with your neighbors & loved ones. Be a worrier & a warrior. https://twitter.com/anarchist_black/status/1306718788847644675
  • 17 September 2020 : fair, but with a new release, I’d definitely have a hope no ones buying it in the first place considering all. which I know is unlikely but like, I just feel like it’s gonna be a long time until hardcopies hit stores but I really don’t wanna give GameStop my money either. 🙃
  • 17 September 2020 : Y’all better not reply with links or direct advice. This is twitter and I’m on watchlists and this is obviously 100% only a shitpost joke and is totallyyyyyyy sarcasm.
  • 17 September 2020 : as a fucking Black Indigenous trans with two Harry Potter tattoos from my first years as a legal adult— the news about Hogwarts legacy really just leaves me wondering what I often ask when creators ruin things which is, “can you pirate video games?” 👀
  • 17 September 2020 : happy belated birthday!!!!!!!!!
  • 17 September 2020 : “Tomorrow’s the day. Tonight the rain is coming.” 😊 My favorite thing about birthdays is people getting the level of community care and celebration for survival that they deserve.
  • 17 September 2020 : This timeline is the worst. But I’m very excited my friend might get the gift of literal oxygen from Father Sky and our Ocean for their birthday.
  • 17 September 2020 : My apocalypse gang friend as we’re hanging out and they check the smoke forecast the day before their birthday: WHOOoaaAaaAaaHHHH, 🥳🤩 AQI is down to 190!!! Me: *big sigh* *wince* *eyeroll* Mutters: “I hate it here”
  • 17 September 2020 : (idk who to credit for that “hit me like a” soup remix but i saw it on twitter and it’s been on my mind since 😅)
  • 17 September 2020 : this hit me like a bag of soup for my family 😭 stop worrying about your individual legacy and concern yourself with our collective survival. please. https://twitter.com/lilpoolish/status/1306703333546131462
  • 17 September 2020 : I need y’all to read and re-read and re-read this again. https://twitter.com/williamcson/status/1306698656486223878
  • 17 September 2020 : #vibes #2020mood pic.twitter.com/1GePb7AODj
  • 17 September 2020 : And if you don’t know anything about Vanport City this is mandatory reading as a basic entry point to a story you need to learn more about. A lot of y’all stay unconcerned about the white supremacist teachings you were taught in “US History”. This is what I mean about genocide..
  • 17 September 2020 : The Nazis are once again setting course for wherever will best set the state to present their core messaging: Anti-Blackness (which is the foundation necessary for yt people to live out their American Dream) This is about White Power over BIack&N8V ppl. https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2020/09/right-wing-proud-boys-move-rally-to-portlands-delta-park-site-of-lost-vanport-city-where-blacks-lived-during-redlining-days.html
  • 17 September 2020 : Damn people really want a robot overlord nightmare simulation huh? https://twitter.com/cherryrae/status/1306310537899249664
  • 17 September 2020 : Obviously it’s mirror images of Mary Poppins flying with her umbrella and handbag in front of a background of clouds https://twitter.com/allissabygrace/status/1305987119051976705
  • 17 September 2020 : It’d be cool to commission a few black artists to make some joyful art pieces that we could also buy prints of/get puzzling permissions for. If folks are willing to help with coordination and coordinating with printers we could get some nice normal relaxing revolutionary art
  • 17 September 2020 : Oh, also: absurd, careless, reckless, negligent, baseless, asinine, stubborn Fancy one: obstinate
  • 17 September 2020 : Really telling on how ableist our use of words is but: Wild. Wack. BS. Weird. Unreal. Gross. Also: Ridiculous. Embarrassing. Pathetic.
  • 17 September 2020 : I know that’s still a bit of a hot take online but I’ve also worked to challenge my opinions and anecdotal experience but also I have had similar issues about binary trans men from masc presenting non-binary folks & in reading some googled articles on the idea, that’s my position
  • 17 September 2020 : Very short answer: I’ve had many conversations with folks about binary trans man (especially, but not only, yt) who consistently replicate patriarchal oppressive systems as soon as they can reasonably pass for cis. [for what it’s worth I have my own thoughts on passing culture]
  • 17 September 2020 : Abolish government. Do an anarchy. Live mutual aid. Be water. Abolish Anti-Blackness. Undermine the state. Get armed. Learn self-defense. Talk to your neighbors. Read Black abolitionist written critical analysis. Keep binary men off megaphones. Platform Black queers.
  • 17 September 2020 : Much bigger project. Keep an eye out towards the end of the month for initial announcements! But it’s definitely an idea I’ve tweeted about before 😈😼😍
  • 17 September 2020 : Hi. I’m about to dive back into sex work & while my strategy has changed, I’d love to return to somewhat normal (for me) SWer aesthetics. As such, I’d like to get my smiley re-done, my nose re-pierced, & second lip piercing for snake bites. But also, corona. Tips? Suggestions?
  • 17 September 2020 : Bought the planner! Physical copy comes with a free download pdf!! So I can start using this tool immediately (so helpful because I’m garbage at hootsuite so far trying to use their tools). Will put in the order for masks in the next 24 hours! Wanna do sum research & not overpay!
  • 17 September 2020 : Oh and also the next 45$ would go to ordering 300 multi layered filtration inserts which include an activated charcoal layer that I wanna give out in sets of 5 to BIPOC folks who don’t have n95s to insert into a lot of the handmade masks with pockets people have.
  • 17 September 2020 : You can do so at http://cash.me/$abolitionactually Or Venmo @abolitionactually (To be real, I’ve got like 150 to my name right now & I’ve got about $4600 that *is not for me* & I see as nonexistent because again it’s not for me. So honestly if you can spare some funds in general 🤟🏽💕)
  • 17 September 2020 : Will a yt person send me $40 to buy this because then you can directly support a Black mom AND a young Black jobless revolutionary. https://twitter.com/alexxussf/status/1306035168524800000
  • 17 September 2020 : Please remember alotta us are fighting to hold on to hope so that we can sufficiently avoid mental health crises. So many people are literally disabled by Invisible Disabilities like PTSD, severe anxiety, intense depression & more. Forgive yourself. Late is better than never. https://twitter.com/choo_ek/status/1306408938091343874
  • 17 September 2020 : #allcampaignsmatter ❕ #evencapitalistsmatter 🤓 # AllLivesMatter🥺 #whitepoliticiansmatter ❕ #butwhataboutthewhitewomen ⁉️ #whitepassingpocmatter 😭 #centerwhitewomenorbust ❕ #progressivesdeservecookies 🍪 #alittlegaslightingasatreat ⛽️💡 #TeamFuckBevBarnum 🖕🏽🥴🖕🏽 https://twitter.com/socialdesignhi/status/1305592040122535936
  • 17 September 2020 : 🥴😭🤣
  • 16 September 2020 : Oh okay. It seems like you might LOVE raisins cause I definitely don’t hate them I just unequivocally believe they don’t belong in potato salad..... 👀
  • 16 September 2020 : I’ve also had that kind of creamed corn out here! Most corn usages i eat are savory. And like, I’ve never had tuna + sweet mix well personally. Even tuna salad with our dreaded miracle whip is a struggle for me to force down so that’s valid as fuck. Tuna just is so idk specific?
  • 16 September 2020 : 😅😅😅😅 https://youtu.be/hzMzFGgmQOc
  • 16 September 2020 : Yo what. How many yt ppl you invitin to the cookout? I feel likes it’s too many. This is disrespectful of Black Panthers legacy....
  • 16 September 2020 : 😂😭😅 i meannnnnnnnnn 👀
  • 16 September 2020 : Yo what next you gonna tell me raisins belong in potato salad 🤦🏽‍♀️
  • 16 September 2020 : I’m now learning it’s a very common UK thing but the UK peeps don’t want us to worry. It isn’t tuna and CANDY CORN it’s just tuna and corn nibblets. Which 🥴 I literally will make sweet creamed corn for a snack at midnight or tuna melts for a week but like.... why together 😭😭 https://twitter.com/blush_01/status/1306309384100872194
  • 16 September 2020 : I wanna feel involved so I’d like to contribute something for consideration: https://twitter.com/criswellwj/status/1306297339997384704
  • 16 September 2020 : ........why does it say “5 eggs” twice on that bag?? I literally see more than 5 eggs.
  • 16 September 2020 : Oooooh!! We were talking about physical puzzle pieces but also I bet there would be a good number of people who would really enjoy leftist crosswords!! Omg and id definitely be down to help folks make leftist word searches! That’s my literary jam.
  • 16 September 2020 : I asked the internet and used some hashtags. Maybe we’ll get some help 🥺
  • 16 September 2020 : #PUZZLEGANG !! Me & some comrades need help? Are you into puzzles? Do you know where we could potentially find @ leftist theme #puzzle ? We all need some mindless stress relief activities to focus on & decompress but it would be even more fun if it were leftist themed. Pls help.
  • 16 September 2020 : Wait are their leftist puzzles?? 😂
  • 16 September 2020 : Yo, whats the puzzle vibe??
  • 16 September 2020 : Nahhh, my grandmas been trying to get both of us to do puzzles since I was a kid. 😂 My moms too busy with her six children and childish husband. But imma give my mom one that’s finished that is art she’ll like and my grandmas hella gonna get a puzzle night later & prob cry 😅😅
  • 16 September 2020 : My moms birthday is coming up...... I’m about to just make her a puzzle and glue it together and frame it. That seems good for me and she’ll be excited cause her mom hella loves puzzles.
  • 16 September 2020 : This actually sounds hella therapeutic.....
  • 16 September 2020 : Omg omg omg this is so good. I need to look up and get this book. https://twitter.com/alwaystheself/status/1306331852307869697
  • 16 September 2020 : If you still want to be a WHITE MAYOR in the year two thousand & twenty you should understand that you’re literally signing up to be ~cyber bullied~ with your racist yt savior bullshit during the fall of yt supremacy. #ItIsOurDuty @sarahforpdx this is about you. Stay ready. 😘
  • 16 September 2020 : you give me faith in the comedy of tomorrow tbh. 😭 I’m about to go YouTube search the fuck out of your name forreal.
  • 16 September 2020 : 🗣 PSA: Please begin all prep necessary to be ready for the birth of Reverend Ellis Lucian — your soon to be favorite sexually & religiously liberated abolitionist educator and resident slut for pay. But for short you can just call them Rev.Ell Lucian 🏳️‍🌈✊🏽💣💥🏴
  • 16 September 2020 : Wait, ugh the captions on this YouTube video are garbage and auto generated. 😭 How do we have an accessible movie night? I’m literally so open to suggestions. I’m gonna see if I can do a zoom stream maybe? Oh, a zoom of a captioned version & we could pay some ASL terps? 🤨
  • 16 September 2020 : Wait I’m 9 minutes in and I actually lowkey wanna live tweet this cause I haven’t seen it in like a decade after I watched it admittedly too much in too short of a time period. Cause the prince literally just gave some “you’re not like other girls” line and I’m cackling.
  • 16 September 2020 : If you’ve never seen the musical version of Cinderella starring Brandy & Whitney Houston with an Asian prince who’s parents are a white man and Whoopi Goldberg— Well, then you’re in for a treat cause I found the full movie on YouTube. You need this. https://youtu.be/2UysTIfotac
  • 16 September 2020 : The residents of #PDX have created a liberal/leftist identity which shields them from accountability to marginalized people by simply throwing up that shield and self made trophy proclaiming them “most woke”. And mass media falls for it. And other white “leftists” fall for it.
  • 16 September 2020 : I will repeat again that #Portland , OR is one of the most insidiously and dangerously racist cities in this entire country because people will be racist in your face moments after rambling unasked about how much they support “black bodies.” https://twitter.com/mariahmacaronio/status/1306104240188743680
  • 16 September 2020 : I am fucking deadddddd 😂 Black women really are everything. https://twitter.com/mariahmacaronio/status/1306157728839028736
  • 16 September 2020 : Lowkey the draft was longer. And then I just had to ask myself like, whyyy????? I was that kind in hs who was mad we had length limits of when I had to *stop* writing 😭🥴
  • 16 September 2020 : yooooo 🤣😅😩 https://twitter.com/chico_dykey/status/1305984238437588993
  • 16 September 2020 : De-escalation ≠ non-violence
  • 16 September 2020 : Also, Trauma Nurses Talk Tough is literally one of the most willfully and gleefully traumatizing classes which is literally some type of gross negative reinforcement on residents no matter what level of infraction they have. 😬😬😬
  • 16 September 2020 : Why aren’t there any Black people on this? Can one of the white folks on this committee volunteer to give up their spot to @MariahMacaronio ? That seems more than appropriate considering the heart of this movement for Black Liberation. https://twitter.com/suzettesmith/status/1306091650444222465
  • 16 September 2020 : These men are not ready to just give basic support to Black women that are more significant than them in every damn way. I have lots of critiques of Beyoncé, Cardi B, & Rihanna too with all that wealth. But the reality of “binary men ain’t shit” just consistently shows itself. https://twitter.com/yumcoconutmilk/status/1305956560296960003
  • 16 September 2020 : 🧵❕🧵❗️🧵 If you follow me for the diverse content/analysis I share, this is a thread y’all NEED to read. I did. And I’m about to again. (Yt ppl esp. need to know that community defense also means BIPOC acting in radical community defense against yt leftists being racist.) https://twitter.com/comradejoma/status/1295540916372090880
  • 16 September 2020 : How young is too young to immediately get this? (I ask about age cause I’m pretty sure this song wasn’t just #blackpeoplefamous but tbh ive been genuinely suprised to be wrong about that assumption before so idk.)
  • 16 September 2020 : 🎵Let’s talk about sex working Let’s talk about de-crim bby! Let’s talk about all the bad things and the good things that we see. Let’s talk abooout sex Let’s talk about de-crim bby! Let’s talk aboout sex.🎶 #repealfostasesta #SurviveEarnIt #DecrimNOW Stop the #EarnItAct
  • 16 September 2020 : no, no, no. Not that I know of. But they had this happen days before the first fire tornado. Just as an indicator of time passed for why I thought it was too soon lol
  • 16 September 2020 : Same roommate, literally rn as I describe how they kept my FULL attention for like 5 minutes: “I’m like a live action shitposter.” Other roommate to us: That’s true!! You are a live action shit poster. (To me: you can tweet that)
  • 16 September 2020 : Same roommate approximately 90 seconds later: Okay, so maybe I’m the only one who thinks this but, “comrade” always sounds a little like “cumrag” to me.
  • 16 September 2020 : My roommate who had a heart attack scare & ER visit literally right before the fire tornado while describing a scary experience today: “It gave me a heart attack” Me: UHHHHH?!? too soon! Can I say that?? Too soon!? Them: Oh, yeah! Okay...It gave me an aneurysm Me: 🥴😑😫😤
  • 16 September 2020 : I hear you on a small (maybe medium) break!!! And “weighing down my lungs” is really descriptive and on point. It’s such a specific feeling of weight/burden in breathe.
  • 16 September 2020 : THIS THIS THIS!!! I hear y’all that Bernie activated you. I respect that. We all have different entry points. But like, y’all can keep growing. Truly. I believe in you. Many of us outgrow our idols. It’s sad but also freeing. Because truly: No idols, no gods, no masters/saviors https://twitter.com/lilririah/status/1306058167844044807
  • 16 September 2020 : I keep reminding myself that fire is sacred to so many Indigenous communities and is known for both purging and healing. I remind myself that we’re behind but learning how to do community care. And that fire is central to human life. I really don’t wanna give up my love of fire.
  • 16 September 2020 : 3-apparently full bloc is not camera proof? Is that b/f folks aren’t in full bloc? Full bloc includes no logos/skin showing. Bloc on camera just means burn shit after. How are y’all getting id’ed in bloc? 4-if you weren’t involved in the “saint Paul rnc” comm, you’re not invited. pic.twitter.com/2I8NV2fz8L
  • 16 September 2020 : Ive been looking around at all the literal lies and other ridiculous statements going around & I’m learning things. 1- I met with DHS lawyers 2- I apparently “feel safe” (😅🥴lmfao) & if you’re not an organizer in this city you can’t say anything about it (v privileged imo) pic.twitter.com/8XFofG2Jzz
  • 16 September 2020 : It’s ironic to see yt folks tell Black individuals that they’re centering themselves when the whole point of an anti-racist movement combatting anti-Blackness is to completely decenter yt ppl & pass the mic (& resources) to Black, Brown & Indigenous folks (Esp multi-marginalized)
  • 16 September 2020 : Black Brown and Indigenous folks need resources without limitations, caveats, or requirements. But the most well funded orgs with the most access to resources often aren’t willing to decenter themselves to fund BIPOC taking over their positions, platforms and etc.
  • 16 September 2020 : Nobody wants a leader but everyone wants a local Black organizer to tokenize in an effort to prove they’re not racist. I talk to so many BIPOC who don’t organize b/c they don’t have resources AND they don’t trust a ton of these white led orgs. Like, it’s a result of privilege.
  • 16 September 2020 : Sometimes I can’t wait to leave PDX. Sometimes I just sit & stress about all the Black, Brown, & Indigenous folks in this city being consistently spoken over just because they’re not “organizers” when it’s a miracle BIPOC are even surviving let alone keeping spoons to organize.
  • 16 September 2020 : 👋🏽👋🏽👋🏽 hi right here.
  • 16 September 2020 : That’s why I decided to engage today. I had the spoons. They been running on this bullshit for a minute now but like cool, go ahead and embarrass yourself in front 13k people with all that yt supremacist coded language tf. While claiming to be leftists. What a joke forreal.
  • 16 September 2020 : 😂😂😂 Im done this is literally like one of my first thoughts.
  • 16 September 2020 : Really. Like, this my personal twitter account. I been tweeting shit like this for YEARS. And y’all mad now that other people are agreeing with me or just following me??? Like, PDX is fighting against fash. They frontline aint doing significant antiracist work. That’s too hard.
  • 16 September 2020 : Forreal I was excited as hell seeing you say “I could work with 26” and then I was like Awh damn polyam fucked it up for me again lol. You dope though and truly do deserve the world tho so this was an easy tweet to write. Good luck out there!! 💕✨💕
  • 16 September 2020 : If you’re Black, radical, 28 years old or more, and you’re monogamous, you should be highly interested in this tweet. My 26 y/o poly ass is v sad but like, Zalika deserves the world & whoever gets to give it to them will be lucky as fuck. https://twitter.com/thinglygrammar/status/1305894852949938176
  • 16 September 2020 : Killer whales was like “organized community self defense, bitch!” https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1305714236170137600
  • 16 September 2020 : We straight up cannot fight effectively or sustainably against fash if were still being casual about misogynists, abusers, & racists in our leftist communities. Simply saying “yes it’s an issue but we should focus on fash rn” is how we consistently ostracize the most marginalized
  • 16 September 2020 : See the racism that Portland leftists are comfortable with is so much more insidious than the occasional micro aggressions I’ve experienced on the front lines in other cities, states and countries. I will consistently say PDX is the most racist city I’ve ever lived in. (Imo 😘)
  • 16 September 2020 : Literally she was so spoiled. She was supposed to be helping with rats and shit but she mostly use laid around looking regal and getting snuggles from me.
  • 16 September 2020 : @DAMikeSchmidt is absolutely on the side of cops. He’s also not in favor of decriminalization of sex work. He’s a white man in Portland Oregon excited to try to give the city a more liberal association on the national news scale. He’s not woke. He’s not even antiracist. https://twitter.com/multcoda/status/1305886396079419392
  • 16 September 2020 : This exactly! Like, we desperately need to be less reactionary to fash and way more proactive. The fact there was a DA the night before and night of that last fash rally was very confusing to me tactically in regards to movement sustainability.
  • 16 September 2020 : Omg so sad that all that office space we was given at city hall to organize out of isn’t accessible 😭 considering we have free pass there it’s amazing they didn’t let me into that meeting w/ wheeler the day we demanded he come downtown months ago. ☹️ sad.
  • 16 September 2020 : ...........as a marginalized folk who’s been out in the Bloc multiple times I’m very much aware. I also personally KNOW a number of BIPOC folks who (like me) no longer go out in Bloc specifically in Portland OR because of the racism of the “left” here so?
  • 16 September 2020 : Obviously I’m the worst thing to ever happen ever to the Portland organizing community. I as a brand new organizer had so much power that there was no way to address this until two years later in bad faith. Lol ily.
  • 16 September 2020 : So teaser fliers are fine without accessibility information and disabled people just have to be patient for more details? Able bodied people can see this and say “okay I’ll save the date and plan to come.” Disabled folks just have to wait to know if they’re even being supported.
  • 16 September 2020 : So great that white people don’t want to die for this movement when unarmed black people walking on the streets daily are at risk of death. Also, does it not matter how much individual harm an anonymous account has done? I forgot to say dms only but protecting racists anonymity?
  • 16 September 2020 : I should have put “DMs only” on this. I’m not trying to get their info posted publicly which is why I just asked if anyone knew but I see now how that wasn’t specific enough. I’m more concerned w/ knowing who this is personally so I can intentionally avoid them in the streets.
  • 15 September 2020 : First pic is from Tijuana as US feds tear gassed asylum seekers I was supporting. Second pic is a mayday action @ ICE I went to document & got asked to speak at. 3rd is a pic I took on the frontlines at Haley’s “men’s rights” action. 4th is the tent I *lived in* at the border. 🥰 https://twitter.com/wherestherevolt/status/1305972616688054273 pic.twitter.com/dokLOLvMgW
  • 15 September 2020 : Of course security culture is a thing. Of course. But like, let’s learn from history. Black, Brown & Indigenous anarchists & revolutionaries across the world open carry as a means of resistance & community defense. I’ve never seen that in Portland Oregon. In other US cities, yes.
  • 15 September 2020 : What? Like, I’ve yet to see armed coordinated responses akin to BPP style engagement? I’m not talking about people just showing up with some comrades who are armed & being ready. I’m talking visible, organized, disciplined and trained community defense centered around BIPOC.
  • 15 September 2020 : We need armed coordinated, disciplined resistance not street brawls. The reactivity of the left in going to meet fash on their grounds where they have set the stage is a critical mistake imo. Like, fighting fash needs to be strategic not reactionary & on fash turf. Study the BPP.
  • 15 September 2020 : Anyone who’s thinking that my point is we should never use violence and just try to go de-escalate fash doesn’t know me very well which is fine. But like, the BPP was organized, intentional, trained, AND disciplined.
  • 15 September 2020 : I wanna be clear for y’all who are confused by my point about gratuitous violence: I’m PRO VIOLENCE. We all should be getting armed up & stocked w/ ammo. 100%. I co-sign self defense. I don’t understand violence without clear, intentional training, strategy, or coordination.
  • 15 September 2020 : I disagree that the antifascist movement predates calls for abolition. Abolition is a hundreds year old rallying cry from the black community. Abolition hasn’t been centered in the PNW for years tho so that makes sense. I’m not against violence. Just against gratuitous violence.
  • 15 September 2020 : Well you asked me what the resolution is or endpoint to move on? & like, there’s plenty of ppl quote tweeting this & discussing how they disagree with it. If no one is looking for something here then folks can just say they’re done? But tagging me is gonna get engaged with.
  • 15 September 2020 : Just got a message asking to boost this info. This website lists ICE detention facilities in the US. Also lists collaborators in local law enforcement as well as some profiteers and some phone numbers and addresses! #AbolishICE #DECOLONIZE https://concentrationcamps.us/
  • 15 September 2020 : I guess that people who feel victimized by this tweet and convo get to decide if they want to engage in good faith convos or call me in for mediation? But there’s a lot of bad faith responses here I’m just engaging with for idk why tbh. But idk what resolution folks want from me.
  • 15 September 2020 : Also, idk what the end point is. I posted my opinion (& apparently fucked up by not explaining that this tweet to my personal page is an opinion) and now I’m responding to folks responding. But like, I don’t have some agenda here.
  • 15 September 2020 : I literally blocked them for liking the misogynistic tweet leveled at me. Up until I saw they liked that tweet I was engaging consistently in conversation with them. I made a whole tweet about why I blocked the 4 people and op who I blocked.
  • 15 September 2020 : It really is a pandemic issue with people weaponizing St. Paul’s principles against survivors and victims. I’ve seen it across the country. And it’s b/c, IMO, of the way people weaponize rule 3 to silence anyone with concerns about harm from bad actors.
  • 15 September 2020 : I’m sad that ppl in Bloc were too concerned about being identified in literal bloc for us to record the panel I was on w/ other community antifascists where we discussed the ways St. Paul’s are used by (often yt) people to silence any conversation about harm caused on the left.
  • 15 September 2020 : So many people love to quote the St. Paul’s principles to silence any general discussion about tactics online. They’re also often used to tell (often Black, trans, or women/femme) survivors that they shouldn’t out their abusers if their a leftist because “st Paul’s” Its toxic.
  • 15 September 2020 : Omg someone posted the St. Paul’s principles & I’m really excited to say there have been folks expressing interest in writing a new, decolonized version of the St. Paul’s principles that can’t be weaponized to protect abusers or silence victims as the current principles are used.
  • 15 September 2020 : What good faith arguments did I block? I announced that I blocked people who liked a tweet that was literally misogynoir? And one of the people I blocked I was engaging w/ before that. I’m literally in convo with the person who’s been the most bad faith towards me for two years?
  • 15 September 2020 : Ahh yes because dictionary definitions are the only thing that matters. Language definitely is never used outside of its definition as an attack on more marginalized folks.
  • 15 September 2020 : There was a single one off tweet I made. & then people started replying and I engaged with them. Then someone asked a specific question & I made a thread responding to that question. You spoke of the thread & I responded about the thread.
  • 15 September 2020 : So like, I don’t understand you purporting that I’m immune to engagement when I’ve been engaging with multiple people for hours. Also... (cont)
  • 15 September 2020 : The intent was to share my opinion about what I say on the streets here on my personal platform. I’m genuinely confused as to why so many white people think that me posting that on my personal twitter was me saying it is a fact.
  • 15 September 2020 : When did I call out organizers tho? Like I literally didn’t call out anyone. I posted my opinion about the Portland leftist community at large on my personal platform. I also have never seen those other tactics receive as much enthusiastic support or visibility as street actions.
  • 15 September 2020 : See and I disagree with your opinion of it not being accurate based on years of frontline experiences as a Black person. But I hear that you personally don’t think it was helpful & that’s perfectly valid.
  • 15 September 2020 : (& also b/c we had undocu folks at camp who needed protected from not-strategic escalation) That convo was had multiple times both w/ individuals & at camp wide meetings & yt people continued that behavior for weeks until BIPOC felt they could no longer be there.
  • 15 September 2020 : Yeah! occupy ice PDX is a great example. Yt people were asked to not angrily yell expletives at cops while the building was open b/c undocumented folks still had to show up for appointments & with many not speaking English it was scary to see yt people screaming toward them. 1/2
  • 15 September 2020 : I didn’t know I have to announce that literally everything I post on my personal page is not fact ? Like, is everything that everyone posts on any personal platform taken as fact? Do I need to put “tweets are my own perspective” in my personal bio?
  • 15 September 2020 : 🥴 so share your experiences? you know you’re able and allowed to do that? Instead of asking people you aren’t in community with to provide proof of their personal opinions?
  • 15 September 2020 : I 100% agree with this. I’m 100% in favor of being prepared to escalate with intentional training, tactics and strategies for armed combat. We desperately need that rn & its something I’ve been talking to local BIPOC about! We need better & more intentional arms trainings.
  • 15 September 2020 : So like, I just reread that whole thread I posted in response to a question asked about my opinions. I literally cannot find any facts that I posted? I consistently say “imo” or “I believe.” I’m literally 100% open to being shown what inaccurate facts I posted. Even in DMs.
  • 15 September 2020 : Also, white people are literally known to silence BIPOC perspectives and opinions by centering their own *opinions* & experiences. But we know yt people never see the full weight of oppression because of their privilege so like what you saw doesn’t mean I didn’t see otherwise?
  • 15 September 2020 : Okay? So you had different personal reflections upon what you’ve seen on the street. My perspectives are formed from my first hand experiences with racism, colonialism, & gratuitous violence from yt leftists across the country including PDX. (1/2)
  • 15 September 2020 : To my understanding it’s historically misogynistic. I don’t know any explicit racist connotations to that phrase but “home-wrecker” is definitely consistently leveraged against women and femmes. But misogyny definitely is the basis for racist misogynoir so at the same time, yes.
  • 15 September 2020 : So you’re bragging about your number of followers in an attempt to discredit people as suspect but you’re not out here for clout and you don’t want followers? Which is it? Follower counts don’t mean anything or only your follower count means something?
  • 15 September 2020 : But like, who are you to say this isn’t an accurate reflection of these events? This is my opinion. You can say you don’t see this or that you haven’t experienced this. But opinions aren’t about accuracy because they’re not statements of facts. It’s fine you don’t agree.
  • 15 September 2020 : Also, I’ve been engaging in conversation about tactics with plenty of other people in that thread who weren’t literally using racist micro aggressions to counter my point? Just because you’re too privileged to recognize or understand microaggressions doesn’t mean it’s not racist.
  • 15 September 2020 : Imagine thinking that you can tell someone whether you have or have not gaslit someone. Unintentional gaslighting is still gaslighting. You literally called my opinions inaccurate. (That’s how facts work not opinions) and then said nobody was calling my opinions inaccurate. 🥴
  • 15 September 2020 : I’m supposed to address Portland’s celebrity culture by not utilizing the platforms I’ve built for community education? Like, if people are asking for Black perspectives in the whitest city I’m gonna share mine. But I can still say they shouldn’t just follow me b/c I’m visible.
  • 15 September 2020 : So instead of working to directly support my community along the principles of “from each according to their abilities” you think it makes more sense for a Black abolitionist to deplatform themselves during a Black uprising for liberation being consistently coopted by reformists?
  • 15 September 2020 : 2 years of shitty takes and zero attempts at good faith debate, mediation, or mitigation of concerns. But I guess as long as you’ve been hate watching someone’s activity for years, you never need to try mediation because restorative justice is only for people who aren’t visible?
  • 15 September 2020 : ???? You can challenge/ argue against an opinion w/o calling it inaccurate? Have you ever intentionally debated a topic? Because I have which is basically an intentional argument about opinions. And like, it’s fine to disagree with or critique opinions but saying they’re wrong?
  • 15 September 2020 : What threads? Like where? I’ve seen like one thread? Or like a few one off tweets by individuals who I understand hating me because I call them out for being gross reformists? Like, is no one willing to reach out to me for mediation? And if so why? Because I ask for dms often.
  • 15 September 2020 : when I’ve been self aggrandizing cuz I hate when people center me. It’s gross & it’s dangerous. Hence me consistently doing education on why it’s bad to idolize folks or put them on a pedestal by calling them heroes & the like. PDX has a gross celebrity culture I wanna fight.
  • 15 September 2020 : So you’re only engaging with the things that you hate that I say? You’re not actually following along to understand the growth I’ve gone through just sticking with one off critiques of different isolated circumstances. I’m actually hella interested in being given critiques of 1/
  • 15 September 2020 : Well I mean you just invalidated my opinion, then gaslit me when I said why calling opinions innacurate is nonsensical, and then changed your tune without acknowledging that you literally gaslit me after I called out the thing you’d literally just done so???
  • 15 September 2020 : Which ones? Do you have examples of criticisms you’d like me to respond to? That I haven’t been responding to across multiple threads all morning? I make myself available to good faith convos consistently. But attacks on my character w/o ever asking for the full story is not it.
  • 15 September 2020 : I’m not a guy please don’t use gendered language at trans people wtf
  • 15 September 2020 : WHEN DID I SAY THAT?? I literally am actively sharing my opinions about tactical decisions? I never said dont snow up. I just stated my personal opinion. then people started asking questions about my opinion and I answered them. I’m just confused about how my opinion is advice?
  • 15 September 2020 : You literally just said my take was unhelpful and inaccurate? This take is literally my personal opinion. How can you say no one is saying Black people’s opinions are inaccurate when you literally just explicitly did that?
  • 15 September 2020 : I literally never said that was the only thing white people care about? But the fact that so many white people are taking it as if I did is telling. I said there’s an issue with a specific thing. I never said “yt people only care about x”. I made a statement about my experiences.
  • 15 September 2020 : I’m literally constantly engaging in self crit and mediation? Like, this is just false because I’ve literally written so many tweets (and had so many irl convos) with people about how I can be better for BIPOC communities. And owning up to mistakes?
  • 15 September 2020 : This is literally not about damage control re my thread today. I stand by everything I said. This tweet is about ppl who literally hate me not who I’ve been engaging in convo w/. What criticism have I not responded to in the actual circumstances where it’s been given in thread?
  • 15 September 2020 : When did I ever tell people not to fight fascism? Also, I never said I’m the gospel lol. That’s religious colonizer language to begin with. I’m encouraging people to assess if Black people’s values align with yours before literally following them on the street at protests.
  • 15 September 2020 : It’s fine if you disagree that Portland has an issue with glorifying gratuitous violence. That’s an opinion. But who are you to say that my personal opinion is inaccurate? You can also believe it’s unhelpful. But to say Black people’s opinions are inaccurate? That’s nonsensical.
  • 15 September 2020 : You’re literally analyzing what meanings are present behind the words which is not taking things at face value. You’re tweeting that I’m trying to discourage people from showing up when I never said that. Face value is face value. Talking about what’s implied is not face value.
  • 15 September 2020 : You wanna talk all day about the work you do & the impact you have offline. Sure great whatever. But to claim that you’re for anyone’s liberation if you can’t even accept the need for emotional vulnerability in the act of replacing the police & prison state? That’s not abolition.
  • 15 September 2020 : Like I don’t have minions the fuck. If I did I probably wouldn’t be defending myself mostly alone from some racist ass bullshit. You can’t pretend to be for freedom & not actually apply the principles of restorative justice. This is just a trial via the court of public opinion.
  • 15 September 2020 : It’s not about clout it’s about recognizing toxic behavior. It’s hypocritical as fuck to call yourself a leftist when leftist values are centered around restorative justice and replacing the police. But y’all wanna cancel a Black organizer prioritizing Black people w/o one convo?
  • 15 September 2020 : Also, people love to fucking hypo-analyze the insinuations of Black folks words instead of taking them at face value. Y’all don’t put this type of energy into addressing literal physical and emotional abusers in the city. But I’m the problem because?
  • 15 September 2020 : Okay but I never said that direct confrontation is unnecessary? And also, a doxx is fine but if we’re just posting names and pics and not intentionally organizing the community to actually bring results outside of being able to say their name on the streets then what?
  • 15 September 2020 : You’re saying it’s implied but like I never said it hasn’t been done? Just posting nazis names online isn’t much in regards to organizing. Sure, their pictures online. where’s the concentrated effort in de platforming them & creating long term struggles for them off the street?
  • 15 September 2020 : Okay and how many of them have had their lives ruined? How many have lost their jobs through concerted community effort? How many have had impact beyond their name being published?
  • 15 September 2020 : YES I DID CONSISTENTLY. And who offered me help? BIPOC. Literally. I consistently asked for help. I literally just asked what I could do to help & people gave me a thousand tasks that I juggled. They were vouched for by someone that literally was vouched for by PDX ppl so?
  • 15 September 2020 : Do you have anything to say about literal active abuse and intentional violence that happened at the camp or are you only concerned about the failures of people new to the movement? You can’t build a movement if you insult “noobs” for not being up to your personal standards lol
  • 15 September 2020 : I’m saying that you don’t speak up online about the way white anarchists destroyed the trust of BIPOC and undocumented folks. That’s literally something that can be reviewed online. Also, it’s not my fault you’re too scared of emotional vulnerability to DM me or ask for mediation
  • 15 September 2020 : Did any of those folks who were more experienced than me ever reach out to counter what I’d been directly asked for by other folks? Or do y’all expect newbies to be perfect with no mediation, no good faith interventions, and no intentional community education?
  • 15 September 2020 : Oh you know what happened in Tijuana? What wake of destruction was left in my path? I was being actively abused by my abuser the whole time I was there and made some mistakes I’ve mediated with people across the country because of my trauma responses. But you don’t know that huh?
  • 15 September 2020 : I never said you personally. I mean y’all in regards to white people. But the fact that you never mention how yt people literally ignoring asks from directly affected folks was one of the reasons an entire group of bipoc disaffiliated themselves with the camp does say something..
  • 15 September 2020 : If you’d like me to clarify something, you’re gonna need to ask a direct question. Is the problem you don’t understand enough of the words or just that it’s too many words to read through or do you have an actual specific clarification question that you can articulate?
  • 15 September 2020 : I, a brand new activist, was told that this action was being led by undocumented folks. I listened to undocumented folks & stood in allyship with them. I literally only did things I was asked. But you don’t know that, huh? You just wanna be mad Black femmes didn’t listen to you?
  • 15 September 2020 : Or do you just hide behind your twitter account to talk shit? Cause I’ve personally mediated with a number of folks who used to have the same perspectives as you and who approached me to ask me to be accountable for harm. But mediation is probably too emotionally vulnerable huh?
  • 15 September 2020 : You got all the details from both sides of the story or you just gonna keep siding with people you’ve known the longest as if that means anything regarding values and isn’t just a way to alienate new people and kick them out if they’re not as perfect as your yt comrades on day 1?
  • 15 September 2020 : You got anything to say about folks literally abusing people on the front lines like luis? Or you gonna fall back on “he evicted a molester” not knowing that the person who asked for that persons removal was the daughter of the woman who committed CSA against the person removed?
  • 15 September 2020 : Also, you still gonna hide behind an anonymous account if I allegedly know you?? You never gonna ask for a conversation with me? just keep running off about shit you don’t know anything about like my abuse by GLA & how some GLA folks also quit to protect me from yts?
  • 15 September 2020 : Remember when Latinx and undocumented and immigrant folks and also black & brown folks asked y’all to stop escalating w/ cops because it wasn’t sustainable nor effective & everyone ignored that ask because it’s not as cathartic or fun for yt ppl to keep their fucking mouth shut?
  • 15 September 2020 : Made some yts angry but I organize for impacted communities not people who wanna be saviors or fight the state no matter the context. Remember when Latinx folks asked ppl to stop yelling during open hours when undocu folks had appointments out of respect & y’all wouldn’t stop?
  • 15 September 2020 : Well I built some really fantastic and trusting relationships with directly affected communities for one since they were allegedly supposed to be guiding this! Was also able to open doors for impacted people who wanted those doors open because solidarity.
  • 15 September 2020 : all these people who hate me literally be like “Lilith is trying to make the narrative about themselves when we should listen to less Black people’s opinions about the Black liberation movement.” “black lives matter but only when they align perfectly w/ my idea of tactics, wah!”
  • 15 September 2020 : “ugh, how DARE Black people give their own personal opinions on their own personal socia media accounts that they are willing to have directly associated to them by name?! Critiques should *only* be collective & done by anonymous accounts otherwise it’s centering yourself” 🥺😫 https://twitter.com/thrillhouse138/status/1305966370975150080
  • 15 September 2020 : Can anyone point out to me where I said that no one has tried any other tactic besides mass action? I couldn’t find any instance or circumstance where I said this? https://twitter.com/egoldmanrevolt/status/1305971022688972800
  • 15 September 2020 : Also, does this person not know that I literally never negotiated anything with the city but was attending meetings asked for by directly impacted undocumented or migrant folks where we were fighting for licenses for all & for the end of the conditional use permit at ice? 😂 https://twitter.com/wherestherevolt/status/1305967199987707904
  • 15 September 2020 : Does anyone know who this very brave anonymous white person is that keeps saying they’ve worked with me & that I caused harm who has never once approached me for mediation? I’m assuming it’s because Black people are too scary to treat with basic respect by discussing concerns. https://twitter.com/wherestherevolt/status/1305965580206239744
  • 15 September 2020 : Can anyone point to city officials I’ve been organizing with? Outside of the meetings I had at city hall that I was attending w/ undocumented folks during occupy ice who I was taking literally all my direction from which made yt people mad I wouldn’t listen to them? 😂😂 y’all https://twitter.com/wherestherevolt/status/1305965128576167936
  • 15 September 2020 : Me, goes to Charlottesville on the second anniversary of Heather’s death to literally support the Black youth organizers from the local college & stand in a literal wall of bodies to protect those kids from cops. Y’all: Lilith is bad b/c some yt people said so! it’s not racist! https://twitter.com/grumpyanarchy/status/1305968421796851712
  • 15 September 2020 : The torch network coulda got me killed because they associate with literal violent abusers like Luis that y’all in PDX still love to defend because he “fights fash” (there’s that glorifying of violence). 😂 literally go be racist somewhere else & keep my name out your mouth.
  • 15 September 2020 : y’all just doxx everyone ever remotely associated with that group as if the torch network isn’t the group that spread a NATIONWIDE COPJACKET of me (a Black femme & out SWer) at Luis Martinez’ urging. But tell me more about how torch is the group to decide who’s good & bad. 😂
  • 15 September 2020 : As if I didn’t get fucking abused before it fell apart. (As if some GLA ppl didn’t disavow GLA & work to protect me which led to them being abused.) 😂 Yall dont know shit. But Black ppl who briefly associated w/ something you have zero first hand experience w/ must be the issue.
  • 15 September 2020 : Lmao at y’all still being big mad about GLA as if the whole thing hasn’t fallen apart. As if the reason I got involved wasn’t because y’all vouched for Evan Duke (my abuser who was actively associated with them & took me to their safehouse.)
  • 15 September 2020 : why do y’all see criticism as a personal attack? why do y’all think that you white folks are doing the most or putting everything on the line when you go out anonymously in bloc while BIPOC stand beside you unblocked in the streets? Like y’all are the target 🥴 sit tf down pls.
  • 15 September 2020 : lol I said that this city has a problem with gratuitous violence as a Black/Indigenous person who’s been attending (or helping organize) antifascist actions against both the state & non-uniformed fash literally across the country for two years & a bunch of yt leftists got MAD 😂
  • 15 September 2020 : Also I know who tf Alan Swinney is thanks. Did you not know his name or do you think it just makes sense to post pictures of fash without id’ing them so they can retain some vague possibility of anonymity??
  • 15 September 2020 : Why do you think I don’t know how much money they have? Like I haven’t been tracking the proud boy groups across the country when I was going to antifascist actions against them in dozens of different cities? This is some racist bullshit telling Black people what they know. 🥴
  • 15 September 2020 : Who said anything about compromising?
  • 15 September 2020 : Lmao who are you? If you don’t wanna believe my first hand experiences thats fine. You don’t even follow me why would I bother??
  • 15 September 2020 : Sarah “I love having a Cis-black Male Campaign Manager that I Can consistently tokenize” Iaoioaiaoia @sarah4pdx is literally racist and she still has black men and women ( @JoAnnPDX ) simping for her. Like, this shit is literally racist tokenization & also doesn’t credit ppl. 🥴 https://twitter.com/juhsinduh_/status/1305695820491055105
  • 15 September 2020 : Wait I opened it in safari and I 100% remember this gross ass bullshit.
  • 15 September 2020 : Wait I’m blocked I need screens 😭😭
  • 15 September 2020 : Just as a heads up, I’m not here for passive aggressive mis-classification of my words. To tell a black femme giving their first hand analysis & intentional critiques on behaviors that they’re “vilifying ppl trying to build a better world” is some angry black femme nonsense. https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1305962918840684544
  • 15 September 2020 : I just blocked the person who told me I was vilifying shit & everyone who liked that tweet because y’all got a whole lotta fucking nerve saying a Black femme giving their personal analysis from direct experience is “vilifying ppl trying to build a better world.” Tf wrong w/ y’all
  • 15 September 2020 : Also, the fuck? You literally do not know what I know. Idek who tf you are. People like you think that because you follow someone you know them. You literally do not. Villains are evil and bad. Negative opinions are not active villification. Get the fuck outta here with that mess
  • 15 September 2020 : See but yt people love to say that a black person explaining their PERSONAL FRONTLINE EXPERIENCES is dangerous, harmful or vilifying. This is literally some covert racism. Just because you read that one statement as negative doesn’t mean I’m literally villifying people.
  • 15 September 2020 : Okay, but like, why does the city center getting big numbers like this only for armed fash? Why don’t we pull #s like this at other fash places (like ted wheelers). Yt ppl in PDX seem to think “armed fash rallies” are the biggest danger like the state isn’t a bigger issue.
  • 15 September 2020 : So here’s the thing, Robert was out documenting & also did not escalate. I’m also not saying there’s no people de-escalating. I never said that. But in my first hand experiences theyre consistently outnumbered. I don’t feel safe in the Bloc because of consistent yt escalation
  • 15 September 2020 : Yes but at the same time I just said he was a warrior. That’s it. and he literally did not fight the fascists so that’s actively not the same thing as what I’m talking about. He was documenting. But lots of ppl still use words like “hero” and shit to describe these circumstances
  • 15 September 2020 : Well, if we could stress the need of having as many people show up to teds house(s) as are willing to go fight fash, that would be a starting point. But that’s not as fun or as serious for a lot of ppl because they look at ted as a centrist instead of as a yt supremacist still
  • 15 September 2020 : That’s not an acceptable answer imo. Any yt person not willing to die for this is literally not my fucking comrade. Any yt person still claiming ignorance is doing so willfully. The reality you’re describing is just an example of white supremacy that leftists are too cozy with.
  • 15 September 2020 : See & I don’t even understand this because we’re not planning anything here? We’re just having a discussion on theory/tactics. & I don’t get the fear of prosecution by white people to the extent to which so many of y’all have it. But I respect that you’re at your limit.
  • 15 September 2020 : So like, what effective organizing are folks doing which centers around the people in power (state and city wide) who are allowing this? Besides some occasional protests at teds spaces within only the last 100 days?
  • 15 September 2020 : How am I vilifying them? I never said they were evil or destructive to the movement?
  • 15 September 2020 : As a front line folk, I actively disagree. I’ve been out on the front line (& in organizing convos regarding front line response) for two years and I don’t at all think a vast majority of these people know what they’re doing from first hand experience.
  • 15 September 2020 : That’s a big part of the issue for me. If yt people in PDX aren’t willing to literally die for the cause then we’re not gonna get anywhere. People will die. Revolutions are filled with grief. But this consistent worry about white people staying as safe as possible en masse?
  • 15 September 2020 : People are fighting for basic survival instead of progress. The issue is that a bunch of yt people aren’t willing to risk their lives to the same extent as the most impacted. We’re at risk of death everyday of our lives & so many white people are worried about their own survival.
  • 15 September 2020 : See but that’s my issue because success (imo) should mean creative organizing tactics, weakening the stronghold that fash have, destroying their systems, and building power outside of the state so we don’t have to rely on them. Yt people wanna fight to survive but like... (1/)
  • 15 September 2020 : playing dress up a few hundred feet from fash but never in regards to other targeting of fash (uniformed of otherwise.) This city consistently recycles tactics that haven’t created significant, long term change in any way & its endlessly confusing to me.
  • 15 September 2020 : have been consistently using so many of the same tactics each night (and also consistently following Black folks just because they’re Black & not based on morals/values) & we got a ban on 1 type of tear gas after 100 days. Diversity of tactics in PDX seems reserved for 3/
  • 15 September 2020 : @CouldYouJustN0t @TheBrandonPaape Also, I was at the event last year too. And like, raising thousands of dollars for non-profits is an interesting decision to me. Additionally, the funny costume thing was cute but like cops continue to support fash. Also, people have been downtown for 100 days and 2/
  • 15 September 2020 : Well, for instance, in other cities where they’ve been doing counter rallies for literally two years straight, we’ve seen a focus on antifascist activity in between rallies. Tons of doxxed nazis around the country too scared to keep coming out. But in PDX, fash #’s grow. 1/
  • 15 September 2020 : Also, I’m surprised by anyone saying they haven’t seen the PDX community glorify violence. This whole city is so obsessed with physical self defense that ppl go out & literally scream & posture at & push up on armed fash lines as a means of self defense knowing they’re out armed.
  • 15 September 2020 : I’m not talking about beforehand. I’m talking about how when people fight & get hurt half the online comm is like “OMG WHAT A HERO” & starts simping for any & every person on the front lines no matter how toxic they might be. The swaths of ppl still defending Luis come to mind.
  • 15 September 2020 : while others hang back out of fear and concern and just fucking record instead of using the privilege they have. There’s no point, imo, in doing these big counter-rallies (that have not worked in PDX) over & over again while ppl continue to not center the most marginalized.
  • 15 September 2020 : at risk populations. Like, teaching people de-arrest skills and also teaching people de-escalation skills and also telling people to prioritize having lots of yt people step in when BIPOC & others are being attacked instead of watching 1-2 people jump up against a dozen fash 5/
  • 15 September 2020 : vulnerable populations who might need errands run or etc to coordinate ride shares for folks who’d be otherwise walking/commuting in those areas. Also, if you’re gonna go fight fash, there could at least be some clear & intentional directives to yt people about how to defend 4/
  • 15 September 2020 : city to warn residents about the risks of being out in the streets on days that fash are rallying. I don’t ever see people in Portland doing accessible comm. education for at risk populations to warn them of risks. Also, setting up day of mutual aid projects to help any 3/
  • 15 September 2020 : and work to gather intel and study their movements. Additionally, there’s opportunities for yt folks to be on standby in the area to respond to any targeting. Like, trained self-defense teams casually patrolling the area. Also, posting flyers in multiple languages around the 2/
  • 15 September 2020 : Well, first of all, by centering the most marginalized & not having white people plan events without Black, Brown, Indigenous & Disabled feedback. Also, by assessing strategy & recognizing that we could have yt ppl go out not in bloc to discreetly take pics & monitor activity 1/
  • 15 September 2020 : Portland Oregon’s antifascist community has a huge issue with glorifying gratuitous violence and idolizing people who fight fash. Y’all be planning huge events to fight fash & using so many resources & so much energy just to go fight fash. Like, the lack of de-escalation... 🥴
  • 15 September 2020 : That’s...a very white take tbh. There’s plenty of ways to make plans to intentionally protect & defend Black & Brown people. Like, Portland loves gratuitous violence and huge fights w/ fash when we could just have casual patrols monitoring fash activity with teams on standby
  • 15 September 2020 : Does anyone know if there’s been accessibility arrangements made? I don’t see a single thing on this flyer about accessibility which is always weird to me because that should always be confirmed before flyers are finalized or posted. Or explicit plans to protect Black folks? https://twitter.com/popmobpdx/status/1304529866222702592
  • 15 September 2020 : I spent 3 yrs being like “I’ll fight you if you ever hurt one of my trans friend because I’m a bisexual ally” before the pandemic hit & I just was like oh I’m not cis. Someone told me cis women don’t wish they have penises & that weirdly blew my mind?? You can try on pronouns.💕
  • 15 September 2020 : a vibe. https://twitter.com/creatorsfavorit/status/1305682223455186945
  • 15 September 2020 : I’ve wanted a significant breast reduction since like 17 and a hysterectomy since like 21 but I only realized I was trans at like 25. Lmfao what a joke.
  • 15 September 2020 : okay @costarastrology 🥴😒 pic.twitter.com/fVJGIr6Ufq
  • 15 September 2020 : Tbh like, I’m really just tryna thirst after blonde elf Orlando bloom and hear words of wisdom from Gandalf. But yeah, I’m also concerned about how taxing it would be. Hence me having never watched them 😅😅
  • 15 September 2020 : I made not a single promise in my tweet. If you look back on the record you’ll see that this is accurate and no commitments were made.
  • 15 September 2020 : Live tweeting a movie I’ve never seen before was fun. I don’t think I’d get much out of live tweeting something I’ve seen before. I was about to ask what I should live tweet next but tbh I have a huge secret i just remembered in that I’ve never watched the LOTR movies in full. 🤔
  • 15 September 2020 : Honestly, I think I watched so much of the nanny growing up that I just also hate Andrew Lloyd Webber and have a disdain for the whole thing
  • 15 September 2020 : I will not lmao. Not gonna lie, once upon a time some friends and I talked about getting high as fuck and watching cats but that was before the end of the world so now it’s a solid no.
  • 15 September 2020 : Omg no. 😂😂😂 I cannot.
  • 15 September 2020 : Wait, I think I got this plot point confused with the time I read a tale of two cities. Is that what this is from? Cause this is not right. There was not a lady in a tavern. https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1305693889198657536
  • 15 September 2020 : Yeah like, I also sing and that sounds rough as fuck.
  • 15 September 2020 : Damn that’s actually hella fucked.
  • 15 September 2020 : Nah I actually usually cry a lot. Lion King fucks me up.
  • 15 September 2020 : I really wanna watch Newsies all the way through but like, they started talking about the red scare and I had to turn it off lol.
  • 15 September 2020 : I am cackling. At the photo. At @cremebruleepdx ’s comment. At the fact that the wallofmoms Instagram is simping for Sarah Iaoaaioaaa. At the person who promised to donate $10 for each of their shit posts about Sarah https://twitter.com/cremebruleepdx/status/1305560967712067584
  • 15 September 2020 : Ahhh, this actually provides a ton more depth to his whole character. They couldn’t have added even one line about this when he announced he was born in a prison...
  • 15 September 2020 : I guess this has been good. I enjoy musicals cause they keep my attention better. This whole live tweeting experience has actually been really fun though. Can we do this more regularly? Can we like all start a movie simultaneously one night? Ill make a thread lol.
  • 15 September 2020 : Alright well it’s over. I haven’t cried. I’m mainly just mad. But if yt people wanna keep giving grace to cops trying to kill them I guess that’s fine. But like, Javert ended up committing suicide anyway and his murder would have been self defense & woulda wasted a lot less time.
  • 15 September 2020 : Ahhh, so heaven is just a giant revolutionary barricade huh? We don’t even get to rest and relax? We just gonna be in earth 2.0 with all the same colonizer buildings and thrown together furniture?
  • 15 September 2020 : That poor girl. She had such a shitty life. But at least now cosette will never fucking want for anything because her Aryan looks caught her a rich white boy.
  • 15 September 2020 : Ahh and here’s fantine. He really is about to die in front of them. This whole movie is full of unnecessary shit.
  • 15 September 2020 : And now his kids are here. Is he gonna die in front of them?
  • 15 September 2020 : Ahh and now the ghost of fantine is here to be like yes you will die and come up here to heaven for me.
  • 15 September 2020 : Is he just singing about wanting to die because that’s a fucking mood.
  • 15 September 2020 : Okay and now her foster parents showed up to make some money. And now Marius knows that jean saved his life. But like, I’m assuming they got all that fucking money because he went back to his rich ass family right?
  • 15 September 2020 : He bout to straight up about to dip out on his daughter and not even say goodbye? Men really are some self concerned bastards. The audacity.
  • 15 September 2020 : How come he talks about stealing bread to save his sisters son but we’ve never gotten an update on his sister or her son?? and now he’s just like, hey kid, I did some fucked up shit so take care of my daughter okay stranger.
  • 15 September 2020 : Ahh, here’s Jean Valjean. Trailing after cosette and Marius as they sing together. He got his aryan wife & all his friends died. Great.
  • 15 September 2020 : And okay, so the rich white boy is alive. Of course. But where tf is Jean Valjean? (Also, these community members mopping up the blood of their friends & neighbors remind me of something I learned first hand which is that the police dont help clean up after deaths at ppls homes)
  • 15 September 2020 : Did Javert just commit suicide?
  • 15 September 2020 : What is happening in the water below the bridge he’s on right now? Like, where those waves coming from? 🥴
  • 15 September 2020 : “The law is not to be mocked.” Uhh, yes it is you little ass bitch. Laws don’t mean shit.
  • 15 September 2020 : Ahh and he didn’t shoot. He dropped his gun.
  • 15 September 2020 : And now of course Javerts right there. Being asked to give mercy. Once again.
  • 15 September 2020 : Alright and now Jean Valjean is trying to save this rich ass little bitch. Of course he’s the only fucking one to survive.
  • 15 September 2020 : Javert gave this dead kid his military pin as if that means shit. Fuck you you punk ass cop.
  • 15 September 2020 : Yep. They all dead as fuck. They took out hella soldiers tho it looks like.
  • 15 September 2020 : Now they fighting with swords. All these people ain’t even letting them in their houses. Marius got fucked up.
  • 15 September 2020 : They getting shot with whole ass cannons.
  • 15 September 2020 : Are all these people about to die? I feel like they all about to die.
  • 15 September 2020 : Yo. They killed the baby. Fuck these cops. I’m so mad.
  • 15 September 2020 : Gavroche is really a little ass warrior.
  • 15 September 2020 : Oh, were there other barricades? And they’ve all been abandoned?
  • 15 September 2020 : “We’re the only people left” say what?? I had to rewind for a minute.
  • 15 September 2020 : Y’all keep telling me to get tissues ready but so far all of these deaths have been avoidable as fuck. And I don’t empathize with white people very well. I got some paper towels nearby from dinner. We’ll see how it goes. But I haven’t gotten teary yet 👀
  • 15 September 2020 : You really trying to hand your fucking daughter off to a man you know she only met up with once in the last 48 hours. Really?? Jean cmon.
  • 15 September 2020 : And then wasted a whole bullet just to cover up his treachery. The fuck. Christians really center so much on trying to live their values that they have no sense of self preservation and it’s pathetic af.
  • 15 September 2020 : He freed him?? And now this bitch is like “if you let me go beware” and he’s just like yeah pal be free and here’s where you can find me tomorrow.
  • 15 September 2020 : If he don’t kill Javert I’m about to be furious.
  • 15 September 2020 : Y’all can’t love each other. You saw each other once and then spoke for like 3 minutes. Grow tf up.
  • 15 September 2020 : And now she’s just dead. Like, tf.
  • 15 September 2020 : Eponine ran up and got shot? And is just like hiding it? Bitch why? Cause you’re sad he dont love you? 😑
  • 15 September 2020 : Who’s there!? The French Revolution!
  • 15 September 2020 : All of y’all to restrain one fucking cop and you fucked it up and got hit.
  • 15 September 2020 : Ugh thank god for this fucking kid. Gavroche is a fucking legend.
  • 15 September 2020 : Y’all don’t know Javert by face?!?! How? Tf?? What bad security culture and opsec.
  • 15 September 2020 : Oh shit they really wasn’t fucking around. They shooting cops and setting up barricades to straight up defend width arms.
  • 15 September 2020 : I want a revolutionary song that we all know and can sing together on the front lines. This feels good. (And solidarity forever is some colonizer ass shit dont mention it here because fuck that noise.)
  • 15 September 2020 : Alright time for the funeral. And I’m ready for the drama.
  • 15 September 2020 : I am hella jealous though that they can just meet up at bars and talk about forming ranks and literal war without worrying about the surveillance state spying on them electronically. They have to literally be followed and snuck up on which is a lot easier to nip in the bud.
  • 15 September 2020 : Ugh and Eponine also pining after this little rich man. Y’all this whole storyline of this love triangle is just screaming toxic monogamy. Stop thinking one person is the person who will be the center of your life. It’s counter dependent as fuck.
  • 15 September 2020 : Cosette really tryna risk her life for this random ass little rich white boy. Really?? Go to England bitch. Tf.
  • 15 September 2020 : And idgaf if he’s refusing money because of his morals. The fuck. Redistribute wealth you have access to or stfu about any type of socialist/communist world you wanna see. Like, we gotta help each other survive. We can’t afford to have comrades hoarding wealth individually.
  • 15 September 2020 : Ugh this rich white boy lusting after the most Aryan girl in the film who literally is far more comfortable than the poor folks that he’s cosplaying around with in the movement.
  • 15 September 2020 : I just realized grown up cosette is played by that blonde actor from mamma Mia. Which makes sense, because, musicals. But also, there’s gotta be way more actors who can sing than whom they hire for all these big budget musical films. Like, the repetition.
  • 15 September 2020 : The little blonde kid who’s dope as fuck and already a revolutionary??! Is supposed to be her brother? 🤔 They ain’t said shit about that.
  • 15 September 2020 : “From the candles of grief we will kindle our flame.” All this trauma. All these willful murders by the state. So many people in the movement living out of spite & I’ll be honest in saying it fuels me. I intentionally fight to make room for joy & relaxation. But fury drives me.
  • 15 September 2020 : “Is this simply a game for a rich young boy to play?” Oof. 100%. people with wealth really don’t understand the struggles of the poor. Comfortability really blinds people to the weight and despair in the struggles of the poor on a day to day basis. And ignorance is bliss truly.
  • 15 September 2020 : Wait, should I turn this off? I’m concerned.
  • 15 September 2020 : Wait, Eponine is the little girl who grew up with that shitty landlord as a father???
  • 15 September 2020 : Ughhhhhhhhh. Ughhhhh. Javert is such garbage.
  • 15 September 2020 : Wait is the blonde Cosette??? How long has it been?
  • 15 September 2020 : Ugh and he’s passing up this hella cute flirt for this blonde.
  • 15 September 2020 : This is so predictable. A white man giving libations on the struggles of the poor when he comes from big money and he’s actually just too proud to suck it up and fucking redistribute funds quietly. He gotta be up front. So mad about being born rich.
  • 15 September 2020 : I wanna start just giving speeches in parks like this. I don’t wanna organize anymore. I just wanna give educational rants in the streets and rile people up while educating folks.
  • 15 September 2020 : Wait who is this kid? I love him. “There was a time we killed the king”
  • 15 September 2020 : Omg Im so sorry.
  • 15 September 2020 : I gotta start googling shit I’m gonna watch. Cause like know I need to know what happens to cosette but maybe I coulda just googled that yknow?
  • 15 September 2020 : I actually have to admit, I know les mis has a lady in a tavern who’s like helping inspire the poor? I guess I think is better. But like, I literally don’t know anything about this movie outside of France, struggle, and it’s a musical.
  • 15 September 2020 : Literally I didn’t know this plot was going to center so much around this allegedly christian cop trying to hunt down a man who stole a bit of bread. I don’t wanna hear him sing about his colonizer frame of mind.
  • 15 September 2020 : Of course the guy who’s life he saved is the one who can’t grant them sanctuary in this church. Like, duh.
  • 15 September 2020 : If he dont just kill this cop already. Javerts gotta go.
  • 15 September 2020 : Running on foot, with a child, from someone on horseback. Okay.
  • 15 September 2020 : Ahh, look, I was right. Now they’re about to go through their own cops checkpoint at their own city.
  • 15 September 2020 : Okay, but like, what is jean valjeans plan?? He just promised this woman to take care of her child, and then went and announced that he’s been running from parole for years. And then fought a cop. Then bribed some people for a kid. And like, NOW WHAT. he’s being hunted. W/ a kid.
  • 15 September 2020 : Okay I’m mad about so many things. I’m mad about how much they hyped up Anne Hathaway being in this movie for her to die this early. Also, these foster parents really do remind me of some of my friends shitty, traumatic experiences in foster care. And I’m just like, angry.
  • 15 September 2020 : Wait, she did die?!?! Anne Hathaway fucking died?? Wtf no way.
  • 15 September 2020 : Ugh. Cosette is a sweet little baby.
  • 15 September 2020 : Of course this whole song is about him being a fucking landlord. Fuck landlords.
  • 15 September 2020 : Who is this guy singing and stealing things? Like i know that he’s Cosette’s shitty Foster dad. But like, does he run this bar? Wait, yes it seems like he does run this awful as tavern.
  • 15 September 2020 : Also, I’m inspired by these sex workers doing everything they need to fucking survive. Don’t like how they pressured Anne. But like, that’s all real.
  • 15 September 2020 : Yo. Javert is the worst kind of class traitor. He gets the fucking wall.
  • 15 September 2020 : I actually don’t think I wanna process this alone lmao. Some of these bitches need their ass beat.
  • 15 September 2020 : Wait, okay, but, Anne hatheway better not be about to die...
  • 15 September 2020 : Watching Les Mis for the first time today. Thought about live tweeting it but like, the timeline is sad enough tbh. Be back later.
  • 15 September 2020 : RT @Blackamazon: Just I mean this human treasure survived internment , and ain’t had no questions about it just rolled out in her fur ..…
  • 15 September 2020 : A really great thread on why all these black reformists and politicians in Portland tripping over themselves to get added to lawsuits against 45 are literally engaging in performative activism which is not helping any of us. The law doesn’t care about Black lives. Full stop. https://twitter.com/nokingsplz/status/1305603833968521216
  • 15 September 2020 : I actively want to get @WillLayng fired from his job for being a racist, classist, incompetent &!under qualified piece of shit. Does anybody want to help see actually abusive men removed from positions of power on the left? Will is defensive of the abuse done by Margot & PTU so
  • 15 September 2020 : Yes.
  • 15 September 2020 : The worst part about the level of visibility I have is that I can no longer take the risks I used to because of the target now on my back. Like, imagine still getting to go fuck up a racist lawyers office in the dead of night in full block. That sounds so fun. I’m jealous tbh
  • 14 September 2020 : pic.twitter.com/j4JsXYiKOY
  • 14 September 2020 : More ableism 💕💕 https://twitter.com/candiceaiston/status/1305387600254054400
  • 14 September 2020 : 2164 NE Broadway
Portland, Oregon 97232
(503) 235-5150 Gentrifier business location and phone line. Yknow for fun. 💕💕 https://twitter.com/candiceaiston/status/1305389263844978688
  • 14 September 2020 : Lol at yt women literally being ableist and racist at the same time in defense of other yt women who are also ableist and racist. Like, to call people supporting a black candidate both “ratfucks” and idiots. I’m just waiting for someone to say some shit like this irl. Try me. https://twitter.com/candiceaiston/status/1304919495878742016
  • 14 September 2020 : Are there any puppies that need rescued because of the fire? Like, babiesssssss.
  • 14 September 2020 : Extra strength acetaminophen + wearing my n95 mask while in my house + refilling my glass of water immediately every time I finish it = less awful (but still present) headaches.
  • 14 September 2020 : Do you have any ill feelings towards African Americans? “I have feelings, sir” Do you have any ILL feelings towards African Americans? “I do.” #totalabolition https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1305421636221329408
  • 14 September 2020 : This tho
  • 14 September 2020 : Meanwhile the red spider which I then saw like an inch from my eye/face was the size of a quarter didn’t even flinch or scurry or nothing. Just bouncing on its web looking at me all reproachful. Like damn.
  • 14 September 2020 : on god I was going to check this tiny storage area for anything I might need to rescue (knowing full well I didn’t really need shit from back there) & this spiderweb hit my FACE, didn’t break, and instead just started bouncing as I tried to get back & unstick myself. Like WHYYY
  • 14 September 2020 : me af 😭😭 my ancestors & the spirits be sending me all kinds of signs but sometimes I swear they play too much 😂 when I needed to be reminded not to pack too much while fleeing fires, iktomi had me walk face first into the strongest spiderweb ever. I was like “REALLY? OK!!” https://twitter.com/bigdaveywavey/status/1305595384841089024
  • 14 September 2020 : 6 foot by 6 foot??? https://twitter.com/pdxalerts/status/1305604510727856128
  • 14 September 2020 : Wait.... I just saw Seth MacFaelane’s name. I am....less excited. But this is a good reminder to binge watch the original series again.
  • 14 September 2020 : BITCH WHAT I HAVE NEVER BEEN MORE EXCITED BY A NETFLIX ORIGINAL 😭😭 Binge watching Good Times was my whole youth. I literally still own the first season on DVD and don’t even have a DVD player anymore. Like, bitch Im SO STOKED. https://twitter.com/variety/status/1305574607777411078
  • 14 September 2020 : Wanna give a big Monday shoutout to @cremebruleepdx because “It feels like Jordan Peele directs this whole city” is the best description of Portland Oregon that I’ve ever heard. Who needs to watch GetOut when you’re a Black person living in PDX?? 🥴
  • 14 September 2020 : RT @asolegrey: There's another Chinese live action Mulan adaptation film made by actual Chinese filmmakers that I absolutely love called Mu…
  • 14 September 2020 : Lmfao I can’t handle this timeline. Fire tornados on the west coast. Tropical storms on other coasts. A fascist president literally announcing that he won’t give up power for another 8 years at least. Off the chart AQI’s. Literal concentration camps. Militias. And now, this: https://twitter.com/laurendake/status/1305601316480192512
  • 14 September 2020 : #notlikeothercandidates https://twitter.com/tristan__isaac/status/1305367009165631488
  • 14 September 2020 : Trump: Theres literally no way I will lose this election and after the next four years I will definitely be entitled to another four. Who cares what the law says? Not me. I’m in charge now. black Reformists: We’re so excited to join this lawsuit against Trump because laws matter https://twitter.com/maxberger/status/1305530899442921472
  • 14 September 2020 : I just, cannot handle the blatant eugenics here. I spent so much time with (or fighting for) asylum seekers in the last two years. And we’ve literally been saying that these camps are genocidal for years. What now? Where do we go from here?
  • 14 September 2020 : This is why we’ve been calling them concentration camps. Because they are. Forced hysterectomies are literally a genocidal move. This is genocide. These are concentration camps. https://twitter.com/brooklynmarie/status/1305553553625243648
  • 14 September 2020 : Again, Black capitalism WILL NOT SAVE US. https://twitter.com/sarah2020/status/1305556650850304000
  • 14 September 2020 : When someone wants to be the mayor but they still intentionally add to the good protester bad protester narrative by using words like “peaceful protest.” Also, PSU is one of the most racist & transphobic institutions in the city. Also, capitalists will not save us. https://twitter.com/sarah2020/status/1305556635947905024
  • 14 September 2020 : there are just random ass 18 year olds with platforms four times the size of mine that have exploded in the last line 4 months and I’m still making sense of this so like I can’t imagine y’all’s experiences. I feel so bad for the youth. Y’all deserve way more power & voice rn.
  • 14 September 2020 : Sarah’s leaning REAL hard into forsaking every call for disbandment we’ve been making for years, huh? She said, well if the radicals don’t wanna vote for me I’mma get a few more centrist votes. https://twitter.com/sarah2020/status/1302732876211912706
  • 14 September 2020 : I want y’all to know that I worked so hard getting high and fighting my body to make sure I eat too so I’m not a hypocrite. Love y’all. We take care of us.
  • 14 September 2020 : 🛑STOP🛑 ⚠️ This is a timeline checkpoint!!! Have you eaten something today & had at least a full glass of water? I love you. Your body needs fuel & hydration. If you haven’t eaten, get off of Twitter & please go consume *something* Otherwise enjoy your doomscrolling ✅
  • 14 September 2020 : Imagine being @WillLayng , a white man, who’s just lost the third out of four full time employees due to your classism at a labor focused nonprofit during the middle of a global health pandemic, and not even putting the correct handle for your own nonprofit in your bio? Some ED 🥴 pic.twitter.com/Vq0S2sCcZp
  • 14 September 2020 : Imagine calling yourself a leftist nonprofit working towards justice against capitalism and talking about the moral responsibility of literal corporations. 🥴 https://twitter.com/jwjpdx/status/1305215656334299136
  • 14 September 2020 : When are nominations for #ScroogeOfTheYear ? I’d like to nominate @WillLayng from @JwJpdx for the ways he fails miserably to uphold the vision of @jwjnational put forward by organizers like @SmileyJWJ . Instead, 3 out of 4 of his FT staffers felt compelled to quit in a pandemic. https://twitter.com/jankpdx13/status/1305351666636525568
  • 14 September 2020 : Oh I remember!!! I was organizing online with dancers on Instagram to get the event fucking cancelled. Literally Im in disbelief because 10/10 DID NOT know he was running for yalls council!!
  • 14 September 2020 : wut 👀👀👀 https://twitter.com/socialistdogmom/status/1305352157391204355
  • 14 September 2020 : I forgot that when I changed my profile I took out that part that said “no heroes, only comrades”. We’re never gonna stop celebrity culture and the idolization of activists if we keep calling people superheroes. But I’m just really uncomfortable with people calling me a hero 🤷🏽‍♀️
  • 14 September 2020 : ugh I’m so bored. all I ever do all day is sit on twitter. I definitely didn’t attend a conference and intentionally organize with someone to share information behind a paywall freely with the community today. I just sat here on twitter literally all day bullying people. Sad. 🥺
  • 14 September 2020 : God isn’t there any black person who could really get on top of suing trump? Maybe if someone from Portland sued him then he’d listen? That makes sense right? That’s not a waste of time or money at this point is it?
  • 14 September 2020 : Has anybody tried suing Trump? Nobody’s tried that yet right? God I really hope somebody will step up and just like sue him. Seems like the perfect time to just like sue him and end this whole long fascist affair. Why didn’t we think of the courts earlier? It’s helped so much.
  • 14 September 2020 : Idk how y’all think we’re gonna build a new world without destroying the oppressive systems and structures already in place.... like, people can talk all they want about building a new life for black folks. But on what foundation? Yall building on the precipice of a cliff for why
  • 14 September 2020 : Oh wait, he’s not a dictator until it’s official in December right? Better get lawsuits moving quickly.
  • 14 September 2020 : Imagine being proud of trying to bring a fascist dictator to court when he’s in charge of the courts... 🥴
  • 14 September 2020 : like if you’re a white person with an internet platform and you’re using it to share your own personal analysis on how people should be engaging in the fight for Black Liberation & Indigenous Sovereignty you’re wasting a resource and your own time tbh.
  • 14 September 2020 : 😂😂😂😂😂😂
  • 14 September 2020 : I’ll be praying for y’all tho.
  • 14 September 2020 : seeing a lot of people on twitter who are hardly ever on twitter making vague judgements about how people are using their personal internet platforms and I feel like y’all are wasting your own time? I see a lot of potential in yt people who wanna be a part of the movement tho...
  • 14 September 2020 : i dont know but I heard some people are having a rough time because folks are destroying their yard signs in the middle of a pandemic. who would do that?? I’m worried about folks being targeted by bullies like that. We should check in.
  • 14 September 2020 : This is literally just the internet and this is literally just my page and imma keep cyber bullying politicians on it cause not all skin folk are kin folk and representation will never bring liberation 💕✨ literally.
  • 14 September 2020 : I heard that there’s a community leader who’s been spiraling on twitter. Is there someone we should be checking in on?
  • 14 September 2020 : RT @aliciasanchez: Patti Labelle said sex work is work, baby! #DecrimNow
  • 14 September 2020 : I added the word bully to my bio cause white women call me that all the time and it always makes me laugh. 😇
  • 14 September 2020 : at cis black male politicians. at cis yt women. at yt women period. at yt men. at violently ableist people. at misogynists. so much of oppressors day to day behaviors are filled with literally violent microagressions. just remember, punching up is never bullying.
  • 14 September 2020 : keep punching up baby. at any and every chance you get.
  • 14 September 2020 : Casual reminder that punching up is literally never bullying and anyone who says otherwise is working to keep you complacent and quiet 💕✨💕
  • 14 September 2020 : I started talking about throwing paint at electeds as a potential tactic and how the only good cops are ⚰️⚰️ and I’m losing followers but also I can’t tell if it’s from the bootlickers, the liberals, or me blocking the liberals (aka Sarah’s supporters) 🥰
  • 14 September 2020 : Literally. “I’m out.” 😂 https://twitter.com/_iam_awkward/status/1305330610140057606
  • 14 September 2020 : Bitch I am CRYING listening to these harmonies right now. they DID NOT 😭😭 pic.twitter.com/k4IDhVGz97
  • 14 September 2020 : These words are coming from my big ole heart she said. 😭😭 brb I’m gonna cryyyyyy
  • 14 September 2020 : yo god fucking bless Black women. That’s all. That’s the tweet.
  • 14 September 2020 : lmao I just got such strong deja vu as I read this tweet. wtf. usually Im like “that means I’m on the right path.” But THIS?? 😑 https://twitter.com/rachjuramirez/status/1305202380221358080
  • 14 September 2020 : I remember one time after an action that I missed everyone was telling me about 1 of the highlights stories of a dope & well respected woman in this community marching & chanting “Greg McKelvey is the slimiest motherfucker in Portland.” Still sad I missed that day. Fuck cis-men.
  • 14 September 2020 : this part. 😂 ted has a 63% disapproval rating. Sarah is every yt liberals wet dream (literally & figuratively) & still can’t pull a lead? Even with her little meme team? Even w/ her Black campaign manager running around telling yt people it’s okay to co-sign misogynoir? Tough. https://twitter.com/_clintobean/status/1305320848371249152
  • 14 September 2020 : Her last name is just all vowels, right?
  • 14 September 2020 : I want someone to throw black paint at Sarah Iaoioiaooa so I can politely ask her to go home and wash her blackface off.
  • 14 September 2020 : i’m pretty sure there’s a burn ban rn but maybe later?
  • 14 September 2020 : Canadians being disrespectful as fuck in the replies over a cash app joke on sum “well that’s why y’all govt gave you 1200 for 6 months and left you to dry.” 🥴🥴 like really, yall? All that? Over a cashapp joke on twitter. com??? 😭😭 talking about ur banking apps & all 😂 https://twitter.com/sighidaa/status/1304635948265877504
  • 14 September 2020 : please get fucked. truly. like, i sincerely hope you choke. https://twitter.com/realcamstuart/status/1305314726012952577
  • 14 September 2020 : imma see if we can get my twitter followers in on it
  • 14 September 2020 : DONT BE SHY FOLKS! Pledge today to help support fundraising for Black causes led by Black people & not yt saviors! How many #ProtestPledges can you make? Can you sponsor one settler sign removal service for only 5$? What about 2? 10? #SettlerSignCleanUp #PDX https://twitter.com/cremebruleepdx/status/1305308735955513344
  • 14 September 2020 : nigga how much funding you got 👀👀👀
  • 14 September 2020 : I’m also assuming Greg has some video of this since he keeps saying white people are doing it??? I’ve torn down hella Sarah signs. Happily. I encourage others to do so if it aligns with your politics. Don’t let one Black men tell you what is and isn’t done by Black people. Tf.
  • 14 September 2020 : This was done to property. This was not done to a Black person. Property doesn’t bleed or feel. But people do. Property damage is a tried and true form of protest. Please carry on and don’t listen to Black men who try to police your tactics by using false equivalencies. https://twitter.com/gregorymckelvey/status/1304516781323804674
  • 14 September 2020 : BLM leaders don’t want to negotiate with the police. (i mean, maybe Sarah’s in house Black folks do since she retweeted this) but like. This is a movement for Black liberation not Black police commissioners. As MLK pointed out, yt moderates will ruin our movements. https://twitter.com/mary_lebone/status/1304828565158916098
  • 14 September 2020 : Paint balloons can be thrown at elected officials, too. Not just cops. Does anyone know Sarah or Ted’s favorite color?
  • 14 September 2020 : New challenge, who can collect the most Sarah posters and recycle them. #cleanupourstreets https://twitter.com/namaenashi666/status/1304959023087718401
  • 13 September 2020 : All I need in my room is a mini fridge and a microwave and then I’d hardly ever have to leave it 🤔
  • 13 September 2020 : Have any of us tried praying the racism away? Maybe that’ll work.... https://twitter.com/luckyyyclover77/status/1304970207564357632
  • 13 September 2020 : 17 year old sports editor me resents this tweet very much.... https://twitter.com/natd_lap/status/1305195509636886529
  • 13 September 2020 : RT @th1an1: When protesters fight back: Scenes from today's massive protest against pension cuts in #BuenosAires, #Argentina. Against polic…
  • 13 September 2020 : it’s okay im giving up freaky shit for lent
  • 13 September 2020 : Yes.
  • 13 September 2020 : omg i just muted the word vegan and I feel like my whole internet existence is about to get so much better. 🥰🥰🥰
  • 13 September 2020 : CW:ED I wish someone would tell my eating disorder that my already shitty relationship w/ food restriction could actually be made so much better if we just restricted what I can eat even more in the middle of the most compounded traumatic experience the world has ever seen (: (: https://twitter.com/soy_milk_latte_/status/1305215726727331842
  • 13 September 2020 : If you’re racist.... fixed it https://twitter.com/rainer_shea/status/1304945992622460929
  • 13 September 2020 : feel free to let them back in when they shave off or comb out their fucking hair. or don’t. they clearly aren’t ready yet anyway to not center themselves.
  • 13 September 2020 : don’t forget to ostracize white people with grinch fingers on their head from the movement today 💕
  • 13 September 2020 : i’m starting to feel as though i could really benefit from anger management classes...
  • 13 September 2020 : Black capitalism will never save us. Coulda just helped some Black folks learn to buy that home and helped them fix it up but everybody need a big paycheck. Nah, gentrification by any other name is still gentrification. Mutual aid or bust. Black capitalism can go too. https://twitter.com/jdbuyshouses/status/1304842493889044481
  • 13 September 2020 : This city, it’s celebrity culture, 45s fixation on it, and wheelers obsession with attention which drives him to engage in bullshit flame wars via press conference and twitter with our fascist leader are all going to be contributing factors in what gets me killed by the state.
  • 13 September 2020 : I gotta get the fuck outta this country. “Retribution.” Hahahahah like fuck me. Fuck me fuck me fuck me.
  • 13 September 2020 : Yo, I have literally said multiple times that if I could live in the Atlanta airport I would. I was on like over 50 planes in 12 months & atlanta was by far my favorite airport. And it was just a layover. I never wanted to leave tbh. https://twitter.com/cremebruleepdx/status/1305230254307512321
  • 13 September 2020 : WHEN I SAY I SCREAMED. That second picture has me rollingggggg
  • 13 September 2020 : are they antifa? 🤔 https://twitter.com/koinnews/status/1304926197747388416
  • 13 September 2020 : Sending people money and then blocking them is my favorite thing to do. 💕 Like hahah, what now bitch you deserve that money and you better keep it. 😈😈
  • 13 September 2020 : “When I was in print, everyone in DC had my phone number,” says @jessejholland , “And now, I don’t answer my phone unless you’re already locked in.” He shares that abuse he received online upticked with his tv coverage. My abuse definitely goes up every time I’m on tv too lol.
  • 13 September 2020 : Jessica’s sharing about how she uses block chain on her bad-faith detractors and all their followers. 10/10 good advice.
  • 13 September 2020 : “Having good faith conversations with people about the concept of fake news is something that I did quite a lot in terms of teaching [journalistic?] literacy.” - @emarvelous I really want to stress how consistently Black women take on the burden of emotional labor in our fields
  • 13 September 2020 : “We’re not going to change people’s minds by engaging trolls.” - Jessica Huseman
  • 13 September 2020 : Apparently someone with 150k followers things that Jessica is some sort of Russian plant. She’s talking about how it “used to be overwhelming” because she used to try to engage. “You don’t have to engage with them. And you shouldn’t.”
  • 13 September 2020 : Question coming in about hostility happening in the modern climate towards journalists. Are we engaging in this convo or...? How physically worried are you all who are out in public covering these issues. Jessica Huseman begins to respond.
  • 13 September 2020 : @emarvelous shares a point: When we’re talking about the voters, we’re talking about the very small sliver of the population that still hasn’t made up their mind (or non-voters as a constituency) because these are the people that candidates are fighting for/over.
  • 13 September 2020 : Jesse also responds to a point made by another panelist by pointing out a reminder of how “tribal” the US people have become about who they support. Because so many people are voting on “personality and party.” (I’d prefer the word clique-ish over tribal :/ )
  • 13 September 2020 : “I’m also concerned about education,” says @jessejholland as he mentions his experiences teaching his children from home since February. “We’re American citizens as well.” Points out that when journalists consider what they wanna know, these things will relate to ppls interests.
  • 13 September 2020 : “People want to know what the candidates are going to do for them on the other side of these dual pandemics of Coronavirus and racism.” - @emarvelous “And one of the things we need to ask ourselves as reporters is what are the questions that we want answered,” @jessejholland
  • 13 September 2020 : Breaking news here in PDX: https://twitter.com/griffinmalone6/status/1305224602826620928
  • 13 September 2020 : 😂 careful, Lapd might retweet you
  • 13 September 2020 : 😂😭😂 fucking accurate
  • 13 September 2020 : Linking threads I spliced 🥴 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1305220920739426304
  • 13 September 2020 : Linking threads I fucked up. https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1305224623643000832
  • 13 September 2020 : I keep trying to use the “scroll down to link to your last tweet” feature and I’ve now decided its fucking worthless for me. Idk if I’m not pulling down enough or how to confirm I did it right before tweeting. 😭
  • 13 September 2020 : Good conversation happening about managing expectations of the press in regards to announcing who the next president in. Jessica Huseman makes a point about the fact that there’s more collaboration happening in 2020 during the election cycle as compared to during the 2016 cycle.
  • 13 September 2020 : I think I’m too cranky to effectively live tweet this. I’m just gonna shut up and focus on really considering/taking in the perspective of @jessejholland & @emarvelous . It’s more critically necessary than ever to center Black perspectives & professional analysis in every field.
  • 13 September 2020 : It’s provided a very interesting level of disenfranchisement for me with press and what has been traditionally viewed or purported to be “good journalistic ethics.”
  • 13 September 2020 : I feel like I have an interesting perspective on journalism because I’ve spent intimate amounts of time as both the reporter or editor and also as the person trying to get and keep the attention of the press for the sake of our movements visability....
  • 13 September 2020 : Is Kyle pope standing up for this panel? In his house? Like, everyone’s sitting around but I feel like I’m looking up at him and I hate it?
  • 13 September 2020 : @jessejholland is pointing out how with so many cutbacks in the field, we’re at a point where we all can’t be everywhere and cover all the issues. Points out the need to plan better for election years. Especially because of rampant voter disenchantment which worries many of us.
  • 13 September 2020 : “It seems like we’re still trying to cover an election as if it’s 1980....when the entire way we’ve done elections in the past decades has changed.”
  • 13 September 2020 : “It seems like we as an industry are covering the election with an old playbook while the game is changing. One of the things we should have learned during the last cycle is how crucial social media & micro-targeting is during an election.” - @jessejholland
  • 13 September 2020 : Jesus Christ. I just used the word panel three times in one tweet.... maybe I won’t be chiming in. I’m a mess.
  • 13 September 2020 : #spj2020 is wrapping up today and I’m hopping onto this panel a little bit late to listen in to this panel as well! Follow along at Tucks thread covering the panel! I’ll be watching Tucks thread, boosting, and sending out one-off tweets here & there in this thread to supplement. https://twitter.com/tuckwoodstock/status/1305217438875660289
  • 13 September 2020 : Right? Like that sounds fun but also way too dangerous for any group of 5 people to risk. As if that wouldn’t put a target on their backs. Critical condition is fine tho cause hopefully some cops w/ less stomach for the violence will realize they’re not willing to die for this
  • 13 September 2020 : Did those cops in LA die yet or is it just another casual, boring Sunday morning? Trying to figure out if I should have a special wildfire-smoke quarantine party of one or not?
  • 13 September 2020 : Capitalism strikes again. https://twitter.com/gulujoon/status/1305207898620846081
  • 13 September 2020 : Things that are fine..... https://twitter.com/wweek/status/1304970555993411584
  • 13 September 2020 : Oh, y’all don’t wanna like this tweet huh 🤔🤣👀 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1305212532102111233
  • 13 September 2020 : HIS EYES 😭😭😭😭
  • 13 September 2020 : 🥴🥴🥴 i cant handle y’all forreal https://twitter.com/robbyrav/status/1305188590616489984
  • 13 September 2020 : What kind of dog do you have?????
  • 13 September 2020 : This needs a lot more attention than a twitter thread. But let this be a heads up that a lot of y’all “anti-racists” are actually just white supremacists who’ve learned how to behave in a way that best assuages your white guilt without actually forsaking the privileges you have.
  • 13 September 2020 : Capitalism and colonialism rely upon the dehumanization of Black people to continue to justify our sufferings as a means of not just cutting costs for the benefit of financing for the upper class, but also as the great American passtime which will always unite those in power.
  • 13 September 2020 : The exploitation of Black labor and joyful gratuitous violence against Black people (physically, emotionally, spiritually) by white people is the literal foundation of this country. Not just this country, but the vast majority of the colonized new global order.
  • 13 September 2020 : Racism and Anti-Blackness are not synonyms. There are very large swaths of white people who claim to be anti-racist and still engage in violent anti-Blackness and racially specific misogyNOIR.
  • 13 September 2020 : Let’s talk about how antiblackness is one of the main pillars of colonized societies as we know them... The insidious nature of anti-Blackness is why I’m pro-Black, first & foremost. Black Indigenous people. Black Jews. Black Immigrants. Black sex workers. Black trans folks. https://twitter.com/achmatx/status/1305148614889611264
  • 13 September 2020 : Hahah I’m just imagining putting this on a German Sheppard 😂😂😂 like Nah good luck
  • 13 September 2020 : I’m just blocking Sarah whatshernames rabid supporters today for fun and it’s really satisfying. ❤️🥰
  • 13 September 2020 : This thread is both exhausting and very validating. https://twitter.com/native_orchid/status/1305039616521564161
  • 13 September 2020 : What.
  • 13 September 2020 : There’s literally migratory birds showing up in New Mexico and dropping dead in the thousands. 😭 Bird and bee populations are both going to be so effected.
  • 13 September 2020 : https://twitter.com/journtoolbox/status/1305190773575516166?s=21
  • 13 September 2020 : Not to mention it’s TEN IN THE MORNING HERE
  • 13 September 2020 : Alright, and this panel discussion is over! There’s a fellow feature coming up but ooh, boy I’m ready for a break. #spj2020
  • 13 September 2020 : Reminders: Your reputation as a partner is not a secret. Be a good partner. Understand that this whole field is built off of connections, relationships, and trust built.
  • 13 September 2020 : To build on this, Heather reminds us that it’s not just okay, but it makes sense and is necessary to say no to extractive collaborations.
  • 13 September 2020 : Heather Bryant—To the Q about non-journalists: I think I big part of this is, on the part of newsrooms, to be really aware of who the stakeholders are for a story. Who's affected, who has experience, expertise, who should be involved and then actively work toward collaboration.
  • 13 September 2020 : The need for collaboration is more important than ever. I can’t stress this enough. As someone pointed out, we can’t be everywhere at once.
  • 13 September 2020 : “We’re in an age of big stories... and if we don’t work together we’re not goi to even come close to capturing all the things we need” in regards to the interconnected nature of so many of these huge stories. (Heather Bryant)
  • 13 September 2020 : Here’s another resource that people are asking for in the discussion: more examples of collaborations. https://collaborativejournalism.org/database-search-sort-learn-collaborative-projects-around-world/
  • 13 September 2020 : I wish these conferences had live captions.... this whole thing isn’t really accessible for me. Like, there’s not a follow along presentation or reading materials and people are just generally talking. This thread is probably a bit lackluster because I’m not processing Audio well
  • 13 September 2020 : More general resources here: https://www.collaborativejournalismhandbook.org
  • 13 September 2020 : She’s shared a link in the chat which seems really comprehensive: https://www.collaborativejournalismhandbook.org/collaborative-journalism-workbook-English/
  • 13 September 2020 : Heather Bryant gives some advice and reminders on the needs for communication, discussing who does what piece of work, figuring out how information & work can be jointly accessed and etc.
  • 13 September 2020 : Question is asked about how to coordinate effectively when newsrooms can be across time zones, coordination and scheduling can be difficult (esp with the quick pace of the news cycle) and how do we balance workflows?
  • 13 September 2020 : There are lots of ways to collaborate Mollie Bryant points out. One example- skill shares and trainings done jointly and in collaboration.
  • 13 September 2020 : This, as she points out, also provides an opportunity to do the critical work of understanding and hearing from different demographics on what stories they’re looking for. This collab is mutual beneficial for the students & more seasoned folks for various reasons.
  • 13 September 2020 : Katherine Rowland’s shares about a collaborative project with local students at a nearby college regarding the upcoming election. They recently had a meeting where students pitched stories as relevant to their age groups interests and such.
  • 13 September 2020 : This is why, as she points out, we sometimes publish the same story across multiple platforms.
  • 13 September 2020 : Katherine Rowland’s responds to a question about the hardship of getting collaboration to happen between multi-media spheres (IE- Radio/Podcast vs Print vs TV news.) Points out that often times people are looking for different things from different types of media output.
  • 13 September 2020 : (That last sentence is very much my analysis as added onto Heather’s statement, for clarity.)
  • 13 September 2020 : I really have to reiterate how important I believe in what Heather is saying here. As she points out, many of us aren’t looking at each other even as competition. But instead, we’re realizing all these other circumstances & political players are effectively drowning us out.
  • 13 September 2020 : Explains that there seems to be a spectrum where nonprofits tend to be the least competitive with TV news being on the other end of the spectrum. “We’re not a field that can afford competitive waste anymore.” - Heather Bryant
  • 13 September 2020 : What is the role of nonprofits in these collaborative efforts and why do they seem to be spearheading? Heather Bryant begins with an answer, explaining how there’s less of a traditionally competitive aspect there with them.
  • 13 September 2020 : Katherine Rowland’s is sharing on the benefits of collabs: Local orgs are the ones who have people living in the community, covering news in the community, knowing who the sources are etc. Jumping into the scene is never going to be as effective or as quick realistically.
  • 13 September 2020 : pic.twitter.com/QkmEyUwxuR
  • 13 September 2020 : Let’s talk about Collaborative Journalism. Some great advice to start off “Don’t get married before you date.” We’re talking about what partnership looks like across newsrooms and starting off by asking, “Do I have the capacity to be a good partner?”
  • 13 September 2020 : I’ll go through the end of this presentation later. Transitioning over here because while tools are important, interpersonal skills are a little less easy to google: https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1305185495878569984?s=21
  • 13 September 2020 : Meanwhile, @tuckwoodstock is attending and sharing out about the "Freelance: Committing Journalism in the Gig Economy" session at #SPJ2020 . Pick your poison and let’s dive in!
  • 13 September 2020 : Let’s start a new thread! I’m about 13 minutes late because I didn’t realize there was overlap but I just logged onto “How Local and National Journalists Can Work Together to Tell the Best Story" from the #SPJ2020 conference. Live tweet thread here!
  • 13 September 2020 : Next up is http://GlideApps.com and I’ve gotta go pour my cup of coffee now so here’s a link for y’all to consider it 🥴😘😅
  • 13 September 2020 : This one does cost 150$ but seems like it’s worth considering a discussion about: https://www.videoscribe.co/en/ad/buy/?utm_term=video%20scribe&utm_medium=ppc&utm_campaign=SS+-+USA+-+Own+Brand&utm_source=adwords&hsa_ver=3&hsa_mt=e&hsa_acc=3979035772&hsa_tgt=kwd-330637257804&hsa_ad=383505653161&hsa_kw=video%20scribe&hsa_net=adwords&hsa_grp=61802451962&hsa_src=g&hsa_cam=1592474293&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIibuRiMjm6wIVUR6tBh0tig_fEAAYASAAEgIKOPD_BwE
  • 13 September 2020 : Next is my favorite suite ever and what I use: Adobe Spark Suite apps have been really useful for me. We’ve moved on to something I’m not familiar with tho so I’ll come back to that later. pic.twitter.com/Z3TyGF9TLd
  • 13 September 2020 : Of course many of us have heard of and already are familiar with Canva but: Also, Mike, another participant, and I all like using canva on desktop more than mobile for what it’s worth. https://www.canva.com/q/pro/?v=2&utm_source=google_sem&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=REV_US_EN_CanvaPro_Branded_Tier1_Core_EM&utm_term=REV_US_EN_CanvaPro_Branded_Tier1_Canva_EM&gclsrc=aw.ds&&gclid=EAIaIQobChMImtKEt8fm6wIVFB-tBh3d9QBLEAAYASAAEgIJnPD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
  • 13 September 2020 : And another editing app ❤️ https://www.madewithover.com
  • 13 September 2020 : Couldn’t find the direct link to the next, similar one but: https://www.idownloadblog.com/2016/05/13/printout-for-iphone/
  • 13 September 2020 : To layer directional arrows and text over photos on the fly. https://www.tinrocket.com/apps/this/
  • 13 September 2020 : Okay this is a lot of info to try to share while making coffee lmao. Y’all get links only while I’m getting caffeinated. http://www.photomapo.com
  • 13 September 2020 : Charts galore!! Free version has a small watermark. https://www.zoho.com/chartistic/ Another charting app which can do both charts and graphics: https://www.icongraph.com
  • 13 September 2020 : JK, next we’re talking about graphics making apps and these are my fucking favorite. “Almost every app I’ll show you is both IOS and Android.” pic.twitter.com/r3DjpVtdT9
  • 13 September 2020 : Im fading fast. It’s 9:20am, I fell asleep at 2:30am and I’ve had no coffee. pic.twitter.com/UQIOcy4iY3
  • 13 September 2020 : “We have thousands of tools and resources orgs used by topics & beats” - @journotoolbox Mike is giving us a quick tour of this website. They’ve added google translate so it’s available in approx 94 langs now! Videos, newsletters, links + more. #sjp2020 https://www.journaliststoolbox.org
  • 13 September 2020 : Next up Mike Reilley is going to share more tools and resources for our use!
  • 13 September 2020 : For great presentation services available on Desktops: “ http://beautiful.ai has me hook line and sinker for the time being,” - @ToTheVictor https://www.beautiful.ai
  • 13 September 2020 : “If you’re like me and your emails can be a little too long..” Uhhh, YES. Everyone on twitter and elsewhere knows I never shut the fuck up. https://sayless.email pic.twitter.com/4vL377Nwm0
  • 13 September 2020 : As @ToTheVictor points out, Grammarly is like a copy editor in your toolbox. “Not to replace copy editors!!!” 😂😂 As a former copy editor, I’m glad that we’re not being outdone by AIs.
  • 13 September 2020 : Next up we’ve got Otter transcription tool: https://get.otter.ai/interview-transcription/?utm_campaign=brand&utm_source=google_ads&utm_medium=cpc&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIppXL08Hm6wIVkB-tBh0ktAJFEAAYASAAEgIYqfD_BwE Followed by 21st Century Spellchecker, Grammarly: https://www.grammarly.com/m?q=brand&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=brand_m2d&utm_content=164787504666&utm_term=grammaerly&matchtype=e&placement=&network=g&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI0LSc6sHm6wIVpCCtBh0UdAjJEAAYASAAEgI8jvD_BwE pic.twitter.com/rzzOP8MxWX
  • 13 September 2020 : Oops I meant to do websites not app links: https://trello.com/?&aceid=&adposition=&adgroup=87962274472&campaign=8705065117&creative=437184391888&device=m&keyword=trello&matchtype=e&network=g&placement=&ds_kids=p50639532614&ds_e=GOOGLE&ds_eid=700000001557344&ds_e1=GOOGLE&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI1o-GtsHm6wIVnD6tBh3UGQB4EAAYASAAEgKGKvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
  • 13 September 2020 : “My newsroom is using Trello... I use Trello everywhere” @ToTheVictor cannot day enough good things about Trello, the “Swiss Army Knife of Office Utility.” https://apps.apple.com/us/app/trello-organize-anything/id461504587
  • 13 September 2020 : https://apps.apple.com/us/app/focos-live/id1461690085 pic.twitter.com/R95At0TZeW
  • 13 September 2020 : Apple Clips is obviously only for IOS but @ToTheVictor says that the live captioning works well. Another captioning app, also only for IOS unfortunately: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mixcaptions-video-subtitles/id952426779
  • 13 September 2020 : Next few apps are being given quick round lmao and I already missed one so here’s some links: Unfold: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/unfold-story-templates/id1247275033 DarkRoom: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/darkroom-photo-video-editor/id953286746
  • 13 September 2020 : Personally I think it’s not at all important to balance out your men to women following. Stop following all these fucking men. Fill your feed with women, femmes, queers, and the like. Nobody needs 50% of their feed to be men. 🤮
  • 13 September 2020 : The next tool is....idk. I’m gonna share it here. Victor says it’s useful to check ourselves and see who we’re following. Victor says it’s not able to identify gender non-binary folks. But it does have a non-binary option? pic.twitter.com/qoFgLV7TkG
  • 13 September 2020 : http://followfly.co
  • 13 September 2020 : Next tool is Follow Fly if you want to take a quick look at an accounts most liked and engaged tweets which you can search back through different date range options. “When we follow thousands of accounts, we can miss important things” between the food posts and the like.
  • 13 September 2020 : Next up is Tweeten, a “premier Twitter Dashboard.” Victor mentions that Tweetdeck and Hootsuite are pretty popular but he definitely recommends Tweeten. “It’s tweetdeck but with the missing features that you wish it had”. https://tweetenapp.com
  • 13 September 2020 : First social media app up is Social Bearing, which Victor says gives a “really comprehensive” look back on Twitter analytics for a two week view of what’s going on. “Easy access and easy to get into.” https://socialbearing.com
  • 13 September 2020 : Finally on the list of tools for all our virtual meet spaces is Meeter, an app that connects to (Apple) calendars to gather your calls and place them in a list. Now we’re moving to social media tools!
  • 13 September 2020 : Ooh, ooh, ooh! Victor is sharing about a new technology called Krisp which uses an AI to reduce background noise. Victor shares that it’s “pretty good” & that in his experience it minimizes audio clutter instead of removing it. https://krisp.ai
  • 13 September 2020 : Next up is a desktop tool called Grain which is in closed beta testing still. It allows for the automated creation & easy sharing of video. It is free but Victor shares that they DO have you attend a 30 min training w/ their team. “Like a timeshare but just take the free tool” pic.twitter.com/b5UvoyMJS6
  • 13 September 2020 : Camo seems useful as fuck for sex workers!!! Especially right now while people can’t afford new webcams and all kinds of stuff.
  • 13 September 2020 : Next tool up is for IOS only right now unfortunately but is supposed to be coming soon to Android. Camo is a free app which sets you up to use your iPhone camera for video streaming. Lots of great options to manipulate the output as well. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reincubate-camo/id1514199064
  • 13 September 2020 : The mmhmm apps is new. It’s in closed testing and there’s generally a short waitlist. Here’s a link: https://www.mmhmm.app/
  • 13 September 2020 : First up we’re talking about Virtual tools. First Virtual took up is “mmhmm” a “really powerful” application that can integrate with zoom. Watching this tutorial video from Victor and there seem to be a lot of really cool tools for setting up presentations, and all the like.
  • 13 September 2020 : (PS Tuck and I are scheming. We’re attending different learning blocks today and live tweeting out info because education should be shared freely whenever possible) https://twitter.com/tuckwoodstock/status/1305166676493623297
  • 13 September 2020 : Victor talks about not getting too attached and diving in too deep on new tech. He gives the advice to sign up, log in, snatch up any handles you might want on that new social, and then hang back to see how that app or tool grows. Essentially, does it become a trend or no?
  • 13 September 2020 : “Let’s not get too worked up over the tools themselves... instead let’s track the trends” - @ToTheVictor Trends>>Tools with tools often being “shiny objects” that come and go while trends are more compelling and have staying power.
  • 13 September 2020 : Have I ever told y’all the I’m a slut for colorful graphics and visuals? [could use help with Image Descriptions Im responses to individual tweets in the moment!] pic.twitter.com/NqpsHIECiy
  • 13 September 2020 : Finishing up intros rn. Then Mike and Victor are each going to give some info on the subject matter before Mike leads some demos and Victor gives us some support in learning the tools to find the tools.
  • 13 September 2020 : Hopping on this conference a few minutes late but I’m gonna be live tweeting some sessions today from the #SPJ2020 conference. This mornings sessions is “Mobile & Digital Tools for Your Newsroom and Classroom” with @ToTheVictor & Mike Reilley from @journtoolbox .
  • 13 September 2020 : National conferences on east coast time are just rude as shit honestly.
  • 13 September 2020 : RT @tristan__isaac: everyone knows Portland has bad air but did you know we also have a bad heir who's a bad mayor?
  • 13 September 2020 : This weird ass little burrito cat (that was just SITTING like this in the blanket for a while) walked up to my milk cup, twitched repeatedly while trying to sniff it, and then when I put my hand over my cup she turned around, HIT ME, and ran away. Such a weird fucking asshole. pic.twitter.com/j9CtH6JYEw
  • 13 September 2020 : I’m home. Testing the air. The cats missed me. Cartoons are still on. And the house just has a very obvious lingering haze... but my throat doesn’t hurt. Let’s see how I sleep.
  • 13 September 2020 : I cringe at the idea of Portland DSA even considering floating the idea of trying to launch a city wide initiative to organize neighborhoods when their whole structure is still racist and colonial as fuck and is consistently violent to BIPOC, women, femmes & cis-women. Oof.
  • 13 September 2020 : I’ve never wanted a dick more than I do right now. https://twitter.com/userjaymes/status/1304780019391225857
  • 13 September 2020 : Took the mask off. Air definitely fucking sucks.
  • 13 September 2020 : All the birds died in 1970 and were replaced with drones https://twitter.com/_semahernandez_/status/1305023326293721088
  • 13 September 2020 : Put my gas mask on in the house and I legitimately feel better so that’s fucking casual....
  • 13 September 2020 : What’s the question?
  • 13 September 2020 : All this time people were trying to teach me how to grow plants and I went along with it even though I hate tending plants when I should have been learning how to hunt and clean and butcher.
  • 13 September 2020 : Quitting smoking and drinking at the same time means I’m eating way more comfort foods. And with all the comfort foods I’m reminded of my pre-pandemic plans to go to the rez with some loved ones who told me they’d teach me how to hunt this year. And now everything’s a mess 😑
  • 13 September 2020 : Maybe those cops were reaching for their wallets.....
  • 13 September 2020 : (Jk cause Alexa’s a fucking cop too but meme life ya know)
  • 13 September 2020 : Alexa, play fuck the police by NWA 💕✨ https://twitter.com/lasdhq/status/1304975945376305153
  • 13 September 2020 : 🥴
  • 13 September 2020 : I don’t need this. https://twitter.com/scottskomo/status/1304642251839086594
  • 13 September 2020 : Is it me? Am i the troll?
  • 13 September 2020 : September 12th, 2020 https://twitter.com/devin_eskew/status/1304892701872017408
  • 13 September 2020 : I sure would like to go home now 🙃
  • 13 September 2020 : Oh wait. I was. But I see the first question lmao sorry.
  • 13 September 2020 : We’re talking about Portland DSA now
  • 13 September 2020 : I’m in absolute disgust and fury over this. We live in a fascist state. Stop the “we’re on a quick slide” talk. The United States Govt is a fascist, imperialist, oligarchy and the whole entire country is colonialist garbage that is STILL committing genocide on Indigenous ppl https://twitter.com/jacobsoboroff/status/1304828058591952898
  • 13 September 2020 : I haven’t had steady employment for two years and I’ve been a lot of use to my movement. Guess it just depends on how much comfortability you’re willing to sacrifice
  • 13 September 2020 : I. Can. Not. Believe. I. Quit. Smoking. On. Monday. For. This. Bullshit. For fucking real this is some absolute horse shit.
  • 13 September 2020 : 😭😭😭 https://twitter.com/angryblkhoemo/status/1304858264056877057
  • 13 September 2020 : not “skip in 5 secs” video ads on twitter 🥴🥴🥴 pic.twitter.com/zjjRcbEPTO
  • 13 September 2020 : European yts bro
  • 13 September 2020 : get out
  • 13 September 2020 : It is 11pm in DC and Trump is filming immediate response videos to campaign ads????? https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1304975873163042816
  • 13 September 2020 : brb i’m gonna go cry about all the fucking bees literally being smoked out of the entire west coast rn 😭😭😭 rest in power bbs you did not deserve this.
  • 13 September 2020 : i feel so old. i have aged at least 4 decades in the last 3 years of this nonsense. and I already had a +5 card from helping raise 5 Black boys since their births... like, this shit has agedddddd me in trauma years lemme tell you. and my ancestors acknowledge it and I just
  • 13 September 2020 : yo this the map that fucking broke me. i’m just sitting here like... like y’all really got CLEAN AIR out there & you probably don’t even know how good you got it. & your mayor isn’t even in a flame war with the president while fash militias set up armed checkpoints everywhere... https://twitter.com/danahull/status/1304924312051179520 pic.twitter.com/Mqjrmy5eJC
  • 13 September 2020 : Roberts rules
  • 13 September 2020 : and the earth? her heart, well it boils and it beats and it dances in time to the spirit of the fires reclaiming what land was always supposed to be — wild. not to be controlled but caretaken. to be respected and revered and communicated with. -excerpt from a poem I wrote tues https://twitter.com/kohzkah/status/1304834583549026304
  • 13 September 2020 : Anyway, no white person I’ve ever talked to has understood that on a truly intimate level so I’m not dating y’all anymore. And you can thank my first dab of the day that I allowed myself to take if I went into the basement for this classic Lilith rant 🙃🥴😂😇
  • 13 September 2020 : For not just us but our ancestors too.
  • 13 September 2020 : Black, Brown and Indigenous people have the opportunity to experience a thousand small deaths a day as we’re dehumanized to our faces in nearly every interaction. We’re not running from death. We’ve been walking w/ her all along. We march & we fight for liberation & justice.
  • 13 September 2020 : what do my people have to lose? every time Black & Indigenous people step outside of our door (or our car or our tent or our office) we risk death. Something yt ppl don’t as often see is the spiritual death. The soul death that we experience walking this earth strewn with blood.
  • 13 September 2020 : I think that’s why there’s such a disconnect between the yt left and those of us fighting because we’re affected. a lot of y’all don’t risk death every time you walk out the door & it shows. that’s why y’all still holding back.
  • 13 September 2020 : how am i supposed to fight for revolution beside an emotional partner who can’t even empathize w/ me? With the level of fury and trauma and rage that drives me? My fight is intergenerational.I’m not fighting for my liberation. I’m gonna die in this fight. I do this for my PEOPLE.
  • 13 September 2020 : look I’m bout to fucking WALK. 😭 (once these militias take down these checkpoints around the fires and all) 😂
  • 13 September 2020 : i’m straight up never entering into romantic, emotional realtionships with yt people ever again. y’all literally will never be able to understand my struggle. how am i supposed to have a partner when they can’t even fully see the scope of how intimate & personal antiblackness is?
  • 13 September 2020 : nigga look 😭🥴 i been telling you I gotta get outta here forreal
  • 13 September 2020 : stop no
  • 13 September 2020 : romantic relationships with yt people really have ruined me in so many ways. I read this piece of writing in this group I’m in called “yt leftists being more yt than leftist.” & fuck, this young woman really put it in the exact terms I’d been refusing to acknowledge for years
  • 13 September 2020 : I just 🥴 I hope they all stay safe and get out of that air fucking ASAP
  • 13 September 2020 : ???
  • 13 September 2020 : I mean like congrats y’all have taken up both lanes of traffic in this two lane street? And people are driving slowly behind you....? And....? Y’all are risking health for what? Like I need more of y’all to study movement history. This isn’t worth anything if it’s not strategic.
  • 13 September 2020 : I cannot. Like, what are y’all doing. Really? For whom?
  • 13 September 2020 : All of y’all aren’t even in respirators?? Y’all marching in 300+ air index in some masks for what? To assuage your guilt for taking a day off?
  • 13 September 2020 : Like maybe 75-150 people tops? A few cars. A few NLG observers. A few banners. But like.....who are y’all chanting demands at? In this smoke? We can barely hear you and like.....there are fires?
  • 13 September 2020 : This is such a fucking small white crowd. I saw line 4-6 Black people. Where are y’all going?
  • 13 September 2020 : There’s some sort of action happening outside of where I’m evacuated to? And I’m just like y’all ....
  • 13 September 2020 : Denver police out here pretty much telling residents that once we abolish the police they’ll come for people’s lives but we knew that in the first place since policing is about power & murder not safety lol. Which is why we say ACAB and we know that the only good cop is a ⚰️⚰️⚰️ https://twitter.com/politicatnmouse/status/1304915408386953216
  • 13 September 2020 : Like I know they had an action. I know JWJ is no longer involved since the thing started from my project work at JWJ. But it’s housed inside an org that has a huge issue with literally overt and covert white supremacy & I haven’t seen much community discussion around it at all?
  • 13 September 2020 : There’s a lot of people who are members of DSA who are working on the UPNOW campaign which has done great work. It’s a coalition project that was formed in DSA but has luckily grown outside of just that. There was the UEWC I was working a TON on before I lost my job but now idk
  • 13 September 2020 : I know there’s a few individuals who are doing a shit ton of work but I’m not giving DSA any credit for the 8 people I know busting ass while most of the org discusses things? Like racism? And identity politics? Or does research for their ideas. But then....? Idk. It’s a mess.
  • 13 September 2020 : Uhm.....I know some people were going out at night. I know one member was making shields. But like, idk about DSA work for the community except PolEd inside their org & a long overdue but still underwhelming effort to address racism in the org which is draining folks? (1/2)
  • 13 September 2020 : I even put it into hella structured classist language just like DSA & JWJ tend to be receptive to. But it’s almost like white people in major orgs won’t do something unless they’ve been given express permission to by the majority of the rest of the group? Otherwise they idk dont
  • 13 September 2020 : I tried to encourage DSA in Portland (& also JWJPDX) to do something similar with each of its member bases back in March as a first step to the type of community building & needs/resource mapping that would support us in establishing an Unemployed Workers Council but neither did.
  • 13 September 2020 : Ah, okay, so the bylaws include provisions which mandate democratically recorded votes to allow for individuals to put large amounts of their time into something? That piece provides a little more clarity to the structure but not the design. Appreciated.
  • 13 September 2020 : I’m also just completely confused by the term “political authority” in context of a DSA chapter (does this just mean individual votes?) but that sounds like a me issue that I’ll have to do some reading on.
  • 13 September 2020 : So does this only fix that issue for this particular project? Or will future ideas have to write similar but different resolutions?
  • 13 September 2020 : I’m consistently confused by the infrastructure of DSA as a national organization. The entire thing doesn’t make one ounce of sense to me & the more I learn about its functions the more confused I get. Is it because of the inherent colonialism in RR or just classism? Am I alone?
  • 13 September 2020 : Is there something in the Portland bylaws that prevents the ability to do organizing like this without having to write and vote on a formal resolution?
  • 13 September 2020 : And to clarify, there was nothing stopping this organizing from happening before?
  • 13 September 2020 : So the resolution is just essentially operating as a project proposal but y’all have found that writing it in this type of format is what is most helpful in activating people in DSA chapters?
  • 13 September 2020 : Like, this seems really basic and also unnecessarily..... i can’t think of the word? Colonial? Or like, hierarchical? but I see people celebrating it like a big deal and I’m so confused at what was in the way of this before?
  • 13 September 2020 : would it have not been possible to do without a resolution? Could that coordination not happen without this? That’s the part I’m confused about? Without the resolution, what was stopping this?
  • 13 September 2020 : Can anyone explain to me why y’all need to be allowed to do this? Like are there rules against doing this? Why would there be rules against doing this? & why couldn’t people do this all along? DSA as an organization is entirely nonsensical to me even as a still technical member https://twitter.com/ariellesallai/status/1304886486546800640
  • 12 September 2020 : Sarah’s supporters sure can be narcs.... surprising. https://twitter.com/youngbitcoin/status/1304855971475333121
  • 12 September 2020 : Interesting watching this story evolve: https://twitter.com/youngbitcoin/status/1304853404972273664
  • 12 September 2020 : To invite another Black person into the fucking room and give them no warning a white politician was gonna be in there whole time draining your fucking energy & knowledge & basically getting a consultation for fucking free. That’s when I knew not all skin folk are kin folk. 🙅🏽‍♀️
  • 12 September 2020 : I have no respect for Sarah and I haven’t had any respect for her or her campaign staff since her whole deal was launched. To run a campaign as a yt woman against Teressa. The audacity. I’m proud Sarah & her staff thought I respected her though. That’s SWer acting skills ftw 💕
  • 12 September 2020 : The first SWer I know of Sarah‘s campaign talking to about Decrim was a yt woman named Elle who’s well known to be a literal abuser & racist & cop friendly. Surprise. They invited me for a meeting after. Well Greg did. With him. W/o me knowing Sarah would be in the whole meeting
  • 12 September 2020 : anybody wanna have a competition after the fires to see who can *find* the most Sarah4PDX signs? Just for fun? Because like fuck colonizers? I can’t go downtown at night & get rowdy anymore but... fucking with paid for advertisements for settlers literally shoved into the soil??
  • 12 September 2020 : Yt people really do think the whole world revolves around them and their yt candidates don’t they? https://twitter.com/bjornwarloe/status/1304671733446709252
  • 12 September 2020 : In case anyone didn’t know where Sarah’s office is and you need to pick up another yard sign because some people have apparently been repurposing them. Turns out Sarah for PDX is just giving away yard sign materials!! How kind!! #community #mutualaid #donations #freesigns https://twitter.com/sarah2020/status/1304880895724142594
  • 12 September 2020 : The people who think that their colonizer for mayor yard signs deserve to be left alone in a fight for Black liberation are the same type of people who post BLM signs in gentrified neighborhoods. Being committed to a protest tactic doesn’t mean you don’t value community tf. https://twitter.com/sarah2020/status/1304834638540537857
  • 12 September 2020 : RT @alex_zee: One of my San Antonio friends has been using his graphic design skillz to re-label grocery store cans with facts about local/…
  • 12 September 2020 : Like honey you’re white. You’re not getting stopped first by those fash & neither is she & the fact that y’all don’t feel compelled to risk more for the sake of black and brown lives is a symptom of white supremacy/comfortability. Not my issue that u feel bad for her specifically
  • 12 September 2020 : It obviously IS which is why YT ALIGNED folks need to step up. Like, I don’t feel bad for people who can get away w/ being in those spaces. Imagine being able to identify people who want folks in your community dead & being like “but they don’t want that till Nov so I’ll wait”
  • 12 September 2020 : We’re literally dealing with checkpoints that have been set up in neighborhoods and there still being maga rally’s in the middle of fires and evacuations?? Like, as our cops literally tell people how to get away with shooting antifa? Like, does this effect you? In ur backyard??
  • 12 September 2020 : “A week before the fires?” Also, idk if you’re aware but central OR cities are also burning to the ground and I’m also evacuated as a direct result of that?? And also dealing with the smoke daily? Her ability to report on it is clearly negligent. She’s not the only person in OR?
  • 12 September 2020 : I can’t believe I paid 95$ to listen to a white woman tell me to play with a dog. I miss my dog so much. Excited to watch some of these recorded panels and such that I missed tho. I read “recorded” and signed up.
  • 12 September 2020 : Lol welp just accidentally cleared my entire fucking signal history before saving a lot of shit so uhm, if you sent me an important message or whatever idk just like text me again please?
  • 12 September 2020 : Jk just registered and hopping the fuck on now 😭
  • 12 September 2020 : This kind of stuff really makes me miss doing frontline documentation work but also that shit is dangerous and I’ve put way too big a target on my back 😭 ugh. Just looking at this schedule is making my heart swell tho. I have so much love for writers in general-esp BIPOC journos
  • 12 September 2020 : So fucking stoked for everyone attending this conference.
  • 12 September 2020 : Didn’t realize this conference was coming up and is today. What a fucking important time to be engaging in conversations about the foundations of journalism vs what it looks like in actuality today, the anti-Blackness inherent in calls for journalistic objectivity and more! https://twitter.com/amyjmerrick/status/1304825956075536384
  • 12 September 2020 : THIS THIS THIS 1000 TIMES THIS https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1304837133018914817
  • 12 September 2020 : I’m literally blocking white people without a care in the world for any reason. Like, I’m on my personal twitter. I’m not begging for this yt Mexican reporter to get fired. I’m sharing what the fuck I think. Stop defending anti-black people to me. Stop justifying mediocrity.
  • 12 September 2020 : Because the literal police and fbi and state have been bemoaning about all the fires set across the country and have been attributing ALL of them to Antifa (as they conflate antifa w/ BLM) b/c they refuse to admit they could have made people this mad with their oppression???
  • 12 September 2020 : Idk why they let me listen! It’s probably because I showed those fascists basic respect. Someone else came in and was not respectful so they weren’t respectful back obviously. (& my tone passes that off as normal) But like, anyway, yeah they let my quiet yt passing self stay & I- pic.twitter.com/6uTSGygsdy
  • 12 September 2020 : April??? What is wrong with you?? https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1304881489859866625?s=21
  • 12 September 2020 : Responding to being called white because you’re white passing as fuck by saying, “I’m Mexican” as if Mexico isn’t a nation state. 😑 literally got me all the way fucked up. As if racism, anti-blackness, colonialism and yt supremacy don’t exist in Mexico. So much to unpack.
  • 12 September 2020 : Ahh, yes. And here we see those good old white Mexican crocodile tears when we bring up the fact that proximity to whiteness literally gets yall into klan meetings, you do the bare minimum, & then announce the story after literal fascist activity you didn’t warn anybody about. 🥴 https://twitter.com/aprilehrlich/status/1304878695908126721
  • 12 September 2020 : She did fucking not.
  • 12 September 2020 : What happened is you have white privilege & went to a militia meeting. You “didn’t have time” to consider it was a meeting full of racists despite your fear to go & what you “could have” done. & then you just, took your time to write about it? Like that’s not breaking news?
  • 12 September 2020 : You were preparing? & then stopped to tweet about it? But you don’t have any more information in your thread than “I didn’t take pictures or videos or get details I just casually listened to some racist plan to disrupt emergency care if necessary and waited to write my feelings”
  • 12 September 2020 : WHERES THE STORY????
  • 12 September 2020 : I’m literally not saying shit about your choice to go. I’ve literally walked into fash events too so like I’m not giving you cookies. What did I do? I immediately gave that info up. I warned the community. I didn’t wait until later to be like “hey coulda warned ya but”
  • 12 September 2020 : You might as well have not gone for all the good you did to warn the community??
  • 12 September 2020 : Any reporter in the year 2020 going to fucking militia meetings where they’re talking about setting up blockades to keep out climate refugees and sitting on that information for a full week until after they start threatening to shoot people??? A FULL WEEK. just to be like oh btw pic.twitter.com/MMCgZ7OZlX
  • 12 September 2020 : I apologize. April wants us all to know that she is Mexican. Stars and casualties included without any comment for the fact that she literally is just telling a chill story about how she wasn’t removed from militia spaces & didn’t see harm in their obvious bullshit. Oops. pic.twitter.com/PL3Eyf7ki2
  • 12 September 2020 : I’ve been corrected. White passing Mexican women like this one will get us killed. Because Anti-Blackness doesn’t just belong to white folks and I would do well not to forget that.
  • 12 September 2020 : White women really are fucking violently complicit in literal organized white supremacy. Look at this shit. Read this thread. If you find yourself relating or understanding her analysis, try to figure out why white supremacy feels so comfortable, casual, and unremarkable to you. https://twitter.com/aprilehrlich/status/1304831012417937409
  • 12 September 2020 : 😑🥴 YALL I KEEP SAYING WHITE PEOPLE WILL GET US KILLED. She ain’t tell nobody this til now??? She didn’t have a chance to learn more? Did she LOOK AROUND THE ROOM to see who the fuck was reflected in this community she was welcomed into? Yo this is literally violent ignorance. https://twitter.com/aprilehrlich/status/1304830372669059072
  • 12 September 2020 : Like bish what?? Tf??? Them- “we’ve gathered to discuss concerns about how were going to effectively hoard resources & cripple supply chains from those city folk who should have known better & stopped those violent BLM rioters” Yt Women- Huh, what forward thinking folks. https://twitter.com/aprilehrlich/status/1304829262269038592
  • 12 September 2020 : White people really just walk into modern day klan meetings & walk out like “hmm, that was interesting”. 🙄 “But in hindsight, I wonder if I should have known the white crowd talking about blockading highways during a climate emergency were fascists... they were so nice to me” https://twitter.com/aprilehrlich/status/1304828825327476736 pic.twitter.com/VMtzbovx3s
  • 12 September 2020 : For more context on this thread: https://twitter.com/adrparsons/status/1304831247760281601
  • 12 September 2020 : Go read this WHOLE THREAD. The whole thing. & consider #PDX how this applies to y’all explicitly too. Don’t think I don’t notice the way y’all thirst over Andrew & how much they sacrifice being on the front lines while you still don’t know of or actively support any Deaf/HOH ppl
  • 12 September 2020 : Black Deaf people have been yelling into the void about the issues w/ the commodification of ASL as an entertainment form forever. Y’all love to stare at conventionally pretty yt people performing sign while not doing shit to fight for Deaf & HOH people. It’s ableism. Full stop https://twitter.com/freelove19xx/status/1304845481097428992
  • 12 September 2020 : The sex worker in me has no fucking spoons for the awful, absurd, & alarmist discourse happening today around the film Cuties. Y’all not gonna pretend to care about CSA survivors or trafficking survivors after FOSTA/SESTA in the middle of this murderous, fascist EARN IT act bs
  • 12 September 2020 : https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-revolutionary-elders-lorenzo-komboa-ervin
  • 12 September 2020 : Ungovernable: An Interview with Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin “We also urge you to generously contribute towards a fundraising campaign organized...to support Lorenzo & his partner JoNina Ervin. Both are movement elders who’ve inspired generations of rebels...” https://blackrosefed.org/ungovernable-interview-lorenzo-komboa-ervin-anderson/
  • 12 September 2020 : @abolishtickets @tenberryten @RoseCityJustice Also yes this language is literally the same used to dehumanize Jewish people during the height of propaganda. Specifically as quoted above.
  • 12 September 2020 : When I had a job at a nonprofit I could have bought all that easily with a few weeks worth of disposable income. There’s no reason to be theorizing about some obscure funder unless you’re talking about paid informants and that’s not shit you talk about casually on Twitter
  • 12 September 2020 : Okay, I almost sold out for a minute for attention in Portland. But I really don’t care about talking points. Y’all got a lot of research to do. If you can’t answer this question with the name of a Black or Indigenous revolutionary, organizer or freedom fighter—why?? Read more.
  • 12 September 2020 : And, if you don’t know who someone names, you’ve got an interesting research point or a way to impress your uprising crush with a new conversation point 😇
  • 12 September 2020 : 2020 Uprising Challenge: Explain your ideal strategy of engagement by naming someone who’s principles/values you admire. Me? It’s legit a 5 way toss-up between Harriet Tubman, Fannie Lou Hamer, James Baldwin, Fred Hampton, and Malcolm X. 🤷🏽‍♀️ And honestly, that’s a short list.
  • 12 September 2020 : Whoever fucking survives this nightmare is going to have the wildest war stories. Like, imagine being 80 & like telling the story of 2020 to our youth? But also, if you can imagine surviving this, reflect on your inherent privileges & ask how you can do more as an accomplice.
  • 12 September 2020 : It’s 10am PST and I’m horny on main... and this is why it’s weird to not be nocturnal. Normally, when I wake up at 7pm and I’m horny on main three hours later, it’s socially acceptable.
  • 12 September 2020 : Okay, Costar 😒😑🥴🙄 • • • • • [ID: Screenshot pf text which says, “Supernatural Grace Your Neptune is in Capricorn, which means that you escape the material world through inviting chaos into your life.”] pic.twitter.com/fQnOLnz64m
  • 12 September 2020 : Also this picture is very suitable for work.
  • 12 September 2020 : HAH! Found it!!! Such a cute picture of me. My highlight looks amazing. 🥰 pic.twitter.com/rcMIGH46im
  • 12 September 2020 : One time nazis posted a (really cute) picture of me on Gab & called me a transsexual prostitute from PDX. I still thought I was cis at the time. 😅 Lol, my friends told me I was an “honorary trans” then. 2 years later, I still laugh @ them figuring it out before me. https://twitter.com/betacuck4lyfe/status/1304779019536068608
  • 12 September 2020 : Honestly all these spiders on the wall really should be tipping me considering how often they see me naked....
  • 12 September 2020 : Open the @ExpoCenter , too. https://twitter.com/oregonmetro/status/1304795436155166721
  • 12 September 2020 : Can we talk about this watership down bunny pin??!? https://twitter.com/aspen_eyes/status/1304492851879964673
  • 12 September 2020 : There’s no such thing as a virtual march @RoseCityJustice . PS - Where did all that money go? How was your paid retreat for your so-called organizers? How much money is left? What are your plans with it? What’s up with the nonprofit paperwork & who’s still named on it?
  • 12 September 2020 : all my friends are fucking night owls. who tf am I supposed to annoy for a FaceTime wake and bake at 9 am without waking somebody up????
  • 12 September 2020 : I’m not really digging this whole “sleep at night, wake up at 9am” thing. 🤔🦉🤨
  • 12 September 2020 : Y’all do this with so many things. Antisemitism. Misogynoir. Racism. Sexism. Colonialism. Anti-blackness. Transphobia. I swear to god yt, cishet, and/or male “leftists” need to learn that listen to survivors means listen to oppressed ppl telling you about your fucking privilege https://twitter.com/onefrostylady/status/1304739838063648770
  • 12 September 2020 : Oregon is a sundown state. Portland is a sundown city. This state is not safe for Black, Brown and Indigenous people’s. https://twitter.com/cascadianphotog/status/1304665240412413957
  • 12 September 2020 : Snakes can be like.....fast though 😳 I’ve seen some snakes MOVE. But yeah, ngl, I’ve been thinking about hiking out in the forest somewhere but I think I need way more bear/cougar incident preparedness
  • 12 September 2020 : Australia’s BEEN out here doing it right in regards to keeping the unemployed working class engaged in the struggle against capitalist expectations and oppression for years. https://twitter.com/parislord/status/1304665888570798080
  • 12 September 2020 : Omg I’m so sorry all the animals can like kill you there.
  • 12 September 2020 : Thanks for answering. The info on mating season and confirmation that idk they need oxygen was helpful? Hahah like ugh. Anyway thnx
  • 12 September 2020 : It’s okay. I don’t need or want a spider rundown. Please. Just couldn’t find behavioral confirmation with a ton of google search tries and had way too much shit coming up
  • 12 September 2020 : I just like, really cannot wake up to a spider on my skin in the middle of the wildfires in the house I’m evacuated into for the week while the state burns & the feds sniff around 😑 I will throw my own one person riot. I’m trying to have grace but I swear it’s too many 😭
  • 12 September 2020 : 😭😭😭 this is NOT the answer I was looking for 😫😫 but thank you
  • 12 September 2020 : Can’t tell if I’m seeing all these spiders everywhere because of the wildfires or because Iktomi has seemed hell bent on trying to tell me *something* these last 2 weeks 😑 either way, my nerves can’t handle this.
  • 12 September 2020 : Would outside spiders come inside to get away from smoke? Is that how spiders work? Please advice. Google is not helpful and keeps telling me about funnel spiders in Australia and it’s lowkey terrifying.
  • 11 September 2020 : Right but like, at the same time, if this system wasnt a for profit nation we could probably have the support necessary to recycle. And if that were the case, it’d still be going to the same place. We do what we can but the reason the planets dying is settlers & the 1% - not you.
  • 11 September 2020 : Honestly I’d just like to give a giant fuck you to all the ppl who’ve ever whined at disabled folks with nonexistent executive function for not fucking sorting garbage at times b/c we each individually need to save the planet. I been telling y’all it’s a fucking scam. Aim higher. https://twitter.com/HSouthwellFE/status/1304517721917448192
  • 11 September 2020 : Let’s talk about not using slave labor to begin with... https://twitter.com/gavinnewsom/status/1304509375554359296
  • 11 September 2020 : what ever will sol luna do???
  • 11 September 2020 : @this_vid
  • 11 September 2020 : Yo president of the bodega association really thought my nigga was bout to be at work or still sleep like the way his head drop he really knew it was over https://twitter.com/wayno119/status/1303352617603481600
  • 11 September 2020 : You had a concussion and they were being predatory as fuck. You don’t need to send me anything. 💕 Treat yourself to lunch. You deserve it.
  • 11 September 2020 : I’m done with organizing in Portland. I just deleted signal and telegram and all the shit off my phone. I wish you all endless luck in the struggle but like, this city is a waste of my entire life and my time.
  • 11 September 2020 : Y’all are not helpful. 😑 Nevermind.
  • 11 September 2020 : Watching people kill themselves for a city and state that will not support them and I’m over it... I’m trying to get a tent and go get my dog and fucking leave. Does anyone just wanna like walk around the country with me for a bit?
  • 11 September 2020 : I have 3 sets of screens & it’s still not enough to do the multitasking I want to fucking accomplish. Like finishing a website & it’s copy on my laptop while tweaking/testing graphics for different socials on my iPad while communicating via phone AND I want to hop on a Jitsi. 😑
  • 11 September 2020 : Lmfaooooooooooo. https://twitter.com/_clintobean/status/1304473666789371904
  • 11 September 2020 : like, ahh, yes, let’s keep up our streak of nights out on the streets in the worst air index in the world while filling our filters with both smoke & other gasses so that we can....? Pretend there’s not a roaring wildfire? Can we like, do community care?? Idk I’m just like... 👀
  • 11 September 2020 : I know we haven’t seen any fliers about actions tonight & tbh personally I’m really hoping it stays that way. that anyone might be planning a whole ass march or DA in the literal worst air quality conditions around the world tonight instead of focusing on mutual aid seems 🥴
  • 11 September 2020 : The oldest children and any daughters of the family..... poverty consistently puts our families into a position where children are raising children because pro-life just means pro-birth not pro-healthy childhood development and living conditions. https://twitter.com/larryemil/status/1304388057580347393
  • 11 September 2020 : I slept for another few hours by sheer force of will alone.
  • 11 September 2020 : RT @uyarakq: define irony
  • 11 September 2020 : The fact that my body is like “ahh, yes, that 4 hour nap was fine...now wake up and just sit in existential dread for a few hours”
  • 11 September 2020 : where you at?!? lol I’m just like tracking the approaching wildfires on all sides 😅
  • 11 September 2020 : Who’s up? 👀
  • 11 September 2020 : Who has been around from the start? Is this your van? You said they and we?
  • 11 September 2020 : Well....tomorrow at least. Time is subjective.
  • 11 September 2020 : It’s been a long night at work and I’m excited to bring more details in the morning.... https://twitter.com/withradicallove/status/1304313641634680835
  • 11 September 2020 : Right...
  • 11 September 2020 : “When” https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1304235190571597824
  • 11 September 2020 : lol https://twitter.com/koinnews/status/1304175221616848896
  • 11 September 2020 : at the top. Image then switches to a Black power fist in multiple geometric shades of brown with long red nails in front of a bright blue circle with a black ringed border. 2020 appears at the top.
  • 11 September 2020 : Video Description: Video starts with a Black power fist inside a black circle with a red letter 'A' and blue letter 'A' to the left of the fist. 2018 appears at the top then is replaced with the text Solidarity Through Small Acts of Radical Love. 2019 then replaces the text
  • 11 September 2020 : 👀👀👀 . . . #abolitionactually pic.twitter.com/0sIVgrZAIx
  • 11 September 2020 : DM’d you!!
  • 11 September 2020 : DOPE! Just sent the first need to someone but maybe we could all get into a telegram chat for like broader accessibility needs cross platforms? We could all just dump requests in the chat and post IDs for ease of sharing and stuff? 👀👀👀👀
  • 11 September 2020 : Also, like, I’m in a mood. a crises response mood. So, uhhh, If you don’t wanna go out for obvious reasons but you know you won’t be able to sleep tonight keep an eye on my socials. 💕✨nobody likes getting coordinated & doing busy work (except y’all who do) but we got work to do
  • 11 September 2020 : okay searching my dms isn’t working can someone hit me up to volunteer to write a quick video description rn but also who wants to help with write image descriptions for some stuff this evening?
  • 10 September 2020 : “We’re trying to figure out where the fire is” can someone throw a transcript of this into a note, screenshot it, and post in replies in text and image? https://twitter.com/editorswindler/status/1304201480161775616
  • 10 September 2020 : I’m lowkey cackling imagining officials in the White House like, screening calls for the president as he’s just like, “Kate BROWN?? from Oregon? Nah! Fired!” https://twitter.com/crosstheunivrse/status/1304175681262071809
  • 10 September 2020 : Is the reason some of us can never keep our hands/fingers away from our mouths/face the same reason people with dicks wear grey sweatpants all the time? #subtleadvertising
  • 10 September 2020 : Cool cool cool cool cool. Be back later twitter. pic.twitter.com/0IsQIFSAKj
  • 10 September 2020 : Sorry image description
  • 10 September 2020 : I just.... [can someone pls help with an id in the reply] pic.twitter.com/FFFqLeXcS9
  • 10 September 2020 : Kate Brown and Ted Wheeler and Chloe Eudaly and Joann Hardesty and Amanda Fritz and Blumeneur and Danny boi not too welcome to the fucking club buddy. All these state officials better be fucking ready. Tell me what the fuck else we have to lose? Our jobs? Our homes? Our health???
  • 10 September 2020 : I’m walking around in fucking circles in the first fucking house with comrades ive gotten to settle into in two goddamn years of screaming our fucking demands at so called leaders around this fucking continent just to come back here & chose which priceless mementos to burn??
  • 10 September 2020 : Can we all come sleep outside of city hall to await your next fucking broadcast video from the high towers of probably lake no negro somewhere that you hide out from the commoners? Because for fucks sake WHAT will it take? For an ounce of leadership? A drop of fucking decision.
  • 10 September 2020 : here’s a fucking question: @tedwheeler now that you’ve taken 100 days to ask cops to stop using that one specific type of gas from among their various arsenals, do you have any advice for community members outside your periphery focus on trump deciding what to pack & where to go?
  • 10 September 2020 : https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1292156391507914752?s=21
  • 10 September 2020 : https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1294898375104450561?s=21
  • 10 September 2020 : Can y’all retweet boost & share the above tweet please? 🙏🏽❣️ I’m straight up tired of this man getting to continue his job when he literally gaslit me on conference calls talking bout “well *I* don’t think I made anyone feel pressured to leave” when I’ve literally said otherwise
  • 10 September 2020 : Like yes I’ve seen these types of videos out of Portland before. Yes, I was this concerned then too. No, I won’t accept this as inconspicuous, casual, or regular. And YES, I do think we need to be considering the fash move to pull trumps much praised troops home RN.
  • 10 September 2020 : I’d like to add that several folks are pointing out that this is a regular type of occurrence here in Portland and that this might not be anything more significant than moving vehicles but uh, I’d like us to consider this should never be normal & we spend way too much on war?
  • 10 September 2020 : What did trump say about needing to bring our troops back home from abroad? What did he say about “taking care” of #Portland ? What did ted say about how his comparatively* small array of cops won’t be using tear gas anymore? *compared to the federalized osp & also literal feds https://twitter.com/alexmilantracy/status/1304149607258058752
  • 10 September 2020 : Reported and blocked.
  • 10 September 2020 : We have a pandemic flirt game winner y’all 🤣🔥🎶 https://twitter.com/safepdxprotest/status/1304129576109400064
  • 10 September 2020 : I will send anyone and everyone the file of the interpreted video of @tedwheeler ’s inaccessible announcement if y’all would just please stop platforming ableism even if it’s from the states and turn to your grassroots organizers and community members prioritizing access.
  • 10 September 2020 : right? I feel like I don’t even got time for whatever it is too
  • 10 September 2020 : and I didn’t do anything but help signal boost work that Andrew did, compiled and shared. And even so, it’s less about the work we do and more about the lack of work City hall does
  • 10 September 2020 : literally the bare minimum
  • 10 September 2020 : (Which is to say that none of them give a damn at all) Ableism is white supremacy. Black disabled people and their lives matter just as much as the Black able bodied people in the streets whom you condemn for violence when in fact it is self-defense against a murderous state.
  • 10 September 2020 : Big shout out to Andrew Tolman, the sole coordinator behind Fingers Crossed Interpreting for quickly working to provide post-production accessibility to key public information simply because all of the electeds at city hall care no more about Ableism than they do police brutality
  • 10 September 2020 : And I expect the rest of the criminal justice system to hold those individuals accountable. We must stand together as a community against violence and for progress. I call on everyone to step up and temp down the violence. I’m acting - it’s time for others to join me. [END]
  • 10 September 2020 : Arson, vandalism, and violence are not going to drive the change this community needs. I expect police to arrest people who engage in criminal acts. I expect the District Attorney to prosecute those who commit criminal acts.
  • 10 September 2020 : ... encourage the Legislature to complete this work as soon as possible. Doing the lasts 10 days, Portland, Multnomah County, and State Police have all relied on CS gas when there’s a threat to life safety. We need something different, and we need it now.
  • 10 September 2020 : I commend the preliminary work that the Oregon State Legislature has done to convene experts to evaluate the use of gas and what safer alternatives exist that prevent the need for greater force. I commit the city of Portland to full participation in these reforms, and...
  • 10 September 2020 : We all want to focus on the fundamental issue at hand - justice for Black people and all people of color. That’s why, as Police Commissioner, effective immediately and until further notice, I am directing the Portland Police Bureau to end the use of CS gas for crowd control.
  • 10 September 2020 : They have shaved head and moustache with a goatee. They are using American Sign Language.] Transcript: It’s time for everyone to reduce the violence in our community. We all want change. We all have the opportunity and the obligation to create change.
  • 10 September 2020 : [Video description: Mayor Ted Wheeler, a white man with short gray hair, stands in a tan colored living room with a lamp behind him. He is wearing a black short sleeved shirt. The Interpreter, Andrew, is visible in the upper right corner, wearing a blue button up shirt.
  • 10 September 2020 : all this effort just for me to be like “hey, you!” which is literally exactly my style 😅
  • 10 September 2020 : @tedwheeler can’t even figure out how to follow ADA law and he wants us to think he’s been listening? Here’s a version of his video with ASL interpretation provided by the people for the people. Transcript in the replies. #pdx #portlandprotest #ableism #pdxprotest #portland https://twitter.com/tedwheeler/status/1304125035578159104 pic.twitter.com/kWQmhU40hC
  • 10 September 2020 : what are we saying when we flirt with cuties during the pandemic? i feel like good morning is insincere at this point? nothing is good....?
  • 10 September 2020 : This is barely anything tho. This isn’t a result. We’ve been demanding this for literally 97 days and it’s only banning one type of gas and they haven’t stopped sweeps on houseless people and they’re still evicting people and firing munitions at peoples heads & beating ppl bloody
  • 10 September 2020 : Is there a way to address the intellectual fraud & racial disparities present inside regional chapters affiliated with the National Jobs With Justice? Here in PDX, our local chapter is unsafe for Black staff & cant retain Black members due to racism upheld by the ED @WillLayng https://twitter.com/jwjnational/status/1304118392455077889
  • 10 September 2020 : because this is a country founded on genocide, anti-blackness & white supremacy. it never cared about the people or the earth—only the freedom of the white man to do as he please & claim his apparently “undeniable” role as a savior to & master for all less desirable peoples https://twitter.com/joshuapotash/status/1304117846767738883
  • 10 September 2020 : “Americans aren’t making babies and that’s bad for the economy” is really the only headline you need to read to understand that republicans are pro-life because they’re pro-capitalism not because they have any respect for the sanctity of human life. They need workers not people. https://twitter.com/bw/status/1304102917218148352
  • 10 September 2020 : @sarahforpdx makes bold election promise to constituents that she will “try to suck less” than @tedwheeler . And what more could we expect from a colonizer, liberal, “Antifa when it’s good for optics” yt woman running a campaign to stop ted? #SarahForPDX #ShellTryToSuckLess https://twitter.com/sarahforpdx/status/1269117267708506113
  • 10 September 2020 : 97 days after @tedwheeler told us he “does not like the tear gas” he’s finally decided to ask his police force to stop using it. However, they were also told not to use it except in cases of life or death & that was ignored so what comes next? No. Peace. https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1304107179104821248?s=12 https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1269096018135486464
  • 10 September 2020 : I made it SEVENTEEN seconds into this inaccessible video (with literally no ASL interpretation) from Ted Wheeler fucking smiling and talking before I got nauseous and had to exit. Summary? Transcript? Please? https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1304107179104821248
  • 10 September 2020 : the fact that yts called my people savages & animals & killed us & our cultures while they’ve literally *justified* cannibalism of Black/Brown people’s bodies for various reasons in various eras is just the type of shit that makes me hate yt people on a deeply personal level...
  • 10 September 2020 : There is an absolutely critical need to address the ways that our entire govt is built on an infrastructure not just reliant on but held up by: •yt supremacy •anti-blackness •colonialism •ableism •cisnormativity •fatphobia •patriarchy •misogynoir •capitalism •fascism
  • 10 September 2020 : The western, for-profit medical system is to Black women/newborns (& Black birthing parents) as the militarized police state is to Black men/boys. What I’m saying is, Black Lives Matter means we have to dismantle EVERY yt supremacist system this country relies on for liberation
  • 10 September 2020 : Also, I hate to be a realist but I am and we are not close. We do not even have an organized and prepared response for this fire nightmare. If we aren’t ready to care for people during predictable disasters we aren’t ready to care for people through a literal war. Get ready. https://twitter.com/symbiosis_pdx/status/1303982794033360896
  • 10 September 2020 : Like tf. Do y’all know what this entire organization is based around? Some apolitical nonsense. The Portland faction had a split because of disagreements over whether Indigenous Sovereignty should be prioritized in their key tenants or w/e. Like, ugh. Will settlers ever stop?
  • 10 September 2020 : What is extinction rebellion gonna protect themselves from the rest of the entire us govt with if they seize and DESTROY not only the arms of the police but also the means of a city? Extinction rebellion is apolitical ecofash garbage & should not be taken seriously. https://twitter.com/xr_pdx/status/1304060325428252672
  • 10 September 2020 : me: smoking a joint dogs: vibing in the apocalyptic back yard for a romp outside my friend: *hacking violently* me + dogs: 👀 my friend: “air quality” *coughs* “S’not good”
  • 10 September 2020 : Bringing back this meme I made in April except I made an edit to explicitly add (as @Imani_Barbarin pointed out today) that this shit is ableist too. Fuck your theory and your praxis if it’s not accessible to the masses. pic.twitter.com/uhERpvGe3m
  • 10 September 2020 : in other words no i don’t wanna talk about that fucking book lol thanks but no thanks if i gotta live it twice i’ll do the second time irl 🙃😂
  • 10 September 2020 : everyone’s talking about parable of the sower meanwhile when my roomie started reading it this year & i said i’d never heard of it... before realizing the main characters story was just so triggering & relatable i literally blocked out all memory of reading the fucking book 😅
  • 10 September 2020 : co-star really has to be such a know it all every single fucking day huh 😑 🙄 😒 pic.twitter.com/KHQdhkq7Zd
  • 10 September 2020 : Stop 😭😭
  • 10 September 2020 : Because white people don’t get hit enough and this slow mo is glorious. https://twitter.com/balleralert/status/1303027258093973510
  • 10 September 2020 : Me: pic.twitter.com/ik4YqTPRKS
  • 10 September 2020 : how do bb trans pick out new names? I don’t wanna be a noun. but like, I need help. pls send help. i need to speak to hr immediately. i was never given orientation...
  • 10 September 2020 : I mean I got blocked off twitter for a week, came back, and it’s inaccessible as fuck so my conspiracy theories are running wild. 😭
  • 10 September 2020 : do any trans want bigger titties? will trade for little titties. like, deep v shirt to my belly button but my titties can’t pop out cause they don’t have enough surface area type titties.
  • 10 September 2020 : That’s literally what I think. Like truly it feels like they were like “the people are communicating to easily via twitter. Shake it tf up.” I’m too neurodivergent to deal with this shit and it’s literally making me upset tbh.
  • 10 September 2020 : I fucking HATE this new twitter reply organization bullshit. Can I make it stop? Pls help.
  • 10 September 2020 : once not wants and say not day 🙃
  • 10 September 2020 : anyway, i’m going through a straight up identity crises that has nothing to do with my analysis or politics or positionality and everything to do with my gender & identity as a member of SO many diasporas so like idk just be prepped for a name change maybe tbh? Idk. Fuck 2020.
  • 10 September 2020 : and like my fed name is definitely my deadname. but at this point Lilith also feels like my deadname sometimes but also someone quoted me as Lilith X Sinclair wants and Lilith X feels good but y’all gonna day I’m tryna be like Malcolm & I don’t have the MH for that....
  • 10 September 2020 : Lilith Sinclair was literally just my sex work name so my clients wouldn’t stalk/kill me & then it just became my direct action name cause I didn’t wanna memorize a new one & now it’s just my name but like I hate the kitschy colonial last name but idk I’m not even a girl so 🥴🙃
  • 10 September 2020 : @WillLayng is a classist, abuse apologist, racist ass white man that speaks over femmes & put his only two QTBIPOC staff members under formal investigation for signing our personal names to a letter calling out an abuser in the middle of a pandemic. the Ed at “Jobs With justice”
  • 10 September 2020 : I’m fucking pissed.
  • 10 September 2020 : Like we could all be on that conference call and I could have an entire fucking infrastructure to give the people access to like an actual grassroots fucking nonprofit is supposed to instead of gate keeping it to placate yt labor movements that don’t wanna alienate cop unions
  • 10 September 2020 : Literally like I could organize if there was any competent way to get access to resources from the fucking orgs and nonprofits in this city without being given a 15-page lists of unspoken rules about respectability politics for the sake of yt comfortability.
  • 10 September 2020 : Imagine the organizing I could be doing right now if I had access to @jwjpdx ’s resources and someone there were actually doing something instead of having an entire org focused on investigating @WillLayng for racism in the middle of a civil rights movement. Fuck. I’m so mad.
  • 10 September 2020 : I’m deadass serious. Like what are the neighborhood associations doing? Do we have any competent group or coalition that’s coordinate streams of communication between all the groups we have so far and how they can work in tandem with each other?
  • 10 September 2020 : I don’t wanna start this zoom call.... isn’t there some type of org or group doing this? Am I missing any expansive community response organization here? Have we set up any sort of communications system to adequately track and maintain supply chains with shared workloads?
  • 10 September 2020 : I can’t be the only one that thinks the city could use a night off to prepare support and plans for these massive fires instead of running from cops that we’ve seen fire munitions into a gas station...
  • 10 September 2020 : #PDX - A good thread of info for all of us (myself included) to calm down a bit but also like, this is unacceptable and we still need to be coming together as a community to be prepared for these scenarios. https://twitter.com/dampwookiee/status/1303836955512201217
  • 9 September 2020 : Also at the very least we could all bitch about this together lmao
  • 9 September 2020 : But we could hop on a zoom, set up some google docs, and start getting connected by neighborhood or by interest. I don’t want shit to do with talking to or asking electeds for shit. We take care of us and we have to be able to do this on our own. The state will not protect you.
  • 9 September 2020 : There *could* be NO discussion of direct action, arrest-able activity, open cases, or the like.
  • 9 September 2020 : #alerta - Jesse Sponberg is a rapist and abuser. Please do not accept shelter from him or recommend him to others for shelter. He is not a safe person or a comrade. https://twitter.com/matcha_chai/status/1303830694381068288
  • 9 September 2020 : Soooo, #PDX - if I were to start a giant zoom call, would folks like to get on and set some quick community agreements, intentions, and goals re; safety planning for fire evacs? We could then create offshoot Jitsi call links for people to divide the work into different spaces?
  • 9 September 2020 : Fucking beautiful pic.twitter.com/N5I4tPa4yb
  • 9 September 2020 : Follow up question, if the fires are surrounding the PDX metro area on nearly all sides & are all continually creeping along in literally whatever direction the wind goes, where should metro residents be looking to go in preparation for an evacuation announcement? @tedwheeler ??? https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1303822143440842752 pic.twitter.com/uu73V1sIWA
  • 9 September 2020 : Congrats settlers. Colonialism is a massive fucking failure and capitalism will be the resounding legacy of what brought the entire world to flame. Fucking Christ. This so called country doesn’t have any competent care systems that aren’t centered around protecting property. 🙃 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1303822650632929280
  • 9 September 2020 : Okay so like now what does the purple mean? pic.twitter.com/VURAkRzX2A
  • 9 September 2020 : Are you telling me this document hasn’t been updated since 2011? https://multco.us/em/community-wildfire-protection pic.twitter.com/bO2KWDwRMu
  • 9 September 2020 : Where the fuck is the link to the Multnomah county fire evacuation map?
  • 9 September 2020 : Shield walls aren’t just shield. You wanna put your body on the line then come to the front. That’s where y’all are supposed to be. For all the harm wall of moms caused they got one thing right. Get up front. But stay there. And move like water around Black people who NEED it. https://twitter.com/mariahmacaronio/status/1303817445644222464
  • 9 September 2020 : y’all really do shit like this. like, a couple of y’all. its weird and like not normal. and unsettling as fuck. a couple of y’all now so like, if this was ever you, please don’t do this. i literally do not get paid enough to be talking to fans in my day to day life. no. stop. https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1303793002087809025
  • 9 September 2020 : cackling 🥴🤣😭 https://twitter.com/mnateshyamalan/status/1303746080560099328
  • 9 September 2020 : still don’t know why I follow anyone on twitter but @cremebruleepdx ...
  • 9 September 2020 : My grandfather today asking “are you safe?” “Uhhh, well, theres not really any way to be safe from the US government...?”
  • 9 September 2020 : And if you don’t wanna step up, step the fuck back (once again) to where y’all always feel most comfortable: hiding behind Black women and femmes on the frontlines. The tragedy that all y’all white press didn’t get as close as possible to help ID these would-be murderers...
  • 9 September 2020 : White people in Portland really have some audacity to tell Black folk how to protest on the front lines. Y’all will literally yell at a Black person for any type of protesting because “DONT YOU KNOW there’s people behind you and we don’t want to actually be at risk”. Step up. https://twitter.com/mariahmacaronio/status/1303809065265504256
  • 9 September 2020 : look, I said the shit with my chest, we organize for BLACK LIBERATION & THE INDIGENOUS SOVEREIGNTY. We must fight to see not just the abolishment, but the complete dismantlement & replacement of the so-called “united states as we know it.” We need #thepeoplesinfrastructure
  • 9 September 2020 : the fact that I just showed this to my friend and they said “is that the wall of moms.” https://twitter.com/brownblaze/status/1303800358548860928 pic.twitter.com/rcRemfRjHK
  • 9 September 2020 : And for more: https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1303801228464451589?s=21
  • 9 September 2020 : Everyone else is at the “laughing at global headlines” point of denial right? It can’t be just me? I’ve been CACKLING at everything for 24 hours while avoiding both fires and the fucking state and the yt supremacists literally tracking and following my bipoc friends & I just....
  • 9 September 2020 : Ahh, there it is.... https://twitter.com/tomcottonar/status/1303786807692124160
  • 9 September 2020 : Always concerning to see “Roe V Wade” trending on twitter in the US....
  • 9 September 2020 : 😂😂😂😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/JGaGXsMq6m
  • 9 September 2020 : Wait okay so I watched this video like 15 times on repeat last night and couldn’t share it but y’all need to get to laugh at this and if someone can download and caption this I’ll share the fuck out of it. https://twitter.com/wayno119/status/1303352617603481600
  • 9 September 2020 : When we say that @tedwheeler and crew (Joann included) truly do not care and will watch this city burn so long as they might retain some semblance of power and return to “law and order” as the center-right “Democratic” party prescribes to... https://twitter.com/griffinmalone6/status/1303421114341711872
  • 9 September 2020 : allies are just wanna be accomplices but always in theory and never in practice... 🙃
  • 9 September 2020 : for every time someone tells me they’re proud of me or that I’m they’re hero or that they do all this work because of [insert x thing I did or said] does that make my skin more bullet resistant? all of y’all have an entire city DM’ing you play by plays of the city’s trauma 24/7?
  • 9 September 2020 : @QQuietfoot ahhh, do people also get out of their cars and approach you on the street (or just on the sidewalk) to thank you for your work while telling you how they don’t need you to even follow them back as if they’re not worth it? that’s been a weird & dehumanizing experience for me...
  • 9 September 2020 : meanwhile at city hall..... https://twitter.com/joannpdx/status/1303790242961305600
  • 9 September 2020 : this is the kind of visionary innovation i needed to see on my timeline. 13/10. fucking genius. https://twitter.com/mskellymhayes/status/1303776119158644738
  • 9 September 2020 : idk how we’re even supposed to go ask for refugee somewhere cause nobody’s trying to let a bunch of infected people back into their countries en masse.... https://twitter.com/weinbergersa/status/1303750595724140550
  • 9 September 2020 : I hate this website 😂😂😂 https://twitter.com/otoneclouds/status/1303780020905627648
  • 9 September 2020 : Lol I literally got banned on twitter for a week for “doxxing” the fucking mayor and then did a whole thread on how to get low level fash feeling scared and uhhh.... probably gonna get locked out of twitter again tbh 🙃
  • 9 September 2020 : Ps- Kevin still hasn’t learned to keep my name out his mouth. Wonder what his bosses think.... pic.twitter.com/99t8FIzCT5
  • 9 September 2020 : But I make this thread more for the benefit of my comrades than for the shame of this particularly out of his element local fash wanna be. Because a lot of y’all still don’t have an intimate understanding of just how visible your online footprint is. Stay safe. Be water friends.
  • 9 September 2020 : Long story short, many fascists aren’t as prepared for the level of self defense warranted by their fascist ideals. Kevin doesn’t seem very well connected to the organized fash I’m *actually* tracking w/ credible threats. And this didn’t take me long after a few years practice...
  • 9 September 2020 : Let’s take a look at how the last of our messages went! (His messages started on August 29th) After a quick look at his feed (and a quick google search of publicly listed information that our govt has put on the Internet) I decided to message Kevin back with a little advice: pic.twitter.com/i3fbYMgL5W
  • 9 September 2020 : Anyway.... those sure were a lot of interesting facts about himself that Kevin volunteered to the internet at large. I wonder if his linkedin page, whitepages listings, criminal history or etc are easily traced based off of the name on his profile... Moving on, Kevin DM’d me!!
  • 9 September 2020 : Kevin sure does have a lot to say about politics, BLM, the two party system, and rape culture! He just can’t stop raving about it actually.... pic.twitter.com/XecNgnT3K4
  • 9 September 2020 : Seems Kevin studied at PCC. As of Feb 1 2020, he was an “old fart” of 55 years of age. In January he started a new job! Congrats Kevin! In February this employer that rhymes with “Mintel” let him “use nice tools”! How exciting Kevin! You must be oh, so proud. pic.twitter.com/qVG2OQYMFG
  • 9 September 2020 : Kevin also doesn’t have a good understanding of security culture or the worthwhile idea of at least trying to make an anonymous account before sending death threats to people. Let’s take a look at Kevin’s very public Facebook page and see what we find....
  • 9 September 2020 : Kevin thinks it’s cute to try to send racists to my personal Facebook page. Kevin also thinks it’s okay to post gun photos and vague threats in my comments. Kevin wished publicly that I would have been in a morgue instead of the ER. Kevin is too bold. Don’t be like Kevin. pic.twitter.com/CtURVQlzP2
  • 9 September 2020 : So, that being said, I’m going to show you all a few examples of the types of vitriol hurled at me in my comments and in my inbox on Facebook by fascists and white supremacists who’ve been woefully emboldened by the USA. Kevin Rickey will be our example today: pic.twitter.com/7YJEcmJiel
  • 9 September 2020 : [Thread — CW: Racism, Death Threats, White Supremacy, Ableism, Gun Imagery, etc] Here’s a quick glimpse at a normal day in my Facebook inbox and how I handle racists who don’t know how to keep my name out of their goddamned mouths. [Image description help needed in replies]
  • 9 September 2020 : COZCA IS HOME SAFE ❤️❤️❤️❤️ https://twitter.com/kohzkah/status/1303779218187194368
  • 9 September 2020 : Yo I’m mad you haven’t sent me the link already tbh 🤔
  • 9 September 2020 : As someone raised on the east coast, this is accurate and I always take it into consideration when organizing times for national calls 😅😅 but to be fair they wake up when dc does and that’s a daily exhausting shit show to watch live.
  • 9 September 2020 : #PortlandProtests #Portland #PDX #PDXProtest CC: -Portland DSA -Portland Jobs With Justice -Portland Bread/Roses Caucus -Almost Every Union or NonProfit in Portland OR -The State of Oregon as a whole -The entire US Labor Movement that still isn’t prioritizing rural solidarity
  • 9 September 2020 : Rewatching parts of the docuseries covering the murder of Malcolm X & I wonder how many of you know that the person in his crew who gave Malcolm emergency medical care the day he got shot was also a cop informant. When I tell you that yall need to have better security culture...
  • 9 September 2020 : @threadreaderapp unroll
  • 9 September 2020 : I just want y’all to know that things are shifting for me and my role. Both physical and emotional. And I’m excited to walk with a more renewed purpose towards the softer sides of war. Activism Actually was founded with the term “radical softness as a weapon.” Time to hone that.
  • 9 September 2020 : As an invisibly disabled 2-Spirit Black and Indigenous Non-Binary Femme, I never should have been on the front lines anyway. My existence is resistance. the fight against the colonial frameworks that so much of the yt left are operating from will not be from behind shieldwalls
  • 9 September 2020 : Something I see missing in Portland that is also missing in so many places is the balance between fighting our war and making our demands alongside caretaking for our communities, building decolonized systems to replace our chains, preparing homes for during and after the fight.
  • 9 September 2020 : I’ve been spending the last week in personal ceremony. In communion with my spirit. In the company of loved ones. By myself, connecting with nature, and with medicine and with the creator and my ancestors. My role is to heal and to build. I was raised to fight. But we need more.
  • 9 September 2020 : I’m also planning on moving out of PDX ASAP. This city & its lack of respect for the autonomy of “leaders” as coupled with its antiblackness as coupled with the expectations of feminized labor put on Black femmes & women... I’m willing to die for this movement but not here tbh.
  • 9 September 2020 : Life is going to be shifting for me. I’m recognizing my role is less as an organizer & more as an educator, a healer, a mediator, a builder. Until we find a way to subvert celebrity culture & stop idolizing individuals, my role can’t be at the front. It needs to be from the back
  • 9 September 2020 : No one person in a movement should have this amount of social power. We watched movements of the past fade out with the murders of individuals who “led” them. Leaders are a security risk. It’s time for me to pass the torch in PDX. I’m figuring out how to effectively pass the mic
  • 9 September 2020 : I spent a week off of twitter trying to figure out how to climb down from this pedestal Portland seems to keep pushing me on and every time I feel close to being grounded, I get pushed back up as someone’s “Black leader” who said “xyz” I think I’ve exceeded my purpose in PDX.... https://twitter.com/miamingus/status/1303457859133345793
  • 9 September 2020 : Let’s talk about this rise in policing of BIPOC children which cuts steps from the school to prison pipeline and instead allows our yt supremacist education system to weaponize colonial ideas of behavioral expectations against kids living through trauma @ home in real time. https://twitter.com/hypervisible/status/1303360589444640769
  • 9 September 2020 : after a week in twitter jail for sharing publicly accessible information about our democratically elected mayor, i sure do have a lot to say... but more importantly, i saw a lot that needed shared. time to play catch-up sharing bookmarked tweets w/ analysis, news, roasts & etc
  • 9 September 2020 : fuck you twitter you narc ass bitch
  • 2 September 2020 : not really if it’s for myself
  • 2 September 2020 : i’m literally about to cry because after dark cookies isn’t currently in operation 😭😭😭 anybody got a reputable late night cookie plug? forreal forreal. How about just like #pdx late night sweet tooth spots in general? Any recs?? Drop replies!! 🙏🏽😿😫🥺
  • 2 September 2020 : 😭😭✊🏽😩💕 https://twitter.com/soundsncolor/status/1300924588461715458
  • 2 September 2020 : I was trying to avoid posting ableism on my post. Definitely recommend making tweets to drag ted tho just by quoting them. I actually stopped reading entirely after stupid to not have to see any others. I’m gonna hide this one.
  • 2 September 2020 : If you wanna read @tedwheeler being literally ableist in the opening of his third embarrassing paragraph in a row, feel free to click this link. https://twitter.com/gayhouse90/status/1300956585624244224
  • 2 September 2020 : oof. the nepotism.
  • 1 September 2020 : there’s like... tons of bridges in Paris.
  • 1 September 2020 : she lives in PARIS
  • 1 September 2020 : I literally want her to fall off a bridge somewhere..... https://twitter.com/rafaelshimunov/status/1300916601370349568
  • 1 September 2020 : I’d also like to give a HUGE shout out to the rad & wonderful group of ppl who made themselves immediately available to work on accessibility. Folks dove into research & listened to Disabled people to create radically accessible graphics & share Image Descriptions widely. ✊🏽😭💕
  • 1 September 2020 : I’d also like to give a HUGE shout out to the rad & wonderful group of feedback who made themselves immediately available to work on accessibility. Folks dove into research & listened to Disabled people to create radically accessible graphics & share Image Descriptions widely. ✊🏽
  • 1 September 2020 : I’m happy to be a part of this weekend full of mutual aid, healing, creativity, joy, fury, education, trauma support, love, & INTERSECTIONAL solidarity for Black Liberation & Indigenous Sovereignty. We fight for #liberation & #totalabolition . We know we’re #StrongerTogether
  • 1 September 2020 : For accessibility needs, including ASL Interpreters, or event accessibility information, please contact pdxcollective@protonmail.com When: 12-6pm sit in Locations: Lents Park, N. Precinct, Rally and March from Ventura Park to East Precinct
  • 1 September 2020 : ID: Black/white illustration of an elk with large antlers that have scraps of the USA flag on them. The elk’s in motion, kicking a heavily uniformed officer behind them. An upside down KKK member’s in front. Below it’s feet is a police helmet, & behind it are clouds of tear gas.
  • 1 September 2020 : 100 days. 100 nights. This Saturday, September 5th. Join us as we hold space, sit in, and march for Black Lives. #STRONGERTOGETHER Here’s a thread with an image description and more details. GET READY to COME TOGETHER #pdxprotest #PortlandProtests #totalabolition pic.twitter.com/tRiLqp13Z9
  • 1 September 2020 : i dont think i am very good at pandemic tinder? 🤨 pic.twitter.com/5PgcJjQWQJ
  • 1 September 2020 : Obviously rooting for @Jazzyk1ns_ because like reparations duh ❤️ https://twitter.com/ftw_us/status/1300840850188951552
  • 1 September 2020 : How I feel walking around Portland looking at all the settlers & gentrifiers on stolen Chinook, Grande Ronde, Warm Springs land and more who think I have any respect for private property of colonizers.... https://twitter.com/rexchapman/status/1300806475716194312
  • 1 September 2020 : Yep! Thank you!
  • 1 September 2020 : I’m probably unreasonably excited to watch this but the reminders I’ve gotten this summer & some of these haughty medical professionals hitting the streets has reminded me how RAMPANT Anti-blackness & white supremacy is in the medical field. Even internalized in Black folks. https://twitter.com/cashleelee/status/1300853463425773568
  • 1 September 2020 : We’re at $1050 as of checking in as soon as I wake up. I’m gonna make a graphic today to boost with an update on where we’re at and more details! Just waking up but thank you so much for your support.
  • 1 September 2020 : You can also help out via Venmo @/abolitionactually or PayPal with the email: activismactually@gmail.com We’re at about $230 so far and realistically need about $3000 to give us time handling immediate needs so we can focus on long term needs for these families & BIPOC youth
  • 1 September 2020 : #PDX - I need a safe house for 1 person & a dog. We also need funds. For a Black mom & her fam for food/resources/self care. & also to source some Black specialists we can pay to help them out. I have like 10$ to my name rn & rent is due. BOOST PLEASE. http://cash.me/$abolitionactually
  • 1 September 2020 : True. I will never go on next for lmaooo
  • 1 September 2020 : Here’s another system that’s falling to pieces because of poor leadership skills and a solid disconnect from what we need for the people. Leadership here loves posing with one cop specifically — Ted Wheeler. That literally is an example of working happily alongside fash. https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1299492306337239040
  • 1 September 2020 : Omg please fucking do.
  • 1 September 2020 : You can’t separate the institution from the movement. We’re fighting against institutions. Including the non-profit industrial complex and unions made of good ole boys who support the police. Sometimes the institution becomes unfuctional & no longer productive to supporting ppl
  • 1 September 2020 : I mean, at least they aren’t actively sitting down with fascists to try to hear them out or change their side of things (unlike Luis, our local male abuser who LITERALLY sat down with a pb for an in person interview.) But anyway, they got internal work to do before they can help
  • 1 September 2020 : I truly hate some of y’all for the amount of sheer and unchecked yt audacity you have. What the fuck is wrong with y’all. Don’t tell Black people what defines a hate crime?? Or what gangs mean? I grew up in Baltimore. I’m fucking familiar with gangs thanks. https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1300622384672595969
  • 1 September 2020 : Thank you white person, for telling me, a Black Indigenous person who’s first boyfriend was consistently bragging about being in a gang that rhymes with Duds, about what hate crimes are and what gangs mean. Clearly you must have some lived experience I don’t have???? The fuck?
  • 1 September 2020 : PDXJWJ, PTU, IRCO, PDXDSA. All these groups local to Portland have issues with yt supremacy, violent anti Blackness & colonial ideas/infrastructure that consistently silence BIPOC folks be nature & design. Anti-racist yt ppl need to Get👏🏽Yalls 👏🏽 People👏🏽 or kick them tf out.
  • 1 September 2020 : What I’m saying is, we have been ACTIVELY harmed & traumatized by non-profits/unions (even our own) here for years. We can’t be expected to keep trying. This is the whitest city that just happens to be in a state founded as a yt utopia. It’s the most dangerous place I’ve lived.
  • 1 September 2020 : Black ppl in Portland *been* talking abt the need for the labor movement to step up & fix their problems w/ literally violent anti-Blackness classism anti-idpol bullshit & solidarity with cop unions. I wish yt ppl in labor had the guts to be accountable for yt supremacy but 🥴 https://twitter.com/livkittykat/status/1300543982930280448
  • 1 September 2020 : Sharing to read later!
  • 1 September 2020 : This is accelerationist and over-reaching as fuck.
  • 1 September 2020 : Your tweet specifically alluding to motives you have no reasonable proof or theory to support here.
  • 1 September 2020 : This is literally unverified speculation. Spreading these kind of rumors, especially after the death this week, is stirring a deadly pot of acid for what? It’s irresponsible as fuck and starts city wide panic with no proof. Please delete this ffs.
  • 1 September 2020 : This is literally unverified speculation. Spreading these kind of rumors, especially after the death this week, is stirring a deadly pot of acid for what? It’s irresponsible as fuck and starts city wide panic with no proof. Please delete this ffs.
  • 1 September 2020 : Gangs exist?? What else do you want us to say? Like gangs are a *real* thing. “Black on black crime” is fash language. “Shot by local thugs” is fash language. “Criminals” to describe Black people is cop language. But like?
  • 31 August 2020 : 😭😭 I wish I could go to this SO BAD. But my brain health says “no the night times are too high risk.” Can we do this weekly? & alternate between day/night. & it could be like, a challenge to creativity to KEEP finding ways to roast ted (that aren’t ableist/fatphobic/sexist) https://twitter.com/gayhouse90/status/1300530580187013120
  • 31 August 2020 : @zefrank 👀👀 Picture it: “True Fact about Police” Different types of cops from different regions & highlighting the way their fight mechanisms are different but similar due to their common ancestors, “Slave Catchers” Police running away chaotically while Yackety Sax plays... https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1300551035618959362
  • 31 August 2020 : Cackling 😂
  • 31 August 2020 : Can we make a “true facts about ppb” video in the style of those “true facts about [animal]” on YT that are funny as fuck & have an amazing sarcastic narrator? like, slowmos of those cops running into the pole w/ a voice saying “some cops travel long distances carrying magnets”
  • 31 August 2020 : as a wonderful Indigenous queer pal who wants to stay anonymous said: usa no longer stands for the united states of america, it now stands for ugly spirited assholes 😂 it’s accurate.
  • 31 August 2020 : Essentially, I personally know everyone but one person on this list to some extent and I can confidently say that none of these Black, Brown, & Indigenous women & femmes want to go get gaslit by the cops for state money. That just leaves two black men.....
  • 31 August 2020 : Uhmmm, but most of the people on this list want to abolish policing entirely not teach the police or even talk to the police. Also, like half these people are probably or certainly being actively watched or wanted by cops because were abolitionist leaders who want them all fired.
  • 31 August 2020 : Generally professionals can walk into a pro-salon supply store and walk out with the product having paid less because of the nature of the system. But I am saving items to snatch up online if needed. We’re just trying to do this on Wednesday lol
  • 31 August 2020 : We just want the hair dye tho lol. Like not the service.
  • 31 August 2020 : Yo. But like, what’s hairstylists in PDX are tryna hit me up on signal to talk about getting some pulpriot hair dye into my hands as a comrade helping out 2 depressed queers to have gay hair and more (or even a crumb) of joy in our lives? #beautybloc ? 😭 we have money.
  • 31 August 2020 : This part. Literally exactly this.
  • 31 August 2020 : This was supposed to be all in one little 3 tweet thread 🙃😅🥴 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1300290451233071109
  • 31 August 2020 : I’m also not shaming other people who feel otherwise. It’s just very much so not a point of view that I share. And we need all kinds of rolls in this movement. Guess I’m just writing this cuz I didn’t see anyone else saying it here but I’ve talked to folks about this before so🤷🏽‍♀️
  • 31 August 2020 : I’m against the death penalty but I’m also not going to ever put my life at risk to save someone who wants me dead. And I sincerely do not mourn the loss of fascists. I just hope you don’t feel guilty not feeling bad for someone who came out armed to assault us. You’re valid.
  • 31 August 2020 : I would definitely let a fascist bleed out on the street. I would not even think twice about it. I’m definitely anti-accelerationism & know this is a scary tipping point— But also, if ur BIPOC & feeling alone seeing so many tweets saying otherwise, you aren’t alone. Not at all.
  • 31 August 2020 : Saw this: https://twitter.com/1misanthrophile/status/1300286794026479617
  • 31 August 2020 : Okay well the last 48 hours have been a fucking roller coaster. I’m turning my phone off for 24 hours because the racist shit I just experienced was UNREAL & yet regrettably predictable of yt ppl tryna dive into this movement off the high board w/ blindfolds, having never swam b4
  • 31 August 2020 : In case anyone is unclear, my compassion fatigue means I have not a single ounce of pity for yt people and their issues with learning how far behind they truly are. https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1299947560530927617
  • 31 August 2020 : Please don’t tag me in ableist language thanks.
  • 31 August 2020 : Yes, a fucking Roman numeral three tattoo in like the middle of his inner forearm.
  • 31 August 2020 : Looking at you Conrad Cartmell of Portland DSA and the “Class Unity Caucus” that you push your anti-black, anti-Idpol, white supremacist and colonial propaganda through.... 👀 PS - After about 6 months of avoiding the question, will you ever answer why you have a Roman # 3 tatt? https://twitter.com/abolitionf_ists/status/1300151626678833152
  • 31 August 2020 : Update: a third racist has seen themselves out, but not without announcing that: they want to “come together w/ other medical personell to support the BLM movement” but they “feel like we should be helping each other be & do better & not berate others for wanting to help out.” 🤡
  • 31 August 2020 : “In the medic chat if it’s not discussing medicine I honestly don’t care. This is not the place for personal opinions, this is to discuss how we can best use our individual medical training to serve our community and stay safe” And well, who else is gonna do it but me I guess 🙄
  • 31 August 2020 : I only keep doing it because the one other Black person in the chat is another light skinned person who is a man with frontline experience only during this uprising. Today when talking about a vetting protocol breach by the yt medic with matted head rolls that man said to us:
  • 31 August 2020 : A book titled Revolting Prostitutes. Also if you scroll my following list there’s a ton of sex worker projects or sex working liberationists to follow.
  • 31 August 2020 : It’s a loose autonomous network and a lot of them use random code names for actions. But if you see a yt woman medic with skinny yt matted hair rolls hanging from their scalp, assume it’s people associating openly with them.
  • 31 August 2020 : The crew that has been dependent on a yt Jewish woman medic with skinny mattelocks who told me I should “consider having a better outlook on dreadlocks.” They’re insistent we shouldn’t be so harsh to someone with that hairstyle when they’ve done so much work these 100 days 🙃
  • 31 August 2020 : Two literal racists have left the chat. How unfortunate. Let’s all mourn the white racist medics who were literally just in my inbox talking about feeling attacked for being born white. 🤡 literal clown shit. More racist people need to be hit in the face. Or like wherever tbh.
  • 31 August 2020 : No-one: Literally no-one: @tedwheeler :*slams through wall* Why 𝔂𝓮𝓼, I 𝕙𝕒𝕧𝕖 actually spoken to Black men in-𝒶𝐡𝑒ᗰ-I mean, Black leaders in Portland. I even have pictures w/them! & they DONT all look the same. One’s gay! ＨＥＲＥ ＬＯＯＫ—just gimme a sec—there’s a bunc pic.twitter.com/keoYfTbWQF
  • 30 August 2020 : @tristan__isaac finally helped me learn his name the right way!
  • 30 August 2020 : ahh, yes, thank you. I do know that. But I was trying to make a joke.
  • 30 August 2020 : Why do men only spaces need to exist? That hasn’t helped change the culture of locker room talk or rape-culture at all so far. Men have always had their own spaces. Dismantling systems of patriarchy includes not allowing boys clubs in the movement. It’s colonial & binary as fuck
  • 30 August 2020 : I wish I had the sheer audacity/confidence of mediocre yt medical professionals turned street medics (this one summer) who think they shit gold breaks & bring flowers into bloom b/c they got an expensive piece of paper from the govt using their super hero power of “being average”
  • 30 August 2020 : I know there have been multiple concerns from multiple different people about the behavior of some of the “indie medics”. If you have any grievances with folks you 100% know to be associated w/ this loose collective, please feel free to reply. If you’re not sure, you can dm me.
  • 30 August 2020 : Just so we’re all clear-the loose collective of medics generally known as the “indie” medics have no clearly established protocols to address potential harms by members vetted into this loosely connected but very clique-y communication network. There is no pathway to address harm
  • 30 August 2020 : Does anyone know of any opportunity for EMT training that isnt coordinated by a white man who doesn’t see the harm in yt Jewish grinch finger hair or attended by a yt Jewish medic who is determined to let people know how many BIPOC people have said their grinch fingers are okay? pic.twitter.com/ElAzljLurL
  • 30 August 2020 : Yt people truly do be disrespectful as fuck and expect to not get hit over it. They don’t understand violence. Like at all. They don’t understand that posturing is asking to get hit. Invading space is a threat. Words can be violent. Self defense is always an option.
  • 30 August 2020 : Didn’t mean to live tweet that but couldn’t stop raging so, 🤷🏽‍♀️ hope y’all had fun along the way lol
  • 30 August 2020 : I literally hate this pasty ass motherfucking bullshit as mayor. I wanna write a slam poem about his crusty ass
  • 30 August 2020 : @tedwheeler literally has no driving values outside of prioritizing every opportunity possible for him to hear himself speak or get a picture taken with a black person. He can’t help this city because he has no analysis of his own, let alone being informed by community.
  • 30 August 2020 : Ted Wheeler is doing the same thing on this video that he didn’t in the meeting I demanded he let me bring women and femmes and mothers to. He’s just chanting “I need trump to tease me less so I can try harder at my job” instead of “my job is to listen and learn” repeatedly.
  • 30 August 2020 : Can someone ask ted where he was yesterday?
  • 30 August 2020 : Update @tedwheeler , you are not doing everything you can for this community. You’re not doing anything for anybody actually. It’s actually the one thing leftists and fash agree on. You’re worthless even when trying your best.
  • 30 August 2020 : Tevis gets asked about this tweets from trump. “Frankly I don’t appreciate it when you tell me how to do [my job].” “Wouldn’t that be an image! Donald Trump and @TedWheeler working together to change the country for the better!” -Have you ever spoken to the president? “no” https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1300170576515026945
  • 30 August 2020 : Ted just say that you talked to mondaine and McKelvey and crew. Just say that you’re only talking to reformists.
  • 30 August 2020 : CACKLING AT TED. “That’s a good question how am I going to go about putting together a coalition similar to what I did before when some of the same members from that coalition are calling for my resignation....?”
  • 30 August 2020 : “We had our officers focused on the vehicular side of things and we had people in the area they just weren’t there at the time.” “We never know where things are going to take place...it’s hard to have officers everywhere at all times.” So, what you’re saying is, you’re useless?
  • 30 August 2020 : PPB Chief Honorable Doctor Captain Sir Reverend Uncle Ruckus III Esquire No Relation says “we’re doing our best.” This is the @PortlandPolice ’s “best.” “We had a curfew before and it wasn’t very successful.” “I’ll be able to better answer that once I talk to that team.”
  • 30 August 2020 : I just heard my friend say, “what, by slashing tires???” Immediately after, Chief Race Traitor #2 said “we keep slashing tires as an option.” She lost her mind.
  • 30 August 2020 : Not the one who is eerily reminiscent of Uncle Ruckus and moved to PA. The current “diversity hire” of the police force.
  • 30 August 2020 : I literally zone out every time chief what’s his name speaks. Yknow the black one who put a teenage girl into a chokehold for truancy....? That one.
  • 30 August 2020 : Is vehicleborne a word? How do vehicles give birth?
  • 30 August 2020 : Mike Schmidt looks miserable in the background of this “PPB Media Event.” I’m actually so interested in what he’ll have to say here.
  • 30 August 2020 : Ted doesn’t understand that this movement is not about individuals or orgs or leaders. It’s led BY THE PEOPLE. Autonomously. We don’t need his leadership with all his fucking I statements. We need him to do what the people are fucking telling him to do since we’re his boss.
  • 30 August 2020 : Ted “I have no values” Wheeler says that he’s ready to shake any hands across the political aisle even if those people are the literal fascists taking over this country. Says he and Donny boy and America all need a “reset.”
  • 30 August 2020 : Did Tevis just say “poo-poo-ing?”
  • 30 August 2020 : I feel like I’m in the twilight zone. My friends are just yelling at the broadcast.
  • 30 August 2020 : “Donald Trump support us or get out of the way” 🙃
  • 30 August 2020 : Oh wait and now he’s back.
  • 30 August 2020 : Considering his response to a murder on the sidewalk after a fascist rally was a 12 minute, one-sided, dick waving contest with Donald Trump so he can try to claim he has a spine in the middle of all the political theater. Truly fuck Tevis Edward Wheeler.
  • 30 August 2020 : I just....I can’t handle this. Next time some shit goes down can we all just spend the night outside city hall at all the exits and wait to talk to ted when he comes to film his bullshit?
  • 30 August 2020 : Ted literally bullshit us for 12 minutes and read a letter to Donny boy that he didn’t think was short enough for another email screenshot and then passed the mic to this years token black police chief.
  • 30 August 2020 : Me and someone simultaneously, “THATS IT??”
  • 30 August 2020 : Lol at ted saying that his job is “to defeat racism” and that both he and trump should “do their jobs” and that they will both be “held accountable.” Ted can’t even do his job let alone stop avoiding us.
  • 30 August 2020 : Is @tedwheeler giving a press conference to this city or is he using police funding for his “Portland Police Bureau Media Event” to read a public letter to @realDonaldTrump without realizing that they’re both white supremacists or understanding that he is a literal cop???
  • 30 August 2020 : I heard Teddy wasn’t ready to provide ADA required accessibility accommodations via ASL interpretation and wasn’t ready to go? Let’s see if he’s going to highlight how dedicated he is to showing off his ableism and white supremacy today... https://twitter.com/tedwheeler/status/1300159985586827264
  • 30 August 2020 : #BootstrapsForJesus #OrejasParaJesus
  • 30 August 2020 : @tedwheeler , you’re gonna resign in twelve minutes right? https://twitter.com/natalieofallon/status/1300080180472373249
  • 30 August 2020 : “Checking in to get consent from my comrades with faces in their PFP before retweeting them since I get the pleasure of having fascists watch my page and send me death threats constantly & I want people to be informed” brag 🙄
  • 30 August 2020 : my diagnosed insomnia had other plans 😅 despite meds and way too much cbd 🙃 but it’s not abnormal for my sleep schedule unfortunately. I’ll take a long nap sometime today and crash tonight.
  • 30 August 2020 : Sex workers are some of the most principled anarchists and abolitionists I know. That’s why our movement for liberation is centered around a demand for DECRIMINALIZATION and not legalization. We don’t want permission from the state. We want freedom from prosecution.
  • 30 August 2020 : The fight for Indigenous Sovereignty is directly and intrinsically linked to the fight for Black Liberation. Black Indigenous people exist. And solidarity is crucial to our fight. Boost this #PDXProtestCommunity ! Be ready to hit the earth running because we need #LANDBACK ! #pdx https://twitter.com/trashprincessm1/status/1300142599773155329
  • 30 August 2020 : Abolish all the boys clubs on the left. Fuck leftist patriarchal bs. Fuck cis men organizing anything who didn’t reach out to BIPOC women & femmes & QTBIPOC for their opinions, insight, or even a dialogue. Unchecked misogyny, patriarchy & sexism destroy movements. Consistently.
  • 30 August 2020 : Read Revolting Prostitutes.
  • 30 August 2020 : pic.twitter.com/EAJCKA9MCP
  • 30 August 2020 : But mine was still at least a vibe too tho right...? If not THE vibe.... 🥺 👉🏽 👈🏽
  • 30 August 2020 : #SwerfsBeLike : If you are a COMMUNIST & your comrade wants to “work” to earn money... & you want to help them... maybe just give them the money & ignore your friends wishes for no other reason than that you don’t respect their autonomy when it challenges ur colonial analysis 💁🏻‍♂️💁🏼‍♀️
  • 30 August 2020 : #SwerfsBeLike : If you are a communist, and your comrade is doing a “yard sale”... and you want to help them... maybe just give them the money instead of treating your comrade’s need to get rid of unused housewares like a commodity. 😤
  • 30 August 2020 : #SwerfsBeLike : If you are a communist, and your comrade has a “baby”... and they want your help with them... maybe just give them the money instead of treating your comrade’s parenting skills like a commodity.
  • 30 August 2020 : #SwerfsBeLike : If you are a communist, and your comrade has a “mechanic shop”... and you want to help them... maybe just give them the money instead of treating your comrade’s ability to fix a car like a commodity.
  • 30 August 2020 : #SwerfsBeLike : If you are a communist, and your comrade has a “restaurant ”... and you want to help them... maybe just give them the money instead of treating your comrade’s labor to make that food like a commodity. Don’t EAT their food. PAY THEM.
  • 30 August 2020 : #SwerfsBeLike : If you are a communist, and your comrade has an “Etsy”... and you want to help them... maybe just give them the money instead of treating your comrade’s labor to make that art like a commodity. https://twitter.com/mal_praxis/status/1299676817331236864
  • 30 August 2020 : Why are “leftists” always so determined to speak over sex workers? & why do they conflate online work w/ FSSW like they’re the same? “Respecting sex workers autonomy to work is bad. And if you’ve bought PHYSICAL ART from your comrade??? Or friend? Unfollow and block me” 🤡🥴 https://twitter.com/_red_life/status/1299890799337930753
  • 30 August 2020 : Fash use twitter to doxx us. Keeping locked means fash can’t search #/PDXprotest & find your tweets in support & work to doxx you. They also can’t comb followers. I’m not locking down. But if you’re worried, you can unfollow for a bit & put me on a private list to follow along! https://twitter.com/fredthefriendly/status/1300019214846062597
  • 30 August 2020 : Fash use twitter to doxx us. Constantly. Keeping your account locked means fash can’t search # PDXprotest and find your tweets in support and work to doxx you. They especially do this to folks seen as “leaders.” I’ve been getting death threats again. 🙃
  • 30 August 2020 : Yes! Ty!!
  • 30 August 2020 : ID: https://twitter.com/stevonnienicks/status/1300122301262774272
  • 30 August 2020 : Just sent 80 directly to her 💕
  • 30 August 2020 : Can someone help a concussed queer out with an image description? 🙏🏽
  • 30 August 2020 : Relevant: https://twitter.com/imani_barbarin/status/1300101562447126528 pic.twitter.com/2mcCC1L1r2
  • 30 August 2020 : It’s actually my favorite boundary—not talking to random white people who’s analysis is weak at best. I have lots of conversations & start lots of community dialogues. I just don’t want oppressors on my replies giving their misguided perspectives with such confidence. It’s sad.
  • 30 August 2020 : No more men on the megaphone should also be interpreted to mean no more men giving interviews too. Stop interviewing white people. And men. Unless they’re like, witnesses of an event but even then, do they need quoted or referenced??
  • 30 August 2020 : I understand that with time and an opportunity to reorient and adjust to any motor differences. I have a permanent/indeterminate neurological disorder but it’s a (lack of) diagnosis I’ve had for years & I’ve worked to establish appropriate mechanisms. It’s more about in immediacy
  • 30 August 2020 : mood: puff puff puff and no passing because it’s CoVID and we collectivized the weed just like we always do lol. we all discuss toppling the patriarchy. (Must be wearing pants, shoes, a mask & have a normal range temp check to be allowed in. No exceptions. All titties welcome.)
  • 30 August 2020 : 🥺👀🥺😭 so niceeeeeeee. you’re very kind, truly. 💕💕 thank you for your solidarity!
  • 30 August 2020 : A thread worth reading fully. Gonna take some time to digest so no further context but this has me thinking. https://twitter.com/jakedockter/status/1298829494589911042
  • 30 August 2020 : Important context: I’m housing comrades who were in need of emotional support tonight & all 3 beds + our couchbed were occupied. Ham slept *on a pillow* as I built a pallet out of memory foam. I walked away for like 90 seconds & come back and she’s MOVED to the bed & is asleep😑
  • 30 August 2020 : 1 of our cats is just like attacking the door to get outside while MOANING which means it’s Hamantha. If I had to describe Ham best, I’d just show people the picture attached of Siri listening to me speaking incredulously to her. Anyway, I’m just like...Ham. It’s 9am. On Sunday. pic.twitter.com/KKHhp0Ea9j
  • 30 August 2020 : Don’t wake. Never sleep. Still bake, tho. 🌬🔥🍃💨 Still bake. #2020vibes
  • 30 August 2020 : Also makes for really satisfying and accurate dragging of fash. I love imagining them having to google words to understand exactly how I insulted them. 😇
  • 30 August 2020 : Called me out by name, damn. 😂
  • 30 August 2020 : 🥺 https://twitter.com/frauglet/status/1299748439584944128
  • 30 August 2020 : You know when your body is all like, “idgaf if you haven’t slept or how hard you’re trying to sleep! The birds are awake so we’re awake” ? Yeah, well, good morning. Sleep will be pointless to shoot for now until we hit like noon. Wish me luck since the insomnia meds failed 🙃👽
  • 30 August 2020 : I was gonna get up to pee but a cat crawled under my blanket and snuggled up in a ball against my chest and now I can’t move until this little puppy in an adult cat’s body wakes up. 😑
  • 30 August 2020 : what about “ignorant,” “nonsensical,” “irrational,” “ridiculous,” or “unimaginative” instead of dumb? I’m trying to spread a game someone told me about where every time we use ableist language we pause & come up w/ 5 replacements. It’s a practice in unlearning ableism.💕 #5Words
  • 30 August 2020 : Accomplices not allies. Kill the ally in your head. Become an accomplice instead. https://twitter.com/viv___________/status/1300000556589613057
  • 30 August 2020 : Share this please. Widely. We need to be prepared for worst case scenarios. All of us. As many frontliners as feasibly possible should be wearing protection. And should be taught how to hide that you specifically are wearing protection so militia dont know to aim elsewhere. #pdx https://twitter.com/viv___________/status/1299977008626114561
  • 30 August 2020 : Lol I got diagnosed with insomnia in 2014. And then I started full time organizing in 2018. What even is a “normal” sleep schedule?
  • 30 August 2020 : I took my sleeping pill so late and now the sun is coming up 😑 and my body is confused and mad at me for having poor time management skills for anything that is not organizing related. 😭😂🥴
  • 30 August 2020 : Oof if this tweet didn’t speak to my soul.... I immediately SLAMMED the follow button. Thank you for this. It’s so perfectly timed.
  • 30 August 2020 : I’ve never wanted to immediately punch sum1 in the throat as fast as when reading the thread of a white woman with Breonna’s name in her twitter name literally telling black people not to be stupid & protest peacefully so we don’t fall into trumps plan to win b/c of the riots...
  • 30 August 2020 : When I say that anti-Blackness is a key part of “US” politics I mean: imagine being so blinded by your own prioritization of self that you don’t notice you just called Black people unintelligent while using a Black Woman’s name & legacy as your handle for fucking attention 🥴🤮 https://twitter.com/claireberlinski/status/1299350375997284352
  • 30 August 2020 : I never said it wasn’t but this isn’t a spot for white (yt passing?) men who are business owners to drop random opinions without even engaging in convo or following me. Go away. Your analysis is wholly unnecessary.
  • 30 August 2020 : Like you get a very very mild concussion that’s improving in leaps and bounds in days, cool. But if you get a concussion & a week later you’re still talking about your issues w/ memory loss? I can’t trust your judgement if you go out again. Especially after back to back tbis.
  • 30 August 2020 : Right. I like...can’t understand the yes answers? But maybe that’s because I’m both a medic and someone who’s had three tbis total in life. And like, the often devastating effects of TBIs are also ones that I can’t imagine feeling & still going out again in the first week.
  • 30 August 2020 : Goodnight. 🌖 I love you. ✨💕 I’m proud of you. ✊🏽 Sleep well. 😴
  • 30 August 2020 : I hope you have restorative sleep tonight. I ask that you give yourself time to heal & rebalance your life during a year that’s thrown down like every bad thing possible. Trauma can’t be ignored. Radical care for our communities must be centered. You’re part of that. Sleep well.
  • 30 August 2020 : You’re not alone. Your traumas are valid. Your boundaries are necessary for your health in whatever forms apply & you deserve time to rest. You deserve time to consume art. To recover. To process. To heal. To experience transformative joy when it’s your night off & to dream BIG.
  • 30 August 2020 : My hope is that some of you might: • listen to this mini-playlist • focus on the lyrics • be renewed in the sense that your struggles are not to be carried alone I hope you feel validated in the truth that your wide breadth of emotions & your trauma processing pace is VALID.
  • 30 August 2020 : I listen to this when I need to restoration. To remember the power in our united communities & the breadth of our fight; to be reminded victory is *tangible* & a better world is possible. “The movement is a rhythm to us Freedom is like religion to us” https://open.spotify.com/track/2fmqPLRFdJNPhLU3b2NSFp?si=JwhAWLDDQQaRMTXh0HAGWw
  • 30 August 2020 : For a more modern take on “activism,” our fight for Black liberation that has a chorus of soulful “fuck you”s & dope verses: “And [Ted] you done I'm expectin' resignation An open investigation on all o' these paid vacations for murderers” https://open.spotify.com/track/3EApebexZ7YqDIqw2EMTDh?si=5bVDOMTER9yPsqLqoO0dvQ
  • 30 August 2020 : For a reminder about the downfalls of live-streams & constant trauma porn: “You will not be able to stay home, brother. You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out.... because The revolution will not be televised” https://open.spotify.com/track/7kjg2NCn3Zx70m1DFHSSGO?si=jDAMMtSlTgi2dX27lqV7AA
  • 30 August 2020 : Hey #PDX late-night crew! Y’all still awake too but trying to wind down? Well!! I have a friend who witnessed the murder tonight at my place to decompress/get trauma support/be loved. I took their phone & asked them to listen to 3 songs in a specific order. Here’s a thread:
  • 30 August 2020 : My life, my heart, & my soul are rooted in the struggle for Black Liberation, Indigenous Sovereignty, and total abolition of the colonial, imperialist, white supremacist, anti-Black, patriarchal system that is known as the “United States Govt.” That struggle isn’t in one place.
  • 30 August 2020 : I’ve never felt called to develop roots somewhere. Instead, my soul, my identity, and my life’s calling has always been towards the fiercest types of love for & protection over my people. BIPOC folks who deserve & NEED liberation & an opportunity to experience real joy.
  • 30 August 2020 : more and more I recognize that I’ve never felt called to Portland specifically. I wound up here by circumstance & through explicit family pressure. But I think my role is less as a “leader” & more as a connection piece in this revolutionary puzzle.
  • 30 August 2020 : i feel like, in the conversations I’ve had with Black abolitionists fighting for liberation across the country, we’re all realizing our lives can’t be any more at risk & nows the time to secure this in-person, cross-national connections to build infrastructure to see us through.
  • 30 August 2020 : in the beginning of week 2 dealing with this shitty concussion: I think I’m ready to be the Black Auntie sitting on a (virtual) front porch of the big house writing out educational memoirs with my dog beside me & giving trauma support/food/strategy & telling stories of wins.
  • 30 August 2020 : “Are we sure this isn’t a simulation?” Multiple people, simultaneously: “NO!” A comrade who witnessed tonight’s atrocity: “I feel like I’m being MINDFUCKED right now” #community #fuckthistimeline #2020IsASimulation ???
  • 30 August 2020 : Thank you for this. I clearly worded it poorly but I’m thankful for the discussion that’s ensued regardless.
  • 30 August 2020 : Lol Portland still hasn’t gone to sleep tonight. Lots to catch up on over here. 🙃
  • 30 August 2020 : If you don’t know who Danialle James is 100 days into the protests that began when she made a call to action (again: as she has her whole life) for the sake of the Black community then....what part of the movement are you “marching” in & how are you addressing your racial biases?
  • 30 August 2020 : Wait I’ve been meaning to ask around about that. DMs open.
  • 30 August 2020 : Which is fair. I guess this question should have been oriented specifically towards folks who’re either medics or have experienced tbis.... but I hear you forsure.
  • 30 August 2020 : We’re gonna have need for surgery in the streets soon enough if things here continue to decline into fascism as much as expected considering the terror our global comrades are experiencing by weapons MANUFACTURED and Trained for by the govt system were trapped in.
  • 30 August 2020 : But there’s a circumstance I’m tracking and I’m personally trying to process community input to inform my opinion because I don’t wanna stay trapped in my own thought bubble. Thank you for engaging. I’m sorry for your brothers traumas & your family. 💕
  • 30 August 2020 : I’m very aware how severe it is. I’ve indefinitely benched myself until I return to baseline function for me or I’m only gonna be out for speaking events and emergency support.
  • 30 August 2020 : That’s why I wanted to invite & encourage this convo. Honestly this isn’t theoretical. I’m just high. And I don’t want to out folks. I’m just struggling processing their reasons for being on the street but don’t wanna be too specific. Hence;vague community ask to discuss 🥶🙃😣
  • 30 August 2020 : Same. This is pretty much how I feel. But I should explain the scenario I’m imagining is like, the most warlike nights we’ve had at actions in the last 4 weeks between like 8pm-2am?
  • 30 August 2020 : This is a good point I didn’t think about. Language matters. I’m gonna I do my retweet. Would you be comfy with me sharing yours to such a big page?
  • 30 August 2020 : Why are people with tbis going back to the frontlines? Why do we have a culture of individualism on the left which leaves people feeling social pressure to be on call constantly? (As they’re used to being on call for our capitalist overlords...) Not expecting answers btw. 💕
  • 30 August 2020 : but what if you’re not the only one? I think I need to remake this with more specifics...
  • 30 August 2020 : I’m not even partially considering going out with a concussion to put myself at risk of a secondary concussion in short time. We don’t have enough medics and tbis both can and do cause lifelong damage. This isn’t about me. I’m curious about the question asked, specifically.
  • 30 August 2020 : Say it’s dual concussions? In like a week? From being on the frontlines incessantly?
  • 30 August 2020 : Talking about tonight from afar, I had this to say to friends: “I’m honestly glad it was them tonight. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not an accelerationist & of course I’m worried about how things will escalate while we’re woefully underprepared... But it’s nice to not mourn tonight.” https://twitter.com/joshuapotash/status/1299969982474878976
  • 30 August 2020 : As a medic with a concussion, I have a question. Would y’all feel comfortable being treated on the streets in the war zone by a medic going out while healing from a tbi? And still talking about their tbi symptoms? Also would be interested in discussion on this in the replies.
  • 30 August 2020 : okay but like some of us actually do....
  • 30 August 2020 : Yes.
  • 30 August 2020 : Oh shit! That’s the guy that was killed on the left bending over! Recognized him from the thigh bag. Seems like they came out looking for a fight according to the police....
  • 30 August 2020 : #doxxyourlocalboys https://twitter.com/pdxzane/status/1299850435071627264
  • 30 August 2020 : 😭😭😭😭 https://twitter.com/twitter/status/1299808792322940928
  • 30 August 2020 : I’m partial to a good old fashioned phone zap. Fun way to poke at capitalists and also fuck up the lives of fash that’s accessible for lots of folks to get engaged in 😇 would rather money be spent on discreet anon glitter bombs mailed to them 💕 or good old blocked prank calls.
  • 30 August 2020 : The response of one my roommate’s was “consciousness is a curse.” I concurred, “Critical thinking skills are the fucking worst.” ••• Then we discussed animals with complex function like elephants and octopi. I wouldn’t wanna be those. Only like, something less evolved lol
  • 30 August 2020 : I get that we shouldn’t keep any animals in zoos (something about cages....) but also it is especially fucking cruel for any type of octopus to be in captivity. fuck. That’s what we’re talking about rn after discussing plants & if “consciousness” is “necessary for a good life”🤪
  • 30 August 2020 : Except they’re still not removed from “real” leftist spaces by “real” leftist men because the movement doesn’t know how to actually move as an *accomplice* to Women & Femmes being harmed and in need of protection & support, not just platitudes.
  • 30 August 2020 : 🗣🗣🗣 NO. MORE. MEN. ON. THE. MEGAPHONE. NONE. No binary men on the megaphone ‼️ They’ve had hundreds of years of failures when occupying “leadership” position b/c of their sexism, patriarchy, misogyny and aversion to the feminized labor of community care. #PassTheMic https://twitter.com/catarchy161/status/1299964857953837056
  • 30 August 2020 : I’m in this picture and I don’t like it 😳👀🤣 https://twitter.com/ajiswriting/status/1299965258874974208
  • 30 August 2020 : Spending time as a Black, sex working, abolitionist trans femme is why I’m a misandrist, tbh. Because men on the left and the right have a problem with violence & still a ton of “leftist” men don’t believe they need therapy 🙄 yall really gotta learn basic principles of violence.
  • 30 August 2020 : I’ve had this fight with yt “leftist” men in Portland. It’s always straigh men. Cis & trans I fucking swear. Patriarchy & misogyny desperately needs to be dismantled within and outcast by the left. The left has a problem with violence against women and femmes. Full stop. https://twitter.com/mistresssnowphd/status/1299872566954176514
  • 30 August 2020 : ps my page is public and I’m getting lots of fash attention since I called out their lil dick waving parade on a big platform while having the audacity to be a Black, queer, femme who yearns to see them trapped under the crumbling state buildings they’re desperate to protect
  • 30 August 2020 : getting full, thorough, and confirmed ID’s on white supremacists who’ve sent me death threats as a form of catharsis and self care tonight. 💕💕 I’m an abolitionist & all but when it comes to violence (in the streets or in speech) from white supremacists? I love revenge. ✨😈❣️
  • 30 August 2020 : @threadreaderapp unroll
  • 30 August 2020 : Bet you could help out here if you’re free tomorrow: Making banners can be cathartic. ❤️ https://twitter.com/trashprincessm1/status/1299857662121660416
  • 30 August 2020 : I definitely bet I could use your help. Bet you’ve got a bunch of rage that could be channeled into coming up with creative ideas for solutions or that you could help type up image descriptions or transcriptions of audio clips to help people. Or to make things like banners!
  • 30 August 2020 : @threadreaderapp unroll
  • 30 August 2020 : @threadreaderapp
  • 30 August 2020 : Physical: shock, rapid heartbeat, joint and muscle pain’s, dizziness and disorientation, impaired immune system.
  • 30 August 2020 : Spiritual: questioning the meaning of life, loss of purpose, lack of self satisfaction, questioning religious beliefs. Personal relationships: withdrawal, miss trust, overprotective as a spouse or parent, loneliness.
  • 30 August 2020 : Emotional: powerlessness, anxiety, guilt, anger/rage, survivor guilt, hypersensitivity, emotional roller coaster, feeling overwhelmed, depleted energy. Behavioral: impatience, withdrawn, irritable, sleep disturbances, hypervigilance, being accident prone, losing things.
  • 30 August 2020 : Sourced from the crime victims association network (ICAN) Cognitive: perfectionism, preoccupation with trauma, spacing out, loss of meaning, self doubt, minimization.
  • 30 August 2020 : ID: A text graphic with blurred art in the background of grass and a light blue sky with clouds. The text on the image reads: Symptoms of compassion fatigue — examples of compassion fatigue from Figley, 1995 and 1997 editions.
  • 30 August 2020 : I’m not burnt out but I do have SEVERE compassion fatigue rn. Don’t know the difference? Here’s a graphic on #CompassionFatigue and a link below to read more about how the two are similar but different! [Image text in the replies] #communityeducation http://transitionalsupport.com.au/transitional-phase/compassion-fatigue-trauma/ pic.twitter.com/fjX0DPp8Qq
  • 30 August 2020 : Sometimes I FaceTime my friends and bully them into turning off their phone while we’re on the call so they can rest. Usually they go eat the food or drink the water they’ve been ignoring. You can also stretch. Or meditate. Or zone out to tv. You deserve a break. ASAP tbh
  • 30 August 2020 : We need RADICAL and Transformative and Intentionally fostered joy in our hearts, lives, and communities to sustain us. don’t pour your joy into the black hole that is twitter dot fucking com. Please. The revolution will not be televised. For a goddamned reason. Unplug & build.
  • 30 August 2020 : this constant exposure to trauma is not sustainable for anyone. literally. none of y’all. stop it. start protecting your fucking soul and remember to find the things you enjoy in this world to share with each other during & after the uprising.
  • 30 August 2020 : also don’t give me fucking play by plays of tonight’s traumas if I didn’t ask for it. I know/know of 85% of the press in this town. I don’t need or want trauma updates. I want y’all to listen to Black ppl who have our community’s murders broadcast daily & stop trauma scrolling.
  • 30 August 2020 : Seriously. If you *cannot help* tonight & even just seeing/sharing live updates of extreme trauma is too much for you right now... THATS VALID. We’re in a pandemic, global economy collapse, & uprising at the same time. You can share the more thorough reports in the am too. Rest.
  • 30 August 2020 : If you’re gonna engage in back and forth online fights with random ass fash in my replies before I can block them and hide their replies: please fucking untag me.
  • 30 August 2020 : Hey #PDXPROTEST community, if you’re not out, is your trauma scrolling tonight productive or masochistic? Are you letting yourself slide further into despair & fear? Or are you watching as a witness to be available to help? Or? Sometimes you should take a night off from updates.
  • 30 August 2020 : Because the system is racist from top to bottom so... that’s why we gotta decolonize health care from the academic halls of classism 101 to the operating table to the very capitalist infrastructural network it was designed to depend on. -Signed, A tired Black med field drop out
  • 30 August 2020 : That genocide of our young in the delivery room by this colonial and anti-Black “care” system can only be compared to the SIMULTANEOUS genocide of Black folks w/ uterus who are unimaginably ignored when trying desperately to advocate for themselves in a system designed to kill us
  • 30 August 2020 : Read this whole thread! Black babies attended by yt doctors doctors experience 430 more deaths per 100k births when compared to white babies being seen by white doctors. Why? Institutional racism in the western medical system that presents in literal genocide of our youth. https://twitter.com/boghuma/status/1299700661156806656
  • 30 August 2020 : Please don’t be out and about while this is happening if you can help it. If you live along the route, it’s understandable to take down signs and stuff because realistically they might post houses. Lots of fash in truckbeds taking tons of videos. Stay safe. Stay together. B alert
  • 30 August 2020 : #ALERTA #PDX #DefendPDX - Just wanna give y’all a heads up that fash are heading north on GRAND (starting around crossstreet of Taylor about 6 minutes and 2 miles ago.) The caravan goes all the way down to McLaughlin & about SE 18th Street in a tight crowd but there’s stragglers. pic.twitter.com/lx9f40qSU9
  • 30 August 2020 : Ew no. Please keep concerns for racist Biden and literal kkkop Kamala out of my replies. I’ll always hide that shit. Gross. Who gives a fuck what hurts their campaign? He’s also a racist and she writes murderous policy. So like, not the vibe.
  • 30 August 2020 : This truly inspires me to wake up before 1pm tomorrow!!! 💕💕 #IndigenousSovereignity is a crucial piece of the movement towards #BlackLiberation and #TotalAbolition ! Why? Because Decolonization and Abolition are two sides of the same coin. #PDX Turn up! #LANDBACK #portland https://twitter.com/trashprincessm1/status/1299857662121660416
  • 29 August 2020 : Heads Up #PDX - The Clackamas Mall is CLOSING today. I’ve just gotten a message from an anonymous source inside that all the shops are closing b/c it’s too dangerous & it “is not safe.” Please consider safety, tactics & sheer numbers when meeting fash on “their turf”. #defendpdx
  • 29 August 2020 : Can we get this circulating as widely as all those funds for local journos? 👀 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1299807532509065216
  • 29 August 2020 : Also, like, I installed these braids by my fucking self and a lot of y’all don’t understand how much blood, sweat and tears goes into Black protective hairstyles as a part of our literal culture. pic.twitter.com/MUVY7IPm5s
  • 29 August 2020 : 😭😭😭
  • 29 August 2020 : Performative femininity is both my curse and my fucking not-so-secret weapon. Here for all the reminders that pretending to be a woman for years despite being trans was actually just drag 🤷🏽‍♀️ Sex worker woman drag is even more involved.
  • 29 August 2020 : Throwback to my high femme as fuck days before I came out as non-binary. A bisexual Leo ass bitch coming to snatch souls. 💕💜💙 pic.twitter.com/Ajn3yB0VG1
  • 29 August 2020 : 👀👀👀👀 https://twitter.com/mvmnt4blklives/status/1299062948158201861
  • 29 August 2020 : A selfie from the only Black stepford wife apparently. https://twitter.com/kimkbaltimore/status/1299416096274026496
  • 29 August 2020 : Real Baltimore dont stand for this coon ass shit and I am waiting desperately for someone to beat her race traitorous ass. This makes me wanna move back home to fuck up her self tokenizing classist campaign. https://twitter.com/kimkbaltimore/status/1295461903268040707
  • 29 August 2020 : Omg no one should do this on foot at all. That’s way too high risk without a planned and heavy medic team. And anyone blocking the road with cars should be ready to get their car totaled tbh.
  • 29 August 2020 : And now come the deregulated emotions and random as fuck tears. Be back later y’all. Stay safe with that trump rally starting at 4pm in Clackamas. Be on your guard with so many fash roaming the city.
  • 29 August 2020 : I gotta stay off twitter as much rn because I’m already mad my brain is concussed & I’m not having an easy time communicating effectively & then y’all just comment “that was not clear” on something & it’s so unhelpful & demoralizing. Language is usually my superpower. Fuck.
  • 29 August 2020 : Thank you for telling me something we already discussed in replies.
  • 29 August 2020 : Some soul healing content for Black folk 😌😍🤗🥺 https://twitter.com/jeremymoonmusic/status/1299738617259098113
  • 29 August 2020 : Ahh so y’all are optimists. That’s nice. And a really good educational piece for another, more positive interpretation. Thanks for explaining cause you’re right as fuck. None of us should need money in that way.
  • 29 August 2020 : SW is down & the pressure is building up here. My anxiety is going crazy & I'm just really overwhelmed at this point. Please anything is love so if you can spare any extra funds, retweets or signal boosting. Thank you & love you all! Venmo: twitterina Cashapp: $tucsonplaymate
  • 29 August 2020 : “Please we need your help at this time. My mother is sick and she's trying to come out of quarantine and find a job to help with the bills! She lives with me full-time along with my younger sibling and I work full-time in a factory and create content on the side.”
  • 29 August 2020 : Image Description: A square text graphic with an ombré pink and purple background with multiple blocks of white text inside of black boxes. The graphic says: “Currently facing an eviction from my home and I've got a sick and disabled parent at home here with me.”
  • 29 August 2020 : Hey yall!! I really need y’all to help circulate this widely! Black Trans Women are the most disrespected people on the planet & during a pandemic we need to give them extra financial support in a system against them. ESP sex workers! #mutualaid Venmo: twitterina $tucsonplaymate https://twitter.com/tscocoalexis/status/1299741591616266240
  • 29 August 2020 : What do y’all think I meant by “bulba shouldn’t need $$$” because the goal was to have an answer that was shitty and see how many people are shitty. But are y’all just like optimists?
  • 29 August 2020 : Hey #PDX quick poll!! If @ProudBulba quit their inherently racist and awful wage slavery job and set up a patreon & continued to sho up in the streets and picked back up the work of translating and tutoring English for in need communities, think we could get them to $1000/month?
  • 29 August 2020 : #PDX Heads up: This is TODAY. Happening at 4pm. Be aware. Please avoid traveling on foot/alone. https://twitter.com/1misanthrophile/status/1299558504856866817
  • 29 August 2020 : When I say that @chadwickboseman literally changed the lives of Black children everywhere being able to see themselves AND their ancestral cultures in superhero movies... And to know this man hid his crippling disability for years because this world is ableist as fuck always? ✊🏽 https://twitter.com/heywadeking/status/959511356385976321
  • 29 August 2020 : The intergenerational effects of trauma caused by colonizers and settlers is in so many ways similar to the affects of many other diasporas including so many different POC immigrant families & adopted or fostered children. Cultural genocide is a crippling trauma.
  • 29 August 2020 : But it was only two generations ago that my great grandmother sang her peoples’ songs to my small, young father and his siblings before she died. Yet my father can tell me nothing about our tribe or clan outside of her being from “the Blackfoot Indians”. 🙃
  • 29 August 2020 : Not to mention that many “nuclear units” in my Afro-Indigenous family were absorbed all to quickly into the deadly Southern Baptist Christian Church which is essentially the “somewhat socially liberal but mostly conservative” club for so many members of the cultural diaspora.
  • 29 August 2020 : I’m so grateful for the paths forward I got to make in reconnection to my families Indigenous cultures which were genocided by colonizers, outlawed by settlers, & stolen by people who call themselves “allies” because vulture would sting with too much truth coming past the tongue
  • 29 August 2020 : What are constellations if not the twinkling glow of communications from the network of ancestors, relatives, and loved ones who watch over & try to help advise you in the path you walk today? The path they carved for you. What are the stars if not relatives like any other?
  • 29 August 2020 : Thank you for all your claps 😭🥰😭 I came back to this and saw them and teared up! I appreciate each of y’all so much!
  • 29 August 2020 : I appreciate this message and the heads up/offer! But also I’d just like to clarify that I am *not* forming a small business *or* a nonprofit & the only paperwork I intend to sign with the states are deeds to buildings if needed. But generally talking to the state isn’t my role.
  • 29 August 2020 : But I know the work we do is dangerous. I’ve been ready to die for this work for a really long time. I’ve already made peace with my death. And this tbi is shitty but there is still a place for disabled comrades in the movement. If the roles don’t exist, I wanna help build them.
  • 29 August 2020 : CW: TBI But, tbh, I’m fucking rattled by this concussion. I’m not too mad cause the cop who did it looked as scared as I’ve ever seen another human look. But it’s still pretty shitty. I might have to have a follow up where we talk about continued concerns & that’s scary...
  • 29 August 2020 : I’m talking to some folks who’ve asked me to speak at varying events. I’m considering only doing brief public speaking/message boosting then heading home, focusing on healing, & finish working on content for and prepping for this launch and establishment period.
  • 29 August 2020 : All of this just to say, I’m a little overdue on another financial update. And I have some other updates I’d like to give. I meant to have all this stuff rolling out but I took a medic recert for a weekend & then got a concussion after I was so triggered by racism I went dt 😑
  • 29 August 2020 : But also, I need to make money directly for me so that I can be accountable to myself. I’d also like some help buying a bus to renovate and travel with to do anonymous abolitionist interviews in cities cross nationally while raising my dogs and investing in supply chain building.
  • 29 August 2020 : Like I’m so bad at not giving like all my money away to the community. Ask any of my friends who’ve yelled at me for it. Or the strangers I’ve like given money & then run away. Or the ppl I threaten to block on Venmo after I send them money. We don’t deserve to struggle.
  • 29 August 2020 : I’m gonna be launching a porn/educational Patreon soon. Because I need the clear cut separation honestly. I love that y’all helped me redistribute 15k since the pandemic directly into the hands of BIPOC comrades or BIPOC folks in critical need but also, I’m bad @ keeping money.
  • 29 August 2020 : I won’t spend money I raised for a specific reason for the community on anything else than what I said without updating y’all and explaining why. (However I did spend our fridge money on mutual aid & my roomies are still a little bummed but uh at least we have a fridge🥶🤪🙃😅)
  • 29 August 2020 : To be accountable: I raised money to hire young journos. And then I realized that until I pass off activism actually to BIPOC community members (including FB/IG platforms), I would fail them miserably. I still need to send some update emails but that 2400 is *UNTOUCHED*
  • 29 August 2020 : I bought groceries and some self care/ily gifts for my roomies. Sent small funds to folks here and there in small amounts for little self care things. I’m down to about 160$ for me.
  • 29 August 2020 : An update on funds going around. Tbh I got sent $600 for me and I gave [as this pic shows] 92$ to someone via cashing out, 100$ to two other people & $75 to another. All Black Moms or the Black young children of mamas who raised little warriors putting money into the cause. pic.twitter.com/zGGE6u0JgM
  • 29 August 2020 : I’m very proud of my new bio. It’s both snarky & accurate in my humble opinion. Please clap if ur proud of me. 😭 I’ve had the MOST emotionally taxing day 😩
  • 29 August 2020 : Why tho? 😅
  • 29 August 2020 : I wonder what would happen if someone pushed that up to the edge of the building.... and maybe knocked it over.... 🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️ (but only if they’re in full block and then they dip and burn all their clothes for a bonding fire & also maybe to burn evidence) https://twitter.com/mrolmos/status/1299610144901230592
  • 29 August 2020 : So many ppl (especially femmes/women) w/ invisible illnesses turn to sex work because “normal” jobs will not accommodate us in any reasonable way & for so many, sex work is easier than “the system” b/c of ableism. Needs around disability & sex worker rights overlap in a BIG way. https://twitter.com/mizteefranklin/status/1299606786819923968
  • 29 August 2020 : Currently happening in #pdx https://twitter.com/iwriteok/status/1299607928693956608
  • 29 August 2020 : So many people (especially femmes/women) with invisible illnesses turn to sex work because “normal” jobs will not accommodate us in any reasonable way & for so many, sex work is easier than “the system” b/c of ableism. Disability rights & sex worker rights need overlap BIGTIME https://twitter.com/mizteefranklin/status/1299606786819923968
  • 29 August 2020 : BIG SOLIDARITY to Denver Colorado where fash are, unsurprisingly, walking around visibly breaking laws regarding open carry/arms. And predictably, Denver kkkops are watching them passively with barely contained glee [presumably] #denver #killerkops #copsandklan https://twitter.com/jake_blackson/status/1299583680386535424
  • 29 August 2020 : Accurate.
  • 29 August 2020 : as much as pdx has traumatized me w/ white supremacy, misogynoir, homophobia & it’s violently anti-black liberalism: I’ve also had the pleasure to meet some true warriors in this city I’m happy to share this revolutionary moment with. We’re gonna raise hell together.
  • 29 August 2020 : I’m sorry to break this fucking devastating news to any Black person who doesn’t already know it but, I JUST fucking learned Chadwick Boseman of Black Panther died today at age 43 of cancer. I’m so fucking sad for his family. He really changed Black kids whole worlds as BP. RIP.
  • 29 August 2020 : #PDX Literally JUST got a text confirmation from comrades that theyre out safe. Sounds like immediate support isn’t critical but I’m being told it’s a “party in the streets” now. Have fun ya crazy animals! Thanks for being so ready & boosting this ASAP!! https://twitter.com/protestsound/status/1299578368485064705?s=21 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1299572658099478529
  • 29 August 2020 : Literally JUST got a text confirmation from comrades that they are out safe. Sounds like immediate support isn’t critical but I’m being told it’s a “party in the streets” now. Have fun ya crazy animals! Thanks for being so ready to roll and boosting this immediately!! https://twitter.com/protestsound/status/1299578368485064705
  • 29 August 2020 : A perfect! I’ll post an update. I was actually just starting to get worried cause I hadn’t gotten a recent response from the comrade who asked for this support. Thank you!
  • 29 August 2020 : Struggling with a TBI from PPB right now too which is why I can’t fucking write them either. I’ve had to find new ways to help. I’ve mainly just switched to running this platform more intimately for now but I’m sure we can find points of entry.
  • 29 August 2020 : Image description from a wonderful and responsive comrade: https://twitter.com/dracoarcadia/status/1299574138370129921
  • 29 August 2020 : I added a further clarification tweet based on this feedback. Still concussed and not quite as accurate at idea recall between feeds rn. Thanks for this interaction!
  • 29 August 2020 : Hi I have a concussion. I’d like to clarify on having comrades re-read this that they’re trapped in the sense that there aren’t enough comrades outside for them to easily blend into the crowd without getting doxxed or tracked to their ride. crowds keep us safe. Stronger together.
  • 29 August 2020 : I knew it!!! Literally called it! But ayyyeee, ain’t seen shit until you said shit. 👏🏽✨
  • 29 August 2020 : Without revealing sources, the intel I just got from inside suggests otherwise and I’ve been asked to boost this tweet and explicit request. Thanks tho! I work diligently to not make requests of the community I’m not confident in.
  • 29 August 2020 : Can someone post a photo description while I send this to folks for boosting?
  • 29 August 2020 : #DefendPDX #PortlandProtest #pdxprotest #pdxuprising - Someone threw @tedwheeler a surprise birthday party! I heard there was a bouquet full of teargas containers! Unsurprisingly, some comrades got trapped inside. They need support to get out the door! NW Glisan between 9/10th! pic.twitter.com/IFUpnwQelo
  • 29 August 2020 : Also needs said that of course @JoAnnPDX LOVES the local naacp & Mr.Mondaine b/c hes exactly the type of lowercase b black elder who will delegitimize movements of youth b/c our spaces provide less individual security/funding for liberal, reformist & capitalistic black endeavors
  • 29 August 2020 : More of this pleaseeeeeeeeee. 👏🏽❤️✨ https://twitter.com/tuckwoodstock/status/1299448015715889152
  • 29 August 2020 : I need to set up a link tree for my pages. Is it easy? My brain hurts just thinking about setting up a new thing.
  • 29 August 2020 : PS-Today is tevis’ birthday. Please bully him extra hard. Like, SO HARD. Please make Tevis cry on his birthday. Ask him how ready is Secretary is to run away with him to Canada. Ask him how his mom is doing. Tell him what you wish for him. #PDX Please bully Wheeler on his bday https://twitter.com/tedwheeler/status/1299490210846138368
  • 29 August 2020 : Look at Teddy. Throwing himself on the line by emailing the President to say “the Feds” instead of Federal Agents. Much courage Tevis. Very brave #WarCrimesWheeler . Can’t believe you wanna keep the privilege of getting to abuse PDX folx every night to only local out of towners🙄 https://twitter.com/tedwheeler/status/1299433988600156160
  • 29 August 2020 : Notice how ted doesn’t have posed pictures w/ Fridays4Freedom leaders because even those literal kids know better than to personally ally themselves with a literal white supremacist head cop in charge in this city. Why? Because they’re a part of THE MOVEMENT not their moment.
  • 28 August 2020 : In case you’re wondering how deep this goes, Mr. Mondaine LOVES buddying up to @tedwheeler & saying downtown actions are “white co-opters.” This erases the presence of Black radical abolitionists in this fight & on the ground. https://twitter.com/tedwheeler/status/1299490205930418177?s=21 https://twitter.com/tedwheeler/status/1299490205930418177
  • 28 August 2020 : Last night I found the notes I took during the meeting that we had w/ ted where he literally listed all his priliviges to us & then said it important for him to help w/ the power he has & then talked about how it was MOST IMPORTANT for him to listen/learn. 🙄He can’t even do that https://twitter.com/tedwheeler/status/1299490205930418177
  • 28 August 2020 : I strongly endorse (& ask you share) this “Open Letter From a PDX BIPOC Organizer to the Local NAACP” #PDX #LiberationNotRepresentation #pdxprotest #notallskinfolk [Link to shareable google document with typed out text as written in this image of text: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W_KP5bdyBBX6jT5XfF3e1c2gNDlzLYA48k1drIJ_bno/edit?usp=sharing ] pic.twitter.com/0whziX3RlO
  • 28 August 2020 : I still don’t have spoons on this but heads up I don’t need or want resources or educational materials on or about CSA. It’s a nuanced and relevant situation and I want an anonymous community temperature check on my analysis as compared to their own.
  • 28 August 2020 : This is me, waiting patiently for a fucking link drop because in a reply @NoBonzo said, “An org will be making shirts for bail/jail/repression funds ❤❤❤❤”: https://twitter.com/nobonzo/status/1299442691525111810 pic.twitter.com/EQTehfKS5O
  • 28 August 2020 : Right! White Jewish people who refuse to acknowledge that race and ethnicity and nationality are 3 different things or even acknowledge that BLACK Jewish people exist....oof. Like it’s a structural problem. But it’s literally lateral violence to pretend race is = to x, y or z.
  • 28 August 2020 : Okay my beloved but also yt mother spontaneously called me and is downloading about a lot and the intensive thinking is really giving me a fucking headache with my concussion. So I gotta do this thread later. Promise I’ll remember tho cause I’ve been thinking about it a ton.
  • 28 August 2020 : It’s a hard situation but I spent literal weeks getting 8-10 paragraphs worth of messages on twitter/IG in the span of 15mins a few times per day. But she also has said her ex (Sol Luna) is abusive & I wish I could support her sharing that w/o being attacked & called antisemetic
  • 28 August 2020 : Nah, she’s someone who I have a lot of sad vibes for but she’s a WHITE Jewish person (‘neutral’ to Israel? who told me I was antisemitic because I offered to try to connect her w/ some anti-racist Jewish rabbis I know & she said that was implying all Jews are racist. It’s a mess
  • 28 August 2020 : Casual convo w/ my femme partner about how much abuse every woman/femme faces (especially QTBIPOC) for trying to call out abusers who are men of all races for their constant misogynistic violence. Here’s me predicting the future since I been playing this game in hell for years🙃 pic.twitter.com/V8fS1bqKEC
  • 28 August 2020 : Okay, theoretical question about childhood sexual abuse. But I’m trying to get feedback. So I’m gonna do a short thread under this post to ask for some feedback after background information and it may be triggering to folks who’ve dealt with CSA or SA in general.
  • 28 August 2020 : I really don’t know how to handle white people who weaponize the language of transformative justice against Queer, Black, Femmes but are too afraid of emotional vulnerability to actually live out truly restorative problems. I’m just tired of this city & curious how to heal it.
  • 28 August 2020 : A lot of y’all that talk about mediation and accountability aren’t ready to do the hard work of actually having mediation conversations. With me or through proxy or with an advocate for you attending... I only call people out when good faith mediations fails repeatedly.
  • 28 August 2020 : I’ve mediated with actually like half a dozen people who I accidentally harmed while I was being actively abused by Evan Duke for months. I had to acknowledge both his harm, my harm, & how I accidentally aided him through trying to save him and that’s NOT AN EXCUSE. But like....
  • 28 August 2020 : Idk I guess I’m looking for advice? Someone called me out as an abuser on my IG comments, I posted that if they don’t wanna talk to me I understand but I was open to DMs to be accountable. We talked. I mainly listened, validated, apologized, & asked what would help. We mediated.
  • 28 August 2020 : Like they don’t wanna talk to me because I’m abusive? But they also comment on my post/posts about my callout of luis? But they don’t say a word about what I allegedly did to them? Or who they are behind anon accounts? & Im not saying I’ve never harmed anyone. I’m human. But...?
  • 28 August 2020 : This person (@/cops_dont )keeps posting about being my victim & needing to hear from other survivors before caring about Luis being abusive. But I’ve made myself available to be accountable to multiple ppl I harmed as a baby leftist & cant do anything w/o good faith approaches 🤷🏽‍♀️
  • 28 August 2020 : Are they medics or are they boogaloo boys that were wearing fucking floral shirts the first month & clearly apart of team boogie before they got rightfully bullied into not feeling comfy downtown w/o blending in more. That’s Luis in the left pic riding the booger from the right. https://twitter.com/margarinedreams/status/1278771757348827137 pic.twitter.com/dmDTwBscfw
  • 28 August 2020 : If you look at the replies to my original Luis callout , you’ll see just a handful of people reaching out to say thank you for my courage about speaking up against someone who literally weaponizes their clout/physical presence to silence survivors & victims of abuse.
  • 28 August 2020 : But forreal, if you don’t believe survivors, you have no reason to believe me. & if you don’t believe me, please fucking unfollow me & stop boosting my goddamned content. I speak w/ multiple ppl harmed by Luis who won’t speak up out of fear of physical retaliation. He’s a threat.
  • 28 August 2020 : I’m about to be real unpopular for support Black victims of abuse calling out harmful people with huge ass “leftist” platforms. Which is whatever. The only reason I’m doing this shit to this extent now is b/c I know some of y’all will help protect me otg from Luis’ abusive crew.
  • 28 August 2020 : Here’s the master post Black Trans folks put together about antifashgordon https://twitter.com/shakinghandviii/status/1247477722055573505?s=21 https://twitter.com/shakinghandviii/status/1247477722055573505
  • 28 August 2020 : Here’s *my* community alert post about Luis and his closest allies being dangerous as fuck. You can also find people defending him in the replies for “fighting fash” as if gratuitous violence is the only or most worthwhile job in the movement. Fuck Luis. https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1278528382146236416?s=21 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1278528382146236416
  • 28 August 2020 : I got a text message this morning from someone who used to support the Black trans person quoted in this original tweet because they all kept getting doxxed by the so-called left for the simple act of NAMING THEIR ABUSERS. Violent misogyny is insidious throughout the left.
  • 28 August 2020 : And y’all glorify the absolute fuck out of violence in this city but also in this movement in general. No matter the cost to women/femmes in our communities. No matter the harm against us. Y’all love military generals by any other name & don’t care about the people you gaslight.
  • 28 August 2020 : Abusive leftist men love to say that there’s no understandable or forgivable reason to do things like get restraining orders. But Luis has gotten called out for being an abuser for years (b4 I was even here!!) & y’all will never ostracize him cause he’s “militant” & violent.
  • 28 August 2020 : I only meet men who says there’s NEVER a reason to get the state involved. Usually hypocritical/abusive men. Why? B/c women/femmes lives don’t matter to hardly anyone. We never get support pushing leftist abusers out so who else will help save our lives? https://twitter.com/luistheleftist/status/1296610661250633728?s=21 https://twitter.com/luistheleftist/status/1296610661250633728
  • 28 August 2020 : Here he is using literal anti-black racist language (thugs) to insult fash. If you scroll his page you’ll also find tons of really casual ableism in his posts. https://twitter.com/luistheleftist/status/1297304877110968320?s=21 https://twitter.com/luistheleftist/status/1297304877110968320
  • 28 August 2020 : Here we see the connect between Luis and AFG. The fact anyone is going on or listening to a show by a still active abuser, misogynists, “militant” aka violent man who doesn’t do a thing but fight fash & abuse femmes & thems... unreal. https://twitter.com/luistheleftist/status/1298771512627847168?s=21 https://twitter.com/luistheleftist/status/1298771512627847168
  • 28 August 2020 : I’ve been telling y’all for a long time that Luis is an abuser. That’s why he’s close to people like Antifash Gordon (racist sexist man surprise) and Daryle Lamont Jenkins (the exact type of Black man who helped ruin the Black panthers b/c they didn’t care about abusers) https://twitter.com/shakinghandviii/status/1299347125323661312
  • 28 August 2020 : If by “like Portland” people are talking about the overt white supremacy laced into everything and the Mecca of abusive, still anti-black liberalism then sure that’s accurate https://twitter.com/iankarmel/status/1299184109428727811
  • 28 August 2020 : Forreal!! I’m literally prepping (now once my brain is better) to give the “activism actually” platforms to the fucking people and wash my hands of it as much as possible because I don’t, as an individual, need 3 accounts with 12-20k people. That’s too much social power for 1 pal
  • 28 August 2020 : Can I please give an interview to y’all on air to talk about how @tedwheeler saying he’s “met w/ protest leaders” is bullshit? Because I’ve (aggressivel) spoken to him in a few meetings, some of which are online, & he’s not listening. He’s holding meetings so he can SAY he has. https://twitter.com/natachkamoon/status/1298798479485988864
  • 27 August 2020 : Here’s a reminder that the police don’t get fucking cookies for letting someone kill two people & then refusing him when he tried to turn himself in. This doesn’t get applause. This an example of a corrupt, abusive police state not doing the work to protect anything but property. https://twitter.com/reuters/status/1299118471985483776
  • 27 August 2020 : That’s why I wanna help. We should invite everybody with name recognition to sign on as well as endorsing/supporting this. And publish it as an open letter. Omg & maybe also pick a day for a press conference & INVITE THEM TO COME SPEAK but put that in the open letter too... 😈
  • 27 August 2020 : Like sometime Friday maybe?
  • 27 August 2020 : If I die I don’t want y’all to celebratize & disrespect my name for clout & activist cookies the way y’all have done to Breonna Taylor. I don’t want any likenesses of me on the front of vogue. Y’all better doxx the fuck out of ANY person organizing a Lilithcon. This is gross.
  • 27 August 2020 : Who wants to help draft an email to Black trailblazer players to get them to put their money/social power where their mouth is & put pressure on folks to open up the boys & girls club to BIPOC youth and families? Or to show up & support abolitionist demands at a press conference?
  • 27 August 2020 : 👀👀👀👀👀 https://twitter.com/lisaloving/status/1299048485556088832
  • 27 August 2020 : Who even are you? No one follows you but NPR. You’re not even local. This is a worthless tweet. Why are you posting worthless misleading tweets?
  • 27 August 2020 : Psy ops against the police work. They were already understaffed and couldn’t get any one to apply who could pass the fucking basic altitude test and physical about a year ago. They’ve been whining about low numbers for years. And now this? We gotta keep going. They’re scared. https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1299047494525972481
  • 27 August 2020 : Can any hackers break into his google calendar or something? And publish his schedule? So people know where to go talk to him *nicely* about what’s going on? 🥴💕😘
  • 27 August 2020 : #findted #whereswaldo #whereswarcrimeswheeler https://twitter.com/kohzkah/status/1299078173481553921
  • 27 August 2020 : If y’all want a Black curated uprising playlist filled with Black and Brown artists, please feel free to check out this playlist I made. Started it in March and still adding songs on occasion but I’m generally happy with the length and vibes 💕 #Uprising2020 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1299073087170777088
  • 27 August 2020 : My roomies and I have been living every time we hear yackaty sax (or whatever it’s called lol) playing as they retreat. 10/10 you are boosting fucking morale
  • 27 August 2020 : This is a very white tweet
  • 27 August 2020 : I stole this text body from a maga cronie and edited it to be applied to the revolution in the hopes that she sees it and loses her mind but also because with some editing to reflect the right people, it’s a good message lmfao.
  • 27 August 2020 : My deepest respect goes out to our heroes for the pieces of themselves that are lost, for the honor they show our communities, & the freedoms we enjoy at their expense. I will always stand for revolution & sedition against murderers & if you can’t, we can find you another role😘
  • 27 August 2020 : Uhmm one with a weird dancing jiggle creature baby that the accidentally kidnapped and almost killed. And one with the heart shaped guy trying to flirt with princess bubblegum?
  • 27 August 2020 : https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0skSXmfXSOgG1ZGzpAQQeU?si=25Hd3GZmS8-u-9Dkhdwjig
  • 27 August 2020 : In South Africa, folks are designated as “coloured” if they are Black/Brown. Some of the tweets I share about #NathanielJulius will use that language and I’d like to offer a reminder to not say shit about it if you’re white. https://twitter.com/oneoftheoues/status/1298970493538705410
  • 27 August 2020 : Because the movement has a problem with providing accessibility to disabled or houseless or immunocompromised or (etc) pals. We have to build those systems of accessibility through outreach. We gotta be ready to offer solutions & support. On that note, Goodnight. Ily. 🤟🏽
  • 27 August 2020 : I’m going to bed thinking about all the different skills I have, which are the most relevant to offsite protest support, and what my capacity will be for tracking information long term. That might not be a forever fit. Spend time now thinking about all the ways you can help.
  • 27 August 2020 : We all have a role here. And a lot of us will have multiple roles throughout life. The sustained effects of this concussion are forcing me to recognize the front lines can no longer be my primary role. Now I have to consider how to change tactics to support the frontlines.
  • 27 August 2020 : What I’m saying is, we all have a wide and diverse skill set to offer and colonialism and capitalism taught a lot of you that those skills are a waste of time because they can’t profit off of your passion in those areas. It makes you too headstrong. We want you to dream big.
  • 27 August 2020 : Find your niche. Think of what skills you have to offer. Moms how can you contribute to teaching these bb organizers time management skills? Frontliners, what tasks Can disabled comrades help you with from afar re coordination? Bipoc artists, what messages can you share they art?
  • 27 August 2020 : I love y’all. Truly. Even the yt people who are here to learn, even if I intimately hate your whiteness and your ignorance for the ways it actively harms my people. Point is. I love y’all too. You’re all ppl with autonomy & tons of types of skills to provide. We all have a place.
  • 27 August 2020 : Okay, seeing the high numbers of typos in my former copy editor written tweets means it’s time for a 10+ hour brain nap as part of my treatment. Please feel free to lovingly shame me off the internet tomorrow as a commitment to accountability & being nice to my beat up brain/body
  • 27 August 2020 : https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1298887881839132672?s=21 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1298887881839132672
  • 27 August 2020 : Just gotta day I’m pretty proud of the feed I’ve cultivated. I follow a lot of dope folk(esp bipoc) & well vouched community journalist/organizers in diff regions. I see updates from hotbeds of resistance cross nationally daily. If you need more folks to learn from check my list.
  • 27 August 2020 : Credit goes to one of my roomies. I think I said tug of war? Regarding dearrests? Or something else I can’t remember currently lol. But red rover really is the most apt descriltion.
  • 27 August 2020 : That’s a pretty poorly formed shield wall the cops have got there.... wonder what they’d do if a few hundred protestors decided to initiate a spontaneous (but disciplined) game of red rover since we know cops sure love to play! They try to start a game like every night with us... https://twitter.com/r3volutiondaddy/status/1298861868614787072
  • 27 August 2020 : I had a friend cry in my backyard about the reality of their fears. Some vets they ended up in the street w/ told them that this was essentially more chaotic than war. They were terrified even w/ that training. Let yourself cry it out. We’re fighting to LIVE. Indulge in feeling💕
  • 27 August 2020 : I’ve shared a few times the thread/call to action I did where I encouraged community education resource sharing. TONS of links to different resources on tons of levels of resistance were linked. I encourage people to have study groups with that info. I’ll rt again tomorrow.
  • 27 August 2020 : The genocidal, imperialist, colonizer bullshit that “USA” funds, trains, arms, and engaged in off shore is going to be coming home to deal w/ dissent soon. The fed kidnappings in Kenosha were warned about from Portland. This is systemic. Fear is rational. But courage is needed.
  • 27 August 2020 : Lately I’ve been spending time intimately remembering that moment. That image of trauma and embodiment of systemic and deadly neglect is seared into my brain. I’ve been trying to commit it to memory. To train myself to be calm in moments where it’s needed.
  • 27 August 2020 : I was able to pour some hospital grade disinfectants (as some former combat medics and emts had taught me) before he shut me out and wrapped his foot back in a T-shirt. There was pretty much nothing I could do. He never came back to that spot. Alotta people aren’t ready for that.
  • 27 August 2020 : I could straight up see his muscles and tissue exposed and the clear indications of rampant infections and it was so server I was immediately concerned about his high risk level to fatal blood infection. Kept a straight face. He was so ashamed. He barely let me try to help.
  • 27 August 2020 : TW: Graphic description One time, in Tijuana I had to spend 30 mins soothing a homeless person near the centro area where migrants were housed & convince him to let me see his leg. He had severe, visible muscle detoration from some infection. Definitely needed an amputation...
  • 27 August 2020 : Tbh I haven’t listened to podcasts b/c I do better retaining written info than audible info. So that being said, I’m gonna recommend a podcast I’ve never listened to but is highly regarded. It really could happen here. We ready for street hospitals yet..? https://open.spotify.com/show/3KNdniw6YDpgDuwrhcpSXw?si=K_cO13_YR-igz1rXizcyZA
  • 27 August 2020 : Spent some time today taking to folks who also have revolutionary comrades cross-nationally about how we don’t think people in the US are ready for the coming escalation in arms that the police are about to undergo considering we supply all the systems abroad that shoot their ppl
  • 27 August 2020 : I’m so sorry because I understand those weird and often dissociative feels. But also, thank you. That’s a signal of you being truly committed to the work. When you develop generations worth of awareness, that a world changing view. It’s a sign of life’s work happening tho.❤️💕 Ty
  • 27 August 2020 : Ted Wheeler is the most powerful cop in this entire fucking city & even if he weren’t the police commissioner he’d still be a shitty, colonial figurehead in position to protect the establishment even if that means having no values just to bend to whatever perspective is popular🤢
  • 27 August 2020 : Aright, that’s all I’ve got bookmarked from this day. But please do use this thread to support any arguments from libs claiming that wheeler finally got a chance to listen when he came downtown for his tear gas photo op & failed attempt to reclaim #teargasted . He’s not listening.
  • 27 August 2020 : https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1269106412120010753?s=21 https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1269106412120010753
  • 27 August 2020 : https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1269105424889831424?s=21 https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1269105424889831424
  • 27 August 2020 : https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1269105033028624384?s=21 https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1269105033028624384
  • 27 August 2020 : https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1269104869882789888?s=21 https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1269104869882789888
  • 27 August 2020 : https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1269104304788353025?s=21 https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1269104304788353025
  • 27 August 2020 : FOREVER shout out to organizers and abolitionists in rural oregon!! Special shout out to Rural Organizing Project (ROP) for helping push out the news of the NorCor contract with ICE being CANCELLED b/c of rural organizers pushing hard for YEARS. https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1269103870497583104?s=21 https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1269103870497583104
  • 27 August 2020 : https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1269102378134802432?s=21 https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1269102378134802432
  • 27 August 2020 : https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1269101825313013761?s=21 https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1269101825313013761
  • 27 August 2020 : S/o to Alex for being someone who actually takes the time to spell Danialle’s name right which is the least folks new to social justice coverage can do to respect the YEARS she’s been on the frontline. https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1269101814009360384?s=21 https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1269101814009360384
  • 27 August 2020 : https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1269101411813347328?s=21 https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1269101411813347328
  • 27 August 2020 : https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1269101064726302720?s=21 https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1269101064726302720
  • 27 August 2020 : https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1269100907641204736?s=21 https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1269100907641204736
  • 27 August 2020 : https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1269098171914805248?s=21 https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1269098171914805248
  • 27 August 2020 : https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1269097257355239425?s=21 https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1269097257355239425
  • 27 August 2020 : https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1269096697973506048?s=21 https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1269096697973506048
  • 27 August 2020 : Some of these Andrew is not in frame and it would be helpful in general for accessibility comrades to provide a transcript thread in response to each relevant linked tweet. TIA 💕💕 https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1269096018135486464?s=21 https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1269096018135486464
  • 27 August 2020 : It’s my account 💕
  • 27 August 2020 : Okay I’m remiscining on the day ted FIRST came downtown when I demanded a meeting from him & then demanded to bring BIPOC/marginalized Moms/Femmes/Women & then we demanded he prove to us they wouldnt tear gas while he was there lol. I have some tweets from that day so, a thread:
  • 27 August 2020 : Y’all can go to activism actually the page on Facebook and find those two live-streamed calls. Also Alex Zee live tweeted the first downtown visit that we DEMANDED & then gave the mic TO THE PEOPLE. Ted needs to keep my name out his fucking mouth. 😒 https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1269101411813347328?s=21 https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1269101411813347328
  • 27 August 2020 : Lol I sat down w/ ted the day that I made a scene & live-streamed myself reading demands (with ASL interpretation). He offered a meeting to me. I demanded to bring 5 ppl. We yelled @ him then downtown I yelled at him & let the people call him out & we had one zoom i streamed.
  • 27 August 2020 : Watched another full episode, would like to add ableist language in the comedy genre at large. Not something I’ve only noticed in this show but was definitely reminded of it here.
  • 27 August 2020 : Passively watchin adventure time for a while w/ my household while high af. Tuned in & actively watched the last half of an episode. & at the closing scene I sat quiet for a minute before saying “wow casual fatphobia really is so common in media.” “also ageism” my roomie shared.
  • 27 August 2020 : Lol if you’re a yt person on the board of JWJPDX & you try to follow me I’m blocking pretty much all of y’all but 2 people b/c y’all praised me for my abolitionist idealogies but don’t even understand ur so called principles. Especially these yt ass men protecting will layng tf
  • 27 August 2020 : CACKLING. 😂🤣☠️ https://twitter.com/ravenleilei/status/1298243844505468928
  • 27 August 2020 : Geometry is literally the one math I understood in school & still use regularly outside of basic PEMDAS & stats on occasion. & this awful colonial schooling system made me take AP math in 12th grade despite only passing w/ D’s in 11th b/c I “needed” Pre-Calc & Calc & shit. 😑🙃😒 https://twitter.com/badsalishheart/status/1298792546454212609
  • 27 August 2020 : Okay but I could let you borrow my heels probably and could teach you that floor work choreo. Between my stripper practice and your yoga and flexibility I bet that would be doable 🙃
  • 27 August 2020 : 😍😍😍 https://twitter.com/gayhouse90/status/1298787757242769409
  • 27 August 2020 : Honestly the only fucking thing I wanna talk about regarding #WAP because bitch let me tell you I LIVE for BIPOC GAYS, QUEERS, QTs and 2Spirit fucking royals. 🤩😍🥴 https://twitter.com/stephen_dewayne/status/1298761228823793664
  • 26 August 2020 : it is our duty to bully elected officials & their dedicated clout/stability seeking staff willing to be tokenized to the ends of the earth for a foot in the door to the abusive political establishment. #bullythemayor #moreblackpeopleneedtobullyjoann #andalsosarahsteamoftokens
  • 26 August 2020 : how about some actual solidarity w/ the folks getting actively brutalized by the police as all your colleagues continue to be yt supremacist & you write open letter after open letter begging for a chance to become a cop & be the one to prove once again representation aint shit?? https://twitter.com/joannpdx/status/1298732627067670529
  • 26 August 2020 : Imagine a general strike that kicks off riding the waves of the nba going on strike... & then the warehouse workers & the cooks & the secretaries & the nonprofit workers... all we gotta do is work quick to set up #ThePeoplesInfrastucure so we can take care of each other during 👀
  • 26 August 2020 : Wait but like, I remember watching one episode of that while I was with (mostly yt) comrades in Florida and being like ugh this is triggering this is just like fucking Portland lmfaooo
  • 26 August 2020 : “Around trauma informed organizing, I believe what I said was that I was not familiar with an organizing conversation with that as its core principle.” How do y’all expect cis-het white men to lead effectively & w/o harm when theyre so mediocre as to not even understand this?^^^
  • 26 August 2020 : Again here’s some more excited reformism and a concerted effort to fight alongside Black reformists for represention & sup-par policy change instead of for transformative justice and abolition. But then again, not surprising considering this quote from @WillLayng : https://twitter.com/jwjpdx/status/1268566682919813120
  • 26 August 2020 : If it’s not clear that my ex-boss is a reformist yt laborist who doesn’t understand the severity of the issues w/ overt racism in the labor movement & the ways he passively engages in it, here’s an example of him RTing local Black politicians fighting for reform/representation https://twitter.com/willlayng/status/1286141334487625729
  • 26 August 2020 : Andrew Tolman is one of, if not the, most important people in my goddamned life & I just wanna publicly state that if the police *actually* target them instead of just arresting them out of ease & inconveniencing them for 12 hours, the state better fucking be ready I swear to god
  • 26 August 2020 : There’s some questions that can be answered publicly. How many yt people are there in leadership roles? What kind of structure? I don’t just give random strangers my secure platforms to ask me to work with people they want me to while I have a concussion & im on bed rest...
  • 26 August 2020 : And if it’s a nonprofit they better not reach out without giving me the email to send invoices too or an explicit offer for compensation of my time. I worked for @jwjpdx & they didn’t pay me anywhere near enough to deal w/ @WillLayng ’s white supremacy & classism. Not anymore lol
  • 26 August 2020 : Forreal like 13k+ of y’all know who I am. If I have an idea for something, I’m not gonna go to any yt led group or org & ask that they put in work on this because that shit is usually colonial and violent towards BIPOC & esp QTBIPOC. They can reach out on their own in my DMs.
  • 26 August 2020 : Hey y’all. Personal request: Can y’all not ask me to put labor in for yt people/groups? I don’t organize by what yt ppl want & I don’t need/want recommendations to groups that are putting together structure if their structure planning didn’t begin w/ reaching out to BIPOC. 🤷🏽‍♀️
  • 26 August 2020 : I’m confused about the need for vetting? Did everyone get vetted who showed up to Andrews jail support on public property? Do they try to vet people autonomously organizing jail support for their comrades? Who does the vetting & is it an all white team? What kind of structure?
  • 26 August 2020 : YASSSSSSSSSS
  • 26 August 2020 : “Speaking of racist, fuck your micro aggressions. I'll make you fix your words like a typo suggestion. Pat me on the back too hard & Pat'll ask for your job. & in unrelated news, someone'll beat your ass at your job“ I Might Need Security is a fucking mood 🥰
  • 26 August 2020 : The level of coordinated/intentional jail support that y’all did for Andrew & Demetria? That should be the norm. So from now on, if your comrade has gotten arrested & they told you what they’d like upon release, DM that to me and what time they got arrested & I’ll boost it. Ty.
  • 26 August 2020 : Same. I was too worried not to demand a ct. Glad it came back clear but considering the implications of continued symptoms I can’t help but still be concerned. Which only makes me more mad at the cops & makes me wanna rage harder lol. But nooo, I gotta take a break now. 😑
  • 26 August 2020 : *sleep not street 🙄
  • 26 August 2020 : Okay I really should be on twitter less while my brain is healing but does anyone have recs for a radical/trustworthy esthetician to contact b/c I have a skin tag I forgot about & it musta caught something in my street b/c it HURTS & I need it removed 🙃
  • 26 August 2020 : Does anyone have video of that time ted came to get tear gassed as a photo op & I was heckling him from like 3 ft away & talking about how he’s an unprincipled useless pos & I asked if he remembered me & HE SAID “yes Lilith I remember you now it’s time to let someone else talk”🤣
  • 26 August 2020 : Severe symptoms started about 36 hours after the incident. And most have been persistent since then. I went to the ER & demanded a ct scan & don’t have any bleeding but if it all doesn’t cool down in like the next 4 days I gotta go to the doctor again. 🙃
  • 26 August 2020 : This nausea is fucking ridiculous. I’ve felt like I had to puke for the last hour. 😭🥴
  • 26 August 2020 : tbh I’ve been getting ready to post a fundraiser to buy a sprinter van but like, this would definitely work and all I wanna be able to do is travel/live while supporting black abolitionist cross national organizing. I do have some money waiting to get out of gofundme...
  • 26 August 2020 : I really want this bus tho...... 👀 https://twitter.com/ghostmobpdx/status/1298690161941688320
  • 26 August 2020 : But crackers do have an inherent and subconscious need to dominate others..... that’s why organizing with yt leftists is so often hell. White supremacy is subconscious and deeply ingrained in the psyche because of generations of both covert and overt yt supremacist propaganda. https://twitter.com/felledoh/status/1298415347142258689
  • 26 August 2020 : all my comrades are bona fide hotties. all of them. every single one.
  • 26 August 2020 : Forreal tho if you’ve got a link feel free to hit me up 😂
  • 26 August 2020 : This is why when the police yelled at us to go East on burnside, I decided personally to go west and invited anyone who wanted to join me. And a lot of y’all made that decision because we know that listening to kkkiller cops will never be to our benefit. https://twitter.com/tawasisoce/status/1298385159687819266
  • 26 August 2020 : Sharing this not because I have any idea what it’s about but because I want y’all to have as many easy examples of accountability as possible to learn from. Say sorry, name the harm explicitly, commit to doing better, & understand that won’t be enough for everyone https://twitter.com/emmatsalageek/status/1298218165604880385
  • 26 August 2020 : okay but like I want this shirt..... 🥺 https://twitter.com/socialistdogmom/status/1298364244505788416
  • 25 August 2020 : I could definitely write a paper titled “Reimagining the Self In an Intersectional Framework.” 😅 https://twitter.com/dana_iverson1/status/1297999781290287106
  • 25 August 2020 : “Always pro slavery” ✨💕 https://twitter.com/kalasiaricher/status/1298281984570077184
  • 25 August 2020 : https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1278758392274640896?s=21 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1278758392274640896
  • 25 August 2020 : 👀👀👀 https://twitter.com/pigwatch420/status/1298190334447386624
  • 25 August 2020 : I’m tryna learn from @moms4housing to be honest... can folks in Portland start looking up empty government owned buildings? It’s time for @tedwheeler @ChloeEudalyPDX @JoAnnPDX @AmandaFritzRN & commish elect Danny boi to put their money where there mouth is or we need to take it🤷🏽‍♀️
  • 25 August 2020 : I also saw him on camera downtown and I’ve personally taken photos of Andy’s face zoomed in while he was rolling w/ nazis the night cider riot got attacked and I’m confident it was him. I don’t post shit like this lightly. I always confirm for myself first.
  • 25 August 2020 : Third one in the last 4 years. Tbh the first two were because I’m clumsy as fuck. But the cops really were like “3rd times the charm” 🙄
  • 25 August 2020 : @ChloeEudalyPDX told me in my DMs that she doesn’t use twitter once but maybe she’ll see this tag... 👀👀👀 is it gonna be for Teressa or some yt person for the sake of respectability politics and who’s “on the ballot” https://twitter.com/alankesslr/status/1298139568126877698
  • 25 August 2020 : This is my third and worst yet concussion and I’m facing the reality of having to seriously consider benching myself from going to direct action nights cause this has been awful & I can not afford another tbi forreal. the idea of which only makes my nausea worse 😭🤢🤕
  • 25 August 2020 : Isn’t there a photo somewhere of luis the leftist (& patriarchal, misogynist abuser) riding on the shoulders of some booger boys at the protests downtown? If anyone sends me that photo I’ll post it anonymously b/c again he’s an abuser & shouldn’t be welcome in our spaces. 👀 https://twitter.com/betacuck4lyfe/status/1298143979695833091
  • 25 August 2020 : Well it seems like there will be plenty of downtown real estate with fucked property values that we can snatch up to start setting up an infrastructural base for the people’s revolution 🥰 #thepeoplesinfrastructure #officespaceforanarchists #kitchensforthepeople https://twitter.com/koinnews/status/1298011479682109441
  • 25 August 2020 : I think that sounds like a fun birthday present 🤷🏽‍♀️
  • 24 August 2020 : He did. Like... 15 years ago?
  • 24 August 2020 : A list some1 made of publicly available info about @tedwheeler ! Most importantly of which is the fact that it’s almost #warcrimeswheeler ’s birthday! How exciting!! What do y’all think Teddy deserves to get for his bday this year? (PS-can someone write alt text below pls?) pic.twitter.com/4fIAEcu0iJ
  • 24 August 2020 : ooooh, would also love to see a satisfying video when googling “Elijah schaffer punched” or w/e the fuck his last name is 😅
  • 24 August 2020 : One day, I hope to be able to google “Andy gno punched” and find as satisfying of a video as you can find if you google “Richard Spencer punched.” #antifadaydreams #andygnoisathreattoourcommunities #communitydefense
  • 24 August 2020 : Where were you when you learned the news about Luther Vandross dying? I’m tryna see something....
  • 24 August 2020 : Today’s daily mix of choice: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1E382eb7KmnVwi?si=hGNie0qbTXmkyRcyoKTGLQ
  • 24 August 2020 : Andy gno is actually back in Portland today and I hope he gets fucked up royally and I also hope all y’all “leftist” racists don’t fucking harass Asian folks again because you think everybody who’s not yt looks the fucking same...
  • 24 August 2020 : I have some! Thank you! I took a shit ton of cbd oil last night to help (:
  • 24 August 2020 : me trying to figure out why @cremebruleepdx is still so under appreciated on twitter when they actually are one of the funniest people on the fucking internet: pic.twitter.com/ejrkxtjeys
  • 24 August 2020 : Concussion + weed + insomnia = fuck idk if I took my sleeping pill 5 minutes ago when I thought of it but I CANT risk having another so wish me luck tonight 🥴😅 I can never tell until it’s like 4:30am and I’m like oh shit I’m not asleep and it’s what time?? ☠️🤓 oops.
  • 24 August 2020 : I’ve been on tinder today for the first time in a long time and I just wanna say that if you’re a white person and you have breonna taylors name in your tinder profile you better fucking block me. y’all literally disgust me.
  • 23 August 2020 : Can I just be the first to say that 𝒸𝓊𝒻𝒻𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓈𝑒𝒶𝓈𝑜𝓃 𝟚𝟘𝟚𝟘 during the fall of capitalism while we’re in the midst of a global pandemic (which will be ravaging the US extra hard while our economy collapses) I’m going to be LIVING for all of y’all thirsty on main. https://twitter.com/betacuck4lyfe/status/1297639070206554113
  • 23 August 2020 : If settlers/colonizers don’t like that Black, Brown & Indigenous ppl are standing up together to call them on their bullshit maybe they should go back & try to conquer the rest of England to free their ancestors of whatever the fuck they believe in that was their original bad guy
  • 23 August 2020 : okay but one last tweet..... 👉🏽👈🏽
  • 23 August 2020 : My concussion brain comes up with good content but I need to get the fuck off the internet. Time for a long nap (with intermittent alarms 😑) so my brain can heal and shit. ✌🏽
  • 23 August 2020 : no customers, only comrades. #AbolishMoney #timeisntreal #wedontevenhaveenoughcoinsanyway (But forreal, autonomously owned & mutually beneficial trades agreements between liberated workers sharing the means &!rewards of our production is actually just settler talk for trading) https://twitter.com/tuckwoodstock/status/1297609336009584640
  • 23 August 2020 : no heroes only comrades, but yeah I’ve never met a more true example of an accomplice towards liberation. Possibly one of few I’ve ever met in my life.
  • 23 August 2020 : Portland Police are really, really, REALLY bad at tug of war, turns out... https://twitter.com/showmeurbeans/status/1297647182737072128
  • 23 August 2020 : looking at old pics of Andrew & I from actions where I’m on a mic & raging or crying & Andrew’s by my side, as always, providing accessibility to the people in any way they can possibly advocate for & I just thought “wow. we really have been out here doing this same shit for yrs”
  • 23 August 2020 : Sunday afternoon conversations ✨🌸🌝💕 #justabolitionistthings pic.twitter.com/HHZRUPtedR
  • 23 August 2020 : Basically what I’m saying is, I actually have 5 sons.
  • 23 August 2020 : It’s funny how I try to answer yt people when they ask me if I have kids because like no I’ve never birthed children but I was raised as a Black girl so I’ve been childrearing since childhood & I’m now the only emotionally competent Black adult in my 5 baby brothers lives so...🙃
  • 23 August 2020 : Ps - late update to this thread— but my best friend is out of jail
  • 23 August 2020 : Hey #PDX ! Andrew has been released and is with comrades. PPB kept their phone so heads up to still not message or call them unless you’re tryna talk to cops! 💕 But our friend is safe! https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1297439343674445827
  • 23 August 2020 : They****
  • 23 August 2020 : Oh, btw ct is clear but I still feel like shit and my best friend is still in jail. 🙃
  • 23 August 2020 : If you scroll to the bottom of this thread you can contact his employer and tell them what a racist, misogynist, violent piece of shit they have employed. https://twitter.com/ruthlesswe/status/1295338918749933570
  • 23 August 2020 : Some pan cooked ground beef with a can of condensed cream of mushroom soup cooked into the oil at the end with just a splash of milk to make a sorta thick mushroom gravy and poured over mashed potatoes 😭🤤 plus hot sauce! Drooling. Got me thru college.
  • 23 August 2020 : Got the CT Scan like 40ish minutes ago now. They said it usually takes around 30ish minutes to process the images. Waiting anxiously & hoping my gut instinct is wrong for once. 🙃
  • 23 August 2020 : I know lol. That’s why I don’t wanna take it until my results are back. Thanks tho!
  • 23 August 2020 : Things Andrew Tolman likes for y’all to know if you wanna do jail support: - Chicken nuggets (I cant remember which sauce 😭) - Joints (high thc hybrids or indicas) - Mutual aid (so bring coffee for your friends or let them know you’ll do jail support weekly now inspired by them)
  • 23 August 2020 : I hate it here. https://twitter.com/mrolmos/status/1297434038710370310
  • 23 August 2020 : Now I’m just waiting for that beloved negative pregnancy test before I can get the CT. And maybe by the time that’s done I’ll have a calm enough stomach to eat my first meal since Friday evening. 🙃
  • 23 August 2020 : I’ve been seen by a doctor. I, as I said, do indeed have a concussion. And I was able to advocate for the CT I want. Got given meds for my nausea and some ibuprofen for my head.... which I don’t really wanna take until after that CT cause I’m paranoid/freaking out. 🙃 But yeah...
  • 23 August 2020 : My room number is an odd number and I don’t like it. I also don’t like how silent it is here. 🤨
  • 23 August 2020 : oh wait.... it’s been 40 minutes. is this normal during CoVID? Or did they forget I’m here? 50/50 shot tbh
  • 23 August 2020 : Why do hospitals always feel so unsafe?* I’ve been waiting for my dr in the triage room for like 20ish minutes now & it’s starting to feel like a trap. I’m convinced ppbs gonna rush in lmao. Fuck. I hate yt institutions. *that was a rhetorical question. it’s bc racism is deadly
  • 23 August 2020 : Officially just got my gender identity marker changed to “other” at Kaiser. Whoooooo. 🙃🥳🤓
  • 23 August 2020 : Heads up #PDX - KKKops got Andrew’s phone when they targeted and arrested them! That means if you’re in a signal group chat with Andrew, you should let the group chat know, exit & delete that chat, and start a new group without them for now. #securityculture #defendpdx
  • 23 August 2020 : Also, heads up, I’m actually about to head to the ER because my concussion symptoms have been getting progressively worse throughout the day. Forgive me for being in and out. I might be getting a CT scan 🙃
  • 23 August 2020 : Our comrade is off the phone with NLG. They were able to coordinate immediate jail support process starting with Andrews information and are connecting w/ comrades otg rn. Will update once they get processed.
  • 23 August 2020 : #PDXPROTEST - Our beloved comrade Andrew Tolman from Fingers Crossed Interpreting has been arrested! Spread the word. I’ll update through the Fingers Crossed Interpreting FB page and in the replies here when our comrade is off the phone w/ NLG and can update me!
  • 23 August 2020 : lmao you play too much 🥴😂✊🏽
  • 23 August 2020 : I just want to say that I finally watched a third person video of @IwriteOK standing off against Alan McFuckface & holy shit I have never been more thoroughly inspired by a comrade’s courage & tenacity. I felt my ancestors rush of approval. Forreal. Robert Evans is a warrior.
  • 23 August 2020 : Concussion healing night 3: - Les Mis ✅ - First meal at 11pm of Chinese delivery ✅ - So much weed ✅ I love y’all. Stay safe. Take care of yourself.
  • 23 August 2020 : yes.
  • 23 August 2020 : A reliable thread on tonight for folks who have the spoons to follow along after today. But I want to give a reminder that you don’t need to experience your comrades trauma vicariously if you can’t be on the front lines. Tonight I’m gonna relax & heal my heart. You can too. https://twitter.com/1misanthrophile/status/1297382892939558917
  • 23 August 2020 : A really great thread from a comrade! Read it! Tag @tedwheeler in it! https://twitter.com/svevan/status/1297344595445993472
  • 23 August 2020 : We’ve been playing the game “5 Words” in my circle thanks to recommendation by Fingers Crossed Interpreting. Every time we slip up (which we often do) we say 5 other words that are non-ableist, more exact insults. It leads to lots of creative replacements!
  • 23 August 2020 : LAW is only safe when prepared by trusted medics who are making sure to only keep it for it’s appropriate shelf life. I don’t even have the capacity to make enough LAW efficiently for most actions. Most people should just use water.
  • 23 August 2020 : I straight up had to have a conversation with my mom about this lol. Like stop liking my shit okay. Text me instead of commenting!
  • 23 August 2020 : Listening to what I think is Hannah Montana in the background of some tiktok video my roomie is watching and it lowkey makes me glad I can’t figure out how to log into my original tiktok account & ive since deleted the app 😅😂😂😂
  • 23 August 2020 : another reason that twitter is for the revolution is cause I feel like most millennials parents aren’t on twitter so we really do be showing the fuck out on here. we just be blunt as fuck & shit. 😆 really thank god my moms not on twitter. she’d probably have a heart attack. 🥴
  • 23 August 2020 : chomp chomp.
  • 23 August 2020 : Exactly what I came here to say. The nozzle might be a bit too pressurized. And I 10/10 would recommend not using pressurized containers to treat eyes. But this is made for babies and it’s saline. Thing to learn here is just use sterile water. That’s it. Plain ole water.
  • 23 August 2020 : Good thread of ID’s from today! https://twitter.com/johnnthelefty/status/1297236421007171589
  • 23 August 2020 : THIS JUST IN: PPB admits most of their officers are now sleeping during the day. Would like folks to know the best time to riot is now during the day when officers are more easily overwhelmed & short on resources. Also, is street fighting legal now if it’s for short durations? https://twitter.com/portlandpolice/status/1297317194599145472 pic.twitter.com/UQ9aDXSmh3
  • 23 August 2020 : You’re right. My brains still a little rocked. “I’m sorry to any folks that were triggered by it” is more what I think I meant. Thank you!
  • 23 August 2020 : Please don’t use 1488 ironically. That was just really triggering. 10/10 recommend deleting this tweet and trying again.
  • 22 August 2020 : do y’all see how easy accountability can be? All we need is an “I’m sorry if that was triggering to you” and we’ve got a perfect example of how to accept harm, own up to it, and share what you learned so we can grow together. Simple. Easy. Not the torture some pretend it is. 🙄 https://twitter.com/pdxprotestbabes/status/1297315665351589888
  • 22 August 2020 : As the scooter repeats it’s message a final time, the person filming flips off the scooter with their left hand which was previously shaking it and the video ends. The last thing heard is the scooter saying “call the police” as people laugh.
  • 22 August 2020 : Person filming- “What’re ya gonna do buddy? What’re ya gonna call the police? The police are gonna come help a scooter? C’mon!” Person in the background speaks inaudibly as they walk into frame.
  • 22 August 2020 : After the scooter says that audibly for the first time, PF and the Person in the Background (PB) have this conversation over the sound of the scooter as it is shaken repeatedly: PF - “Alright, call ‘em!” PB laughs. PF - “Call ‘em dude!” PB - “What’re ya gonna do, huh?”
  • 22 August 2020 : Video description/Transcript: The Person Filming (PF) is shaking an electric scooter throughout the video. The scooter starts repeating this message for the length of the entire video, “Stop moving the scooter without unlocking it first, or I will call the police.”
  • 22 August 2020 : I fucking adore this video b/c it’s SO funny. But I’m sad it’s inaccessible so here’s this video of a bootlicker electric scooter & you can find a video description/transcript in the replies below. If you share, please share this accessible thread instead of the OP alone. https://twitter.com/mattgrippi/status/1155197062243241985
  • 22 August 2020 : Now that I’ve unlocked my account again I’m gonna retweet some gems I published while on lockdown that deserve to be shared imo.
  • 22 August 2020 : Checking out for a few hours because my concussion is screaming at me to stop processing information. So proud of all of you. Be back online later!
  • 22 August 2020 : I’m watching a fascists feed and they’re calling the left out for being hypocrites because people are calling people fat and dumb and making tiny penis jokes and tbh they’re fucking right. Check yourself y’all. Stop body shaming. Check your ableism & fatphobia.
  • 22 August 2020 : Hey #PDXprotest attendees! I’m watching HELLA feeds right now and things seem to be in a standoff in a lot of different spaces. Does this mean today is over? If you want it to be for you, sure. But remember, feds will attempt to further brutalize folks as crowds decrease in size
  • 22 August 2020 : Shoutouts to: -Olympia, WA -Chicago, IL and Louisville who are all out on the streets right now resisting fash (uniformed or otherwise) right now. Cross-national solidarity!
  • 22 August 2020 : THANK YOU
  • 22 August 2020 : He’s not walking towards where riot ribs used to be in the park. White guy by himself who keeps pointing at things with his left hand to point them out to people watching his feeds.
  • 22 August 2020 : There’s a solo fash live-streaming by the old elk alter right now. Behind the elk. 2:55pm. His feed labels us as Antifa Thugs. His feed name is “Only a Mr Bill”
  • 22 August 2020 : Anybody live-streaming near this? Or documenting? https://twitter.com/matcha_chai/status/1297289288892051456
  • 22 August 2020 : Just be aware PDX that there are solo chuds sprinkled about our crowds live-streaming now with feed titles like “Portland Patriots VS Antifa Thugs”. Just remember to stay safe.
  • 22 August 2020 : Which garage?
  • 22 August 2020 : Street address seen near the relevant parking garage is 1355 Jefferson Street.
  • 22 August 2020 : #pdxprotest #portlandprotest #alloutpdx #defendpdx - Fash are retreating to the parking garages and loading themselves into vehicles with guns drawn. Be prepared to take cover as fash retreat. Be prepared for shots fired from moving vehicles as they have been.
  • 22 August 2020 : #DEFENDPDX - Fash have been targeting press with rocks. Please be aware.
  • 22 August 2020 : Hey #PDX , we have fash pulling loaded weapons downtown. Please be advised & stay aware of your surroundings. In the event of gunshot wounds, remember to call for medics and if you are not a medic, please do not swarm the victim or make it harder for medics to get to the patient pic.twitter.com/QuFZxpfvcp
  • 22 August 2020 : #defendpdx - Can you not go out today for some reason? Are you doing eyes in the sky and tracking information for folx to broadcast or communicate to folks on the ground? I wanna set up a Jitsi call so we can each watch a different feed and coordinate communication. DM ME PLS.
  • 22 August 2020 : Hey #pdx is anyone coordinating evac rides for today? I’d really like to boost that information if it exists. #PDXprotests #defendpdx #PortlandProtest
  • 22 August 2020 : Here’s a thread from a trusted comrade to keep an eye on what’s going on today. Also check out @IwriteOK ’s feed! #pdx #PDXprotest https://twitter.com/1misanthrophile/status/1297233177644171265
  • 22 August 2020 : Alright I can’t be downtown today because I have a concussion and a cold and a fucking flare up of my illness. So I’m tracking what’s happening downtown and sharing information & I want y’all to be able to share it because I’m being intentional about what I share. I’m off lock!
  • 22 August 2020 : I was talking with a non-yt friend the other day about how white people really don’t understand violence. Hate speech IS violence. That’s why not all speech is protected by the first amendment. Language is the colonizers tool of oppression. Hate speech is VIOLENCE. https://twitter.com/tedwheeler/status/1297242771967733760
  • 22 August 2020 : Please please please steal, trash and deface every Sarah “I like posturing as Antifa and wearing buzzwords on my chest” Iannarones signs. Please steal and vandalize property of white oppressors. Sarah is a white oppressor. Treat her like you treat Teddy in my personal opinion. https://twitter.com/sarahforpdx/status/1296824564823896065
  • 17 August 2020 : ppl who say ppl who say “okay ally” “okay boomer” 🤝 wanting to destroy capitalism, colonialism, & white supremacy #UPRISING2020 #fuckthelibs
  • 17 August 2020 : water + non-toxic paint (so it doesn’t eat plastic) + balloon = *chefs kiss*
  • 17 August 2020 : I mean tbh isn’t it high time to take NYC back? Lolol I grew up on the east coast and have loved ones in or from the state and city. But that makes me think of this: https://youtu.be/if_sEUffzjE
  • 17 August 2020 : I’d take 2/5.... 😅
  • 17 August 2020 : oooooohhhhhhh shittttttt 😍😍😍😍
  • 17 August 2020 : Can we talk about how @THAMAARQUII popped up in one of my personalized daily mixes on Spotify and I am very pleased about it. 💕 Always a VIBE. I remember dancing to Full Outfit on stage at the benefit show & raffle that I produced for Stroll PDX with Decrim Oregon and just 🤤🥵
  • 17 August 2020 : I’ve been meeting hella people from NYC that are moving to PDX... 🤔 I’d just like to say that if you live in NYC and you wanna move to PDX: I really don’t get it but can we talk about just trading housing please? cause I’m tryna goooooooooo
  • 17 August 2020 : Current mood: https://open.spotify.com/track/3EApebexZ7YqDIqw2EMTDh?si=SEmVems4TvCWjsJrD9penQ
  • 17 August 2020 : Oh 100%!!! I’ve been someone’s power of attorney before 🙃 so I’m familiar with how fucked up the state makes it but yes this is good advice for folx
  • 17 August 2020 : Thanks for the heads up to block you both 💕
  • 17 August 2020 : I can’t help but cackle when yt ppl who I’ve watched/heard be (ableist/sexist/antiblack/colonial/etc) complain about Black militants not wanting to work with yt ppl cuz it “hurts the movement.” As if the racism/antiblackness/colonialism/ableism on the left isn’t the real issue🙄
  • 17 August 2020 : Special hate for “militant” yt folks on all sides cause y’all so often replicate harm cuz ur not decolonized. Extra special hate for militant yt “leftists” who’ve never read Black or Indigenous militant lit but quote ML. 🙄 Also, skinny yt women in general? The WORST. EVER.
  • 17 August 2020 : The yts, the settlers, the colonizers, the capitalists... I fucking hate the: -overt white supremacists -covert white supremacist -ignorant af racists who think they’re a “liberal” or “leftist.” From both a Black perspective & Native perspective: y’all are toxic as fuck
  • 17 August 2020 : I wanna get unfollowed again so here’s my reminder that *I fucking can’t stand white people* & any white person I’m truly friends with knows that the time we spend together is an act of love & respect that is inherently emotionally taxing on me b/c of ingrained yt supremacy 💕
  • 17 August 2020 : PS - No matter what, y’all should consider going to Spotify, setting the album to play on repeat, turning your sound down to mute, and letting it play through the night. More views = more tiny royalties stacking up for our comrades. Or you can just send them money too 😘
  • 17 August 2020 : Hey, #Portland ! Did you know that your favorite ever abolitionist ASL interpreter & Drag Queen is also an amazing musician who’s already MAKING WAVES across the web from here to UK? #triplethreat Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/album/3IqJMxaBmKwsuUrlmSvklm?si=9h9gxp3TRmCiwM9O9MtNHQ Read about it here: https://www.culturefix.co.uk/?p=12182
  • 17 August 2020 : Did you make sure, for instance, to teach every single class the ways that “flushed cheeks” & signs of cyanosis look different on Black skin versus Yt skin? Did you teach them bedside manner means not using casually ableist language? Did you teach them needs to advocate for us?
  • 17 August 2020 : Okay but like I am deciduously not on these streets every night. But like let’s add @ProudBulba to this conversation if we’re talking about badass warriors
  • 17 August 2020 : Hi, hello, yes, so: I just realized that one of my partners birthdays is next month. since I’m a cancer as bitch I’m planning what to get them & I’ve already decided part 1 is my undivided attention w/ no phones/emergencies/mediation/meetings for a few days. Sept 18-21=no Lilith
  • 17 August 2020 : Essentially, both obvious & covert Anti-Blackness/White supremacy are infused into literally every aspect of social engagement & community for Black, Brown & Indigenous people. It’s traumatic. So it’s ineffective to try to effectively teach something so vital to ppl in distress.
  • 17 August 2020 : It’s funny you ask because I just was talking to a friend about happily refusing care from any yt street medic w/ dreds. But no; the medical field is rife with Ableism, Anti-Blackness & Fatphobia. Plus it’s a 4profit abusive system. & that trickles down to street med.
  • 17 August 2020 : That makes sense in that scenario because in the wilderness how would you confirm, right? I’d act on implied consent up until transference! I want it on file for hospitals really. I’m talking, “you have me in the OR/ED & I flatline, let me be.” But I hear you on this!
  • 17 August 2020 : @TawasiSoce if you don’t get outta here pretending you’re not our peer 🙄😒🥴
  • 17 August 2020 : Like sure, try to save my life if it’s a bleed or whatever. But like, if I die??? Don’t play god. Just like, lemme party with the ancestors and give y’all wisdom from afar. Grief sucks but a life of endless, daily trauma sucks too. When I say I’m pro-choice that means all of it.
  • 17 August 2020 : Me: Takes a two day medic certification refresher course so I can save people’s lives if necessary *gets home* Also me: I wanna figure out how to sign DNR paperwork cause I sure as hell won’t self harm but OOF is this planet in this timeline fucking HELL #beautyofconsent 😍
  • 16 August 2020 : Hey. So, which is it? B/c last night at 1am you were DM’ing me about how my words meant a lot to you” & now you’re talking about what a poor “leader” I am. This is what I mean about white people. Y’all be some fairweather allies when call out racism & y’all don’t like it. 🙄 https://twitter.com/d8taisbeautiful/status/1295142352609312769 pic.twitter.com/W9gAxJc5AP
  • 16 August 2020 : Lame is ableist....
  • 16 August 2020 : Jessie Sponberg is a rapist and unwelcome in our communities. Just a reminder cause that piece of shit got back from Hawaii recently and has been out in the streets.
  • 16 August 2020 : Are you disabled? Because outside of that, telling disabled people that you won’t except the premise of what is ableism is actually ableist. The issue here is you’re not willing to listen to directly affected folks. Call people fools. It’s not ableist. Calling people an idiot is.
  • 16 August 2020 : Why are you so cool?
  • 16 August 2020 : Because white people don’t have locs. 🤷🏽‍♀️ That was intentional. Im not gonna legitimize a bunch of white people with a matted mess of grinch fingers on their head and present them or reference them as the same as actual locs.
  • 16 August 2020 : It literally says it in my profile.
  • 16 August 2020 : I’m Indigenous you fuck.
  • 16 August 2020 : I really am too 😭 I feel you! Solidarity!
  • 16 August 2020 : I woke up two hours ago & I’m already fucking exhausted. I hate living in this colonized, white supremacist, capitalist, anti-black state. Today’s the type of day where I’m daydreaming of time traveling like 500 years back & visiting land under Indigenous people’s care. 😭
  • 16 August 2020 : I’m *desperate* to find BIPOC medic trainers willing to do a comprehensive street medic training for BIPOC folks in Portland. Because getting my certifications re-upped in a room full of white people from white trainers is endlessly exhausting. The advocacy I have to do. 🙃
  • 16 August 2020 : When I tell y’all that the fight against ableism is especially exhausting....whew chile I swear education on anti-racism, community care, abolition, strategy, tactics, safety? Fine. But talking to y’all about your fatphobia, ableism, and *Anti-Black* bullshit? 😒🥴😑 pic.twitter.com/m2xFkR0xLs
  • 16 August 2020 : Attacking people’s intelligence is literally ableism. Attack chuds for their analysis. It’s nonsensical. It’s hypocritical. It’s not based in measurable fact. They’re wrong. It’s not lack of intelligence. It’s willful adherence to cognitive dissonance. Change your mindset.
  • 16 August 2020 : Ahhh, so my libra moon is the reason I do the exact same fucking things for the exact same reasons lol 😅☠️
  • 16 August 2020 : I don’t trust any white “leftist” with dreads. Point blank period. If you’re a white person with dreads I want you to know that you’re not my fucking comrade.
  • 16 August 2020 : https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1294934693922521088?s=21 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1294934693922521088
  • 16 August 2020 : Anyway, good night y’all fucking brats. I love you. Even when you’re so fucking far behind on learning how to not be shitty that I occasionally wanna throat punch you. Or cry outta jealousy b/c damn ignorance really is bliss for y’all huh.... Wonder what that’s like 😑🙄🖕🏽💕
  • 16 August 2020 : A lot of y’all need to be working on erasing casual ableism from your lexicon/communication just as desperately as y’all need to learn how to stop being racist & patting yourself on the back for “trying.” 🙄 This is not a subtweet. It’s directed at the entire fucking left.
  • 16 August 2020 : CW: Ableism Hey, here’s my final tweet before bed: If you’re sending out a community alert via tweet about fascists, please don’t call them ableist slurs like stupid because then I can’t retweet you to share information just because you’re being ableist online. Do tf better.
  • 16 August 2020 : Also I said the word active abuser on purpose. Active abuser being someone who is both actively avoiding accountability while still also inflicting harm. Mediation only works if those who are harming folks cannot weaponize the system against their victims. It’s about harm redux
  • 16 August 2020 : If someone or some org is an active abuser, consider not platforming them. Instead, take their labor, collectivize it, give it to the people, and never credit those abusive fucks. Do not give abusers platforms which legitimize their work. Support victims. Shun abusers.
  • 16 August 2020 : Also, Mexican people are Indigenous to these lands and Mexico is another state system that is oppressive. Like....there’s so many layers of ignorance. #landback
  • 16 August 2020 : Right like I literally cannot comprehend this tweet... and i have great reading comprehension skills. It’s like something I’m proud of lol
  • 16 August 2020 : Y’all remember that one time I climbed onto a lightpole to give a spontaneous speech @ the north precinct & then I just announced that I personally was going west since cops wanted us to go East & 10k of y’all came with? Fun fact: I was terrified. Leaders are a security risk.🙃
  • 16 August 2020 : Ughhhhh. This is exactly the validation I was hoping for 😭 TY
  • 16 August 2020 : I’ll bring it up!!
  • 16 August 2020 : If y’all would like to read the email exchange that was had around my attempt & mediation & his ridiculous, retaliatory investigation I was put under for naming unaccountable abusers as unsafe for the well being of our community... You can do so here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-Mr-EQtLwKfRZe4wtlXH4zfmK2sAql-8vuu-8WjkJgc/edit
  • 16 August 2020 : Anyway, this is another LilithRant but working @JwJpdx was traumatizing. And some of the wonderful folks I had contact with at @jwjnational gave me their sympathy for Will’s nonexistent leadership or interpersonal skills & how it was impacting me. But he flexed his power so🤷🏽‍♀️
  • 16 August 2020 : I attended an emergency executive board meeting last week to give testimony as to Wills behavior. One of my still employed friends noted that multiple Black folx felt pushed out our org by Will. He said he didn’t “feel that was true.” I had to tell him that it definitely is.
  • 16 August 2020 : So, one day, I sent him a nice, long, emotionally exhausting to write email to open a convo about his harm. It was polite. It was measured. It named a # of options for next steps. I gave space for him to process what might be hard info... I was put under investigation days later
  • 16 August 2020 : The best part about this story, is that within our personnel policy, it CLEARLY states that employees should attempt to mediate interpersonal issues with each other before engaging w/ the process.
  • 16 August 2020 : He’s also being investigated for the way he weaponized our disciplinary system against the only two Black people who were on staff because when we used our voices as individuals to call out an abuser he had issues with us signing our names. He put us UNDER FORMAL INVESTIGATION.
  • 16 August 2020 : -Not being given any of the yearly reviews hes supposed to undergo for two years -Not giving 2 Black new hires their contracted check-in meetings at either the 60 or 90 day mark after hire. -Never telling me once that equity work was a part of my job description
  • 16 August 2020 : Also, can I just say that he’s about to be put under investigation. Lots of things we discovered. Let’s talk about why @WillLayng is being put under investigation real quick:
  • 16 August 2020 : TWO YEARS OF PLANNING FOR A RESTAURANT WORKER CENTER. And what came of it? Nothing because 3 months into my job I had to ask my boss for a meeting to tell me what my job is since I didn’t feel like I could do the job I was hired for. [Worker Center Organizer]
  • 16 August 2020 : The irony of this considering that Will Layng, the still current ED of @JwJpdx , spent months telling me about *his* vision & the importance of adhering to the *2 yrs* of planning a bunch of yt people did before making the decision to open a position & eventually hire me. 2 YEARS? https://twitter.com/jwjpdx/status/1293680496874942464
  • 16 August 2020 : Like forreal forreal y’all. We’re sitting here talking about the pitfalls of the Portland community. Not organizing wise. But community wise. We’re talking bout the effective weaponization of whiteness in PDX. Another quote from tonight, “Portland has a sharing problem.” True
  • 16 August 2020 : I cannot stress enough that this city has a problem actually listening to Black people. I spent six months in my 1st non-profit job after talking to my NGO working friends to prep for what’d it be like & y’all! They were IMPRESSED with how fucked up my stories of @JwJpdx are.
  • 16 August 2020 : “This is a city of gatekeepers,” says a friend tonight. & damn if that ain’t real. Like we’re talking about the frequency with which white people are willing to hire Black people for diversity & equity but hate to actually listen to what we have to say. #WeaponizedPoliteness
  • 16 August 2020 : This person thinks that we don’t already have an oligarchy... lol https://twitter.com/misskathymae/status/1294889463580041216
  • 16 August 2020 : I’m telling y’all... it’s gonna get worse. We need to organize supply chains & autonomous community infrastructures that operate OUTSIDE of the state. I’m talking underground pharmacies. (Y’all Can discreetly board meds). I’m talking community defense. Community mediators. https://twitter.com/timediveralpha/status/1294886940802768896
  • 16 August 2020 : Yo hit me up with some info on what your medical background training is just as a quick vetting process and then I can probably connect you to our local medics who can help stock you up.
  • 16 August 2020 : ALSO YOU SHOULD BE BUYING WEAPONS RIGHT NOW. PLEASE BUY WEAPONS RIGHT NOW. The left is *significantly* under-armed when compared to people who’ve been getting gifted guns bigger than they can hold since age 6. If you’re talking about abolition, you need to prep for backlash.
  • 16 August 2020 : CURRENTLY you can look to . Look to the #BelarusProtest . Understand what we need to be ready for. I’m so proud of so many of y’all who’ve been in the streets for SEVENTY-NINE days. I say this to the people who hang back from the front lines. I need y’all to get ready.
  • 16 August 2020 : I genuinely need y’all to start expanding your understanding of what an UPRISING looks like. I cannot stress enough that this is a revolutionary moment. Our comrades across the world who’ve been fighting for liberation for YEARS have been dealing with live ammo for a long time.
  • 16 August 2020 : Like, I’ve already been prepping myself for winding up in the position of needing to tie a tourniquet around one of my own legs. I spend my time considering what I can actually barricade behind in every place or the corners asassins might not be able to shoot around.
  • 16 August 2020 : So like, are any other medics at the point where they keep full bleed kits, trauma sheers, & a tourniquet on them at all times? Cause I’m just waiting to get shot at or watch people get shot at this point. Idk if it’ll be uniformed fash or what but...the block feels HOT. 👀🤷🏽‍♀️🥶
  • 16 August 2020 : If you want some dope education & a BIPOC centered abolitionist space, come join us over @ MxM Bloc PDX! Intentionally gender inclusive & focused on saving space for Black Brown & Indigenous voices. These MxMs & parents inspire me with their dedication! https://www.facebook.com/groups/896919050799851/?ref=share pic.twitter.com/8eC89a0LrT
  • 16 August 2020 : No. He was not. Because cops are exactly as useless as we’ve been saying they are. Which is both infuriating and expected.
  • 16 August 2020 : I used to live around there and I remember when they FIRST started clearing ground on that monstrosity off of 21st. And like A YEAR(??) later when they were finished I looked it up... like fucking 2K+ for tiny spots
  • 16 August 2020 : 😂😂😂😂😂 this is so frustratingly unsurprising. 🙄
  • 16 August 2020 : The amount of major construction the gentrifiers are still moving forward w/ in Portland is enraging considering the fact that we’re quickly sliding into the worst recession since the Great Depression. Nobody’s moving into your bougie fucking buildings. 🙄
  • 16 August 2020 : Read. This. Thread. Real talk. https://twitter.com/kohzkah/status/1294761229785772032
  • 16 August 2020 : #PDX - I need someone who can help pick up/install breaks on the car of the houseless Black, immunocompromised mom I’ve been supporting. Her breaks are completely shot. Her son just had major surgery. They need new breaks ASAP. (& housing offers folks have leads) DMs are open!
  • 16 August 2020 : Yt guy with a pamphlet but no mask on the sidewalk: Do you want to learn about Jesus Christ? Me: No, thank you. I don’t like Jesus. Yt guy: Okay well Jesus loves you very much. Me: Thats fine! lol like sorry dude. My deacon father already traumatized me w/ that shit 🙄
  • 15 August 2020 : Just as a heads up I’m gonna hide your comment cause it comes from an abusive org that got me fired from my nonprofit job so I won’t platform them. But if you wanna make another comment asking if folks want a link DM’d or if anyone will summarize & re-share this info please do!
  • 15 August 2020 : Also took screenshots of all the donations so far! In case we’re hella affective and get it taken down before anyone else can document 💕
  • 15 August 2020 : “So here's the current eviction court schedule with links to view online as well as a dial in option. I've set it up so people can volunteer to listen in & take notes on what's going down. Once we get a grasp on how these are even being scheduled now; we can get onto next steps.” https://twitter.com/grandpawrecksie/status/1294776976050274305
  • 15 August 2020 : I just tagged @RoseCityAntifa @PopMobPDX and @PDXshield in the replies!
  • 15 August 2020 : @IwriteOK @RoseCityAntifa @PopMobPDX @ProudBulba @inafutureage @tuckwoodstock @TheRealCoryElia @betacuck4lyfe @defendpdx @SnackBloc @riotribs @PdxVets @PDXshield @pdxdadpod @pdxlawgrrrl @CR_PDX @carenotcops
  • 15 August 2020 : Hi, yes, hello #PDX community. Remember that guy who drove his truck through the protests in NoPo? Well, his dad set up a gofundme to repair his sons truck because it was “destroyed by rioters”. You know what to do: please mass report it the fuck down. https://www.gofundme.com/f/rioters-destroyed-my-son039s-truck-help?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=m_pd+share-sheet
  • 15 August 2020 : Uhhh, as a sex worker I’m also definitely familiar with extravagant gifts and of course that’s okay because hustleeeeeee
  • 15 August 2020 : I just got kicked out of the “Wall of Moms - International” group that Bev founded and then was put in the hands of a woman named Antoinette. Why? We were having a dialogue around their use of “peaceful” protests, their insistence on emails only for feedback, & lack of clarity.🙃
  • 15 August 2020 : Same woman’s posting about recent pedicures on her page. As if she isn’t a white women who was probably carelessly exposing immigrant folks to dangers and didnt tip better than any leftist. 🙄 Liberal yt women are our oppressors. Constantly “Not me? Okay, cops, fuck em up” vibes
  • 15 August 2020 : Lol imagine being a yt woman w/ this kind of take. As if all the people still out on the streets aren’t locals who were all actively complaining about the flood of people who came from out of state just b/c the Feds were here. Liberals really don’t care about suffering of others https://twitter.com/kaemicha/status/1294536861323390976
  • 15 August 2020 : I need y’all to stop judging abolitionists and socialists and anarchists purely off of how “expensive” their clothes & shit on first sight because like so many people steal things..... 🤷🏽‍♀️
  • 15 August 2020 : heres another great study list broken up by relevant topic including: -the function of police violence -the criminalization of Blackness -history of resistance & uprisings -what is abolition & specifically police abolition +links to other lists! https://www.radicalhistoryreview.org/abusablepast/reading-towards-abolition-a-reading-list-on-policing-rebellion-and-the-criminalization-of-blackness/
  • 15 August 2020 : Yes. 100%. https://twitter.com/emmatsalageek/status/1294417462130335746
  • 15 August 2020 : Anyone, I’m just flexing my *imagination*. 10/10 not a recommendation. Just some imaginings! 🥰
  • 15 August 2020 : Why is this the best gif I’ve ever seen 😭
  • 15 August 2020 : 😂👏🏽🤣
  • 15 August 2020 : I hope you know how much you are loved. If you don’t know, then instead, understand this: As one of Portland’s resident Riot Mxms, I love you. And you matter. And you deserve so much better. 💕 [unless you’re anti-black or a willful oppressor in which case, get fucked.] pic.twitter.com/LCPJfGjcAk
  • 15 August 2020 : Hmmmm.... what happened approximately 13 years ago? 🧐👀🤔 https://twitter.com/kohzkah/status/1294463564057423873
  • 15 August 2020 : You can vote for Mark Charles 👀
  • 15 August 2020 : A good short threads on the use of marches as a tactic! https://twitter.com/mskellymhayes/status/1294318602162769921
  • 15 August 2020 : Imagine a paint bloc but it’s actually just a bunch of ppl in perfect, anonymous bloc who show up @ night, stand behind the shield wall, & lob paint balloons at officers eye guards/masks. 15 points for decommissioning gear due to poor visibility. 50 for jamming weapons w/paint! https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1294146899646148608
  • 14 August 2020 : As one of my friends just said, “the CoVID test is kind like [eurethral] sounding but for your face.” Only look up what sounding is if you’re 18+.... 😅
  • 14 August 2020 : 2008 was the first year I could vote. I’d just spent my senior year in an AP US Govt class. After a year of collegiate level ed about the US Govt—as an 18y/o black kid I didn’t vote for Obama. Even then I knew representation ain’t worth shit. Still ain’t. Abolition or bust. https://twitter.com/brownblaze/status/1293686399518912512
  • 14 August 2020 : Some reading material! https://twitter.com/sladeofyaupon/status/1294045203523936257
  • 14 August 2020 : Folks in this subthread seem like they’d be interested in supporting this effort. Making this tweet to encourage folks to connect & organize autonomously. Then you can just publish info for the public in a google doc/spreadsheet? @GrandpaWrecksie https://twitter.com/grandpawrecksie/status/1294380723923595264?s=21 https://twitter.com/grandpawrecksie/status/1294380723923595264
  • 14 August 2020 : Really considering lately where the most effective place to put my labor is for the sake of the movement, community educations needs, and forward momentum in this moment of collective organizing for total liberation. Especially b/c we need decentralized movements not champions.
  • 14 August 2020 : I’m excited to get to the halfway point, review my color coded notes, and use the analysis and language offered to create a reading comprehension/analysis breakdown worksheet! Also excited to make some graphics breaking down some of the more academic ideas presented.
  • 14 August 2020 : I’ve been reading, highlighting, note-taking and analyzing Afropessimism. I cannot stress enough how validating reading this book has been. It’s also provided me an opportunity to learn language to describe some of the thoughts & ideas I’ve already had/been considering. 🥰✊🏽🖤
  • 14 August 2020 : Whats Dans Twitter so we can bully him too? 🙄 https://twitter.com/Oregonian/status/1294077867836530692
  • 14 August 2020 : What courtroom do people have to go to in #PDX for evictions? Whether its landlords filing to evict tenants or tenants showing up to fight evictions. Do those two things happen in the same building or different buildings? We need to prep to shut those courts down. Where they at?
  • 13 August 2020 : Okay but I also am a gay depressed queer with an ed 😭 i just wanted y’all to feel seen 😅
  • 13 August 2020 : RT @brujacontumbao: Ava DuVernay is not the revolution, is not on the grounds with us, and is not at the most risk with us. She doesn’t hav…
  • 13 August 2020 : the revolution is actually just 80% depressed, gay queers with eating disorders. change my mind.....
  • 13 August 2020 : Portland’s Business Improvement Distracts (BIDs) are just anti-poverty, capitalist safe havens.... with no consideration for how the exploitative businesses that protect and strongarm the BIDs are the cause of so much local suffering and inequity. https://twitter.com/gordonrfriedman/status/1293953028312059905
  • 13 August 2020 : Because Merica honestly. The calls for disarmament came in strong after they killed a Black man named #JasonWashington on campus.
  • 13 August 2020 : I have not put pants on all day. This makes me feel content.
  • 13 August 2020 : medicine. power. warrior. https://twitter.com/iwriteok/status/1293782609030287360
  • 13 August 2020 : Here’s the account to block: https://twitter.com/Redfrog001?s=21
  • 13 August 2020 : Please go block the account @/redfrog001 please! It belongs to the suspected PDX bomber. You can report any handful of his tweets as you block. I’ll post a link to his profile in the replies so y’all can block easier! https://twitter.com/defendpdx/status/1293833128545357826 pic.twitter.com/EGjo6edbWk
  • 13 August 2020 : You’re not the only one who asked! I understand the impulse tho!
  • 13 August 2020 : https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1293807808639508481?s=21 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1293807808639508481
  • 13 August 2020 : I saw this de-arrest on a twitch stream which was both convenient to watch and terrifying to witness. The data mining possible through combined footage like that... Anyway, if I had video I wouldn’t share it. Why would I blast the face of someone who evaded the cops?? Or helped?
  • 13 August 2020 : WE OUTNUMBER THE COPS. DONT LET THEM DETAIN AND TRANSPORT COMRADES. Hey #PDXprotest attendees, y’all can take a lesson from the folks in Bend who held it down all day surrounding a detainment vehicle! Hold the line and pull your comrades back in. #dearrest #resist #peoplepower
  • 13 August 2020 : OH MY FUCKING GOD THAT DE-ARREST THAT JUST HAPPENED DOWNTOWN WAS BEAUTIFUL! Solo cop is walking someone towards the police line. Solo protestor with a shield ran up & pushed in between. Didn’t free the comrade but then like 4-5 ppl joined & got them free! & cop jogged back! 👏🏽👏🏽
  • 13 August 2020 : Whoever is downtown with the squeaky toy right next to one of the live streamers at the shield wall... that’s a good little psy-ops touch if the cops can hear it cause it’s already ringing in my head 🙃😂
  • 13 August 2020 : Updates from Bend, Oregon! https://twitter.com/emilycureton/status/1293797196291166209
  • 13 August 2020 : “I care not for your likes,” - the great wizard Merlin
  • 13 August 2020 : So like can we have a group chat and start up the whole cross-national coordinated organizing thing or......? Cause like we got the strongest solidarity and shared struggles according to our twitter interactions 😂😭😖
  • 13 August 2020 : Being a part of the Portland organizing community is like having to do the worst group project assignment ever but you can only communicate via word of mouth in a huge game of Telephone. What I’m saying is, it’s hell.
  • 13 August 2020 : Well, I sure would like to eliminate capitalism first seeing as enforced poverty, manufactured scarcity, and class warfare are the age old causes of so much “criminality” for the sake of survival. Not to mention the effects of inherited wealth versus multigenerational poverty.. https://twitter.com/SearchCz/status/1293760708274946048
  • 13 August 2020 : All summer long actually...... https://twitter.com/desh0la/status/1293586254077059072
  • 13 August 2020 : https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1293409481095647234?s=20
  • 13 August 2020 : Two hours left on this poll and lots of really fantastic discussion in the replies! https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1293415122023505922
  • 13 August 2020 : I just want to say that I’m not against looting in any way shape or form because buildings don’t bleed but the pockets of the rich sure do need to.... Forever proud of those kids who mobbed that huge ass chain store, unarmed, and all at once and all just grabbed whole displays😂
  • 13 August 2020 : Voting for or against local initiatives can be harm reduction. Voting for representatives in the two party system is an opportunity to choose your oppressor aka opponent. I’m not voting within the two party system. But I’m voting for universal preschool. This shits nuanced imo
  • 12 August 2020 : Alternatively, if anyone wants to let me borrow a STARZ login, I would be much obliged.
  • 12 August 2020 : @netflix needs to stop fucking around already and put all six seasons of Good Times in their catalogue. It’s #BlackAugust and I demand to spend my time with Florida and Michael Evans and the absolute queen that is Ms. Willona Woods. pic.twitter.com/XY2AVyl7Qm
  • 12 August 2020 : That’s what started this! And I only didn’t use that term because of the connections to the mental health system that’s also hella colonized. But specifically we were talking about Stockholm!
  • 12 August 2020 : That’s funny I got in a whole twitter argument on exactly this today. 🙃 My response was probably similar to yours.
  • 12 August 2020 : Where do you think fear of the word “abolition” actually comes from? On a subconscious level? B/c I’m talking to friends about characteristics of Stockholm syndrome & defense against the idea of abolition in regards to the US govt specifically & im curious what y’all think...
  • 12 August 2020 : Jk, update, it will say: my moral obligations will always be to the people. never the state.
  • 12 August 2020 : ooooh. “my moral obligations will always be to the people. never the state”
  • 12 August 2020 : Of course I’d update with a picture here once finished. 💕
  • 12 August 2020 : If you‘d like to send me funds to help me get “I have no moral obligation to the United States of America” tattoed on my chest by a rad, antifascist comrade who could really use the money, I would appreciate donations & the access will go to mutual aid. http://cash.me/$abolitionactually
  • 12 August 2020 : Brb crying 😭✊🏽💕
  • 12 August 2020 : I think the difference between #Reform & #Abolition is this: Reformists often work from a nationalist perspective. Abolitionists are generally informed by a global perspective on the oppressive systems at play in the world. Reformists want reprieve. We want liberation. Period
  • 12 August 2020 : https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1293385372051726339?s=21 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1293385372051726339
  • 12 August 2020 : My roommates are freaking out excitedly over a spider on our patio and I feel left out because ew
  • 12 August 2020 : My friend: “If I got this gun, but I never have to use it, that’s the ideal.” One of my partners: “Well, you know, at least they keep well.” My friend: “Yeah *hahah* It’s not fish.” 😂😂☠️☠️😭😭
  • 12 August 2020 : this is not new. its been happening for decades upon decades before, during, and after the obama administration held office. Actually, before trump, the military was too busy sending out drones and slaughtering civilians in the middle east to worry about brutalizing ppl here
  • 12 August 2020 : Y’all should consider voting for Mark Charles if you also refuse to vote for either Joe or Kalamata. #protestvote Please remember to look up, study, & vote for initiatives on your local ballot. The **initiatives** you can influence there are one way to engage in harm reduction.
  • 12 August 2020 : Uhm, I really wish I didn’t have obligations right now cause I’d be ZOOMING OVER. Look at that cheese! And also they have self care supplies and gear to hand out. Tell your friends! #pdxprotest #portland #pdx #portlandprotest #portlandstrong https://twitter.com/bitchwitch20/status/1293363281592119297
  • 12 August 2020 : What if we continued to do community education around the pitfalls of white supremacy and the myriad of ways that they show up in discourse instead of personally defending a cop? The only good cops are dead cops and we can fight against white supremacy instead of defending cops. https://twitter.com/masterwilliams/status/1293284998116769792
  • 12 August 2020 : Also, this just in: if you’re not watching political commercials you’re not paying attention to the important stuff. https://twitter.com/jakerz10/status/1293357170302447616?s=21 https://twitter.com/jakerz10/status/1293357170302447616
  • 12 August 2020 : I’ve literally not seen a single trump commercial this year... for him or against. so I actually have no clue what you’re talking about. Thanks for mansplaining what I literally have or have not seen to me tho.
  • 12 August 2020 : This just in. I’m apparently wrong. Branding and the celebrity culture surrounded the movement aren’t an issue. Apparently the solution all along has been more and better branding. How could I not have understood that... silly little me. https://twitter.com/jakerz10/status/1293348560948219904
  • 12 August 2020 : Actually, just wanted to finish up by saying I’ve literally never even heard of “The Lincoln Group” which means they can’t have *that* good of branding and anything named after a President can’t be pushing any thing close to an abolitionist perspective so uhh...
  • 12 August 2020 : Okay well this clearly shows you don’t want a conversation, you just want to be right. And I know you must be used to that what with the whiteness and masc presentation from your pfp. But uhh, branding isn’t gonna save us. And you are a waste of my time. So like bye.
  • 12 August 2020 : This seems like a very white written tweet. The gop has the benefit of having an entire infrastructure full of funding mechanisms at their disposal called the US government. We can rebrand as much as you want but unless we undermine the system, cointelpro & red-scares will work.
  • 12 August 2020 : The GOP does not have great branding. They do a lot of strong manipulation and fear mongering. The solution to fear mongering from the right isn’t better branding. It’s doing organizing that actively undermines the state, provides for people, and educates them.
  • 12 August 2020 : It’s not a matter of branding and the presentation of it as such is part of the issue imo. It’s the fact of the matter that we are being outorganized. We don’t need better “branding.” We need more community education. We need more accessibility. We need to do more mutual aid.
  • 12 August 2020 : It’s the explicit antiblackness that’s the problem. She is garbage. And she is transphobic. But it’s easy to tell who’s critiquing her actions and who’s critiquing her existence for me. You’re good.
  • 12 August 2020 : this is a good tweet.
  • 12 August 2020 : what are you celebrating, if I might ask?
  • 12 August 2020 : Lmfaooooooooooo.
  • 12 August 2020 : “as necessary” really stands out here. https://twitter.com/portlandpolice/status/1293285653510225924
  • 12 August 2020 : All the liberals celebrating the Kamala Harris announcement & getting ready to slide back into complacency sure are gonna be looking like surprised Pikachu in a few months when the economy still collapses & our global supply chains fall apart even *if* they elect a Black lady VP.
  • 12 August 2020 : Elections come and go as time continues to pass. But the Abolitionist movement remains. Liberation >>>> Representation Now and forever. https://twitter.com/itsdanawhite/status/1293336124845416448
  • 12 August 2020 : I’m not a woman but I do agree that politeness, obedience, and servility are personality traits that protect oppressors & undermine our abilities to imagine a new world.
  • 12 August 2020 : lmao you found the loophole 😂😂😂 but I literally just took dabs and I’m drinking a seltzer rn sooooo
  • 12 August 2020 : 🗣 We don’t need law enforcement in the new world!!! We need community defense. We need competent & equitable supply chains. We need the TOTAL ABOLITION of: -white supremacy -capitalism -colonialism -manufactured scarcity -policing -prisons -borders -ableism -sexism -patriarchy
  • 12 August 2020 : We need to abolish it. And we need to be actively working to undermine and replace it the whole time. This is both. Not either/or. We don’t need law enforcement. We need community defense. We need competent care systems. We need to abolish poverty. We don’t need law enforcement.
  • 12 August 2020 : I have a new personal twitter policy which is this: if we’ve never had an actual conversation & you mention me in a tweet that offers up any opinions on what I “need” to do, I will block you. Idk why y’all think you know what I “need,” but you don’t & that’s not why I’m here.
  • 11 August 2020 : Y’all better fucking behave on my goddamned timeline cause I will block y’all so fucking quick. This tweet is so accurate. But also it’s nice to know what “leftists” I should block that’re still anti-Black af... 😑 https://twitter.com/aiukliafrika/status/1293284250041622529
  • 11 August 2020 : We still are gonna need to deconstruct these colonial, white supremacist systems of oppression. We still need to give the land back. We still need to abolish policing. We still need to decriminalize human migration. No cops. No prisons. No borders. No idols. Total abolition.
  • 11 August 2020 : I’m legit not ready for the return to “but there’s a black person in the White House so it’s all better now” days of the movement. I need it to be clear that even if Joe & Harris win this: we’re still gonna be in the streets & demanding change because the whole system IS garbage.
  • 11 August 2020 : The democrats were really like “we heard you hate cops so we’re happy to announce that the white man who we want to run the country has chosen to still run alongside a cop - but she’s Black!!” This is bullshit. I feel bad for her ancestors. They must be so mad. Fuck this.
  • 11 August 2020 : I’m not ready for kalamata olive discourse on https://twitter.com for the next three fucking months. 🙃
  • 11 August 2020 : Especially because parents that don’t have to work themselves into the ground just to be able to afford childcare will have more time to spend with their families, but also more time to spend talking to us about getting involved in the movement against capitalism/white supremacy.
  • 11 August 2020 : What local initiative are you excited to vote for on the November ballot to combat inequity through policy as a means of harm reduction while continuing to fight to dismantle the entire system? For me? I’m excited to vote for @UPNOW2020 .
  • 11 August 2020 : I quit lol but good try.
  • 11 August 2020 : Lmfao fuck this is amazing
  • 11 August 2020 : I miss doing sex work. Desperately.
  • 11 August 2020 : One time I said “I hate yt vegans” & my yt woman coworker got on some “not all vegans” bs. So I let her know my boyfriend is a yt vegan b4 she apologized for taking it personal Now she’s aligned herself with our boss instead of fellow union workers. Anyways, I hate yt vegans.
  • 11 August 2020 : Where does “PPB spokesperson Officer” Derek Carmon live? What’s his duty history? We gotta start naming, shaming, & psy-op-ing these cops ASAP. They’re so tired. What do you do when cops are already working overtime? Give them nightmares. Make them feel SEEN & KNOWN. https://twitter.com/pnwresistance/status/1293006830495387648
  • 11 August 2020 : The project I’m working on right now is for something specific that everybody will see on Wednesday 👀 but here’s a little Saturn I tattooed on my leg recently and a friends weird little pig dog! pic.twitter.com/1F6qpNwDjH
  • 11 August 2020 : I am making art and it feels good.
  • 11 August 2020 : Community education through interpersonal circles on an internet platform is still community education.
  • 10 August 2020 : High as shit now and daydreaming of warm summer flash storms and reminiscing out loud... “I miss summer storms. They’re so nice. And warm. But strong. It’s like being rained on with bubble bath water.” 😂
  • 10 August 2020 : I miss summer storms 😭😭😭😭😭 https://twitter.com/_charlespreston/status/1292932447865393154
  • 10 August 2020 : when colonialism, capitalism, global supply chains, city infrastructure & the ecosystem are all collapsing @ the same time & you see new disaster footage every 6.5 minutes on your TL & you can feel yourself becoming slowly desensitized to the trauma so you stare at ur phone like: pic.twitter.com/1qrws3NZQT
  • 10 August 2020 : I have no words tbh....
  • 10 August 2020 : More details here: https://twitter.com/baltimoresun/status/1292870367061712896?s=21 https://twitter.com/baltimoresun/status/1292870367061712896
  • 10 August 2020 : i wanna tattoo “first how dare you speak to me” on the side of my head. it perfectly encapsulates the vibe 2020 has helped me to grow into. https://twitter.com/inafutureage/status/1292898827553259520
  • 10 August 2020 : My family is safe, btw. Just understandably shaken up.
  • 10 August 2020 : I just realized that today I am exactly one month into my 26th revolution around the sun on this floating, spinning dumpster fire of a planet and I have to say that I’m thoroughly impressed with the amount of fuckery the universe has thrown at me since my personal new year 🙃🥴
  • 10 August 2020 : Welp, my first grade teacher just marked himself safe from the “Baltimore Gas Explosion” on Facebook considering the explosion happened super close to where I grew up... so like, uhh, what the fuck else does Monday the 10th have for me?
  • 10 August 2020 : 😑 i stayed under 13.4 for so long after the mass exodus from my angry tweeting about white people
  • 10 August 2020 : A full thread on the aggressive state suppression tactics being thrown against a 20 year old Black woman and non-violent organizer in San Luis Obispo, CA. She’s facing 15 years! Read the thread to learn how to help! Hoping @DAMikeSchmidt can denounce this DA’s clear targeting! https://twitter.com/racheltietz/status/1291855753628680192
  • 10 August 2020 : #PDXDEFENSE - Positive Update for the community: Demetria Hester is out of the cage the state put her in!!
  • 10 August 2020 : You know, while you wait you could...... 💧💧💧
  • 10 August 2020 : A video of me drinking water from a Gatorade bottle while sitting in a blue chair and wearing a black T-shirt that says “Listen Decolonize & Heal” on it. During the video, I am audibly gulping before turning to the camera and saying “Ahh” while sticking my tongue out & smirking. pic.twitter.com/b6oRVORaWP
  • 10 August 2020 : Hey, you. Drink more water. I will right now, too. Cause that’s self care. And your body deserves it. And you deserve it. Thanks for hydrating with me! 💕✨💧
  • 10 August 2020 : Unbelievable literally refreshing the feed and seeing minutes old updates from #Seattle and #Chicago and knowing what happened in #Tampa yesterday and in #Detroit . Not to exclude and #Belarus ... This is a GLOBAL uprising against a fascist, white supremacist, global issue
  • 10 August 2020 : For everyone asking where the daytime organizing is happening during the uprising, check my last few retweets. Because the answer is, all over the world. It’s just a lot harder to hide violence in the daylight so it mass media doesn’t touch it. Which is why we need each other.
  • 10 August 2020 : Solidarity to community members on the ground in Chicago demanding justice and refusing to let their anger, their grief, and their demands be silenced. #AbolishThePolice #NoCopsNoPrisons #TotalAbolition #DisarmThePolice #Chicago #PDX #CHI https://twitter.com/blmchi/status/1292890955583049730
  • 10 August 2020 : 😭🙌🏽😫
  • 10 August 2020 : get it? reign? europe? colonizers? 😊
  • 10 August 2020 : Some people really do let the colonizer just JUMP out of their blood without any reasonable attempt at personal restraint. Like, damn. You really couldn’t even reign it in a *little* before vomiting Europe all over the floor? It’s like you’re not even aiming for the garbage...
  • 10 August 2020 : In the year of our lord 2020, there has to be a better way to sustainably build and maintain the infrastructure of walls than “sugar ants”. Personally, I don’t accept this.
  • 10 August 2020 : #DefendPDX - Join Letha & other community members, loved ones, & neighbors as we continue to demand accountability from the racist, killer cops in the Portland Police Bureau & all the cops continuing to support the institution that cultivated & protects these murderers. Share! https://twitter.com/thorncoyle/status/1292873381885308928
  • 10 August 2020 : @SoundsnColor They won’t show up cause they’re too busy defending empty buildings from “arson” attempts.
  • 10 August 2020 : what the fuck is even happening anymore.... 🥴 i would like off of this rollercoaster someone dragged me onto. (this is a subtweet about literally every fucking aspect of my life rn so don’t think too hard about it. it might be about you, but you wouldn’t be alone)
  • 10 August 2020 : Lmao I literally just mean in Portland, Oregon in 3 hours.... not even considering anything else which I could not track because of the juggling early this morning.
  • 10 August 2020 : wait, what?
  • 10 August 2020 : big oof. https://twitter.com/aiukliafrika/status/1292852224570392583
  • 10 August 2020 : accurate.
  • 10 August 2020 : The best way to imagine the life of a #PDX organizer is as a supporting character in the worst tv show ever. Picture: The “Real World” Series + Portlandia + The cringiest version of a western telanovella you can imagine + all cops think they’re the “bad cops” from Brooklyn99
  • 10 August 2020 : How do so many different fucking things happen in just three and a half hours on a Monday morning during the collapse of capitalism & an international pandemic ALL BEFORE 10 AM?!?!
  • 10 August 2020 : I have gotten so much shit done. 😈
  • 10 August 2020 : I love the process of design and layout for print. I hate the process of design and layout for websites. It is visceral. And unyielding.
  • 10 August 2020 : Good thread on tonight! https://twitter.com/1misanthrophile/status/1292680808700866560
  • 10 August 2020 : While I align mostly with your message, I don’t quite think your language here is effective. Or we disagree more than I realize. But like, weed is often medicinal. We really need to discuss recreational drug use being a security risk more than anything else. Autonomy but still
  • 10 August 2020 : I’d rather people stay home to drink. Are you kidding? Drinking can be really helpful as a stress reliever for folks. Myself included. But nights I want a glass of wine or three? I stay at home. So I don’t put myself or my community at risk. Hold the line. Don’t drink on it.
  • 10 August 2020 : Oops, heard of *them I believe.
  • 10 August 2020 : I also know this isn’t worth a big discussion. Here’s a thread on why y’all should just unfollow and block Elle Stanger on all their accounts. They’ve been gaslighting ppl & weaponizing their yt femme tears for a long time. Read more here. Then block. https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1270093677088501760?s=21 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1270093677088501760
  • 10 August 2020 : Okay, but jk y’all. While I would like the validation because when yt femmes who call themselves a part of the movement but have huge platforms & weaponize them against Black abolitionist organizers it’s toxic & reminds me of when their followers got my SW account shut down...
  • 10 August 2020 : I sure do wish @ellestanger would follow their own advice from 3 weeks ago & “focus on BLM” instead of vomiting my name out their mouth again last week. They’re a skinny, yt femme who claims I’m not trustworthy & wants 123k people to compare our work: y’all ever heard of her?🤔 pic.twitter.com/qhhos7eKrj
  • 10 August 2020 : But it *feels* like a subtweet... 🤔
  • 10 August 2020 : Yes. Read them. Please.
  • 10 August 2020 : The link below is full of reminders I’ve compiled for protestors that’re real important to take a look at. Seriously y’all! This is crucial stuff that we really need to educate on. ⬇️ #uprisings2020 #pdxprotest #mutualaid #listenup #communityeducation https://pin.it/7Dpgu7o
  • 10 August 2020 : #DEFENDPDX Folks who are organizing jail support are mobilizing to Nathan Chapman park. They have a specific need for portable phone chargers. Meet there Other ideas for things to bring: -food/snacks -water or hot coffee/tea to share -chairs/blankets -socks -blankets -cigs tbh https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1292720614080311296
  • 10 August 2020 : Nobody owns the movement. Not a single soul. This is the people’s movement. And Demetria is a well-respected, courageous, brave and beloved member of it who needs our support. Now is exactly the time for electeds to use their voice. It’s past time. Which is why we all fight.
  • 10 August 2020 : Lit drop I mentioned above can be found in the replies to the below tweet: https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1283995727031488513?s=21 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1283995727031488513
  • 10 August 2020 : (But also don’t speak over and recognize that conversations about these topics need trauma informed approaches.) We did a lit drop on info about tactics & theory recently. Can we get links to zines & info on harm reduction and trauma informed care for comrades.
  • 10 August 2020 : Also, let’s talk about how many meetings y’all used to host at bars... Also, let’s talk about creating more sober spaces and more sobering spaces for our community members. Let’s normalize courage to discuss safety concerns w/ our comrades who are also users/drinkers. Speak up.
  • 10 August 2020 : Yes, don’t drink & riot. PLEASE. Also, let’s start having more intentional conversations about harm reduction, trauma responses, the density of the most traumatized in our movement spaces, & the historical ways alcohols been pushed onto communities. Harm redux in PDX? Links?⬇️ https://twitter.com/zombie_xvx/status/1292728173055148033
  • 10 August 2020 : i should have used this emoji for comrades 🤝 i try to stay up to date with what’s the cool joke format on twitter but it’s usually a bit late. my apologies...
  • 10 August 2020 : @sabotagebeats no heroes 🙅🏽‍♀️ only comrades 🥰 #killyouridols 🥀 #includingme ✨💕🌹
  • 10 August 2020 : And here’s the beginning of the full thread on thorough pre-action preparations including jail support, personal risk assessments, and more: https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1282525616458223616?s=21 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1282525616458223616
  • 10 August 2020 : Specific tweet about jail support: https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1282528767068393475?s=21 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1282528767068393475
  • 10 August 2020 : Personally, I know that what I’d be craving after that experience (smooth, medium roast black coffee & a light green pack of American spirits) & I know that not everyone is going to be comforted by that. Please make sure to tell each other how you feel best supported! #pdx
  • 10 August 2020 : Also! Here’s a hot tip about JAIL SUPPORT FORMS! #PDX I’ll drop a link below to my first explanation post on jail support forms & what you should include on it. But also make sure to include notes for your comrades on what you’d like waiting @ the jailhouse steps upon release!
  • 10 August 2020 : Other things to bring are extra: -socks -blankets -sleeping bags etc for comrades willing to spend the night until all are free and/or for houseless comrades coming to support. Bring coffee or tea to share. Something warm to stay comfy thru the night. I like coloring books!
  • 10 August 2020 : Jail support is crucial b/c it’s the beginning sproutlings of the exact kind of RADICAL COMMUNITY CARE that we need to give to our neighbors & comrades. We can’t just deconstruct the state. We have to out organize it too. But showing our comrades love? Easy. Y’all got this. #pdx
  • 10 August 2020 : We need you out in force to support and protect our comrades while the state dumps them on the street after traumatizing them personally. We need this NIGHTLY. Bring snacks/water. A book or speaker. A flashlight. Someone could play an audiobook on movement history. Bond. Stay.
  • 10 August 2020 : Hearing reports that jail support is are already beginning @ Chapman park. To folks on the ground @ the scene standing against the state, I encourage y’all to hold the line. To folks avail & comfortable to go to Chapman, be there. As long as you can to hold space. We need you.
  • 10 August 2020 : https://twitter.com/cairoregon/status/1292714530452041731?s=21 https://twitter.com/cairoregon/status/1292714530452041731
  • 10 August 2020 : Demetria Hester HAS been arrested. In other cities they have a routine where they use the crowd to surround the vehicle arrestees are detained in and HOLD THE LINE to prevent them from being taken hostage by the state. It’s worked before. It could work here... #DefendPDX https://twitter.com/pdocumentarians/status/1292711958488076289
  • 10 August 2020 : it really do come for you at home like that too.
  • 10 August 2020 : Do I believe in an eternal sleep after death? Not really, but I don’t know. Do I dream of an eternal sleep after death? Absolutely, yes, I do.
  • 10 August 2020 : I keep telling people I’m putting on weight to survive state repression but really I’ve just finally started listening to my own advice & I eat as my body asks & now I have extra thicc thighs & a cute lil tummy & im just tryna get ahead of people pointing out I’m gaining weight. https://twitter.com/thekingofreads/status/1292124513598091266
  • 10 August 2020 : Omfg we’re talking about my smiley piercing and not a person or being btw sorry I’m dramatic and high. Just as a heads up.
  • 10 August 2020 : The legacy smiley deserves 🙌🏽 https://twitter.com/laporco/status/1292633919351750656
  • 10 August 2020 : There’s lots. I’ll send you a few. Shoot me a dm sometime soon to remind me? 🙏🏽 pic.twitter.com/1TW4VEzIOl
  • 10 August 2020 : Forreal forreal. 😭 I had that piercing for so long, it fell out while I was leading a chant mid march, & closed up before we even got settled downtown & I could put on sterile gloves 😩☠️😇✌🏽
  • 10 August 2020 : some of y’all *act 🙃🙄😅 I should not be allowed to shitpost while this stoned tbh.
  • 10 August 2020 : I really really miss my smiley piercing and it still fucks me up how ungrateful some of y’all when I sacrificed the entire identity I had built around that one piercing cause I wanted to get away from cops on burnside & like 10k of y’all followed me across a bridge. RIP smiley.
  • 10 August 2020 : Oh I have a sailor moon sticker for you somewhere. It’s a bunny.
  • 10 August 2020 : oh, y’all only started doing this after the pandemic started...? 🤔😐🥴 cuz, uh, yeah, like me too! hahah like I totally haven’t had queer performance anxiety (QPA) my whole life or anything... 😬 https://twitter.com/gendereveal/status/1292559353849905152
  • 10 August 2020 : Portland protestors could learn something from watching this.... 👀 Two things actually. International awareness as a means to continue to practice global solidarity. And also, tactical strategies from the cops that could be weaponized against the.... https://twitter.com/joshuapotash/status/1292597934253629442
  • 10 August 2020 : I have absolutely no context for this video and I think it’s better that way tbh 🙃 https://twitter.com/nicosuavehh/status/1292610498253459457
  • 10 August 2020 : Your caption is the only thing that got me to watch this. 😂
  • 10 August 2020 : Because, to be clear, as someone who is *invisibly* disabled w/ a mostly manageable issue, I’m fucking exhausted begging y’all to stop being ableist. And my level of functioning is generally seen as acceptably “normal” for w/e that’s worth. So it’s easier for me. But fuck y’all.
  • 10 August 2020 : I can’t even imagine how consistently exhausted Disabled communities must be en masse when it comes to telling us to stop being ableist in our everyday convos. Please work to remove these from ur vocabulary & work w/ ur friends to stay on it: -dumb -lame -stupid -idiot -dumbass
  • 10 August 2020 : Hi, yes, please may I join? I just bought this book; can we all read it together? pic.twitter.com/QMNduh448A
  • 9 August 2020 : We protect us. Share this info! https://twitter.com/pnwresistance/status/1292214538448773120
  • 9 August 2020 : Thats literally not how trauma responses work though....
  • 9 August 2020 : @KOINNews y’all got a statement prepped or what? https://twitter.com/defendpdx/status/1292368792631164929
  • 9 August 2020 : What about the nearby residents who don’t speak English? What about Deaf and Hard of Hearing community members who are there and who you fail to communicate with? What about Disabled community members who are moving as fast as they can to avoid your violence? What about houseless https://twitter.com/portlandpolice/status/1292374885033897984
  • 9 August 2020 : The people of Lebanon and Beirut have been on the ground for 9 months straight. They been fighting for their lives on the streets for months now. There’s literally people doing surgical operations on the sidewalks. This is both a movement and a moment in motion.
  • 9 August 2020 : An update that I skimmed. But uhh, ya have phone with this one. Cause he’s gonna “make me famous” apparently. https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1291938420646744064 pic.twitter.com/M9yfZpGYUL
  • 8 August 2020 : If there’s genuine confusion that I can help clear up feel free to ask a specific question. Genuinely hope my analysis can always be cleared up & made more accessible to more folks if it’s just a need to be rephrase or elaborated on.
  • 8 August 2020 : I cannot stress enough that if you’re rolling with the same 15-20 people on a nightly basis then y’all should quietly get together in a field somewhere and start practicing drilling and communication terms. You know like formations drills...in a leaderless affinity group...
  • 8 August 2020 : Greater projectiles protection. But less visibility. This could be countered by making sure everyone under the roof has a walkie talkie & that there are “field commanders” of sort to communicate enemy momvement. Two sets of channels rotating frequencies throughout the night. https://twitter.com/damnrobber/status/1292231662554685440
  • 8 August 2020 : Greater projectiles protection. But less visibility. This could be countered by making sure everyone under the roof has a walkie talkie & that there are “field commanders” of sort to communicate enemy momvement. Two sets of channels rotating frequencies throughout the night.
  • 8 August 2020 : Whats the trade off between mirrors on the front of shields versus glass in the streets when the cops shatter them... Y’all could wrap emergency blankets around the front of the shields to reflect their lights back at them. Omg or chalkboard paint with psy ops messages on front? https://twitter.com/derangedgod117/status/1292227966169231360
  • 8 August 2020 : Lmfaoooooo
  • 8 August 2020 : Awh, he musta blocked me before he made that response. Shame. Anyone gotta screenshot? I’m curious.
  • 8 August 2020 : Sitting in the car & I hear a radio commercial for fucking BOTTLED WATER: What they say: “At @ArrowheadWater we don’t just collect spring water” What they mean: “At Arrowhead, we don’t just privatize natural survival resources the earth provides freely for capitalistic gain”
  • 8 August 2020 : this is a good reminder to water my plants.... 🥺🤓🙃 https://twitter.com/workingoncrying/status/1292010378034065410
  • 8 August 2020 : As if poor & working class Black/Brown/Native families aren’t the primary recruiting target of the industrial military complex because of their financial interests in sacrificing swaths of non-White lives to continually destabilize the poor & working class with trauma & harm. 🙄 https://twitter.com/owne_t/status/1292213946263298048
  • 8 August 2020 : Both my parents are army vets bud & got plenty of first hand stories about interpersonal abuse protected by the military apparatus, not to mention the entire attitude of American exceptionalism that pervades the military. I got recruited by every branch b/c legacy. Fuck off.
  • 8 August 2020 : If you think the US military isn’t watching/learning exactly what a “governmental agency” can get away with then ur desperately wrong & idk how to convey to you the seriousness of the moment. Endless solidarity to Lebenese folx who’ve been in the streets for NINE MONTHS already! https://twitter.com/asaadhannaa/status/1292155570716389384
  • 8 August 2020 : I’m really just sitting here thinking about the number of conversations I had with former employees at @JwJpdx that were just us trying to figure out wtf @WillLayng wanted from us & feeling crazy b/c even when we asked him directly, he never had a fucking straight answer. Wild.
  • 8 August 2020 : Thread: https://twitter.com/viv___________/status/1292053713998229504
  • 8 August 2020 : Did you read this thread or are you also trying to waste my time?
  • 8 August 2020 : The entire @JwJpdx structure is incompatible with that vision explicitly because of the classism, white supremacy, misogynoir & patriarchal bullshit built into the infrastructure of the org by the mostly cis-white men founders & a primarily cishet, white board.
  • 8 August 2020 : @JwJpdx is an absolute disgrace to the vision of a *non-white supremacist* Labor movement that is truly prepared to unite the proletariat with radically inclusive and trauma informed worker analysis. @SmileyJWJ & @jwjnational have a beautiful vision & great team. Support them.
  • 8 August 2020 : One time @WillLayng told me I couldn’t make a bar graph showing # of ppl killed by different public service sectors b/c we shouldn’t directly compare cops to teachers & workers like that. Why? Basically cuz cowardly big labor unions who still validate cop unions would be big mad.
  • 8 August 2020 : When I talk about the LAYERS of fucking traditionally undervalued, feminized types of emotional labor I had to do at that job. 😬 Like the constant work of code switching. Not to mention make my language classist enough that my boss could understand it. Not to mention yt labor!
  • 8 August 2020 : Literally this white ass man came up to my desk on some “oh by the way we have this meeting today that we’re hoping you could be at even though it’s your first day” & I was like “sure!” Only to be the sole Black person from the org in the room as I was told how awful it is. Lol
  • 8 August 2020 : Literally, my first day, my boss threw me—unannounced or prepped for—into a THREE HOUR “Equity & Inclusion” meeting (partially led by a white person 🙄) to show me the 8 months of feedback from BIPOC about how they felt pushed out, tokenized, & abused in the last 3 years. Like tf
  • 8 August 2020 : That nonprofit either should not exist since it’s consistently TRAUMTIZING BIPOC and NBPOC for literal years. Or it should finally be under BIPOC LEADERSHIP across the board & the system can’t be allowed to be weaponize against BIPOC trying to heal that nightmare institution.
  • 8 August 2020 : Again, I HATE NONPROFITS AND THE INDUSTRIAL NONPROFIT COMPLEX. That being said, I’d be willing to chop my soul into pieces & throw it into the pit to become the ED of JWJ so we could do the hard work of radicalizing the way that nonsensical infrastructure is built & maintained
  • 8 August 2020 : The industrial nonprofit complex is a goddamned nightmare. The resources my old nonprofit is misusing and wasting that could be directly benefiting the community...? Countless. The lack of organization? Ridiculous. The constant inability to answer the simple question, “why?” 😑
  • 8 August 2020 : Like, how you gonna be a single white person giving an exit interview and not even be able to answer the question, “For the sake of transparency & direct communication of my interview to the board investigating the ED who made me suicidal, is it okay if we record this?” Like...
  • 8 August 2020 : I have never had my time & energy more consistently disrespected than every single time I’ve ever engaged with @JwJpdx — from my entire tenureship as an employee to the embarassing exit interview I just had to cancel because people are not fucking prepared to answer basic shit 🙄
  • 8 August 2020 : So I can use it as an example to not have to type more than once 🤷🏽‍♀️
  • 8 August 2020 : Bullshit to NOT slide into my inbox with lmfao. The entitlement y’all feel towards my time and attention sometime is WILD. 😅 And this person tried to slide into my inbox offering their psychologist skills to help with my mental health. 😂 LIKE WTF IS WRONG WITH YALL. pic.twitter.com/LdnCuV9dBH
  • 7 August 2020 : Again, for upside down and on my own body, this whole practicing thing is going pretty well ❤️🪐 [A photo of a calf and foot featuring a small line-work Saturn tattoo visible above the ankle. In the background you can see concrete sidewalk and plants.] pic.twitter.com/dectcvWg47
  • 7 August 2020 : I want my headstone to read “popularized the destruction of the United States of America” #RIPME #legacy https://twitter.com/nitabug0107/status/1291556010818248705
  • 7 August 2020 : Right? Like Lincoln ain’t do any real shit either? 🤷🏽‍♀️ He just wasn’t ready for that war forreal forreal. 👀
  • 7 August 2020 : That’s what they said about Rome too but, uhhh...... 🤷🏽‍♀️ Okay, Karen. https://twitter.com/nitabug0107/status/1291556010818248705
  • 6 August 2020 : Make your own tweet about what part of #ThePeoplesInfrastructure you want to see rebuilt & how you think we can de-colonize that system & I’ll retweet/boost you! Then we can start connecting with the people we share common passions with & expand the community conversation. https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1291503033642229760
  • 6 August 2020 : Make your own tweet about what part of #ThePeoplesInfrastructure you want to see rebuilt and how you think we can de-colonize that system and I’ll retweet/boost you! Then we can start connecting with the people we share common passions with & expand the community conversation.
  • 6 August 2020 : Can we make this a trend? What part of #ThePeoplesInfrastructure are you most interested in helping us to rebuild in the Decolonized world we want to see? I’m interested in building competent systems of harm reduction & care for traumatized BIPOC youth. Use the hashtag & share!
  • 6 August 2020 : What we need is less money invested into electing representatives that look like us to engage in a system overwhelmingly built to sustain our oppression. Instead we need community visionaries/organizers to help build decentralized care networks We need #ThePeoplesInfrastructure
  • 6 August 2020 : And to be clear, we actually don’t need to wait for the current constitution to be rightfully disavowed before we start to build the world we want to see. It’s vital that we do the work NOW to build the sustainable systems necessary to establish care & survival networks.
  • 6 August 2020 : Oh, 100%.
  • 6 August 2020 : And then we need to compile the wisdom of our most fierce and visionary abolitionists—both living and departed— to establish the infrastructure necessary to build a new and better world with tenants not established by colonial, white slave holders and genocidal “founders.”
  • 6 August 2020 : I love that people who ask me to run for office never seem to understand that I considered that type of engagement seriously, intimately & personally-in depth & at length-before I ever publicly stated that I WON’T run for office. The constitution needs destroyed, not protected.
  • 6 August 2020 : I mean, I’ve felt that way for a while now....
  • 6 August 2020 : When I said I can not recommend QTBIPOC join DSA I meant in general. Not just in Portland. I know or know of QTBIPOC who’ve been both failed and harmed by DSA cross-nationally. This is an infrastructural issue. https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1291474017983987714
  • 6 August 2020 : Also like I didn’t even know that antifa international page existed.... so this is extra funny to me and I’m still laughing about it tbh
  • 6 August 2020 : Can someone translate this from legelase for us common folx? 👀 https://twitter.com/adamsteinbaugh/status/1291446609130250240
  • 6 August 2020 : I’m definitely interested in helping to facilitate these conversations
  • 6 August 2020 : I straight up gave my boyfriend a quarentine fade that I was lowkey proud af of considering I’d never picked up clippers before but like, even I’m not cocky enough to think I could do myself 😅😭 so much respect
  • 6 August 2020 : Okay, like, we’re all done giving interviews to the Oregonian now right? 🙃 because this whole “let’s give Bev a chance to gas light Black people on a larger scale” thing is the proverbial straw on my back 🙄🥴🤮
  • 6 August 2020 : Me, complaining about the occasionally cloudy weather: It’s summer! I shouldn’t need a blanket! This is bullshit! .....I’m happy for all my friends who have to work outside but I’m not happy for me. 🤣😭😫
  • 6 August 2020 : Okay but who’s got referrals to a dope black barber in #PDX who can give me a line-up, fade, and clean part? Cause a bitch is struggling.
  • 6 August 2020 : Same
  • 6 August 2020 : If you block Andy first you can still review his feed so uhhhh, idk why y’all haven’t done this yet. https://twitter.com/matcha_chai/status/1291414131682103297
  • 6 August 2020 : I’m so confused by the intent of tagging me in this? But also, they tagged me, Donny boy, and antifa international? And like, I just...have so many questions. Anita, what is your point? Please? https://twitter.com/nitabug0107/status/1291483974821445632
  • 6 August 2020 : also wanna say its specifically b/c of @WillLayng , Margot Black, Seamus, PTU & a few others that I left @JwJpdx feeling hopelessly suicidal & as tho there would never be any hope defeating classist, white supremacist, colonial systems that protect abusers for money/clout/comfort
  • 6 August 2020 : I mean National is also a mess and there’s so many other chapters dealing with similar bullshit. Nashville DSA for example has a nightmare white male protecting system too. People just need to stop thinking DSA is what will save us cause it’s not.
  • 6 August 2020 : Again, so many loved ones. I can think of about 10-20 absolutely fantastic people with absolutely wonderful analysis that I really trust and am willing to platform or support in organizing. But pay attention to what I boost. It’s intentional. It’s specific.
  • 6 August 2020 : The mediations processes are not set up for success and there is such a large burden of proof and engagement which necessitates excess violence against and energy from victims. Aimee Sitarz can be added to that list of white people who are protected by the system. It’s a mess.
  • 6 August 2020 : White men can weaponize the system. White men can weaponize the system. White men can weaponize the system. Literally white supremacist patriarchal violence abounds & there are plenty of white femmes, queers, and women willing to gaslight BIPOC when they experience harm.
  • 6 August 2020 : Roberts Rules and other colonial types of infrastructure and overly academic engagement structures are not safe for so many people for so many reasons. There’s like no Black people involved. There’s no Black people on the grievance committee. White men can weaponize the system.
  • 6 August 2020 : I have so many dear loved ones that do fantastic work in Portland DSA. But their infrastructure is not safe for BIPOC or disabled comrades or neurodivergent comrades but especially QTBIPOC. If you are QTBIPOC I can not recommend you join DSA. It is not safe for you.
  • 6 August 2020 : Just wanna say it is specifically the fault of Brian Denning, Conrad “no identity politics” Cartmell, & a couple of other racist white men who play patriarchal bullshit silencing games for my departure from Portland DSA. It’s personal. White men are ruining Portland DSA. No cap
  • 6 August 2020 : for legal reasons, I bet that this is a joke.... 👀
  • 6 August 2020 : also I’m not a birthright citizen here so stop asking me to run for office cause even if I wasn’t against it morally, I wouldn’t wanna deal with the birther shit either.
  • 6 August 2020 : I cannot handle another racist birthergate please god. https://twitter.com/heystaceykay/status/1291458334608982016
  • 6 August 2020 : This is a very valid way to answer this question 🤣
  • 6 August 2020 : I will say that personally I accidentally talk about all the “kids and babies” in the streets these days but I actually mean newbies to the movement and it’s both something I’m working on and something I keep slipping up on. 🙃
  • 6 August 2020 : Okay but this really has me thinking like..... I know some of y’all already know the answer to this question and uhhh, for fun you should keep ya mouth shut but: How old do y’all think I am? https://twitter.com/tuckwoodstock/status/1291291980979253249
  • 6 August 2020 : Yo black Twitter is killing me in the goddamned replies yo. My people are funny as fuck😭😭 https://twitter.com/hiphopobama/status/1291352164066041856
  • 6 August 2020 : this may be my favorite thing I’ve seen on the internet in a while 🤣 https://twitter.com/dunhammt/status/1291358683285327875
  • 6 August 2020 : Don’t be mean to yourself or we’ll fight you.
  • 6 August 2020 : I have a family in need of post-surgical in-home patient care, immediate housing support needs, and trauma support. If you can help, my email is lilithxsinclair@protonmail.com or you can slide in my DM’s. #communitysupport #mutuaaid #pdx #portland #portlandprotest #emergencyneed
  • 6 August 2020 : #PDX Are you a local radical social worker or someone who has a trauma informed analysis of how to support folks in need of advocacy for crises support? Because I need your help fucking ASAP & I’d super appreciate anyone DM’ing or emailing me. (BIPOC PREFERRED/lowkey necessary.)
  • 6 August 2020 : Lame is ableist language but I agree she’ll likely be just as feckless, spineless, and loyal to the establishment as old teddy boy
  • 6 August 2020 : @SarahforPDX has officially blocked me on twitter and I think that level of cowardice is fucking hilarious and very telling. I thought Sarah’s whole schtick is that she’s the Ted-hating meme queen of PDX & she feels the need to block me? 😂 like really y’all cape for cowards. pic.twitter.com/lK6ILHa7Zq
  • 6 August 2020 : people who think they wanna be my friend don’t understand that I accidentally live-narrate life sometimes & it often comes out in song & im also super clumsy & I never know when to stfu & I’m actually an *annoyingly* sarcastic cunt to my friends & i go on rants about the race war
  • 6 August 2020 : Two people you need to study if you don’t know about them: Fannie Lou Hamer and Fred Hampton. #BlackAugust Please feel encouraged to drop educational resources on either of them in the replies! You could text a link to your group chat & invite folks to read/listen along.
  • 6 August 2020 : Read it and then re-read it and also remember to share https://twitter.com/breenewsome/status/1291168501600784385
  • 6 August 2020 : i literally *snorted* and cackled at the same time somehow 🤣😭🤪 https://twitter.com/roun_sa_ville/status/1291045099607150592
  • 6 August 2020 : I swear to god that joe Biden is literally BEGGING Black and Indigenous and Immigrant and Jewish people not to vote for him. Like what is the point? https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1291130625739632640
  • 6 August 2020 : I want to make it very clear I’m not organizing any events or actions right now & I’m definitely not in communication with anyone from Forest Grove, Oregon. I’ve been doing direct crises support, education roles, mediation/facilitation help, & mentoring. Heard different? Dm me.
  • 6 August 2020 : Sharing to read later. https://twitter.com/blavity/status/1291162138355077120
  • 5 August 2020 : Most of my replies on a day to day basis tbh 😅
  • 5 August 2020 : 🙋🏽‍♀️🙋🏽‍♀️🙋🏽‍♀️🤓🤓🤓
  • 5 August 2020 : Ahh, yes, the thing that would make me feel better about being alone in private must be being alone in public.... 🧐🤨🙃🥴
  • 5 August 2020 : I fucking hate being home alone lately and that’s such an infuriating thing. Fuck the state. 🙃
  • 5 August 2020 : Can confirm from personal sources that this is true. Both door knocks and raids happening from what I’ve heard reported. Get ready y’all. I’m serious. https://twitter.com/mgbelka/status/1291107724634161152
  • 5 August 2020 : Hello and good afternoon. Here’s a casual reminder that I love you from your friendly, neighborhood Polar Pop. 😘 Here’s to consistently pushing the slowly shifting needle of societal acceptance and common understanding towards the left 🥂 https://twitter.com/slaybeascorpus/status/1291138832146915329
  • 5 August 2020 : PSA to the person who told my Afro-Indigenous ass that savage was a slur like I didn’t use it intentionally 🙃 https://twitter.com/odetomedusa/status/1291028917923454982
  • 5 August 2020 : Wait I meant this one but that’s a great option too: https://open.spotify.com/track/0TBbSKmJ0AiX55d0D7AgrQ?si=3SoJAvwtQA20ONWQ4Gltnw
  • 5 August 2020 : https://open.spotify.com/track/2VP0BXqKrbf3XUnOZFaABQ?si=_VZ_7Jr-QtCgZgydg6L93A
  • 5 August 2020 : TONIGHT! D! J! ComRAD! ON THE MIC FOR THE PEOPLE! Versus The most panicky boi we ever done heard! PPBS DJ “dont thrown oranges at me” LRAD
  • 5 August 2020 : Like, let the DJ LRAD BATTLES BEGIN forreal forreal
  • 5 August 2020 : I’m just saying that if any white person could locate and order an LRAD online to be used by the People I think that would be real fucking cool....
  • 5 August 2020 : Hey so only two of y’all reached out and uhhhh, my apathy flared up a bit so I’m gonna set an actual time and make a graphic about it sometime 💕
  • 5 August 2020 : I think I wanna set up a Jitsi community working call tonight for BIPOC. From like 9:30/10pm PST ‘til whenever. I have a big plan that I’m prepping to launch & there’s plenty of pieces of it that I’m interested in community feedback/support on. If you’re BIPOC & interested DM me!
  • 4 August 2020 : I slept about 16-18 out of 24 hours yesterday and I’m so out of it. I feel jet lagged.
  • 4 August 2020 : I want to say that this was a spontaneous attempt to provide some low level, mediocre support in accessibility of this live feed. These were my observations & summarizations of a lot of audible voices overlapping. Hopefully more context for this somewhere else. Hope this helped.
  • 4 August 2020 : When the cops who detained and transported the kid had retreated farther away, the cops riot line retreated back to their vehicle and drove away. Crowd advanced as they got on their truck. They fired a few rounds of some type of dispersal mechanisms & drove away. Feed ended.
  • 4 August 2020 : A majority of the cop vehicles have driven away. Chants of “No Justice, No Peace” can be heard. A single trucks worth of riot cops stayed holding a line as people asked why they arrested the youth & other cops retreated.
  • 4 August 2020 : “The Wall of Moms is in the back but that’s okay” Someone in the background can be heard yelling out “why are you here?? What did we do??”
  • 4 August 2020 : “We don’t know where the kid is. They wouldn’t read him his rights and we think he’s in one of the police cars” Chants of both “Fuck The Police” and “Quit Your Job” happening.
  • 4 August 2020 : Lots of people visible on this livestream on in “normal, everyday” clothes. As Mac stated early, there’s a few hard hats visible, but most people aren’t blocked up.
  • 4 August 2020 : Currently crowd is chanting “Say Her Name! #BreonnaTalyor “
  • 4 August 2020 : Current chant: “Whose Lives Matter? Black Lives Matter”
  • 4 August 2020 : A few of the chants that have been done while this has been broadcasting: -Read his rights -Dont Say Shit -Hands Up, Dont Shoot -Black Lives Matter -Fuck The Police -(Pigs/Feds??) Go Home
  • 4 August 2020 : “No, were not surrounded. There’s no one behind us. There’s just one line of cops” - Mac on this livestream.
  • 4 August 2020 : The reports from folks on the ground are saying both state and federal police responded in riot gear. Can’t see close enough to corroborate. Just sharing what was said aloud on stream for accessibility.
  • 4 August 2020 : Portland Police are arresting a minor downtown. The cops just brought in reinforcements in riot gear to disperse the crowd that had formed to support the Black youth in custody. https://twitter.com/macsmiff/status/1290522496362524672
  • 3 August 2020 : Not sure! But I’d be surprised if folks aren’t still congregating since it seems that message hasn’t been thoroughly circulated.
  • 3 August 2020 : This is our city. Don’t let clout chasing, white independent reporters support the mass media’s mission of normalizing & uplifting the white co-optation of a local abolitionist movement for Black & Indigenous Liberation. Take back the mic. Get weird PDX. Be louder about BLM.
  • 3 August 2020 : #PortlandProtest #pdx #portland #warcrimeswheeler #teargasted What would y’all do? I feel like you could also set up a table to give food/snacks to local community members. You could also make chalk art around it about BLM & abolishing ALL police. Or give out ppe/zines.
  • 3 August 2020 : Hey #PDXPROTEST Community! Let’s make a thread on things you could do downtown by that pointless, bullshit living statue instead of giving it more press. If I had the energy today I’d probably make signs to disrupt the liberal anti-Putin message & refocus on #WarCrimesWheeler .
  • 3 August 2020 : Take some eggs with you.....
  • 3 August 2020 : 🙋🏽‍♀️🙋🏽‍♀️🙋🏽‍♀️ https://twitter.com/catarchy161/status/1290367916492222464
  • 3 August 2020 : Personally, I’m CONSISTENTLY impressed. Like, how do y’all ignore the nuances of reality and existence so thoroughly as to convince yourself of ____________. It’s astounding in so many ways. Truly.
  • 3 August 2020 : And to be clear, I don’t know shit about the director and if they/he are black or what. Someone sent me his name. But I’mma get in before people come at me and say this: Idgaf who the director is. There’s a bunch of yt ppl covered in gold paint on a literal pedestal. Fuck this.
  • 3 August 2020 : The levels of cognitive dissonance that so many non-Black people subscribe to is consistently unimaginable and confusing.
  • 3 August 2020 : And of course, random mediocre white men with platforms will help them into the spotlight without any of the critical analysis necessary to understand why it’s time to retire Putin jokes (& white excellence) to focus on the problem at hand https://twitter.com/donovanfarley/status/1290380378180485120?s=21 https://twitter.com/donovanfarley/status/1290380378180485120
  • 3 August 2020 : Hahah well now that the national media has come and gone, it’s time for the *always 2 days too late* performative activism grfifting parade to blow through town. This is the worst part of feds coming. The inevitable parade of self centered performance activists who follow. 🙃🤮🥴
  • 3 August 2020 : Please explain to me how this changes anything?
  • 3 August 2020 : Let’s not forget the founder of that shoe project raised funds to buy shoes “without matches” from the goodwill bins to cover them in paint & is also the local artist with recently surfaced black-face photos they’d not even bothered to take offline. The Putin focus? Same vibe.
  • 3 August 2020 : This is the exact same energy as those bronze shoes...... why do we attract so many white artists who think their work needs seen more than we need help centering on the art being produced by directly affected BIPOC artists and creators? Portlandia is grossly accurate. Fuck this https://twitter.com/daviddouglastv/status/1290333362394079233
  • 3 August 2020 : SAY IT FUCKING LOUDERRRR https://twitter.com/jaredtruesqueer/status/1290283674672529409
  • 3 August 2020 : since it constantly needs repeated.... https://twitter.com/lilririah/status/1290355100725194752
  • 3 August 2020 : RT @kenklippenstein: Calling all DHS employees: https://t.co/ytjK1kTagj
  • 3 August 2020 : I encourage people to evaluate their understanding of what it means for existence to be an act of resistance. To begin to consider what it might mean to redefine #mutualaid as this opportunity to invest in the resistance by intentionally redirecting... https://link.medium.com/V8bA2HG2D8
  • 3 August 2020 : (But you can still check my page on Medium to see the continuation of my new nightly journaling & conversation oriented series called Abolitionist Ramblings!) First one here: https://link.medium.com/yWRbMGMED8
  • 3 August 2020 : Okay legit, the last week has been filled with me doing emergency crises care support for so many people, in addition to the signal boosting of info, facilitating multiple mediation, coordination & planning meetings. I’m taking tonight and tomorrow to be offline. Be back Tues!
  • 3 August 2020 : I cannot wait to get the fuck home and pass the fuck out 😭 #teamearlybedtime
  • 2 August 2020 : I spelled Wichita wrong multiple times AND YALL DIDNT SAY NUTHIN. #DraftsFromWichitaJail Read Gabrielle’s story that she’s had posted by Proxy from inside the cage she sits in after being stolen by @WichitaPolice #abolishthepolice #fuckthepolice https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1290053170991783936
  • 2 August 2020 : Good luck stop Black women. Good luck stopping Trans Black sex workers. Good luck stopping Black queers and non-binary fighters and the radical Black visionaries demanding we look beyond the constantly failing reformist answer. Demanding our full LIBERATION. Not brief reprieve.
  • 2 August 2020 : #DraftsFromWitchitaJail Y’all I really got CHILLS reading this. The level of strength and the power of this fury and the dedication to call out the system for their bullshit even when they tried so desperately to strip her of power and autonomy. Good luck stopping Black Femmes.
  • 2 August 2020 : Bloop. Her friend who DM’d me just shared that her name is Gabrielle. Which means she really is an icon for that twitter handle. We stan. Free her!!
  • 2 August 2020 : BOOST THIS THREAD YALL SERIOUSLY. This is the type of targeting we all need to be prepared for. It starts with all of us that you look to as leaders. But then you come next.
  • 2 August 2020 : #DraftsFromWitchitaJail This is the reality so many of us face. We are prepared to die for the sake of the liberation of our communities. We are anticipating these harms. Read Megan’s story, shared by proxy as she is in a cage. #politicalprisoner #cointelpro #BlackLiberation https://twitter.com/yungdevotion/status/1290011767448322048
  • 2 August 2020 : And a donation link to support: https://twitter.com/wichita_dsa/status/1289715337911398400?s=21 https://twitter.com/wichita_dsa/status/1289715337911398400
  • 2 August 2020 : Here’s more info: https://twitter.com/wichita_dsa/status/1289715336242032640?s=21 https://twitter.com/wichita_dsa/status/1289715336242032640
  • 2 August 2020 : I cannot stress enough the risk that every single black organizer is taking every time we step into the streets. Read this thread, pre-written by the OP, before they were captured by the state. This is racist, political targeting & its what the police system is built on. #pdx https://twitter.com/yungdevotion/status/1290011761366593537
  • 2 August 2020 : THIS FUCKING PART RIGHT HERE https://twitter.com/catarchy161/status/1290048805304377344
  • 2 August 2020 : “All we need to do is recommit to a decolonized world where we can accept the vital truth that when we share our resources and our labor with each other, nobody needs to go without and nobody is expandable or left behind.”
  • 2 August 2020 : “And while those whose tactics align with this vision engage in that fight, we abolitionists have an opportunity to begin to truly build the networks of radical care that we know are necessary for our survival.”
  • 2 August 2020 : Y’all I’m literally so proud of some of the gems in this piece of writing. Please share it? Here’s another fave: Do not water down the meaning of “good trouble.” Good trouble means DISRUPTIVE trouble. Good trouble means “Do Not Comply with the State” type of trouble. https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1289893890393165826
  • 2 August 2020 : I’m in this tweet and I don’t like it.... https://twitter.com/pannilovie/status/1289598764341174272
  • 2 August 2020 : want* not what 🙄
  • 2 August 2020 : Hahahah okay okay y’all retweeting it already and everything. Lemme hit up ASL interpreters and see when they’re free to do this regularly. Also if you’re fluent in another language & what to do your own accessible open reading sessions for your community hit me up. Let’s chat.
  • 2 August 2020 : I’m about to start reading Afropessimissm! Would folks be interested if I hosted weekly live streamed readings where y’all could engage with each other in the comments or something?
  • 2 August 2020 : Sundays are for study groups. https://abolitionistfutures.com/full-reading-list
  • 2 August 2020 : I mean I could tell a pretty big story about the nightmare that is the current white director of @JwJpdx & how his actions led to him losing all his black staff due to discrimination @ the beginning of the pandemic which is pretty ironic for a place called “jobs with justice”...
  • 2 August 2020 : 💕 https://link.medium.com/5h3feBkEC8
  • 2 August 2020 : https://link.medium.com/5h3feBkEC8
  • 2 August 2020 : Because he only ever invites reformists to the table and @tedwheeler knows we’re not going to stand for the centering of reformist voices only. We don’t want PPB anymore than we want the cops & he only wants to talk to people who support peace policing protests. That’s why. #pdx
  • 2 August 2020 : Because he only ever invites reformists to the table and @tedwheeler knows we’re not going to stand for the centering of reformist voices only. We don’t want PPB anymore than we want the cops & he only wants to talk to people who support peace policing protests. That’s why. #pdx https://twitter.com/marwilliamson/status/1289895544593080323
  • 2 August 2020 : “I feel like, while I don’t have specific answers to some very important questions, I do know that the path we’re walking is clear. I know my ancestors forged it for me. Our ancestors forged it for us.” #goodtrouble #decolonize #RIPJohnLewis #abolition https://link.medium.com/5FYchGTCC8
  • 2 August 2020 : Setting up a medium account right now because I’m going to be launching a series of daily reflections, ramblings, wonderings, & public radically vulnerable processing pathways I walk. I wanted to write a book this year but this seems like a better format. 1st one coming shortly.
  • 2 August 2020 : Boost this! https://twitter.com/dead_flexxy/status/1289703727520051201
  • 1 August 2020 : Build the decolonized, post-capitalist world you want to see. ✨ Destroy the politician in your head. 🔥 #BLACKLIBERATION not #BlackPoliticians #pdx #portlandprotests #blm #PDXprotest #abolitionorbust #UPRISING2020
  • 1 August 2020 : that was some thug shit tbh & I’m not even gonna say nothing cause I actually meant what I said. Support black women. Support communities. Stop idolizing these men. Beginning & end of it.
  • 1 August 2020 : i’m dyinggggggg 😭😭😭 (again if ur yt & you in my notifications interacting w/ this tweet imma block you) https://twitter.com/malcolmb4224/status/1289228990364827648
  • 1 August 2020 : Some really, really good analysis in the replies to this tweet that I encourage y’all to read! https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1289338049478791169
  • 31 July 2020 : Just in case y’all aren’t aware, the FBI indeed does not care. https://twitter.com/thecasualroadie/status/1289330881241391104
  • 31 July 2020 : What visible black person at all involved in politics doesn’t receive floods of racist messages? Are we gonna do an article on the countless death threats and police intimidation tactics that abolitionists have been dealing with? https://twitter.com/evertonbailey/status/1289314997282070528
  • 31 July 2020 : https://youtu.be/75HXfiMNiXU
  • 31 July 2020 : I’m surprised the people of Portland haven’t been keeping more eggs in their pockets downtown considering how many of y’all have urban chickens..... 🤨😒 https://youtu.be/75HXfiMNiXU https://twitter.com/tedwheeler/status/1289339859920814080
  • 31 July 2020 : How do we effectively fight against a co-opted movement by these branded organizers who still engage in political maneuvering and are heralded and uplifted into the public eye by the political establishment? Genuine question.
  • 31 July 2020 : Hey #PDX , read this tweet and then the linked one embedded and get ready to make sure not to let the next yt savior wannabe destroy our message or put our neighbors at risk. https://twitter.com/lilsp387/status/1289333523371798528
  • 31 July 2020 : Oh! Y’all also helped me treat the whole team of Youth Leaders from Fridays for Freedom to dinner yesterday when we did a training on navigating interactions with the press considering the inherent power dynamics & historical roles the media has played in movements of the past.
  • 31 July 2020 : Fundraising challenge! How quickly can we replace the $1,500 dollars I just sent to our recently released comrade for continued support as the state keeps $$ help tied up behind paperwork & meetings? Prisoner support is vital & its often needed ASAP. http://cash.me/$abolitionactually pic.twitter.com/tCjvHDpLNj
  • 31 July 2020 : I wanna know what the circumstances are that: -I have running water -I have access to a hot glue gun, and thus, to electricity BUT I cannot access a cup, bowl, or even a fucking spoon. Why can’t I plug the sink and dip the straw into the sink? Why is this so enraging...? https://twitter.com/inuteis_life/status/1263638903380115456
  • 31 July 2020 : No I’m happy to engage in this way but trying to mitigate how to use this platform most effectively while combating idolization.
  • 31 July 2020 : if you’re taking my words at face value that means you haven’t really been listening in the first place. do your research. https://twitter.com/brianorwhatevr/status/1289308975649849344
  • 31 July 2020 : It’s funny cause the cops just announced that they were attacking protesters because shields were an indication that people are there for a fight.
  • 31 July 2020 : And to build on that, how do we realistically address the truth that there is inherently a power dynamic that I hold with this much visibility but what does community accountability for unelected “public figures” look like? I’m endlessly trying to answer that question....
  • 31 July 2020 : It’s fine to look to people with the privilege and willingness to be visible as sources to confirm veracity based on general trust. I’m happy to provide that with this platform. But how do we get people to deconstruct the ways they equate visibility with power?
  • 31 July 2020 : This is a serious ass question because I’m at my wits end with the way folks gravitate towards people who you see as leaders (or those w/ privileges necessary to be visible) and then treat them as though they’re the sole hero’s of a people’s movement. Myself included. & its gross
  • 31 July 2020 : “It feels like no one will take you seriously here unless you have a brand... But then they get mad at you for having a brand... I’m just confused.” Quote from my bff that also could be a direct quote from me because OOF SAME. How do we cancel Portland’s celebrity culture?
  • 31 July 2020 : (I want to add that there’s a bunch of wonderful people working on the Black Resiliency Fund that ARE NOT men who made themselves the face of the entire thing making sure every update is a selfie.) Support the women on that team. Support the women guiding that whole project.
  • 31 July 2020 : SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FUCKING BACK PLEASE. Like, the fact I have to continually deal with watching y’all defend 2 men who’ve both been in my inbox looking for my personal guidance or thanking me for having a spine while they play politician & do class drag... 🙄 https://twitter.com/slaybeascorpus/status/1289236909428883457
  • 31 July 2020 : I’m getting ready to launch something exciting in the next week and I’m so stoked about it. 👀 can’t wait to hear y’all’s feedback when it’s live. 🥰
  • 31 July 2020 : #DefendPDX https://twitter.com/symbiosis_pdx/status/1289095223696486400
  • 31 July 2020 : Just as a heads up, last night y’all helped me buy 300$ worth of groceries for a houseless black mom, her housed daughter & grand babies. Also we’ve got her in a hotel this week & $500 dollars given to them for support as we work to find permanent housing for her & her son. 💕
  • 31 July 2020 : Both of us now: pic.twitter.com/VnVLKSKa5R
  • 31 July 2020 : “what a silly idea,” says my boyfriend.
  • 31 July 2020 : but, why a pool noodle?
  • 31 July 2020 : might fuck around and draw some art based on this... 🧐😅
  • 31 July 2020 : My favorite thing I’ve seen on the internet today is someone who, within 3 tweets, called me “evil” and labeled me as “an antifa warlord” and THEN said that I am “respected because [my] brain is pure chaos.” I don’t think they realize that they’re just making me sound cool... pic.twitter.com/bQ8C4oASxS
  • 31 July 2020 : The number of conversations I have with other organizers with experience outside of OR always tend to go the same way....we’re all just so confused about why truly abolitionist frameworks are so poorly lived in action here. Also lots of talks on the obvious untreated trauma.
  • 31 July 2020 : what the actual fuck. https://twitter.com/whitneycathey/status/1288848900397445127
  • 31 July 2020 : Tear gas, the newest life saving tool every emt will be packing on the streets. 🙄 Less doesn’t mean shit. NONE. https://twitter.com/rjaellis/status/1288961737069170688
  • 31 July 2020 : Hi, yes I know Andy’s tweeting about me. My last tweet is literally a quote tweet from one of the replies. Thanks for your concern but I’m more concerned about the abc police than I ever will be about Andy. Much appreciated. 💕
  • 31 July 2020 : Some background on my name choice from a fash-y broken clock that happened to be right in this moment 🥰😈💕 It is a rather fitting name, dont ya think? https://twitter.com/compass_true/status/1289027326173298688
  • 30 July 2020 : took a look down your feed and it seems well deserved. Feel free to hit me up if I can ever directly support y’all’s work or boost info for you in a timely manner.
  • 30 July 2020 : I need to follow BIPOC abolitionist organizers/affinity groups on the ground fighting against fascist police states in more cities/states/towns! Who do you follow for an *abolitionist* perspective on what’s happening local to you? Tag them in the replies please for me to boost!
  • 30 July 2020 : Lmao 😂
  • 30 July 2020 : Youre the second person I’ve seen @ Denver in this. 👀👀 How yall doing over there? Who’re the local femmes and women and queers I can help platform?
  • 30 July 2020 : They’re not riot ribs. They’re violent and we’re working on an organized community response to deploy to keep our community safe from the misogynist, abusive & unsafe black man who’s taken over the tent. Tell people to avoid the tents. https://twitter.com/whirlyberly1/status/1288956040151576577
  • 30 July 2020 : This is an abolitionist moment. This is an abolitionist movement. This is not the time to be getting further entangled with the state. Stop celebrating politicians for bare minimum work by listening to your requests nicely irl. Tell them our demands. And hold them to it.
  • 30 July 2020 : They’ve likely been running in circles doing the work to build systems of care in our communities. Not playing nice to people & engaging in respectability politics for general likability at risk of entrenching themselves in the same culture & system we’re trying to deconstruct.
  • 30 July 2020 : Be wary of men who present themselves as leaders of the movement. Learn from all our past movements failures. Pretty much all of them can be traced back to cis-black men in leadership & misogynoir. Stop platforming men. Find the radical Black women, femmes, queers. Boost them.
  • 30 July 2020 : like, “how long did you spend on this?” 😂
  • 30 July 2020 : also this was both the best and worst image description I’ve ever had the displeasure to write 😂😂😂
  • 30 July 2020 : Okay but I am CACKLING. 😂 I’m not telling y’all who tweeted this cause I’m not trying to platform her or the account of the people who violently took over Riot Ribs. But like, why can I hear Sarah McLaughlin singing whenever I look at this?! 😂😂😂 y’all be doing the most!! pic.twitter.com/5BiDrBsiDo
  • 30 July 2020 : I mean the conversation about the US empire having a ridiculous number of running military basis flush around the globe with troops has to be for another day. But the immediate need to understanding our enemies tactical decisions is important to undermine them.
  • 30 July 2020 : RIGHT. NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT THIS. Myself included. But like, why? Why pull so many troops out of Germany so suddenly? https://twitter.com/itsjusthoffa/status/1288906019058274304
  • 30 July 2020 : A COUPLE OF THEM 😂😂😂
  • 30 July 2020 : If y’all think trump tweeting about pushing back the election isn’t the start of him beginning to normalize and rationalize that idea with his base of supporters who are loyal TO HIM & not to the republicans or even this country then I don’t know what to say. Get ready tho.
  • 30 July 2020 : I see a lot of y’all still hold faith in the constitution and rule of law. I wish I was there. Again. I hope I’m wrong. But can we just all prepare for that scenario in case we’re not? Who would stop trump? Who? Look at these federal pigs & their behavior across the country....
  • 30 July 2020 : This part. https://twitter.com/AyAyRon1994/status/1288903941065908226
  • 30 July 2020 : I’ve literally been saying for years that we wouldn’t have an election in November of 2020 & that people needed to be ready for that. and a lot of y’all told me I was being paranoid... I kept saying I’d be ecstatic to be wrong. But uhhh, seems like I wasn’t? 🤢🤮
  • 30 July 2020 : Things that are totally NOT FUCKING normal. 🙄 Good discussion/further intel in the replies! https://twitter.com/pfrazier/status/1288338896422498304
  • 30 July 2020 : But like, you’re 16.... Seriously, y’all. The youth give me fucking life. Like, I’m only out here for the kids tbh. I fight for them.
  • 30 July 2020 : Imagine casually being like “weird what is that new instrument of warfare? It’s nothing like all the others warfare tools I’ve gotten intimately familiar with on our summer break from seasonal depression”
  • 30 July 2020 : Don’t feel bad for her. She’s the laziest asshole I’ve ever met and she’s also intentionally disrespectful & judge & look I fucking love her but y’all just better not feel bad. She’s too spoiled lol.
  • 30 July 2020 : My roommates cat is fucking obsessed with my bed and I just cannot choke on her fur in my sleep tonight until we brush her tomorrow (long hair in summer) but good god are her *melodramatic* moans the most pitiful sounding thing. 🙄😂
  • 30 July 2020 : I just am already barfing at tomorrow’s headlines both sensationalizing this act of terror and/or contributing to the normalization of this kind of federal force in US cities. Kind of like how they’ve normalized kids & families in cages. & CoVID deaths. & Black people’s murders. https://twitter.com/further_from/status/1288745869970305025
  • 30 July 2020 : sometimes I think my life is wild and then I imagine being a teenager and tweeting this out to 30,000 people and I’m just thankful for the youth forreal..... https://twitter.com/pnwylf/status/1288743877474582528
  • 30 July 2020 : I wanna know what was going through the mind of the editor who got to write this headline non-satirically... https://twitter.com/newsweek/status/1288611555530113024
  • 30 July 2020 : That’s a safety risk for me so that’s a no go unfortunately. But also it wasn’t visible.
  • 30 July 2020 : #justmilitarizedpolicestatethings #pdx
  • 30 July 2020 : Meanwhile, my roommates been trying to identify the multiple planes and choppers buzzing constantly overhead & is commenting on how remarkable it is that next to nothing is showing up on aircraft radars these days. Fuck the state to the ends of the earth forreal.
  • 30 July 2020 : Just for me to finally get to the pointing of questioning how these SUDDEN sirens are not getting closer or farther away for them to suddenly stop and the night to just resume being peaceful. Fuck y’all bitch ass punks forreal. #1312
  • 30 July 2020 : Like I literally was just cocking my ears left & right with my eyes closed like a dog processing what was obviously multiple sets of police sirens. But like so close. At a sustained distance as measured by no change in sound. It sounded like they were just driving in circles.
  • 30 July 2020 : *sirens sirens sirens sirens sirens sirens sirens sirens* Then SUDDEN FUCKING SILENCE. And I’m just sitting here waiting for gunshots & remembering that the state really does fuck with us intentionally in the most subversive ways. I can’t tell y’all enough to study COINTELPRO.
  • 30 July 2020 : 👀 https://twitter.com/tymika_nichelle/status/1288703726937690112
  • 30 July 2020 : I lowkey died inside when I no longer had a 443 number 😭
  • 30 July 2020 : Stop retweeting this it’s old and I’mma delete it soon so that things don’t get spammed. But yeah I’m locked outta Facebook for a week https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1288594238947508224
  • 30 July 2020 : Especially from afar. Updates on locations of cops that you can glean from feeds with a heads up for what to look out for maybe
  • 30 July 2020 : Spread calm love.
  • 30 July 2020 : ty.
  • 30 July 2020 : CITALOGANG STAND UPPPPP 🙋🏽‍♀️🙋🏽‍♀️🙋🏽‍♀️🙋🏽‍♀️🙋🏽‍♀️🙋🏽‍♀️🙋🏽‍♀️
  • 30 July 2020 : come to the revolution. we have drugs.* . . . . . . . . . *antidepressants
  • 30 July 2020 : Anyway.....
  • 30 July 2020 : Lol fucked up my shitpost tweet and those are the only tweets I’m proud enough of to delete and correct. cool cool cool. I’m cool. It’s cool.
  • 30 July 2020 : Dont gotta be undercover if you’re not a fascist 🤷🏽‍♀️
  • 30 July 2020 : @wherehousemimi for the fríes, right? 😍
  • 30 July 2020 : The fuck I look like giving 1.5 million dollars out in 300$ chunks so you can feel good about being your childhood version of the black Robin Hood or Santa or what have you. We need housing. We need infrastructure. We need community spaces. We need land. Tf.
  • 30 July 2020 : Im so proud of this community for not letting anyone else collect tens of thousands & MILLIONS of dollars just to sit on it then parse it out real slow in little envelopes when y’all got infrastructure building money that could create long lasting change if y’all had any vision
  • 30 July 2020 : Not to mention the fact y’all keep your mouth suckled up to that colonial white teat simping for electoral politics and reform during the middle of an international uprising. And have the gall to whine about other gate keepers getting called out before they could charm the state
  • 30 July 2020 : What the fuck are y’all gonna have to say when the women, femmes and non-men organizing in this city continue to out organize you in terms of basic problem solving, pro-Black praxis, and truly interesectional organizing not reliant on some charismatic wannabe male politicians? 🙃
  • 30 July 2020 : Y’all niggas with blue checks really be thinking what y’all have to say is that deep when it’s constantly shallow as fuck & lacks any awareness of the way yalls internalized racism & your problems with male dominance constantly play out in violent misogynoir. The audacity.
  • 30 July 2020 : This just in: Statists seemingly don’t know that instead of signing your affinity group/organizing collective away to the state for supervision via incorporation, you could just re-invest in your community by hiring an accountant to help you keep track of finances..... WILD.
  • 30 July 2020 : Organize your communities and establish infrastructure outside of the state. Become an anarchist. Decolonize your thought process. Get ready. Y’all better watch Portland and study and learn and do better please. Start stocking up on supplies. Get leaf blowers & etc. Arm up. https://twitter.com/fluffybastid/status/1288618565856354304
  • 30 July 2020 : That sounds like a fash dream without the right logistical set ups. But records are public.
  • 30 July 2020 : My boss? Do I see my boss as the person who might not be on my side as the worker? Uhh, yeah you’re damned fucking right your boss is not your friend. Who are you? Like, what has this one white man who can’t keep a labor organizer on staff done for you? Why y’all like this? 🧐 https://twitter.com/janac2020/status/1288637866248028160
  • 30 July 2020 : Have you ever heard of the industrial nonprofit complex? Or like racism? Or like, white supremacy? Or like classism? Or like, the basic tenants of union solidarity against corrupt bosses of all workers, especially our most marginalized? Like, what’s your endgame here?
  • 30 July 2020 : My boss? Do I see my boss as the person who might not be on my side as the worker? Uhh, yeah you’re damned fucking right your boss is not your friend. Who are you? Is this personal? Like, what has this one white man who can’t keep a labor organizer on staff done for you?
  • 30 July 2020 : Okay but yeah like from everything I’ve heard SF also sounds like hell but with more traffic....
  • 30 July 2020 : If you’re white don’t like tweets that say nigga that shits not for you. Tf. Don’t get too comfortable now. You can go ahead and like that little second one if you want 😂
  • 30 July 2020 : Imagine being gaslit by a non-black woman across Facebook at 5am and then getting gaslit (intentionally or not because we all know that impact is what we prioritize in abolitionist movements) across twitter by a black man at 5pm... Anyway, I don’t gotta imagine. 🙃
  • 30 July 2020 : Niggaaaaaa 🙄 not the move. I was on a 4 hour zoom call from 4am-8:30 about this. Please don’t stick your head into a conversation around Black MOMS, women, femmes and non-men parents with this mainsplaining and lack of context cause I’m running on no sleep & not here for it. https://twitter.com/gregorymckelvey/status/1288610282621698048 pic.twitter.com/EUXDXaXEy4
  • 30 July 2020 : lol good luck with this bubs https://twitter.com/janac2020/status/1265704594035728384?s=21 https://twitter.com/janac2020/status/1265704594035728384
  • 30 July 2020 : Lolololololol. I’m unemployed. Idgaf about a married cis white man who’s wife has money that ruined an entire opportunity to change labor. Please get fucked you scab. Black people are setting the pace for the revolution. Keep up or don’t. That’s on you cause y’all showed up late
  • 29 July 2020 : We need to abolish private property & y’all need to do the hard work to learn the lesson I’ve been literally getting paid to try to teach people since I was 14 & the neighborhood nanny: “If you share with each other, nobody needs to go without.” Build community. Start sharing.
  • 29 July 2020 : And I’ll tell you what you have to lose. It’s your fucking chains. We don’t need the state. We never needed the state. Humanity was not on the brink of extinction when the colonizers came to turtle island with their smallpox & their money & their undying necessity to own things.
  • 29 July 2020 : ❤️
  • 29 July 2020 : What do you have to lose? What’s stopping you from studying what Fred Hampton did and trying to learn to do it better? Who’s stopping you? The abc police with their guns held to your heads? The gun has always been to your head. Dismantle the gun. The gun is colonialism.
  • 29 July 2020 : I need y’all to seriously sit down and consider that tired but true piece. “At first they came for...” You know the rest. How long are you willing to stay comfortable while the state that protects you slaughters the communities around you for profit? To sell some fucking beans!
  • 29 July 2020 : What else can they do to you? Let millions of you go unhoused while buildings sit empty? Let you die on warehouse floors without blinking? Force you to choose between work & your literal life? Force you to choose between work & family? & healthcare? & happiness? & sanity?
  • 29 July 2020 : If the government makes sure to keep you *barely* provided for, you at least are not wanting. Not dying. You get complacent. You allow yourself to rely on the state. But what is more terrifying than 2020’s clusterfuck of a group project: staying alive in a fascist police state?
  • 29 July 2020 : The state does not want to see the people united across our struggles. The state banks on two things: -The people’s fear of the unknown weighed against -The people’s fear of the present.
  • 29 July 2020 : Out of all three of those men murdered by the state, Fred was killed the youngest. And it was despicable. You can google it. There’s pictures of the bullet holes that are haunting. Because he was the most dangerous. Because he brought people across tactical divides together.
  • 29 July 2020 : I’m just sitting here reflecting on Fred Hampton tonight. And how when white people do that weird thing where they ask if I align more with MLK or Malcolm X, I just think of Fred. And how not enough people who know about the young man who shouldered a bridge between communities.
  • 29 July 2020 : The passivity of the culture in the entire Pacific Northwest is insidious. It’s as easy to forget your boundaries as it is hard to enforce them. But I need y’all to seriously consider what risks you’re taking BEFORE you stumble into something you are not prepared for.
  • 29 July 2020 : It’s fine. I’ve somehow kept my sanity through it. But because of my being light skinned and a skinny stripper with big titties & a femme & not too much I got handed so much emotional & physical labor that I just shouldered it blindly like every woman/femme is conditioned to do.
  • 29 July 2020 : I didn’t say no to anything that was asked of me. Why? Because even then I was talking about how privileged I am in so many ways despite simultaneously being so multi-marginalized. I had white guilt & I let (mostly) white people pressure me into a position I did not ask for.
  • 29 July 2020 : I stumbled into the Portland organizing community on day 3 of the occupation with a sincere hunger to learn how to help people different than me in the best ways possible & with a lot of experience, naivety & sheer dumb luck that kept me out of a prison cell then tbh.
  • 29 July 2020 : This is not the first time we’ve had armed snipers on rooftops. UNIFORMED OR OTHERWISE. Portland is a hotbed for fascist activity. From top to bottom. From the constitution through to the governmental structure through to the “legal” non-unanimous convictions up until THIS YEAR.
  • 29 July 2020 : I don’t know how much you all know about statutes of limitations but uhhhhh, the feds don’t record you outside of a shut down fed building and then just throw away the footage 6 months later to make room. Y’all need to bloc the fuck up and stop playing naive games.
  • 29 July 2020 : Portland is not new to federal attention. This isn’t the first time too many people have taken way too many fucking videos of comrades instead of recording fash (uniformed or otherwise.) Sessions said he wanted OccupyICE shut down “by any means necessary.” Two years ago.
  • 29 July 2020 : This is an international uprising against not just this imperialist, colonial, genocidal, capitalistic hellscape of a system that we live in. We’re simultaneously rising up against someone using that system exactly as it was designed unabashedly. While millions of people die.
  • 29 July 2020 : The guillotine jokes are funny and all but you better make sure more leftists are buying guns than trump supporters right now. You better start talking to your affinity groups about who can bring what to the table when the global supply chains collapse as the US shuts down again.
  • 29 July 2020 : This is such a spontaneous tweet but I swear y’all I cannot stress enough that living through history is not a fun time & we are watching the in real time set up for a fascist takeover in the United States in 2020. Millions of people are already dead. Slaughtered by capitalism.
  • 29 July 2020 : For all of y’all that are out here still taking selfies and recording videos of the “block party” as you’re attacked by federal police. I want you to get ready to watch the example they’ll make out of people like us. Black abolitionists teaching you how to take care of each other
  • 29 July 2020 : The federal police are hitting cities where black organizers are attempting to do infrastructure building work in our communities. This isn’t new. I have black abolitionist loved ones across the country & we know our days are numbered right now. I cannot stress this enough.
  • 29 July 2020 : That video of me saying that we’re organizing for the abolition of the United States as we know it went viral & THE ZODIAC KILLER retweeted it with my name & 45 hasn’t even mentioned it nor has mainstream media. that’s the most obvious tell for me that they’re building a case.
  • 29 July 2020 : Or just like, yknow, DM me recs?
  • 29 July 2020 : Y’all could just like, dm this to lawyers y’all know and shit? Or like, text your lawyer friends about it... I know out of 13k y’all gotta be some lawyers and personally know some lawyers. This doesn’t have to be a tag storm.
  • 29 July 2020 : In other news: I’d like to take this moment to say that I need a *team* of lawyers to talk to *stat.*
  • 29 July 2020 : If I get picked up by the federal police and y’all don’t burn down the courthouse I’m replying to every first prisonyard letter I receive with nothing but a piece of paper that says “k” in the middle. #justsaying
  • 29 July 2020 : Oof. https://twitter.com/demolishprisons/status/1288592435967385600
  • 29 July 2020 : Shelly’s FB status that is public on the issue could be a good place to drop it in the comments! Lots of eyes there.
  • 29 July 2020 : Either? Both? Anywhere people are asking? 😅 copy paste is better for accessibility! Or tweet link and summary!
  • 29 July 2020 : I feel bad that while trying to help last night after I got home from the hospital with a mom some folks and I are supporting, I was a little frantic watching this implode in real time & then not being able to answer any questions to my vague post from last night feels bad.
  • 29 July 2020 : Can somebody post in the wall of moms group and let everyone know that I’m locked out of my account for 7 days, I’m not ignoring them, and the DM’s were for a conference call invite that has ended but I’ll still go through them. Thanksssssss. 😬 S/o to whatever narc reported me.
  • 29 July 2020 : I mean we all know it’s because of misogynoir but like fuck.
  • 29 July 2020 : @noname is really just out here fucking being an abolitionist & can I just say...that for a culture that is so obsessed with celebrity I’m furious that she does not have more attention for the fucking education she’s giving people via her weaponized platform. Like go tf OFF. Damn pic.twitter.com/uhHf2awBeK
  • 29 July 2020 : I swear to whatever God you believe in that life does not need to be this hard and it is especially hard here because of the hotbed of generational trauma born of OR’s particular history with genocide & colonialism. Life does not need to be this fucking hard. I promise you.
  • 29 July 2020 : “The people here are just too fucking passive. To the point that it endangers themselves & others.” Reflections from my NBPOC roomie when discussing our experiences in PDX compared to elsewhere. This year is Portland’s chance. This is a life-long fight but I swear it’s worth it
  • 29 July 2020 : I feel so sad that you don’t have the ability to viscerally defend the place you grew up cause honestly I’d wanna fight anyone talking about Baltimore like this but like damn truly I’m sorry that you grew up here. Genuinely.
  • 29 July 2020 : This is the most exhausting city. I literally do not know how people survive here for their entire lives. The levels and levels of trauma, white bullshit, and un-healed interpersonal rifts are such a treacherous territory to wade through.
  • 29 July 2020 : Here’s what I’ve got: @TeressaLRaiford and Don’t Shoot have clearly made a statement that they will not be working with WOM via IG. They’ve announced that Demetria Hester & Danialle James ( @ImNotYourNigger ) are the Black Moms leading this group on FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/291983945248461/?ref=share pic.twitter.com/7zleGkMZjR
  • 29 July 2020 : https://twitter.com/riotribs/status/1288145235927654400?s=21 💕💕😍😍💕💕 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1288020583217631232
  • 29 July 2020 : He does not. https://twitter.com/mayorofbabytown/status/1288401603796406272
  • 29 July 2020 : I’m still on their health insurance until September so we’ll see how asking nicely goes first 🤪
  • 29 July 2020 : I tried that under his mediocre white “leadership” for 8 months before I had to leave because I was suicidal. Any other suggestions?
  • 29 July 2020 : Do I think you should email my old ED & ask him to quit his job & recommend me so I can utilize their resources to decolonize that institution as much as possible & support our community despite the fact that I’d hate it? I mean, yeah, if you want: https://jwjpdx.org/contact/
  • 29 July 2020 : Do I hate non-profits with every fiber of my being? Yes. Would I take the executive director position at @JwJpdx if my classist boss got fired or quit and use that position to run black people their money & fuck it up in the best way in Portland labor? Unequivocally yes.
  • 29 July 2020 : @CR_PDX is a great resource.
  • 29 July 2020 : This includes ex-prisoners. This includes people on probation. This includes people facing charges and facing fines.
  • 29 July 2020 : We have a serious need to consider and prioritize all our community members put in cages and shackled into poverty and despair when their dockets are closed. This includes people put in cages by ICE. This includes all prisoners. This includes sex workers. It’s so important.
  • 29 July 2020 : Okay but jail support, court support and prison support are my least favorite types of mutual aid because of how directly tied they are to the state. I fucking hate this shit. People who spend all their time doing these jobs are fucking saints. More people need to step up.
  • 29 July 2020 : I’m here to tell you that even if you don’t tweet about going to the uprising, it still counts. and, actually...it makes you even cooler cause that means you have good opsec. hot tips.
  • 29 July 2020 : wait why does @BarackObama follow you tho 👀
  • 29 July 2020 : Go follow @Mestizo43 !! Elevate BIPOC JOURNALISTS ON THE GROUND. https://twitter.com/mestizo43/status/1288521814323257344
  • 29 July 2020 : The most validating tweet 😭😭😭 https://twitter.com/nakruma01/status/1288517008217108480
  • 29 July 2020 : These white women really do not care about y’all. Neither do these white men. (*cough Donovan cough*) Again just look at how these people handled the “Athena” disaster. So many of these reporters are not out here for y’all. & y’all share their criminalizing feeds for what...?
  • 29 July 2020 : Lol-ing extra today at the fact that Lindsey added in a reminder that she has “most of y’all muted” & that you have to dm to engage with her. MEANWHILE I spend hours reading, & documenting yalls offers/needs/feedback for consideration of community benefits *while* organizing.
  • 29 July 2020 : Being a public figure is fucking broke af.
  • 29 July 2020 : IF YOURE A NON-MAN PARENT IN PORTLAND AND YOURE AWAKE HIT ME UP.
  • 29 July 2020 : IF YOURE A MOM IN PORTLAND AWAKE RIGHT NOW AND YOU WANT SOME COMMUNITY PLEASE SLIDE IN MY DMS!! #portland #portlandmoms #pdxmoms
  • 29 July 2020 : A side note: this does not mean I won’t throw myself at the first microphone I can to counter-message the states bullshit co-optation game. Until y’all stop nutting over people on microphones, some of us are gonna need to take back the mic.
  • 29 July 2020 : Forreal. I’m done with bullhorns at direct actions. DO THE SHIT TOGETHER. If you want speakers, have a rally. You want education, hold a skill share. Direct action means ACTION. Talk less. Act more. Whatever that means to you, make sure you mask up. https://twitter.com/catarchy161/status/1288391915680018432
  • 29 July 2020 : Yes, there’s some shit happening online. Yes, I have some shit to say about it. Yes, I’m tired AF & I know I had a hard day. No, Im not going to bed. Yes, I did just go buy like 6 cans of Redbull and all-nighter snacks. But like, spite is my favorite muse so... #pleasehold
  • 29 July 2020 : Donations are rolling in. And I’m again honored y’all trust me. I’ll update on what everything is at in the am. And also have some more work to share with y’all too. ❤️
  • 29 July 2020 : Do what y’all will with that. But casual finance advice: If you can’t afford to lose it, and you feel the need to claim ownership over how it’s spent, don’t give money away. Just give money to BIPOC you trust for reparations. Or don’t. But we take care of us.
  • 29 July 2020 : But the less money I have, the more often I have to tell people I can’t help, and I just want to give folks a heads up that I’m nearing the end of being able to freely redistribute funds at this time. My cash app is still in my bio. My Venmo & PayPal are floating around the web.
  • 29 July 2020 : To be clear, my bills are paid. I still have money of my own from what I set aside before. But I just dropped $1000 on community needs in the last 12 hours & im running out of emergency reserves for the community. That takes a weight off my back so it’s okay.
  • 29 July 2020 : Abolition isn’t easy. It takes a lot of trust. I’m grateful so many of y’all trust me. And I’m still willing to receive donations from anyone who does trust me. If you don’t trust me, please don’t send me money. It’s that easy. But if you do, I’m running low.
  • 29 July 2020 : I feel so blessed that y’all have trusted me to help redistribute nearly 10k dollars to people when combined across the last 2.5 months! We’ve done so much immediate good. Yet I still think about how this work feels like a bandaid on an exploded pipe. 😬
  • 29 July 2020 : I’m struggling (like a lot of radicals) with this money thing because tbh all the problems were currently facing in society are cause y’all don’t trust BIPOC with money & we can’t get money to help people without miles of red tape & I’m not here for that. This is tiring. But...
  • 29 July 2020 : I can’t think of everything else right now. I still need to reach out to an accountant. I’m still just me not working with any orgs but working alongside tons of orgs and in direct service to the community. I still don’t want your money if you don’t trust me. That’s fine.
  • 29 July 2020 : Also, y’all have been helping to make sure that ANY TIME someone needs an emergency ride or emergency funds, I’ve generally been able to help in these last 2 months. The distributions have been from $40-400 to help in crisis situations for various BIPOC & strangers on twitter.
  • 29 July 2020 : You’ve also helped to keep me housed and to help me finally have a room of my own for the first time in 15 years. It was so nice to finally get new things of my own for once. & one of those things was a printer so I can help distribute zines & just print stuff for comrades!
  • 29 July 2020 : Y’all also helped give another 300$ to another recently released prisoner who’s already found a well paying job during CoVID (😭🙌🏽) but needed food/commute support We gave 500$ each to two housing instable BIPOC youth I’m mentoring.
  • 29 July 2020 : We’ve also: -helped pay rent for a BIPOC comrade on the front lines ($450) -raised 2400$ for Media/Press mentees to be paid stipends (I still have to reach out to & coordinate with yall sorry it’s been a nightmare week I’ll be in contact soon) -helped purchase so much food!
  • 29 July 2020 : -10 impact rated masks with suction seal -8 full face gas masks -a hotel for a houseless Black mom for 6 days -general medic supplies -a mattress for a recently released prisoner -a dozen walkie talkies
  • 29 July 2020 : Also; in other fund news— I didn’t buy a fridge for my house like I said I needed to (and still need to) for my roomies and I because communal living & one small fridge isn’t cutting it. But collectively we bought:
  • 29 July 2020 : Got 10 pairs of goggles delivered today for BIPOC! Already gave 1 to a RADICAL Black Mama doing her best to wrangle in all these newly minted moms. These are slated for other BIPOC on the front lines. And we’ve got EIGHT full face gas masks + filters coming in this week!! pic.twitter.com/0xSZHIw6zo
  • 29 July 2020 : Except we keep doing that and......?
  • 29 July 2020 : I NEED A TEAM OF BIPOC MEDIATORS AND I NEED A WAY TO PAY THEM DESPERATELY 😭
  • 29 July 2020 : I’m working harder at organizing than I even did when I quit my whole life & drained my savings to work full time in the chaos that ensued in Tijuana in winter 2018/19. This is a-lot. I’m going to be swamped w/ work tonight. Will have thorough updates (& asks) for yall tomorrow!
  • 29 July 2020 : Okay, so, today has been.....a lot. Working on securing temporary housing for multiple folx as well as long term housing for multiple folx right now. The compounding traumas today have been....astonishing. After the last month I thought I was ready for this weird new life but 🙃
  • 29 July 2020 : Lol at the white woman demanding that if her group of like 8 people eating food and laughing it up in the hospital waiting room get kicked out, we ALL need kicked out. Karen’s really do abound. Pray for me and my patience right now.
  • 28 July 2020 : I’m sorry but I just have to say that I cannot believe I’m on a lyft ride to an icu and my driver just asked me “how’s your day going”. I’m gonna barf in his car.
  • 28 July 2020 : I say this only to let you all know that I’m about to disappear offline for a few hours/maybe most of the day. I know I started a big community conversation & we’re all still trying to figure out what to do about RR, but this has to come first for a second. Stay safe. Be back.
  • 28 July 2020 : Two days ago, a young 21 year old black man named Davon Donaldson was a victim of gun violence in our community. He was shot in the back & is in critical condition. I just made contact with his mom. I’ll be heading to the hospital w/ another local black mom soon to support her.
  • 28 July 2020 : Twitter list feature only. Written out lists are cool and chill!
  • 28 July 2020 : @NaygeriaM I’m so sorry to hear about your son. You don’t have the option to message you turned on but my DM’s are open and we can hop on a phone call. Just send me a message and I’ll send you my number.
  • 28 July 2020 : Just got a DM from a local community member about @gravemorgan also being a white woman in PDX who’s putting Capitol before people. Taking it a step further too. Especially since she sat ACROSS the table from workers organizing a union. Screenshot cropped for anonymity. pic.twitter.com/53dgy3Gn5v
  • 28 July 2020 : Sometimes I wanna troll too 🥺
  • 28 July 2020 : Riot Ribs folks have told me on good authority that she’s been privately defending the coup folks. That’s the message I woke up to this morning and why I posted this.
  • 28 July 2020 : @LindseyPSmith7 isn’t the sole problem. She’s a highly visible symptom and beneficiary of the problem though, which is white supremacy showing up in our spaces in the most insidious ways. Sure she helped upnow. So have countless others who put in way more work quietly for years🤷🏽‍♀️
  • 28 July 2020 : Sometimes I wanna troll too tho 🥺
  • 28 July 2020 : That’s the thing. Scroll down her page. She’s been tweeting about RiotRibs and engaging with them online for WEEKS and then suddenly when shit hits the fan she stops saying anything? Doesn’t share their updates about dissolving? Why? What’s the switch up?
  • 28 July 2020 : I’m not jealous of any aryan little white girl 😂 calling out white supremacy in our online spaces is not infighting and y’all been putting this girl on a pedestal for what? https://twitter.com/briantalksabout/status/1288221710949343234
  • 28 July 2020 : The issue is that we’re not all expected to account for the money we’ve received. The onus is continually put on BIPOC to do so constantly while white people get overlooked and unasked. Which is another symptom of white supremacy.
  • 28 July 2020 : If y’all don’t stop saying that pointing of white people for being mediocre is infighting 🙄
  • 28 July 2020 : 😂😂😂😂😂 I’m JUST TRYNA TELL PEOPLE WHOS BETTER TO FOLLOW BUT YOU RIGHT 😬😅
  • 28 July 2020 : Y’all stay giving these aryan ass people money to do the bare minimum when it comes to allyship and for what fucking reason? Cause you like their blue eyes? Cause they’re skinny and don’t ever make you uncomfortable or teach you? They just give you the riot porn you want and...?
  • 28 July 2020 : I blocked them. Reverse racism isn’t real and I’m not even entertaining that.
  • 28 July 2020 : If you’re white and blonde you’re not special and I’ve been trying to follow and boost people doing this better than me for years so slide BIPOC recs my way and id be happy to uplift them. Thanks for nothing tho.
  • 28 July 2020 : Don’t think I’m not intimately aware of how y’all have been screaming and moaning and whining and demanding *immediate* answers as to where every cent that BIPOC folks and groups have gotten is going & just stay silent as fuck about these random lil white girls cause they cute.
  • 28 July 2020 : All other things aside, Lindsey can just go put her body on the line and start uplifting BIPOC down there. Why does *she* need this platform? How has she been supporting BIPOC directly with her platform? How much money has she gotten and has she given any of it to BIPOC?
  • 28 July 2020 : And even without all the other shit, SHE IS A MEDIOCRE AS FUCK WHITE WOMAN THAT HASNT SAID ANYTHING TO SUPPORT RIOT RIBS. I’m not telling y’all to harass her. Just passing on reports from comrades & questioning why y’all are so quick to flock to white ppl who don’t do shit for us
  • 28 July 2020 : And to be specific, I’m not posting screenshots of the private message I was sent. But our comrades at Riot Ribs messaged me that they’ve been told by multiple sources she’s “at it again” and has been defending the abuser in journalist group chats. And was there that day he was.
  • 28 July 2020 : Andrew Tolman of Fingers Crossed Interpreting.
  • 28 July 2020 : Unfollow @LindseyPSmith7 and go follow @MacSmiff instead. You won’t fucking miss seeing another white blonde face all across your timeline I swear. What the fuck is she doing for y’all that BIPOC folx aren’t doing and doing better?
  • 28 July 2020 : Over here posting about dog rescues but staying silent on the violent assault that happened to members of our community. 🙄 YALL FOLLOW THE MOST MEDIOCRE WHITE WOMEN FOR WHY? Cause #protestbae ? We don’t need more visible yt women randomly profiting off Black people’s trauma. 🙃
  • 28 July 2020 : I’m not here for it. Why the fuck do 40k of y’all follow some mediocre white girl who’s feed is mostly white people being retweeted? Like what is she doing for the community? How much money has she received? Where’s her community accountability post?
  • 28 July 2020 : So folks at Riot Ribs are DM’ing me about how @LindseyPSmith7 has been defending the man who helped take over riot ribs. She also has been interestingly silent on helping spread news about riot ribs to keep our community safe. I need y’all to stop following mediocre white women.
  • 28 July 2020 : I love y’all. Stay safe out there. Take care of each other. Be water. Drink water. And remember this movement has to work in shifts. Get your rest in when you need it. Both physical and emotional.
  • 28 July 2020 : But tonight has really stretched me thin in regards to once again using my platform to directly support victims. Which is a good task but I need to follow through w/ my bigger goals to help more folks. I’m gonna play switch until bed rn. But tomorrow I’m gonna sit down & ORGANIZE
  • 28 July 2020 : I spent two years in this city building meaningful connections with people across radicalization levels & tactical approaches to be helpful in exactly this type of situation. But I feel most @ home in the thick of it & its been hard to put myself behind a desk for the revolution.
  • 28 July 2020 : Okay, well, today has once again gotten the fuck away from me due to another local crisis a lot of y’all came to me about and uhhhh, apparently idk how to have the boundaries to stop solving emergencies in favor of focusing on setting up infrastructure & that’s a problem 🙃 1/3
  • 28 July 2020 : This part... https://twitter.com/anjn21/status/1287977158300729344
  • 28 July 2020 : STOP GETTING ON PLANES IN THE MIDDLE OF A PANDEMIC AND START ORGANIZING SUPPLY CHAINS UNRELIANT ON THE STATE. Literally please just start w friendly neighbors. What can y’all share & trade? Can someone start a community garden in their backyard? How will you support each other? https://twitter.com/showmeurbeans/status/1287885878522568704
  • 28 July 2020 : What exactly is it that you’re trying to report to Donny boy & chad? https://twitter.com/cspanjunkie1/status/1288027282968317952
  • 28 July 2020 : “Local resident gives raucous accounts of tonight’s ‘edge-of-your-seat’ Torture Hockey!” 🙃
  • 28 July 2020 : Is downtown Portland just a giant game of night hockey now but with tear gas canisters? Like what the actual fuck we truly are living in an Onion article.... https://twitter.com/mrolmos/status/1288023235951382528
  • 28 July 2020 : I soft block all of them. But I’m losing my patience for unblocking 🙄 idk how many times I need to say this.
  • 28 July 2020 : Bean deserves a month long paid vacation.
  • 28 July 2020 : STOP ADDING ME TO YOUR PUBLIC FUCKING LISTSSSSSS
  • 28 July 2020 : I’d like to formally nominate the folks who’ve been running @riotribs for the last few months to take a cool 2k each as the government stimulus they all fucking deserve for the endless work they put in for this community in the last two months. They deserve a break. RT= I agree!
  • 28 July 2020 : Financial updates from @riotribs ! https://twitter.com/riotribs/status/1287987535730245632?s=21 https://twitter.com/riotribs/status/1287987535730245632
  • 28 July 2020 : UPDATE: https://twitter.com/riotribs/status/1287987535730245632?s=21 https://twitter.com/riotribs/status/1287987535730245632
  • 28 July 2020 : Welp, just a heads up now that I’m definitely not going to feel comfortable coming back downtown until things with the blue tents calm down a bit. 😬 Okay cause I’m really behind on writing, comms and emails! 🙃 wheeeee.
  • 28 July 2020 : I’m just tryna be the Carol Baskins of the United States tbh..... 🤷🏽‍♀️
  • 28 July 2020 : “Jar prepped for a Molotov Cocktail” - Lol now we know where @PortlandPolice got their instructions for how to fake and plant a Molotov 😂😂😂 https://twitter.com/thejusticedept/status/1287902077050593283 pic.twitter.com/OECbeLng7f
  • 28 July 2020 : https://twitter.com/rochelle/status/1287910910556692480?s=21 https://twitter.com/rochelle/status/1287910910556692480
  • 28 July 2020 : This is already too long of a thread. Please boost this everywhere possible. I’m going to try to get ahold of folks at DSP, Snac Bloc, & more to figure out from our BIPOC leaders & elders about how we handle this TOGETHER outside of deplatforming & removing support/resources.
  • 28 July 2020 : A black man, who is simultaneously by birth a victim of the white supremacist state, chose to enact violence against someone else for money. Take away the money & you take away the benefit of being there. Don’t go. Don’t support them.
  • 28 July 2020 : Y’all are learning in real time where violence comes from. It comes from a state that has failed us so thoroughly at providing resources (while simultaneously succeeding in brainwashing us to think that without money no one will help us) that we see incidences like this.
  • 28 July 2020 : The best, safest thing to do with armed folks right now is to make sure: A)We’ve got plenty of DE-ESCALATORS downtown in the area surrounding the blue tents. If some sort of mob style justice attempt happens the press & the pigs will have a field day B) It’s not profitable.
  • 28 July 2020 : But here’s the thing, it was profitable for him to commit violence if y’all sweep it under the rug. It’s profitable if a bunch of white ppl start sowing division & supporting the LIES that @riotribs folks fled with money. They fled violence. And kept our communities money SAFE.
  • 28 July 2020 : Since this is a BLACK FOLKS ISSUE, I’m going to reach out to BLACK ABOLITIONIST LEADERS about how we should move forward as a community to ensure that our community’s hard work isn’t taken over by a grifter willing to use violence.
  • 28 July 2020 : I also want y’all to stay SAFE. The abuser in this circumstance is a BLACK man. That means white folks, I need you to stay tf in your lane. Y’all better not try to go pull some vigilante justice shit. Nows the time to de-escalate, mitigate harm by sharing the news, & make a plan
  • 28 July 2020 : I want to add that the first step to handling this like an abolitionist is to reach out to the victims, ask what they need, what they want, and how to support them. The folks at Riot Ribs just want to get to safety, tell the community about this risk and have a chance to regroup
  • 28 July 2020 : You could post those signs around downtown and also across the city to let folks know to ONLY follow @RiotRibs for updates on their eventual return. Make sure people know NOT to platform @RiotRibsPDX . Report this second account tagged to help with that.
  • 28 July 2020 : Okay; now that folks are working on spreading the news online, consider your risk level & your ability to control your temper. If you/friends feel comfortable, make some signs telling folks not to go to the tents formerly known as riot ribs & not to give money to RiotRibsPDX.
  • 28 July 2020 : Text all your friends you’ve been going downtown with and direct them to this thread. Copy the link to the first tweet, DM it to them, and ask them to read it in full. First, we need to protect our community by not giving abusers access to our people. Spread the word.
  • 28 July 2020 : Make a status on every social media account you know to let folks know that Riot Ribs has been taken over by the violent, misogynist, armed people behind the @RiotRibsPDX account. Tell your friends not to go to the blue tents. The people working there cannot be trusted rn.
  • 28 July 2020 : Obviously don’t call the cops. Seriously. To every white mom and liberal reading this. Y’all better not call the fucking cops. THE STATE CANNOT AND WILL NOT help us with this problem. We need to practice living abolitionist practices RIGHT NOW. Here’s my advice:
  • 28 July 2020 : The person who did this to our friends at Riot Ribs is a Black man who they’ve asked me not to name or post publicly. I’m going to respect that ask. This is a nuanced situation. These people are armed. They’ve committed violence against people. Let’s talk abolitionist approach:
  • 28 July 2020 : THIS TWEET MARKS THE END OF THE INFORMATION I’M SHARING WITH YOU AS ASKED BY RIOT RIBS. The tweets below are just a few brief words on my personal, individual analysis of the situation and some advice:
  • 28 July 2020 : The folks at @riotribs told me that they have: -Receipts of all finances -A consensus made decision to work to max out their cash app limit daily reinvesting all funds into other community projects -Plans to address this when they’re all safe & taken care of medically.
  • 28 July 2020 : This is a sensitive situation considering the multiple messages I received from @RiotRibs stressing that the reason they abandoned the blue tent (& THE CITY AS OF RN) is because of this violent, armed person who brought reinforcements to avoid financial accountability.
  • 28 July 2020 : Our comrades @riotribs have asked me to pass along the message that everyone they trust has left the Riot Ribs tent. Which means that, presumably, everyone downtown right now is working with their abuser. Either in ignorance of his abuses or knowingly. Proceed with caution.
  • 28 July 2020 : The people who’ve been feeding us for weeks, actively coordinating with the Witches, giving money back to our community, getting people set up with gear and support have been violently run out of town after being assaulted. The person doing this is also a reported misogynist.
  • 28 July 2020 : This man downtown has TAKEN OVER RiotRibs. He used force, intimidation, and straight up violence to expel people who were trying to hold him accountable for missing funds. As would be expected, he’s running a bait & switch game on that account rn lying to say our friends stole $$
  • 28 July 2020 : Important Detail. RETWEET THIS PLEASE #PDX : According to our friends at Riot Ribs, the man currently running the blue tents is armed & reportedly has multiple people with him who are also armed. They assaulted people this morning. One person believes they have a broken nose.
  • 28 July 2020 : According to our beloved comrades at @RiotRibs , the grifter from the new account (@/riotribspdx) came downtown prepared to fight. Multiple of our comrades who’ve been at riot ribs for weeks were assaulted by this grifter and a cadre of his friends and cousins.
  • 28 July 2020 : Correction: This person was approached today to be accountable for the location of THOUSANDS (with an S) of dollars in cash donations that had been given to Riot Ribs in the last few weeks.
  • 28 July 2020 : So, according to our pals at @riotribs (the real account which announced its dissolution today) here’s wassup: After the “RiotRibsPDX” cashapp sign/grifting debacle yesterday, multiple comrades @ the *actual* RiotRibs tried to talk to him today about 1000+ missing cash donations
  • 28 July 2020 : This person running the sudden, new grifter account ( @riotribspdx - report it down) is the same person that was putting up signs to continue receiving money from the community despite the access of funds that a larger team working *together* has raised for our community.
  • 28 July 2020 : In this tweet, our friends at Riot Ribs clearly announce that the person trying to start grifting yesterday set up his own personal CashApp account under the name of RiotRibsPDX. The new account up has the same name. “RiotRibsPDX” https://twitter.com/riotribs/status/1287225926544248833?s=21 https://twitter.com/riotribs/status/1287225926544248833
  • 28 July 2020 : In this tweet, Riot Ribs shared with us about this GRIFTER trying to continue to profit individually off the backs of so many volunteers working to create a beloved community space BY and FOR the people. https://twitter.com/riotribs/status/1287222277076127745?s=21 https://twitter.com/riotribs/status/1287222277076127745
  • 28 July 2020 : @riotribs has been doing a great job downtown coordinating with others and working in consensus with the community. BY VOTE, the group at large chose to STOP accepting donation requests as a means to responsibly handle funds. Which is understandable. https://twitter.com/riotribs/status/1287194774672269312?s=21 https://twitter.com/riotribs/status/1287194774672269312
  • 28 July 2020 : 24 hours ago, we all saw Riot Ribs telling us about someone trying to take over receiving donations. This context is important and provides further proof and validation of our beloved Riot Ribs folx desperately trying to keep the public informed. https://twitter.com/riotribs/status/1287194299365330944?s=21 https://twitter.com/riotribs/status/1287194299365330944
  • 28 July 2020 : I just finished having a conversation with our ACTUAL FRIENDS over @riotribs . Here’s the details anonymized: The person currently “running” the blue tents downtown coordinated a VIOLENT expulsion of those who’ve been helping to coordinate the Riot Ribs tent for month.
  • 28 July 2020 : #DefendPDX #PortlandProtest #Alerta THREAD ON WHATS HAPPENED WITH RIOT RIBS PLEASE SHARE. This account needs reported down and all folks need to know not to send donations (financial or otherwise) to this new account or the people who violently expelled other organizers. https://twitter.com/riotribspdx/status/1287905439561089025
  • 28 July 2020 : Different language styles. Different levels of neurodivergency. Lack of tone online. It’s all good! Understanding text and context written down in English can be tricky as fuck! This language is nonsensical often.
  • 28 July 2020 : I’m realizing that this may be interpreted to think that I am upset with RiotRibs. I ADORE the folks at Riot Ribs and the “get your shit together” is towards the people who are fucking shit up tryna grift and get clout.
  • 28 July 2020 : Oh no!! That’s not what I meant! I’ll clarify in a reply!
  • 27 July 2020 : Luckily you can find @JoAnnPDX @ChloeEudalyPDX and @AmandaFritzRN phone numbers online on the government website and call them to tell them to pass the message through. Or at least tell Teddy to clear out his inbox so we can keep bullying him.
  • 27 July 2020 : Goddamnit y’all get your shit together. Make sure you continue to support @SnackBloc ! And let’s get it together. https://twitter.com/riotribs/status/1287883988971864066
  • 27 July 2020 : “ @tedwheeler is not leading the charge for anything except his re-election campaign” is probably my best quote from that @democracynow interview. #fucktedwheeler #warcrimeswheeler
  • 27 July 2020 : SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Y’all are not old and I’m not old and we’re just getting started. https://twitter.com/nidoqueeen/status/1287699228807114752
  • 27 July 2020 : Make racists afraid again means punch out racists until they know that shit isn’t cool around here. “Make racists afraid again” means listen to Malcolm X when he said “by any means necessary.” That shits means arm up, stay trained, and be ready to put racists on the ground. 🤷🏽‍♀️
  • 27 July 2020 : White people in Portland don’t get fucked up enough to know boundaries. I talk about this with my BIPOC friends in PDX all the time. We grew up with state violence & all the trauma it brings & learned respect one way or the other. Y’all really be asking for it sometimes...
  • 27 July 2020 : Dog shit turns white when it’s left out to decompose. Colonizers are also white. This was the creators design so that we could recognize shit when we see it. #decolonize
  • 27 July 2020 : All adherence to bullshit respectability politics has been thrown out the window in Portland and I’m living for it.
  • 27 July 2020 : Not a lot of people have the capacity to do that searching for a number of reasons. Including neurodivergency and the lack of access to both technology & an in-depth understanding of how to hack search engines with the right key words and phrases to see beyond sponsored links.
  • 27 July 2020 : What if instead of “boycott amazon immediatey & Guillotine bezos” we started understanding that during the in-real-time collapse of the global supply chain, we should talk about “eliminate as many purchases as possible, support workers, Guillotine Bezos, & nationalize the system”
  • 27 July 2020 : Literally CHEERING in our living room for the praxis of this comrade on the motorcycle 😍 https://twitter.com/th1an1/status/1287679898711134208
  • 27 July 2020 : Ooooooohhhhhh. Lemme dm you real quick.
  • 27 July 2020 : I straight up still need to file timesheets with them that I couldn’t bear to complete because the constant racism, classism, & respectability politics from that board made me legit suicidal & I couldn’t even bear to interact with that system because of my rage & disgust....
  • 27 July 2020 : Lol also wanna give a shoutout to my small union for standing up together against my boss’ racist write up that he filed against his only Black employee in the middle of a global health pandemic as he unwittingly defended a well known community abuser. 🙃
  • 27 July 2020 : Now, the national Jobs With Justice? They’re doing good work and led by a dope Black organizer that deserves a lot of respect for all the work they’re putting in towards revolutionizing labor & putting BIPOC voices into leadership. Can’t say enough good things about the natl team
  • 27 July 2020 : I wonder how much my boss at JWJ regrets being so ignorantly classist, racist, & aligned with all the worst things about the exclusionary “traditional” labor movement even while trying to “improve labor” that I’m no longer employed there. 🙃 I lowkey want his job...
  • 27 July 2020 : 😭😭😭 Twitter needs an edit button. https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1287565263009746944?s=21 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1287565263009746944
  • 27 July 2020 : I wasn’t with that crew but tbh I wish I could have witnessed it. Some straight out of an action movie type shit forreal. Life is wild. 😂
  • 27 July 2020 : New Multnomah county DA Mike Schmidt is live on Facebook right now (without interpreters....) To hear what he’s saying: https://www.facebook.com/mikeschmidt4da/videos/295462968363057/ You can also go comment to tell him to reach out to Fingers Crossed Interpreting before his next livestream and hire them.
  • 27 July 2020 : I know a bunch of people took audio of that. I’m just waiting for someone to drop a remix 😂😂😂😂
  • 27 July 2020 : One time in Portland this year, DJ LRAD had to announce, “Please stop throwing oranges at the officers.” They were actually tangerines 😂
  • 27 July 2020 : When the studying you do before making fake staged photos is actually just binge watching Portlandia and asking a child to describe how to make a bomb.... https://twitter.com/portlandpolice/status/1287611730005069824
  • 27 July 2020 : They do. They just don’t care.
  • 27 July 2020 : It’s fake. That’s not how you make a Molotov lol. Also that paint is still wet. It would have gotten on the “Molotov” props if they were all in a bag together lol. This is a staged prop.
  • 27 July 2020 : THIS IS WHY ITS IMPORTANT FOR YOU TO BLOCK UP! AND STOP RECORDING EACH OTHER. Even if it’s “just” a dance party. Cover your tattoos. Wear your black clothes inside out so they can’t identify you by a logo on your T-shirt. Cover logos on your shoes with reflective duct tape. #pdx https://twitter.com/tuckwoodstock/status/1287827122157838336
  • 27 July 2020 : Ope. Haven’t read this in a while. Jae Carico has been outed as an abuser and perpetuator of domestic violence. Just for folks to be aware. I still support one of their ex-partners/victims. They have a regrettably large Facebook platform still.
  • 27 July 2020 : This day was wild. This summer was the start of 2 years of being willingly dragged all over the country by momentum & with so much unexpected community support. This kettle and day of action was a big day of radicalization for me: https://wethepeople.care/page/view-post?id=327
  • 27 July 2020 : Alright, so people might jump on this & start screaming about the former AG that was working together here (which is now disbanded & defunct) along with the fact that I still hadn’t escaped my abuser & general abuser (Evan Duke) who’s in some of these pictures. But anyways:
  • 27 July 2020 : OH NOOOOOO. 😭🤢
  • 27 July 2020 : Hold on someone wrote an anonymous write up. Lemme find it!
  • 27 July 2020 : I mean it was a fucking nightmare but so many people got out of a 2 block radius with no exits except through buildings and mysteriously locked down parking garages with fucking barbed wire gates. It was wild. The Black leaders made shit HAPPEN.
  • 27 July 2020 : Hahaha honestly my favorite story is a 3 part series of unbelievable group escapes from the giant kettle that DC feds tried to pull on the Black-led march to ICE after that bullshit 30-fash “Unite The Right 2” rally in 2018. A restaurant escape. A magical pair of wire cutters. 🤪
  • 27 July 2020 : One time in MX, after a night of getting tear gassed by US feds, we were all at the safe house. Someone was cutting onions & I kept complaining about the onions being so strong for an hour before I realized they were done cutting onions & my glasses had CS residue on them still. https://twitter.com/tuckwoodstock/status/1287612665641091072
  • 27 July 2020 : RT @ItsDanaWhite: I want homelessness, a crisis created and sustained by capitalism, resolved in my lifetime.
  • 27 July 2020 : Not just you. This always happens as movements gain this level of visibility and attention. It’s a perfect storm of misinformation and moving pieces that people like to try to take advantage of. Stay vigilant and confirm sources/spellings before sharing things out!
  • 27 July 2020 : I don’t subscribe to blood quantum as per the genocidal push the US government made to raze our communities to dust through eugenics.
  • 27 July 2020 : I would assume that means all Non-Binary parents. Essentially my understanding is Women/Femmes and Non-Men from the language used but that’s not a direct quote.
  • 27 July 2020 : Indigenous should be capitalized and considering that I’m Indigenous I know that.
  • 27 July 2020 : ...okay, I’m gonna finish the nightly reading of messages across platforms,doing necessary boosting and THEN sleep
  • 27 July 2020 : Need Request for a Black Mom here in #PDX ! BOOST THIS AND FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS! 100% sure this account is the real account and we need y’all to report down the embedded account which I’ll link to in my replies! Report and block! #PortlandProtest https://twitter.com/laquishareal/status/1287624677267918849
  • 27 July 2020 : Okay yall, it’s my bed time. Which means it’s actually past my bedtime. Which means its probably past some of yalls bedtimes too. Remember to get rest. Remember to move in shifts. If you can’t sleep, consider taking a nighttime duty with a sleeping bag @riotribs . They need help.
  • 27 July 2020 : What a beautiful wild savage terrifying brutal hellscape it is that we live in.... https://twitter.com/inafutureage/status/1287614220347912192
  • 27 July 2020 : I have continually said that BLM encompasses all of this because black lives are disproportionately affected by the same oppressive systems that tie all of these fights together. BLM is the rally call because it means break EVERY chain. It’s an abolitionist movement. Period.
  • 27 July 2020 : This!!! I’m organizing a self care sleepover for a loved one in crises who we’re all gathering to give love and support to her this week. It’s organizing. It’s community care. It’s self care. It’s revolutionary. Love each other RADICALLY. Please. You deserve. Radical rest, love https://twitter.com/domestiqueer/status/1287615135859658753
  • 27 July 2020 : It’s actually written out as PANdemIC in the title. 😂
  • 27 July 2020 : I’m being so real. Find an empty space. People will use it. It’s just a gift to the community for neighborhood enrichment. Would ted wheeler get mad at that? Wouldn’t he have liked a couch after that one single time he got tear gassed for the press? 🤷🏽‍♀️
  • 27 July 2020 : while I do regret a lot of things about my visibility, I will say this: it’s only marginally affected the way I tweet which is simultaneously hilarious, concerning, and also invigorating so 🤷🏽‍♀️🥶😂 I cant/will not do these things. But I wonder what would happen if someone did... https://twitter.com/cari_luna/status/1287563266802122752
  • 27 July 2020 : Now we’re all just trying to organize a modern resistance against a federal fascist regime while ALSO trying to do the shit we were doing before and it’s one clusterfuck of random nightmare situations all happening at once. But like, we’re still balancing it to some degree so...
  • 27 July 2020 : Lololor at the flowchart I just found from March titled “PANIC THOT ORGANIZING” filled with mementos from the projects a bunch of us were working on in #PDX to push further towards a radically united community unreliant on state supply chains. 🙃⚰️ pic.twitter.com/XPpCLpUBRg
  • 27 July 2020 : 👀👀👀👀👀 where y’all sports fanatics at and why I don’t see y’all talking about this? https://twitter.com/edgeofsports/status/1287374072150712321
  • 27 July 2020 : Maybe check whatever media you’re following and consider how you can step back from the mainstream and follow the folks reporting on these goals, demands and instersectional efforts for months.
  • 27 July 2020 : Yes, and???? We’ve been talking about all these details for months. Multiple orgs have been talking about workers councils for months. We’re a little preoccupied with the feds but we haven’t lost our mission. https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1286749574892122112?s=21 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1286749574892122112
  • 27 July 2020 : Who said anything about stopping there?? We said abolition not “please don’t kill us”
  • 27 July 2020 : Same tbh.
  • 27 July 2020 : All I’m saying is... if people spent day light hours building barricades then... who’s going to stop them? The police? Which ones? Instead of sleeping? Seems like an opportunity to get daytime attention to even further spread thin those federal troops serving PPB & @tedwheeler
  • 27 July 2020 : 🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️ Im just sharing thoughts into the internet void. Definitely not in charge of where they would go. But I bet if a bunch of people downtown were randomly given a couch and some ideas they could make something cool....
  • 27 July 2020 : I’m imagining like two sturdy as fuck sheet wood walls but like 2 feet apart and facing each other, but: Filled with sandbags. You know like a barricade. That’s enforced. And sturdy. Like uhhh, a fence.... #thepeoplesperimeters I remember some folks good at cementing shit #pdx https://twitter.com/harkenpdx/status/1287566981093236736
  • 27 July 2020 : Lots of resources in this thread: https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1283995727031488513?s=21 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1283995727031488513
  • 27 July 2020 : Inspiration brought to you by: https://twitter.com/bread_headed/status/1287495525554483200?s=21 https://twitter.com/bread_headed/status/1287495525554483200
  • 27 July 2020 : #PDX - What If y’all started dropping off couches downtown...& just covered them with those plastic covers every black Auntie had over all her *living room* furniture & gave them a good sanitzation on a regular basis... wonder if they could be used to start mapping barricades...
  • 27 July 2020 : As soon I sent “our” I almost barfed. Meant your. Lol
  • 27 July 2020 : So many people underestimate children’s capacity for emotional intelligence, wisdom, and excellent communication skills. All they need is a safe place to practice. Preferably w/ peers. It’s why @UPNOW2020 is so vitally important. Kids need space to learn through play. Fee free. https://twitter.com/r__ariel/status/1287490007632994304
  • 27 July 2020 : If the cops are exhausted and terrified you’re doing it right. The US military isn’t the only group who’s heard of PsyOps... we’ve learned it for generations in real time. And we continue to learn how to do it better. Cause we’ve got more people for the job. Wear them down.
  • 27 July 2020 : Can we also name every still employed cop @PortlandPolice who’s murdered Black, Brown, Indigenous, and houseless members of our community? Where do they live? Where do they sleep? https://twitter.com/lalapdx1/status/1280944816457580544
  • 27 July 2020 : DM me about this tomorrow as a refresher and I’ll take some specific time to look?
  • 27 July 2020 : #SEATTLE Comrades! https://twitter.com/iambday/status/1287543151293378560
  • 27 July 2020 : I hate our country..... https://twitter.com/hkrassenstein/status/1287518089047937025
  • 27 July 2020 : RT @PaulyneDuong: It costed me $12 to remove two wisdom teeth in Korea. The US is robbing us of basic shit I swear to god.
  • 27 July 2020 : THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS. #PDXStrong means . https://twitter.com/tuckwoodstock/status/1287485705984196609
  • 27 July 2020 : Hid that account reply and blocked it!!
  • 26 July 2020 : #PDXPROTEST - Be sure to light some candles and make some signs to also honor our fallen comrade Garrett Foster in Austin, TX who showed up to protect & support Black lives and had his life stolen. #portlandStrong #RestInPower #PDX #PortlandProtest #austin #AustinProtest https://twitter.com/mike_r_brigade/status/1287535342447403014
  • 26 July 2020 : Somebody in the @WallOfMoms Facebook group just brought up their experiences as a non-binary parent. Admins in the group are reminding people that this group is explicitly for “Moms & Non-binary Parents” which can be found in the group description. Wall of Moms said #TransRights
  • 26 July 2020 : New York Stand Up!! https://twitter.com/sxnoir/status/1287402681808502787
  • 26 July 2020 : If y’all don’t stop DM’ing me & saying “sorry to bother you” as if I’m not constantly blasting that my DM’s are open and begging people, especially BIPOC, to let me know if I’m missing something I should boost or if y’all see a community need that hasn’t been filled. You matter.
  • 26 July 2020 : #PDXprotest community!! It is 95 degrees outside today. Drink more water. It’s going to stay hot into the evening. Drink more water. You’re going to sweat if you go out downtown tonight & that will dehydrate you. Drink more water. Text your friends. Tell them to drink water.
  • 26 July 2020 : There’s a couple (non-professionally trained i believe) crisis lines that have been set up. I’ll have to see if I can track down those flyers. I think there’s two different ones?
  • 26 July 2020 : Thread filled with Disability Justice accounts y’all follow so that we can learn from (AND SUPPORT) them too? I’ll start: @Imani_Barbarin is an amazing person to follow, support, learn from and boost/amplify. Take a scroll down their followers list and follow them too.
  • 26 July 2020 : In case you missed this tweet last night: https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1287352725865238528
  • 26 July 2020 : I literally buy extra packs of cheap cigs to give away before actions because #mutualaid 😂 I still remember the deliveries of cigarettes for comrades during those easy summer cruising days of occupy ice and just our local invading force.
  • 26 July 2020 : Your name gives me life. The only bureau I approve of hahaha
  • 26 July 2020 : Literally started smoking less than a week after the trauma that got me my PTSD diagnosis because—turns out they’re really good at stopping my panic attacks & the experiences I had with the healthcare system didn’t make me feel supported to get on anxiety meds so 🤷🏽‍♀️ yeah 😅
  • 26 July 2020 : sometimes I forget that like people let their kids follow me so I wanna very firmly say that: -I’ve been actively trying to quit smoking for 8 months -it’s not cool -smoking a cigarette I’m a crowd of tear gas makes you irresponsible not a badass. I’m a hypocrite. I’m sorry.
  • 26 July 2020 : idk if I’ve ever felt more validated 😂 https://twitter.com/griffinmalone6/status/1287511769615757313
  • 26 July 2020 : Good advice in understanding how to help your body when you’ve been triggered and aree experiencing the accompanying anxiety/adrenaline rush. https://twitter.com/babbytomeetyou/status/1287505481884295168
  • 26 July 2020 : Omg I know y’all can give so much advice to this person cause so many of y’all are doing SO MANY THINGS right now. What are your best ways to prevent burnout? Can we start a community thread sharing RADICAL self care practices? From baths to therapy to “no screen time” hours.... https://twitter.com/catreadstheory/status/1287159868684550144
  • 26 July 2020 : I did indeed laugh. 😅
  • 26 July 2020 : I love that as I sit outside chain smoking and working, my first indication that my roommate is up and awake for the morning (uprising time) is a twitter notification from them. 😂 #WakeAndScroll is the new #WakeAndBake .
  • 26 July 2020 : Me to all my friends: pic.twitter.com/ODEQoDNGpz
  • 26 July 2020 : #radicalvulnerability 🤣 No but forreal, I’d rather talk about this with the privilege of only ever having this happen once in my life. Meanwhile we’ve got so many invisibly disabled comrades out on the streets with us EVERY NIGHT. & this was a reminder that y’all are warriors
  • 26 July 2020 : Literally just casually sharted for the first time ever in my life while just like chilling at home & I wanna use this moment to say we really need to dismantle the ableism inherent in teasing people with incontinence issues as if that’s something anyone can control. Google IBS.
  • 26 July 2020 : I’m gonna try and convince them to get on twitter. That handles already taken but I want them here so bad lol
  • 26 July 2020 : I’m watching this video upon waking up and my other favorite part of this video is how none of the other feds even flinch or turn to him or ask how he’s doing lol. That fed woulda got much better care across the fence if he wasn’t choosing to be on the wrong side of history.🤷🏽‍♀️
  • 26 July 2020 : Also, use that hyperlink above to give them money!!!
  • 26 July 2020 : These youth are fucking nonstop and watching them organize behind the scenes is a blessing and a fucking gift. Their commitment to learning coupled with their courage to lead are truly the example we all need to learn by. #pdxprotest peeps, if you’re not following them, go do it!
  • 26 July 2020 : I really just need to say that the youth over at Fridays4Freedom on Instagram are literally organizing in circles around most of the people I know while learning from the best possible mentees in the game here in #PDX . Account: https://instagram.com/fridays4freedom?igshid=9k2a1vtb9dlx https://linktr.ee/Fridays4Freedom
  • 26 July 2020 : Alright y’all. I’m feeling productive so I was pushing myself to keep working but that’s irresponsible and counterproductive. I need sleep. And a bunch of y’all do too. Try to stop trauma scrolling & downloading all the updates. Take some process time and get some sleep. Night!
  • 26 July 2020 : This movement is not about me as an individual and it will never be about me as an individual and I feel the need to continually say this as my personal social media account here keeps growing. Keep checking my pinned tweet. Follow the people I boost. It’s intentional. Punch up.
  • 26 July 2020 : I’ve repeatedly been called to question. I’ve repeatedly made myself accountable to folks approaching me in good faith. My DM’s remain open to anyone who takes issue with my largely public actions. (Not gonna entertain luis’ defenders tho. That abuse line is closed.)
  • 26 July 2020 : I’m literally less concerned about my reputation in Portland than I am about the safety of the thousands of people downtown being led away from a larger, inherently safer, crowd for what looks a lot like an opportunity to boost a few instagrams to follow with no followthrough.
  • 26 July 2020 : The *only* reason I knew about this was because I had friends who were marking themselves safe from natural disasters on Facebook. #HurricaneHannah https://twitter.com/ericholthaus/status/1287284295657283584
  • 26 July 2020 : @cnn @nytimes @seattletimes @latimes @democracynow @MSNBC @TimesMagazine @NBCNews #HOTTIP - The Portland Police waited until after the mayor went to get tear gassed as a media ploy for his re-election campaign before they continued to use the same tear gas & weapons as before.
  • 26 July 2020 : If this isn’t the true depiction of Portland that we’ve been waiting for the national media to see then idk what is. Our local police working indiscriminately alongside the federal government, once again using the tactics they’d been using all throughout the 6 weeks prior to feds https://twitter.com/hungrybowtie/status/1287307015765626882
  • 26 July 2020 : This is the Portland I stand with on the street. Every single night. They’re fighting and reminding and teaching people to make sure to always chant Quanice Hayes & Jason Washington & Tete Gulley & Kendra James & Patrick Kimmons’ names too. Because this is about BLACK LIVES. https://twitter.com/tuckwoodstock/status/1287240341666422789
  • 26 July 2020 : Literally. Like I don’t go around asking who every black person with a megaphone is. I’ve repeatedly offered crowds of black strangers opportunities to use my megaphone. But people splitting a crowd @ night for a empty building? I gave them my contact. But Idgaf. That’s unsafe.
  • 26 July 2020 : Hey @democracynow can we talk more about the local police next time who’ve been biding their time for exactly this moment here in PDX. This is why we continue saying the federal police are in our way right now! We’re still coming for PPB & @tedwheeler . Our goal is disbandment. https://twitter.com/portlandpolice/status/1287302667195150336
  • 26 July 2020 : #pdx #alerta https://twitter.com/proudbulba/status/1287312202374893569
  • 26 July 2020 : Good to know! Thanks for the context! ❤️💕❤️
  • 26 July 2020 : Same I’m just watching it over and over again.
  • 26 July 2020 : Right same?!? What a hero lol.
  • 26 July 2020 : Punching down on sex workers is broke but this video is woke as fuck. 🤷🏽‍♀️ gotta keep life in balance
  • 26 July 2020 : Fucking cackling. 😂☠️ you win.
  • 26 July 2020 : I cannot stop watching this on repeat. Omg.
  • 26 July 2020 : STOP IM FUCKLING CACKLING SO HARD THAT I SOUND LIKE I JUST TOOK CS GAS TO THE CHEST. Y’all this is one of my new favorite videos that exists ever.
  • 26 July 2020 : Hi this is my new favorite video that I’ve ever fucking seen. [A 4 second clip taken through the openings of a fence. You can see debris & tear gas behind a wall of uniformed feds inside. One throws a canister over the fence & somethings immediately thrown back & hits his helmet] https://twitter.com/1misanthrophile/status/1287220401609691140
  • 26 July 2020 : Tomato, potato. Duck, duck, goose. All the same. Lmao
  • 26 July 2020 : Must have been some other dope comrade. I spent last night at home so I could be fresh for tonight!
  • 26 July 2020 : pic.twitter.com/sjvYrbLyhe
  • 26 July 2020 : *fucked 🙄
  • 26 July 2020 : And then we gotta keep escalating demands. Forreal. This fight is going to last for YEARS.
  • 26 July 2020 : It’s way less fun to be visible and have to help plan shit than it is to just bloc up and go downtown and fuck shit up like my little anarchist heart wants to. I wanna use my shield to keep the police tf away too 🥺 I wanna carry a leaf blower & laugh as feds get ducked 😭
  • 26 July 2020 : We gotta have goals that are specific and intentional.
  • 26 July 2020 : The goal is to understand that the feds are in the way right now and crumbling the US fascist regime is going to take ORANIZED, targeted, focused & coordinate cross continental action. The goal in PDX is to do our part rn to see feds leave, get our state in line & keep it movin
  • 26 July 2020 : This is a good thread of ideas for a switch up of tactics. I’m on my way home right now but even when I left at 1am the feds we’re still playing peekaboo from their murder holes. Maybe it’s time to skip the Marriott & see how long they last otherwise... #pdx #portlandprotest https://twitter.com/wkjstr/status/1287286690978045969
  • 26 July 2020 : This is not the goal. The goal is Black Liberation. We need feds out of downtown so that we can go back to our main target (the “justice center” & city hall) to demand the defunding, demilitarization & disbandment of the PPB, the resignation of Ted & the dropping out of Sarah. https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1287275745920729093
  • 26 July 2020 : Tbh that’s the exact term I was looking for and couldn’t remember. It was ridiculous.
  • 26 July 2020 : Again, all I can hear is “this is the federal police” on the LRAD before I hear TONS of people start yelling and jeering and cutting off the sound. I’m assuming they’re just announcing an “unlawful assembly” again.
  • 26 July 2020 : But like tbh the top flap of my backpack fell over the top of my head and nearly into the flames so I was just a kneeling black blob literally cradling a small flame with my body & it was very....irresponsible tbh. 😬 Dont imagine this as glorious. It was more like a cut scene.
  • 26 July 2020 : Me- Stop fucking attacking people for flags everywhere & anywhere despite their being media all over the place & any consideration of how that media will be spread. Me to flag carrier-you prioritize a flag over people & attack folks about it again I’ll fucking punch you myself.
  • 26 July 2020 : Just lit my cigarette on the burning flames of a flag and other shit on fire at the old elk statue.
  • 26 July 2020 : “This is the federal protective service” BOOOOOOO!!! Feds have just declared this an unlawful assembly. It’s wild to see folks just stand around casually hanging out as feds announce an impending attack. #pdx #portland #pdxprotest
  • 26 July 2020 : Need met! Thank you! https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1287277744967933952
  • 26 July 2020 : A fucking angel. Important. https://twitter.com/protowatari/status/1287278203791269888
  • 26 July 2020 : #PDX - #MutualAid Request! Urgent! Does anybody have a spare respirator *downtown tonight* that we could give to the older black man tonight on the other bbq grill by the red pop up tent? He’s out here grilling for folks with no goggles and no mask. And CoVID is still killing us
  • 26 July 2020 : Motherfucking cops. I can’t figure out any reason that wouldn’t have loaded with the service I have considering I posted a video earlier just fine....
  • 26 July 2020 : The video didn’t load apparently despite an entire full 5 bars of service. I’m sorry y’all!! https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1287269106459144193
  • 26 July 2020 : We’re here on the steps of the (in)Justice center in PDX sharing some words about the heart of this BLM movement. https://www.pscp.tv/w/cevF4zFheWpWYnJaSmJOanB8MXJteFBZcG5CTWJLTrFuesmbomnXF4HCHHUqWT_LLUbOnTAC2Lbl_4YFK5Py
  • 26 July 2020 : Alright get ready to share the video I’m about to go live on. I need some folks at home to consider typing what I’m saying in the comments of the live-stream so that Deaf & HOH folx can stay informed. https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1287265616173215744
  • 26 July 2020 : I’m sitting up here blasting Fuck The Police by NWA on one of the parapets on the general fed building (where PPrB likes to set up). When the second match reached downtown I’m gonna say some words about our mission down here in pdx. Feel free to tag the press in the replies.
  • 26 July 2020 : Exactly!
  • 26 July 2020 : this group did not want to name themselves because they know we don’t fuck with Portland Protest Bureau and Black Unity (who are affiliated with rose city justice). Don’t just follow random fucking people. Ask what their purpose is. Why would you go to Marriott when feds are dt? https://twitter.com/abscondita_79/status/1287251403291803648 pic.twitter.com/5cDh2DPniW
  • 26 July 2020 : YALL ARE BEING LED TO I-5 FOR WHAT REASON???? #PDXprotest #PortlandStrong #portlandprotest #pdx #portland A bridge that the cops can kettle you on in the middle of the night where you know feds will tear gas you puts you in a position where your only escape is cops or water. https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1287249274749607936
  • 26 July 2020 : Straight up and we’ve been trying to teach these white people for weeks not to just follow anyone with a microphone BUT THEY DONT LISTEN
  • 26 July 2020 : What leadership? Who? Name them?
  • 26 July 2020 : NONE OF THE FEDS ARE AT THE MARRIOTT RN THATS A DAY TIME TARGET TO DISRUPT THEIR SLEEP
  • 26 July 2020 : Text all your friends downtown and ask if they abandoned everyone and tell them to go the fuck back to the jc. Get the fuck back to the JC.
  • 26 July 2020 : Who tf are y’all following over to the Marriott??? #pdx #portlandprotest and like why are you abandoning folks who are going to get fucked up downtown?? And why are y’all abandoning @riotribs ? At TEN PM
  • 26 July 2020 : Idk why I tweet about being places at specific times as if I’m ever anywhere on time. Heading out from my current location in approx 20 minutes 🙃 I’ll hit y’all up when I’m down there!
  • 26 July 2020 : Clipomatic! Make sure to use headphones with a mic for best accuracy in the auto captions that you can then review and edit. It is a few bucks I believe but well worth it.
  • 26 July 2020 : Okay. I’m going offline on social media until I’m on my way downtown. Gotta charge up my battery banks, eat food, restock my medic bag, coordinate some supplies & get dressed. Be back later! See you on the streets!
  • 26 July 2020 : Y’all should send @tedwheeler & @ChloeEudalyPDX & @AmandaFritzRN & @JoAnnPDX some emails about this.... https://twitter.com/alankesslr/status/1287139360345751552
  • 26 July 2020 : Make sure y’all tell all of them that though. I just like to make sure that if Jo-Ann’s gonna keep using “progressive” language they include access for our most marginalized or stop claiming language they’re not acting out. @tedwheeler is NOTORIOUS for not having access too.
  • 26 July 2020 : Y’all better make sure to remind @JoAnnPDX that it is the bare minimum duty of that office to find and pay for an ASL interpreter for these testimonies AND ensure the interpreter video is the main video on screen at all times. Please and thank you. https://twitter.com/joannpdx/status/1286749829176205314
  • 26 July 2020 : Content Warning: Graphic Image (of a warrior smiling for a pic with a severe head injury from the feds) https://twitter.com/kohzkah/status/1287106522846236672
  • 26 July 2020 : CW: Sexual Assault Let’s not forget to mention that at least one, if not multiple, people who’ve been “detained but not arrested” by the police have reported rape by officers upon release. https://twitter.com/andrewmcrespo/status/1285738001004482561
  • 26 July 2020 : A REALLY REALLY REALLY GREAT THREAD YALL SHOULD AMPLIFY! Great info on how to help & folx to support! Please share! #AbolishThePolice #BLM #PDXUPRISING #PortlandKidnappings #portlandprotest #pdxprotest #portlandoregon #pdx https://twitter.com/thorncoyle/status/1287172752915349505
  • 25 July 2020 : Enough speakers and amps and generators! Just need a pickup truck or trailer and tow vehicle! In case equipment needs evacuated because of the uniformed fascists.
  • 25 July 2020 : #defendPDX
  • 25 July 2020 : I love your twitter name and handle lmfao
  • 25 July 2020 : Also this is being called for by a dear trusted comrade and loved one that I definitely trust with my life and am happy to vouch for personally. They’re not usually super visible online & I don’t share any random event boosted by someone with so few followers w/o vetting.
  • 25 July 2020 : BOOST THIS PLEASE #PDX . Please consider planning your shifts each night of protest! I’m usually either out from around 8pm-1am or 11pm-4am. We need people out there into the morning always! It’s an 8-1ish shift for me today. What shifts do y’all use to keep the crowd full? https://twitter.com/comradepiper/status/1287136356263583744
  • 25 July 2020 : Hi everybody! Here’s a captioned update on the sound system support request. Also got a rad lesson from a pal at SoundBloc on more specific language I can use next time regarding sound equipment needs. Y’all offered so many things I didn’t know had names. 😅 Need met 4 tonight! pic.twitter.com/f6hQRRy3gv
  • 25 July 2020 : Abolish the police. As a start. That’s step 1.
  • 25 July 2020 : I’m going to make a captioned video to give y’all an update on this in a few minutes. Then I’ve got some emails and work to do. Then I’ll see y’all downtown around 8-8:30pm!
  • 25 July 2020 : Alright well this now is turning into a bigger thing I think. So if you DM’d me about small systems like I asked, that won’t be needed tonight. We’ve got crews with huge systems working to set up something louder for folks.
  • 25 July 2020 : “I want to make sure we’re getting radical Black and Indigenous leaders listened to tonight instead of the reformist protest crew.”
  • 25 July 2020 : I also just ordered 8 full face ones but they won’t be here until July 30-August 5th!
  • 25 July 2020 : Damn y’all. I’ve got like 10 DMs about sound. Including our friends at Sound/Snac Bloc with their huge systems. I was just going to try to stand up on that parapet PPrB was on and invite folks up but this may be turning into a whole thing now. Will keep y’all updated!! https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1287124302798569472
  • 25 July 2020 : I also need like 5 full face gas masks for my crew (including 2 trained medics) who went out last night in the same respirators & goggles they’ve been using for the past month & got fucked up by the sheer amount of tear gas. 3 of us got fucked trying to go medic these last 48hrs
  • 25 July 2020 : Hi, does anyone have a decent sized microphone and portable speaker system I could use tonight? I want to make sure we’re getting radical Black and Indigenous leaders listened to tonight instead of the reformist protest crew. DMs open.
  • 25 July 2020 : SEATTLE COMRADES! https://twitter.com/nlg_seattle/status/1287082652667768832
  • 25 July 2020 : You’re pretty 💕💕💕 happy birthday!
  • 25 July 2020 : 🤷🏽‍♀️ white people gonna white people. But the whole cop thing is funny considering that Elle has literally openly attended (and defended attending) meetings with literal cops. pic.twitter.com/jotvYRWCnQ
  • 25 July 2020 : Lol they also just misgendered me. Lol despite consistently being mad online about me accidentally misgendering them once after they came out two years into a long term series of bullshit owning the title of “problematic white feminist sex worker lady extroidinaire”. 🤪
  • 25 July 2020 : After you watch the first highlight you can watch this one: https://www.instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2h0OjE3ODU2NjU2MjYzMzg1NTY5?igshid=psken5ipsbq9&story_media_id=2024952033016477317 Then this one: https://www.instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2h0OjE3ODU2NjU2MjYzMzg1NTY5?igshid=psken5ipsbq9&story_media_id=2024952033016477317 And finally this one: https://www.instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2h0OjE3ODU5NDQ4MDUxODExMTgx?igshid=8kpidmi2gp68&story_media_id=2267802121107935181 Elle is an abuser & is not welcome in local or international online sex worker communities. Please block.
  • 25 July 2020 : Ah, yes. Famous white stripper femme Elle Stanger is calling me a cop informant again. While simulataneously sharing posts from Revolution Rising - aka some of my literal best friends in the movement. Please block them. Info on where this all started: https://www.instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2h0OjE4MDE3OTA3MDE2MTcyNTM5?igshid=1eqi59zmzu8rd&story_media_id=2027115533467908062 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1270093677088501760 pic.twitter.com/OQN51fi8lF
  • 24 July 2020 : I’m tired of visiting you at work and then randomly running into you on the streets 😑 especially that one time you were ALONEEEEEEE. 😒
  • 24 July 2020 : Fucking finally.
  • 24 July 2020 : But idk why you’re following an abolitionist just to defend more white saviors & help stifle the vision of a truly abolitionist movement growing internationally that does not put our faith in any part of the state not run by black revolutionaries risking death to do that work. 🤷🏽‍♀️
  • 24 July 2020 : If you desperately want another reformist white savior in office and still are clinging to the necessity of engaging in respectability politics and the importance of enacting mediocre levels of change in what is an oppressive, invalid system in the first place that’s fine.
  • 24 July 2020 : This is choosing not to vote for oppressors & understanding that Sarah could drop out at any time @ ask her supporters to vote for/give their resources to Teressa (& through Tx Don’t Shoot PDX who’s helping lead this movement) just as she could have done @ any time. No yt saviors https://twitter.com/sabonishook/status/1286799973544153089
  • 24 July 2020 : Uhhhh, wait what? Sharing this to read later myself, too. https://twitter.com/ruth_hhopkins/status/1286790740866195458
  • 24 July 2020 : My fam out in #Tampa is holding it the fuck down. And there needs to be more visibility and awareness about the fash (uniformed and otherwise) that are targeting visible BIPOC and non-black revolutionaries, activists, and organizers. #TampaProtest #ftp https://www.tampabay.com/news/2020/07/24/protesters-accuse-tampa-officers-of-harassment-renew-call-for-police-chief-to-be-fired/
  • 24 July 2020 : YES IVE BEEN TRYING TO FIND VIDEOS OF THIS MOMENT. FUCK TEVIS #WARCRIMESWHEELER . https://twitter.com/jonathan_maus/status/1286182494211936256
  • 24 July 2020 : Here’s an instagram link to the account of the Black #magat who flew in from Texas during the middle of a global health pandemic to stand backs to the feds & defend a steel fence. They’re not here for black lives. They’re here for clout. Ignore them. If youre yt, keep hands off. https://twitter.com/risingdad/status/1286766050550390785 pic.twitter.com/0tpNoI8JFb
  • 24 July 2020 : Thanks for doing what you’re doing. And being willing to own up to wrongs and listen to feedback. Organizing is a lot of hard work, pressure and trauma but being willing to step back when asked is important for all of us. Using your time for this is a good step forward.
  • 24 July 2020 : Mom bloc set up a Facebook group to get everyone connected in one place and then started establishing a keybase communications platform! It’s been solid. Would definitely recommend reaching out to them for advice!
  • 24 July 2020 : My friend just called me cause we’re about to run errands and just confirmed that name was right!! I love them. Got a BIPOC comrade who works there!
  • 24 July 2020 : There’s also a shop called “The Peoples Dispensary” I believe. Or something of that name. Black owned if I’m not wrong.
  • 24 July 2020 : RT @weirddoggies: Canine professionals against using dogs as tools of the state for racial violence and oppression? Everyone has a place…
  • 24 July 2020 : Sounds like this is an opportunity to find BIPOC leaders for chef bloc and step back to let them lead as you continue the long process we all have of undoing the propaganda we’ve been taught. Wall of Moms has done a great job modeling what that process looks like. pic.twitter.com/AEennzwFHb
  • 24 July 2020 : #AbolishPrisons #EmptyTheJails #FreeThePeople https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2020/07/downtown-jail-inmates-hitting-panic-buttons-due-to-tear-gas-wafting-into-cells-lawyers-say.html
  • 24 July 2020 : Sandbags I believe.
  • 24 July 2020 : #PDX #PDXprotest #PortlandOregon #portlandprotest https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1286760066658340864
  • 24 July 2020 : Also saw this! [Image Description: Black image with green tingef stack of books on the right. Text says:Teachers Against Tyrants - 8:45pm - July 24 - Salmon St. Fountain - Mask Up - Eye Protection - Ear Protection - Helmets - Wear Green and Bring a Sign with what grade you teach] pic.twitter.com/KkfyU74Z37
  • 24 July 2020 : #PDX - I know there’s a bunch of black folks working to reclaim cannabis here in Portland. Lots of numbers I could dig for in my phone but do they have twitters or can y’all drop Instagram links below? https://twitter.com/uselesspouch/status/1286753040389648385
  • 24 July 2020 : Please please please do some research on the Unemployed Workers Councils that sprang up across the country during & after the complete governmental & collapse of the Great Depression that came about due to the influenza PANDEMIC. We can do the same thing but better.
  • 24 July 2020 : Because we’ve already been talking about the need for a robust, organized united working class making demands of the capitalists for our community’s well being during a global health pandemic. & it needs led by BIPOC in these fields. & we’ve got an opportunity here. For DEMANDS.
  • 24 July 2020 : Now that #ChefBloc & #TeachersAgainstTyranny are a thing: can we start to see other working sectors organize together to come stand up on the streets of our community? & can y’all keep in touch so when feds are gone we can focus on demands for the working class in OR during CoVID
  • 24 July 2020 : Yes! And I mentioned Don’t Shoot by name in my tweet. But people are saying that they’re hearing things from “BLM PDX” as if it exists as its own specific group already organizing and leading.
  • 24 July 2020 : Not sure but a lot of these orgs like Red Cross and more do a lot of gate keeping around access when they come to town. Definitely would recommend that if anyone’s trying to get in contact with those groups, ask for resources from afar (which they CAN do) instead of coming here.
  • 24 July 2020 : Yes!! And there are some really great ways to build washing stations that can live outside with bikes and more materials! #pdx does anyone have one of the zines or links to where folks can make those bike powered washing stations?? https://twitter.com/magpie_092416/status/1286728796364660736
  • 24 July 2020 : https://stories.zagat.com/posts/a-portland-chef-organizes-restaurant-workers-as-chef-bloc-protest
  • 24 July 2020 : Elijah is a *fascist* reporter. There is always a need to target fascists. Elijah has been blocked up recently but live-streams are particularly vulnerable because you can use it to track someone’s location by looking at their surrounding. Y’know if you want to keep track of him https://twitter.com/elijahschaffer/status/1286578233018703872
  • 24 July 2020 : I love y’all. https://twitter.com/diego4change/status/1286481839876706307
  • 24 July 2020 : This sets a real bad precedent... Also, a local in the replies wrote this messsge for Seattle comrades: “This is King County Superior Court Judge Nelson Lee, up for election this year. Endorsed by King County Police Officers Guild.” #seattle #seattleprotests https://twitter.com/seattletimes/status/1286459520051482624
  • 24 July 2020 : Here’s my POV: This is an abolitionist movement. I feel perfectly comfortable asking people to stop platforming reformists and anybody watering down the movement. People shouldn’t just follow any black person with a microphone. Listen to their words & walk away if it’s bs.
  • 24 July 2020 : I know we had like 4 on public property at occupy ICE and that definitely wasn’t city permitted or anything. Anybody remember what company that was?
  • 24 July 2020 : Also, could y’all start building basic little wooden showers/closet type systems for the park blocks and start dropping off those hanging shower bags for houseless neighbors nearby to use to clean up from the gas? Any builders from dad bloc who can work on this?
  • 24 July 2020 : So, uhm, somebody with money wanna order like 5 porta potty’s to be dropped off in Chapman and another 5-10 to be dropped off nearby at the park blocks for our community and neighbors? https://twitter.com/riotribs/status/1286699040902492160
  • 24 July 2020 : @Teressa_Raiford has been with the movement the whole time because her existence has been resistance since the day of her birth. Sarah has not been with us the whole time & we have an opportunity to pour energy into a protest vote if y’all stop trusting white saviors ffs. https://twitter.com/sarahforpdx/status/1286700342835466240
  • 24 July 2020 : Can attest that upon seeing PPB(2) post photos to show who is and is not a part of their team, I’ve seen some of these people since the first weeks of protest. I don’t have any reason to believe they’re collaborators w/ PPB(1) but they have been toxic & watering down demands. https://twitter.com/thatfatantifa/status/1286495972135071744
  • 24 July 2020 : Thanks to everyone who wished her and our family well!
  • 24 July 2020 : My mom is out of the hospital and okay now. They had to do a lot of tests and essentially have said that they’re pretty sure it was/is a complex migraine and not the heart condition that runs in our family. She’s home and safe now. But she’s an essential worker. And breadwinner.
  • 24 July 2020 : RT @imlaceyimfine: hey Portland. can we do a thread where you post a picture of a munition you retrieved and I post the product informatio…
  • 24 July 2020 : RT @NLG_Portland: 🚨 ALERT! 🚨 We are rolling out a new phone number for jail support and non-jail support TONIGHT! The 971-247-1072 number i…
  • 24 July 2020 : psst... don’t buy spray paint in Portland city limits cause they’ll ID you. Take a road trip. Send your white friends. https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1286123705463054337
  • 23 July 2020 : My mom just texted me that she’s in the ER. I was devestated that she’s probably been going through this alone b/c of CoVID. Then she told me my dad is with her. Which was an immediate relief. & then immediately worrisome b/c, yknow, COVID. Fuck living through history.
  • 23 July 2020 : #VoteNoOnSarahIannarone #TheSaviorShipMeasure #VoteNoOnWhiteSaviors #VoteYesForTeressaRaiford
  • 23 July 2020 : Highly recommend to everyone to just block and please ignore. Don’t feel the need to defend me. I don’t co-sign angry DM’s or replies @ sex workers even if they’re actively lying and/or misrepresenting things to feel validated in their emotions.
  • 23 July 2020 : @ChloeEudalyPDX just followed me on twitter & tbh it’s 2 years too late because the photo ops at occupy ice were nice & all when actually talking to ppl about ids for all but uh, where you been at since March? Will you endorse Teressa if you’re about it? Y’all still got my email?
  • 23 July 2020 : I do not know. 😅 that’s why I’m asking twitter. But my 13y/o brother hasn’t called me freaking out about seeing me on tiktok yet so I can’t imagine they like me very much. 😂
  • 23 July 2020 : Ahh, yes, misgendering me, lying, calling me anti-Semitic for being anti-Zionist. This girl literally called the fbi months ago for help & then came to my crying about how she was wrong and I was right and “the fbi doesn’t care about sex workers or nazis” 🙄🙄
  • 23 July 2020 : Okay but I love your kid specifically and personally for being a badass comrade already... 💕❤️💕
  • 23 July 2020 : I’m trying to find video of that and I can’t find it anywhere and I’m so confused because there were so many fucking cameras 😭😭😭
  • 23 July 2020 : okay wait, I know I’m like “famous” now (🤮🥴🤢🤮) but like, do the kids on tiktok know me? Do they like me? I don’t think any of this matters if the kids don’t approve of my messaging....
  • 23 July 2020 : this mad me so sad when I read it last night lmao. I was like how??
  • 23 July 2020 : somewhere* 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
  • 23 July 2020 : When you love your friends so much that anytime you even SEE their deadname written someone on the internet you immediately go into mom bear mode and get really mad before realizing it’s just some random cis person on the internet & you need to calm the fuck down. 😅
  • 23 July 2020 : If you haven’t put the fuck out for money, goods, resources etc—stop calling yourself a whore. It’s a slur that sex workers are reclaiming not a cute little joke to say to your friends. #StopTheWarOnWhores means stop dehumanizing us and using our job as an insult.
  • 23 July 2020 : I think there’s a great opportunity here! And I’m seeing lots of fantastic discussion. Are y’all in the Facebook group? Black moms are organizing to have a Black Moms Only meeting to discuss issues in a safe way & bring them back to WOM who’ve been very receptive to feedback
  • 23 July 2020 : Pretty sure I’m at the point where it’s not really safe for me to just be traveling in the city alone and that fucking sucks tbh. I have so much to do.
  • 23 July 2020 : #noytsaviors https://twitter.com/sarahforpdx/status/1286329379178479619
  • 23 July 2020 : https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1286252070811529217?s=21 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1286252070811529217
  • 23 July 2020 : right?
  • 23 July 2020 : #teargasted really can be summed up with this meme. Don’t let Tevis try to reclaim this hashtag. @tedwheeler ’s full name is: Edward “ #teargastevis ” Wheeler. But residents just line to call him the nickname we gave him this year: #warcrimeswheeler #pdx #PDXprotest #portland pic.twitter.com/loYKVdBbNH
  • 23 July 2020 : The room exploded tbh. Literally to see a group of mothers, warriors yelling across the fancy rose room furtniture cursing ted out for that response... *chefs kiss* But, now, Ted’s gotten tear gassed. Why? Because he wanted to. Why? He wants fake progressive points for November.
  • 23 July 2020 : I’ll never forget that on June 6th, while in the rose room with a group of women, BIPOC mothers & femmes, after trying to tell us about how they wanted to “do a study on tear gas” I asked Ted point blank why he’d never been tear gassed & he said “I don’t want to get tear gassed.”
  • 23 July 2020 : Well have to figure it out tomorrow. I just put bulba to bed in their pokeball.
  • 23 July 2020 : thanks, bulba. very helpful. time for bed now. 🌙 pic.twitter.com/jHmsUnXVom
  • 23 July 2020 : Okay, but like when tho? Do we all get a +1? And can mine be a German Shepard?
  • 23 July 2020 : 😬 Cleveland?
  • 23 July 2020 : Oakland?
  • 23 July 2020 : Fuck this clout shit, y’all. Like y’all wanna talk about social Capitol like it doesn’t come with death threats & some weird gross local idolizations. I regret nothing more than accidentally telling a bunch of organizers I was good at public speaking cause anonymity is more FUN.
  • 23 July 2020 : Oh same and that’s why I walked away cause oooh, boy sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference between intrusive thoughts and daydreams.
  • 23 July 2020 : I’m really mad I didn’t snatch them and throw them when I had the chance.
  • 23 July 2020 : But the national media won’t hear us when we say that we’re NOT EVEN OUT HERE ABOUT FEDS YET. We’re still coming for ted & PPB for the years of abuse, tear gas, near murders, & actual murders they’ve committed. The feds are just in the way for now. That’s bottom up organizing.
  • 23 July 2020 : Ted is up for re-election. The only thing incredible about this is that @tedwheeler is so desperate to cling to office for a second term (despite obviously hating it) that he went this far for some “good” press. And national media is already falling for it.
  • 23 July 2020 : Here’s the video of when we brought ted down here on June 6th to demand that his @PortlandPolice stop using this same tear gas on us. Ted’s employees were too scared to tear gas him. But we (& Ted) all knew the feds wouldn’t be. This is performative bs. https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1269096018135486464?s=21 https://twitter.com/bymikebaker/status/1286194497559252992
  • 23 July 2020 : Definitely need to hit up all those companies and shit too tho
  • 23 July 2020 : Like City Hall? Where the mayor and our commissioners work? Which is across the street from this location?
  • 23 July 2020 : IMAGINE SAYING A WHITE WOMAN WAS GETTING TEAR GASSED IN THE STREETS FIRST AS IF SARAH DIDNT KNOWINGLY CHOOSE TO RUN AGAINST A BLACK WOMAN WHOS EXPERIENCED THE DEVASTATING EFFECTS OF LOSING LOVED ONES TO POLICE OH MY GOD I HATE IT HERE. https://twitter.com/saxgoddess22/status/1286206031094194177
  • 23 July 2020 : I second this.
  • 23 July 2020 : I *very* rarely cry in public. But I was so angry I was straight up blinking back tears. I spent more time blinking rapidly because of my anger than the fucking tear gas I swear.
  • 23 July 2020 : 👀 https://nypost.com/2020/07/20/more-americans-dropping-acid-because-the-worlds-on-fire-study/
  • 23 July 2020 : But can we consider recognizing that the connection might lie with the earth, this location, and the people/community here in this area as opposed to continuing to associate it with a colonizer state? With Indigenous sovereignty & decolonization wouldn’t this place still be home
  • 23 July 2020 : ???? I didn’t tell you shit about your place and obviously we don’t all live on the Rez but personally I’m not about to disrespect all my ancestors by uplifting *any* colonizer flag. And I’m definitely not gonna just be like “oh some colonizer symbolism as a treat is cool” 🙄
  • 23 July 2020 : This is Chinook land and Oregon was founded as a white supremacist state and Portland is the whitest most racist city I’ve ever lived in. Please stop.
  • 23 July 2020 : 💕❤️💕
  • 23 July 2020 : “Listen to Black abolitionists”
  • 23 July 2020 : This person has a ton of fucked up shit on their page and is likely wasting your time.
  • 23 July 2020 : I know lol I saw afterwords the anti communist shit but also lots of libs that ask this shit too so at least I don’t have to dig out links again for a minute 😅😂
  • 23 July 2020 : Specifically I mean, reformists and co-opting “leaders” downtown that are setting a bad example.
  • 23 July 2020 : I do like what’s on their website though. Personally from being in some of their online spaces, I think there’s a lot of them really doing the work to push the more liberal moms towards more radical positions. But there’s a lot of co-opting “leaders” fucking it up.
  • 23 July 2020 : 10 minutes before the end of this I start speaking. But also if you google my name there’s a few articles and interviews I’ve done with more details. Essentially, I’m an abolitionist fighting for Black, Brown, & Indigenous liberation. https://www.instagram.com/tv/CCwilIcCr7N/?igshid=101g0nd5ku11d
  • 23 July 2020 : https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1284963663107915776?s=21 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1284963663107915776
  • 23 July 2020 : For context, I heard the Portland protest bureau telling the moms to go home from that overhang. I climbed up immediately to yell about how this isn’t peaceful. But reading Tucks tweet here is what prompted writing this tweet: https://twitter.com/tuckwoodstock/status/1286182572523794432?s=21 https://twitter.com/tuckwoodstock/status/1286182572523794432
  • 23 July 2020 : To be specific, the people with the “American” flags.
  • 23 July 2020 : Do you have a specific question or...? Like idk what to do with this statement.
  • 23 July 2020 : Have y’all fucked up the people in the crowd yet? Because let me say that if you still have the gift of anonymity you could have a beautiful bonfire tonight with those dusty ass rags..... https://twitter.com/pdocumentarians/status/1286214646995644423
  • 23 July 2020 : Okay but who the fuck is “BLM Portland” & where the fuck have they been in the streets for years as don’t shoot PDX was in the streets demanding change & why tf would anyone tell the moms volunteering in 100s to go tf home?? Like WHAT THE FUCK. This. Is. An. Uprising.
  • 23 July 2020 : he will not.
  • 23 July 2020 : I’m honestly disappointed that somebody didn’t fuck ted wheeler up on live tv.
  • 23 July 2020 : update: McDonald’s apparently has giant, paper to go bags *with handles*? The two of us just ordered so much food that we got one & we also needed a drink tray & I’m simultaneously proud and disgusted with myself.
  • 23 July 2020 : I feel like I’ve been in this McDonald’s drive thru line for 84 fucking years...
  • 23 July 2020 : the fact that literally everyone I respect who’s downtown tonight has been tweeting about how much more they enjoy tear gas to the face over this liberal ass crowd of 5k people for *so many* different reasons really does sum up my experiences here in Portland “yt utopia” Oregon. https://twitter.com/tuckwoodstock/status/1286205051690577921
  • 23 July 2020 : right?!???? Like I swear any other city I’d have gone with my gut but literally someone on a megaphone yelled to a crowd to beat people’s ass if they were fucking with the courthouse and I just cannot trust these crowds b/c it’s so full of libs, reformists, and co-opters.
  • 23 July 2020 : The irony of the fact that I’m literally sitting in the car and just said “a walking Rorschach test hahah I’m fucking DEAD” and then looked down at this notification 😂😂😂😂
  • 23 July 2020 : Underrated tweet is very underrated.
  • 23 July 2020 : I swear to Christ I left after talking to those fucks because I wasn’t trying to get arrested for some dumb shit. And then I watched them saunter away from us into the crowd unquestioned & lost it. Like, tf is this shit.
  • 23 July 2020 : Like all y’all people coddling ted and telling people to go home because it’s about to stop being “peaceful” when 5000 people are filling like 4 city blocks as if that’s at all fucking peaceful. Y’all got me fucked up. I can’t believe the shit y’all put up with Forreal.
  • 23 July 2020 : I’m struggling so hard not to fucking destroy something. I’m so disgusted with this co-opted bullshit. Like, I‘ve never had anger management problems. But people in the crowd with flags unquestioned. People denouncing radical, angry people demanding anything more than reform.
  • 23 July 2020 : I’m saying the USA shouldn’t exist.... 🥺 👉🏽👈🏽 https://twitter.com/alextimber12/status/1283100291785617408
  • 23 July 2020 : Sometimes I search my own name and laugh at all the people who think the FBI doesn’t know exactly where the fuck I am already. 😂 https://twitter.com/shadowbannedgem/status/1285332512982446080
  • 23 July 2020 : Hi. 🙋🏽‍♀️ I use they/them pronouns.
  • 23 July 2020 : Fucking same. Which is why I’m on my way home. I can’t believe y’all let that bullshit as mayor give you bullshit ass answers over and over and over again. We did this shit a month ago so y’all could know ted ain’t gonna do shit & y’all would know to stop asking & demand instead https://twitter.com/hannahjvpdx/status/1286163506241273860
  • 23 July 2020 : 10/10 would recommend burning any American flag you see downtown tonight. Especially if it’s a jacket that says black lives matter in that racist ass print.
  • 23 July 2020 : Go follow @alex_zee for more updates.
  • 23 July 2020 : Okay, well, uhm, I’m too fucking furious with how this night is going. Fuck this country. I gotta leave so I don’t get arrested. pic.twitter.com/F4UWI7iCA0
  • 23 July 2020 : Oops. Got mad at some people talking about staying peaceful so I started screaming. 😬 And then kept yelling at Ted and more.
  • 23 July 2020 : Louder and louder fireworks going off over by federal courthouse.
  • 23 July 2020 : The sound of rapid and continuous fireworks is going off over by the federal courthouse.
  • 23 July 2020 : About 40 feet away from Ted someone on a megaphone finishes a speech and says “Abolish The Police!” The next person starts talking about the need for financial equity in black communities.
  • 23 July 2020 : More and more fireworks being set off more and more regularly at the federal courthouse. The people surrounding Ted hell “Black Lives Matter!” once and then someone yells over them, “Gas me Teddy!”
  • 23 July 2020 : I’ve never seen this many people downtown. Fireworks are being set off at the federal courthouse building right now. Lots of people in the crowd start drifting in that direction.
  • 23 July 2020 : Okay, I was very much so wrong. Crowds have to be between 3-4K. At least. Ted is down I. The crowd surrounded by hundreds of people. I can hear a black man saying “We don’t want to be here either.” pic.twitter.com/Nt85Pqg8PP
  • 23 July 2020 : Just reaching Lownsdale park across from the courthouse. Lots more tents set up in this park than I’ve seen even yesterday. We can hear voices at the intersection. Crowds look to be about 1500-2000 strong from my vantage point.
  • 23 July 2020 : Hearing crowds cheering. That can’t be the crowd near ted can it?
  • 23 July 2020 : Ahh, HUGE speaker on a bike outside the 7 blasting Tupac. One block up the street and we’re already coming up on leaf blowers and spicy air. Did y’all get tear gassed already?
  • 23 July 2020 : Walking towards where everything is happening right now. The helicopters circling overhead are so loud. Really loud music near the local 7/11
  • 23 July 2020 : Tonight, crowds have gathered downtown again. Rumors of the feds using live ammo tonight have been swirling around all day. But we know that the feds & local killer kops have had live ammo the whole time. We’re not going anywhere until the police are disbanded. Follow along here:
  • 23 July 2020 : Our officials have been supporting the co-opting of our movement by reformists and brand new organizers since week one. They’ve been ignoring us since day one. But these demands have been made for years by groups like Dont Shoot PDX, @carenotcops @CR_PDX and more.
  • 23 July 2020 : We’ve been getting tear gassed, assaulted, threatened and intimidated by our local @PortlandPolice since early on. We’ve been downtown at the local jail/precinct across from city hall for weeks demanding the defunding, disarming, & disbanding of the police.
  • 23 July 2020 : #PDXPROTEST - Live Tweet Thread - July 22nd (Not A Single Snitch Pic) We’re approaching day 60 of nightly demonstrations in downtown Portland. The last two months have seen crowds ranging in size from dozens to upwards of 12k. We’re now under federal occupation. #PDXundersiege
  • 23 July 2020 : See y’all soon. 💕
  • 23 July 2020 : Where do you propose? Specifically?
  • 23 July 2020 : Right. Like we’ve got so many actions happening every day. People probably don’t understand that cause footage of the feds at the courthouse looks the same as footage of PPB anywhere else. Same militarized bullshit. Different badges. Same killers.
  • 23 July 2020 : It is so woefully apparent that we really were screaming into some void as we yelled for the last 3 months (& forever) about how brutal protestors downtown in the 3 blocks that include city hall, the Multnomah county jail & precinct, federal court, & all public parks are treated. https://twitter.com/buddjenn/status/1286140443944615936
  • 23 July 2020 : hard to paint* over 🙄
  • 23 July 2020 : But boy oh boy, I just had to share this information I’d learned. I’m all about community education.
  • 23 July 2020 : Now, of course, this entire thread is to encourage theoretical discussions. It’s been very curious to see folks benignly musing on what the cause and effect of what such circumstances would or could lead to.
  • 23 July 2020 : Spray paint is hard to get off of everything though right? Clothes. Vehicles. Weapons. Helmets.....🤔
  • 23 July 2020 : A little bird told me that bright orange spray paint specifically is hard to see over and an easy contrast to spot. And I know y’all love tangerines. And feeding them to pigs if recent memory serves me right. 😅
  • 23 July 2020 : I’m just saying....it costs these departments money to get spray paint off of vehicles. Especially vehicles that kidnap are friends. And I bet they wouldn’t want every resident in the area to know those cars are kidnapping people. And I bet the rental companies would be sad...
  • 23 July 2020 : Watch on : Broadcasting live from #PDX for the @SnackBloc & Mobile Projection Unit for a film screening & training! https://www.pscp.tv/w/ceeS_jFheWpWYnJaSmJOanB8MU95S0FnbnJicHFKYiAEuKDmwzBbe7HtiEAd6OIAzgjAkB6ZtgyHw-kVi_E5?t=1s
  • 23 July 2020 : Have one lined up! Thanks y’all!
  • 23 July 2020 : Fuck it. I’m going down to live tweet tonight. I won’t be posting videos or photos in real time. But I’ll be down there. Definitely would be interested if anyone has a body cam I can use tonight though just in case for my own safety.
  • 23 July 2020 : what the fuck. like. chief lovells just been sitting inside the injustice center like “uhhhh, those people with the cameras? yeah, I don’t BELIEVE they can do that. light em up” #portland #pdx #PortlandProtest #PDXprotest #PortlandMoms
  • 23 July 2020 : I AM SO FIXATED ON THIS I CANNOT STOP READING IT HOW IS THIS REAL FUCKING LIFE ON DAY FIFTY FUCKING SIX https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1286034101267390464
  • 23 July 2020 : @JoAnnPDX do you believe in abolition yet? https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1286034101267390464
  • 22 July 2020 : @markalomaniac y’all responded at the same time!
  • 22 July 2020 : Wait this needs a transcript.... fuck.
  • 22 July 2020 : Jk @alex_zee found it!
  • 22 July 2020 : https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1269106412120010753?s=21 https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1269106412120010753
  • 22 July 2020 : https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1269106412120010753?s=21 https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1269106412120010753
  • 22 July 2020 : @tedwheeler - “I do not like the tear gas” Hey #PortlandProtest attendees! Remember! Ted came down here before (when we demanded it) & it wasn’t worth shit then either. Don’t let him try to switch shit up. Don’t platform cops. Tell him to resign. See y’all tonight! #resignted https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1269096018135486464
  • 22 July 2020 : @alex_zee you got any video of when we yelled at ted weeks ago somewhere nearby and handy?
  • 22 July 2020 : https://twitter.com/upnow2020/status/1285658120824459264?s=21 https://twitter.com/upnow2020/status/1285658120824459264
  • 22 July 2020 : https://twitter.com/katiealbitz/status/1285679520234852354?s=21 https://twitter.com/KatieAlbitz/status/1285679520234852354
  • 22 July 2020 : https://twitter.com/upnow2020/status/1283804630669901826?s=21 https://twitter.com/upnow2020/status/1283804630669901826
  • 22 July 2020 : PS -Portland Business Alliance has been doing everything possible to ruin this campaign. So, if you LIKE the idea of culturally informed preschool for all, fair wages & union neutrality for workers, & financial relief for parents! Get involved. Or if you hate PBA, get involved!
  • 22 July 2020 : This is still 1 of my favorite pictures & I’ve got a lot of new followers so I want to make sure y’all know to PLEASE go follow & boost @UPNOW2020 & be sure to tell people to support this campaign that will change lives for kids, parents, workers & communities @ large! https://twitter.com/UPNOW2020/status/1277301587178696704
  • 22 July 2020 : Hey @wallofmoms - Can y’all make a line in between Ted Wheeler (police commissioner) and all our warriors tonight so that #teargasted can beg the feds not to shoot while y’all protect us and we protect you? https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1286044283531702273
  • 22 July 2020 : #wallofwheeler Remember not to talk to cops. Ted wheeler is a cop. Don’t talk with Ted. Tell him your demands. Let him stand between the cops and the feds and the people. @tedwheeler I thought you didn’t want to get tear gassed? That’s what you told a bunch of us.... https://twitter.com/briankosh/status/1286032414108614656
  • 22 July 2020 : https://twitter.com/democracynowes/status/1285713682987732997?s=21 https://twitter.com/democracynowes/status/1285713682987732997
  • 22 July 2020 : Hey @donlemon you need some black folks to talk to? https://twitter.com/ellenrosenblum/status/1285429954696499200
  • 22 July 2020 : But like, where does Daryl turner live....?
  • 22 July 2020 : To be clear, I don’t wanna organize this. I want someone else to do it lmao. And make sure to cover all the bases like security, ride shares, ASL interpretation, etc. But like, I’d definitely show up... 😅
  • 22 July 2020 : Okay but here me out, what if we had a statewide rally with this sort of energy at the Capitol so we can all go tell @KateBrownForOR that she needs to immediately announce that full moratorium on all evictions that we’ve needed for the last five fucking months??
  • 22 July 2020 : Hahah feel free with credittttttt
  • 22 July 2020 : https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1286006092116291585?s=21 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1286006092116291585
  • 22 July 2020 : I just want to say that I was straight up delusionaly tired and also high last night but I stand by the fact that this is good humor and I took inspiration from a wonderful friend for this video 😅
  • 22 July 2020 : “The people are rioting!!” - @PortlandPolice 🤪 #djlrad #justportlandthings #pdxprotest #portland #PortlandProtest #PortlandUnderSiege pic.twitter.com/9jTqwrVCda
  • 22 July 2020 : right? And if so, how...
  • 22 July 2020 : IT IS TIME. https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1285850520108691457
  • 22 July 2020 : Update: Due to various reasons I’m in no capacity to explain, the video will be coming out when I wake up after 3 days on 6 hours of sleep 😬 love you brb sorry for this cliffhanger... {or am I????🤓} good nite! Stay together and stay safe and buddy up.
  • 22 July 2020 : Coordinated with someone just before but thank you so much!!
  • 22 July 2020 : We’ve got somebody working on it! Omg y’all. I literally cackled making it. You’ll see.
  • 22 July 2020 : #meme #emergency ! I just made the worst (&only) Portland specific video meme I’ve ever made in my life but I think it’s hilarious & I will literally cry tears of joy if someone would help me caption it before I post it. Dm me 😭 please. So y’all can laugh. At or with me.
  • 22 July 2020 : Broadcasting live from #PDX for the @SnackBloc & Mobile Projection Unit for a film screening & training! https://www.pscp.tv/w/ceZQRDFheWpWYnJaSmJOanB8MU95S0FnbnJicHFKYi7LD4Yj3Cmm_10epuD57fK5fUHdR9lxcQKxZbXxzjL6
  • 22 July 2020 : Hey #PDX ! We’re getting started a bit late over at Scapegoat Tattoo Parking Lot/across from Rev Hall. Come thru! Food being made! Words, and wisdom, and educational materials to come! I’ll be live-streaming (ASL INTERPRETER IN FRAME THE WHOLE TIME) from this account! #portland
  • 22 July 2020 : Y’all I think I figured out how to broadcast from twitter!! Finally! 😭😅 hahaha I’ve been on IG & Facebook the last two years.
  • 22 July 2020 : me, rn reading all your I love yous in the replies & struggling not to get lost repying “I love you too” back to everyone endlessly until we can all get trapped in an endless vortex of I love yous forever: pic.twitter.com/KrEXyFJ7ES
  • 21 July 2020 : Please share! https://twitter.com/democracynowes/status/1285713682987732997
  • 21 July 2020 : oh, nothing so far I’m just really anxious about it.
  • 21 July 2020 : Hi! Just your friendly non-binary RiotMom friend checking in to say: I cannot help it that I want to aggressively love you. I am SO sorry. Please check me if I’m too aggressive in trying to give you help. 😬 Also I say “the kids” a lot when talking about newbies & I’m sorry.😅
  • 21 July 2020 : The fact that every day right now I check the feed of 45 with bated breath, just to see if he’s tweeted angrily about me yet like his fan base & bracing for what that’d do to the death threats... Only to sigh when I see the tweets of a literally open fascist & I just...am tired.
  • 21 July 2020 : Yes!!! Also a good topic!!
  • 21 July 2020 : oooooooh shit this is a good 1 & deserves its own 30 minutes to be honest. There’s gotta be a black (woman or femme) teacher in Portland who would show me out in covering that topic! I should do twitter takeovers by more directly effected non-men people to platform them. 🧐🤔😍 https://twitter.com/laurabeggar/status/1285695670138044416
  • 21 July 2020 : https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1284963663107915776?s=21 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1284963663107915776
  • 21 July 2020 : https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1284963663107915776?s=21 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1284963663107915776
  • 21 July 2020 : #radicalvulnerability 😅🥴🙃
  • 21 July 2020 : high as shit right now tbh & realizing I agreed to speak for 30 minutes not realizing there were no other speakers & I think now I’m a keynote speaker? & like??😰 Anyway, I wanna talk about how to make risk assesment a daily routine. But what else do y’all want to hear about? https://twitter.com/snackbloc/status/1285621560552783872
  • 21 July 2020 : Thank you!! And a humble gift for anyone else who had something to learn today lol: ex·tem·po·ra·ne·ous /ikˌstempəˈrānēəs/ Learn to pronounce adjective spoken or done without preparation. "an extemporaneous speech"
  • 21 July 2020 : toooooo much. Forreal.
  • 21 July 2020 : That’s not right either, actually....
  • 21 July 2020 : My favorite type of people angry about me saying “Abolish America” are the ones who call my a hypocrite for using an iPhone and then say things like this: 🥴 Do y’all know they have iPhones outside of the US? Or that they’re not even produced here? pic.twitter.com/JGTbVPvgMT
  • 21 July 2020 : I may have gave it to the comrade who was hospitalized for tear gas exposure..... 😬 but I think if I just blink a lot I’ll be okay, right? 😅
  • 21 July 2020 : Hahah nah silly. You don’t report ransom notes to other kidnappers and expect them to care. Why would anyone call the police?
  • 21 July 2020 : #2 -The poor tech who had to keep asking me to remember to sit back & not lean forward too much to the point that right before I went live he reminded me again & said that I “seem like a pretty passionate person.” Mainly cause I kept getting aggro whenever #teargasted came up.🤪
  • 21 July 2020 : The 2 things I fixate on the most in this video: 1-the number of times I say “umm” and the fact that the reason I’m worried about superlatives is because of sexism, classism, and racism in acceptably academic language. I’m reminded of this poem: https://youtu.be/me4_QwmaNoQ https://twitter.com/democracynow/status/1285634897772556288
  • 21 July 2020 : Wanna give a big warm welcome to all the Black, Brown & Indigenous folks following me! Y’all are my #1 priority. Also, hello new yt people! Get ready to feel uncomfortable. Cops & fash:🖕🏽 Alright now that’s settled: let’s talk about how ALL news should have ASL interpretation.
  • 21 July 2020 : Not sure but I’ll make sure I finally set up my periscope account to see if I can do so!
  • 21 July 2020 : YALL!! COME THRU!! Protest 101 and Safety Training! #pdx #portland #pdxprotest https://twitter.com/snackbloc/status/1285621560552783872
  • 21 July 2020 : Well you’re in luck because that’s the whole center of the event.
  • 21 July 2020 : Film screening of 13th tonight after Protest 101 and Safety Training https://twitter.com/snackbloc/status/1285621560552783872
  • 21 July 2020 : Hi #Press . Had to go search for a comrade who was targeted by the police early in the morning and then lost contact for 4 hours before we found them. Y’all be getting return emails shortly and a few will be forwarded to potential interviewees.
  • 21 July 2020 : The city is having the base of the elk statue completely destroyed and removed. All this money spent on overtime for cops and construction crews could have all been saved and reinvested in communities by disbanding the police & taking care of people.
  • 21 July 2020 : TAG TEAM, BACK AGAIN. Check it to wreck it, let’s begin. 🎵 https://twitter.com/democracynow/status/1285556152617455616
  • 21 July 2020 : https://www.democracynow.org/ Join us! I know y’all aren’t asleep!! https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1285544479189905408
  • 21 July 2020 : @PopMobPDX @matcha_chai @IwriteOK @alex_zee @betacuck4lyfe @ImNotYourNigger @PNWYLF @SnackBloc @MrOlmos @tuckwoodstock
  • 21 July 2020 : Hey #pdxprotest community! Can’t sleep. Head over to @democracynow in just 5 minutes to watch live as Andrew Tolman and I give a revolutionarily accessible interview on what’s been happening in Portland! #PortlandProtests #PortlandMoms #PortlandStrong #PortlandUnderSiege #pdx
  • 21 July 2020 : Literally all I want in life is my dog rn. And she’s stuck at my parents. And I hate it.
  • 21 July 2020 : ..............it has been less than 48 hours since I slept.
  • 21 July 2020 : worst part about being in #PDX as fed uses us for target practice in the middle of a devestating pandemic that sowed the seeds of discord which brought us to international uprisings? strangers debating over their conflicting opinions about actual realities you know to be true
  • 21 July 2020 : Lol I wish I had time to write down any of it.
  • 21 July 2020 : I should probably start documenting some of these death threats..... 🧐
  • 21 July 2020 : Sorry. I should have said “Uplift Black Voices” instead of forgetting to include non-black POC too. It was about yt voices being uplifted over Black people’s in this movement founded on Black genocide. But like 🤷🏽‍♀️
  • 21 July 2020 : I know these people because I live and organize in this city. I see a few non-black POC, a bunch of white people and/or white led groups. And there’s my baes over at @riotribs ❤️😍 Do you know these people?
  • 20 July 2020 : https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1284963663107915776?s=21 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1284963663107915776
  • 20 July 2020 : You right: https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1284963663107915776?s=21 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1284963663107915776
  • 20 July 2020 : I’m going to switch my focus to: -setting up some infrastructure for them -sorting today’s press inquiries after a phone call with press shortly -reading through emails from potential volunteers for this months mentee program -figuring out a more full financial reportback
  • 20 July 2020 : I told y’all I would update every 100$ we got till that goal! If y’all keep sending it into the night with that caption I’ll just keep adding it to their fund. Will also help in bringing in my housing insecure BIPOC youth into our project for fair resource access & safe housing.
  • 20 July 2020 : In just 29 minutes we raised nearly 1900$ to pay 6 Black mentees 120$ a week for the next month! Thank you for trusting me and helping me to provide IMMEDIATE support for some of our most vulnerable & overlooked. Excited to start setting up infrastructure for them!! https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1285329348703084544
  • 20 July 2020 : One BIG and a few wonderful last donation pushed us over to a grand total of $1,660 raised to immediately pay 6 Black mentees 120$ a week for the next month to learn how to chase their interests. SO SO EXCITING. In less than 30 minutes!! #PDXSTRONG I’m stoked to read emails!
  • 20 July 2020 : Only 85$ left to go!!!
  • 20 July 2020 : $1240/1400!!!
  • 20 July 2020 : $1,100 out of 1400!!! Just 300 left to match and make sure bipoc youth get the stipend they deserve.
  • 20 July 2020 : $940/1400!! Y’all are amazing!
  • 20 July 2020 : $790/1400!! We’re over halfway! And so soon!
  • 20 July 2020 : $525/1400
  • 20 July 2020 : $370/1400
  • 20 July 2020 : $270/1400
  • 20 July 2020 : $170/1400!
  • 20 July 2020 : Oh no I JUST bought an ounce. Will 100% take you up on that offer in the future tho!
  • 20 July 2020 : You can send a donation to my Cash app or Venmo with the caption “Media Fund”. I’ll update in this thread every time we get another 100$ & we can significantly impact some folks lives buying groceries and the like. http://cash.me/$abolitionactually Venmo: @abolitionactually “Media Fund”
  • 20 July 2020 : Was thinking about this more & here’s the thing. It’d be nice to pay these 6 youth $15/h to each work 8 hours a week on this community project for a month. I’d need $2,880 to do that. I have half of that to do 60$ per week. But can we raise another 1.4k? If you wanna help... https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1285319119860981760
  • 20 July 2020 : Want to be clear I’m obviously not looking or asking for a full time thing. But if each of y’all could dedicate a few hours a day to this project then we could each take a shift on a different day & I’ll be available 24/7 for questions, support & etc! Much love y’all!!
  • 20 July 2020 : I’m expecting to get way more emails than I can afford to pay or train rn. Accepting emails for this specific volunteer need until 7pm. At 8pm I’ll contact all the folks who’ll be offered a chance to help this go-round. But I want to do a broader skill share in the future too!
  • 20 July 2020 : Please also include in your email how many hours a day you could volunteer to this. (Realistic) Bonus points if you’re familiar with spreedsheets. But not required. Extra Bonus points for experience in press rooms, even at the high school yearbook/newspaper level.
  • 20 July 2020 : To volunteer please just send me an email at abolitionactually@gmail.com titled “Re: Volunteering”. Please just send a brief bit about why you’d like this opportunity and the best way to contact you. (Email, Signal a text, Phone Call) Priority always to multimarginalized folx.
  • 20 July 2020 : Criteria necessary: -Black -Abolitionist -16-25 -Priority to Queer/Trans Femmes Would be the best fit for someone looking to go into journalism (independent or otherwise) or someone interested in the behind the scenes work of the press and media. To volunteer:
  • 20 July 2020 : I can take 6 volunteers rn for a 60$ per week stipend if you can dedicate a few chunks of time. Must be available for 1 hour online training tomorrow. Flexible times. Need help with processing media request emails, creating press lists, & contacting interviewees. More⬇️
  • 20 July 2020 : Hey #PDXPROTEST community! I’m looking for young black abolitionists who’d like to learn firsthand how to interact with the media & learn about how the press works while helping to schedule & coordinate #Portlands influx of interview requests from global media. Details below!
  • 20 July 2020 : 4718395271 tear gasses + 1 uterus + 1 IUD + 24/7 “FIGHT not flight” mode = An unhappy enby = Me #revolutionarymath
  • 20 July 2020 : Lol at the fact I tried to record my interview in full so that the press couldn’t cut it up and misrepresent me only to realize my phone hates me and cut off the video at 1 minute just as we finished setting up the Skype call. 🙄😒 fuck me.
  • 20 July 2020 : Are you Black or Indigenous?
  • 20 July 2020 : This is said with love and a mildly joking manner. ❤️❤️ I love y’all. I’ll dm ya!
  • 20 July 2020 : Because the term “BI” means bisexual and people would be confused + this is a specific distinction. BIPOC means Black Brown & Indigenous POC. Korean people are not BIPOC. But they are POC. White adjacent POC with their own unique oppressions. (Ex:COVID & spiking xenophobia)
  • 20 July 2020 : Exactly! (Sex work is devalued and fought against for these reasons and a plethora more)
  • 20 July 2020 : I’ve been told that she’s Asian. Don’t know more than that. I mostly said naked woman in my thread. I did say “yt” somewhere but the reality is she’s white passing & there’s a lot of anti-blackness in Asian communities so.... BIPOC means Black, Brown & Indigenous POC. That’s it.
  • 20 July 2020 : Can y’all untag me from this? #prochoice
  • 20 July 2020 : #PDXprotest #PortlandProtest #pdxmoms #PortlandStrong #portland PS - I’m looking at y’all @riotribs 👀 Next time.... 🙅🏽‍♀️🙅🏽‍♀️🙅🏽‍♀️🙅🏽‍♀️
  • 20 July 2020 : A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS TO BLACK PEOPLE IN #PDX FROM ME & FINGERS CROSSED INTERPRETING: If you send us money on any of these cash app services we will send it back and block you. ESPECIALLY if you’re Black AND: -queer -Disabled -neurodivergent -a sex worker -et cetera
  • 20 July 2020 : you a real joker, huh? 😂🙅🏽‍♀️😫
  • 20 July 2020 : Black, specifically.
  • 20 July 2020 : Radical, mindful, trauma informed self care = community defense No lies detected. #GetToTheSheets as often as you #GetToTheStreets . https://twitter.com/tawasisoce/status/1285259244460077059
  • 20 July 2020 : Thank you!
  • 20 July 2020 : Any South American comrade in #PDX whose been on the front lines & would feel prepared for (emotionally & analysis wise) to speak on some of the major demands & positions of BLM here & then speak on the intersections of colonialism & genocide of Southern Indigenous ppl? DM me! https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1285255114869968896
  • 20 July 2020 : Since it’s being recorded in English, it’ll have to be edited for the intended audiences. The producer told me that once it’s edited, it will air on their channels and then after that it will be posted to the website & they’ll send me the link.
  • 20 July 2020 : Nobody gets to call me out for not sleeping yet cause a bunch of y’all said goodnight on twitter three hours ago and are already back online. Y’all ain’t sleep either. You just took a nap. To quote y’all from last night, “We’re not tired!” #pdx we all should sleep more.
  • 20 July 2020 : I’d love to know what points y’all like me to make sure to hit on about Indigenous solidarity struggles in South America and it’s connections to US imperialism & the like. Also gonna talk about learning from the Zapitasta movement & colonialist violence as major points.
  • 20 July 2020 : Hey y’all! Doing an interview in about an hour on the #BLM movement here in Portland that is going to broadcast to Latin America and Spain, to quote the reporter. #Mexicana #Indigena #Azteca relatives and more! I’ve got plans on what I’d like to say about the local movement but:
  • 20 July 2020 : Just had a (9am) late night thought about how we use the terms “donations” or “tips” to disassociate from the fact that “jobless” full-time community organizers living off community tips are just people employed by a citys residents to help them. Since electeds fucking won’t.
  • 20 July 2020 : Specifically can help process press requests and make sure the BIPOC people with the most personal experiences in whichever topic areas are being given an opportunity to connect first if they want it.
  • 20 July 2020 : Dear #PRESS . I’m already swamped with interview requests . A large number of the most knowledgeable folks from the front lines of #PDX are still asleep in our time zone after last night. I’m about to pass out. But I can help connect folks after I sleep if you do the below: https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1285237334225518593
  • 20 July 2020 : I’m sleeping soon but can help. I need them to email me w/ some specifics like: -their deadline -length of interview -basics of the angle/pitch they’re working -what medium -post-airing production details -accessibility prep for TV, Radio, Video, etc abolitionactually@gmail.com
  • 20 July 2020 : Will the press email me before I finally pass out from attending last nights daily community gatherings at the park and being out watching a bunch of people demand their rights as I anxiously fretted over them until 4 am? pic.twitter.com/VtUKT5247P
  • 20 July 2020 : Really wanted to lock down my account on private and be like Hahahah y’all made it before the cutoff! 😅😅😝😏 pic.twitter.com/R0DHkzw7QM
  • 20 July 2020 : In other news that will surprise no one who knows me, I sent the 800$ to the @CComecrudo Tribe of Texas to support them in retaining their ancestral lands, restoring traditional life ways, educating community, & support Indigenous, Black, Brown, & all other colonized communities. https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1285179396555337728
  • 20 July 2020 : I’m watching my follower account go up waiting to barf when it hits 10k. 😟🥴🤢🤪
  • 20 July 2020 : Send me an email at abolitionactually@gmail.com with more details? I’ll keep an eye out!
  • 20 July 2020 : Fuck I stayed up too late finally getting a second to talk to more eastern friends with the time zone to my advantage. Now I’m sleepy but also hungry. Boo.
  • 20 July 2020 : Okay but read this mini thread real quick cause it was what seems like an obvious truth that I just slammed into like a brick wall but that means I bet a bunch of y’all need to read this too! 🤓 #racialcapitalism https://twitter.com/zaulgold/status/1285025406865694720
  • 20 July 2020 : Thank you! Here’s a thread with my info and also some other comments I have on fundraising and financial use. Thanks! https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1285180696944734214?s=21 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1285180696944734214
  • 20 July 2020 : National Lawyers Guild Chapter phone number from my local chapter!
  • 20 July 2020 : #abolishcurrency too. trading was so much fucking easier. Speaking from lived experience trading goods, resources and skills amongst the communities I’ve lived in for the past two years and almost never seeing BIPOC folks letting each other down. We take care of us.
  • 20 July 2020 : It’s like 5:30am on a Monday morning & yet every time I talk about the Friday afternoon press conference from last week I keep saying yesterday. Meanwhile, something that happened last week I thought happened last month. Time isn’t real & it never fucking has been. #abolishtime
  • 20 July 2020 : I’ve got materials gloves and equipment to sterilize my skin and space. And I’ve got saniderm tattoo healing bandages that create a secure bond over your tattooed skin. And it’d be small as fuck.
  • 20 July 2020 : Also will be used to stay stocked on printing supplies for when I figure out how tf to set up this printer for wireless connections so we can distribute zines and such. Also will be used for snacks, bubbles, water, juice boxes & other random event organizing needs for community
  • 20 July 2020 : They’ll be used for: -my survival (& therefore the continuation of all the platforms I educate through or boost community needs) -serious PPE support for me & the folks who help protect me on the streets -directly supporting BIPOC in a myriad of ways for needs/self care/etc.
  • 20 July 2020 : Anyway, if you DO trust me, you can send me funds here: Cash App: http://cash.me/$abolitionactually Venmo: @abolitionactually PayPal: activismactually@gmail.com
  • 20 July 2020 : If you don’t trust me, please don’t send me money. I don’t have time to spend answering every accusation of misuse of funds because y’all can’t trust Black people or femmes to handle money. Y’all let a lot slide but then ask me for receipts... *cough* @RoseCityJustice *cough*
  • 20 July 2020 : I don’t have the capacity or executive function right now to do my usual fundraiser style of posting for a specific financial goal, updating the status of funds every hour and announcing when to stop and all that. But I will in the future. Donations to me rn are based on trust.
  • 20 July 2020 : In any case, until then, I’m down to continue helping to redistribute funds. I’ve got a lot of connections to not just other orgs who could use the help, but lots of frontline warriors putting themselves in rough straits to invest in community who need support. Tons of BIPOC.
  • 20 July 2020 : But just wanted to give y’all a quick update on where donations have been at since I had like 26$ to my name about 36 hours ago. Also gonna use about 800$ to pay my bills until I can access the best way for me to make money while still being able to prioritize community like this
  • 20 July 2020 : I recently moved. I’m still trying to figure out a secure community space that’s not already storing goods to help accept, sort, and registribute donations. But I’m still focusing this week on the houseless youth project meetings I have. I’m juggling a lot rn.
  • 20 July 2020 : Some people have offered mini-fridges. One turned out not to work but I have to get back to another person. Some folks have offered laptops. I think we’re going to buy a full fridge for my house, plus laptop. But I can help get laptop donations to bipoc organizers who need them.
  • 20 July 2020 : I did that small post about fundraising for myself and my housemates for a new fridge, a laptop, and some more serious PPE. Y’all sent about 3000-4000$. I haven’t done the math yet but I’ve given about 1600$ of that directly to BIPOC community in the past 24 hours.
  • 20 July 2020 : Im not gonna pull some black resiliency fund ish where we raise 1.5 million dollars and then dish it out in small pieces. I’m trying to raise big money with a plan to set up infrastructure systems for long term use & paying BIPOC leaders along the way until it’s self sustaining.
  • 20 July 2020 : Tbh that’s why I’m not launching any big fundraisers yet. We’re in the: research & talk to/support directly affected community stage. Donations now will continue to be used for emergency support like tonight, & helping these young BIPOC organizers stay stable while organizing!
  • 20 July 2020 : I’m trying to move out of Portland in about a years time. The goal is to help scout for, find and pressure the city into giving us access to a city owned property to create @ 24/7 dry/sober space for houseless bipoc youth & young adults. Or buy a house for this.
  • 20 July 2020 : pic.twitter.com/t25MAyyDi0
  • 20 July 2020 : Fash use lists to find follow and harass leftists unfortunately. It’s a danger to those out on lists because people can essentially follow us through lists without us knowing they are. Harder to block people lurking to harm us.
  • 20 July 2020 : Now I wanna tattoo myself tonight just to spite all y’all non believers.....
  • 20 July 2020 : Welcome to my life 👀😒 y’all got me worried every night. Lmao we gotta trade off more.
  • 20 July 2020 : But this one turned out so cute!! 😭😍 pic.twitter.com/87zNRn4IHh
  • 20 July 2020 : why????
  • 20 July 2020 : Trying to figure out how long it’s going to take me to get to sleep. It’ll be a battle of my insomnia coupled with the Redbull and 5 hour energy I drank at midnight vs the protest energy, hormone rush of PTSD/fight or flight, and my eagerness to give myself a new tattoo rn. 😂
  • 20 July 2020 : Goodnight y’all! Remember to #WriteInRaiford !! #pdxprotest #portlandprotest #pdxkidnapping #PDXMoms (Walking back to the car with at least one military helicopter circling overheard. 🙃) pic.twitter.com/pvzmtuW2Rl
  • 20 July 2020 : Got the found keys back to our comrades. Finally heading home. Airs still spicy by the courthouse.
  • 20 July 2020 : Omg. Just sang lean on me to acoustic guitar with a bunch of folks harmonizing here by @riotribs and I’m LIVING FOR IT!! Y’all if we can’t dance and sing I don’t want the revolution. This is HEALING.
  • 20 July 2020 : Got em!! We found the keys y’all and I just messaged the folks at home. And we’re gonna make sure we get them in hand!! This is what community fucking looks like! #pdx #pdxprotests thanks y’all!! https://twitter.com/imnotyournigger/status/1285155916380168193
  • 20 July 2020 : Listening to some black folx freestyling down here by riot ribs and living for it. Shits chill rn.
  • 20 July 2020 : Those cars in the previous video just came south down 5th and turned right heading north up main. Expecting them to turn around the corner and come back down Madison eventually. That’s been their usual circuit.
  • 20 July 2020 : Still haven’t found these keys. I gave these folks 50$ for a ride home and back. Also learned they have 3 kids between them. Some bipoc young adults. So I also gave them 250$ each out of what y’all have donated to help with bills. If you find them feel free to dm me still. https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1285143061673029632
  • 20 July 2020 : Can y’all write an image description for these vehicles? Whatever y’all can identify? pic.twitter.com/6gSmJ8Ba7Q
  • 20 July 2020 : It just got *eerily* quiet from about 2 blocks away. Very confused. Next tweet will be a video of three big trucks/vehicles that have been circling the park blocks from Madison/5th, took a left on 2nd, circling around, coming up 5th and around. Please share descriptions.
  • 20 July 2020 : I’m around the corner. Can hear a crowd of probably.... 5-8 people chanting black lives matter as they head west away from the parks.
  • 20 July 2020 : Hey anyone! #pdxprotestors ! Has anyone seen a single car key and a single house key lost between 5th & 3rd main. Two simple keys on what looks like a back shoestring. Hit me up please ASAP if you’ve found them. BIPOC folx need them to get home. #PDX
  • 20 July 2020 : Specific image descriptions would help on those four. Thanks y’all.
  • 20 July 2020 : Not deployed STINGER munition used by federal police. Lighter so scale. Stinger looks like a rubber coated ball slightly larger than a tennis ball. There’s an approximately inch long fused cap. A blue line across the middle says “STINGER CM Part No 1088 defense technology.” pic.twitter.com/3CiZELKapl
  • 20 July 2020 : Heading back down towards the parks.
  • 20 July 2020 : The worst part of tear gas is the snot imo. I’m already a snotty crier. Tear gas turns me into my true Sailor Moon baby form
  • 20 July 2020 : Another person appeared to get hit in the head with some sort of munition. Idk what. I just saw forehead bleeding from under their helmet and went to ask how or if I could support in getting them to medbloc. They said “I have a concussion.” friends helped get them to medics.
  • 20 July 2020 : Medic duty overtook twitter duty. Sorry y’all. Feds advanced again. Threw multiple flash bangs and covered the parks with tear gas. Again. Nearly all the way up to fourth and main.
  • 20 July 2020 : Someone just set off a firework accidentally on fucking ground level at 4th and Main. “First and last time” he just told me. “I fucked up. That was not what I was expecting.” I gave him an n95 mask anyway but fuck y’all.
  • 20 July 2020 : More people returning towards the intersection of 4th and Maib with drummers behind. Small nu@bers right now. Hoping more folks return back over.
  • 20 July 2020 : Some people re-approaching the parks. Majority of folks are still around 5th and main. If you need ASL accessible info check out Fingers Crossed Interpreting in Instagram for live feeds.
  • 20 July 2020 : Chants of feds go home right now. Still lots of tear gas.
  • 20 July 2020 : Can y’all post image descriptions for me k the replies please?! pic.twitter.com/PxFiNBxTap
  • 20 July 2020 : Feds approaching now. 3rd and main to put out the fire. Probably about 20 feds. Flash bangs going off. Chants of walk don’t run. I’d prefer hold the line.
  • 20 July 2020 : More and more fireworks. Little ones. But the energy in the park and in the streets is palpable. Folks were just chanting “We’re not tired” over and over again. Now a small fire on the concrete in the street at the intersection of 3rd & main. A fire truck went down 2nd 5 mins ago
  • 20 July 2020 : As more small fireworks are set off down here, I cannot stress the importance of remaining mentally prepared for cop escalation & mentally preparing to push your body into FIGHT (not flight) mode. Link arms. Shields to the front. Umbrellas behind them. Hold the line.
  • 20 July 2020 : I’d say most of the crowd is either in the park hanging around where @riotribs are or they’re in the street on third and main near the federal building. Text your friends downtown & remind them to do their best to HOLD THE LINE when cops/feds come at us again. Ppl are dispersed.
  • 20 July 2020 : Another firework. Why do people still do this?
  • 20 July 2020 : Another airhorn blast. Another little firework. Another moment shared with comrades just anxiously awaiting the police brutality we know is coming again soon. Especially as more small pockets walk away and head home. Probably 600 people tops. We probably swelled to 1200 earlier.
  • 20 July 2020 : Heard another baby firework across the other side of the park. Can still hear drummers playing to the beat of “take it to the streets and fuck the police.” Honestly always so fucking appreciative of the drummers who keep us on beat.
  • 20 July 2020 : Back in it. Green laser lights visible flashing around down on third in the direction of the federal courthouse. Some people also still using airhorns on occasion. Feels mellow for now. Wondering how long until another volley of brutality hits.
  • 20 July 2020 : Ahh, and the inconsiderate protesters are here lighting off fireworks again. Sounded like a string full of noisemakers
  • 20 July 2020 : Seeing people walk past from my recoup spot. Seems like small pockets of folks are leaving. Heading back into the fray in a second. Seems pretty calm down there for what it was.
  • 20 July 2020 : Just saw silent lights drive past the crowd around 3rd. Also about 15 minutes ago what sounded exactly like a military helicopter went by overhead.
  • 20 July 2020 : Chants of “The People United! Will never be divided!”
  • 20 July 2020 : A block or two away and I can hear loud bangs and rattling metal briefly. Also hearing loud chanting. That I’m now realizing is Breonna Taylor’s name being changed.
  • 20 July 2020 : “We’re not tired!” “WE’RE NOT TIRED!” Call and repeat chant going.
  • 20 July 2020 : Again, “Take it to the streets and fuck the police. No justice, no peace!!”
  • 20 July 2020 : Current chants. “A C A B! All cops are bastards.” Just heard a sound like something maybe allegedly hitting a fence.
  • 20 July 2020 : Lots of cheering suddenly happening towards the crowd closer to the building. Can’t see why. Drummers pick up the beat again and then people chant “Fuck the feds” twice before it became pretty much just music.
  • 20 July 2020 : “Say that shit like you mean it! Who’s streets? Our streets!”
  • 20 July 2020 : Sounds like there’s a few people standing on the corner of 3rd and main. Missed what was said but now here chants of “whose streets, our streets” again.
  • 20 July 2020 : Chanting and singing quotes down for a bit. Sounded like mostly restless noises as people stood there. Now chants of “Fuck Donald Trump” are starting.
  • 20 July 2020 : From my position it looks like there’s way more lights lit on the folks in that block rn. and now folks are singing my FAVORITE protest song: “Take it to the streets and fuck the police! No justice, no peace!” Video of interpreter signing the repeated phrase quoted ^^^ pic.twitter.com/X892MSUDyC
  • 20 July 2020 : Lots of airhorns on 3rd for a second. The crowd is sorta in two main crowds either convening around the front of the federal building or in the park around our comrades over @riotribs
  • 20 July 2020 : Chant has moved on to “Whose park? Our park!” The crowd is pretty much moving back and forth down 3rd Ave in front of the Federal Courthouse Building. Chant now morphing to “Black Lives Matter”
  • 20 July 2020 : The people in a crowd: “Who’s streets? Our streets!” My comrades nearby answering the speaker call like this: “Who’s streets? Chinook land!” Black liberation means Indigenous sovereignty too. #HonorTheLand
  • 20 July 2020 : People still trickling back into the park area though. Crowd is probably approximately 600 people strong now.
  • 20 July 2020 : That then was followed by a brief oration atop what once was the elk statue. Speaker says, “Are these Donald trumps streets? No! Who owns these streets?!” Response is generally “we do.” But land ownership is colonial. Who protects the land is a better question to ask imo.
  • 20 July 2020 : Was mellow downtime as people recovered from another tear gassing. But after 10 minutes of wandering in arrival, a solid few hundred people just marched back with drums accompanied while they sing “Fuck the Feds”
  • 20 July 2020 : oof. sometimes y’all remind me that I’m not high enough to be on twitter rn 🥴😳😅
  • 20 July 2020 : Listing my name in a tweet is cool. But twitter allows you to make titled lists where you add in any group of people of your choosing to see a timeline of only that handful of people’s tweets. Often publicly.
  • 20 July 2020 : Soft block means I block you, which removes me from your list, but also stops you from following me. But then I immediately unblock because you’re welcome to follow again. But if you follow me & get booted, prob cause you put me on a list. & I’m too visible online already.
  • 20 July 2020 : REMINDER: DONT ADD PEOPLE TO LISTS. Fascists use lists to find people. Every time y’all do that I have to soft block you to remove myself from your list for both our safety. I’m getting death threats. On here. Stay safe. Turn on tweet notifications or search accounts regulrly
  • 20 July 2020 : You can find similar info on my Instagram @activismactually. Check me stories/highlights to see local organizing groups to follow and support. Or learn about my history of experiencing violence from beloved local white feminist exploiters like abuser Elle Stanger [rp cause mistag
  • 20 July 2020 : Who did you serve?
  • 20 July 2020 : If someone were to ask me my job and I wanted to describe it in the most academic way possible I’d probably say: “Oh, hahah, yes of course. So, essentially, my position is as a City Wide Communications Coordinater specializing in Equitable Practices and Community Engagement.” pic.twitter.com/sDaoctkdNQ
  • 20 July 2020 : The implication is specifically in reference to visible, white women on the internet who are anywhere near what western standards say is “conventionally attractive.” This is a specific situation. But solidarity & I’m sorry you’re suffering under capitalism with all of us.
  • 20 July 2020 : Tuck did a FANTASTIC job here working to de-center themself and you had to push them back to center stage huh?
  • 20 July 2020 : The fact of the matter is that this is about every single person that this applies to. Pick any one of them and I’ll be equally as frustrated with the way they do their work.
  • 20 July 2020 : My main work has always been done without my name as my focus at Activism, Actually. Because it’s not about me & it’s never been about me. I’ll be relaunching the account soon. For now, a highlight on Instagram with accounts linked to follow! https://www.instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2h0OjE3ODUyMzE2MzE0MTU4NzQ0?igshid=1pgzs6js4nith&story_media_id=2356464214119769546 https://twitter.com/tuckwoodstock/status/1285025868708888578
  • 20 July 2020 : Watch this Instagram highlight on my main advocacy platform —Activism, Actually— to see a list of groups and orgs you can follow and support. Many have both twitter and Instagram. Some only have IG. I’ll have to make a twitter thread soon. https://www.instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2h0OjE3ODUyMzE2MzE0MTU4NzQ0?igshid=1pgzs6js4nith&story_media_id=2356464214119769546
  • 20 July 2020 : Doesn’t that make such a strong statement?
  • 20 July 2020 : Sitting outside smoking. Neighbor lady is audibly cackling. I can hear it across the yard. And I swear to god, I must live next to one of the original recorded voices for TV laugh tracks across the nation. Fuck. Hahah I literally thought they started blasting tv.
  • 20 July 2020 : Who buys kindling instead of ethically sourcing it for free as can be found abundantally in the wild? #silly https://twitter.com/sheldon_abraham/status/1284853994452652032
  • 20 July 2020 : Ask Me Anything! Talking to some techy folks about it now to talk more in the coming week sometime!
  • 20 July 2020 : I can’t believe y’all gave a random white girl 30k followers for being a diy journalist and haven’t once questioned how much she’s getting donated and where her money is going. As if white women don’t get paid for breathing. 🙄 as if I don’t advertise my $$ handles for a reason.
  • 20 July 2020 : Or just a white man in general too enthralled by white western standards of beauty and nudity to do anything but leave his witty, un-informative, misrepresentative video of her ass pinned to the top of his page for what I can only assume is arrogance or ignorance.
  • 20 July 2020 : Then again what can we expect from a white man who writes for playboy who didn’t say a word about the fact that a yt reformist co-opting the term “antifascist” was published in playboy while literal visible sex working antifascists in town were overlooked.
  • 20 July 2020 : She didn’t win. The hundreds of protesters who’d already been attacked by & then de-escalated the cops right before her self centered display are the winners. She did win tho if we’re talking about getting white men to forget all reason, purpose, & journalistic integrity tho. https://twitter.com/donovanfarley/status/1284412288774975489
  • 20 July 2020 : I got in touch with 1 of the two youths. We’re gonna meet up to do a cash dispersal to help them out! So this is going to two young BIPOC being failed miserably by the state during COVID. if people want me to help redistribute funds large scale I’ll need to set up infrastructure
  • 19 July 2020 : Alright y’all. I’m talking to my interpreter darling/wifey about when we can sit down & broadcast an AMA for the community. Gotta figure out what the best way to do this would be for security culture since fash will probably try to sneak in & hurl insults. But this week. Forsure
  • 19 July 2020 : Good question because I’ve been trying to get people to send money to riot ribs. Probably gonna go to the bipoc youth(s) I was on the phone w/ for 90 minutes to day to work with them on their housing instability & the racism they’ve experienced in current transitional housing.
  • 19 July 2020 : @CriswellWJ Lol this says no change but like it’s not inaccurate completely. We’ve been screaming out demands for years and in the past few months we’ve seen some resignations, investigations, & hot air from electeds. As per usual. The change we’re making is for BIPOC community well-being.
  • 19 July 2020 : Her reasoning for running these campaigns. (Her hatred of Ted). Her Lars Larson interview she hasn’t acknowledged where she switched up for votes to say she doesn’t really mean abolish police. All her photo ops & shit.
  • 19 July 2020 : You can find similar info on my Instagram @activismactually. Check me stories/highlights to see local organizing groups to follow and support. Or learn about my history of experiencing violence from beloved local white feminist exploiters like abuser @stripperwriter
  • 19 July 2020 : https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1284983285894934529?s=21 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1284983285894934529
  • 19 July 2020 : https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1284982614202257414?s=21 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1284982614202257414
  • 19 July 2020 : https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1284982584737361920?s=21 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1284982584737361920
  • 19 July 2020 : This is a short thread for anonymous account @CriswellWJ who is seemingly upset that they don’t know my entire organizing “resume” so they want to post about a black femme never doing work. Let’s explore my background a little bit for y’all interested. https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1284982583185432577
  • 19 July 2020 : Here’s a link to the platform I founded. http://www.facebook.com/activismactually Feel free to go find years worth of videos and content of me on the frontlines in Tijuana medicing people, sharing their stories, & raising funds for them. & in TX. & Ohio. & VA. FOR TWO UNPAID YEARS STRAIGHT.
  • 19 July 2020 : https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1283995727031488513?s=21 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1283995727031488513
  • 19 July 2020 : Here’s a thread full of accessible, not reformist, education that I asked the community to help compile. We did that together. Without your help as you share reformist first videos.
  • 19 July 2020 : In the replies you can find captioned videos of me actually protesting and makigg no change just over 48 hours ago. https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1284270594251354112?s=21 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1284270594251354112
  • 19 July 2020 : I gotta stop wasting my time engaging in good faith convos with literal strangers who are too scared to show their face online but wanna come at me for calling out counterrevolutionary trains of thoughts while I actively am receiving personal death threats. Bet Sarah is cozy tho.
  • 19 July 2020 : These people will demand answers online as to what my analysis is & then get mad that at the same time I’m calling out liberalism, reformism, & dangerous yt feminism that harms our movements. Y’all wanna defend Sarah so bad for why? What she specifically done for y’all personally
  • 19 July 2020 : These people act like I’m not constantly working just b/c they don’t see it. I can’t be in the streets every day at risk of death. I’ve been raising funds & immediatey giving them away instead of hoarding millions. I’ve been doing community education. I’ve been sharing demands. https://twitter.com/criswellwj/status/1284979045487087618
  • 19 July 2020 : You gonna block me or keep wasting my time as if I wasn’t ON THE FRONT LINES this week talking about all these demands & teaching people in public about state violence while standing on federal property. Not to mention the 10k+ I’ve distributed personally to the community.
  • 19 July 2020 : You’re never gonna find a video like this that is my version because I’d never be associated with a video that highlights our oppressors. (Sarah is an oppressor.) It highlights REFORMIST voices in an abolition movement. It doesn’t cover tangible demands & solutions.
  • 19 July 2020 : 100% minimized. It doesn’t talk about any of that. It focuses on Donald Trump as the target when the target is the institution he represents. It centers white people. It’s centers a white reformist and capitalist candidate. It glorifies a naked yt feminist which is harmful.
  • 19 July 2020 : And that’s just one of many solutions. We have the opportunity to invest in infrastructure for the sake of meeting community needs like mental health support, job preparedness, harm reductive addiction treatments, poverty alleviation, food access and more! That’ll help too!
  • 19 July 2020 : Housings easy! We’ve actually got 1000’s of empty apartment buildings in Portland that can’t find tenants because they’re charging gentrification level prices. They’re sitting empty for the sake of corporate greed. We could fill them with houseless people & still have extra space
  • 19 July 2020 : This part tho. https://twitter.com/zerointeractio1/status/1284969064280948736
  • 19 July 2020 : Do better. Stop defaulting to white feminism and this white-washed “anti-racism” movement where y’all stop saying slurs but don’t stop violence against black women & femmes downtown who stepped up, started & called for these actions. Y’all got fucked priorities. & it’s a yt issue
  • 19 July 2020 : Y’all need to do the fuck better. & if you’re calling yourself an independent journalist in PDX? step it THE FUCK UP or step back. Stop posting uncaptioned videos with vague descriptions or no context. Tell us how much money you’ve received & how you’re redistributing it. Fuck.
  • 19 July 2020 : #PDX #PDXprotest #PortlandUnderSiege #PortlandProtests ALL OF YALL NEED TO STEP IT THE FUCK UP. STOP AMPLIFYING WHITENESS. Stop telling national reporters they should intereview white people in PDX. Stop centering liberal reformist mayoral candidate Sarah fucking whatever.
  • 19 July 2020 : I’m over it. Me, @TeressaLRaiford , @ImNotYourNigger and other BIPOC abolitionists have experienced literal physical & emotional violence from white “leftists” because y’all never do the work to address your VIOLENT misogynoir. And racism. And sexism. And ableism. Fuck.
  • 19 July 2020 : I am not here for y’alls fucking bullshit. Stop giving money to @DonovanFarley & @LindseyPSmith7 and other white people happy to share about how to give other white people with a camera money while doing the bare minimum to redirect wealth to BIPOC communities, organizers etc.
  • 19 July 2020 : Simultaneously, the videos of the press conference (where we actual Black, Brown, and Indigenous ORGANIZERS went and STOOD ON FEDERAL PROPERTY while the feds are LITERALLY TRYING TO SNATCH US UP) are going viral in alt right spaces. We’re getting death threats.
  • 19 July 2020 : Today, this liberal, performative, white feminist, new age, self-centered, reckless bullshit is being broadcast to the nation fucking proudly. As if cops hadn’t already stopped firing. As if the night wasn’t already slowly wrapping up. As if she had A FUCKING POINT.
  • 19 July 2020 : A bunch of Black women and femmes, who the state would LOVE TO NEUTRALIZE, talked to you about actionable steps, gave you community education, read demands, explained state suppression to y’all. Aired out our fucking trauma. And y’all have already forgot. For some white ass.
  • 19 July 2020 : Y’all out here posting inaccessible videos. Not putting ANY fucking work into making sure that post production youre getting your live-tweets captioned, interpreted or translated, & putting the focus on white people not doing shit that’s actually tangible or even with a point.
  • 19 July 2020 : This bitch got naked & stood in front of a line of already de-escalated riot cops and shit. She sat her ass on tear gassed ground. With no messaging & no point. & y’all white people are turning her into a hero and would be martyr. Fuck @DonovanFarley for being irresponsible tbh.
  • 19 July 2020 : A bunch of white independent journalists posted and then shared this image of a naked woman completely aligned w/ whiteness without sharing any context or story as to wtf led up to that. Now her ass is the top story instead of BLACK VOICES. Y’all got me all the way fucked up.
  • 19 July 2020 : Hey #PortlandProtest Attendees & folks watching the story about the #portlandkidnapping Let’s talk about Fri/Sat. Two things happened. 1-A crowd of Black women/femmes who’re facing state suppression stood on federal courthouse steps to talk about abolition. 2-A woman got naked
  • 19 July 2020 : Sarah are you sharing this because it includes 3 year old footage of your now acting campaign manager that you love to tokenize? Or because you love that yt feminist power present in naked form. Or b/c it focuses on *asking* the state to stop hurting us? #pdx #PortlandKidnapping https://twitter.com/sarahforpdx/status/1284931128571256833
  • 19 July 2020 : I’m not here to philosophize on absolutely fucking nothing. If you have a question ask it. Otherwise please don’t waste my time like this.
  • 19 July 2020 : I prefer analslut
  • 19 July 2020 : To which of any myriad of problems?
  • 19 July 2020 : This is not representative of Portland. Pass it tf on. Some of this footage is three years old. Sharing it without context is imo negligent with such a large platform. This white passing non-black poc is just aligning herself w/ yt feminism. #pdx #PortlandProtests #pdxkidnapping https://twitter.com/gregorymckelvey/status/1284917903599386624
  • 19 July 2020 : Would y’all stop uplifting white people before anything else? @inafutureage is a better lawyer to ask imo. Abolitionists: @Teressa_Raiford I also have a whole story of great groups run by radical people on my Instagram story @ activismactually on IG
  • 19 July 2020 : The Black people of this city want y’all to stop uplifting white voices.
  • 19 July 2020 : No white saviors.
  • 19 July 2020 : No
  • 19 July 2020 : @IwriteOK feel free to pass my contact info along too!
  • 19 July 2020 : Please don’t interview any more white women on our movements behalf. Sarah comes downtown briefly for photo ops. This is an abolitionist movement and she’s a reformist. @Teressa_Raiford is the champion of the people’s write-in campaign & a local black woman worth uplifting.
  • 19 July 2020 : Voice and face of local honest journalism priorizing sound ethics and equity here in PDX — 100%!
  • 19 July 2020 : As the video link in my bio says: If you’re white keep black folx business out your mouth. We can quote JoAnn saying that she “isn’t an abolitionist” & that a lot of Black abolitionists in this city are tired of that reformism & watered down analysis. Y’all uplift black voices https://twitter.com/gregorymckelvey/status/1284598605211295744
  • 19 July 2020 : Two things - one, how much did you hate the process to get set up to go live? 2 - somebody needs to give you a ring light set up. You deserve to outshine tv crews lol
  • 19 July 2020 : Fash website the blaze referenced this article when they wrote an entire article about me which, like; lmfao. Anyway, give it a read to learn more about my analysis & where it comes from. Staying in tonight w/ the target on my back today. Give em hell. https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2020/06/15/28529511/qanda-portland-protest-organizer-lilith-sinclair-on-activism-and-pride
  • 19 July 2020 : If you can handle reading all kinds of fucked up shit, you could answer this poll the gop wants people to see so bad. Let’s give them accurate data! 😘 but like use a vpn or not your WiFi https://twitter.com/gop/status/1284518337133895681
  • 19 July 2020 : What did I just say in that press conference?? https://twitter.com/elijahdaniel/status/1284633252808949760
  • 19 July 2020 : Fash threats are so boring and unoriginal. They’re most just ableism, whorephobia, transphobia, and not at all creative death threats. (Mostly trying to sick the government on me as if I already haven’t been detained & put on watch lists lol) I’m bored. And sleepy.
  • 19 July 2020 : I’m not white sweetheart and don’t do sex work by my name. Duh. Stop doxxing white women because you don’t know how to do research.
  • 19 July 2020 : They love. And idiot is ableist. But yes. 💕
  • 19 July 2020 : Dear #PRESS , Feel free to email me with any interview requests. Please include times your available, & a basic description of the pitch you’re working Also happy to receive paid pitches from editors or submit pitches for publications. abolitionactually@gmail.com #pdxkidnappings
  • 19 July 2020 : I wonder when that incompetent coward in the highest office is going to retweet the zodiac killer and broadcast my face to all his fascist chud followers... 🤔 #PDX #polltime Feel free to guess specifics in the replies. I think within 6-12 hours so I’m torn.
  • 19 July 2020 : I’ve tried but this government has done so poorly at managing a deadly virus none of us can leave. we’re trapped here together fucker. Sorry to say.
  • 19 July 2020 : Ahh here it is: @ElijahSchaffer do feel free to remember to mention that I was one of the only people willing to take pity on your sad racist crying face after you got (probably deservingly) pepper sprayed at an action? Won’t make that mistake again. https://twitter.com/elijahschaffer/status/1162888236550635520?s=21 https://twitter.com/elijahschaffer/status/1162888236550635520
  • 19 July 2020 : Feel free to yell at and correct me next time! Sincerely wish somebody woulda been like wait what. I swear I just get so mad about everything sometimes that everything that’s wrong about organizing just swirls in an anger loop in my head. Rose City Justice has been a nightmare
  • 19 July 2020 : I’ll dm you!! 😍
  • 19 July 2020 : Mini-fridge not needed!!! Thanks yall!
  • 19 July 2020 : http://cash.me/$abolitionactually Venmo @abolitionactually PayPal: activismactually@gmail.com
  • 19 July 2020 : Can we talk about how ted Cruz retweeted a video of me with my name on it? Cause boy does that make me feel unsafe. Also, anyone wanna help me with funds to buy: -a mini fridge for my room cause communal living w/ one fridge is tough -a laptop from @FreeGeekPDX -protective gear
  • 19 July 2020 : Any chance someone has been hoarding that video of me accidentally washing out @ElijahSchaffer ’s eyes with my medic partner at the “Spectacle” event from last year? Maybe he’ll retweet it. It was a mistake but it sure makes all his thanks to me pretty fucking hypocritical. https://twitter.com/elijahschaffer/status/1284512759934267392
  • 18 July 2020 : Please boost and share this across any and all platforms y’all can. @RoseCityJustice was co-founded by an ex-cop who’s still named on incorporation documents. They’ve also been completely unaccountable for the $16K+ they raised “for the community.” Tons of merch. No experience.
  • 18 July 2020 : Fuck fuck fuck. #PDX Listening to my speeches to understand what intersections of marginalization I failed to name & heard a mistake. I’m so mad at RCJ I accidentally told folks to go to their website. What I meant was go to @RoseCityAntifa ’s website! Get familiar w/ local fash.
  • 18 July 2020 : 😂 thanks this needed more attention
  • 18 July 2020 : Right? Same! Like actively fighting propaganda in my head. Simultaneously enjoying strategizing war & flirting with every npc possible to make hella bisexual drama on the ship. 😂
  • 18 July 2020 : Shoutout to the fash for my new page banner 😍 #MassEffect #iamawhore #anddamnedatthat #abolishtheusa pic.twitter.com/uBAwtvIjH3
  • 18 July 2020 : I spoke to @cnni weeks ago while Portland was experiencing endless escalations of violence from the local @PortlandPolice under command of @tedwheeler & defended by @JoAnnPDX . I’d be happy to elaborate on what I said then about our ABOLITIONIST movement. #PortlandKidnappings #pdx
  • 18 July 2020 : When I told y’all to take breaks & check in on your mental, physical, & emotional health pre-action today... this is why. This is a LONG road & we need our community to be *sustainable*, well taken care of, & empowered to engage in direct/defensive actions. #PortlandKidnappings https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1284244386088460288
  • 18 July 2020 : Got anything to say to us @KateBrownForOR @tedwheeler ? Any word on why y’all been so goddamned timid/quiet as we told you months ago about the brutality by local cops that was the perfect setting stage for a fed escalation? We’re here b/c of your failures. #PortlandKidnappings https://twitter.com/jillaprn/status/1284330151539380226
  • 18 July 2020 : That’s cause being black ages you at a rate of an extra seven years. Kinda like puppy years but like, oppression years instead.
  • 18 July 2020 : @sarah2020 showed up late for the photo op? Where were you at 1pm Sarah? Were those protestors to radical for you? Just really excited to make friends with Joann before you finish your run against an abolitionist Black Woman? https://twitter.com/proudbulba/status/1284321877960187904
  • 18 July 2020 : “I am not an abolitionist and I’m old enough to know that some people belong in jail” - @JoAnnPDX Check this link at about 16 minutes in to see/read/hear Joann say that for herself. JoAnn has the support of reformists, liberals, & yt people she protects https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tEOP7VXLfyU&feature=youtu.be
  • 18 July 2020 : Fuck the @PortlandPolice and Chad, @tedwheeler @JoAnnPDX @ChloeEudalyPDX and @AmandaFritzRN too. Fuck cops and their friends. Anyone Ted can proudly call a friend is a friend of cops and those people aren’t a part of our movements. https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1284310686332407809
  • 18 July 2020 : @JoAnnPDX - We say fuck the police because the police are NEVER here for our safety. They’re down there with you to protect government sellouts like you and make sure that YOU are safe. Fuck the police is a message from the people. It makes sense a politician wouldn’t like it.
  • 17 July 2020 : And here is where you can buy the Tribal Chairman, Juan Mancias’, books from you help support the tribe in standing up to retain their ancestral lands and work against border wall construction: https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/onebigjuan #SolidarityNotAcknowledgements https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1284269812105875456
  • 17 July 2020 : Anybody wanna volunteer to put captions on these videos so that we can share them out more accessibly? Thanks in advance! We need more folks volunteering to help with post-production accessibility support. ❤️ Love y’all. Take a fucking night off if you’ve been there 24/7 pleaseee https://twitter.com/45thabsurdist/status/1284257522904260608
  • 17 July 2020 : (They don’t have ASL interpreters I’m sorry to say. But I’ve been needing to reconnect with loved ones there and I’ll make sure to prioritize getting them access to a volunteer interpreter who can help them online in the coming days.)
  • 17 July 2020 : Y’all know how I spoke about the Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe of Texas? They’re doing an event right now titled “People of the Land: Healing from the White Supremacy and Colonization Pandemic” Follow them and check out the current live feed of the event here: https://www.facebook.com/CarrizoComecrudoTribeOfTexas/videos/845494625976730/
  • 17 July 2020 : #PDXprotest #PortlandProtest #portland #pdx #portlandoregon https://twitter.com/johnnthelefty/status/1284219267039162369
  • 17 July 2020 : @alex_zee @MrOlmos @IwriteOK @TawasiSoce
  • 17 July 2020 : This didn’t get nearly enough attention..... https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1284017272063840256
  • 17 July 2020 : Hey #PortlandProtests Comm! I’ll be at this event today! @Teressa_Raiford from Don’t Shoot PDX will be speaking! And I’m honored to be included on the speaker list too. Come through! We’re stronger in numbers!!! Tag reporters & folks who can share this out in the replies! #PDX pic.twitter.com/IA6w0Gjxl1
  • 17 July 2020 : 👀👀👀
  • 17 July 2020 : RT @DaveMillerOPB: DHS: “Portland has been under siege for 47 straight days by a violent mob while local political leaders refuse to restor…
  • 17 July 2020 : Imagine... Front Line - Able bodied cis white people with shields, gas masks, shoulder to shoulder Second line - Same, shields up 3rd thru 5th lines - Abled bodied folks with umbrellas up 6th thru 7th lines - Folx with traffic cones &/or leaf blowers ALL OF YALL MASKED UP https://twitter.com/dannyjpeterson/status/1284022694741045251
  • 17 July 2020 : As someone who’s been shot at by feds a few times, I’m somehow simultaneously: shocked, unsurprised, terrified, and mildly impressed that I’ve never seen this canister before in either the US or MX....but I’m seeing it now for the first time being held in pictures from Portland. https://twitter.com/mrolmos/status/1284023309911224321
  • 17 July 2020 : THE SPAM IS SO GOOD. COMPILING RESOURCES IS NOBLE WORK COMRADE 👏🏽👏🏽🥺
  • 17 July 2020 : RT @BLMChi: Keep your eyes on Portland. The feds have taken over and are brutalizing and kidnapping protestors for protesting. We're with y…
  • 17 July 2020 : Happening now in #Portland : https://twitter.com/iwriteok/status/1284013188288143360
  • 17 July 2020 : In an interview the other day I said “that’s why we continue to do ____ and continue to do ___ and continue to do _______ continuously”. I feel this pain. I finished the sentence out loud on camera and had to stumble not to mutter “fuck”
  • 17 July 2020 : okay so imagine this — the song “freak like me” but remade as a parody about taking dabs during the revolution... i wanna dab in the mooornin dab in the eveninnnnn cause i will be lit until the day, until the daaawnnn and we can ᑭᑌᖴᖴ ᑭᑌᖴᖴ all thru tha nite to early morn
  • 17 July 2020 : Thank you faceless cloud person
  • 17 July 2020 : I just bought a really big printer for my new house with the explicit intention of printing educational zines en mass for distribution at actions. Also looking to make ones that we can’t find suitable zines to cover. Let’s compile here for everyone’s use!
  • 17 July 2020 : #PDX -Have to stay home tonight? Feeling antsy without something tangible to do? Does having an active task make you feel less restless & d’you have a special interest in research? Great! Need folx to find links to zines on radical direct action & drop the links in the replies! https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1282525616458223616
  • 17 July 2020 : Happening in Tampa too! De-arrest tactics are an important research subject when learning successful movement histories. I need y’all to google and understand de-arrest tactics to learn how we keep us safe. It requires equal parts bravery & crowd coordination. Move TOGETHER. https://twitter.com/egyptianstarboy/status/1283857777224323072
  • 17 July 2020 : Y’all know what would really make Donny boy mad? If you #WriteInTeressaRaiford and elect a true Black Woman radical into office who has the lived experience fighting the state in the streets & in the courts. Sarah cannot unify us as a liberal yt “Anti-Ted” leader. #ProtestVote https://twitter.com/gregorymckelvey/status/1283963955119927296
  • 17 July 2020 : #PDX - If you’re @ actions & texting ANYONE, make sure it’s on Signal or Wire. Stop sending normal texts. Start a secure group chat for all your friends who’ll be there. Check in on each other & coordinate on secure platforms. Ditch/delete chats post action or post comrade arrest
  • 17 July 2020 : Hey #PortlandProtest Attendees! I see a lot of y’all planning to go downtown tonight. I’m so proud of your enthusiasm and devotion. But remember this thread I did on risk assessment? Nows the time to seriously consider how prepared you are to handle the military & live ammo. https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1282525616458223616
  • 17 July 2020 : Proud to be repping Baltimore as a masochistic little slut 💕🥰 https://twitter.com/doorhinge9/status/1283889025179410433
  • 17 July 2020 : I hate @tedwheeler so much. He’s such a punk ass little bitch with no fucking morals or values. Just resign and go grieve your yt mom or whatever since you’re not doing shit here anyway.
  • 17 July 2020 : TED YOUR FUCKING JOB IS TO MEET WITH THEM AND TELL THEM TO GTFO NOW. fucking Christ. You’re already a cop. If you wanna pretend to be progressive at least pretend to be the cop trying to “change it from the inside” 🙄🤮 https://twitter.com/tedwheeler/status/1283892734063861761
  • 16 July 2020 : We are under siege.... it’s just by the feds not the residents. pic.twitter.com/leVW8MKVFi
  • 16 July 2020 : https://twitter.com/dhs_wolf/status/1283855725161218051?s=21 https://twitter.com/dhs_wolf/status/1283855725161218051
  • 16 July 2020 : Lololol fucking cool https://twitter.com/lisabkoin/status/1283870537492525058
  • 16 July 2020 : Every share helps! #jailsupport #swer #sexworkersolidaritynetwork #bailsupport #solidarity #tampa #tampaprotest #florida #mutualaid #sexworkiswork #weprotectus
  • 16 July 2020 : Please share this wildly!! The comrade arrested is a dear dear friend of mine, as are all the passengers. They’re facing brutal targeting from Tampa PD and need more support. The sex workers in this group have been organizing mutual aid and fighting for SWers in Tampa for years!
  • 16 July 2020 : Please donate anything you can to the Tampa Dream Defenders Bail fund so they can bail out our comrade and build reserves for future jail support! PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/TampaDreamDefenders or via email at hillsboroughdreamdefenders@gmail.com Cash App: $TampaDreamDefenders (Text ends)
  • 16 July 2020 : Today, they were pulled over, “greeted” by name by officers before ID was shown, told to all get out of the vehicle (including the 5 y/o with them) and then a passenger was arrested, their phone was taken, & they’re being held on $3,000 bail.
  • 16 July 2020 : Queer SWer Jail Support Needed! Tampa Police (& other fash) have been targeting visible activists on the front lines demanding change. Last week a member of a local affinity group (who’s a Black Woman leader, but not a sex worker) was hit by a car.
  • 16 July 2020 : This is so important! Please share wildly! Sex worker comrades and BLM leaders in Tampa Florida need support with a bullshit $3,000 bail after being targeted by police! http://PayPal.me/TampaDreamDefenders http://cash.me/$TampaDreamDefenders Image is a red, square, text heavy graphic. Text in replies! pic.twitter.com/gpt9kCQYsD
  • 16 July 2020 : One. That’s it. Please. 😭😍🥺 https://twitter.com/saviaivas/status/1283586088829952000
  • 15 July 2020 : To clear up, for anyone interested, I’ve never been the appointed spokesperson of anything except Decrim Oregon, which is not even organizing or meeting right now. As a reminder, this is my *personal* twitter account. All opinions are my own & all that—which shouldn’t need said
  • 14 July 2020 : The mistake was active racism. https://twitter.com/ladyhelpish/status/1283004356195803137
  • 14 July 2020 : Racist makes racist demands to prove they are still racist. https://twitter.com/handpanman/status/1282935787353300992
  • 14 July 2020 : Say you were racist. You were racist. https://twitter.com/cascadianphotog/status/1282931619997741056
  • 14 July 2020 : This is racist and I have far too many mutuals with this racist defending racism. No matter what they claim to be in their bio. https://twitter.com/criswellwj/status/1283070879618830336
  • 14 July 2020 : someone pls nominate me for this 😭😭😭 https://escapeto.getaway.house/100nights/
  • 14 July 2020 : IMMEDIATE RESPONSE 💕 https://twitter.com/riotribs/status/1283135480976924672
  • 14 July 2020 : @PopMobPDX @alex_zee @IwriteOK @SnackBloc @Pdx_resistance @PortlandDSA
  • 14 July 2020 : in other news, the sun is hot and capitalism is bad. https://twitter.com/phil_lewis_/status/1283051909604048903
  • 14 July 2020 : I’m thinking: a bunch of cozy blankets on the grass + comrades + a WiFi hotspot on vpn + snacks & drinks & music + 1 laptop per comrade on a riseup pad = no talking + organizing against the state = successfully & strategically holding space 😇🥰😍💕 https://twitter.com/proudbulba/status/1283089677096898562
  • 14 July 2020 : I wonder if we could radicalize pharmacists and pharmacy techs (at least some of whom I’m sure are furious they have to make that call to pay rent in a pandemic) by connecting them w/ mutual aid groups who could organize medication delivery networks locally. Anybody interested? https://twitter.com/usagiboy7/status/1283102166379450368
  • 14 July 2020 : high as shit and cackling 😂 relatable.
  • 14 July 2020 : Sharing to save: because I’ve talked about specific types of voting as harm reduction and I clearly need to read these & want y’all to be able to as well. https://twitter.com/kmlytong/status/1283107877666750464
  • 14 July 2020 : You also deserve a round of applause for modeling for our entire community what radically vulnerable accountability looks like. And you made it look easy too. Thanks so much for being out there & interested in growth. 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽
  • 14 July 2020 : Super glad you were able to do that! And I get you’re just one person. Which is why this is directed towards folks not saying shit. Is there any reason he was encouraged to walk away instead of the people being racist and reactionary who shouldn’t be welcome in our spaces?
  • 14 July 2020 : What if instead of being viscerally upset about racism against Asian people while the president is actively encouraging violence against their communities we just stay quiet about it & de-escalate oppressed communities responding to racism instead of removing racists. 🤷🏽‍♀️ https://twitter.com/elkbaba/status/1282965352435965952
  • 14 July 2020 : This is the most Portland thing I’ve ever fucking seen. All of y’all in this video recording and not saying jack shit can get fucked. Y’all better sit the fuck down and stay home. We don’t want you here. https://twitter.com/mrolmos/status/1282899087134584832
  • 14 July 2020 : I’ve personally experienced PsyOps too & I’m not about to do trauma porn for a bunch of strangers or ask others to do trauma porn for a bunch of strangers. 😬 Sorry you know what it’s like too. I try to help empower people to do research on things I don’t feel like sharing here.
  • 14 July 2020 : Fucking wisdom. https://twitter.com/SallyBluntz/status/1282876887824400384
  • 14 July 2020 : But the ableism tho? No comment?
  • 14 July 2020 : Nah I’m just bored and I don’t like politicians, abusers, ableists, transphobes or yt women who try to weaponize their tears. And wouldn’t ya look at that, you’re like a heptathlete of oppressive behavior olympics.
  • 14 July 2020 : If anyone wants to buy some cleavage heavy porn, don’t worry, Im relaunching my content platforms soon. 😍
  • 14 July 2020 : Every time a white woman calls me a bully online, my titties grow. That’s why they’re so big. They hold white women’s tears. pic.twitter.com/3HcRFMpG7C
  • 14 July 2020 : Every time a white woman calls me a bully online, my titties grow. That’s why they’re so big. They hold white women’s tears. pic.twitter.com/aG6AyeDjuQ
  • 14 July 2020 : @sarahforpdx knows how to dirty delete though and never acknowledge things. Maybe y’all could work together? https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1282859708408188928
  • 14 July 2020 : PS @margoatblack , don’t worry, the Internet lives forever. So you gonna acknowledge your ableism in that tweet or just delete it and try to pretend it never happened like with everything else? Are all your yt woman actions justified no matter what if you’re feeling sad or upset?
  • 14 July 2020 : Hey, google, search @margoatblack : https://twitter.com/margoatblack/status/1261178185128931331 pic.twitter.com/moCSCoC6IN
  • 14 July 2020 : Here’s a candidate for office calling me an ableist slur and lying to say that we’ve “literally never met”. (There were multiple witnesses) She’s also painting herself as the SOLE victim of harm despite also actively harming others. We’ve skipped straight to step 3 below. https://twitter.com/margoatblack/status/1282852869356417025 pic.twitter.com/grphEAxRTB
  • 14 July 2020 : You walked up to me in front of multiple people to campaign to me, greeted me, introduced yourself, and gave me one of your fliers when you were pushing your campaign at the Growing Seeds union launch. Also your second tweet calling me dumb is ableist. Not a good look. https://twitter.com/margoatblack/status/1282850354334281729
  • 14 July 2020 : Sahar, pleaseeee. No more motions 😩😂😭 Somebody find that Robert motherfucker. I just wanna talk I swear. 😅
  • 14 July 2020 : Here’s how we solve all the organizing problems in #Portland : Do you have access to extra resources in any way shape or form? Give it to multi-marginalized community members to help organize their communities and don’t question the reasoning behind why what they say is best.
  • 14 July 2020 : Look! I found a picture of Margot Black and Elle Stanger! https://twitter.com/wagatwe/status/1282701748960927745
  • 14 July 2020 : Well our local DSA chapter sings it at the close of some big meetings and events. From the first time I heard it I never understood why my hackles were immediately raised. But then I realized, ahh, religious trauma from the colonizers Christianity insidiously strikes again. 🙃
  • 14 July 2020 : I don’t want to talk to (aka teach) you for free. I just didn’t want people to read your comments & think that this is at all hard when it’s not. It just means not idolizing & following the leadership of yt ppl. Go read a book or talk to your Black friends about this shit.
  • 14 July 2020 : White organizers always whine about how hard it is to be inclusive/accessible to everyone with all these nuances in oppression. Then ask everyone else how they can solve problems except members of the communities they’re failing. “But theyre too oppressed for me to ask😩” 🙄😒
  • 14 July 2020 : But keep your observations or opinions about oppressive systems to yourself on my page. Or feel free to engage in convos about it with other white people in the replies. But keep your mouth shut about Black and Indigenous dialogues & analysis. & cis men can just shut up pls
  • 14 July 2020 : Just a casual reminder that if you’re white idgaf about your analysis of my analysis. I don’t care to hear or see it. I don’t need it. It’s too shallow to ever benefit me. So again, yt ppl feel free to ask questions and engage. Be a fly on the wall. Share resources. Uplift BIPOC
  • 14 July 2020 : Okay? It’s really fucking not hard or impossible at all. Unions just need to stop spending their fucking money on bullshit & start using it to invest in mutual aid and using their power to fight for the most marginalized first. But they stay vested in yt males. What is ur point?
  • 14 July 2020 : yet the modern labor movement in so called America is rife with majority white IWW halls and it was written by a white man to a yt colonial hymnal & modern unions/labor orgs still struggle with overt classism, racism, ableism, homophobia, misogyny, colonialism, anti-blackness...
  • 14 July 2020 : The accelerationists have investigated themselves and subsequently concluded that they have done nothing wrong. https://twitter.com/JoashTaylor/status/1282797843233865729
  • 14 July 2020 : just want to clarify you’re talking about Angela Davis here, right...? 🥴 https://twitter.com/BigGlitch1/status/1282830969515446273
  • 14 July 2020 : Here is a summary of the second verse of “Solidarity, Forever” - a yt “leftist” beloved song sang to the tune of a fucking yt hymnal: 🎶“We all built America and we are really cooollllll, for white unions make us strong!!!”🎶 Every time y’all sing that shit I wanna barf tbh.
  • 13 July 2020 : Pretty Ricky paved the way for Migos to walk the path to success they appreciate today. Or as my wifey for lifey put it, “Pretty Ricky RAN so that Migos could *crawl* tbh”
  • 13 July 2020 : Hey #PDXprotest community! We have a need for more education on PSYOPS. Can folx who’ve been studying movements for years drop links explaining the history of: •PsyOps campaigns •How they’re used against the people •How they’ve been used against agents of the state
  • 13 July 2020 : #WriteInTeressaRaiford Understand Teressa’s not gonna choose her job over the ppl. Electing (true) Black radicals who won’t cave to the respectability politics of the system is how we push people left & teach them upholding the system isn’t more important than our actual lives https://twitter.com/lighterway2live/status/1282725860953354246
  • 13 July 2020 : Did I vote for Hillary? Yep. Drove across a state line to do so. Why? Harm reduction. I fucking hate Hillary. But I don’t believe she’d try to be a dictator. But I’m not doing that again. Sarah is the yt savior we don’t need during an uprising. She’ll side w/ her job every time. https://twitter.com/trevorhalligan/status/1282723962557018115
  • 13 July 2020 : Can we talk more about how terrifying and awful it is living in this country and taking one brief scroll down our presidents twitter? Like if y’all don’t see the set-up for his “reign” (his words not mine) then I don’t know how to tell you voting won’t be our Hail Mary. Fuck.
  • 13 July 2020 : Sometime today imma write a thread explaining the history of both successful write in campaigns & the long used tactic of protest votes. Y’all wanna pick any reason possible to defend voting for a yt lady savior. Fine. But idgaf about ur respectability politics. #WriteInRaiford
  • 13 July 2020 : https://www-koin-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.koin.com/news/civic-affairs/raiford-write-in-campaign-for-portland-mayor-launched/amp/?usqp=mq331AQFKAGwASA%3D&_js_v=0.1#aoh=15946628338784&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.koin.com%2Fnews%2Fcivic-affairs%2Fraiford-write-in-campaign-for-portland-mayor-launched%2F
  • 13 July 2020 : About 45 minutes later yes! 😭😅
  • 13 July 2020 : Teressa is a BLACK WOMAN who BELIEVES IN ABOLITION and has been fighting for this, supporting families & community members with mutual aid, and using a diversity of tactics to do so for YEARS. The misogynoir that’s been used to decredit her has been effective Sarahs a yt savior https://twitter.com/raindropworkpdx/status/1282439699529789441
  • 13 July 2020 : pic.twitter.com/JNSN5Q7ptg
  • 13 July 2020 : I would....like to go to sleep now.
  • 13 July 2020 : Yes. Fucking HUGE ones lighting up the whole sky. I was just talking with an Indigenous comrade who was wondering where the fuck they even got ones this big. It’s infuriating.
  • 13 July 2020 : Dear #PDXPROTEST folks, If you’re shooting off fireworks or cheering for fireworks downtown in the middle of a crowd of people who’ve been traumatized by flash bangs and worse: I fucking hate you. Stop being so disrespectful and pls gain a trauma informed analysis. Ffs.
  • 13 July 2020 : RT @PortlandSRA: Organizing isn't easy. But it's also not as hard as you think it might be. Go a little beyond your comfort zone.
  • 13 July 2020 : You can hear the chants of “Fuck @TedWheeler ” from a full block away and that makes me happy.
  • 13 July 2020 : #PDXProtest Update: Multiple big fires blazing around the elk statue. Riot Ribs serving up free food for the movement all day long and into tomorrow(in 30 minutes) No tear gas (yet). Chants of my favorite song: Take it to the streets & fuck the police! No justice, no peace!
  • 13 July 2020 : Read my thread below on how to prep for and stay safe downtown or Thorn’s thread linked here on how else to help that isn’t being on the frontlines! https://twitter.com/thorncoyle/status/1282479090532933632?s=21 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1282525616458223616
  • 13 July 2020 : I meant to leave the house 10 minutes ago. But got caught up writing this because I’m desperate for y’all to learn how to engage in this movement as safely as possible to keep us all safe and avoid stiff charges w/ accidental evidence for cops. Don’t talk to cops. See y’all soon
  • 13 July 2020 : That’s a good basic intro. But I need y’all to know: organizing and standing up against the feds is a whole other level. Don’t carry weed on you. It’s a federal crime & they’ll try to stick you with every charge they can. Stay together. Stay tight. SPREAD CALM. Try not to panic.
  • 13 July 2020 : While I’m downtown I’ll only communicate on secure networks (signal, wire, etc) I’ll make sure my crew has charged walkie talkies as our primary communication. I won’t take any videos or pics except of cop/fed bruatlity. I’ll send them to folks immediately just in case.
  • 13 July 2020 : Once I’ve got all that together, it’s time to let my friends know I’m getting ready to head out. I’ll coordinate on signal with folks I know downtown or available for support. I’ll make sure I don’t have my fingerprint or Face ID active on my phone. I won’t take selfies.
  • 13 July 2020 : -Goggles to make sure I don’t get too fucked -GLASSES instead of contacts so if I get gassed contacts don’t fuse to my eyeball -My inhaler -Hand sanitizer, mask -sharpies -the nlg number on me in 2 spots I’m sure I’m forgetting something but that’s a good basic checklist.
  • 13 July 2020 : -Have I located all my gear for the night and packed my med bag? I need: -A well organized medic bag -An outfit to wear downtown inconspicuously -Black bloc to change into -A change of clothes to debloc -Water & energy bar -PPE & improvised armor -A charged external battery -cont
  • 13 July 2020 : -Have I done stretches and taken care of my body today before I engage in what is always a very physical activity? -Am I hydrated? I try to drink a full bottle of water with enough time before an action that I can pee before I walk out the door. I’ll sip water @ the action too.
  • 13 July 2020 : Protest Prep 101: -Have I eaten recently? My body NEEDS extra fuel for the night because fight or flight responses to traumatic situations will flood my body with adrenaline & burn fuel to either stay alert and fight or run like hell worst comes to worse. Eat a full meal before.
  • 13 July 2020 : Now that I’ve decided that: -I’m going -I’ve prepared jail support systems for myself -I understand what my level of risk I want to stick to for the night is and I will hold myself to my boundaries for the night. It’s time to get ready to go! Here’s what’s on my checklist:
  • 13 July 2020 : Considering all the above: -I feel confident in my deescalation skills to avoid interpersonal confrontations. -I feel confident I can run away for a reasonable distance if need be -I’ll be wearing a helmet, googles, elbow pads, arm guards, multiple layers & a respirator.
  • 13 July 2020 : •Risk Assesment (RA) - Physical Violence -Being downtown puts me @ risk of violence -I’ve experienced this before, have a high pain tolerance, & am an experienced street medic. -I’ve been a martial artist since 11 -I’m able bodied & know self defense -I’m a former sprinter
  • 13 July 2020 : I am going to do the best that I can to avoid arrest, while also recognizing the following: I have an intimate familiarity with FEDERAL brutality, tactics, and the like. I feel prepared to spread calm & remain calm on the front lines. This is a needed skill. Frontlines it’ll be
  • 13 July 2020 : Considering this first type of risk assessment, here’s the conclusion I’ve reached today: I am willing to be at the Justice Center, blocked up to a reasonable level, to assist in medic-ing folks, understanding my risk level AND preparing my loved ones for the risk Im taking.
  • 13 July 2020 : I’ve been visibly organizing to support disrupting and undermining the state on a local and federal level in multiple cities and across the border. I’ve been detained by Feds for hours before. They know who I am. Black femme organizers get dissapeared/murdered by feds constantly
  • 13 July 2020 : (General CW) I know that the above aspects of my identity put me at elevated risk of: -intentional targeting & brutality (Afro-Indigenous, highly visible, medic) -sexual assault (queer, AFAB, visible sex worker) Additionally —>
  • 13 July 2020 : • RA - Arrest Cont - I know I’ll be at risk of arrest no matter what I do. Time to assess how much I’ll be targeted & how far I’m willing to go in terms of risking arrest. I consider I’m: -Black/Native -AFAB -queer -highly visible in the community -recognizable on site -a SWer
  • 13 July 2020 : - So it’s time for me to make sure my loved ones are prepared to do jail support. I’m going to give at least three friends: • my fed name • my birthday • emergency contact #’s • a list of meds I’m on • a pic of my health insurance card • each other’s numbers to coordinate
  • 13 July 2020 : Step 2: Transition from considering my emotional stability and safety to my risk assessment (RA) evaluation for the night. Here’s some things I consider every time I go out to an action with feds present: • RA: Arrest - Going puts me at risk of arrest. Point blank. So... cont:
  • 13 July 2020 : CW: Suicide - I’ve been actively working to address the sharp increase I’ve experienced in suicidal ideation. I’ve been thinking through what my loss would be to family & friends & community. I don’t feel concerned about panicking & putting myself @ risk of death by cop. I can go
  • 13 July 2020 : - I’ve been spending the last two weeks out of the immediate fray at less escalated protests. During that time I’ve been intentionally thinking through my triggers, practicing my grounding methods, & decompressing fear and trauma with friends & fam - Continued...
  • 13 July 2020 : • Mental health is being actively managed - Loved ones have helped to keep me accountable in taking my antidepressants despite low executive function - I got medicine for my insomnia & have gotten good sleep the last two weeks. I’m alert and aware & not groggy. - continues...
  • 13 July 2020 : Step 1: Time to do a self check in of my mental, emotional AND physical health. • Still able bodied (for now) - That means I can run to medic people or away from cops if necessary. I don’t feel the need to be on the outskirts tonight. Just means I need to make sure to stretch.
  • 13 July 2020 : #PDXPROTEST ATTENDEES (thread) I’m going downtown 2nite. Like lots of you who couldn’t be on the streets lately, I can’t bear the thought of not being there when shit hits the fan to help protect our fam That means I’m about to do my regular pre-action prep. Here’s what I do:
  • 13 July 2020 : Dear #PDX City Council, A demand from your community: RESIGN. With your spineless mayor and your spineless advocacy. Resign. https://twitter.com/teressa_raiford/status/1282514543101403137
  • 13 July 2020 : You should retweet your apology onto your own profile and use it as a learning moment to teach others why what you said was wrong and help them to learn from you. Accountability doesn’t mean anything if you delete evidence and don’t undo the harm you caused by acknowledging it.
  • 13 July 2020 : Yes.
  • 13 July 2020 : To clarify I told them there was no way they were putting the face of a person just attacked by fash on the news with their face and name. And then they begged for someone to do an interview so I made her apologize then ranted about abolition & our useless city hall on cam
  • 13 July 2020 : Lol well I just finished yelling at her and demanding an apology and they just walked away 5 minutes ago. So who knows when it will air. But if they cut it up when they broadcast it I’ve got some video too.
  • 13 July 2020 : Lol at the white local Fox News reporter lady trying to ask a concussed person who got hit by a car and is actively cooking free food for people to come give them an interview. Extra lols @ the crowd then starting to chant fuck Fox News as the reporter looked near tears.
  • 13 July 2020 : Dear white people, fucking stop using the word thug. Amazed that y’all have the audacity to still use this racist ass language and call yourselves anti-racist and shit. https://twitter.com/juniperlsimonis/status/1282432070153678849
  • 13 July 2020 : You’re not supporting uplifting the movement with your platform but you wanna use it so insert your opinions and derail from conversations relevant to the movement addressing antiblackness? That shits relevant. Show up (even just online) or shut up yknow?
  • 13 July 2020 : The public and this movement asks all of y’all reformists to resign and get out of the way of our work towards the immediate disarment, defunding, and disbandment of the @PortlandPolice . ps thanks(jk) for the drive by appearance & quick honk to the people grieving #DominqueDunn https://twitter.com/joannpdx/status/1282450569567690752
  • 13 July 2020 : Thank you!! We’ll leave this up through the night to circulate and see if we can’t find someone to volunteer their time. But they’re meds last night came to 200$ without insurance for a inhaler and treatment. So we’ll be launching a fundraiser soon to help them out thru payday!
  • 13 July 2020 : Please share that post!!! ^^^^^^^ #pdxprotest #portlandprotest #defendpdx #portland #pdx #mutualaid #solidarity #wetakecareofus
  • 13 July 2020 : #PDX Urgent Mutual Aid Need: The comrade who had to go to the hospital last night for tear gas complications was fired on by cackling feds while sitting in their car. The car is toxic to get into. I need car detailers willing to help clean out their car. We can get you PPE. DM!
  • 12 July 2020 : When we talk about Disability Justice, this needs said: Your “allyship” cannot begin/end with creating access. As long as your events weren’t inaccessible, you weren’t an ally. Accessibility is bare minimum. Building relationships to directly support Disabled people is step 1
  • 12 July 2020 : I’m not a girl and I don’t want dominance I want yt leftists to stop thinking DSA is helpful for anything more than pushing progressive policy and educating libs.
  • 12 July 2020 : I also want to add that all those bullshitters in City Hall need to encourage the whole city to vote for Teressa. Once ted resigns, will Sarah end this bs campaign she started cause she hates ted & figured it be more effective to take over than push him out by helping Teressa?
  • 12 July 2020 : I also want to add that all those bullshitters in City Hall need to encourage the whole city to vote for Teressa. Once ted resigns, will Sarah end this bs campaign she started cause she hates ted & figured it be more effective to take over than push him out by helping Teressa? https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1282435540344729600
  • 12 July 2020 : Y’all really treat this like a goddamned fucking gam. It’s not competitive solidarity. It’s the fact that y’all are sitting on a meeting doing a bunch of performative shit trying to get yourself together while simultaneously talking about external organizing.
  • 12 July 2020 : This isn’t a fucking competition.
  • 12 July 2020 : Is @tedwheeler still living at that apt? I’m hearing rumors from trusted sources that #WarCrimesWheeler is planning to announce resignation tomorrow. Feel like he needs to be reminded that resigning isn’t enough. Tell your reformist coworkers to quit too. Joann, Chloe and Fritz!
  • 12 July 2020 : The ones who understand what true accessibility and radical pro-Black solidarity looks like. Slim pickings but that’s why the analysis folks are broadcasting wildly on twitter is more important than who’s the hottest white person at the local DSA meeting. https://twitter.com/lindseypsmith7/status/1282414483265081344
  • 12 July 2020 : Imagine enjoying wearing clothes... Summers the best because it’s when it’s most normalized for me to wear as little clothing as possible and I’ve been naked as often as possible my whole life. https://twitter.com/Bomgeisha/status/1281608952866889729
  • 12 July 2020 : Rose hips works with pam and PAM has had issues with classism and patriarchal bullshit in the past. But i know groups trying to problem solve the fact that older PDX groups are still on the “20 hour training or bust” path. Lots of folks who coordinate w/ PAM but text me boo
  • 12 July 2020 : This is the so called “United States” government “doing their best” to “protect and serve” the communities it considers worth defense. In case anyone is still unclear, thats people with wealth and power. All “LEO’s” are just an extension of the genocidal imperialist rule of law. https://twitter.com/genresistance/status/1282283871342485511
  • 12 July 2020 : So many of y’all really and truly do not understand that so many of the Black and Indigenous people that y’all already idolize or need to learn from are the same ones already discussing our mortality & planning for the worst. Constantly. Thoroughly. Realistically. https://twitter.com/breenewsome/status/1282338560142704640
  • 4 July 2020 : Logged in for a sec to share this Farce of July thread I wrote last yr b/c yt “Americans” need to read it & there’s a hell of a lot more of y’all following me here now than ever before. There’s nothing to celebrate today, unless you believe the lies of American Exceptionalism. https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1147007631380353024
  • 2 July 2020 : There’s a shit ton more y’all have to learn. that’s just the truth of the situation. Y’all are HELLA far behind. If protesting is inaccessible to you, start a study group with friends & work on catching up as quickly as possible so directly affected ppl don’t have to teach you.
  • 2 July 2020 : - gaslighting - radical vulnerability - men’s socialization around emotional vulnerability - accountability - neurodivergency - food deserts/scarcity - militarized borders -human trafficking @ the border/farms/boats -the history of sex work (especially in Indigenous communities)
  • 2 July 2020 : Logging out of this hell site for who knows how long. Fuck this city. If you wanna ask me what to do, go google and read about: -victim led restorative justice -racial capitalism -decolonization -ABLEISM (all of y’all read this) -prison abolition & police abolition -mutual aid
  • 2 July 2020 : Deleting tweets isn’t accountability when your recognize harmful actions.
  • 2 July 2020 : So you’re saying you weren’t directly involved, you didn’t participate in the conversation, you’re unsure what happened, & yet your putting emotional labor on ppl harmed by Luis to sort this out for why? As if Micah isn’t 1 of my best friends & we’re not having talks about this
  • 2 July 2020 : Also, you kept your mouth shut for 2 years about your abuse but literally actively helping to silence a femme coming out about their harm by discrediting me & idk who else? Ableism is an issue I’m screaming about constantly. Is there anyone leading a call out? I’m sharing MY exp
  • 2 July 2020 : At least not until the literal day of the assault. & even so, If that was the reason, why didn’t luis do anything about this until he loudly quit camp, said it was ruined, came back, tried to call meetings, got called a hypocrite & THEN hit them & lie to say it was b/c of racism?
  • 2 July 2020 : And yet somehow, I was literally never talked to about this despite living there full time, having to help run fucking ga’s constantly, helping security @ black organizers requests, & working 18+ hours a day. Did no one tell me cause they were too busy calling me a cop?
  • 2 July 2020 : Did you ever fucking ask me about it or were you busy hanging with mostly white people and listening to and defending a literal abuser?
  • 2 July 2020 : I’m excited to go through and block all these white people who’re choosing to continue to bitch about me meeting with city hall at the request of directly affected folx while living at occupy full time & using every excuse possible to defend Luis copjacketing me & exonerate him.
  • 2 July 2020 : What I’m saying is, Luis did not even attempt to de-escalate a situation inside a camp feet from federal officers. Instead he assaulted someone on his own in view of cops. Then lied about what happened. Continued to copjacket me. & refused to discuss any of his own harms.
  • 2 July 2020 : I was literally a brand new street organizer, just finishing years of therapy so I could be useful, getting copjacketed, listening to multiple directly affected voices that Luis does not speak for. And yet had like a dozen ppl come up and tell me about Luis HARMING THEM.
  • 2 July 2020 : Me: A brand new activist desperately listening to Latinx & undocumented voices who got copjacketed Y’all: didn’t trust me to tell me about this Luis: an allegedly seasoned activist who apparently knew this information & punched this person but then lied & said he was racist https://twitter.com/ewsorg/status/1278757461961273344
  • 2 July 2020 : Undocumented folx who were supposed to be leading this occupation: please help us talk to this commissioner for these very specific reasons White people: this is our camp and you need to come to us first before you take direction from undocumented communities. https://twitter.com/ewsorg/status/1278757786730430464
  • 2 July 2020 : So uhm, since some of y’all wanna continue to defend an abuser, I’m gonna take a quick break from the internet. But I’ll be back probably on or right before my birthday to help run a little fundraiser for a black sex worker and a black drag performer who need some help.
  • 2 July 2020 : Okay y’all. So my birthday is in 8 days. That’s also the anniversary of when Luis assaulted someone at camp two years ago. That’s also the anniversary of Luis standing 5 feet from me screaming and showering spittle towards me about how I was a cop in front of the feds.
  • 2 July 2020 : Me: Luis has hurt me and is responsible for copjacketing me Y’all: Is any single human being going to come out about this because I bought into the copjacket & that means Lilith isn’t human and their harm doesn’t count I hate this city. https://twitter.com/oliveju87041706/status/1278621901380825089
  • 2 July 2020 : Me: got asked by and went to meetings with literal undocumented people at city hall to help them fight for licenses for all & daca protections with mainly eudalys office who was showing up to occupy. Y’all: “Lilith was working with the mayor behind the white people’s backs! 😭” https://twitter.com/oliveju87041706/status/1278765413212450816
  • 2 July 2020 : I WAS NOT WORKING WITH TED WHEELER. I LITERALLY HAD LIKE TWO MEETINGS WHERE HIS CHIEF OF STAFF SHOWED UP TO BS. & I WAS ASKED TO GO TO BY UNDOCUMENTED COMMUNITIES TO FIGHT FOR BILL205 & other legislation while there was a pressure movement happening. GET FUCKED PLEASE.
  • 2 July 2020 : ?? I don’t know who you are behind this anonymous account but I also don’t ever remember you messaging me from here? I don’t know what kind of acknowledgement you’re looking for but like, yes you’re human?
  • 2 July 2020 : Pushing your need for accountability on to women/femmes is not accountability. Bringing up your dick & blaming your sexist/patriarchal behavior on genitals is literally cis-normative, transphobic bullshit. Why is femme in quotes at the end? Supportive for or supported by? 🙄🤮 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1278528382146236416 pic.twitter.com/Pyoitmyy6z
  • 2 July 2020 : Oh shit. Thank you. I’m gonna save this tweet and remake it later with a better website. I was just looking for a black model and that was hard enough 🙄 thanks for letting me know!!!
  • 2 July 2020 : The nice thing is we can do both! I’ve gone downtown to bully the mayor in real life. Buildings don’t bleed like BIPOC people fucking do. I’ve also been fighting for universal preschool ( http://upnow2020.org ) w/ black kids in mind. The policy thing has been tried for decades https://twitter.com/kalipdx/status/1278538395875028992
  • 2 July 2020 : Rose city justice is run by a cop & a cop is praising this thread. A diversity of escalated tactics is NECESSARY in the uprising for black liberation (not a little bit of equity or police reform). But y’all better do your fucking research first & leave black businesses alone. https://twitter.com/kalipdx/status/1278538393299738625
  • 2 July 2020 : For legal reasons this is a joke: Anyway it sure’d be funny if I saw a video of someone roasting pork over a flaming police precincts... I also think it’d be hilarious if people looked up yt owned gentrifier businesses to sing & be inspired by that song “Fire Fire gentrifier” https://twitter.com/kalipdx/status/1278538391538167809
  • 2 July 2020 : Well, teargasted shared this&said “powerful words”. He cherry picks which black voices to listen to & adores people willing to work w/ the state. This is an uprising. Begging @tedwheeler for help like @JoAnnPDX & @RoseCityJustice won’t work. 🔥 sure has across the country tho. https://twitter.com/kalipdx/status/1278538390586003457
  • 2 July 2020 : Hi. My pronouns are they them. I literally named multiple issues including abuse allegations of an ex of his who I won’t name but contacted me the first time this happens. Also, you sound like every apologist fucking ever. I’m blocking you.
  • 2 July 2020 : I was literally doxxed by Luis and copjacketed by him and had”leftist” people push me in the streets, yell at me, and had people threaten to remove me from events nationwide b/c of Luis. This isn’t a personality issue and I sincerely hope people STILL defending him get fucked https://twitter.com/oliveju87041706/status/1278739665927860225
  • 2 July 2020 : This means don’t email me either. Leave me the fuck alone. I tweet about being suicidal & y’all slide in my DMs like “hey can u read this” “hey who should I talk to about this” “hey can you boost this” “hey 1200 of us wanna drop stuff off for you” like I’m gonna give my address
  • 2 July 2020 : I would like to announce a 2 week long moratorium on fucking messaging me. Leave me alone. Don’t signal me. Don’t fucking text me. Don’t fucking DM me. Stop messaging activism actually saying we hope “y’all can ____.” It’s just me. It’s nice y’all are woke now but do it urself.
  • 2 July 2020 : RT @fiercenaked: The conditions that strippers in the US are being expected to work in are incredible unsafe and the pandemic has only exac…
  • 2 July 2020 : If you’re throwing glass bottles and full soda cans at the police but they’re not shattering or exploding: https://pacificpetite.com/toned-arms/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=pinterest&utm_campaign=tailwind_tribes&utm_content=tribes&utm_term=706709168_28379106_493990
  • 2 July 2020 : I got added to a group chat of women/femmes who’d experienced direct harm from him sometime in late January. We were trying to coordinate a PSA like this but then the pandemic & uprisings hit... I won’t tell their stories. But anyone who wants to tell their own below, feel free.
  • 2 July 2020 : Luis is another stereotypical abusive leftist male who glorifies violence, punches fash for the clout, preys on young women/femmes, and weaponizes his time “on the street” against folks who haven’t had to opportunity to do so yet. He is a danger to our community. Avoid ALWAYS.
  • 2 July 2020 : He targets young, new, inexperienced protestors & paints himself as a leader. He uses their lack of connection to manipulate them into serving his own agenda. He encourages escalating. But he ran away from the cops last night literally pushing people & yelling at them to run.
  • 2 July 2020 : There’s more to his years long history of abuse in the local scene (including stories of sexual/emotional assault from an ex) & more. Luis hits the streets to fight people, order others around, & grift on people when he’s targeted for sometimes punching Fash but mostly trolling
  • 2 July 2020 : -A meeting was called and by consensus it was decided that he wouldn’t be allowed back b/c of all these things. Months later he copjacketed me across the country through antifascist networks he was involved in. People who knew him yelled at & physically assaulted me @ an action
  • 2 July 2020 : - He spit on and assaulted a non-binary person who called him a hypocrite. And then after Luis spit on them Luis was called a misogynist. Then he swung on that person. -He lies & said that person was racist despite multiple witnesses affirming otherwise.
  • 2 July 2020 : -He posted my (& that Latinx woman I mentioned earlier) names and faces and told everyone to abandon camp because it had been “sold out to cops” by two black/brown femmes. -Then he came back to camp & tried to call multiple meetings & give orders AND THEN, still in 7 weeks:
  • 2 July 2020 : -I got doxxed by a leftist twitter associated w/ Luis. -Probably a dozen people came up to me to tell me how he’d made them feel intimidated, physically unsafe, or had belittled them. -He continued to escalate young anarchists to violence -He told ppl I was a cop/fed (Cont)
  • 2 July 2020 : All of this to prove I was a cop. I was a young organizer, and stupid. And because Luis intimidates people so well, and things were so hectic at occupy, I thought I had to. So I did. He stopped targeting me for like 48 hours. Over the next few weeks:
  • 2 July 2020 : So basically, Luis was hella aggressive to me when people started to respect me for my work and ethics and I stopped listening to Luis. I was a young bb & nobody bothered to put a leash on that fucking dog so he convinced me to tell him my legal name & the strip club i worked at.
  • 2 July 2020 : Okay, we resume. This needs to be shorter because my anxiety is fucking *Spiking* cause I ALWAYS get cop jacketed and attacked in my DMs for talking about male abusers cause so many people (men) love an excuse to blindly follow someone who tells them to hit people...
  • 2 July 2020 : A few folks defended me. Including the political prisoner Im now power of attorney for who actually WAS helping coordinate security and other things. (Okay, one sec, that prisoner just called me and I gotta add money to his account rn)
  • 2 July 2020 : After successfully helping, Luis stormed up to me aggressively one day demanding I identify myself & prove I wasn’t a cop and demanding I explain why or how I deserved to be friends with some people or working on some projects. I later learned he wasn’t even managing any of that.
  • 2 July 2020 : I got asked to help with the security shifts by a few people & it felt like a natural role as a martial artist and self defense teacher as well as my experience being on alert for EVERYTHING b/c of growing up in Baltimore, then in yt rich neighborhoods, & always watching men. 7/
  • 2 July 2020 : Over the next few days, as I proved my efficiency, my interest in listening to LatinX and South American voices as a priority, my multitasking skills, & my comfortability being on the front lines, he acted buddy buddy with me. Even slinging his arm over my shoulder unasked.
  • 2 July 2020 : While I liked some of the language Luis said (he speaks like an abolitionist when it suits him), I also noticed he kept talking over this Latinx woman who was speaking about sustainability, care, demands, needs etc. It was glaringly obvious he saw himself as in a leadership role
  • 2 July 2020 : That Saturday, I was walking around, getting my bearings, asking anyone and everyone how I could help. Specifically looking for directly affected peoples (immigrants, asylum seekers, bipoc being targeted b/c of Drumpfs rhetoric.) Luis invited me to a “BIPOC only” meeting. I went.
  • 2 July 2020 : The 2nd day I came to Multnomah Camp was on about day 5 or 6 of the occupation. It’d started while I was outta town. That Wed night I got back. I went to 1 vigil & decided that now was the moment for me to dive in after working on my mental health/stability. I set up a tent Sat.
  • 2 July 2020 : #DefendPDX My first personal experiences of harm from Luis started during the #OccupyICE Movement borne in #PDX two years ago. I was a newbie to the scene after battling 2 years of mental illness and suicidal urges that kept me benched from going to Standing Rock & elsewhere.
  • 2 July 2020 : Community Safety Alert RE: Local “Leftist” Luis-Enrique Marquez. @/luistheleftist For the safety of you & others, if you see this man attempting to lead ANYTHING on the streets: Do not follow, listen to, or trust him or his analysis. Here’s a long overdue thread on why: 1/ pic.twitter.com/PeTcMMQaVh
  • 2 July 2020 : Pennsylvania is a fucking hell hole. Except like the outskirts of Philly beyond the USA porn memorials and a few other neighborhoods. But most of the state is garbage. I know because it’s where half of my family comes from & most of them are garbage. https://twitter.com/zykkier/status/1278507689094467584
  • 2 July 2020 : Lmao OF COURSE this is from Pennsylvania. I bet my shitty ass extended family shared this on FB 🙄
  • 2 July 2020 : If you’re in the replies of her tweet praising her for her commitment or thanking her for this loving, pleading letter to some pigs, you might as well unfollow me now. I’m fighting for BIPOC liberation. Y’all can stop inviting committed reformists into an abolitionist movement.
  • 2 July 2020 : JoAnn is publicly begging cops to have a conscience while wishing for police REFORM & expressing that shes “[looking] forward to working with” the 2 most deadly cops in the city. She isn’t an abolitionist. She said it herself. We’re far past respectability politics & begging. https://twitter.com/joannpdx/status/1278498842657210369
  • 2 July 2020 : I’m going down a rabbit hole and now I really would love to see a few thousands report this account down 🥰☺️ This unremarkable piece of shit doesn’t deserve a platform. https://twitter.com/radiocarsonpnw/status/1276989870225813505?s=21 https://twitter.com/radiocarsonpnw/status/1276989870225813505
  • 2 July 2020 : I hold a special place of hatred in my heart for over-confident, undereducated, less than mediocre, shitty little ignorant yt men who performatively mansplain women/femme’s area of expertises to them. You clearly don’t know shit @RadioCarsonPNW . Go read a book & get off twitter
  • 2 July 2020 : I fucking studied general privacy laws for photojournalism at like 17. Learned where to look up my local laws too. You can film/photograph nearly anything you fucking want in public places in the city (besides nude ppl without consent.) & filming cops is fucking protected.
  • 2 July 2020 : #FacesThatMatchTheOpinon 🙄 @RadioCarsonPNW I encourage you to look up actual laws re:freedom of press. You might want to look into that with a little more depth. Seems like any ignorant yt man with no understanding of privacy laws can be a radio host. https://www.aclu-or.org/en/legislation/victory-right-film-police-bill-passes-oregon-legislature https://twitter.com/radiocarsonpnw/status/1278319929771491329
  • 2 July 2020 : “Please consider wearing more clothes, so other people’s boyfriends won’t feel the need to like your pics”🥴 But funny to imagine a man sitting w/ his thumb slowly moving towards the photo to double click on women w/ “too little clothing” as he tries to fight his impulses.☠️💩😹 https://twitter.com/_cinnamonro11_/status/1278358014005637120
  • 2 July 2020 : Yes.
  • 2 July 2020 : A mathematical pop quiz for #pdx : We know that @tedwheeler - aka tevis (t) is a cop (c). We also know that all cops are bastards (b). Knowing these facts, how would you complete the follow equation? If: t=c and c=b Then we can conclude that t = _______ ? Hint: 1+3+1+2
  • 1 July 2020 : Seconding that^^^
  • 1 July 2020 : Fucking genius!! https://twitter.com/gabyseeeta/status/1278339734469701632
  • 1 July 2020 : Hey y’all! @ChloeEudalyPDX @JoAnnPDX @AmandaFritzRN @tedwheeler Any of you gonna have your media team craft up a single, soulless, cowardly tweet to acknowledge how the cops in the city you’re failing to run are brutalizing citizens nightly against court order & arresting press? https://twitter.com/muzzakh/status/1278328926171877376
  • 1 July 2020 : RT @EmilyGorcenski: Another Gab user tried to kill someone
  • 1 July 2020 : oof. https://twitter.com/lochnessia_/status/1278326947077140480
  • 1 July 2020 : Is the governor of Virginia patting himself on the back for the literal bare minimum and simultaneously quoting Ariana Grande? I fucking hate it here. https://twitter.com/governorva/status/1278435899777441793
  • 1 July 2020 : Oops I’m high and forgot the link to spence getting wrecked: https://youtu.be/aFh08JEKDYk https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1278432760307355653
  • 1 July 2020 : Welcome to nightmare street, aka https://twitter.com CW: gore, lsd, nightmare material https://twitter.com/paradoxtay/status/1278046624636219392
  • 1 July 2020 : A wonderful video of a white man who deserves to get punched getting punched 💕 Also, here’s the link to Richard Spencer getting punched for a nostalgic laugh. 🥰🔥 Punching violent oppressors is community defense & good praxis. https://twitter.com/tipado/status/1277667888678072325
  • 1 July 2020 : A constant mood. My friends have started being like “what’s happening” when I’m obsessively rubbing my head and face. It’s a problem.
  • 1 July 2020 : I hate yt Stephans. Not to be confused with yt Stevens because there’s a dear ex-prisoner I adore named Steven who’s done WAY MORE to support the movement in the last decade behind a cage than certain Stephens who unfollow me b/c they don’t understand tactical diversity.
  • 1 July 2020 : So maybe go away & stay out of my mentions then if you don’t get diversity of intentionally agitational tactics. I’ve learned a lot along my own personal path of radicalization. I’m not having closed door meetings w/ the mayor. I brought a team of bipoc to bully the mayor irl.
  • 1 July 2020 : Tear gas is pretty bad for the environment @tedwheeler . You know what also would be awful for the environment AND the city? A gas station explosion while its filled with terrified people running away from the cops you’re in charge of because they shot sparking munitions near GAS https://twitter.com/tedwheeler/status/1278416476882432001
  • 1 July 2020 : I know this because in another response tweet I outlined all of this based on my own personal experience as a light skinned, Black, newly radicalized femme being forced to answer for all issues happening, being met w/ violence & not being given space to learn. Only to apologize.
  • 1 July 2020 : Things are black and white or good and bad. Life is full of nuance. I’m an abolitionist. And I’m just tryna make sure she doesn’t get cancelled for being new and susceptible to manipulation or being led astray by men who weaponize their “time in the movement” to speak over us.
  • 1 July 2020 : I never said she wasn’t part of the issue. Not once. Feel free to reread my analysis of the ways we as a society tend to push all responsibility for accountability on to Black femmes. It is SIMULTANEOUSLY true that she harmed people & that she may be a victim of male toxicity.
  • 1 July 2020 : White libs.
  • 1 July 2020 : Oh look! Another uninformed white masc person out here expecting me to explain my every move to them personally instead of doing the basic research or reading some of my tweets to attempt to understand my motivation. You don’t even follow me. I still explained in the replies tho https://twitter.com/sftokarski/status/1278398724578787328
  • 1 July 2020 : Maybe you should go watch the live streamed recording I started w/ him & Hardesty when meeting via zoom so they couldn’t waste my time with bullshit & w/o the people learning from their own mouths that they’ll never risk alienating the police union to protect the public.
  • 1 July 2020 : Yeah!💕 I actually cursed out the mayor in the rose room, made demands & had him come see how they wouldnt tear gas if he was there as a means to forcing him to be accountable to the public by putting him directly in front of the public where he couldn’t hide like a little bitch
  • 1 July 2020 : Always. This is a public account and I don’t post things publicly that I wouldn’t be comfortable being share. Also in the third tweet it says tell your friends. So if you ever see that, know I consider it important to share.
  • 1 July 2020 : I say this to: 1) Be open about the fact that as a young black femme organizer in PDX, I fell into an abusive situation & unfortunately helped enable my abuser in causing harm. 2) Express my hopes for a community that runs intentional interventions before cancelling women/fems
  • 1 July 2020 : Most of the emotional support/encouragement in organizing that I was receiving was from an abuser named Evan Duke III. I fell into his trap easily b/c misogynoir in PDX made me suicidal. Then enabled him while trying to ”help change & teach him accountability” for 8 months (2/3)
  • 1 July 2020 : This is totally fair! And super valid. It happens! I think it’s important as an abolitionist to hold an appropriate amount of space for young femme organizers being trapped in similar abusive cycles. As a baby organizer, I was copjacketed hard by men like Luis here in PDX. (1/2)
  • 1 July 2020 : Okay, this is the end of the thread. I just really wanted to explain why it’s important to de-platform abusers like the current leadership of RCJ attempting to force lawsuits onto Black people & others. But y’all ALWAYS come for femmes first so I wanted to include that 2nd half.
  • 1 July 2020 : After a one on one conversation with Kinsey about the somewhat similar traumas we’ve gone through, her motivations, and her goals, I trust her more than anyone @ RCJ & want to see her be given a chance to work with folks not interested in harming others for clout.
  • 1 July 2020 : All the people who’ve harmed me and harmed others in my 2 years of full time organizing all across the country from my first opportunity to dive into this: Almost all the harm I’ve experienced was from men. White, Indigenous, Mexican, Black. I was too compassionate as a bb.
  • 1 July 2020 : You know how we push emotional labor into black women constantly? 🤔 So, knowing darren’s work past & hearing things about other men involved, I think RCJ got secretive & started dishing out lawsuit after Kinsey left b/c she was a POWERFUL 1 of few folks trying to do this right
  • 1 July 2020 : I don’t have any proof of what I’m writing in this tweet & the next. Its borne of my personal suspicions. That being said: I find it real interesting that Kinsey didnt even know who was harming people but personally volunteered to be publicly accountable via livestream.
  • 1 July 2020 : Also want to make it personally clear: I have suspicions that the one driving force behind engaging in accountability was Kinsey, a black woman who’s brand new to organizing, dealing with toxic manipulative men and actively working to quickly unlearn govt propaganda.
  • 1 July 2020 : I want to be clear, this decision is being made by *current* leaders. I honestly can no longer say who tf those people are by name cause they got secretive after that call-out & when some folks left. So idk who tf is making threats. #pdx #Portland #rosecityjustice
  • 1 July 2020 : What infuriates me the most is: Using the state flippantly. The fact that they have 16k & REFUSED to give any $ to folks who actively supported them & tried to help while begging them to connect w/ their friends who’ve been organizing for years. Deplatforming new activists.
  • 1 July 2020 : I’ve gotten word of this lawsuit bullshit from someone being targeted/threatened with a lawsuit. Apparently the folks behind this are the current “leaders” of the group. So, if you’ve worked with them personally, don’t talk to them again until you have a lawyer. I’m serious.
  • 1 July 2020 : Unfollow @/RoseCityJustice on all their platforms asap. Stop showing up to support their events. Tell all your friends to do the same. If you’ve EVER worked with RCJ, it’s time to realize they want clout, money and unpaid volunteers. In the interest of your safety, cut ties.
  • 1 July 2020 : Filing lawsuits against black and brown people is an act of violence—you should not weaponize the state against BIPOC. Especially those who are trying to cut ties with you for actively harming them. So, here’s my personal advice #portlandprotest folx!
  • 1 July 2020 : Heads up #PDXPROTEST attendees: @/RoseCityJustice is currently threatening people with lawsuits because they’re trying to separate from the RCJ train wreck. They also deleted a platform that was affiliated w/ them b4 those involved could change the password after cutting ties.
  • 1 July 2020 : #DefendPDX - 11:18PM - theres a cop sitting in the bottom level of the parking garage on ainsworth right before the intersection with MLK. Left hand side if you’re going west on ainsworth. #fuckcops #weprotectus #pdx #speedtrap
  • 1 July 2020 : vibing 🙄 #fuckautocorrect
  • 1 July 2020 : If you wanna hear dope music in a chill environment come to Rev Hall! Pay respects to the alter and join us vining on the field. Black led! LGBTQ+ fueled. Some of my friends are DJing. And we’ll be here until midnight!! #pdx #pdxprotests #portland #portlandprotests
  • 1 July 2020 : My best friend is Jewish. We both got told by another Jewish woman that we are both anti-semetic for supporting BDS. And as a Black person following anti-racist Jewish radicals in my anaylsis of/support for BDS, I was furious. Same fury when black conservatives call me racist.
  • 1 July 2020 : I used to work graveyard in a factory and that shit is brutal. But I totally get you! Between that graveyard job & selling my soul to SBux for 4 years starting between 4-6 am, I was always saying good morning every time of day for a while 😅
  • 30 June 2020 : Every time I see this picture I think about how her husband finds her life so disposable that he didn’t even teach her how to hold a handgun. Also, in another picture, his gun is literally aimed towards her. Which like, even with proper trigger handling, is still a basic rule https://twitter.com/shannonrwatts/status/1277963597000261633
  • 30 June 2020 : This is very validating cause I woke up and said good morning to our chickens before my morning cig and then was like, “wait! Good afternoon chickies”. 😅
  • 30 June 2020 : YESS. Being Afro Indigenous, one of my goals is always to build up BIPOC solidarity!! “Native people used to live here! Fire to the colonizer!!” 🎶🔥
  • 30 June 2020 : Ugh watching these white peoples faces gives me joy. Make complacent white gentrifiers afraid again!
  • 30 June 2020 : Okay I know I said I’m stepping back from organizing events but I really wanna march around NOPO singing this? #blackmagicparade [The people marching are chanting/singing “Black people used to live here!” (x 3) follow by “Fire, fire, gentrifier!!” (x3) and then repeated in full] https://twitter.com/xx_morena/status/1277614417472040961
  • 30 June 2020 : Note to anyone with insomnia taking sleeping pills... Don’t forget to take your medicine until 2am & then take it and fall asleep at 3:30. I just woke up at 4pm.
  • 30 June 2020 : IM SO PROUD OF YOU
  • 30 June 2020 : I predict that this may be the most useful, story style, thread that I ever write* It covers how I just learned to roll a joint and put resin on it like the picture here. And it shares the lessons I learned along the way.... Please enjoy. *that I ever write at 2am while high https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1277896529982836736 pic.twitter.com/IpfAyCqt3a
  • 30 June 2020 : we gotta share the lessons we learned the hard way with our friends, right? lololol
  • 30 June 2020 : So, I stopped that. And just made due. And quickly set it down and used my little tool to gob some on the front of already rolled joint. And then fucked around with it trying to make it even as it RAPIDLY cooled down. It was high pressure. But that was the result. 😅
  • 30 June 2020 : melt and get gooey. It was great. Everything was good. But then, because I was already high, I forgot that fire hurts, and got impatient getting it to whatever consistency I was randomly guessing it should be at, so: I brought the flame in and *barely* singed my finger. 🙃🤓😣
  • 30 June 2020 : I tried to light it from above, w/ me balancing/tightly gripping the little glass thing between two fingers. I have strong hand dexterity. (But increasingly shitty joints) SO, this won’t work for all. Anyway, I tried that ⬆️ and, it worked. I inched in, saw the reason start to
  • 30 June 2020 : First I tried to light it in just one corner from an angle by setting the torch at the right target and slowly moved it closer testing how it would affect my hand along the way. That was a no go. Don’t do that. Pls. Then —>
  • 30 June 2020 : Then I was like, okay, time to heat! And then I was like shit, I can’t HOLD THIS little glass thing in my hand as I light it with a torch. Okay fuck what now. Well everything around me was flammable & I was already high so... Yes, I know. I shouldn’t. But, I held the glass thing
  • 30 June 2020 : Found an old, almost completely empty little glass resin jar cause I figure I should probably try to warm it in something that wouldn’t catch fire from the torch. Then put how much resin I wanted to get on there PLUS a little extra cause I didn’t trust myself not to fuck up.
  • 30 June 2020 : Uhm, I’ve only been taking dabs for two months but I’ve watched a bunch of joint porn videos on YouTube lmao and just kinda went for it off of a memory? 😅 10/10 can never recommend because I have a medium sized torch & it was still a little sketchy. But I’ll explain what I did:
  • 30 June 2020 : Update: I’m high AF
  • 30 June 2020 : About 2/3rds of the way through now & already dreaming about my bedtime dab. Hahah insomnia apparently really helps build your tolerance.
  • 30 June 2020 : Tbh this is the first truly picture worthy joint that I’ve ever hand rolled. 😹 I usually use a little roller thing. But for size: pic.twitter.com/gvQTNQaNEz
  • 30 June 2020 : When I’m rolling my joints and chanting my little weed mantra in my head, I also think of my pussy: Keep it fat, tight, and juicy.✨Keep it fat, tight, and juicy.✨ Keep it fat, tight, and juicy.✨😘😋😇 pic.twitter.com/QBTydvCVcH
  • 30 June 2020 : a mood.
  • 30 June 2020 : yes*** 💕🍷✨ ***as long as you’re staying intimately aware of your families relationship with alcoholism & how much you’re using alcohol as a coping mechanism #bigaccountdisclaimers #myshitpostingisnotmedicaladvice
  • 30 June 2020 : I feel like fast food is still a far step up from slimjims but also, when not traveling, I’ve been eating like one HUGE delivered meal that I ordered after just enough {aka 4-8} dabs. So like, no shame.
  • 30 June 2020 : A *perfect* explanation https://twitter.com/kingdomofhills/status/1277839880878350336
  • 30 June 2020 : So I must repeat, emphatically: Fuck Portland. Fuck white people. Abolition or bust and LAND MOTHERFUCKING BACK.
  • 30 June 2020 : 🙃🙃🙃 almost just punched a white man who literally YELLED about “negros” in the 82nd Fred Meyer at 10PM. When I immediately turned & told him he needed to watch his racist mouth he buckled down b4 telling me he has “dozens of black cousins, *SIS*” Get fucked, homie. #ihateOR
  • 30 June 2020 : But also I have friends who experience similar anxiety, panic or paranoia while smoking weed and tried every strain they could with no change and gave up. So like, I get it! But if you need help finding good strains, my friend is a dope bud tender I’d be happy to ask for advice!
  • 30 June 2020 : I wonder if you could try to grind together a mix of a strong indica flower with a little bit of CBD oil drizzled on your food. I used to get really anxious when I first started smoking but have found strain combinations that combat that.
  • 30 June 2020 : My point EXACTLY! Thank you!
  • 30 June 2020 : I did manage to eat half of a bowl of cereal this am before it got slightly soggy and all my executive dysfunction immediately quit for the day.
  • 30 June 2020 : I’ve often used weed recreationally but since the begin of the pandemic I’ve been using it medicinally in ACCESS. I have an ED on top of my depression so I’ve been stoned out my mind for the past 3 months just so I can eat 1 full meal a day. it’s my new normal. SO.MUCH.WEED.
  • 30 June 2020 : Lol relatable. I’d never heard of it till I was offered a not insignificant amount of extra money in the middle of a lap dance to allow a man to lick my pits. Men get offended if you don’t give them an immediate answer in your 4 minutes together lol. So I had to process quickly
  • 30 June 2020 : i’m hovering around the “4 Slim-Jims definitely count as a meal” level of depression. 🥴😅 how bout y’all?
  • 30 June 2020 : 110%.
  • 30 June 2020 : Does anyone have a video of Brandon Farley getting punched in the face similar to that glorious footage of Richard Spencer getting wrecked? All I’m saying is there’s a lot of interest in this type of content that would provide a lot of joy and satisfaction to do many people.....
  • 30 June 2020 : The number of men who’ve paid me to lick my sweaty armpits is too many. https://twitter.com/prolepeach/status/1277690406457704448
  • 30 June 2020 : THIS PART. https://twitter.com/iamaytman/status/1277730887791030272
  • 30 June 2020 : I wonder how much money was spent here to push undocumented day laborers out of their jobs while they’re simultaneously being paid @ or below our criminally negligent “minimum wages” that are NOT liveable. Colonizers love new tech if it helps them stop “wasting” resources on ppl https://twitter.com/mashable/status/1277503820109475840
  • 30 June 2020 : I’m about to really dive into the research phase in the next month!!! I’d scheduled some consultations w/ relevant leaders & folks with expertise in different subjects for the beginning of March... And then I took a pandemic to the knee. 😅😭If you ever want a writing buddy HMU!
  • 30 June 2020 : Literally stepping back from organizing events because the constant trauma & the demands for unpaid emotional labor by people who WILL gaslight me has driven me to a literal mental break. I almost went to inpatient treatment for my ideation this week. Y’all need to chill out PDX https://twitter.com/gulujoon/status/1277725911337426944
  • 29 June 2020 : I love @nowhitesaviors ! I follow them on all my platforms!! Second that recommendation! And I’ll follow the others so I can boost them too!
  • 29 June 2020 : are you embarrassed that you didn’t know the violent history of the intentional destruction, destabilization & colonial takeover of Hawai’i by the U.S? Oh & “Americans” help w/ the constant destruction by pouring money into our imperialist tourist industry for a fun lil vacation. https://twitter.com/leomoonhoney/status/1277442313560580097
  • 29 June 2020 : Unless they’re white gay couples who drive their black children off a cliff with them after abusing them for years 🙃 On that note, an additional point I’d like to make: If you’re white, adopt a white baby. Otherwise you’ll just traumatize a kid you can never fucking relate to.
  • 29 June 2020 : Don’t try to write deep tweets while high if you’re not committed to proof-reading at least a half dozen times.
  • 29 June 2020 : This should say #AdoptDontConceive so we can help our most hidden victims of the state & capitalism. (Wards of the state given to any person with an incentive to want money more than the child) And if you don’t wanna break cycles participate in the moratorium & get ur shit right https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1277501260887805958
  • 29 June 2020 : This should say #AdoptDontConceive so we can help our most hidden victims of the state & capitalism. (Wards of the state given to any person with an incentive to want money more than the child) And if you don’t wanna break cycles participate in the moratorium & get ur shit right
  • 29 June 2020 : Cause fuck y’all, being a cyclebreaker after centuries of compounded generational trauma as a bipoc family member is TUFF. Especially when you’re trying to mediate & heal centuries worth of abusive but still passed down coping mechanisms from the struggle of parenting+capitalism
  • 29 June 2020 : I’m tired of talking to droves of my adult friends who are simultaneously STILL processing childhood trauma from our parents while also working hard at saving their siblings kids (or younger siblings) from the same recycled abusive patterns that have been passed down consistently
  • 29 June 2020 : #AdoptDontShop for pets. But also: Can we consider a 5 yr global moratorium on childbirth that is announced with the launch of immediate robust, free sex ed programs, harm reduction systems & free abortions? #AdoptDontConcieve if ur not committed to cycle-breaking. Ffs y’all
  • 29 June 2020 : READ THIS MULTIPLE TIMES WHITE ORG MEMBERS IN PORTLAND. I’m tired of y’all making every excuse possible to defend shitty, egocentric white women & actively harmful, misogynist het men. We can only give abusers so much space to grow b4 we get that some NEED consequences to learn https://twitter.com/theleilaraven/status/1277378036191694849
  • 29 June 2020 : Surprise, I still can’t stand yt people. I talk to my white best friends about this all the time. And they’re consistently doing the work to make more yt people less shitty, cause they understand the truth of just how fragile & simultaneously violent white supremacy is. https://twitter.com/uncle_buttface/status/1277370405389393921
  • 29 June 2020 : Same. Any sex worker friendly tax advisors willing to discuss a sliding scale rate, hit me up. My DM’s are opennnnn. https://twitter.com/prolepeach/status/1277430814062645249
  • 28 June 2020 : You must tear down the prison walls built around your mind. You must kill the cop in your head that whispers, “It would be more comfortable by far to continue life like this than fight in an overwhelming war against it.” You must kill the colonizer in your head. & the capitalist
  • 28 June 2020 : The propagandist system that we’ve been raised in (& attacked by) is meant to stifle any understanding you may figure out that is centered around living without this system. Get ready. Preparing for abolition means tearing down the oppressive systems you’ve been led to buy into.
  • 28 June 2020 : Abolitionist Food for Thought: Capitalism&Colonialism (& all their children) have locked your brain, your thought processes & your imagination inside a mental prison using indoctrination & propaganda. Your escape from that will be as difficult & fought against as an irl escape.
  • 28 June 2020 : Mainly Indigenous and Black elders gifted me with their wisdom, decolonial analysis, stories of their life experiences, and abolitionist practices/values to live everyday. It’s why the revolution MUST be BIPOC led, with Black & Indigenous communities working in tandem.
  • 28 June 2020 : My radicalization is the story of constant gifts of emotional labor done by abolitionist elders who saw my capacity for growth, helped me learn accountability for the harm I did while being harmed, & taught me what to know to avoid hurting others whose struggles I didn’t know
  • 28 June 2020 : Decolonial elders https://twitter.com/besf0rt/status/1277303789444370438
  • 28 June 2020 : But I don’t wanna wait 3-6 years just to find out if I’m lucky 😭
  • 28 June 2020 : I want a similar pill but would like the results to be one small, soft mustache instead. But like... SMALL. I don’t want a Marx Stach. https://twitter.com/zykkier/status/1277312157789507585
  • 28 June 2020 : Texted you!
  • 28 June 2020 : Wait I miss you can we just FaceTime?
  • 28 June 2020 : In love with this photo. Grateful to Wesley for gifting it to us. Stoked as always to support UPNOW. 11-1pm and 5-7pm everyday @ 2249 E Burnside you can help by signing as a registered MultCo voter OR If not registered in multco, you can get set to help us collect signatures! https://twitter.com/upnow2020/status/1277301587178696704
  • 28 June 2020 : Even a broken clock is right twice a day 🤷🏽‍♀️ Obama isn’t a hero. He’s a war criminal who helped fire off more bombs than ever and is responsible for the slaughter of innocent, foreign civilians. US PRESIDENTS is an appropriate answer for a horror story in 2 words. Capitlalists🙅🏽‍♀️
  • 28 June 2020 : White “leadership” 😖😳😷🤢 https://twitter.com/merielmyers/status/1276666273762627586
  • 28 June 2020 : Can someone write an image description and post it in the replies to the first tweet? I loathe to force myself to analyze & further infuriate myself to intimately analyze, describe visual that is shitty towards me. 😑😬🙃
  • 28 June 2020 : What reformist first cis-het black man made this? Or what reformist first misogynist & sexist cis-het “leftist” made this? OR, what self-hating, counterrevolutionary (probably yt) woman/femme made this tryna gain approval from the black men they fetishize? 🥴 #abolitionorbust pic.twitter.com/bTrkR0qMtc
  • 28 June 2020 : I just had & of my partners read this & he said “oh what a great list of ideas! You have so many great things to do with *your life*” Me: fuck you Him: oh, did you detect that being a little bit of “pro-being alive propaganda?” Me: understands Ive been successfully shamed. 😅
  • 28 June 2020 : & also working on a book that’s partially autobiographical short stories & partially essays on the ways I was radicalized, humbled, traumatized & gifted with mentorship thru those experiences. It’s a new approach to conceptualizing/understanding radical joy as a means of growth.
  • 28 June 2020 : Deciding I want to refocus my energy on: -radicalizing the youths -making academic texts/long books about abolition accessible through zine style summarizations - mentoring young BIPOC women/femmes -doing drag and making porn -using my platforms to help raise crisis funds
  • 28 June 2020 : Jesus fucking Christ. https://twitter.com/yorki___/status/1276847021710888961
  • 28 June 2020 : CW: Police Murder today in San Diego . . . . . . https://twitter.com/madspkr/status/1277079183521271808
  • 28 June 2020 : Looked at their page. Seeing they’re in Nashville. Cant help but sit here & wonder if 1 of the people they’re talking about getting doorknocked is my long-distance non-binary femme life partner who’s a staunch abolitionist & ditched their local chapter b/c of DSA bullshit🧐🤨🙃 https://twitter.com/thepoeticgopher/status/1277089720078675969
  • 28 June 2020 : While there are a few ppl that are the exceptions, I’d consider this to be a generally true rule. Those I’ve learned of getting door knocks as members of DSA r often experiencing that b/c of work not done under DSAs banner. Specifically b/c of the culture & $$$ ties to the state https://twitter.com/the_npic/status/1277087995489923074
  • 28 June 2020 : SHARE THIS WITH ALL YOUR YT FOLLOWERS. https://twitter.com/nativecoup/status/1276679671258570752
  • 28 June 2020 : Cackling 😂 this is mine and it also checks out tbh pic.twitter.com/U2grZlYo9Q
  • 28 June 2020 : Oops and here’s the twitter link to the account! https://twitter.com/plr_hightower https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1277089491715362818
  • 28 June 2020 : Do me a favor and go block and report this account? They sent me an awful reply and also are saying “nigg**” in multiple public tweets. Thanks y’all! https://t.co/3wcSF9XOMY
  • 28 June 2020 : Do you ever sell photo set content in those skirts, or nah? 👀🥵🥴
  • 28 June 2020 : This is apparently actually “from the 2000’s” not present day material. But I guarantee you if they did change the language of the trainings in the past 10-20 years? They 100% haven’t changed the culture. We see it today. Oregon JUST stopped allowing non-unanimous convictions. https://twitter.com/davidminpdx/status/1277057956949880832
  • 28 June 2020 : Question 2 Do you disagree w/ my analysis or the way I’m speaking about something I’ve experienced here on my personal twitter? Cool, if I don’t follow you, feel free to just unfollow. If we’re friends, DM me or reply tweet but if I don’t want to engage I won’t. We can talk later
  • 28 June 2020 : But uh, please consider, if at any point in time, if you’re felling rage-y because of reading my tweets ask yourself this? Question 1 Are you feeling harmed or oppressed by my words? - Please reply tweet OR dm me. I’m sorry I didn’t know before & I’d love to stop that behavior.
  • 28 June 2020 : Cause I’m not about to censor myself on my own platform just because a bunch of y’all decided you wanted to hear what I had to say & clicked “follow.” This is how I interact with social media. I’m still growing alongside y’all & sharing what I experience/learn along the way.
  • 28 June 2020 : Bahaha, uhmmm, I just wanna post a casual reminder while I’m high as shit rambling on twitter: This is my PERSONAL twitter account that is set to public. The fact that I’m comfortable allowing ppl to see me radically vulnerable (@ my best & worst) also means I’m speaking for me. pic.twitter.com/X3CXLCQLf2
  • 28 June 2020 : Ugh. So embarrassed to be sitting here in the position of being like, “oops ya well uh please just do as I say but not as I do” 😅 Also, having to do a 30 hour street medic training as the only point of entry into support networks is: • classist • reductive • lowkey ableist
  • 28 June 2020 : Some reflections: Don’t be like me. Please wear pants/sleeves when you’re going to street medic & planning to run into tear gas to retrieve & treat people. Tear gas fucks you up through your skin. Also remembering PAM tell me post action I “wasn’t a medic” w/o a SPECIFIC training
  • 28 June 2020 : Looking at this photo while high, I’m lovingly noticing that you can just see the tops of the bag of sterile bundled gloves I keep in my right pocket & the sudecon packets I keep in my left. I still prep like this when I’m medicing. 💕 Also this is from #BeTheSpectacle a yr ago. https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1276958987317993472
  • 28 June 2020 : Bonus points, I just got so fucking high smoking while Karen was watering her garden that I didn’t notice she went back inside. My work here is done. I’m sure Karen is bitching to her husband about me. And I’m going to walk in the door of the apt exceptionally high. Double Win.
  • 28 June 2020 : Weed coughing from behind a mask at the edge of my non-mask wearing, Karen of a neighbors yard line. Every time I cough her head twitches in my direction. It’s literally just weed but she doesn’t need to know. 😼 #annoyallkarensaction #aaka #praxis
  • 28 June 2020 : Plus I’ve now realized her kids are like 10-16 🙄 they have friends that smoke weed. 100%. Be glad you get to homeschool them rn forreal Karen
  • 28 June 2020 : Her kids were in fucking side. & not even in the very visible front widow into their living room. I’m just like yo, your kids can’t even SEE ME rn. Go inside & sleep or sumn
  • 28 June 2020 : I said that. And she said, @ 11pm, “well yknow my kids play in this area & im responsible for that land b/c it’s on my property line & I have to maintain the trees in that grass” Like lady🙄just say ur mad you can see a black person smoking weed from your window @ 11 fucking pm
  • 28 June 2020 : & now an old yt man is standing behind me talking to sum young adults about what I can assume is a woman in his life: “it’s not even like she’s really sexy yknow? She could be butt ugly & it wouldn’t matter. You know cause she’s not like hot but she’s nice” She can do better😒
  • 28 June 2020 : Karen is outside w/ her kids watering plants. So I’m sitting nearby to make her mad. This is after we docked the car in front of driveway for 3 minutes to unload medic supplies & tabling supplies & she walked down her driveway to stare at us in her American flag T-shirt.
  • 28 June 2020 : This is Karen. I’m smoking weed on the sidewalk at the edge of the grass that runs along her property across the sidewalk. B/c one time at 11pm I was sitting on those bricks as close to the road as possible & she brought her husband out to tell I should stop b/c she has kids. 🙄 pic.twitter.com/6uBipHfkB6
  • 28 June 2020 : All the more reason to stop kkkops from brutalizing our movement for what was *literally* no reason. The only reason they said “get out” after pushing them down and grabbing them multiple times is because more people were coming to help. When your close, they don’t wanna gas cops https://twitter.com/rogerbeer5/status/1277070680689905665
  • 28 June 2020 : I’m so proud of this de-arrest effort. It makes my heart sing.🤩💕 We’re in crowds of thousands. Dont let the kkkops take our comrades. Don’t leave any person behind. The more people that get involved, the better the chance you all stay free. #pdxprotest #PortlandProtests #pdx https://twitter.com/kohzkah/status/1276796499402174464
  • 28 June 2020 : This part tho. 👀 https://twitter.com/genresistance/status/1277061181606223872
  • 28 June 2020 : I adore you friendo 🐶
  • 28 June 2020 : You can get set up to help signature gather or just sign the petition here with us and take some fliers for your neighborhood! #pdx #pdxprotest #UPNOW2020 #portland
  • 28 June 2020 : Hey y’all! It’s Saturday evening & I’m over at the IWW Hall @ a table from now(5pm) until 7pm! I’ve got bubbles! & we’re hoping to get people prepared to help do signature gathering for @UPNOW2020 in our last 8 days before the deadline. We still need ~20k to go so swing by!! #pdx pic.twitter.com/Sn3ewnbPyB
  • 27 June 2020 : Currently in a long moment of Silence for #GeorgeFloyd & other BIPOC murdered by police down here @ the #StripperStrikePDX . Some signs I see looking around say: “Support Black SWers” “Discrimination is N☹️T H☹️T” “Protect Black SWers” “This strike approved by paying customers”
  • 27 June 2020 : If you’re at the #StripperStrikePDX event, I’ll see you real soon 😘 pic.twitter.com/LedryZRz2V
  • 27 June 2020 : Military choppers running casual surveillance of SE Portland 🙃 The constant buzzing of these choppers across the city keeps me having consistent flashbacks of living in Mexico less than a mile from the border wall & sleeping at an Indigenous reclamation Village @ the TX border https://t.co/EGR3d4LCBS
  • 27 June 2020 : What is “depressed, consistently confused, and traumatized”, Alex? This was an $800 question, right? 😅 https://twitter.com/madelpillar/status/1276945997097250824
  • 27 June 2020 : Same lmao
  • 27 June 2020 : What does BTS stand for? (Wrong Answers ONLY) I’d like to submit “Boys That Simp” as an answer to be considered... https://twitter.com/teenvogue/status/1276961398929661956
  • 27 June 2020 : Also, that ACAB sticker was given to me in Tacoma in front of the NWDC @ a community hosted memorial for Willem van Spronsen (RIP) after their attempt to immobilize ICE deportation vans/vehicles. Which makes that bullhorn extra special. Could y’all ask around/share the 2nd tweet?
  • 27 June 2020 : Also, does anyone know who wound up with my miniature bullhorn w/ the ACAB sticker? I left it for (Black/Indigenous) community use so BIPOC voices could continue to be elevated after I left. It was a birthday present from my best friend last year & I’d love to get it back. 🤓 pic.twitter.com/UjCE6THd5a
  • 27 June 2020 : As much as it sucks being the subject of an article cover photo by breitbart, they also post kinda cool pictures of me when denouncing antifa... I got my profile header from breitbart when they covered the asylum seekers I got tear gassed w/ in MX. And now this one too! 😊😑🤪 pic.twitter.com/o5PvpPDzdl
  • 27 June 2020 : #MakeTheSocialistMovementBlackLed #AbolitionMeansListenToBlackRadicals #NoYtSaviors
  • 27 June 2020 : Oops. Okay here’s the actual photoshopped version: https://twitter.com/antifa_ne/status/1276019247085469696?s=21 https://twitter.com/antifa_ne/status/1276019247085469696
  • 27 June 2020 : Here’s the actually photoshopped image to compare to the original that I shared above. https://twitter.com/antifa_ne/status/1276019810866954241?s=21 https://twitter.com/antifa_ne/status/1276019810866954241
  • 27 June 2020 : This is the original picture. It’s not photoshopped. And anyone who reads the thread will see it’s from Copenhagen but my point still stands. If I see performative allyship being shared across the Internet today, I’m gonna point it out for what it was/is.
  • 27 June 2020 : All these white people could have wrote “free all prisoners” or even “free all black/trans prisoners”..... this is performative and privileged to make your abolitionist demands centered around small prison populations that largely look like you. https://twitter.com/nycantifa/status/1276020202484961286
  • 27 June 2020 : 10/10 agree with you! (On the pumpkin pie part cause red velvet cake is lowkey my fav)
  • 27 June 2020 : Cyberbullying your local mayor into a resignation is praxis. For bonus points, show up at their house. https://twitter.com/ikaylareed/status/1276679783620005890
  • 26 June 2020 : This part. This is like cis-het yt femme adult content creators making bank never leaving the house and never interacting with clients irl just to complain about how easy the receptionist making less than them has it for not being a SWer. 🙄 https://twitter.com/deetoriadee/status/1276659419497893888?s=21 https://twitter.com/deetoriadee/status/1276659419497893888
  • 26 June 2020 : Also, this persons clearly never helped raise a very large, exceptionally smart, and therefore intensively needy breed of dog. As if my German Shepard doesn’t need constant stimulation, health care, & emotional care. Not to mention food costs & the fact they never learn English
  • 26 June 2020 : Plenty of childfree (femme) people like myself have chosen to live a childfree adult existence because were already forced into the position of childrearing as a member of that “village” helping to raise kids. I don’t want kids but I’ll be an additional parental figure for life.
  • 26 June 2020 : Funny cause I’m not a parent but I’m woefully aware of the ways childcare & “womens” labor is undervalued. Also intimately familiar with the costs of feeding & caring for children since I’ve done so since like 10. Also aware of violence towards young moms https://twitter.com/izs/status/1276559333002604544?s=21 https://twitter.com/izs/status/1276559333002604544
  • 26 June 2020 : This is the whitest, male-est take possible.🙄 I read this waiting for an acknowledgment that the family unit is often responsible as a whole in raising kids. My 5 younger brothers have untapped access to me 24/7 & receive constant financial & emotional support. As does my mom. https://twitter.com/izs/status/1276424491048947712
  • 26 June 2020 : Every white nonprofit director answering any question from black staff ever. 🙄😒😑 https://twitter.com/shelbywolstein/status/1258803845012086784
  • 26 June 2020 : #abolishthepolice
  • 26 June 2020 : Outlaw was our last black police chief and continued to do in PDX what she is doing now in Philly. As I told Outlaw to her face, she’s a race traitor, along with every other black cop. Especially police chiefs like Lovell, a black man who choked a teenage, hs girl for tardiness. https://twitter.com/raanibegum/status/1276340793997963265
  • 26 June 2020 : wut? where? wtf... https://twitter.com/betacuck4lyfe/status/1276353866171248640
  • 26 June 2020 : 👀👀👀 #pdxsubtweets https://twitter.com/flowermessiah_/status/1276355699107381254
  • 26 June 2020 : Again...Unfollow Shaun King. STAT. https://blackhammer.org/2020/06/11/beware-of-talcum-x-shaun-king-is-a-rat/
  • 26 June 2020 : The government consistently prevents us from being able to hold individual abusers in the system accountable with the laws they pass and the more organized, intentional, systemic harm they commit on the entire industry at large. The govt protects abusers. Consistently.
  • 26 June 2020 : Specifically, you said “current porn trends endanger women’s lives.” But as Eric said, “It’s easier to blame porn than to openly acknowledge, discuss, and accept our sexual desires.” Porn trends aren’t to blame. The state & religious institutions are.
  • 26 June 2020 : I’m not saying that consent shouldn’t be included. But the reality is that there’s plenty of porn that includes consent that is consistently pushed down, targeted, & flat out eliminated from visibility by the state. Since the govt is the root cause, we need to start @ the roots.
  • 26 June 2020 : The reason it took years and multiple lawsuits is that the state constantly and consistently works against not only sex workers, but also victims of sex trafficking with bills like Fosta/Sesta & the currently in motion Earn It act. The target for education should be schools/govt
  • 26 June 2020 : Yes. And sex workers continue to lead the fight in accountability for systems that harm us and others. But we continue to be spoken over by people who think that porn is the issue & not the govt which criminalizes porn & murders sex workers fighting for liberation & reform.
  • 26 June 2020 : Instead, we should be putting the onus on the education system (both public and especially private religious institutions) that are intentionally leaving out consent education from childhood b/c of religious lobbying groups, the patriarchy, & the protection of rape culture.
  • 26 June 2020 : Speaking as a sex worker, porn is real sex. The consistent efforts of people to blame porn stars, sex workers, and producers for the inadequacy of sex education is a red herring and inappropriate target.
  • 26 June 2020 : The argument is consistently made that video games *do* serve as proxy education for tactical violence, the normalization of murder, and abusive problem solving. Video games are not meant to serve this purpose. And neither is porn made to serve as proxy sex education.
  • 26 June 2020 : Then, we would be able to see a rise in the empowerment of sex workers, consequences for those who intentionally abuse and coerce victims, and the ability for sex workers to be empowered to engage in sex education & consent teaching without facing repression from the state/prison
  • 26 June 2020 : Furthermore, when we talk about porn hub and major producers, it’s important to understand that sexual assault happens but it’s not necessarily the majority of content online. & additionally, if laws passed weren’t so tied to sexual shame & religious purity... (cont)
  • 26 June 2020 : I think you’re working with a biased understanding. Irrelevant to the current porn trends, the religious patriarchal institution is to blame historically for the decades/centuries long tradition of vilifying safe, consent based, sex education in lieu of abstinence only teaching.
  • 26 June 2020 : In regards to people who engage in “initially consensual” sex & then push forward into non-consensual acts, well... Did that consensual sex start with a discussion of boundaries & affirmative consent to sex? Often the answer is overwhelmingly no. We need more education on consent
  • 26 June 2020 : The insinuation that consuming any specific type of media somehow invalidates an individuals capacity for decision making and forces them to engage in non-consensual activity is irresponsible. Instead we need to talk about the failures of sex education & teaching consent culture https://twitter.com/woolfonmynoggin/status/1276331187758231552
  • 26 June 2020 : This is the same argument used by those who say that violent video games are to blame in some large part for mass shootings, as if the actuality of mass shootings isn’t tied directly to white supremacy, total suppression of men’s vulnerability in emotional care, & more.
  • 26 June 2020 : The insinuation that consuming any specific type of media somehow invalidates an individuals capacity for decision making and forces them to engage in non-consensual activity is irresponsible. Instead we need to talk about the failures of sex education & teaching consent culture
  • 26 June 2020 : THIS! Y’all tie ur respect for someone’s analysis & praxis directly to their worth as a human being & resultingly often elevate them above others as “celebrities.” The visceral defense of revolutionaries by those who chose to follow them without objective analysis of harm is 👎🏽 https://twitter.com/a_busy_woman/status/1276312517493444608
  • 25 June 2020 : I want to peg @Trevornoah . And also have his babies. With his wealth & his childhood life experiences I see a clear path forward for his radicalization to abolition... It begins with me pegging him.
  • 25 June 2020 : Watching the @Trevornoah “Son of Patricia” special. Talking to one of my (also childfree) partners about how I’d still have Trevor’s babies if I could help redistribute his wealth. But really, watching this special, we’re really both just staring at his ass in these jeans....
  • 25 June 2020 : https://twitter.com/antifashpdxart/status/1275865041443500033?s=21 https://twitter.com/antifashpdxart/status/1275865041443500033
  • 25 June 2020 : We can continue conversations about accountability tomorrow, but I’ve been told that Darren has decided to step back from leadership. They plan to make announcements at 10am. I want to see the Black women/femmes in that group in undeniable leadership & supported by the city.
  • 25 June 2020 : Tomorrow 9am, RCJ will be meeting up DT to support Letha, Patrick Kimmons mom. Patrick was shot over 10 times in the back by PPB. She wants his case reopened. I know it’s last minute. But please boost this #PDX . For Pat-Pat & his family. For Black Portlanders killed by cops. https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1276030863021490179
  • 25 June 2020 : Coming back to this thread to say this: Keith from Rose City Justice called me tonight. Yesterday at Powell park he told me about wanting to support Patrick Kimmons mom. Then today happened. But Patrick’s mom still needs support. #pdx #pdxprotest #portland
  • 25 June 2020 : Welp, I made it a solid 5 months as a member of my local DSA chapter before rage quitting b/c of the abundant whiteness. I think I stayed longer than anyone could have predicted considering that after 2 years as an organizer I only joined to vote my best friend onto the SC. 🤷🏽‍♀️🙃
  • 25 June 2020 : CACKLING at this picture and background. https://twitter.com/grumpyanarchy/status/1274607210455318528
  • 25 June 2020 : None of this is the ramifications of their statement. If anything, it’s the opposite in that RCJ’s statement is a testimony to the consistency & effort of organizers who’ve been prioritizing contact & teaching accountability to these newly minted organizers for weeks.
  • 25 June 2020 : I just stopped watching that Live feed cause it’s taken up too much of my time. I’m gonna go smoke a cigarette (or 5) and come back to this thread.
  • 25 June 2020 : I’m gonna pause here and go watch. Come join. It’s not accessible tho to deaf and hard of hearing folks. ONLY COMMENT IF YOURE BLACK https://twitter.com/andrewvle/status/1275959759615582209?s=21 https://twitter.com/andrewvle/status/1275959759615582209
  • 25 June 2020 : I also need to be clear that I don’t think anyone who has been a cop should ever be allowed to be in a position of authority or high responsibility within the movement. There should be a lot of public vetting points before ex-cops are welcomed into our spaces at large.
  • 25 June 2020 : Despite, the DM he sent me expressing the good things he’s heard of me and a willingness to hear me out, I personally I cannot trust @DarrenGolden_ until he’s been publicly accountable & fully transparent about his entire military career considering he was a cop.
  • 25 June 2020 : Besides my friend Linneas (who’s been making sure people are fed over there & trying to help me & others connect with RCJ), I don’t know any of them well enough to pass judgement on their character. That statement holds true for all of their Black/Brown organizers except one.
  • 25 June 2020 : Some of the organizers I’ve met I immediately see as young/new organizers w/ a sincere heart & strong sense of urgency & an astonishing potential. Mostly Black women/femmes I want to support. One organizer I haven’t met yet is an ex-cop. He DM’d me yesterday after I rt’d him.
  • 25 June 2020 : To start off with, please just go read the caption of this post that @RoseCityJustice made today on Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/p/CB1mXEShMRG/?igshid=2kyxnhqln1ua I’ve been prioritizing trying to meet irl with them for weeks. I’ve met a handful of people spread out on different visits to rev hall & etc.
  • 25 June 2020 : #PDX Thread: Y’all want my opinion on the folks over @RoseCityJustice . It’s not a cut & dry thing because human relationships, resistance, trauma, our responses to trauma, & our radicalization levels aren’t all the same because we’re all different human beings. So let’s begin
  • 25 June 2020 : (jk I try really hard to watch my language/mouth a lot cause insults and emotional vengeance come a little too easily to my punk ass self)
  • 25 June 2020 : We’re not manipulative we’re just deeply in touch with our emotions and literally everyone else’s too and sometimes we can accidentally be too blunt 🤷🏽‍♀️ 😅 https://twitter.com/jatella/status/1275768930859130880
  • 25 June 2020 : Just picture it! “Sexy Genderfucked Karl Marx Orgasms While Reading Kapital” Someone will steal it from me and it’ll get posted to pornhub as “trans ebony slut cums while reading”. You’ll all help me report it down. Good times! I’m excited. 💕
  • 25 June 2020 : Omg. Just like suspended in some sort of bondage and I have to read the book aloud. Or doing pet-play. Or in sexy cosplay.
  • 25 June 2020 : I low key wanna start a whole, captioned porn series of me just edging while reading segments of different abolitionist, anti-racist books and etc.
  • 25 June 2020 : Y’all. I’m finally getting secure housing. Long term. My own space. And only my things/decor in it. With a door. That closes. For the first time in 2 full years. I’m SO EXCITED. 😭 I’m gonna make so much queer, radical, kinky fucking porn & y’all better buy it. 😭😍💕😫
  • 24 June 2020 : One of my partners is a non-binary scientist who rages about exactly this circumstance on at least a weekly basis. Both STEM fields & academia in general are violent institutions for women and femmes—obviously especially so for Black, Indigenous, & Trans women/femmes. https://twitter.com/motherjones/status/1275937209389121536
  • 24 June 2020 : Still got hella privilege though since I fucking have coverage and it’s paid for by my employer for another few months still... which like, if it’s hard for me to access imagine houseless people & the forcibly unemployed (Disabled) & those w/ pre-existing conditions & prisoners &
  • 24 June 2020 : Nothing makes me hate being alive more than interacting with the US “healthcare system” as a ridiculously neurodivergent, traumatized, queer, Black & indigenous non-binary femme and sex worker. 🙃 Especially by my fed/deadname.
  • 24 June 2020 : I have realized that I am too depressed, paranoid and dysphoric to be in a large crowd right now. I’m going on an errand run with my partners help to pick up my meds instead. 🙃 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1275886378769764352
  • 24 June 2020 : I have realized that I am too depressed, paranoid and dysphoric to be in a large crowd right now. I’m going on an errand run with my partners help to pick up my meds instead.
  • 24 June 2020 : Casual reminder that I don’t want to lead I just want to see y’all safe and share what I’ve learned doing this. Some of yall keep begging me to risk my life helping “lead” y’all. But If you don’t get it now you’re too far behind for me to cater to you personally. https://twitter.com/levbronsteen/status/1275883448364748801
  • 24 June 2020 : I hate those notifications.
  • 24 June 2020 : Cackling at this subthread 😂
  • 24 June 2020 : OOF. THE ACCURACY. https://twitter.com/jamesmartinsj/status/1275821679646838784
  • 24 June 2020 : Unleash the dinosaurs
  • 24 June 2020 : @Showmeurbeans 👀 https://twitter.com/diner_mug/status/1275898234565615616
  • 24 June 2020 : THIS. I NEED TO FIND MY LOUKANIKOS T-SHIRT. 😭 Rest in power perfect antifa fur baby. https://twitter.com/aciooforyou/status/1275897884576112640
  • 24 June 2020 : All I want is more dogs. And cats. And birds. And less llamas. And more pet goats and snakes supporting the revolution. You may also unleash an army of armored tarantula at the police at any time. Protest or not.
  • 24 June 2020 : Somebody bring a dog to the #stripperstrike . I’ll bring a bottle of bubbles and lots of non-binary cleavage for your viewing pleasure.
  • 24 June 2020 : Yesterday costar was all, “The general theme of your life during this period is to get free by transforming your surroundings. When the task you give yourself has the urgency of passion, nothing can keep you from completing it.” It says tomorrow I’ll be “overwhelmed.” Great. 🙂
  • 24 June 2020 : Me: *announces Im going to be quitting all white led orgs until they do better* @costarastrology : ✨Good afternoon, Lilith! Today: 💡Be a one-person strike.✨ Me: fuck you co-star for consistently reading me like this & reminding me that I’m a typical af cancer/Leo/libra 😑😒
  • 24 June 2020 : #slutsforsexworkersrights #sexualsolidarity #fuckthepatriachy #sexismagic #blackfemmemagic #mybodymychoice #armsexworkers #abolishthepolice #thotsforjustice
  • 24 June 2020 : I’m gonna be here and I’m gonna look like a slut. Come protest with us. https://twitter.com/defendpdx/status/1275655468749410309
  • 24 June 2020 : Same.
  • 24 June 2020 : I’m gonna miss late night bistro deliveries to the strip club dressing room near closing time on slow nights. Hiding in the back with my girls & theybies from aggrobbroke young yt men on a Tuesday night, grateful that they were open, scarfing down Mac & cheese & hush puppies.
  • 24 June 2020 : Damn. https://twitter.com/eaterpdx/status/1275873010013126659
  • 24 June 2020 : It feels good to block people like this who don’t understand that I do this shit on my own goddamned time for free. 💕😍☺️ https://twitter.com/levbronsteen/status/1275876358241935361
  • 24 June 2020 : 😂🤪 Me, rn, refreshing my page every 30 seconds since pinning this tweet to the top of my profile and not watching my follower count go down, and literally yelling at my phone: 😤 UNFOLLOW ME DAMNIT. I know some of y’all still wanna bitch about racism going both ways!! 🤨😒🤬
  • 24 June 2020 : I hate yt people. I say it like 5 times a day to every one of my loved ones I swear. A lot of whom, in Portland, are white. I say it to my white mother. I hate yt people. I hate whiteness. I hate y’alls constant colonialism & racism. Unfollow me if you’re not ready to hear that.
  • 24 June 2020 : This made me cackle tysfm 😂🤣☠️
  • 24 June 2020 : Baltimore has been in the top ten most dangerous cities for decades. I feel safer there by far than Portland because of white people like you.
  • 24 June 2020 : I grew up as black girl in Baltimore Maryland and have worked with organizers in Detroit for the last two years. Please shut the fuck up. You don’t know shit about being black in either of those places. Kick rocks.
  • 24 June 2020 : Nonviolent protest is the only acceptable term. Protests are not peaceful. That’s why we say no justice no peace ffs. And go read my other replies or use google.
  • 24 June 2020 : I’m going to be spending the next few weeks dealing with my suicidal thoughts and figuring out how to step back. I’m leaving every org not run/founded by Black/Indigenous people. I’m done working with white people as equals. I’m done working with straight men in that way too.
  • 24 June 2020 : There is so much consistent violence and oppression against black women and femmes, disabled peoples, neurodivergent people, immigrants, and more. Portland has so much healing to do and I think that I’m too traumatized by how it’s harmed me to be of help. I can’t do this here.
  • 24 June 2020 : I’ve fought against the state strategically and worked to undermine it intentionally in so many cities. Portland is by far the worst. The left here has a rampant anti-black & misogynoir problem. Y’all love (light skinned) black male politicians here & savior yt women. Typical.
  • 24 June 2020 : 2 years ago I quit my job (sw), stayed full time at the AZ at Occupy ICE, lived there 8 weeks, then moved out of my apartment, dropped of my bed at ICE, & I’ve done full time frontline work since then across the US & in Mexico. I’ve turned my whole life upside down for this.
  • 24 June 2020 : I hate this city. I hate the lack of commitment to embody true abolitionist practices of mediation, accountability & prison abolition. I hate how well yt people are protected from accountability by white supremacy here. I’m planning to step back from organizing soon.
  • 24 June 2020 : B/c of the nonprofit industrial complex which is responsible for so much harm. I’ve worked at one nonprofit & I doubt I will do so ever again. Their ties to the state make them a liability & counterproductive imo. the whole economy is yt supremacist so funding for Black ngos?
  • 24 June 2020 : I’ve faced so much toxic, abusive bullshit for my shortcomings & failures as a black femme. Despite the fact that I continue to intentionally practice radical vulnerability & immediate accountability to the *whole* online community constantly. Stop babying politicians & yt ppl
  • 24 June 2020 : As if we haven’t been trying that for a whole ass 2 weeks/month/year/decades with some of these people who put themselves in the public eye intentionally. 🙄 As if y’all don’t constantly demand that I be immediately publicly accountable online as a black femme. Fuck y’all.
  • 24 June 2020 : To be clear on where I stand: - fuck nonprofits - fuck career politicians - fuck peaceful protests (an oxymoron) - fuck respectability politics - fuck everyone whining about *only* calling people in & tone policing public accountability for people who are public figures
  • 24 June 2020 : Heads up: I just blocked Clarissa because a trusted source I follow was vulnerable enough to share boundaries and explain the need to block. Someone dropped this in the replies so I’m boosting! https://twitter.com/huntythelion/status/1233457067467427840
  • 24 June 2020 : Let’s have a conversation about misogynoir & fallacies used against Black Women and Femmes by Black men... esp. Black men w/ social “relevance” You can’t be for the people & the culture & use capitalization as a means to skirt questions of accountability. This is disrespectful. https://twitter.com/darrengolden_/status/1275530815863062528
  • 23 June 2020 : Yeah, cause y’all are spreading disease again just like when you brought smallpox here cause y’all don’t know how to wash your damn hands. Or asses for that matter. I’d have even more time to smoke & relax if colonizers never fucked everything up. Go home. #landback https://twitter.com/brahamthinkin/status/1275553796194807810
  • 23 June 2020 : I’m just sitting here smoking weed, high as shit, and FURIOUS about the lengths to which colonizers fucked everything up so thoroughly. Fuck.
  • 23 June 2020 : Toxic monogamy culture and the cis-heteronormative patriarchy really do be joining forces to just ruin peoples whole ass lives. Like damn. On like, every layer of peoples psyche. pic.twitter.com/9qaKgjecrn
  • 23 June 2020 : I want to throw my phone off the top of a building.
  • 23 June 2020 : To people in a position to potentially attempt to shield others from harm by bringing up the argument that this is “cancel culture.” As someone who also constantly clarifies that I’m not trying to “cancel” people, I see the truth to this being a sort of tone policing of self.
  • 23 June 2020 : #AshKetchum is just the youth fully toxic masculinity version of #SailorMoon . I love them both. I just need more people to think of them this way cuz I just said this while stoned & watching Pokémon & a friend said “Oh, I never thought of that but they’re the same character”
  • 23 June 2020 : Also multiple people are saying this picture is from 2011. Which was 9 years ago.... not 20.
  • 23 June 2020 : 2 years of constant bullshit is a lot to keep track of. 🤷🏽‍♀️
  • 23 June 2020 : Aimee is problematic at best and obviously has a documented history of anti-blackness as a WHOLE ASS ADULT. Police have been murdering Black/Indigenous ppl since before Aimee was born. I’m not here for excuses. I’m here for accountability & stepping back when needed. Like now.
  • 23 June 2020 : She does not need to be organizing. She can still do her white “artivisim” on her own time and dime. She tried to organize an action at a prison that she said was planned w/ prisoners yet the MULTIPLE prisoner organizers and leaders I still work with inside knew NOTHING about it
  • 23 June 2020 : I will be ceasing to work with ANYONE who continues to work with Aimee where she retains any authority over or responsibilities to speak publicly, coordinate volunteers or access community funds at all. She can sit down, learn, & make art all she wants.
  • 23 June 2020 : The Black, Brown and Indigenous liberation movement doesn’t need white savior, white analysis, white leadership, white heroes. We don’t need white ppl raising money to paint/destroy shoes because they “don’t match” as though children with no shoes would snub their nose like her.
  • 23 June 2020 : I’m an abolitionist. I don’t want her to get death threats or face harm. I want her to publicly admit that she has caused harm. I want her to understand that multiple, directly affected community respected organizers are asking her to step tf back & work out her shit.
  • 23 June 2020 : It’s time for Aimee’s clear, life-long capacity for anti-blackness and the centering of her unaffected, white voice at actions against Anti-Semitism, Against ICE, & more to be addressed. It’s past time for Aimee to take a step back. Destroying shoes for “art” was the first sign.
  • 23 June 2020 : In my personal opinion, as someone who’s been critiqued for co-opting messages, centering herself, constantly raising funds for white led art projects to speak on Black, Brown, & Indigenous issues and more & never engaged in good faith, this is THE icing on the cake for me.
  • 23 June 2020 : Aimee Sitarz ( @AimeeSitarz ) received a phone call about this picture, & in response she misgendered my best friend, saying that she “doesn’t know what’s wrong with that chick” & that this is from “Halloween 20 years ago.” She can feel free to unblock me & clarify on this thread https://twitter.com/showmeurbeans/status/1275248670854660097 pic.twitter.com/kfYVzUpXyv
  • 23 June 2020 : @EvertonBailey 👀👀👀 .......my DM’s are open and my email is activismactually@gmail.com https://twitter.com/emorymort/status/1275281851536400384
  • 23 June 2020 : @UPNOW2020 ?
  • 23 June 2020 : I remain led by a commitment to intersectionality, decolonization, & abolitionist principles. Fighting for Universal Preschool, wealth redistribution, fair wages & culturally competent care is vital. It’s why I fight for @UPNOW2020 #BlackKidsLivesMatter #OneFairWage #TaxTheRich
  • 23 June 2020 : We build that better world that we all know is possible by strategically fighting for true, radical Black, Brown, and Indigenous Liberation.
  • 23 June 2020 : There’s so many ways for you to get involved! I’m an abolitionist, but I firmly believe in a diversity of tactics as an opportunity for harm reduction and mitigation until we create the better world that we all know is possible.
  • 23 June 2020 : 6) Sign up (and/or convince your friends to sign up) to volunteer for signature gathering! You can find more info on how to do so here: https://upnow2020.org/gather OR you can just find the next opportunity to pick up circulator sheets and get started here: https://www.facebook.com/UpNOWMultCo/events
  • 23 June 2020 : 5) Go to this link and sign the petition from home (this does require access to a printer and is not by nature fully accessible. But check option 6) https://upnow2020.org/sign
  • 23 June 2020 : http://upnow2020.org **
  • 23 June 2020 : 4) If you have the ability to do so, PLEASE DONATE (& tell your friends to donate) to this campaign in our last weeks available to gather signatures! You can do so here: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/upnow
  • 23 June 2020 : 3) Invite all your friends to not only follow @UPNOW2020 on all their platforms, but also to please go to their website https://upnow2020.org/and find ways to plug in! Here’s some more involved ways you can help:
  • 23 June 2020 : 2) Tag reporters and news agencies that you’d like to see cover this intersectional, TRULY Universal campaign. Or send them a hot tip at their website/number to tell them you’d like to see them cover the Universal PreSchool Now Campaign and it’s diverse coalition partners.
  • 23 June 2020 : As a deeply personal favor, will you help me see this campaign win? If want to support this campaign, here’s a couple ways to help. Various levels of support because the revolution must be accessible. 1) Follow @UPNOW2020 on their platforms (upnowmultco on FB/IG). Boost them!
  • 23 June 2020 : Simultaneously, so many Black and Brown and Indigenous women and femmes especially are designated to care-taking jobs their whole lives. Jobs like childcare. Where our labor is devalued and underpaid and our fight for protections and fair wages go largely unheard. Until now.
  • 23 June 2020 : The effects of lack of access to childcare for Black and brown families is personal, deep and traumatic. I’ve been helping raise children since I was a child... but my family still didn’t have to worry about food on the table. So many families do.
  • 23 June 2020 : Y’all. @UPNOW2020 is so close to gathering 30,000 signatures in ONE MONTH to qualify for Universal Preschool for all 3 & 4 year olds & Union neutrality/higher pay for providers. After spending a weekend w/ my baby brothers, I’m feeling EXTRA pressed to see this campaign succeed.
  • 23 June 2020 : If you’re a reporter, I’d love to do an interview with you for any stories you’re working on to report on the @UPNOW2020 campaign & the historic, innovative ways we’re fighting to get a grassroots funded campaign on the ballot during a global pandemic & international uprising.
  • 23 June 2020 : Again, I’m not fighting for convictions. https://twitter.com/dereckapurnell/status/1275077038823497731
  • 23 June 2020 : RT @KohzKah: Take 2 deep slow breaths in to your belly and relax your face muscles.
  • 22 June 2020 : For clarity, my whole point here is to be intentionally inflammatory towards ya Donnie
  • 22 June 2020 : You could try kicking rocks instead of tone policing people worried the cops killed someone.
  • 22 June 2020 : The fact that there’s a whole rule in English over when “it’s” versus “its” gets an apostrophe because y’all can’t understand context is a perfect example of that. Fuck English. Fuck grammar. Fuck colonizer languages.
  • 22 June 2020 : Colonialism and it’s daughter “the yt academia institution” ruins everything yet again.
  • 22 June 2020 : Yt people born & raised in the US are literally the worst, out of any subset of people, @ basic communication skills. Y’all are so fucking unimaginative & rigid in your thought processes because of the US education system & y’all simultaneously defend it. Poorly at that. 🙄🥱😒
  • 22 June 2020 : Unsurprised that people who feel the need to put a warning about their “sarcasm” in their bio are the same people who will actively trigger you repeatedly over their fun experiments in online theorizing. 🙄 Stop being ableist and defending ableism for shitty, easy “jokes” https://twitter.com/krystalmehh/status/1275138369849188352
  • 22 June 2020 : Theorizing over the harms of ableism to disabled people is peak ableism. Not to mention, this is an asinine train of thought in the first place. Stop theorizing and debating over issues harming others. Don’t bring up people’s triggers flippantly when YOUR THE ONE TRIGGERING THEM
  • 22 June 2020 : A very thorough thread on Dave Grossman, who literally gets paid to train kkkops on how to murder without pause or remorse. Share this! https://twitter.com/f12_antifascist/status/1274611354746437632
  • 22 June 2020 : Go read a book. Or listen to a book. Or watch a YouTube video breaking down all the types of oppression you don’t experience. Like, if you don’t get why this is ableism, go google “what is ableism” and look for books. Or articles. This has been discussed for years re:Trump/water
  • 22 June 2020 : If someone you purport to trust as an intersectional organizer says “hey this is ableist” or “hey this is racist” or “hey this is transphobic” and you don’t get it because that oppression doesn’t effect you, just nod, stop the shit & keep it moving. Y’all wasting time on twitter
  • 22 June 2020 : Me: “Don’t be ableist” Y’all: can we at least shame him for being a drug user? wtf is wrong with y’all!? Pick ANY OTHER THING THAT IS NOT ABLEIST. Black people don’t have time for these shenanigans & explanations of why shit is racist. Disabled people don’t have time either.
  • 22 June 2020 : Making fun of Trump for using two hands to drink water is ableist. Full stop. Quit it. Immediately. https://twitter.com/jessicalbenham/status/1274854150438862848
  • 22 June 2020 : How are those efforts to drown out the extreme left going with your 7 followers? pic.twitter.com/ELYglFwqGz
  • 22 June 2020 : If you’re a white reporter asking me for an interview, the least you could fucking do is say please & thank you. I just got a message asking me to explain a tweet. 🙄 Y’all national reporters better stay the fuck out of my DM’s if you’re gonna be vague. Love, a former reporter
  • 22 June 2020 : Look at these teenagers modeling public accountability for all y’all adults out there. Real glad folks called them in on this and that we can all learn from what has been acknowledged as truly dangerous mistake. https://twitter.com/pnwylf/status/1274879993953345536
  • 22 June 2020 : Re: “Non Stop Fireworks” As a heads up y’all, it’s not about normalizing the sounds. It’s about forcing entire communities to lose sleep to the point of exhaustion and disempower them. Which is a war tactic. https://twitter.com/normrasmussen/status/1274720362761158661
  • 22 June 2020 : Both? We need a cover and that inner page feature spread 😍
  • 21 June 2020 : I was just thinking of tweeting about how much I hate this fucking city. Forever grateful for the handful of people who helped teach me as a bb organizer but can’t forget the ways I was unforgivable to many for my shortcomings as a brand new Black “activist”. I hate it here. https://twitter.com/borisrevolt/status/1274839309925756929
  • 21 June 2020 : Let’s make sure y’all (and I) remember that Jewish people are obviously included in the example list above of people continually dehumanized by the state.
  • 21 June 2020 : PS - Resource scarcity is manufactured by capitalist/colonial structures and weaponized against communities deemed unwanted. (IE - Black & Indigenous people; women/femmes; disabled people; trans people; poor people; fat people; very young or old people; LGBTQIA2S+ people...)
  • 21 June 2020 : Were you able to add an alternative image text to this? [And if not, could you (or someone else) type it out in a reply thread so it’s accessible.]
  • 21 June 2020 : They prioritize, as always, the destabilization of the global south. The continued devastation that Indigenous communities and their descendants face is multi-layered, targeted, nuanced, and strategic. It’s both bombs in brown cities and black murders broadcast indiscriminately
  • 21 June 2020 : This manifests in continuous and still occurring efforts at both cultural and physical genocide. The United States Empire is one of the leading forces pushing for the continued colonization & westernization of the globe.
  • 21 June 2020 : The insidious continuation of colonization manifests in what is essentially a multi-generational hostage situation. This holds true for Indigenous populations facing the modern-day ramifications of global colonization efforts. It’s why #Decolonization NEEDS to be centered.
  • 21 June 2020 : Sitting w/ a friend talking about how men’s trauma is weaponized to avoid accountability... “We talk about wanting to raise boys & men better but what are we doing to show that?” “If you never give them that opportunity (to be accountable), then how are they supposed to grow?”
  • 21 June 2020 : Portland’s real good at bail support but I swear a lot of y’all have a lot of work to do when it comes to *PRISONER* support. We’re not doing intersectional mutual aid if we’re not making sure commissary accounts are just as full as bail support accounts. Abolition means more.
  • 20 June 2020 : Yes. 100%.
  • 20 June 2020 : 8% of y’all are real bold about being a happy member of the petit bourgeoise. 🥴 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1274460857049559040
  • 20 June 2020 : Rich human beings are actually just an ingredient option for one of the main courses. This poll is only for the People. https://twitter.com/alienthey/status/1274461130543427584
  • 20 June 2020 : You are one of either two types of people: “I am poor and can’t access resources and money isn’t even real and this is all bullshit” OR “I am poor and can’t access resources! When the fuck am I gonna be rich?” Which one are you?
  • 20 June 2020 : Stop just saying people fucking collaborate with the cops intentionally & recognize that when you immediately push out people being newly radicalized, you push them into the arms of the state who will try to lead them down the path of co-opting our message.
  • 20 June 2020 : Just fucking tell your friends who you support. DO THE WORK. Teach these white people the principles that abolitionist & radical leaders you endorse are fighting for. Drag your able bodied, neurotypical white friends INTO the fray. Talk about it. Don’t just tweet #COINTEL ! 🙄
  • 20 June 2020 : #PDX #PDXPROTEST THIS! I’m fucking TIRED of y’all copjacketing Black and Brown leaders because: A - you can’t comprehend the generational trauma that instills fear into our bones B - you dont understand the patience & forgiveness necessary to truly live abolitionist practices https://twitter.com/gregorymckelvey/status/1274402471381577728
  • 20 June 2020 : I stared at this for a full minute before erupting in loud cackles at the sheer, unabashed ignorance in this tweet. Please click on it to see what it’s referencing. Please. PLEASE. 🤣😭😂🤣 https://twitter.com/lewisformn/status/1274082386066706432
  • 20 June 2020 : Me and some of my best friends are talking about the lies of capitalism, the brainwashing of society that ties wealth to worth, its connection to Christianity & more. The conversation pauses and Lily immediately grunts in agreement. Lily says #Decolonize pic.twitter.com/zmZprJQL5s
  • 20 June 2020 : Hi! I’m Black and Indigenous. And queer. And a non binary femme. Also a poet, artist and community organizer. Also a photographer & sex worker. I’m currently stuck in PDX. Can we please be friends lol 💕💕💕
  • 20 June 2020 : So many options to consider.... https://twitter.com/clayhartedghoul/status/1273712261539016714
  • 20 June 2020 : Wait, I may be wrong. I’m high and should go sit in a corner. That’s what I heard on a livestream.
  • 20 June 2020 : Already broken. 🙃
  • 20 June 2020 : Of course! Thanks for the heads up!
  • 19 June 2020 : #PDX I am not in town but here’s an opportunity to bloc up and surround Black folks with your presence to keep them safe. This is what community defense looks like. KKKops and Klan go hand in hand and that makes even existing in this space all the more dangerous for BIPOC.
  • 19 June 2020 : Y’all know what to doooooo https://twitter.com/tscocoalexis/status/1274085555991609345
  • 19 June 2020 : Okay now that I’ve read this one out loud I’m starting to get worried about our safety with how hard y’all are making us laugh 🙃🤣😬 “that’s PERFECT” she says. I’ll probably just stop reading these until we can both do so safely later 😅 https://twitter.com/_zephyrnius/status/1274085153640378368
  • 19 June 2020 : VERY strong LOL-ing from my friend driving 😅
  • 19 June 2020 : STOP WE STRAIGHT UP HAD A CONVERSATION ABOUT KPOP STARS AND STANS FOR LIKE 10 MINUTES THIS MORNING ☠️🤣😂 https://twitter.com/ladylumb_/status/1274084254020800512
  • 19 June 2020 : except they’re metal because we’re trying to be as zero waste as possible so it’s also a health hazard. 😅
  • 19 June 2020 : Like an ink cloud? With sound effects maybe....?
  • 19 June 2020 : We are in the car CACKLING. OMG OMG OMG. 😭😂😂 please keep the ideas coming. my friend driving says it stands for “sassy.” She “doesn’t know what that’d entail” but says she “just likes the idea of that being a car mode”
  • 19 June 2020 : What does the S stand for?
  • 19 June 2020 : New Cars Are Fancy & Mysterious. What does this “S” mean? Please take our poll in the tweet below. Or please tell us what you believe it means in the replies! (wrong answers only) pic.twitter.com/lrIkMTjUI5
  • 19 June 2020 : https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1274033080458592257?s=21 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1274033080458592257
  • 19 June 2020 : If you can’t help in one of those ways, you can still send me money that I will give DIRECTLY to this Black Mother and fucking community warrior. Send funds to any of my cash handles with a note that says “Housing” & I’ll send it forward to the fam. This is an IMMEDIATE need.
  • 19 June 2020 : Do you live in gentrified, White Supremacist founded, Portland, Oregon? Are you a white property manager? Are you a white landlord? Do you work in affordable housing? I straight up need you to DM me ASAP and let me know what you can offer and how. (3/4😅)
  • 19 June 2020 : Specifically, I need some white person in Portland to WEAPONIZE their privilege and be ready to fight against the system to keep a Black woman, her pregnant daughter, & her family into stable housing ASAP. We NEED: 2 Bedrooms Access to Public Transit Affordable Pricing (2/3)
  • 19 June 2020 : (Short but IMPORTANT thread #PDX !) Hey #PortlandProtest Attendees! I have a #Reparations request for a Black Woman who’s been out in these streets getting brutalized by police & leading y’all for YEARS. I need ACCESS TO HOUSING. I need a class traitor landlord.
  • 19 June 2020 : @ceyenne3 is a Black trans woman who’s been HOLDING IT DOWN for the most vulnerable in NYC for years. She founded @GlitsInc and I ALWAYS want her projects better funded and supported! A true inspiration out here fighting for equity and safety. https://twitter.com/glitsinc/status/1271547834832207875?s=21 https://twitter.com/glitsinc/status/1271547834832207875
  • 19 June 2020 : But if you feel comfortable doing so, please drop your links in the replies to any of these tweets. I’ll boost them! I’ll be continuing to support the local communities I regularly work alongside with any access funds received personal, as is the usual mo.
  • 19 June 2020 : I’m realizing now the ways that this could also be a terrifying post to engage in so if you don’t want to risk attention in my replies, I can try to pay it forward to the first 15 Black, Trans Women & Femmes who DM me their links.
  • 19 June 2020 : Because this thread is an attempt at targeted reparations for the devestating and personal effects of misogynoir and the complete erasure of Black Women & Femmes struggles and pains for generations. Especially Trans & NonBinary Black Women & Femmes.
  • 19 June 2020 : #ReparationsNow https://twitter.com/badgalmani222/status/1274033628951875584
  • 19 June 2020 : For folks asking, my cash app is: http://cash.me/$abolitionactually Venmo: @ abolitionactually PayPal can be sent to: activismactually@gmail.com
  • 19 June 2020 : Alright y’all! I need you to signal boost this as far as you can cause we’re trying to get the gays PAID this ! If you’re a Black, *Trans/NonBinary,* Woman or Femme, drop your cash links in the replies. If you’re not black, & especially if you’re yt, share & PAY! pic.twitter.com/8Gj5jpzwjC
  • 19 June 2020 : Yes. 🤣 Obviously.
  • 19 June 2020 : That part 👆🏽
  • 19 June 2020 : Literally, genuinely, I just had this conversation aloud, mostly with myself. Every time I would pause, I’d look at Anne who’d be making an appropriate face, & then just keep yelling as my little high brain remembered capitalism exists. 😭🥺😫 my friends are so patient y’all!!
  • 19 June 2020 : We continue.... “Ugh!” *yells/groans* “What the fuck?! Nothing in this fucking country matters but money!!!” The small, not high part of my brain: Duh bitch. That’s why we’re literally trying to dismantle capitalism tf. 🙃😅😂
  • 19 June 2020 : me, high as shit, spacing out watching actual tv & getting increasingly furious with each commercial: “The various emotions I’m experiencing every 30 secs is unreal” “Who tf curates this?” “No one?! It’s just based on who has the most money? That’s the WORST marketing plan!”
  • 18 June 2020 : The IGNORANCE. Again: cultures and races are not monoliths. Don’t defend this behavior because it’s your fav or “it’s drag” or “it’s her culture”. Headdresses aren’t costumes. Regalia isn’t a costume. The sexualization of Indigenous women & femmes isn’t a joke. #MMIW https://twitter.com/eiihal/status/1273628242855948288
  • 18 June 2020 : White supremacy and anti-semitism go hand in hand. This is what fascism looks like. https://twitter.com/Mark__Bray/status/1273657695049039872
  • 18 June 2020 : Bridgeport Village gets a 10/10 for bougie, racist places that are visibly and insidiously white/capitalist on first visit.
  • 18 June 2020 : because they’re capitalists. https://twitter.com/akirangei/status/1273115248615194626
  • 18 June 2020 : Like imagine all our sober friends who hate sports doing their best sports commentator impressions while simultaneously laughing at us being fucking dumbasses.
  • 18 June 2020 : Can we have a Jitsi live-streamed dab taking competition? We can find a few straight edge friends to keep score and be the commentators. Winner just gets like a months supply of resin & a few bottles of CBD oil. And year long rights to the commemorative red & black gas mask.
  • 18 June 2020 : Donald trump is a teen girl. Before you say this is insulting to teen girls, first, please refer to this slam poem by Olivia Gatwood: https://youtu.be/MHaCKwYCFZs https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1273634152433188865
  • 17 June 2020 : https://twitter.com/aliciasanchez/status/1273285594718916608?s=21 https://twitter.com/aliciasanchez/status/1273285594718916608
  • 17 June 2020 : https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1273357366822486016?s=21 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1273357366822486016
  • 17 June 2020 : All I know is that white people do not know how to act and the last thing that needs to happen is a bunch of angry people in a majority white city surrounding any black persons lawn. Instead of hiding this reply, I want to be clear that I think this is an awful idea.
  • 17 June 2020 : When all your biggest and most visible supporters these days are white men. After being a community organizer for decades who *was* supported by the people en masse? The establishment harms us from top to bottom. From colonialism & intergenerational religious trauma to city hall. https://twitter.com/revchuckcurrie/status/1273362804301389824
  • 17 June 2020 : like forreal I CANNOT STRESS ENOUGH that hands down some of the best people I’ve met in the whole world were hookers & street-based workers & black strippers. Sex workers are consistently some of the best people I meet in life. Consistently.
  • 17 June 2020 : all the most wonderfully deep wholly intersectional trauma-informed & Black/Indigenous centered analysis that I’ve ever seen has come largely from BBIPOC Trans and/or disabled whores. If our abolitionist movements don’t center sex workers, we’re already making critical mistakes.
  • 17 June 2020 : This piece is wonderfully written and helps outline why Sarah is not the mayor we need. And why it’s asinine to say that write in campaigns and protest votes aren’t feasible in regards to electability. #WriteInTeressaRaiford #TakeBackTheVote #HarmReductionOrBust https://twitter.com/teressalraiford/status/1273340361771896833
  • 17 June 2020 : 🙄🙄 Wednesday** holy shit autocorrect is not my friend today.
  • 17 June 2020 : If you can’t go out in crowds, but don’t have a car, don’t worry! They post the route on FB at “PDX Car Caravan Protest”. If the caravan drives past, step out with pots/pans to directly show your and solidarity for Portland victims of police murder & their families! #pdxprotest
  • 17 June 2020 : Hey Portland! If you can’t go out in big crowds but you do have a vehicle, you should grab your roommates and support this weekly WeDNS’s day/Friday caravan started by #QuaniceHayes grandmother, Donna! #portlandprotest #blm #handsupdontshoot #ripmoose pic.twitter.com/cf6Q6UY4yZ
  • 17 June 2020 : For further context on my thoughts and feelings on the disappointment of Hardesty’s failure to act in solidarity with the movement: https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1270405624380047368?s=21 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1270405624380047368
  • 17 June 2020 : Hardesty’s behavior is everything we should expect from our reformist-first, establishment-approved elders. Hardesty is not the first & will not be the last Black reformist to assist in silencing radical, Black, young (& overwhelmingly queer) voices. https://www.opb.org/news/article/portland-protests-activists-good-bad-protester-narrative-pushback/
  • 17 June 2020 : Hardesty addressed this to young white people. What about young black people who’ve been in the streets for years and are now adults? What about the childhood & early yrs we gave up supporting ur reformist efforts & for what? When do our voices matter? https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1273326544392339457?s=21 https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1273326544392339457
  • 17 June 2020 : Kind of like how the City of Portland just got tied up in litigation because of its overzealous and unchecked use of tear gas? While the courts (occasionally) are weaponized to demand our rights, we have more time to organize while safer than before. https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1273325901913001985?s=21 https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1273325901913001985
  • 17 June 2020 : What this ignores, is that there are a lot of people taking to the street every night who’ve been having nice, polite, “legitimate” conversations w/ Ted, Hardesty and the rest for years. It’s why we know 50mil in cuts after 89mil increases is feasible. https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1273325900092719104?s=21 https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1273325900092719104
  • 17 June 2020 : Claiming that a measly $50 million budget reduction is not based on “rational” analysis is just polite ableism and a clear attempt to delegitimize the work of radical black abolitionists in this city. It’s what the establishment always does. https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1273325901128728576?s=21 https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1273325901128728576
  • 17 June 2020 : This is a complete erasure of @Teressa_Raiford and @DontShootPdx ’s work. https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1273324085779423232?s=21 https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1273324085779423232
  • 17 June 2020 : Still have this question @sarahforpdx .... https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1272995889045364736
  • 17 June 2020 : ANGELA DAVIS SAID RADICAL BLACK UNITY. PERIODT. That $50 million dollars was a significantly reduced request compared to what is feasible and accomplishable as projected by Abolitionist groups/orgs who’ve been calling for, analyzing, & problem solving around this for YEARS. https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1273324084210761730
  • 17 June 2020 : Looking at a lot of these Portland nonprofits 😒 https://twitter.com/aliciasanchez/status/1273285594718916608
  • 17 June 2020 : Honored to be included in this wonderful thread full of graphics and recommendations for *agressively* anti-racist Black educators, theorists, and organizers to follow. Follow ALL of these folks for a diverse feed full of powerful Black voices. #BLM #antiracistaction https://twitter.com/fredtjoseph/status/1273054667761745923
  • 17 June 2020 : *death 🙄
  • 17 June 2020 : Murder is always senseless. And that includes the dearth penalty too. #BLM #SayHERName #TeteGulley #QuaniceHayes #JasonWashington #PatrickKimmons #KeatonOtis #KendraJames #RayshardBrooks #PoliceBrutality #AbolishThePolice pic.twitter.com/HG0NOOrDdc
  • 17 June 2020 : I live for millennials trying to educate youths, animal videos, all resin videos, Native tiktok, Black tiktok, gender puns, and vibe checks. It’s a weird mix but I love it.
  • 17 June 2020 : So sweet! Thank you. Definitely have to also uplift and point towards @GlitsInc founded by the powerful @ceyenne3 ! grassroots support for trans SWers and advocating for decrim from the front lines of mutual aid.
  • 17 June 2020 : I’m excited to sit down and dive in to process the thoughts, emotions, and energies of all the other wonderful people who contributed to this piece that I’m stoked to share literary space with!
  • 17 June 2020 : “Pride 2020 is about revolutionary Black queer abolitionists of this generation breaking through the glass ceiling of a white supremacist government to demand Black liberation.” Glad to have had the opportunity to expand on what means this year! https://www.wweek.com/culture/2020/06/17/seven-queer-black-portlanders-speak-out-on-what-pride-means-to-them-this-year/
  • 17 June 2020 : Hi, hello! Welcome to my page! If you’re following me I need you to go unfollow that fucking liberal ass grifter Shaun king immediately please. If you need a reason beyond trusting Black femmes, here’s more: https://wearyourvoicemag.com/shaun-king-is-a-white-liberals-wet-dream/
  • 17 June 2020 : READ THIS THREAD AND STOP TAKING PICTURES IF YOURE NOT RECORDING POLICE VIOLENCE EXPLICITLY. Nobody needs selfies from the uprising ffs. That shit will land y’all in prison. Just swap trauma stories with your friends instead of putting so many people at risk of arrest. https://twitter.com/seamushughes/status/1273098216775524355
  • 17 June 2020 : Yesterday night I went on a rant with one of my partners about how Mariah Carey is an icon and visionary and how her music affected a whole generation of artists. Then I started complaining about zoomers online not respecting her enough. He then essentially told me I’m old now.
  • 17 June 2020 : When we talk about the blatancy of PPB’s targeted violence against protesters and reporters, this gif speaks for itself. Imo, anyone who doesn’t see the need for the immediate disbanding of the police is looking @ the world through rose colored glasses we don’t have time to wear https://twitter.com/kohzkah/status/1273239986553278464
  • 17 June 2020 : CW: Ableism, misogynoir Do me a favor and go report and block this tweet and account? (Reposted to add CW) https://twitter.com/jamdelasoul/status/1273117784118104064
  • 17 June 2020 : Fuck I should have put a cw on this my bad!! One sec.
  • 17 June 2020 : https://twitter.com/upnow2020/status/1270451898563231746?s=21 https://twitter.com/upnow2020/status/1270451898563231746
  • 17 June 2020 : https://twitter.com/lydiakiesling/status/1272298565788819456?s=21 https://twitter.com/lydiakiesling/status/1272298565788819456
  • 17 June 2020 : https://twitter.com/aliceharra/status/1273005305215893504?s=21 https://twitter.com/aliceharra/status/1273005305215893504
  • 17 June 2020 : https://twitter.com/theunread/status/1273018473828896768?s=21 https://twitter.com/theunread/status/1273018473828896768
  • 17 June 2020 : https://twitter.com/vivianherself/status/1273037123562561536?s=21 https://twitter.com/vivianherself/status/1273037123562561536
  • 17 June 2020 : One electoral thing you can feel 100% good about is supporting @UPNOW2020 ! The county is pushing a similar plan that isn’t universal, doesn’t include union neutrality, & is funded by rich yt ppl. This campaign is PEOPLE LED & NEEDS YOU! Go to http://Facebook.com/upnowmultco/events to help!
  • 17 June 2020 : #WriteInTeressaRaiford #NoWhiteSaviors2020 Remember, it’s a valid choice to not be forced to vote for your oppressor. I’m not voting for Sarah. I’ve never considered voting for Sarah. If you don’t want to vote for oppressors, don’t. Vote for harm reductive initiatives instead pic.twitter.com/0SJmAbEMAv
  • 17 June 2020 : Y’all keep begging me to explain why I support Teressa... But every other tweet I write is about how people with the MOST LIVED EXPERIENCE surviving under oppression are inherently the best people to dismantle these oppressive systems. https://twitter.com/teressa_raiford/status/1273086826421485569
  • 17 June 2020 : Go check the link in my bio! You won’t be disappointed I swear! ❤️✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 #blm #pdx #pdxprotests #allyship #solidarity
  • 17 June 2020 : Can we talk about US Imperialism and the colonialization of mental healthcare yet... or nah? pic.twitter.com/4okTPFM371
  • 17 June 2020 : Hi! In case you didn’t know, my wifey for lifey & resident ASL interpreter Anne, is actually the wonderful local drag star ANNE J TIFAH. PLUS they have a mysterious anarcho-abolitionist twin named Tolly. You should listen to this song about doing crime: https://open.spotify.com/track/0TBbSKmJ0AiX55d0D7AgrQ?si=UuV6ITXITlC5ZwIGRyU_BQ pic.twitter.com/wve7ZVvweT
  • 17 June 2020 : Well, it got us a meeting with ted where we told him *demands* & then made him come be accountable to the public to show his bullshit to the ppl. I’ve also engaged in mediation when called out online repeatedly. Which is easy if you just check ur ego. https://twitter.com/spydurman_/status/1273021833193730048
  • 16 June 2020 : I took this picture 😈📸🤩🤓 My best friend, a local grassroots Black leader, and a bunch of dope people I’ve been fighting alongside for abolition for years. This is not new. This movement runs deep. Deeper than my involvement. It’s why I look to community. https://twitter.com/showmeurbeans/status/1272990285920792578
  • 16 June 2020 : Oof. Fuck. “Misgendered them***” Literally constantly fucking up living the “let me get this yt persons pronouns right before I talk shit.” I’m sorry. That’s not an excuse. That’s an acknowledgment of internalized transphobia from a non-binary femme.
  • 16 June 2020 : If yt politicians and social media pundits refuse accountability or get defensive when called in for their harm, it creates a situation where Black victims are silenced & pushed out of our movements. I’ll never not fire off at politicians & progressives stifling the left. https://twitter.com/spydurman_/status/1273004027177885696
  • 16 June 2020 : Me: I should get off the internet My friend: Do you wanna smoke some weed [to overpower your eating disorder] so I can feed you? Me: Oh, yeah. It’s 3pm. I should eat a meal. I’m turning off my phone for a bit. Be back later! Remember, fuck yt supremacy & yt progressives too!
  • 16 June 2020 : Y’all can cut me out as the middle man and directly send funds to the Black Founded and Black Run Don’t Shoot PDX by following this link: https://linktr.ee/dontshootportland The thought is much appreciated though! Im light skinned af y’all. Please give your money to the most impacted. pic.twitter.com/w33nkI2BAm
  • 16 June 2020 : The tweet above??^^^^ That’s why yt women are even more fucking dangerous than yt men. Because one yt woman sheds a single tear & an army of yt supremacists mobilize to not only defend them, but destroy whoever made them cry. Even if the tear never even fell.
  • 16 June 2020 : Here’s some readings on the weaponization of yt tears: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ899418.pdf https://amp.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/crying-shame-the-power-of-white-women-s-tears-20190820-p52iy7.html Emmett Till was killed because of a yt woman’s lies about victim hood. & hes not the only one. Stop enabling yt abusers cause they’re women/femmes.
  • 16 June 2020 : Here’s some more info on Elle: https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1270093677088501760?s=21 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1270093677088501760
  • 16 June 2020 : Also, here’s a reminder that abusers are NOTORIOUSLY charismatic, manipulative, and deceiving. I’m tired of being called a “bully” and “abuser” b/c I’m an “angry black femme” pointing out yt harm. Yt women weaponize their tears & “victimhood” to uphold yt supremacist matriarchy
  • 16 June 2020 : Also, if you’re a yt person and you look at this list and say, “but xx helped me learn xx” “but xx has always been nice to me!” “but xx has done xyz work for the community.” I need you to understand the “left” is FULL of opportunistic yt racists w/ an anti-black problem.
  • 16 June 2020 : Oops! Forgot that after a long time of going by she/her, @ellestanger came out by telling someone online that they had misgendered her. So Elle’s a racist yt them/femme. My apologies.
  • 16 June 2020 : Three of the biggest, most visible (and therefore most dangerous), most problematic Yt Savior Feminists in Portland, OR? @ellestanger @margoatblack @sarahforpdx If you think that any of these women aren’t racist or harmful, you’re wrong. I’ve seen firsthand their harm.
  • 16 June 2020 : PS - since @margoatblack is retweeting this kind of shit too, I want to take a moment to point out that she is also a symptom of the abusive, racist white matriarchy in the #PDX organizing scene. To understand the harm she’s caused, you can read here: https://activismactually.wixsite.com/revolution/post/an-open-letter-to-the-city-of-portland-the-time-has-come-to-hold-ptu-and-margot-black-accountable https://twitter.com/ecosozialismus/status/1271588973509410819
  • 16 June 2020 : Capitalism shouldn’t be the heart of our community. 🙃 https://twitter.com/sarahforpdx/status/1272928475272245248
  • 16 June 2020 : Why don’t y’all Sarah supporters send your complaints about calling out her complicity in white supremacy and the yt saviorship mentality of yt feminists to me instead? I dare ya ☺️😇💕 https://twitter.com/matcha_chai/status/1272986788106104833
  • 16 June 2020 : Took a long scroll down Sarah whatshernames page to see if I could find the picture she tweeted at me of my headphones as proof I left them there and never got them. But instead I saw some RT’s & just wanna say: If I’ve sucked your dick & you’re championing Sarah? No DSL for u
  • 16 June 2020 : Has @sarahforpdx been accountable to the community for that interview? Has she shared the link to the article and pointedly explained all the ways the perspectives she shared then have changed drastically? Or has she just refused to talk about it to not alienate yt liberals? https://twitter.com/ewsorg/status/1272994673678708737
  • 16 June 2020 : https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1272977386917650432?s=21 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1272977386917650432
  • 16 June 2020 : https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1272977723053314049?s=21 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1272977723053314049
  • 16 June 2020 : https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1272975416664473602?s=21 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1272975416664473602
  • 16 June 2020 : https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1272975416664473602?s=21 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1272975416664473602
  • 16 June 2020 : https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1272977386917650432?s=21 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1272977386917650432
  • 16 June 2020 : https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1272977723053314049?s=21 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1272977723053314049
  • 16 June 2020 : If you are worried about your own personal safety around guns: (I relate because one night I stayed @ my friends house who had a gun & was having crises & I had to walk myself up the street to the ER & turn myself in to the psych ward) Look into tasers, knives, bats, mace, etc. https://twitter.com/robertapnw/status/1272979733009977344
  • 16 June 2020 : But what I’m saying is, Black, Brown and Indigenous people know the NRA is directly harmful to us. But I do agree that there’s probably a lot of white people who’d do this. We need to educate them why they shouldn’t.
  • 16 June 2020 : What do you say @sarahforpdx ? https://twitter.com/zaulgold/status/1272988678193725445
  • 16 June 2020 : Lol story time: One time I went to a meeting @sarahforpdx ’s office to talk about sex work decrim. It was dissapointing. Unsurprisingly so. But I left my wireless headphones there by accident. I didn’t wanna talk to Sarah so much I bought AirPods instead of going back to get them
  • 16 June 2020 : Oh, Sarah’s not offline. She’s just hiding & doing more promo instead of being accountable to queer black leaders. Hey @sarahforpdx , as you pointed out, we met once. You wanna have a live-streamed zoom to discuss this in front of the public? Or does that scare you as much as Ted? pic.twitter.com/iX8U8TLiSq
  • 16 June 2020 : Clicked on the hashtag and realized there’s far too many shitty racist white Sarah’s with more clout then this one that need to sit the fuck down. Any recommendations for new hashtags? #SarahTheYtSavior #sarahforclout #SarahTheFedFriend https://twitter.com/willawrence_/status/1272984494807502848
  • 16 June 2020 : You don’t have to pay the NRA money to own a gun....
  • 16 June 2020 : #FuckTedWheeler #FuckSarahWhatshername #FuckTheWholeReformistCityCouncil #FuckColonialism #FuckReform #FuckWhiteSupremacy #ABOLITIONORBUST
  • 16 June 2020 : I can’t imagine a white candidate watching me say “Fuck Ted Wheeler” and tagging him and then thinking, “Ahh, the best thing to do here is infantalize this black queer femme & try to explain political realities built on yt supremacy to them and then delete it!”
  • 16 June 2020 : How much do you want to bet that she continues to tokenize and point to her campaign managers very existence to ignore her own racism and complicity?
  • 16 June 2020 : It seems that after speaking for herself via twitter, @sarahforpdx has realized how bad she is at being accountable or recognizing her own involvement in yt supremacy & deleted tweets/stopped replying. We’ll see what her paid social media team comes up w/ to save face. https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1272982410410381312
  • 16 June 2020 : @sarahforpdx it looks like you deleted this one too? Do you think that if you’d sat the fuck down, supported a black woman, and helped her to defeat Ted then we’d be in this position? Or do you understand that because of yt supremacy you’re a part of the problem too? pic.twitter.com/30o9lyHKeJ
  • 16 June 2020 : @sarahforpdx are you just as afraid of accountability as Ted Wheeler is or is there a different reason that you deleted this? pic.twitter.com/NvCsku1ff6
  • 16 June 2020 : @sarahforpdx is tweeting at me but I’m not seeing it in my notifications because I have them set to only mutuals and it seems shes perfectly fine weaponizing the 1 meeting I had with her for clout, but isn’t following me. 🤔
  • 16 June 2020 : @sarahforpdx do you wanna respond to this one too? Or are you just going to pick and choose like most politicians. I’m here to keep you accountable to tf? You think I’m telling ted wheeler to resign in the hopes of seeing another yt person joking about the cops in office?
  • 16 June 2020 : Sarah thinks it’s appropriate to remind me about the one time we had a sit down meeting as though I forgot & didn’t just tweet about it. Sarah also thinks she has authority to be the arbiter of what is & is not a connected issue when it comes to racism & performative allyship https://twitter.com/sarahforpdx/status/1272978337724420096
  • 16 June 2020 : Do you mean the one singular time that your campaign manager scheduled a personal meeting with me and surprise you showed up to and then gave me dissapointing answers on how you were willing to help with Decrim?
  • 16 June 2020 : White women joking about calling the feds is not cute or excusable. This shit IS NOT A FUNNY JOKE. The feds are currently hunting down abolitionists like Teressa and myself. And yt women wanna joke about calling them. #SitDownSarah https://twitter.com/sarahforpdx/status/1272970039000395777
  • 16 June 2020 : I’m an ABOLITIONIST. Last time I checked, Sarah was caught pandering to Lars Larsen on some good police bad police bullshit. Fuck every cop. Do you agree @sarahforpdx ? Are you an abolitionist? Or are you going to fight for incremental reform too?
  • 16 June 2020 : I also won’t forget Sarah running into me on the street @ police reform efforts in November & gushing over how she didn’t recognize me because I’d changed my hair so drastically...🙄 as though there’s a bunch of black freckled green eyed abolitionists she may have confused me for
  • 16 June 2020 : I also want to say clearly that Sarah choosing to help clean up the front of one black owned business in North Portland isn’t the tangible support for black business owners that everyone thinks it is. Please stop the performative shit and do more.
  • 16 June 2020 : Hiring a light skinned black male campaign manager doesn’t stop you from being racist. But you know what, if I were a rich yt woman who wanted to help, I’d pour my energy into supporting Teressa & not running against her.
  • 16 June 2020 : I’ll never forget when I talked to Sarah about the complete Decriminalization of sex work and was woefully dissapointed. Especially when she had reached out to racist yt stripper feminist Elle Stanger first before black communities.
  • 16 June 2020 : EVERY WHITE PERSON IS RACIST. Any white person who tries to separate themselves from racism is an ally & not an accomplice. Both Ted and Sarah could drop out & ask all their supporters to vote for a black abolitionist instead. #pdx #SITDOWNSARAH https://twitter.com/sarahforpdx/status/1272967559080325120
  • 16 June 2020 : For anyone worried about a rise in gun violence or how this might affect gun reform efforts, consider this: If we arm Black, Brown, & Indigenous communities, I bet you’ll see some immediate dialogue shift from the right on the need for gun reform.....
  • 16 June 2020 : CW: Suicide I encourage everyone who takes stock of their mental health & the mental health of those in their household (aka assess how suicidal you are & then make decisions) to look into getting self defense tools. Get safe storage & learn how to handle weapons safely.
  • 16 June 2020 : PSA: The right shouldn’t be the only people with weapons and arms....
  • 16 June 2020 : I should troll the mayor less online if it means people might take it at face value. As always, Teressa’s here with good, sound advice. https://twitter.com/teressalraiford/status/1272902741631926276
  • 16 June 2020 : I don’t want to do another interview or speech for at least a week. Anyway, here’s some more press covering both the local #PDXPROTEST abolition movement and the good protester vs bad protester narrative. https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2020/06/defunding-the-portland-police-the-local-abolition-movement-explained.html https://www.opb.org/news/article/portland-protests-activists-good-bad-protester-narrative-pushback/
  • 16 June 2020 : “They died doing what they loved” https://twitter.com/badsalishheart/status/1272600379046326272
  • 16 June 2020 : Can protestors who’ve experienced targeted brutalizations also send their specific complaints to your office? Does your email inbox have enough space for that? You might need to upgrade your plan... https://twitter.com/tedwheeler/status/1272597269003431936
  • 16 June 2020 : CALLED THE FUCK OUTTTTT 😭😭😭 https://twitter.com/electraxmurphy/status/1272697672135147521
  • 16 June 2020 : RT @FoodForestNetwk: @gullfire_ Trying to put out an already burning wendy's with a water bottle is quite possibly the perfect metaphor for…
  • 15 June 2020 : Well, actually... 🤔 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1272666691508400128?s=21 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1272666691508400128
  • 15 June 2020 : That’s the only merch I wanna see. You get three options yt people: “I’m still skittish around Black people” “I only permit (and expect) the most marginalized & exhausted to teach me” “Here’s the cash app link where you can request reparations from me”
  • 15 June 2020 : Because I swear some of y’all be getting called in for all kinds of shit (ableism, fatphobia, anti-Semitism, to name a few) Half of y’all be shutting down every yt person cuz “they don’t know” OR Shutting down every black person cuz you’re still racist. Announce it first pls.
  • 15 June 2020 : From now, whenever yt people put an expectation on me to perform emotional labor, they’re going to be required to answer one question before being granted a response: Do you need the explanation of why this is shitty to come from a yt person or Black person to take it in? 🥱😒
  • 15 June 2020 : Branded T-shirts are not the tangible resources people are in desperate need of in the communities I’m apart of. The people don’t need slow incremental change via electoral red tape & respectability politics bullshit. They need money put in the community. They need healthcare.
  • 15 June 2020 : Here’s a list of two things people have repeatedly asked me for in the last two weeks that I don’t even wanna think about during a GLOBAL UPRISING: 1 - An electoral fucking campaign 2 - Merch If y’all don’t get out my face with that shit please.
  • 15 June 2020 : That’s a fact. https://twitter.com/ww3colorized/status/1272537232696586240
  • 15 June 2020 : “I think it’s apt that we are looking at a global uprising against oppressive structures during the month where we celebrate the anniversary of another uprising—another movement to not just ask for but to demand our rights.” Thanks Blair for such thoughtful questions! https://twitter.com/blairstenvick/status/1272602574282088448
  • 15 June 2020 : Currently I have two random songs stuck in my head that I’ve been ad-libbing upnow lyrics over. Any song suggestions that I should consider trying to update lyrics for UPNOW to embarrass myself further? Drop them in the replies please! 😅 https://twitter.com/upnow2020/status/1272586359539027973
  • 15 June 2020 : Don’t mind the uhms and pauses! It’s my first cup of coffee for the day! But will you share this post #PDX ? And we can talk about voting for local initiatives as harm reduction & the need for sweeping reform in education, starting w/ Universal Preschool NOW in Multnomah Cnty! https://twitter.com/upnow2020/status/1272577592801943558
  • 15 June 2020 : One hour & counting until I switch gears for a day & takeover the UPNOW accounts! I’ve had the pleasure of being looped in to these conversations and involved to varying degrees since UPNOW was just a dream. Now it’s come so far & I’m so excited! Come follow along @UPNOW2020 ! https://twitter.com/upnow2020/status/1272387333753499648
  • 15 June 2020 : PSA: To anyone following me with yt dreads: Please unfollow me now. I suggest you go follow some white people who will (or should) teach you about why you should fix that look. I will not be nice to you. #NoYtShenanigans2020
  • 15 June 2020 : 😭😭 as if I wasn’t already feeling behind on combing through my inbox. https://twitter.com/oohpujie/status/1272037461145894913
  • 15 June 2020 : As a beginning resource on 2 groups already doing amazing work in #PDX , look into: @MunicipalEco - Folks over at MERP are doing great work getting starts to the people & helping set up urban gardens MudBone Grown is a fantastic project! I’m pretty sure they have a Facebook. https://twitter.com/curiositywaves/status/1272355810002141184
  • 14 June 2020 : https://t.co/gT21VQ1bJj MIRROR: https://t.co/E4dp1vHWLu
  • 14 June 2020 : A five minute recess during the middle of a DSA general meeting is actually just a competition to see who can do the most dabs off camera in five minutes. The winner is the first person to start deliberately waving their pet around in front of the camera.
  • 14 June 2020 : Social media’s probably gonna be real triggering for me this week. I’m already feeling my mental health going on critical alert mode rn tbh. I’m just posting this to say, I’ll probably be inconsistent & less reliable this week. But I’m not disappearing. Just trying to heal.
  • 14 June 2020 : & then I got doxxed by Portland leftists. & then by fascists. & then targeted by the state. & had people approach me hostile-y @ actions. & I’ve stuck around. But I’m bracing. Waiting to be copjacketed again & torn down. B/c PDX has an anti-black problem. Straight up.
  • 14 June 2020 : But I also ran headfirst into people with no capacity to look beyond their privilege, hold space for the abundance of generational traumas & colonization i hold, or approach me in good faith. I got copjacketed. Hard. Nationally, actually. 🙃
  • 14 June 2020 : and I stuck around. And said yes to every ask from someone more marginalized than me, prioritizing immigrant & undocu neighbors. And I trauma bonded w/ a lot of people. & I fucked up. And I tried to be accountable. & I’ve healed a lot relationships that are now wonderful.
  • 14 June 2020 : Tonight I’m thinking about when I first stumbled into saying yes to every ask of me at an AZ. I ran headfirst into a lot of interpersonal conflicts between strangers being actively brutalized by the state. I saw a lot of yt escalation & toxic masculinity. & anti-blackness.
  • 14 June 2020 : #RadicalVulnerabilityOrBust
  • 14 June 2020 : I’m out for the night. Take care of yourselves. Process your emotions please. Remember that ALL your emotions and feelings are valid. But remember too, that the way you respond to those feelings may need examined. Tonight’s been rough. Stay together. Stay tight.I’ll be back Mon.
  • 14 June 2020 : I just want to help people live happily, be safe, and feel fulfilled. If that means being a visible part of the revolution, I’ll do it. But it comes at great risk to my safety & I WILL stumble along the way. We all do. I just hope we can live abolitionist principles on the way.
  • 14 June 2020 : Y’all I’m out here pulling up to safe houses with a blanket, a stuffed animal, and weed and snacks to share always. I just wanna draw shit, and write, and do graphic design and get paid to dress up & caretake people who need it & feel unloved (Sex work in an idea world)
  • 14 June 2020 : Tonight was full of mistakes. Some mine. Some others. I think anyone who posted an announcement for an AZ & encouraged people to go with no info needs to look hard in the mirror. If folks have constructive feedback for me, I’m happy to hear it always.
  • 14 June 2020 : I’m sorry for ever accidentally spreading misinformation. Tonight or ever. I try to triple check everything before I post it here. I regret helping boost the event in the first place. I wish they’d made the collective decision to cancel earlier.
  • 14 June 2020 : I continue to be accountable for all those I’ve caused harm to. I try to self reflect and check myself immediately (as I did with ableism using the word “dumb” in an earlier thread.) But that’s on all scales.
  • 14 June 2020 : I’m an abolitionist because I’m a fucking humanist and we all deserve liberation from our oppressors and we also ALL make mistakes and no one deserves a cage for it. Let tonight be a lesson. The stakes are high. The movement lasts long. Take your time before rushing into things.
  • 14 June 2020 : I hate this shit. I hate being so visible. But I continue to do what I’m asked by more directly affected communities - primarily Black mothers, Black trans sex workers, my Indigenous elders, & undocumented/immigrant peoples & continue to fuck up along the way like we all do.
  • 14 June 2020 : I’m going offline for a full 24 hours starting now. This has somehow been one of the most exhausting days in the last 2 weeks and it was just spent getting jerked around organizing conversations trying to deal w/ the pressure of using this platform to help keep ppl safe &informed
  • 14 June 2020 : Meeting up with the BIPOC crew I was supposed to be going out with tonight. We’re talking about white bullshit and an indigenous comrade says, “Ever since the Joker movie came out this shit has been ridiculous.” And like damn, accurate.
  • 14 June 2020 : I encourage folks to talk with the people you were planning to go out with tonight. Accesss your own risk level & preparedness and make decisions on what you want to do tonight.
  • 14 June 2020 : I’m not telling anyone WHAT to do. I’m telling y’all my opinions and analysis based on my experience as an organizer, and my attempts at collaboration with black led groups and black organizers across the city.
  • 14 June 2020 : Also, upon its cancellation, I was told that the black organizer I was connected to for vouching that this was black led was only brought in 15 minutes before me. So I made a mistake in saying this was Black led because it turns out it wasn’t. I apologize for that misinformation
  • 14 June 2020 : Again, I am a SINGLE BLACK VOICE. But at the same time, I’ve been working behind and learning from the visible black women who’ve been organizing on these streets for years & they knew nothing about this. I tell y’all all the information I have when I have it.
  • 14 June 2020 : I’m also getting told by an Indigenous comrade that a number of other groups boosted this including black and brown groups uninvolved in planning this as well at the same time. My point remains that announcing an AZ is never the move unless your intention is to fight cops.
  • 14 June 2020 : I do ALSO think the organizers involved made a number of critical mistakes along the way that we can all learn from collectively as a community. I’m simultaneously holding space for my rage @ how this was handled & my compassion for ppl feeling *desperately* called to action.
  • 14 June 2020 : To be clear on my personal positionality, I see a number of reasons as to why we wound up as a community in what I see as a lose-lose situation. But personally, I think that because of the situations of PDX city layouts & PPB escalation, I think it’s the right call to cancel.
  • 14 June 2020 : from this to hold space elsewhere. I’ll update with more as soon as I hear it.”
  • 14 June 2020 : a bridge. With the leaking of information and an inability to fully prepare for what would be a statewide LEO response, I’ve been told their team has collectively decided to begin pushing the message to cancel this event. To my understanding, there are plans to divert crowds away
  • 14 June 2020 : has called off the plan for tonight. KKKops nationwide have been blustering forces and supplies for weeks. With the announcement of an AZ to the public 7+ hours before it started, they’ve been able to call in a mobilize cops across the greater downtown area & have even shut down
  • 14 June 2020 : Image description: A blue and white graphic with black text, watermarked by @activismactually, which says, “I’m getting updates that the bipoc organizers behind the call to occupy that was prematurely boosted openly as an “autonomous zone” by numerous white led orgs in the city..
  • 14 June 2020 : #PDX #alerta #pdxalert #pdxdefense #portland #portlandprotest #pdxprotest #blmpdx PLEASE SHARE THIS AS FAR AS YOU CAN. SAVE IT AND text it to your friends. Ask them to post it too! pic.twitter.com/9KC1Z8wLga
  • 14 June 2020 : Actually that’s a lie. Fuck that. I’ll be out tonight. I’ll be keeping eyes on the BIPOC I’m keeping safe tonight. If you’re a BIPOC (especially minors) who needs a ride home and you see me, hit me up. I’ll call your a lyft or Uber or send you some money to call one yourself.
  • 14 June 2020 : My WHOLE focus tonight is bipoc safety. If that means I need to hop on a fucking megaphone and help with crowd control as a means of protecting Black & Indigenous leaders, I’ll do it. But I don’t want to teach yt people shit rn. You’ve had years to learn and IM TIRED
  • 14 June 2020 : Will I be out there on the front lines with black and brown folks tonight in the interest of keeping them safe? Yes. Unequivocally. Always. Should any yt person come up to speak to me tonight? Please the fuck do not. I’m so tired of y’all.
  • 14 June 2020 : I don’t see any true commitment to anti-racist work and decolonization from ANY of these resource hoarding white orgs in PDX. The yt group I had the most faith in has been some yt antifascist teenagers. Y’all hoard resources & give them out sparingly to black folks & then what?
  • 14 June 2020 : I have tried over and over again to ask yt people in this city to calm the fuck down and wait for Black leaders to do the hard, abolitionist work, of pulling us all in together to learn from our movement history. & these yt PDX orgs disappoint over and over and over again.
  • 14 June 2020 : You better get the fuck out my replies on some, “ well a bipoc organizer told me to make this questionable legal move so I abandoned all autonomy or critical thinking skills I have and just got to posting!” Please think twice. I’m begging y’all. On everything. Y’all got no sense
  • 14 June 2020 : All these groups purporting to be so knowledgeable and aware. ALL these yt groups who apparently ALL got told to share about an AZ and didn’t collectively say, “in the interest of everyone’s safety, could we post ___ instead?”
  • 14 June 2020 : Yt People: “you should read Marx and theory! But I actually identify as an anarcho-communist because everything should be delineated! ACAB!” Yt People: “Yeah I’ll def share a graphic about this autonomous zone that’s not even planned for another 8 hours cause someone told me to”
  • 14 June 2020 : (That was ableist. I’m sorry to all who see it, and I own up to it.) This was not dumb. Using terms like dumb and stupid and lame are ableist This was recklessly negligent and completely irresponsible.
  • 14 June 2020 : The dumbest fucking move possible which is why I felt obligated to make a statement because my PRIMARY GOAL is helping people survive this system and fight against it as safely and coordinated as possible w/ a diversity of tactics.
  • 14 June 2020 : How irresponsible do y’all have to fucking be? Like, the GDC has been giving out money and doing good work. I’m still grateful for the training I received against state suppression that they coordinated. But DAMN y’all have to know better.(& be accountable to failing ppl in need)
  • 14 June 2020 : That INCLUDES the fucking white led GDC who boosted an announcement of an autonomous zone credited to black and brown bodies—seemingly without consideration for the legal ramifications nor intentional targeting that is gonna happen tonight.
  • 14 June 2020 : Straight up, y’all better be mobilizing every resource possible in the aftermath to bail out, caretake and support all the black and brown people who will be brutalized, arrested, & at risk tonight. I’m so tired of this white ass nonsense.
  • 14 June 2020 : Y’all have put black and brown LIVES at risk tonight. Y’all spiked everyone’s danger levels with that bullshit. Here I am cleaning up your messes, giving people a crumb of guidance, trying not to incriminate myself & keep people safe.
  • 14 June 2020 : When tonight’s over, can we talk about public accountability processes for every big account that thought it was okay to share an announcement of an AZ online under any circumstances....? 🙄
  • 14 June 2020 : My cash app remains in my bio. I use funds for mutual aid, organizing tools, medic supplies, food for folks, (and occasionally self care when my friends yell at me to do so.) I still need to connect further w/ accountants who reached out: but only pass me funds if you trust me.
  • 14 June 2020 : In regards to questions about financial donations, the chaz isn’t taking them and from my experience, that seems like a smart move. Cops use purchases to track down organizers, but can’t track every anonymous donation handed off. Coordinating a delivery is better than cash.
  • 14 June 2020 : I’m trying to work on ways to get folks who can’t be downtown linked in. Keep an eye out! I’ve been thinking of this a lot and have answers not best summed up in tweets!
  • 14 June 2020 : If there’s 1 thing I’ve learned from organizing, it’s that the 2 hardest things are: -asking people to share/get along (feels like preschool) -getting organizers across different levels of radicalization to coordinate & respect a diversity of tactics (feelslike herding cats)
  • 14 June 2020 : Literally been working with others to build and supply connections and heal city wide fucking trauma and mediation needs within the Portland organizing community for the past few months, begging people to wait until we could all move together. But here we are.
  • 14 June 2020 : I’ve been trying to work on writing this platform and publishing networks for people to get connected to others for the past 48 hours. Do I love autonomous zones? Yes. Deeply. Am I FURIOUS yt people did like the 1 thing you shouldn’t & announced it online hours beforehand? Duh.
  • 14 June 2020 : Can you devote time to helping organize your friends with cars into shifts of people available for emergency rides?
  • 14 June 2020 : I’m not feeling very certain about anything except the fact that I want to show up and help protect my community in any ways I can. And the more people together, the safer we are.
  • 14 June 2020 : Do you get where I’m going with this? Autonomous zones need bodies on the ground. But cars can be used to block police & other cars. Supplies need bought & dropped off anonymously. The revolution always needs food, cigs, coffee and day shift comrades who can hold space then.
  • 14 June 2020 : - go buy as many or as much of the following as you can: - thick tarps, pop up canopies, heavy duty cords/twine - camping rolls, yoga mats, pillows and blankets - walkie talkies, ski masks, black sweatshirts & hoodies & socks in various sizes Wait on the west side with friends.
  • 14 June 2020 : If you are white & you have money and you’re wondering what to bring with you, here’s 3 examples of what you could do: - go buy 2x4s and plywood and materials for construction. Bring your tools & construction friends to the west side before 10. Wait to see where that’s needed.
  • 14 June 2020 : In case it’s not obvious, if you’re offended by this tweet and feel the need to come defend your organizing in the replies: you should probably recognize that it never named a soul or an event & you probably have some self reflection to do. #nomorewhiteshenanigans https://twitter.com/genresistance/status/1271919900789886976
  • 14 June 2020 : I’m serious #PDXPROTEST . Get ready. Bring all the people. I’m gonna work on that other series of graphics with another experienced comrade in just a few mins. But as a starter: - tent - backup chargers - safety equipment - first aid kit - change of clothes - baby wipes - water
  • 13 June 2020 : I’d like to see more white people downtown tonight than I’ve ever seen, helping put their bodies on the line. Sounds like this is moving with the city at its back. If you’re white, and you’re coming, be on the lookout for Black folks & put yourself between them & the cops. #pdx
  • 13 June 2020 : Here’s my take since folx are asking: this information is already out there. It’s moving. This cannot be taken back. Through vetting, I’ve learned that there are local black folks involved. I won’t say anything more except that: pic.twitter.com/hGJC6DBjIq
  • 13 June 2020 : Don’t have anything to say about autonomous zone organizing except that diversity of tactics is important & with #landback we can build a better world. After months @ Occupy ICE & AZ’s in Tijuana & TX, I sure do have advice on what to bring! Stay tuned #PDX for graphics on that!
  • 13 June 2020 : Once again: black organizers are doing the work to quickly heal generational trauma in our communities and get the buy in of OUR WHOLE COMMUNITY who is affected by escalatory action before we just launch it.
  • 13 June 2020 : Oof. This kind of strength of will. I’ve gotten through one non-profit and I’m TIRED 😭 https://twitter.com/adrierose_/status/1271830868332621829
  • 13 June 2020 : @tedwheeler we are ALL DONE with the respectability politics on this side of things. #teargasted #warcrimeswheeler #cityhallcomplicity #RESIGN https://twitter.com/alankesslr/status/1271622769805934592
  • 13 June 2020 : Garrett Morgan spirit reached up out the grave and said, “RED MEANS STOP MUTHAFUCKA” Our ancestors are on our side. (PS-Garrett Morgan invited stoplights, what is known as the “blueprint” for gas masks and more. #ftp https://gif15.videosgifs.com/2020/06/09/el-policia
  • 13 June 2020 : It starts in small circles. What black people are in your immediate relational networks? Reach out to those folks & ask what they need & how you can help. Depending on what that need is, it looks like tracking down others in your circles w/ those resources & asking them to help
  • 13 June 2020 : Some community focused comrades have done some intensive work to put this thread together and it’s important to elevate this kind of analysis and intentionality in the PDX community. https://twitter.com/pdxshield/status/1271857358096850944
  • 13 June 2020 : I’m just reflecting this morning on all the performative and meaningless “allyship” happening online from white people. Do you KNOW a black person? Apologize for your complicity and ask if they need resources. THEN GET THOSE RESOURCES FROM OTHER YT PEOPLE & REDISTRIBUTE THEM.
  • 13 June 2020 : That’s what accomplices do. Weaponize their privileges and do the work to redirect resources they can access to communities that are intentionally underserved. That man taught me movement history that helped me find the language to call out my oppressors.
  • 13 June 2020 : Had a phone call this AM with a white professor of mine from community college who grew up as the only white boy in the hood & is now teaching sociology, movement history, & Oregon’s white supremacist founding & mentoring non-white athletes @ his overwhelmingly yt institution
  • 13 June 2020 : #necksacks #bigbeakenergy #trending
  • 13 June 2020 : “someone should make fireworks....for the day time.....that explode....darkness.” If you’re the first person to name what show this is from then I don’t know if I should be grateful to not be alone or disappointed in you......
  • 13 June 2020 : #GlobalSolidarity #AbolishBorders “...says the parliament "stands in solidarity w/ the Black Lives Matter movement & considers that the UK govt must immediately suspend all export licences for tear gas, rubber bullets & riot gear to the US". https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/scotland-us-exports-tear-gas-rubber-bullets-riot-shields-blm-protests-a9560586.html
  • 13 June 2020 : Any lawyers willing to step up and throw their weight (and privilege) against the system here for free? Because this is what happens to Indigenous, Black, and Brown communities when we try to document the harm and brutalizations our people receive. https://twitter.com/kohzkah/status/1271576077157064704
  • 13 June 2020 : “While it is obviously a good thing for people to acknowledge their own complicity in historic racial injustice, it is emotionally draining to realise that before this ‘moment’, so many people just didn’t care.” https://metro.co.uk/2020/06/12/emotional-impact-watching-white-people-wake-racism-real-time-12839920/
  • 13 June 2020 : You cannot deconstruct systemic and institutional racism using the tools forged at the bloody expense of Black, Brown, and Indigenous lives, bodies, cultures, and histories. https://twitter.com/tedwheeler/status/1271608332701163520
  • 13 June 2020 : #Solidarity with comrades in #Chicago also standing up in the fight for a world with #CareNotCops ! Solidarity #SignalBoost ! There’s instructions in thread on how to engage in solidarity struggles with others nationally engaged in the uprising! #BLM #AbolishThePolice https://twitter.com/care_not_cops/status/1271578558566195200
  • 12 June 2020 : Looking for a local #PDX BIPOC accountant willing to support a developing project for the coordination of our movement. Minimal weekly stipend available currently with anticipation to grow that financial capacity. Must be down to communicate on signal & be vetted for safety.
  • 12 June 2020 : Lets also talk about the potential for sharing the unifying experiences that Black people & Jewish people experience in our different disaporas? Solidarity & coordination between #BLM & #NeverAgain organizing is crucial. Recognizing power dynamics AND shared oppression is vital
  • 12 June 2020 : “Activism, Actually on FB/IG” 🙄 Twitter now that y’all updated the length available for alt images, can we make editing possible. 😭
  • 12 June 2020 : Y’all I’m just high and tired and ready to devote my time to helping QTBIPOC step into leadership and organization. If you’re a QTBIPOC ABOLITIONIST and you want mentor ship on how to get involved, hit me up via the DMs please. Any level. We need a team of people doing this.
  • 12 June 2020 : I lowkey never wanted to be an organizer. I just wanted to be a writer and a photojournalist and a hoe. I prioritized Activism, Actually Im FB/IG cause I didn’t & still don’t want the spotlight on me as an individual. But we make sacrifices for our communities.
  • 12 June 2020 : I fucking love paid writing gigs to talk about abolition and black queer liberation. More of that pls.
  • 12 June 2020 : A tweet from Portland police saying “Can You Help? West End Bikes Burglary http://portlandoregon.gov/police/idme/re … #CanYouIDME ” pic.twitter.com/fObAqXUBtP
  • 12 June 2020 : Fucking better not be 😭 I don’t wanna be receptive to little yt dead babies. That’s terrifying.
  • 12 June 2020 : No. https://twitter.com/portlandpolice/status/1271477399130189827
  • 12 June 2020 : When we say sweeping reform for the liberation of black lives, we mean, PROTECT BLACK HOUSELESS PEOPLE IMMEDIATELY TOO. When multi-marginalized black & brown voices are centered, we all come up. #intersectionality #blackliberation #HousingForAll https://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/2020/06/opinion-amid-pandemic-city-and-multnomah-county-must-step-up-housing-facilities-for-the-houseless.html
  • 12 June 2020 : yo dm me. I’ll try to tell you where the queers are at these protests ❤️💕
  • 12 June 2020 : Didn’t know what this was going to be when I started this thread but it turned into a little kindergarteners intro to mutual aid and undermining the state. 😇💕🥰 #anarchyisaphilosophy #carenotchaos #carenotcops #decolonize https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1271478373068320769
  • 12 June 2020 : The less we rely on a state system that is LITERALLY DESIGNED to fail us, the more we can set up systems of care that don’t depend at all on the “US Govt”. When we meet our own needs, we’re all better off. & when our needs our met, we’ll have more time to coordinate action! 😘
  • 12 June 2020 : You don’t have to just be protesting right now. You can be examining what resources you have to offer to the community, and begin to build those relationships with your neighbors. Coordinate a nightly, block wide moment of silence & then figure out your care network.
  • 12 June 2020 : This is how we begin to solve problems with the lack of food sovereignty in our communities. This is how we prioritize de-escalated community care among neighbors who have strong relationships. This is how we take care of our most vulnerable when we know the state will fail us.
  • 12 June 2020 : You can directly undermine the power that the state has to extort us by building close relationships w/ your community &: -planting a garden -organizing a community defense network -coordinating check-ins, ride shares, & care packages for marginalized neighbors
  • 12 June 2020 : Do we need to access resources in some way currently? Yes! Does that mean that buying things makes us hypocritical? No. But this is where MUTUAL AID and COMMUNITY CARE come into play. Brief explanation...
  • 12 June 2020 : What I’m saying is, forgive yourself for being forced to participate in a capitalist, imperialist, COLONIALIST, and genocidal system. You cannot help the circumstances you were born into. But, you can do everything in your power to undermine the legitimacy of the status quo!
  • 12 June 2020 : But! Am I put into a position where I cannot simultaneously refuse to engage in what I view as a meaningless system and survive? Yes! Why is this little mental exercise/ question and answer important? Decolonization, acceptance & self forgiveness. Huh? ⬇️
  • 12 June 2020 : Short, morning wake & bake thread: Do I believe in or accept the existence of money as it stands? A system backed by near nothing except the collective acceptance of its worth at face value? No! Fuck a bank. I care about resource sharing, not some fancy printed paper in a box.
  • 12 June 2020 : This is a good idea! I just connected with rose city justice folks to get us all on the same page and we’re working on coordination ASAP. Talking to ASL interpreters already about potentially talking about this in a more communicative and community oriented forum.
  • 12 June 2020 : And if we ever let them figure that out... THERE GOES OUR WAY OF LIFE! It’s not about food. It’s about keeping those ants in line.”]
  • 12 June 2020 : [Image Description: Ted Wheeler’s face photoshopped onto the lead Grasshopper from the movie “Bug’s Life” with a quote that says “You let one ant stand up to us, and they all might stand up! Those “puny little ants” outnumber us a hundred to one.
  • 12 June 2020 : when your friends are high and send you the dopest random memes. 🤣 pic.twitter.com/tnhoMPjuY9
  • 12 June 2020 : If anyone wants to start a thread from this comment down with a fully accurate transcript, I’ll embed the start of that thread in the next tweet. TIA!
  • 12 June 2020 : When the CC cuts off at “community”, the speaker closes by saying, “all cops are bastards. Quit your job. I yield my time.” #pdx #pdxprotest #teargasteddy #warcrimeswheeler #ResignTed #WriteInTeressaRaiford https://twitter.com/djacobo6/status/1271205467235090432
  • 12 June 2020 : Very clear that we’re gonna need to keep protesting for the next 6-12 months (at least) if we want to maximize the opportunity of this once in a century moment of common struggle & shared trauma. #longgame #abolitionorbust #wetakecareofus #UPRISING #traumainformed https://twitter.com/gregorymckelvey/status/1271230591074054144
  • 12 June 2020 : This is an example of a successful #dearrest effort. POWERFUL. The people united, can never be divided. El pueblo unido, jamás será vencido. https://twitter.com/chris_granger/status/1271156986361663490
  • 12 June 2020 : Or even a text like damn. I read every dm I get and I promise I’ll get back to people based on the urgency I understand and it’s connections to directly helping bipoc
  • 12 June 2020 : I’m saying that I just made contact with them for the first time tonight to help connect them to and be in coordination with black leaders who’ve been organizing direct action for years. And I’m coordinating some time to meet them in person & talk about this situation.
  • 12 June 2020 : Literally. pic.twitter.com/Ij7yo8wqSk
  • 12 June 2020 : The number of phone calls I’m on a day is actually the most ridiculous part of the revolution so far. 🙃
  • 12 June 2020 : Will vouch that I’m working to connect and help repair things here and help people learn about safety, security and such.
  • 12 June 2020 : Here! Hi! Helping to mediate and make sure we’re all on the same page and communicating.
  • 12 June 2020 : Excited ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS to see this type of immediate accountability! If you go out tonight, be safe. If you’ve done this before, try to share your knowledge on digital and organizing based security and safety! If you’re a #KnowYourRights trainer wanting to connect, DM ME! https://twitter.com/occupy_pdx/status/1271280110910373889
  • 12 June 2020 : Yeah fuck teddy forreal ✊🏽💕❤️
  • 12 June 2020 : This is why we don’t throw people away and we reach out first. But I will always prioritize safety for the people first and let my opinions be known. And remain open for accountability always. Talking about coordinating Know Your Rights trainings with this. Keep eyes out! #PDX
  • 12 June 2020 : Just got off the phone with an organizer. Working on coordinating the leadership and perspectives of Black people being prioritized here. As a learning experience for everyone, this should have been the first step. But I appreciate people being willing to hear feedback. (Cont)
  • 12 June 2020 : We have leadership already in Teressa Raiford.
  • 12 June 2020 : This is not black led. These people don’t even yet know that the Portland police are the PPB for Portland Police Bureau & don’t know enough security culture to know not to label and organizer for something like this. I personally cannot & will not support this. https://twitter.com/occupy_pdx/status/1271253347727704066 pic.twitter.com/vtiimgpZGO
  • 12 June 2020 : Y’all are literally trying to visibly announce to the government via cardboard sign who is in charge of organizing & coordinating what will be deemed a (highly visible) illegal action? https://twitter.com/occupy_pdx/status/1271260934246240256
  • 12 June 2020 : Is this black led and called for? https://twitter.com/occupy_pdx/status/1271253347727704066
  • 12 June 2020 : I’m NOT HERE FOR THE WHITE SHENANIGANS. I’ve been learning anarchist principles from Black and Indigenous elders since I stumbled into organizing in yt ass PDX & got no space held for my growth as a multi-marginalized, generationally traumatized person. Fuck the white noise.
  • 12 June 2020 : Casual reminder that as I announced when this follower boom began: I’m here for Black, Brown, & Indigenous people FIRST. QTBIPOC TO THE FRONT. QTBIPOC SEX WORKERS TO THE **VERY** FRONT. Yt folks who wanna learn decolonization through witnessing growth along the way, welcome.
  • 12 June 2020 : I’d like white people to catch up to black and brown anarchists and understand that “organized” and “autonomous” are not fucking antonyms. 🙄 #PDX #pdxprotest For all that theory y’all like to quote, a lot of y’all still haven’t figured that part out^^^^^
  • 12 June 2020 : Yes! We could multitask! There’s enough black organizers in this city to help teach and identify the white supremacy latent in both.
  • 11 June 2020 : #TShirtGuyDickEnergy if you know, you know.... 😏
  • 11 June 2020 : Okay, last one before I quit social media for a few hours. Because I wanna announce that the next talk after this needs to be on the sensationalization of activists and the resulting, unhealthy celebrity culture that ensues around leaders and the traumatizing nature of that.
  • 11 June 2020 : The only other thing I’m gonna say on this thread for now, is that if you feel personally offended by the single tweet above, you probably need to examine your motivations & if you’re doing this to support black people in this moment or what... 🤷🏽‍♀️ #imeantwhatisaid
  • 11 June 2020 : Hey #PDX #Leftists and #PDXPROTEST attendees, Before any more white people autonomously engage in escalatory tactics against the police, Can we have a quick chat about Portland’s issue with the glorification of (white) violence? Are we there yet? Y’all ready for that thread?
  • 11 June 2020 : Y’all really got too much time on your hands ☠️🤣😭 https://twitter.com/jontaoht/status/1270737370829123590
  • 11 June 2020 : i fucking hate it here. 🥴
  • 11 June 2020 : and now, we return to our regularly scheduled programming:
  • 11 June 2020 : Says who? You’re hash tagging all these groups but did anyone of us put out a call for support or endorse this?
  • 11 June 2020 : Literally y’all, wtf did I say. 🤔 Curious to see how this pans out without the buy in of the black community. https://twitter.com/tweetatwilkins/status/1270942002591350785?s=21 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1270612089590083589
  • 11 June 2020 : it is, objectively, the best tweet I ever have or ever will publish.
  • 11 June 2020 : if this doesn’t go viral I’m quitting twitter....
  • 11 June 2020 : hmm, hmmm, what’s that?🧐 my gender, you ask?🤔 ahh, yes, well:🤓 just picture a sexy, kawaii,🥰 goth,⛓ punk,🔪 gay,🌈 fae🧚🏽‍♀️ changling.🙇🏽‍♀️ but like, dressed for an uprising.🚔🔥✊🏽 #thatsmygender
  • 11 June 2020 : I knew a meme like this existed somewhere 💕
  • 11 June 2020 : I’ve never wanted to occupy anything more than I do, right now, in this moment. pic.twitter.com/tH2xts2PiT
  • 11 June 2020 : Uhmm, I wanna abolish the police. And prisons. And the USA. And I know it’s not just me... 🤔 #AbolishPolice #AbolishPrisons #LandBack #Decolonize #DISBANDTHEPOLICE https://twitter.com/joyannreid/status/1270756627738746881
  • 11 June 2020 : I want it.
  • 11 June 2020 : Me: *lying in bed topless* My partner, who is also an organizer: “just a heads up, the conference call I’m about to get on IS a video call” Me: *cackling imagining walking around naked like I usually do*
  • 11 June 2020 : Whoever Hannah is that just gave that compelling testimony, thank you!
  • 11 June 2020 : Teddy has a bachelor pad rn. He’s not at his ex-wife’s house.
  • 11 June 2020 : Here’s a reminder to please try to figure out the truth of things before spreading word about actions. Most organized actions are boosted online. & if there’s an organized action not being boosted online, it might be intentionally arrestable & you should proceed with caution.
  • 11 June 2020 : Someone today asked me about marching to Ted Wheeler’s house. Personally, not against the idea, but I told them I didn’t know of any immediate plans. Then I got a call rumoring two PDX orgs were planning a march to his place tonight. Confirmed to be untrue.
  • 10 June 2020 : READ THIS WHOLE THREAD. https://twitter.com/michaelharriot/status/1270076281040797699
  • 10 June 2020 : There are SO MANY DOGGOS out at this protest right now. LOOK AT THIS BABY. His name is Beemo and he has a matching adventure time collar under his bandana. I love him. LOOK AT THOSE TOE BEANS AND EARS 😭🥺😍😭 Pets are my favorite part of the revolution. pic.twitter.com/qFFgxzYKl4
  • 10 June 2020 : Couldn’t find a twitter livestream of the rally happening downtown here right now. #pdx #disbandppb #disarmPSU #Portlandprotest So here’s a FB link that’s keeping interpreters in frame. https://www.facebook.com/atolman21/videos/10220326886975254/
  • 10 June 2020 : This is a big pandemic mood. 🙃💕 Welcome to the theyby fam. https://twitter.com/blairstenvick/status/1270777063054602242
  • 10 June 2020 : Not accurate. I’m just sharing the news I just heard announced by Jason Washington’s family and love ones about this rally.
  • 10 June 2020 : Standing at the rally down here in #pdx staring at city hall & watching them put up a wall. Just thinking about how good it would be to see Portlanders killed by police memorialized on the very wall guarding our electeds from accountability. #QuaniceHayes #JasonWashington & more
  • 10 June 2020 : Friday 11am - Urban Plaza - To Disarm PSU - In honor of Jason Washington! Be there! #pdxprotests #pdx #portland #DisarmPSU #JasonWashington https://twitter.com/rae_elana/status/1270174785780105222
  • 10 June 2020 : In other news, my lyft driver has really got this whole social distancing thing on LOCK. Black and brown people are so fucking innovative cause we’ve always had to be to survive in this system. pic.twitter.com/OUKkHKgsAU
  • 10 June 2020 : I hope Ted Wheelers mother rests in peace. I also hope that this city doesn’t cater to the prepared for trauma of a cop/police commissioner at the expense of a city full of people being actively harmed by that same abusive cop.
  • 10 June 2020 : Honestly, any1 can tell you how every time I think of my friend who died, I spend 1 minute chanting “Martin is dead and you will never talk to him again”. Why? B/c I’m grieving but I also know I don’t have time to wait out the denial stage cuz my ppl r still being murdered.
  • 10 June 2020 : Meanwhile I watch black queer and trans people trade the same 50$ back and forth and pass it around over and over struggling to survive and even get food on the table. Let alone access healthcare that will allow us to live to an old age.
  • 10 June 2020 : I’m so glad Ted Wheeler and his mother had access to healthcare. I’m furious they didn’t have to worry about that because of their fortunes. The fortune Ted Wheeler refuses to even spend on campaigning—instead taking illegal donations to boost his efforts.
  • 10 June 2020 : Every time I talk to my parents and younger brothers and chosen family and comrades they beg me to stay safe because they know my life is at risk. I’m on the streets anyway. Grieving. AND DEMANDING change.
  • 10 June 2020 : One of my Indigenous Elders is in the hospital right now. Our communities are collectively grieving ON THE STREETS. With each other. We are in the streets demanding change because we’re done begging & our trauma can’t wait.
  • 10 June 2020 : I’ve been calling my mother and my younger brothers every other day to let them know that I haven’t been killed by the state yet. My 11 year old brother sent me a gas mask via animal crossing with a note that said “just in case” 2 weeks ago. I just saw it yesterday.
  • 10 June 2020 : Another one of my beloved comrades who’s helped me to do this exact type of frontline grassroots organizing all over the country is actively dying of cancer. So is another black PDX organizers father.
  • 10 June 2020 : Y’all have seen me out on the streets with a shaved head. I shaved my head the day one of my very close friends died unexpectedly. I didn’t have the luxury of prepping for death & saying goodbye. 1 of my best friends-I call her SFP for “same fucking person” is mysteriously ill
  • 10 June 2020 : FAC = From A Comrade It means I anonymously copy and pasted their message to share it and protect their privacy. It’s an acknowledgement that these are not my words but they are words that I believe need shared.
  • 10 June 2020 : FAC: Ted Wheeler’s mother died while he was teargassing his city. My father is dying while my city tear gasses me. Black mothers have lost their children and been gaslight by Ted Wheeler and other city officials here for decades. IDGAF about White feelings. ABOLITION OR BUST.
  • 10 June 2020 : So what I get from this is incremental reform over the last 30 years has resulted in no change in the “culture of Portland Police.” Seems to me like it’s time to try something that’s not new, but is regularly dismissed by those working inside the establishment: #AbolishThePolice https://twitter.com/genevievereaume/status/1270176035464609792
  • 10 June 2020 : #yesallmen https://twitter.com/zaulgold/status/1270731408458149888
  • 10 June 2020 : Trueeeeee!
  • 10 June 2020 : True! Cops who quit the force and speak out against it often get murdered tho.
  • 10 June 2020 : JoAnn said the other day that she’s not an abolitionist but I’m wondering if this reflects the beginnings of a change of heart? This is of course only speculation. But this essay does point out the need for abolition on the basis of an un-fixable system.
  • 10 June 2020 : @JoAnnPDX shared this essay on Facebook! It’s an essay written by a former bastard (aka cop) about why ACAB is accurate & how policing is broken beyond repair. Talks about why cops will never be able to fulfill the role of protection or servitude! Read! https://medium.com/@OfcrACab/confessions-of-a-former-bastard-cop-bb14d17bc759 pic.twitter.com/99cC5AsQLE
  • 10 June 2020 : I hope that any white led, white majority groups in Portland thinking about escalating or declaring actions, especially street based actions that rely on strong communications/problem solving skills, are considering the lessons to be learned from PDX history.
  • 10 June 2020 : Just a reminder that this is a long game and that black and brown organizers in #PDX have this in mind. Just something to remember before following escalatory announcements from any groups not led by black or brown folks. We are having LONG TERM strategy discussions. #blm
  • 10 June 2020 : decompressing the last 2 weeks of bullshit & I just keep landing on the irony of Teddy lookin me in the face & telling ME—a SWer, high-tolerance masochist, & BDSM advocate—that he’d never been tear gassed b/c he “does not want to.” Me either, Ted. And that’s saying something. 😑
  • 10 June 2020 : and yet, the tide pods.... and the bleach injections....
  • 10 June 2020 : 🎶Get in the zoneeee🎵 (Credit to the person above this dope meme for making this joke before me) https://twitter.com/diedoktor/status/1270378755702349826
  • 10 June 2020 : Seems highly suspicious that there’s a random account called #PDX wall that isn’t seemingly connected to any local Black organizers & is calling for setting fires to things. 🤔 I’m all for diversity of tactics but don’t take agitation advice from anonymous strangers online. https://twitter.com/portlandwall/status/1270486673344745472
  • 10 June 2020 : I know where I’ll be! With Don’t Shoot PDX and @carenotcops making our demands heard! Hope to see you there! https://twitter.com/carenotcops/status/1270508810017189888
  • 10 June 2020 : RT @Svevan: Wow what bullshit
  • 10 June 2020 : Hahahahah, no thank you. pic.twitter.com/1t3Fq88V5O
  • 9 June 2020 : All it took was one man in power getting told to shut up for him to unquestioningly terrorize a teenage girl, put her in a “neck hold”, hand cuff, and leave her crying and cuffed in her seat? Lovell clearly doesn’t know how to de-escalate either. Unsurprising, since he’s a cop.
  • 9 June 2020 : “Subsequently, Abie's mother hired an attorney & filed a civil rights suit in federal court against Johnson and the two school resource officers, claiming a violation of Abie's Fourth Amendment rights. Johnson filed a motion for summary judgment, seeking release from the lawsuit”
  • 9 June 2020 : “Abie's mother said she wanted a school administrator at this meeting, and Johnson joined them. After about an hour, Cash took Abie, still handcuffed, into his office and threatened to take her to the police station if she didn't explain to her mother that she was at fault...”
  • 9 June 2020 : TW: Police Brutality “Lovell repeated the directive, warning her that if she didn't sit down, they were "going to do it by force." Abie remained frozen in place. Quickly, Lovell & Cash put her in a neck hold, placed her in handcuffs, & forced her into her seat.“
  • 9 June 2020 : Hey #PDX , the new police chief that @tedwheeler is happy to introduce to everyone? A former high school “campus security monitor” perfectly fine with putting a teenage girl in a chokehold for being late. Fuck reform. De-militarize. Defund. Disband. https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1G1-222229574/handcuffing-discipline
  • 9 June 2020 : Yes! White people need to be doing that labor!
  • 9 June 2020 : not the dawn. just the return to decolonization. 💕
  • 9 June 2020 : Look, my partner and some amazing friends of mine that I trust with my life are vegans & I encourage y’all to listen to and follow Black, Brown, & Indigenous vegans but, uhhh... When we tell y’all the white women care more about animals than black lives..... WHEW CHILE I CANNOT pic.twitter.com/bKpJ8OU3YV
  • 9 June 2020 : https://twitter.com/christopoconnor/status/1270414756810121217?s=21 https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1270407611783888896
  • 9 June 2020 : 🧐 https://twitter.com/tedwheeler/status/1088215438691950592
  • 9 June 2020 : Let me be clear, the first reform *sounds* great. They’re just moving fair enforcement over to the sheriff. It’s not even dissolving.
  • 9 June 2020 : *Danialle is one of my favorite people. https://twitter.com/mrolmos/status/1269905171070414848
  • 9 June 2020 : Someone please correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe chokeholds were already banned in New York when #EricGarner was murdered by the NYPD. That first reform sounds great. But we want FULL accountability and sweeps reform. Dissolve the Portland Police. https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1270465825607057408
  • 9 June 2020 : I want us all to give a big round of applause to the folx over @Pdx_resistance who put this video together. I have CHILLS. @tedwheeler this is your legacy. This is what they will discuss about the last 12 days. It’s time to accept it. Resign. #pdx #pdxprotest #georgefloyd #blm https://twitter.com/pdx_resistance/status/1270444305333710848
  • 9 June 2020 : Lmao when you know that you’re not satisfying anyone with your bullshit policy reform responses to an international uprising against police brutality so you put up a wall around your office before even telling the public what you’re gonna do. 😂 #TearGasTeddy seems scared https://twitter.com/theportlandtrib/status/1270448246251454472
  • 9 June 2020 : https://twitter.com/molotov_latte/status/1270448988437663744?s=21 https://twitter.com/molotov_latte/status/1270448988437663744
  • 9 June 2020 : https://twitter.com/ferdawar/status/1270443213728309248?s=21 https://twitter.com/ferdawar/status/1270443213728309248
  • 9 June 2020 : HAI.ACCOUNTABILITY POST: This was a bad take. Not by content imo but because it lacked the nuance necessary to explain this. I’m sorry. I fucking hate twitter. So much of this can’t be explained via tweets. I said imagine. Imagine. Please don’t try this. I need a online timeout pic.twitter.com/jqEfYEMv5x
  • 9 June 2020 : https://twitter.com/ferdawar/status/1270443213728309248?s=21 READ THIS TOO. I’m one person on this twitter and sometimes post bad takes. We’re definitely no where near this point yet y’all. https://twitter.com/ferdawar/status/1270443213728309248
  • 9 June 2020 : Oooh. This is a good point!!
  • 9 June 2020 : Let me be clear, that kind of coordinated action needs practice, trust, bravery, and more. It would be a risk. I’m not recommending this spontaneously. I’m saying, get the friends you’re meeting with downtown at the protest & practice together before you go down. Stay calm.
  • 9 June 2020 : You see how the police are staying together, keeping close to each other, & moving in unison as they hold the line & progress forward... Imagine if 10k people did this and as the people in the front experienced brutality, we got them treated by medics & more took their place 🧐 https://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1269830986059124736
  • 9 June 2020 : Wanna help? https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSftr1LXoAiGYwC6zzlRY-YisDWZYppVPyyJBQgj7a59e7Gghg/viewform
  • 9 June 2020 : What to learn while you’re hanging out: -Rules of Protesting -Know Your Rights -Jail Support (for adults and minors) -Abolishing the police -Decolonization -How to become a Precinct Committee Person ⁃@snackblocpx IG Highlights is a great resource #pdx #pdxprotest #portland pic.twitter.com/fFNTKJveZZ
  • 9 June 2020 : What orgs to follow and/or donate to: @equitablegivingcircle @snackblocpx @bpipdx @blackresiliencefund http://RaceTalksPDX.com @handwrittenrevolution pic.twitter.com/zPmxf22q3A
  • 9 June 2020 : Calls to Action (while you’re hanging out): -Call Ted Wheeler tel:503-823-4120 -Call Kate Brown tel:503-378-4582 Tell them: -abolish the police -we want sweeping reform -reparations -free the nonviolent prisoners -radically reform public schools #pdx #pdxprotest pic.twitter.com/mnDTfE8DvS
  • 9 June 2020 : For moms (and dads, and non-binary parents) around the city able to find childcare, here’s where to go! We’re already talking about how we can start to find childcare providers to make this accessible for single parents. High likelihood this will be a semi-regular event! #pdx pic.twitter.com/y2TbnZpCiQ
  • 9 June 2020 : WE SEE YOU. That’s why moms from all over the city are coming to save space for your rest today. #pdx #portland #PortlandProtests pic.twitter.com/o36itpwzYf
  • 9 June 2020 : #PDX #PDXPROTEST #PortlandProtests #portland Anybody who knows me, knows that I’m constantly the mom/dad friend of everyone in my nearby vicinity. Happy to be working with other Mom-friends and Black & Brown mother’s worried about this city who want y’all to TAKE A BREAK TODAY. pic.twitter.com/QwrLKuZDvS
  • 9 June 2020 : https://youtu.be/tEOP7VXLfyU I started spontaneously live-streaming since I thought our electeds wanted to be accountable to the people. Seems I had the wrong idea & they wanted a closed door meeting. But anyway, here’s a YouTube video that’s captioned & ASL interpreted. #PDX https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1269674140849500163
  • 9 June 2020 : When we tell y’all the black queer femmes have been leading the revolution foreverrrrrr this is what we mean. Dear non-Black people, if you don’t know who Angela Davis is, y’all got some googling to do. https://twitter.com/dionysiiac/status/1270071907484864512
  • 9 June 2020 : Please block this account thanks. pic.twitter.com/VereCRHBiR
  • 9 June 2020 : Y’all. Stop adding me to lists. Stop adding leftists to lists. Stop making lists of radicals. Literally, fascists & white supremacists target/doxx people via some of those lists. Just turn on notifications instead or something. I love you. Public lists are dangerous. Pls stop.
  • 9 June 2020 : IF ANY OF YALL ON CITY COUNCIL DO NOT WANT TO BE ACCOUNTABLE TO THE PUBLIC ABOUT WHAT YOURE PLANNING FOR OUR CITY STEP DOWNNNNN PLEASE. Again. I am here to be accountable to our community as an organizer & keep electeds accountable too.
  • 9 June 2020 : Look. I hope JoAnn lives a long, safe happy life. I respect her as a human and an elder and a black woman who’s experienced trauma. But not as a politician. You can’t be a politician & be scared of the public knowing what you have to say & asking to keep it secret.
  • 9 June 2020 : I have a lot of respect for JoAnn as a black leader who’s been through trauma. I also believe that she’s committed herself to taking the (slightly) less dangerous road of incremental reform. She told us about how she’s only one black person in city hall but she endorsed Ted 🧐
  • 9 June 2020 : By the way, I never did the thumbs up that they asked for to promise not to tell people about that meeting. Wasn’t gonna talk about it but.... look. I respect black elders for the fight & their trauma. But as another black elder said, this moment will effect US after they die.
  • 9 June 2020 : Jo Ann is talking about how I’ve lost her respect. Lets talk about the meeting I got invited to 6 mins before it started where Joanne asked us to agree not to talk about it so she knew she could “trust us.” I don’t respect politicians asking me to keep secrets from the public. https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1270182096569462785 pic.twitter.com/9hK22wici6
  • 9 June 2020 : I’m exhausted and turning my phone off for the night. I can’t keep tracking all this trauma in addition to my fury at our electeds and not lose my shit. I’ll check in tomorrow morning! Love y’all! Stay together! Stay tight! Keep being a disruptive force of nature & sheer will❤️
  • 9 June 2020 : This is the psy-ops we’re talking about. Politicians shouldn’t be saying one thing behind closed doors and another to the public. Stop reading fucking statements and start leading. Don’t ask black leaders to keep secrets for you to attend meetings with our FUCKING ELECTEDS.
  • 9 June 2020 : Y’all should not be trusting them handpicking who represents the movement. Someone on that fucking town hall said, “These folks are the leadership to moving this down the right path”. That’s bullshit. Fuck incremental change. We don’t have time and we WILL NOT be slowed down.
  • 9 June 2020 : Fuck whatever town hall is happening right now. Ted and Joanne picked one single black young kid brand new to organizing. We brought black folks from across generations who’ve been here for years to talk about keeping them accountable. But they don’t want to broadcast that, huh?
  • 9 June 2020 : Lol @tedwheeler & @JoAnnPDX didn’t like me livestreaming our meeting but they sure did snap up the first dark skinned reformist black man they could find. Sure seems like they know how to make convos available to ppl but only if they don’t have black people that disagree w/ them
  • 9 June 2020 : Are the leaders you follow uplifting: - Deaf Black voices - Disabled Black voices - LGBTQIA2S+ Black voices - Sex working Black voices - Houseless Black voices - Drug using Black voices If you want intersectional analysis, you need to be following intersectional people.
  • 9 June 2020 : Please don’t waste time on terfs with 700 followers 🙃😂
  • 9 June 2020 : Let’s have a talk about ableism, white supremacy, its connections to the movement, & just another way that @tedwheeler @JoAnnPDX @ChloeEudalyPDX @AmandaFritzRN & “leaders” across the country are leaving Deaf Black people behind & all disabled ppl too https://www.instagram.com/tv/CBMPTcjgXXf/?igshid=rs14zygefkty
  • 9 June 2020 : Hahah watching @tedwheeler get called out for his incompetence live and in person was hilarious. I also live tweeted this meeting. Will have to find the thread and I’ll post it down here. https://twitter.com/samswey/status/1179355237540347904
  • 9 June 2020 : Thanks for typing this out! I actually studied Okinawan Goju Ryu for years growing up and had always assumed that this police weapon had evolved from the self defense tools I studied and learned how to use. But I actually didn’t know they were originally farming tools. Thank you!
  • 9 June 2020 : Never seen this before but it sure does seem dangerous to just leave this lying around.... someone could just pick it up and use it to attack random residents like the police do. https://twitter.com/wkathner/status/1270142992389562368
  • 8 June 2020 : Secretly, I just wanna quit organizing & go back to teaching people shit online. If we can find people to do all the other stuff, I’ll just do this 😅😅😅
  • 8 June 2020 : rural Ohio Teenagers residents who run track 🤝 “wanting to abolish the police” Is this it? 😅😂 https://twitter.com/livkittykat/status/1270139020060684288
  • 8 June 2020 : Here’s even MORE information on this. I need y’all to understand that queer/trans Black, Brown, & Indigenous sex workers have been leading the fight for police abolition & ending police brutality for YEARS. We are experts in state suppression. http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2020/01/earn-it-act-how-ban-end-end-encryption-without-actually-banning-it
  • 8 June 2020 : Here’s even MORE information about why y’all need to stop supporting “anti-sex trafficking orgs” that are actually just working in support of the continued censorship of not just sexuality, but also free speech and privacy overall. https://www.brookings.edu/techstream/the-earn-it-act-is-a-disaster-amid-the-covid-19-crisis/
  • 8 June 2020 : Here’s some more information on that: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/earn-it-act-violates-constitution
  • 8 June 2020 : They are trying to do this shit again RIGHT NOW in regards to putting on a dog and pony show about fighting sex trafficking while slipping in (very important & vaguely worded) clauses that strip you of your rights to privacy along with us. #sexwork https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/06/01/us-senate-should-reject-earn-it-act
  • 8 June 2020 : For examples of this that have succeeded, google Fosta/Sesta. (White ppl, Bernie & Warren voted in support of that🙄) Sex workers have been screaming into the online void about how it’s killing us and censoring you under the guise of fighting sex trafficking. But also:
  • 8 June 2020 : About to talk to a NY times reporter about the rise of signal & its place in the infrastructure of the resistance. One of the most important things I’m going to bring up is the #USGOVT consistently using #sexworkers as a canary in the coal mines for the censorship of all people
  • 8 June 2020 : Don’t come at me with this passive aggressive shit. I’m not here for ppl aggressively asking me where I’m leading ppl, implying I’m doing it wrong, & not understanding that I’m not out there alone or every day. I’m exhausted. If I snap at bullshit, forgive me but this ain’t it. https://twitter.com/drewgrewal/status/1270101827745230849
  • 8 June 2020 : The revolution must be transparent & you coming to my feed speaking as if you know what’s going on & then passive aggressively asking if I’ll do the right thing is bullshit. My DMs & replies are full of ppl getting answers. Come to me with disrespect & I’m not gonna coddle you.
  • 8 June 2020 : “So are you going to lead people to protest at the centers of power to hold them to account or are you going to keep leading them to suburban parks?” You started with assumptions that were wrong. I’ve been downtown. then you passive aggressively tried to tell me what to do.
  • 8 June 2020 : Blue lives matter flag, but the percent of it that’s blue is the percent of cops that are domestic abusers: pic.twitter.com/QVZFKpPlsD
  • 8 June 2020 : fuck off if you don’t know what you’re talking about pls 🥰💕
  • 8 June 2020 : Lol https://twitter.com/scottwalker/status/1270019037792210944
  • 8 June 2020 : Oh is THIS what y’all were talking about?!? If these white people don’t stop disrespecting us with this bullshit. https://twitter.com/blacksocialists/status/1270081582183972865
  • 8 June 2020 : SHARE AND READ THIS THREAD ENTIRELY PLEASE. https://twitter.com/yevg3niya/status/1269980988756688898
  • 8 June 2020 : Yesterday I was helping signature gather for @UPNOW2020 from the park blocks for a few hours and just meeting with folks before we went to the injustice centers
  • 8 June 2020 : Give your money to local groups like Don’t Shoot PDX. Or groups fighting police brutality that are led by black sex workers like @DecrimNowDC . You can also go follow great black sex workers organizing in Portland like The Jezebel Project ( https://instagram.com/the.jezebel.project?igshid=o8wa5v9uyi6i )!
  • 8 June 2020 : Also please don’t give your money to stripperwriter or booberpdx. Donate your money to black and brown sex workers directly, who experience more harm and trauma from the police state we are fighting against. Instead: pic.twitter.com/j3D7WXdB3U
  • 8 June 2020 : Instead, just unfollow and block Elle Stanger from all platforms including fb, Instagram, and more. If you’d like to spend an hour or two reading the full story, you can check the highlights on IG @activismactually. Go from oldest to newest in order for context.
  • 8 June 2020 : Feel free to share the link to this thread across any platform. This is not a call in, a request for mediation, or a call out. This is an attempt to deplayform a racist yt feminist repeatedly tokenizing their black friends & partners. Don’t say shit about the POC defending Elle.
  • 8 June 2020 : Once I get image descriptions ready, I’ll be sharing the post from snack block about the day of rest we’re organizing & I’ll be looking for black childcare providers who are out of work who might like to get paid to watch some kiddos during the protest.
  • 8 June 2020 : PS, Elle also followed up a post slandering me, claiming I was stealing funds from that go fund me I wasn’t involved in, & then directed people to projects I’m directly involved in🙄 They are irresponsible with the size of their platform & efforts to fact check information. pic.twitter.com/CyBKBa927v
  • 8 June 2020 : Meanwhile, in March, they claimed I was embezzling funds from a local poc led sex worker Gofundme despite the fact that up until then I’d never spoken to organizers. Then they told ppl to donate to “nonprofits” instead. This is all violence and yt feminism. It will not stand.
  • 8 June 2020 : Elle continues to center themselves as a victim of slander, abuse, meanness, bullies and the like. All while presenting themselves as “antifa”. Elle’s publicly called me a cop informant, which is racism and violence. Then Elle turns around and says “don’t punch down!”
  • 8 June 2020 : My blackness, my organizing, my advocacy, my visibility, and my radical dreams for this country have significantly impacted my ability to do sex work, the only job that ever made me feel whole or in control of my own autonomy. Elle will never face those risks.
  • 8 June 2020 : The call in was followed by a call out, me sharing multiple sets of Elle’s own writings over the years that Elle has acknowledged but never apologized for in addition to anonymous reports of abuse I was being asked to share. After the callout, my sex work accnt got reported down.
  • 8 June 2020 : Elle is currently still NOT allowed by group consensus decision into either our local online stripper forums for supporting each other NOR an international online forum for strippers. Elle was kicked out of the PDX group before I started doing sex work.
  • 8 June 2020 : Elle also recommended a “neutral” meeting location for our mediation that they could pay for despite my good friend being on the board of directors and Elle’s history of not only working with this space’s leaders but holding events there.
  • 8 June 2020 : Elle has a long history of silencing black sex workers. The first time I politely called them in they assumed I was doing so in bad faith & then started claiming I was just trying to tear them down. That’s when I started getting DMs about years of their abuse.
  • 8 June 2020 : Then, Elle decided to defend the meetings they was attending with police and talk about how some people like to “talk shit from their phones instead of doing work” right after I got back from the border helping migrants and Indigenous tribes. pic.twitter.com/zm5BZMYV0v
  • 8 June 2020 : This is not a call out post. Over on my Instagram, a year and a half ago I did a very polite call in post on Elle when they used what I thought was accidentally problematic & racist language about Cardi B. No biggie. Call ins are polite & I used their 10k follower page as an ex.
  • 8 June 2020 : Please remember that white femmes who think that it is appropriate to ask black femmes like me for a “debate style” mediation and who feel the need to ask me not to hit them are part of the problem. If you respect me or my analysis of restorative justice, please unfollow them. pic.twitter.com/SC6aseXocs
  • 8 June 2020 : Remember that one time that @tedwheeler was caught muttering about how he can’t wait for his term to be over? Ted, take a page out of Jami’s book. Resign and let us figure this out. https://www.wweek.com/news/city/2018/11/15/portland-mayor-ted-wheeler-mutters-that-he-cant-wait-for-his-term-to-be-over/ https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1270083901596110848
  • 8 June 2020 : I’mma *talk* is what this is supposed to say 🙄
  • 8 June 2020 : Yt people used to hearing us put on pressure for “equality.” I don’t want equality. I want justice and EQUITY. fuck your equality when you get to decide who is more equal than others like the fucking pigs you are. (Yes that’s a literary reference) Be happy we don’t want revenge
  • 8 June 2020 : Like, really. I’m already in overwhelmed with the number of followers so I need y’all to understand that I can code-switch for respectability politics like a bitch but I’m done negotiating. We are making DEMANDS. D E M A N D S Fuck reform. Fuck incremental change. ABOLITION.
  • 8 June 2020 : Like to be clear, when I say no justice no peace I mean, we want justice for hundreds of years of slave catching, slavery, murder, genocide, imperialism, colonialism, and capitalist bullshit.
  • 8 June 2020 : I feel like I lowkey slipped into respectability politics but this is MY PERSONAL ASS TWITTER. I’mma y’all about the uprising in PDX. I’m gonna keep calling out these white ass electeds (and candidates). I’m an ABOLITIONIST WHORE. I talk about kink & freedom & revolution.
  • 8 June 2020 : You know what, my follower count has more than doubled this week. So let’s be clear. No white person has the intimate relationship with oppression needed to be best equipped to dismantle it. Fuck the USA. Fuck this imperialist, colonizer country. Reperations and land back. Tf.
  • 8 June 2020 : Any body just realizing that the message police have for black folks is “you’re not important” isn’t fit to lead, let alone carry weapons to “protect” people. Abolish white supremacy but abolish the USA too. Fuck the old dead white men who wrote us into slavery. Fuck colonizers. https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1270078245052940288
  • 8 June 2020 : Idk about you but I’m mad about the tactics. I mad they put a knee to someone’s neck. I mad so many of them stood around and watched a murder. I mad they had all those weapons to protect & serve & wouldn’t use them against a cop over the residents they “protect & serve.” https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1270078244079857664
  • 8 June 2020 : This is gaslighting. This is a tactic of abuse. People who willingly commit war crimes against you do not love you. People who love you don’t throw you in a cage for timeout until you pay them cash to let you out. People who love you don’t shoot you. People who love you don’t https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1270078242511151105
  • 8 June 2020 : You should find the families and orgs publicly speaking out about never receiving a dime from Shaun or giving him permission to fundraise on their behalf online. I’ve heard all the talking points. They all ignore people who’ve experienced direct harm from him.
  • 8 June 2020 : @tedwheeler - “we’re concerned about the people living there” #TearGasTed , no one is living at the Injustice center. There are people being kept in cages during the middle of a global health pandemic being subjected to 24/7 police brutality. Cut the bullshit. pic.twitter.com/w0mlF9DEjF
  • 8 June 2020 : RT @morethn4char: @lilithxsinclair "community members" inside the fence. The 18% of the force that actually lives in Portland?
  • 8 June 2020 : Again. Fuck this. 🙃 pic.twitter.com/l9kD5Vdm6r
  • 8 June 2020 : Nah. There’s plenty of black people not shaking hands with politicians and investing their work in our community, not making liberal white people feel like putting all their money in one light skinned mans basket is how we change.
  • 8 June 2020 : Fuck this. #quityourjob #abolishthepolice #standdown https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2020/06/mayor-ted-wheeler-to-address-city-after-portlands-11th-consecutive-night-of-protest.html?outputType=amp pic.twitter.com/iNPU35C2V8
  • 8 June 2020 : pic.twitter.com/yjCdEuQzvy
  • 8 June 2020 : His history of photops with politicians and talking about his fundraising projects every time another black person gets murdered is fucking foul. He’s a PROBLEM. Like, I don’t have time to ask other black men to believe women/femmes nor do I have time for years of receipts.
  • 8 June 2020 : I’m light skinned too & talk about my privilege all the time. I’m not here for light skin nigga hours full of black men speaking over us no matter how light they are. Misogynoir in our own communities is rampant cause of colorism. Google it. Please fam. And unfollow that grifter
  • 8 June 2020 : All Karens Are Bastards. All KKKops Are Bastards. (Considering @ perkiplus told us that Universal Preschool is “bullshit,” I wanted to clarify that this can stand for one of the two above, but does not mean All Kids...) AKAB. https://twitter.com/away__kit/status/1270055164162924549
  • 8 June 2020 : Hahah it’s just me and one other comrade who works with me on accessibility. Hoping to change that soon! But we’ll be getting the captioned and interpreted version posted sometime today!
  • 8 June 2020 : I know! I’m glad you’re taking a look in the mirror and seeing why you should stop this behavior immediately. Also I really hope that you can get some water and snacks. Everyone needs hydration & sustenance (not just little kids) & it might make you a little less cranky, too! 💕
  • 8 June 2020 : If you wanna support a light skinned black man with a shit ton of privilege who never acknowledges it and has harmed black women/femmes and families of police violence be my guest. I don’t want to work w/ electeds like Shaun. I want them to be held accountable to the people.
  • 8 June 2020 : https://twitter.com/perkiplus/status/1269895548212932609 pic.twitter.com/42r4h5YObR
  • 8 June 2020 : When yt women tell you that they need better sponsors than a few dozen national orgs, nonprofits, unions, and grassroots groups. My blackness may have looked fishy but the flyer is pretty explicit. Also, remember when you told me “No children live in this neighborhood” 😂 https://twitter.com/perkiplus/status/1269895548212932609 pic.twitter.com/4EfJuARGS5
  • 8 June 2020 : I need the last few of yall to unfollower that fucking grifter Shaun king. He’s unaccountable for where money goes. He’s harmed black women and femmes repeatedly. He’s constantly sharing black trauma for yt people to circle jerk cry to. STOP GIVING HIM A PLATFORM.
  • 8 June 2020 : @tedwheeler sure does have a penchant for sharing bullshit about reform instead of ever addressing disbandment as is being discussed across the country & globe. https://twitter.com/helenjung/status/1270032855737888771
  • 8 June 2020 : I’m gonna need all 368 of you who liked this to go follow the @UPNOW2020 page and share their tweets too please! Because of the shitty government & global pandemic this campaign is so close but so far. We need to spread this across Multnomah county! #pdx #childcare #taxtherich https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1269828170565292033
  • 8 June 2020 : @UPNOW2020
  • 8 June 2020 : We packed up. We’re downtown now by the INjustice center. See you on the streets for a bit! ❤️
  • 8 June 2020 : As the crowds of people chant “Fuck Ted Wheeler” I cant help but feel renewed. 💕 Love y’all. 😘
  • 8 June 2020 : This white lady came and harrassed us as we were setting up. She demanded we answer whether or not we had a permit to collect signatures supporting free preschool b/c this is “her neighborhood” & she’s “not a child” so she doesn’t need the free water or snacks that I offered. 🤷🏽‍♀️ pic.twitter.com/8WTVnxUOqQ
  • 8 June 2020 : If you’ve got kiddos down at the protests by the (in)Justice Center, you should stop by! We’ve got coloring books, juice, bubbles, oranges, bananas (lollipops hidden that you can tell us your child can have if you want them to!) #pdxprotests #UPNOW #TAXTHERICH pic.twitter.com/iNxlFdFJCi
  • 8 June 2020 : I know I’ve been tweeting about this a lot but as a former childcare provider and also an adult figure in the lives of my baby brothers and family, I know it’s so important to have equitable, accessible, and universal childcare. And I’ve seen this work grow over 2 years. #pdx
  • 8 June 2020 : Hey #PDXProtest Attendees! Let’s talk about how we can help black parents, children, & childcare providers all at once. By #taxingtherich I’m getting set up in the Park Blocks on Salmon and Park with some comrades from @PortlandDSA to do some signature gathering for @UPNOW2020 pic.twitter.com/Nr3wNR9OB8
  • 7 June 2020 : out here asking the same questions, fam 🤨 https://twitter.com/babyxcommie/status/1269673627877769216
  • 7 June 2020 : Do you have a pop-up tent/cover that you’d like to donate to black Portland organizers? We could use 2-3! We could also use: Body cameras Walkie Talkies Emergen-c pack Black beanies Black Hoodies l/xl/1x/ 2x Wool socks Noise cancelling ear muffs N95 masks DM me!
  • 7 June 2020 : Insert “don’t they have jobs” for “aren’t they worried about COVID” and the answer is still yes. https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1213259354582876161
  • 7 June 2020 : It’s actually advice for the entire length of the protest from the march to the rally to the police brutality afterwards. Whoever told you stay together stay tight is for tear gas could use some more education on tactics and strategy.
  • 7 June 2020 : And please for the love of god go study Fred Hamptons story. Please. That young black man had a fucking vision and the government killed him for it. I’m trying to lead by his example. So know: if the state kills me it wasn’t a mistake.
  • 7 June 2020 : I will never say throwing bricks at cops doesn’t change anything because I’ve studied history and that’s just not factual information. For the people in the back one more again let me say: no justice no peace means we cannot have peaceful protests. We need to DISRUPT and DEMAND
  • 7 June 2020 : When I say know your history I mean I want you to understand that the first pride was a riot— or to use the language I’m trying to help us understand; THE FIRST PRIDE STARTED AN UPRISING B/C BLACK TRANS SEX WORKING WOMEN THREW BRICKS AT COPS.
  • 7 June 2020 : Honestly, as a black non-binary femme and sex worker, I don’t think I’ll ever have a pride month that tops watching police precincts burn to the ground and telling our local cop protector politicians to quit their fucking jobs in front of thousands of people.
  • 7 June 2020 : Hey @tedwheeler , here’s what leadership looks like from your colleagues across the nation: “Minneapolis City Council President Lisa Bender said Sunday. “Our efforts at incremental reform have failed. Period.’” https://theappeal.org/minneapolis-city-council-members-announce-intent-to-disband-the-police-department-invest-in-proven-community-led-public-safety/
  • 7 June 2020 : Transcription is being worked on right now! I’ve reached out to a number of ASL interpreters I know who are busy or haven’t gotten back. BLACK ASL interpreters! If you see this, I have money for you to help interpret a video published on FB. Or white interpreters, volunteer pls!
  • 7 June 2020 : I didn’t have it enabled nor did I have time to pause to download and set up periscope. I was scrambling 😅
  • 7 June 2020 : We need to work on setting up TEAMS of people who can do some of the following tasks: - Research - Writing - Graphic design - media management & press coordination - video transcriptions - interpretation and translating - volunteer coordination
  • 7 June 2020 : We don’t just need people in the streets. We need everyone possible out there but the reality for a lot of people is that they cannot risk arrest or dying from tear gas in the street. That’s okay. That’s fair. That’s valid. We have ways to get you connected!
  • 7 June 2020 : I’m here on my personal twitter to be accountable to the community. BLACK PEOPLE FIRST. It’s why I prioritize engaging with y’all at every possible moment. We want to figure out how to get this movement connected & help people connect to the work in ways that are accessible.
  • 7 June 2020 : I’m so frustrated and enraged and sorry that this wasn’t accessible. I’m going to need to take a 24 hour break soon to work on just delegating tasks and setting up a structure for that. I’ll figure out how we can get this done in a way that mitigates harm from the state.
  • 7 June 2020 : I also want to highlight that the mayor’s staff set up this call. I couldn’t access the zoom settings or live or live share from my laptop. The mayor has a track record with a lack of accessibility & a lack of accountability and acknowledgment about that. I’m here to say sorry
  • 7 June 2020 : I fucking hate this hell site. I’m not having closed door conversations with the mayor. I’m here to HOLD HIM ACCOUNTABLE. If he thinks the community doesn’t l deserve to hear what he’s saying, he can tell the people about why. We’re working on post publishing accessibility! https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1269700534660763648
  • 7 June 2020 : Wait fuck I don’t have live on twitter. Come to Activism Actually on Facebook.
  • 7 June 2020 : You know what fuck this. Listen in. Let’s make a transcript later.
  • 7 June 2020 : One of our guest is reminding him of the same story she told on Friday of feeling like she wasn’t going to die. She asked why he wants to let people die. He says sorry. She says I don’t want your sorry.
  • 7 June 2020 : Sorry we’re yelling. I’m mad. @tedwheeler doesn’t know how to answer a yes or no question. Well except one. I asked if he has the power as the police commissioner to stop police from using tear gas. “Yes” I asked him if he will make that announcement “I’ve put out a statement.”
  • 7 June 2020 : We’re talking about tear gas. Ted’s explaining that he’d be willing to ban tear gas under two conditions: - The police chief has told the mayor the only alternative to tear gas is hand to hand contact. - told him that he’s wrong.
  • 7 June 2020 : Alright. Time to live tweet this meeting with Joann and Ted. We’re just starting talking. There’s a group of 7 people here. We’ve got strong women and femme leadership here. We’re doing intros right now. Lots of community members who’ve lived here decades. #pdxprotest #pdx
  • 7 June 2020 : Write in Teressa Raiford instead!
  • 7 June 2020 : That sure would be nice! I’ll ask all parties involved!
  • 7 June 2020 : We want change now so our youth don’t have to keep fighting for incremental changes over the next 30 years like the generations before us. We’re hoping Joann (& Ted) agree with the urgency of the moment. & not only share, but act on our demands.
  • 7 June 2020 : We’re excited to share our *immediate demands* to all of city council. And we’re ready to hold all electeds to higher standards. We know as a black woman Joann understands the pain & trauma of living in this city.
  • 7 June 2020 : Ted told us last meeting they wanted to study the effects of tear gas. We asked what the timeline for that looks like. He said he doesn’t know. We said, not good enough. Young black folks know we don’t have time to wait for the govt’s red tape to disappear. It needs cut down.
  • 7 June 2020 : We’re looking for radical change that can happen now. We don’t have time to wait. When Ted and JoAnn leave downtown, we’re the ones getting tear gassed. We’ll ask them what changes they are making starting today. As y’all chanted yesterday, we do this every night. Why? Change.
  • 7 June 2020 : Seems like we’ve got a meeting with not just @tedwheeler but also @JoAnnPDX at 11am. Looking forward to talking about our demands (not negotiations) and the ways we’re working to hold all electeds accountable. This is great b/c JoAnn endorsed Ted Wheeler. #pdxprotests #demands
  • 7 June 2020 : I’m so fucking grateful to see the people in this city mobilizing and coming together and learning as quickly as I’ve seen this week. We’ve got a long ass way to go but we’ll start by holding our public servants accountable. Not just the mayor, but city council and the rest too.
  • 7 June 2020 : “Stay together, stay tight! We do this every night!” #Portlandprotest attendees, I have never felt more comfortable resting than listening to y’all chanting that in the streets.
  • 7 June 2020 : So far away and still able to hear the LRAD announcing escalatory threats. Hearing so many sirens and explosions and helicopters late into the night. Tear gas. More explosions. I’m exhausted. So tired.
  • 7 June 2020 : Sitting outside. Talking with my comrades. Processing our trauma together about all our friends & family members dying. Listening to the explosions downtown. Thinking of the houseless neighbors & all living in the war zone of #pdx . I’m tired & disgusted. I’m terrified. I’m angry.
  • 7 June 2020 : I know myself. 🤷🏽‍♀️
  • 7 June 2020 : okay, fine. but only one pack before I come back in and keep working/trolling racists. https://twitter.com/livkittykat/status/1269414569220255744
  • 7 June 2020 : Some white person just said, in a thread where he was called out for racism: “Any time you want to knock doors together in communities of color to recruit more BIPOC to our chapter- you know, in real life and not online- say the word.” Lol I really do hate whiteness so much. Tf
  • 7 June 2020 : Sometimes you just got a process out loud, boo. Take the night off. My PTSD has been so triggered lately and I can’t be on the streets tonight. That’s valid. Rest. If you can’t sleep, Share resources. Reach out to check on friends going down.
  • 7 June 2020 : Yes! Awesome! I’m straight up passing out for a nap rn after a bullshit day of meetings. I shared an update article for now. (: But later I’ll comb through files and email you clips! DM me your email?
  • 7 June 2020 : Here’s an update on that by @alex_zee ! (Plus as a former reporter, photojournalist, & then department editor on a MUCH smaller scale; I must say that she’s balancing journalistic integrity, objectivity, trauma, & centering the most impacted DAMN well) https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2020/05/27/28475839/portland-police-unions-contract-set-to-expire-with-no-replacement
  • 7 June 2020 : I told wheeler that I was meeting with him to keep him accountable to our community. He’s expressed wanting to help the people, but has presumably just not figured out how to cut through red tape with his privilege. Negotiations are currently stagnant.
  • 7 June 2020 : For the record, I never completed this thread. But it’s from when we started talking about hearing from the community regarding the upcoming police contract. I should have those videos somewhere. If I could get a volunteer(s) to caption/transcribe we can share! (Cont.) https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1196611588322545665
  • 7 June 2020 : This looks like a trap.... pic.twitter.com/YGrnURTO8V
  • 6 June 2020 : I wanna STRONGLY endorse and support this project. Brand new organization founded by a really dope comrade that I would trust with my life on the streets. Continuing to do RADICAL WORK. Go follow this account & we’ll have it nice and pretty looking by tonight! #PDXPROTEST https://twitter.com/radicaljusticep/status/1269384598959636481
  • 6 June 2020 : The nicest compliment I’ve ever received: “Lilith! I think you could have run with Harriet Tubman!” - @ImNotYourNigger (Don’t tell anybody but my lip quivered and I almost immediately welled up.) I’m trying to fight for LIBERATION. And I’m grateful for my family out here w/ me
  • 6 June 2020 : I’m here for accountability of electeds. I’m here to teach the people that we are the people who have money stolen to pay Ted’s salary to do what? What the fuck has Ted done for black people that has significantly impacted our whole community? We are his supervisors.
  • 6 June 2020 : I don’t have to like @tedwheeler . I’m not obligated to be nice to #WarCrimesWheeler . You let us get gassed last night. YOU PRIORITIZED YOUR SAFETY. If you don’t mean something, don’t say it. But you did, and I’m an angry black queer femme CALLING YOU OUT.
  • 6 June 2020 : Fuck Ted Wheeler in the streets. And fuck Ted Wheeler to his face too. @tedwheeler I don’t want to talk to you. I want you to resign. But while you continue to hold the power that you do, I have to meet with you to hold you accountable to these people and tell you our demands.
  • 6 June 2020 : Nearly one hour later and #TearGasTed is still not budging on prioritizing others and breaking his word. Here’s my latest response to #WarCrimeWheelers staff. pic.twitter.com/aqSXYcNyyp
  • 6 June 2020 : Feel free to call his office or email him to let him know that he needs to find time for daily meetings with Black & Brown community leaders like he told us he would. Or he can step back and resign. tel:+1503-823-4120 mayorwheeler@portlandoregon.gov We’ll be waiting @tedwheeler
  • 6 June 2020 : Here’s a copy of the message I sent to Ted’s staff for transparency because I don’t want to negotiate with @tedwheeler or wait for his comfort. He needs HELD ACCOUNTABLE. And he really needs to resign because it’s clear that he doesn’t have the spine to use the power he holds. pic.twitter.com/9OBydq9wfj
  • 6 June 2020 : Well, @tedwheeler ’s office has cancelled our meeting for today. Unsurprising. They say they’re “working with other city council offices to prepare next steps.” I know I told you all and the world on CNN that we’d be meeting with Ted daily. So I wanted to give you all an update
  • 6 June 2020 : I cannot. I’m sure people will be out! I’ll tell folx what I know about as the information comes to me.
  • 6 June 2020 : I meant to tell y’all this when we were talking about lights. Emergency blankets will block the light a good bit too. Do with that information what you will. 💕 But I bet the feds remember when they tried this @ occupy ice & we kept rolling with the punches. Y’all too. https://twitter.com/jconabicycle/status/1269112921390489602
  • 6 June 2020 : You’re not supposed to shoot people. No clapping for the bare minimum from over here. #acab https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1269146203343646720
  • 6 June 2020 : I’m so proud of y’all for spreading calm https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1269178470875029504
  • 6 June 2020 : I apologize for not having the creativity to come up with this and would like to respectfully credit this genius for bringing #WarCrimesWheeler to the table. https://twitter.com/lpotateaux/status/1269193004532658176?s=21 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1269191470470193152
  • 6 June 2020 : Wow, I can’t believe I just found this meme on the internet. 🙃 #TearGasTed #Portlandprotest #PDXPROTEST #portland #quityourjob pic.twitter.com/WdrG5cwuVs
  • 6 June 2020 : I lowkey do not appreciate being called out like this but I hear y’all. 😅 IM JUST SO MAD I HAVE TO GO TALK TO TED TOMORROW AND I WANNA YELL AT HIM so I don’t yell tomorrow when I tell him our demands. https://twitter.com/abereviate/status/1269179935517577216
  • 6 June 2020 : #AbolishThePolice #DisarmThePolice #DemilitarizeThePolice #DefundPolice #DISBANDPOLICE https://twitter.com/downey/status/1269182571847417856
  • 6 June 2020 : We have to hear his words directly to militantly hold him accountable. We have another meeting tomorrow. We’ll be talking about demands. We are NOT negotiating, but if we were, @tedwheeler you made a mistake in waiting till the morning to ban tear gas. #PDXPROTEST #pdx
  • 6 June 2020 : RIGHT NOW. RIGHT NOW. RIGHT NOW TED. RIGHT NOW. #PDXPROTEST #pdx #Portlandprotest #portland #uprisings2020
  • 6 June 2020 : I hear sirens all over the city rn streaming downtown. What are they going to do? They’re going to use war tactics on your residents. Some friends of mine just brought these back from tonight. @tedwheeler what’s your excuse for not making this command tonight? #PDXPROTEST pic.twitter.com/sQml6WBCZN
  • 6 June 2020 : “I have people down there still!” “Oh, no. I hope people are okay.” “It’s so loud.” “That’s like a fucking war zone.” @tedwheeler I told you @ your office that as long as you stayed downtown, your pet police wouldn’t terrorize your residents. We’ve been losing sleep. Are you?
  • 6 June 2020 : “Someone’s getting fucked up down there.” “It looks like the aurora borealis.” “Whoa, did you hear that?” “Can we find a livestream?? Are they okay?” #portlandprotests #pdx #PDXPROTEST
  • 6 June 2020 : @tedwheeler , I’m sitting w/ a group of people watching downtown from afar. This your legacy. You told us you’d make announcements of changes tomorrow morning. We told you that was too late. Here’s some quotes from your community watching you let the city burn for your comfort:
  • 6 June 2020 : Announcement: I will be hanging out and trolling the liberals and right wingers already flocking to my twitter after my cnn interview. Probably for like an hour. Then I’m gonna delete twitter for 24 hours cause I’m so tired. PS- I meant it. Abolish the police & ice & prisons &..
  • 6 June 2020 : Yes, immediately.
  • 6 June 2020 : Tune in if you’re at home! We’re hopping on @CNN live in just a moment! https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1269152024228134912
  • 6 June 2020 : @tedwheeler you could have told your officers tonight not to use tear gas. You are the police commissioner. Instead, the same crowd you left just got tear gassed. I’ll be talking to @AllenCNN at 12am about the way tonight played out & I’ll see you at your office tomorrow. #PDX
  • 6 June 2020 : I’m so tired of thank yous. Teressa has to be at least 10 times as exhausted. https://twitter.com/teressalraiford/status/1268902880867577856
  • 6 June 2020 : Getting update that Ted’s also running a few minutes late. Which just gives us all a little bit more time to get there and get organized! Because this is the people’s movement.
  • 6 June 2020 : The news re-shared it and we’re hoping will be there. But we’ll also be posting demands publicly online tomorrow.
  • 6 June 2020 : IF YOU BEAT ME THERE IM SORRY. I had issues printing out the demands. But we’re all in route. I’ve got my most colorful sweatshirt on so y’all can identify me tonight! pic.twitter.com/6uqzZcLKbd
  • 6 June 2020 : If you’re looking for something with maybe less potential for spicy air, go meet the folks at Rev Hall who are holding a vigil tonight for Breonna Taylor. Both collective mourning & demand clarification are NECESSARY right now. Process your trauma. Help hold elected responsible.
  • 6 June 2020 : For the record, we also demanded the defunding, disarming, & disbandment of the PPB. We told @tedwheeler that if he wants to hear the specific demands he can hear them on the streets, at risk from police violence, with the people. #pdx #pdxprotest #meetusthere
  • 6 June 2020 : 7pm. Nathan Chapman Square. Meet us there. Myself & an entire group of Black, Indigenous, and Femme/Woman leaders told Ted to order LRADS not be in use publicly. We also told him to come risk getting tear gassed with us outside. Let’s see how his officers respond. #PDXPROTESTS
  • 5 June 2020 : Update: We have a meeting with his office at 4pm.
  • 5 June 2020 : Come watch live! ASL interpretation provided! https://www.facebook.com/activismactually/videos/551899928812380/?vh=e&d=n https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1269007056008167424
  • 5 June 2020 : We’ll try to coordinate after but if folx share the link under this thread it will be public and you should be able to watch.
  • 5 June 2020 : I’m still sitting outside city hall. I have a list of demands to be read. I’ve coordinated an immediate ASL interpreter. In 5 minutes we will go live on the Activism, Actually page on Facebook to read this set of demands.
  • 5 June 2020 : The meeting was scheduled at 1:30. At 1:25, Wheeler’s staff showed clear discomfort with even talking to multiple black leaders at once. I can only assume this show of solidarity scared him because at 1:28 when I arrived on the edge of the block for this meeting, they went in.
  • 5 June 2020 : I don’t believe this was explained to Wheelers office, but if he truly wants to listen to black voices as he says, it shouldn’t be a problem to have a group of 4 instead of 1. I know it’s possible to have that group in the building in an open space and still be distanced.
  • 5 June 2020 : Today, @tedwheeler and his office is having a meeting with a local black business owner. This business owner coordinated with other black leaders and organizers around the city and invited us with.
  • 5 June 2020 : #PDXPROTEST ATTENDEES. Urgent! Go follow Activism Actually on facebook and be prepped for a livestream launching at 1:50pm RN reading demands outside of city hall since @tedwheeler won’t let me in to a meeting happening RIGHT NOW with black leaders I’ve been working with.
  • 5 June 2020 : My autocorrect hates her name spelling. It’s Danialle James with an A.
  • 5 June 2020 : I’m not going to be on twitter much today. I’ve got a lot of meetings with organizers, interviews, &work on coordinating demands. As much as I want to be answering your questions and engaging, my role in this is better suited towards communication & coordination. Be back tonight
  • 5 June 2020 : Hey press watching my feed, if you want to talk to Danielle I can help coordinate this! https://twitter.com/jendowlingkoin6/status/1268803079710756864
  • 5 June 2020 : Oh I meant Seattle. I already have a meeting with all those Portland folx to help try to make sure we can keep that energy of radical nonviolence.
  • 5 June 2020 : Any chance that radical guy has a twitter to follow? 👀 or visible presence anywhere to support? #Solidarity
  • 5 June 2020 : Dm me plz
  • 5 June 2020 : I don’t have any more details unfortunately. It was going to quick to get a picture of and from a distance.
  • 5 June 2020 : Spread calm. Keep your head on a swivel. Know that a van with outside cops just drove west down Couch Street pass 9th Avenue. Lights blaring. Followed by an unmarked silver charger. 7:37pm #defendpdx #copwatch #pdxprotests
  • 5 June 2020 : Where are you getting this information?
  • 4 June 2020 : Don’t get me wrong. These random unasked for donations y’all are sending me is the exact type of mutual aid thats important. I co-sign giving funds straight to black leaders. But like, don’t fuck up your own situation if it’s dire. Read & learn if you don’t have energy for more
  • 4 June 2020 : Y’all. I’m loving this whole, pay black people for their labor thing. But we’re in the middle of a pandemic & I’m employed. I’m passing most of this money along to bipoc in deeper need or to buy organizing supplies. But if all you have to send me is 7$, keep it & feed yourself.
  • 4 June 2020 : “just let them know Lilith invited you” might be the grossest rushed text message I’ve ever had to send. Ugh. Idk who tf would want to organize for the clout. I’m a slut for attention but even I’m a bit fucking tapped out rn. 🙃
  • 4 June 2020 : This is how we take care of each other. This is what equity looks like. This is what the redistribution of funds from the capitalist 1% can do to better the lives of every parent, every family, every childcare provider. This is what #OneCommunityPDX looks like. Let’s rally!
  • 4 June 2020 : I have SO many friends & love ones who’ve been putting in so much work on this campaign & it’s hard to see them struggling to figure out how to gather signatures for such a crucial campaign! Childcare is vital! Fair wagers for providers is vital! https://twitter.com/upnow2020/status/1268613637427490817?s=21 https://twitter.com/upnow2020/status/1268613637427490817
  • 4 June 2020 : Hey #PDXprotests attendees! I’m here to fight for abolitionist reforms only when it comes to the police. That means defunding the police & reinvesting in our communities. How else do we help our communities? By demanding our city #TaxTheRich ! Share this! And follow!! https://twitter.com/upnow2020/status/1268588366259384320 pic.twitter.com/z17sR3stCB
  • 4 June 2020 : Yes. 100%.
  • 4 June 2020 : - the Portland police probably https://twitter.com/lennyserves/status/1268509514766008321
  • 4 June 2020 : There’s also a snark version! 😅💕🥰 pic.twitter.com/mMW8au6CR8
  • 4 June 2020 : Also just wanna say that I’ve been bitching about Twitter’s ableist 450 character limit for image alt descriptions & accessibility for at least a year so it’s nice to see the limit upped to 1000! I fit the whole & complete alt text embedded in this tweet. #accessibility
  • 4 June 2020 : I made this over a year ago before anyone had ever heard of COVID and before the globe was on fire and it’s never been more accurate or relevant tbh. pic.twitter.com/WnnM3VF7IH
  • 4 June 2020 : http://www.indigenousaction.org/accomplices-not-allies-abolishing-the-ally-industrial-complex/
  • 4 June 2020 : RT @theleilaraven: many of us have done the work of imagining how to keep our communities safe without police. you may be surprised to lear…
  • 4 June 2020 : Idk how I’d be making it through this nightmare without living with 1 of my partners who’s also an organizer working on a lot of important tasks & doesn’t blink when I turn to them at 3am & say “will you set an alarm for 30 minutes & drag me out of bed from my power nap?” 😅 #brb
  • 4 June 2020 : Unless you want a visible target on your back, I suggest you not engage with the recently created bots and far right trolls that will flock to my page as a visible black queer femme advocating for police abolition & refusing to condem property violence. Just report/block.
  • 4 June 2020 : If you’re not an antifascist you’re complicit in fascism. I am an antifascist. It’s one of the reasons I hate the police.
  • 4 June 2020 : ......you’re wrong. I’m an anarchist. If people knew why black communities around the country and globe are doing this, they’d know it’s not to make plans with the police. The black woman who started this whole week of protest got assaulted this week at this liberal PR shit.
  • 4 June 2020 : Thank youuuuuu! ❤️💕 But no heroes 🙅🏽‍♀️ only humans focusing on trying to fuck up/cause harm less & less each day while learning as much as possible about intersectionality. I like to say that activism actually is just small & large acts of radical love. We got this together. ✊🏽✊🏾
  • 4 June 2020 : I’m on twitter lately by request honestly but if you & your friends want intersectional educational resources while pdx bipoc figure out how to take our message back, I have a platform on FB/IG called “Activism, Actually” w/ years of content to process & learn from. Start there.
  • 4 June 2020 : Stick around. I’ve been trying to put out educational content and learning resources so we can move forward to a post-global imperialist state and move forward together in a way that provides working class people with power and ways to take care of each other.
  • 4 June 2020 : But I want us all on the come up for coming together, understanding our oppressors, working to undermine them, and simultaneously building networks of care outside this imperialist, racist, ableist, fatphobic, whorephobic, anti-Semitic, nationalistic capitalist state.
  • 4 June 2020 : Oh my god y’all. 400+ of y’all just followed me. In 15 minutes. I’m glad you’re here. I need to focus on finishing up demand lists from the bipoc I’m working alongside and talking to. Black, Brown, & Indigenous queer folx are straight up my highest priority.
  • 4 June 2020 : ALSO, start reaching out to and checking in on your neighbors and Facebook groups. Download signal, an encrypted messaging platform. Figure out who you know that has also been downtown. Start a signal group chat. Process your trauma. Think of what needs to change. Stay together.
  • 4 June 2020 : Next time you get hella lit/drunk with your white buddy Kyle, just turn to him and say, “the police are just like playground bullies.” My best organizing conversations? Processing trauma from the system w/ fellow oppressed people & talking about what’s hurting us.
  • 4 June 2020 : Bam. Quick. Easy. Digestible. The best part? You can deadass use that dialogue prompt to start conversations with your white buddies who need to understand why protests inherently can’t be peaceful no matter how hard we try.
  • 4 June 2020 : You know how we/I tell you about how it’s not okay to hit others? But you know how we also tell you that if someone is hurting you it’s okay to defend yourself? Well the police are supposed to protect us from getting hurt. But a lot of the times, they’re the bullies who hit 1st.
  • 4 June 2020 : Are your kids old enough to understand and want to go but not old enough for you to know how to explain police brutality? Can you explain self defense to kids? Not letting bullies beat them up? Well, great! Here’s a templete to explain police brutality to kids:
  • 4 June 2020 : And if you don’t wanna bring your kids? That shits valid. What’re your options? Leave them home with a spouse or close friend or family or sitter. Stay home & google how to talk to your kids about race. And do that shit. Black parents HAVE to. You need to do that too.
  • 4 June 2020 : If you wanna bring your kids, you need to be prepared for the reality of police violence and have a plan to get the fuck out of there when shit pops off. Stay near people with red crosses identified as medics. Stay near the outside of the crowd where you can get away calmly ASAP
  • 4 June 2020 : I’m saying that if you are devoted to bringing your kids to a protest, you need to stop operating under any delusions of “peace” as long as the police system exists. If you wanna bring kids start asking questions of “leaders” as to how theyre prioritizing safety of @ risk groups
  • 4 June 2020 : I repeat, this shit is NOT PEACEFUL. Change has never been brought by peace. It’s been brought by challenging the status quo and interrupting the states systems of profit. It’s dangerous. Black children are being killed. I’m not telling you to bring or not bring your kids.
  • 4 June 2020 : A thread for parents: But Lilith, I want to bring my children to the protest so they can learn anti-racism! How do we do that without “peaceful protests?” You remember when black youth walked down a street during the civil rights movement & got attacked by dogs & hoses?
  • 4 June 2020 : Fair. Lol. I hate Fourth of July cause of my trauma (personal and generational) so I’m usually hiding away from the city and commotion. But lord knows the mayor will be begging for that alternative lol.
  • 4 June 2020 : If they don’t know how to do this, they should probably call some trauma informed, cross-culturally educated community mental health crises professionals. Assuming they have access to google, I’m guessing they should be able to figure out hiring de-escalators.
  • 4 June 2020 : When the police fire tear gas indiscriminately into the crowd and set off flash bang grenades (which they want to dress up in pretty names), despite KNOWING THERES CHILDREN PRESENT, don’t let them say they had no choice. Their alleged job is to de-escalate, “protect” and serve.
  • 4 June 2020 : Remember this. Remember that the police are acknowledging in real time that they know there are children in the crowd. Remember that in almost exactly a months time they will be begging you to set off fireworks for the sake of “US” pride despite this being an imperialist state. https://twitter.com/portlandpolice/status/1268426665933172736
  • 4 June 2020 : THIS IS PROPAGANDA. Ppl taking over the streets is not peaceful. It’s intentionally disruptive. That’s the whole point. The police use the term peaceful in reference to sitting in the street to demonize people being disruptive in the way of property damage. Don’t trust cops. https://twitter.com/portlandpolice/status/1268427455775166464
  • 4 June 2020 : I don’t have any information to support cop jacketing him. People have copjacketed me and that risks lives. He’s meeting with the cops, leading to good pr for the mayor, and isn’t afraid to talk to cops. He’s definitely a security risk. That’s my position.
  • 4 June 2020 : I’m working with a number of bipoc organizers and other people in this city on an organized list of demands. We’re stronger in numbers. But also, let’s make our message mean something. I already pinned some learning resources. I’ll add more tomorrow. Process your trauma please
  • 4 June 2020 : This shit is not a game. This is life or death. Black ppl are not a monolith. If you see someone post a protest, ask where they got that information. Ask if there will be medics. Ask if they’re providing ASL interpretation. Listen when they tell you to slow tf down & stay tight
  • 4 June 2020 : What did I tell y’all on that fucking utility pole outside the precinct?!? Not my goddamned name cause I’m not working alone & it’s not about me. I told you about restorative justice as a solution. I told you to take your fucking contacts out before rinsing out tear gas.
  • 4 June 2020 : If you don’t feel ready to face militarized police violence & be prepared for it, don’t fucking go. If you don’t feel at all ready to handle military suppression tactics alone, don’t go follow people who don’t have plans to teach you how to be safe, how to not get kettled, etc.
  • 4 June 2020 : And let me tell you, the things you are experiencing downtown at the hands of the police? That police brutality some of you are getting your first taste of? That’s trauma in real time. And I don’t see any of you giving yourself enough space to process that. This is a long fight.
  • 4 June 2020 : I’m tired of this good protester versus bad protester narrative. Y’all have been following these people as they drove around on a truck COVERED IN AMERICAN FLAGS while being “peaceful” but DISRUPTIVE BY NATURE & y’all have seen increasing violence.
  • 4 June 2020 : Where did we go?? Not where the FUCKING POLICE TOLD US TO GO EAST ON BURNSIDE. Y’all CANNOT TRUST COPS. 10,000 of you walked with me across that bridge. Why? Because NO JUSTICE NO PEACE. I’m not here for peaceful protests. Neither was MLK. I’m for NONVIOLENT PROTESTS.& remember pic.twitter.com/i2NpJ1sI0h
  • 4 June 2020 : Sunday I stood on a light pole and made the decision to make a target of myself in front of a literal police precinct. Why?? Because the cops are ALWAYS willing to escalate @ the slightest warning & 4000 angry people demanding justice cannot he controlled. We were at risk.
  • 4 June 2020 : I need the yt people in Portland to sit the fuck down and figure out why the fuck y’all are out here. I’d like to remind you this started when a LOCAL BLACK WOMEN put out the call for people to occupy the (In)Justice Center & the kkkops attacked.
  • 4 June 2020 : Y’all liberal white people in Portland are eating that up. You think you’re ready to listen to black voices. But you’re only ready to listen to the black voices that make you feel comfortable. You yell “No justice, no peace” & “peaceful protest!” on the same night.
  • 4 June 2020 : The police work to undermine leaders calling for the abolition of their source of power. We can’t negotiate with cops because they are unwilling to give up their power. You’ll notice the pigs kneeled. They would never drop their weapons, their helmets, their badges. But yt ppl?
  • 4 June 2020 : And let me tell you, to the black people just getting to the streets for the first time and feeling frustrated, we’re ANGRY TOO about this all lives matter co-opted bullshit. But it’s unsurprising. Because we know cops work to co-opt our movements. (Continued)
  • 4 June 2020 : This is the people’s movement. And there is no one trusted leader. But there are Black communities who’ve been making abolitionist demands for years. We’ve been experiencing police brutality for years & have learned their tactics. We know cops will never truly negotiate with us
  • 4 June 2020 : Hey #PortlandProtest attendees! Why are you on the streets? Are you hearing demands being made? Before you set out, did clear organizers give instructions on how to stay safe, communicate, &what the goal of the evening is? If you don’t know, it’s ok to leave before marching.
  • 3 June 2020 : Some random white man on the bus to a much older random white man on the bus with headphones: “what are you listening to, rush Limbaugh?” “....that’s a joke.” “Hahah, is it Howard stern?” “...probably. Haha jk” Old man: I’m not listening to anything I’m just trying to go home
  • 3 June 2020 : @PDXFencing what do you think? 🧐 https://twitter.com/showmeurbeans/status/1268252714837790720
  • 3 June 2020 : “I cannot look at these moments & these movements that are happening right now as riots. Instead, what they actually are, are the uprisings that the U.S. & every other imperialist & capitalist, racist & oppressive system has seen across history.” https://www.wweek.com/news/2020/06/03/protests-and-riots-fill-the-streets-of-portland-four-black-leaders-are-trying-to-bring-meaning-to-the-anguish/
  • 3 June 2020 : I promised that I would be trying to sleep right now because yknow, I’m bad at self care. and my boyfriends not on twitter but I still need to hop off before he comes in the room & calls me out on it. stay tuned for more on why this is fucked & y’all should not support this imo
  • 3 June 2020 : Ask yourself, how are these people progressing the issue forward? What’s the next step? What is the purpose of and plan for any conversation with people who have power over us? How will giving them money positively impact my local black community? Do they talk to cops?!?!
  • 3 June 2020 : #PDX Y’all should be extremely wary of “organizers/leaders” of THE PEOPLES UPRISING who -make no demands -don’t have strong ties to your community -don’t help teach you how to be safe (by not talking to/trusting cops) -ask for money -prioritize film production over the above pic.twitter.com/tdYGa9z8HN
  • 3 June 2020 : Live on Facebook from downtown #PortlandProtests https://www.facebook.com/watchparty/1380706678797555/
  • 3 June 2020 : https://www.autoblog.com/2016/03/04/how-to-remove-spray-paint-from-a-car/ https://twitter.com/matcha_chai/status/1268054414238945280
  • 3 June 2020 : Portland police have abandoned their message of #OneCommunityPDX and instead have decided to re-adopt their previous positionality of #TerrorizeResidentsPDX https://twitter.com/portlandpolice/status/1268068640395411456
  • 3 June 2020 : This is.....a take....
  • 3 June 2020 : Hey, @tedwheeler & pals, could we skip the “city on fire” level and go straight to unlocking the “disband the police” route? Or are you hoping to get to the point where the entire city is being terrorized by the police and national guard like what’s happening rn downtown?? https://twitter.com/mplsward3/status/1267891892722831361
  • 3 June 2020 : I’m so proud of y’all!! 😭 https://twitter.com/vitalistint/status/1268058135190818817
  • 3 June 2020 : This will forever be one of my favorite memories. 💕 #ACAB https://twitter.com/alsoconnor/status/1267609826701373440
  • 3 June 2020 : I wasn’t out last night. Not sure who else was on the mic that they don’t agree with. But I wouldn’t be surprised if they were referencing me after I’ve been talking about abolition all week
  • 3 June 2020 : #Childfree because who needs children when organizing is just teaching larger humans to get along, process emotions, and share? 🥰💕🙃😅
  • 2 June 2020 : Still.... fuck kneeling with the cops. #fuck12 #acab #abolishthepolice
  • 2 June 2020 : HAHAHAHAHAH THIS IS IN MAINE AND IM SO FUCKING TIRED. I’m putting myself on social media time out. That was irresponsible and I hate making mistakes in sharing information that is easily misconstrued. Be back later cause ya bitch is tired.
  • 2 June 2020 : Welcome to the co-opting of a movement in real time. This is disgusting. Kneeling never solved problems but it did take a motherfucking life recently. We don’t want #OneCommunityPDX United by kneeling. We want one community fighting to DEFUND, DEMILITARIZE & ABOLISH POLICING. https://twitter.com/derek_ddavis/status/1267948969180696577
  • 2 June 2020 : I’ve literally never seen these men before this week in my life. These PEOPLE DONT REPRESENT US. We are #OneCommunityPDX & last time I checked we never asked these ppl to represent us. @tedwheeler this is a cowardly move. You can’t just talk to black people who are nice to you https://twitter.com/rjaellis/status/1267909680791080960
  • 2 June 2020 : THIS IS A LEADERLESS AUTONOMOUS MOVEMENT. Whooooooo, are yall meeting with? Lots of people quietly working together against the state & in support of our communities rn. Not a lot of people willing to talk TO THE STATE ABOUT IT. #PDX https://twitter.com/rjaellis/status/1267895947926765568
  • 2 June 2020 : Get the fuck outta here. This ours now. #OneCommunityPDX means one community UNITED AGAINST: -killer cops -capitalist wealth hoarders -racist & colonial infrastructures -exploitative bosses (so just, yknow, bosses) -TERFS -antisemitism -fatphobia -ableism -SWERFS -xenophobia... https://twitter.com/PDX_BizAlliance/status/1267867745091153921
  • 2 June 2020 : I personally can’t in good faith share personal criminal records of a black man. But Black & brown folx from this city have been working to handle the security risks of letting this man lead how they see fit. Community defense is led by no individual. Listen to your community.
  • 2 June 2020 : Here’s my personal position on this man: He is a danger to our movement & is proudly “negotiating” with police. He has a concerning record. He is also a victim of the state. These can both be true. This is a nuanced & complicated situation as restorative justice always is.(1/) https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1267363893162065921
  • 2 June 2020 : Hi! I woke up at 5:30 am in a panic and my partner asked me to please get more than 4 hours of sleep for the 4th night in a row. Just waking up. Working with folx on a statement.
  • 2 June 2020 : Ayo. I’m trying to see this work have direction. What demands are y’all talking to the police about?
  • 2 June 2020 : Anyway I know a lot of y’all are new here but my brain moves a mile a minute, I’m obsessed with radical transparency, modeling vulnerability, caring for people, & fighting colonialism & everything that came with it. I talk about general feels A LOT HERE. Cause we need to more.
  • 2 June 2020 : Pretty sure I would be asleep rn if I wasn’t sitting anxiously and obsessively checking how many retweets some posts are getting so I know how to worried I should be about doxxing. I’m so tired at this point. But I’m also learning how to brace myself.
  • 2 June 2020 : Every time I get a surge of anywhere between 400-500 new followers, I swear I always get doxxed to some degree in the next month. By fash. By misogynist leftist men. By the press. I’m like honored y’all care enough to follow but also I have this deep sense of foreboding rn tbh.
  • 2 June 2020 : I tweeted this a little over 24 hours ago and just wanted to check in to say this is STILL not the mood. https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1267367424912814082
  • 2 June 2020 : But don’t get me wrong. I’m pissed. I didn’t work hard to make sure to be sharing these demands and taking back this police co-opted message. I just also know that rage and fear aren’t the healthiest of emotions needed to mediate harm & not splinter our movements.
  • 2 June 2020 : Oops. Never clarified. As an abolitionist I believe in restorative justice and black people handling our own. I’m talking to other black and brown organizers. Personally hoping for an accountability offer before we go about letting white leftists cancel black people entirely. https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1267668177359523843
  • 2 June 2020 : This photo is from Halloween last year cause we all dressed up as Rosie and I thought she needed some updated messaging and representation for the times. 😘 #cosplay #historicalfigures #RosieTheRiveter #blackfemmemagic
  • 2 June 2020 : Alright I’m done for the day. The industrial nonprofit complex keeps churning & I’m done with my “vacation” this week focusing on my own personal organizing projects outside of my work. But now it’s time to balance both. Can’t wait to see yalls abolitionist tweets in the AM! ❤️ pic.twitter.com/D4fpKjWxRV
  • 2 June 2020 : Is this #OneCommunityPortland ?? Do you only want to listen to protestors when you have a charismatic (but seemingly directionless) black man standing in between you and the crowd? This is why DEMAND the defunding and demilitarization of the police. Nows the time to kneel kkkops https://twitter.com/proudbulba/status/1267714410417512448
  • 2 June 2020 : Show me what community looks like?? THIS IS WHAT COMMUNITY FUCKING LOOKS LIKE. #OneCommunityPDX We WILL NOT let the state co-opt our message with PR photos. Why? Cuz we know our history & we know that some things are so broken they can’t be fixed. #BLM #AbolishThePolice #Defund
  • 2 June 2020 : I support the abolition of the police because my community is filled with Black, Brown, Indigenous, & Queer #SexWorkers and the police have brutalized & murdered us every chance they’ve ever gotten. Until we #DecriminalizeSexWork & #AbolishThePolice we can’t be #OneCommunityPDX
  • 2 June 2020 : Do you live in PDX? Are you frustrated with the way the police & mayor are tokenizing 1 individual for photo ops instead of listening to a Black community that’s been working towards abolition, defunding, & demilitarization of the cops for years? Take over this #OneCommunityPDX ! pic.twitter.com/aJrkgWcRvg
  • 2 June 2020 : Do you live in PDX? Are you frustrated with the way the police & mayor are tokenizing 1 individual for photo ops instead of listening to a Black community that’s been working towards abolition, defunding, & demilitarization of the cops for years? Take over this #OneCommunityPDX ! pic.twitter.com/EzlwDSymAn
  • 2 June 2020 : Yes! We’re not here for photo-ops with the police! And we’re not here to act like the police towards our comrades in the streets! We know that property damage is a form of non-violent protest and disruption of the state. Why? BECAUSE: https://twitter.com/svevan/status/1267701281633656832 pic.twitter.com/zroKt4MR9A
  • 2 June 2020 : Make your own tweet using the hashtag #OneCommunityPDX and share why you want to help fight for the demilitarization, defunding, and abolition of the police state! https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1267702690957586432
  • 2 June 2020 : I support the abolition of the police because I know there is no reformist approach possible that can address the institutional issues with a system born from slave catchers. #OneCommunityPDX
  • 2 June 2020 : ADDITIONALLY: You should not give money to random individuals in the movement who are asking for money and have no accountability and no plan for how the money can directly impact Black communities and the organizing we do. Instead, scroll through this⬇️ https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1267676289860636672?s=21 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1267676289860636672
  • 2 June 2020 : The police
  • 2 June 2020 : Do you live in PDX? Are you frustrated with the way the police & mayor are tokenizing 1 individual for photo ops instead of listening to a Black community that’s been working towards abolition, defunding, & demilitarization of the cops for years? Take over this #OneCommunityPDX ! pic.twitter.com/ceqUF8pzfe
  • 2 June 2020 : Not the shithead cop watcher individuals like Eli who run around filming the police and anyone and harassing ppl. The group of people who’ve been quietly organizing by tracking every data point and incident report possible on cop activity.
  • 2 June 2020 : A lot of local groups like @Pdx_resistance @UniteOregon Portland CopWatch ( http://portlandcopwatch.org ) and more have been working together as part of the local Police Reform Network! Follow their platforms to keep track of their work!
  • 2 June 2020 : Another great set of people who’ve been doing a lot of direct advocacy for solution-building around the defunding & demilitarization of the police: @carenotcops ! Here’s their link tree from their IG with links to petitions, demands, email scripts &more! https://linktr.ee/carenotcopspdx
  • 2 June 2020 : The obvious first place to start would be to follow @TeressaLRaiford , who’s been helping to lead @dontshootpdx for years and has an intimate understanding of the way police violence impacts black people in this city, & an analysis of how to change it. https://instagram.com/dontshootpdx?igshid=1b3zdi73f2rpv
  • 2 June 2020 : [Information Thread] Hey #PDX ! I had the pleasure of talking to a few thousand of y’all about the experiences we’ve had that led us to these times. I didn’t tell you my name, b/c it’s not about me. But if y’all are willing to listen, I want to tell you who can help you learn! pic.twitter.com/V02RbbH79P
  • 2 June 2020 : I know I made a thread I just deleted. Give me one second. I’ll be making a new thread. I want to be accountable for what was a rash and emotional decision to post that but I’m feeling personally upset someone led me towards cops and put a target on my back. One second.
  • 2 June 2020 : I would literally rather be downtown getting pepper sprayed than getting on this work phone call rn....
  • 2 June 2020 : @tedwheeler 👀 https://twitter.com/breenewsome/status/1267595241818816513
  • 1 June 2020 : “This person is yelling at the crowd GO HOME THIS ISNT SAFE THE RIOT POLICE ARE COMING” “Email Ted. Give money to black people. Take anti-racism training. Go home” “Black women in the community do not condone this event”
  • 1 June 2020 : #PDX #PDXProtestors Please share! The event tonight announced from 4-5:30 and is supposed to be happening now is being spontaneously cancelled. Organizers are announcing the following which are captured in the screenshots below: pic.twitter.com/h5TEg4fKdc
  • 1 June 2020 : https://twitter.com/ryanjhaas/status/1267581521801523201?s=21 https://twitter.com/ryanjhaas/status/1267581521801523201
  • 1 June 2020 : Turned this off after seeing the trauma parade of black people killed by police being named before the announcement about martial fucking law. Anxious to know immediately so I tuned back in and heard, “I want to thank the state police for their dedication.” Spit it the fuck out https://twitter.com/ryanjhaas/status/1267580596806533120
  • 1 June 2020 : Kate Brown is currently addressing whether or not she’s approving requests to deploy the national guard right now. https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2020/06/01/28495340/watch-gov-kate-browns-3-pm-press-conference-on-oregon-protests
  • 1 June 2020 : I’m just now realizing that I updated my email signatures, Facebook, and Instagram but now my twitter apparently! A pandemic oversight. Thanks for pointing it out! ❤️
  • 1 June 2020 : Nah you’re good!!!
  • 1 June 2020 : Hi my pronouns are they them but thank you!
  • 1 June 2020 : PS @tedwheeler feel free to have your office DM me so that we can talk about defunding the police & re-directing resources towards community care. You said you need to learn & I can tell you some exacts things you need to accept as truths for the wellbeing of our communities.
  • 1 June 2020 : Hello everyone, welcome to my page. I’ve repinned one of my favorite threads I’ve ever done cuz my page is catered towards BIPOC perspectives first, & other radical views. Liberals who want to stay quiet & learn hard truths allowed. Let’s talk about accountability this weekend. https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1226623788135043072
  • 1 June 2020 : Hey, @tedwheeler , I know we both just shared the same live airwaves on @OPB radio, but we didn’t get a chance to talk directly. I just wanted to let you know that my personal request is for you and the police to quit your jobs. And then go make more than 1 black friend. #pdx pic.twitter.com/dYMcgklhvH
  • 1 June 2020 : Thank you! ❤️
  • 1 June 2020 : I have no fucking clue what like, the average of this is or anything but like, 5,000 steps in an hour sounds like a lot. pic.twitter.com/t2DDLfGtbO
  • 1 June 2020 : My partner made me this 2:30am sandwich. Exactly how I asked. & told me that I deserved a break. I’m in utopia. I don’t wanna help lead 10k ppl to beg the state to stop killing us. That’s the last thing I wanna do with my time. I just wanna live. I’m glad people have had enough
  • 1 June 2020 : Just got home. I got back from downtown probably about 24 hours ago yesterday. Woke up after 5 hours of shitty sleep. Spent all day coordinating logistics for an action in 12 hours. Then helped lead said action. & honestly, best parts of my day have still just been feeling loved pic.twitter.com/R0lkpjTnPP
  • 1 June 2020 : Y’all. I just.... I’m an abolitionist. This is not the mood. I’m not trying to take photo-ops with the police after @PortlandPolice LITERALLY MURDERED SOMEONE TONIGHT. I’m not posing w/ killer cops. Ever. Between the kneeling & this? PPB got a lot of good propaganda tonight.
  • 1 June 2020 : Also this taller man between the cops rn walked up to the march I was helping lead, locked eyes with me as the person carrying a bullhorn, walked up to me, threw his arm around my shoulder, & started telling me what we all needed to do.
  • 1 June 2020 : This is a bot. Don’t engage.
  • 1 June 2020 : Here’s a live-stream from DC! The cameras owner presumably doesn’t know that the cameras fallen. But we’re watching rn directly from underneath a confrontation with police https://youtu.be/jj0I3SP6l94
  • 1 June 2020 : Y’know, I wasn’t tryna publicize myself as the speaker from outside the precinct... but I will say that 1 of them pointed me towards the cops as soon as I got to the precinct & tried to steer me that way before I had to explain that I don’t work with cops. #AbolishThePolice #PDX https://twitter.com/portlandpolice/status/1267346864761757701
  • 1 June 2020 : Directing which march? 🤔 Cause uhhhhh, I was at the front of the march across the bridge despite him trying to ask me to help talk to the cops on the east side......
  • 1 June 2020 : Bloop. Here’s a reminder for journalists not to assume gender. 🙃 I’m non-binary and didn’t even think about getting misgendered across the press tonight. 😬 https://twitter.com/mollyharbarger/status/1267305781788962817
  • 1 June 2020 : “Bottoms. Tops. We all hate cops.” #PDX
  • 1 June 2020 : I’m so proud of us! We came together & the cops tucked tail & ran because we stayed together as a community & we have people power. (Also, just a reminder that property damage is also a form of non-violent protest and it woulda been hella valid to fuck shit up too.) ❤️🖤✊🏽🖤❤️ https://twitter.com/tedrosececi/status/1267313447525470210
  • 1 June 2020 : Y’all I’m sitting downtown fucking CACKLING. 😂 This is a beautiful night. I’m so proud of what we did!!!! https://twitter.com/portlandpolice/status/1267327369422884864
  • 1 June 2020 : Black person here helping out with this and trying to get more white people listening to and re-focusing on black lives. That’s the intention. No one specific group. Lots of folx. Black voices and then bbipoc prioritized.
  • 31 May 2020 : I’m black lol. There’s organizers from a lot of different groups involved. As the person helping lead the rally/march with other Black and BBIPOC folx, I’m sharing info out. But also b/c of curfew & other factors I can’t share details on which individuals by name r involved
  • 31 May 2020 : Just texted you back! Gonna alert others and see what we can do!
  • 31 May 2020 : We’re aware of both! Different starting times means some time for folks to decide if they want to be out later or earlier! Which means different levels of risk assessment/light levels/ a whole bunch of other factors. Either way, we’re united for the same cause & will be in touch!
  • 31 May 2020 : Yes! No specific orgs or groups. Been personally doing one on one outreach with black folx that I’ve seen on the ground in the last 24/48 hours while doing medic work!
  • 31 May 2020 : ALSO: -Look at a map, identify where the protest you’re coming to starts, and establish a meet up point with the comrades you’re going with where you can all head to if you get separated! Plan this and agree on it before hand. -Wear comfortable shoes/clothes -Charge your phone
  • 31 May 2020 : If you’d like to support with funds: Donate to PDX Legal and Bail Fund here @ http://bit.ly/pdxlegsupport If you get arrested or the police visit or call you because of the protests the General Defense Committee will support you through the process. Contact them @ 503-442-0866 pic.twitter.com/PsFvZNCcIb
  • 31 May 2020 : Also remember: -Follow the lead of Black organizers and participants. When yt people escalate first, y’all put us at most risk of police violence -Bring water to sip on to stay hydrated -Have a snack/meal before you leave the house. Adrenaline burns up all your fuel
  • 31 May 2020 : Please remember to stay home if you’re feeling sick! -Come with a buddy/team -Have an exit plan -Write the local NLG (503-902-5340) & an emergency contact # on your body w/ sharpie -Give a friend staying home your legal name/birthday/emergency contact & set up a check in time
  • 31 May 2020 : If you’d like to drop off supplies and support, the following would be useful: - Any Medic Supplies - Cases of water - Walkie Talkies - Face makes/bandanas - Hand sanitizer - Sign making supplies You can drop these things off @ SJAC! 400 SE 12th Ave! Tell them it’s for tonight
  • 31 May 2020 : IN HONOR OF BLACK PORTLANDERS KILLED BY POLICE #QuaniceHayes #PatrickKimmons #KeatonOtis #KendraJames #TerrellJohnson #AndreGladen #JasonWashington DEMAND JUSTICE MARCH Rally and March! Frazer Park at NE 52nd Avenue! Sunday, May 31st, 7pm ASL Interpretation Available! #BLM pic.twitter.com/uqixUveAfb
  • 31 May 2020 : The City Target in Portland OR has been destroyeddddd as well as a Louis Vuitton and a few banks.
  • 30 May 2020 : #JailSupport #BailSupport #GeorgeFloyd #BreonnaTaylor #TonyMcDade ✊🏽❤️✊🏾🖤✊🏿❤️ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X4-YS3vFn5CLL9QtJSU0xqmTh_h8XilXgOqGAjZISBI/mobilebasic
  • 30 May 2020 : Last night everyone was sharing video of that “child militia” in ATL. There were a few explanations people had but I pointed out to my boyfriend “well the military & shit likes to put the younger and/or most innocent looking people on the front line.” This morning: https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1266711224391213056
  • 30 May 2020 : 💕💕💕 https://twitter.com/copwatchk/status/1266514741373145088
  • 30 May 2020 : Literally. Losing my mind honestly https://twitter.com/mamoudoundiaye/status/1266747119102238720
  • 30 May 2020 : Lowkey wanna delete that tweet cause it was a dumb tired mistake. But also, accountability 🤷🏽‍♀️hard to track this many fucking fash across the country intimately and not get confused sometimes post-action 😂 you’re right!
  • 30 May 2020 : Hey, @tedwheeler ! I have a quick multiple choice question: What are you *most* disgusted by? A) Police murdering unarmed black residents B) Homeless people existing C) Property damage that is totally covered by business insurance D) B and C https://twitter.com/tedwheeler/status/1266667292932407296
  • 30 May 2020 : wait nah I’m all the way fucked up and just overly tired. He totally just reposted those videos. Probably just mad at that shit and got caught up daydreaming of him getting rocked. My mistake. 😅 thinks it’s time to log off and go to bed.
  • 30 May 2020 : I just checked his feed to keep eyes out. His footage is way too close to have not gotten fucked up.
  • 30 May 2020 : Stoked that I helped ID Farley while he was riding around on his bike recording shit until a bunch of people turned around and he rode his bike like a little bitch directly towards the riot line putting out a fire. Lmao but seems like Andy was much more in the mix.
  • 30 May 2020 : I feel like so many of y’all went down there and fucked shit up but Andy Gno and Farley walked away unscathed while Andy’s tweeting tons of footage....? Slightly sad. ☹️
  • 30 May 2020 : #tweetsthatdidntagewell https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1266605599615143938
  • 30 May 2020 : THANK YOU THANK YOU
  • 30 May 2020 : A fucking ANGEL. Straight up blessing thank you. Will update all the other platforms!
  • 30 May 2020 : #PepperSpray Aftercare from our friends over @ RoseHip Medic Collective in #PDX ! Take care of yourselves tonight everyone. To all you comrades across the country! I’m taxed out but if someone could respond to this tweet with the text I’d owe you one. #LA #DC #GeorgeFloyd #protest pic.twitter.com/YQ7LtckmqY
  • 30 May 2020 : Anyone know details on these arrests for organizing court support? pic.twitter.com/9ozpBUNxgT
  • 30 May 2020 : Cannot stress enough that the entire 4 block radius honestly around the injustice center is still swarming. Please stay safe. #PDX #GeorgeFloyd #BreonnaTaylor #NoJusticeNoPeace pic.twitter.com/5CoEg6angT
  • 30 May 2020 : Walked a block and looks like cops have all of 2nd street taken from Madison down to main. Stay safe. Block up. Don’t record and post your comrades doing illegal shit online. And travel in fucking pairs please. pic.twitter.com/nOyPRUmI6D
  • 30 May 2020 : #DefendPDX - If you’re still out tonight, it’s 2am and theres an entire rendezvous point full of cops on 2nd and Madison. Literally like 6-8 cars and dozens of riot cops on that corner. Tell your comrades still out! #GeorgeFloyd #PDX pic.twitter.com/Oi9OGfqvbA
  • 30 May 2020 : #DefendPdx - Im on my way downtown to medic and a RED pickup truck with an American flag streaming on it just ZOOMED past us on I-84 headed downtown. Watch for cars! It was literally going too fast to get a picture.
  • 30 May 2020 : pic.twitter.com/CgruqbEWHZ
  • 30 May 2020 : Miss you too!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
  • 30 May 2020 : Yo! Share this! Great advice! Pretty exhaustive. Links to other documents! Shared by a comrade in NYC! Includes advice to help prep for the action, get there safely via various modes of transport, stay as safe as possible at the action, face masks, advice for medics & more! https://twitter.com/callies411/status/1266577282858188800
  • 30 May 2020 : This is such a wonderful resource thank you!!
  • 30 May 2020 : Hey #StreetMedics ! (Especially those tending to uprisings) Do y’all have any suggestions for special safety precautions during COVID-19 era uprisings? Recommendations for specific extra supplies medics should/could stock up on? Tactics to minimize self risk while medic-ing?
  • 30 May 2020 : Okay, that took a ton of emotional labor. Imma take a quick break and then be back to remember all my favorite disabled folx I follow. @Imani_Barbarin and @coffeespoonie immediately come to mind! Tag your favorite accounts to learn from about Disability Rights & access below!
  • 30 May 2020 : Bonus Pet Peeve: Organizations/NGO’s asking for free labor from (often) multi-marginalized populations to provide varying levels of accessibility when y’all HAVE BUDGETS AND ACCESS TO GRANTS/FUNDING. Pay marginalized people for their consults & sharing their direct experiences!
  • 30 May 2020 : - Language thats overly academic is classist/inaccessible/ableist. This is b/c so many Disabled communities aren’t given accommodations in the academic sphere. (This is definitely a highly intersectional issue in regards to academia & it’s inaccessibility in varied ways)
  • 30 May 2020 : -You haven’t created meaningful trauma-informed mediation practices or you have and aren’t upholding them. This is often directly harmful to people from all walks of the Disabled community when they try to advocate against ableism and are repeatedly gaslit by your infrastructure.
  • 30 May 2020 : -Having graphics that are unnecessarily complicated and not dyslexia friendly. -Organizational practices, policies, and bylaws are often not significantly trauma-informed. This then creates a situation where you’re consistently pushing out neuro-divergent communities.
  • 30 May 2020 : -Failing to ensure that your videos and events are automatically captioned or live-stream interpreted. - Failing to ensure your videos are accessible until significant (& often retriggering) advocacy efforts are made by impacted communities and their allies over and over again.
  • 30 May 2020 : -Hosting public events at non-ADA accessible spaces. -Hosting public events and not living streaming/recording them for disabled/immunocompromised communities who cannot attend in person - Not updating your live (or produced) videos pre- or post-publication with transcripts.
  • 30 May 2020 : In no particular order, I’m going to share some easy examples of ableism that’ll give you plenty of material to go google about how you can not be complicit in this ableism. Then, I’ll share a small list of my favorite Disabled twitter users you can/should follow/support !
  • 30 May 2020 : (5) I’d love for folx who think they’re part of a radical group but don’t have a specific focus on making sure you’re as accessible to as many Disabled communities as possible to read this. Process this. Recognize that it means yes, you too. Let’s give some examples of ableism:
  • 30 May 2020 : (4/) I’m real tired of having to defend my advocacy for accessibility and feeling backed into a corner where I must either share my experiences with ableism as a very privileged multi-marginalized person with invisible disabilities OR I get silenced. And I have it easyyyyy tbh
  • 30 May 2020 : (3/) I need y’all to understand that your ableism is insidious, complex, and nuanced. Because society has never prioritized access for Disabled ppl w/ any type of disability. They’ve actually intentionally excluded us for being too much of a burden on this so-called “society.”
  • 30 May 2020 : Idk how long thisll be but lets start with alt text: A screenshot of a Facebook post by Andrew Tolman that is on a light purple cubed background with black text that reads: Your favorite “radical” organizing groups have a VERY VERY serious ableism problem. It’s so fucking gross.
  • 30 May 2020 : Hey Portland (& beyond honestly cause this is an international problem), let’s have a talk about #ABLEISM in our movement spaces. I’m hoping that folx might listen to me as an invisibly disabled person cause I know yall can be uncomfortable w/ visibly confronting your privilege: pic.twitter.com/vZxy68E8V0
  • 30 May 2020 : IF YOU HAVE SIGNAL CHATS ON YOUR PHONE & ARE GOING TO A PROTEST: We’re in a golden age for justification of any/all state suppression. Set up a safety group chat for the event. Exit all other group chats on signal & delete them from the app. Disable fingerprint/face passcodes!
  • 30 May 2020 : White people (especially abled and/or rowdy and/or militant and/or anarchist aligned yt ppl) might find this content especially interesting when considering what it means to be an *Anti-Racist accomplice* on the streets instead of being “an ally” to Black people. https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1266533360916021248
  • 30 May 2020 : All I can think while watching this video is that we didnt do enough de-arrest trainings while we could meet in public/offline. In unrelated news I found this compilation of de-arrest videos online. Of course, legally I’m not advising any1 to do this... http://www.maskmagazine.com/the-alien-issue/struggle/ten-ways-to-de-arrest-your-friends https://twitter.com/j0ncampbell/status/1266514356071735296
  • 29 May 2020 : Oh! & of course, @GenResistance ! Dope Indigenous founded & led POC organizing collective here in PDX that prioritizes BIPOC, QTBIPOC, Disabled, & otherly marginzalized perspectives. FOLLOW THEM. BOOST THEM. Give reparations to the Q/T Indigenous comrade doing this unpaid work!
  • 29 May 2020 : Interpret that however you wish. If it makes you wonder if I’m talking about an org or group that we’re both a part of, the answer is probably yes. W/ the exception of @DecrimOregon and @ the.jezebel.project on Instagram. 💕 Please for the love of god work on decolonization
  • 29 May 2020 : Personally, I hate it here.
  • 29 May 2020 : Just got off the phone with a comrade who was documenting in Ohio and is working on editing footage. Not sure where exactly in Columbus they were but there was LOTS of pepper spray deployed. Will link to footage whenever it’s up! https://twitter.com/tylerjoelb/status/1266212606966140929
  • 29 May 2020 : I’m getting really tired of reaching out to my friends to tell them other friends of mine have died...
  • 29 May 2020 : ways to know I’m grieving: my former copy editor ass used the wrong form of do/due. ugh. 😅😑🙃
  • 29 May 2020 : I shaved my head cause my good friend died suddenly yesterday morning. Due me a favor and don’t talk to me about it, kay? Thanksssssssssssss. (I took this selfie cause he would be proud of this attempt at a gay, punk, Indigenous cowboy aesthetic) pic.twitter.com/NWKR5q1BCj
  • 28 May 2020 : I still have the hiccups.... 😭
  • 28 May 2020 : I’m outside smoking my last cigarette(s) for the night and I have the hiccups.... Do you know how hard it is to enjoy a cigarette with the fucking hiccups?!? Literally like 9 of them just while typing this tweet.
  • 28 May 2020 : Riot porn is not just fucking riot porn. This shit is DANGEROUS. This is a PSA for yt people & non-black POC to take this seriously But, if you’re hitting the streets, mask up, have a buddy & an exit plan. Keep an eye on nearby medics. Also be on the lookout for non-cop fash. https://twitter.com/iwriteok/status/1265882379702300674
  • 28 May 2020 : https://twitter.com/pdx_resistance/status/1265752961491165184?s=21
  • 28 May 2020 : Hey, @tedwheeler , what “system” is it that you’re condemning? Who is responsible for these “systemic” & “horrific” murders against black women & men?? @tedwheeler can I find more information about this group thats killing black PDX residents & how you’ve worked to stop this?? https://twitter.com/tedwheeler/status/1265819688715485184
  • 28 May 2020 : Who killed him @tedwheeler ? 🧐 https://twitter.com/tedwheeler/status/1265819688715485184
  • 27 May 2020 : Are we all black? Yeah. Do we all experience racisms in the same way? No. The darker skin you have the more brutal your experience with structural white supremacist violence. If you don’t wanna listen to people less adjacent to whiteness please hear me say this is not the time
  • 27 May 2020 : My entire heart, soul, and being is in #Minneapolis right now with the grieving family and community of #GeorgeFloyd . And to all those making the call of risking your life in multiple ways to stand up for your values in a desperate situation. Fuck cops. Smash the state. BE SAFE
  • 27 May 2020 : Cool. So fucking tired of this bullshit that I lowkey have stress hives. 🙃 i don’t know if there’s enough weed on the planet to keep me from going off on the next white person to do or say some fuck shit.
  • 27 May 2020 : I don’t know what this is... but I know I’m not high enough to digest this. https://twitter.com/nashvilleabc/status/1265466350245380097 pic.twitter.com/vuYUu6T89I
  • 26 May 2020 : Here’s the article I pulled this screenshot from. Apparently I shared it on FB exactly a year ago while “reading a bunch of articles about hyper-empathy syndrome, excess empathy, and compassion burnout.” I then alleged to take a nap. I don’t believe her. http://www.businessinsider.com/how-not-to-burn-out-from-empathy-2018-6
  • 26 May 2020 : I know I told @Showmeurbeans I wanted to curl up in a giant ricotta stuffed shell noodle & announced here that my gender is pasta hermit crab. But my awareness of my gender is new & still being explored so I must update you that I currently identify my gender as “agony auntie” pic.twitter.com/pK6rquwWq7
  • 26 May 2020 : I’m so tired and exhausted. Please at least untag me if y’all are gonna continue this conversation. I undid the retweet I originally shared until I can digest analysis better which is not now.
  • 26 May 2020 : This is literally the biggest waste of a conversation. I’m here for sex worker led representation of our issues. As much as allies are nice, I’m looking for accomplices who don’t ever speak over SW, CSA survivors, or think they have any right to ask SWer what their work plans are
  • 26 May 2020 : oh my god this is me with crocheting, left-handed and all.
  • 25 May 2020 : wait but can my kinky struggling ass get a peek at the link to the one you wrote? 🙃😬🥴
  • 25 May 2020 : As someone who’s white mom was a first time college grad in her family but still got her doctorate when I was 14: I find it so important to acknowledge the cognitive dissonance often weaponized by the “comfortable” working class against our poorest & most marginalized neighbors. https://twitter.com/mcbyrne/status/1264998024218120192
  • 25 May 2020 : “I agree that part of the issue then becomes...” * sorry for that glaring typo.
  • 25 May 2020 : I mean, I agree that part of the language then becomes the phrase itself. But a big part of the issue for me in this is that takes like this in such short form, imo, lack the nuance necessary for this conversation. B/c of the intersections of class/race, we have to be specific.
  • 25 May 2020 : Also, I can’t imagine using the phrase to include people that “even have a comfortable income” because who decides the gauge of comfortability? Comfortable income is a matter of perspective & any of our most marginalized can tell you “comfort” is far off for many of us.
  • 25 May 2020 : The issue with this tweet & so many of replies is that defining the working class as “ppl who have to work” ignores the reality of so many ppl with a VAST array of Disabilities & lack of accessibility that impedes them from work. The working class the unemployed. https://twitter.com/alimortell/status/1264994170420297728
  • 25 May 2020 : Sex worker skills hack #335325: Teaching your mother exactly how to take better selfies via text with very clear and detailed directions as well as plenty of material to teach her with. “here look at this picture and mimic me! More lines = better photos!” 😅
  • 25 May 2020 : OOF. I FEEL THIS SO HARD. https://twitter.com/soulflowerjess/status/1264760555325190149
  • 25 May 2020 : That cut fieldstone is a VIBE
  • 25 May 2020 : My gender is pasta hermit crab, pass it on. https://twitter.com/showmeurbeans/status/1264710547674525696
  • 25 May 2020 : oh, look at that, I suppose we don’t have to worry now because we’re being told that the virus can be killed by.... *checks notes* ....sunlight? 🧐🤨 https://twitter.com/barnes_law/status/1264638480296050688
  • 23 May 2020 : #FacesThatMatchTheOpinion This is the most bullshit take. pic.twitter.com/7jbbbLp0u8
  • 23 May 2020 : “AND, ON TOP OF THAT, our world is like dying....” - Quote from the man pacing back and forth in front of our apartment building on speakerphone. I feel you dude. I feel you.
  • 23 May 2020 : Alright y’all, that’s it for today’s episode of “Fuck This Week-Poll Versión.” Tune in next time I need to rage dump the idiocy I deal with in twitter meme-poll format! 💕
  • 23 May 2020 : Did you know that all your favs are problematic?
  • 23 May 2020 : Can you name 5 organizing groups, projects, or nonprofits lead by Black, Brown or Indigenous people in Portland?
  • 23 May 2020 : To recognize a need for accountability/mediation for harm, you 1st have to believe survivors. If you want to outwardly support survivors AND publicly commit to helping coordinate plans for a victim led restorative justice process, could you do both simultaneously?
  • 23 May 2020 : Are equitable, diverse and intersectional practices dependent on the decolonization of mindsets to work?
  • 23 May 2020 : Is the Portland leftist community safe for BIPOC and/or QTBIPOC?
  • 23 May 2020 : Is it accurate to say that exclusionary labor organizing practices are problem of the past and that we’ve now achieved intersectionality in labor?
  • 23 May 2020 : This Week Fucking Sucks: Poll Addition. This will be a series of questions I need answered by the hive mind just to make sure I’m not losing my grip on reality: Question 1: Would you consider the FBI to be “cops”
  • 22 May 2020 : I know that other Black, Brown, & Indigenous peoples have to be facing a similar level of exhaustion in recognizing ways that white supremacist gate keeping in leftist (& liberal) spaces seems to be getting aggressively more overt. How are yall coping, fighting & reclaiming joy?
  • 22 May 2020 : Not sure whether you’re Black or not? Here’s a helpful test— I won’t be voting for a rapist, so according to said racist, I’m not black. Does that mean that people caping for Biden are black by association & allowed to claim it? (No, it doesn’t. Don’t vote for rapists.) https://twitter.com/eoinhiggins_/status/1263812635235102721
  • 22 May 2020 : I am *critically* emotionally exhausted. Like, I am SO exhausted. Compassion fatigue to the max. Please do not ask me for emotional support right now. I have zero spoons.
  • 21 May 2020 : *Officially* introducing your best friend to your long distance life partner be like: pic.twitter.com/1GmxY7cN8t
  • 20 May 2020 : Literally same.
  • 20 May 2020 : The back and forth tho.... pic.twitter.com/FpGcNTRauU
  • 20 May 2020 : “Wtf is a slicey boi?”
  • 20 May 2020 : Do people just like.... do math..... in their head? I’m trying to help my 13 year old brother do his homeschool math assignments and I’m fucking struggling. Teaching math is my worst nightmare. I count on my fingers.
  • 20 May 2020 : The most validating thread I’ve read in a while. Looking at y’all Portland 👀😂💀 https://twitter.com/blgtylr/status/1262952387301576705
  • 20 May 2020 : Noooo. I just love cats and dogs very much and cats are already an animal that can be accidentally stepped on cause they like to sprint between limbs. Therefore, to keep all things equal in the world, I need a dog that can tackle me.
  • 20 May 2020 : Oof. This thread and all the comments. How relatable.😔 https://twitter.com/imani_barbarin/status/1262828307978113024
  • 20 May 2020 : I repeat: 2020 is fucking cancelled. https://twitter.com/ztsamudzi/status/1262895590561595392
  • 20 May 2020 : 2020 is fucking cancelled. pic.twitter.com/39X2FW3OaR
  • 20 May 2020 : I used to do this for my grandma as a kid but I would take a tiny knife and cut off such tiny slivers that it would still be red at the end (:
  • 19 May 2020 : never.
  • 19 May 2020 : Ah.
  • 19 May 2020 : Do you have any sources for this information?
  • 19 May 2020 : hahah the cruelest part of the joke is I’m adopting this big, sappy, genius baby as soon as I move in somewhere post pandemic. 😭 pic.twitter.com/LVBgdzAzD3
  • 19 May 2020 : I really need pets. I just begged my boyfriend to take a tiny earwig that rode in on some flowers down three flights of stairs to save its life.
  • 19 May 2020 : Here’s the updated link: https://activismactually.wixsite.com/revolution/post/an-open-letter-to-the-city-of-portland-the-time-has-come-to-hold-ptu-and-margot-black-accountable
  • 19 May 2020 : This link got reported down! Here's a repost: https://activismactually.wixsite.com/revolution/post/an-open-letter-to-the-city-of-portland-the-time-has-come-to-hold-ptu-and-margot-black-accountable
  • 19 May 2020 : This link got reported down! Here's a repost: https://activismactually.wixsite.com/revolution/post/an-open-letter-to-the-city-of-portland-the-time-has-come-to-hold-ptu-and-margot-black-accountable https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1262428200509952000
  • 19 May 2020 : Just got taken down! Working on a new post now!
  • 18 May 2020 : Dear white people, Please feel free to show me your WHOLE ASS ONLINE. I will happily hand it back to you roasted and on a silver platter. We’re IN 👏🏽 A 👏🏽 PAN 👏🏽DEM👏🏽IC👏🏽 My communities are dying & I’m done staying quiet about issues with whiteness in organizing spaces. DONEEE.
  • 18 May 2020 : Today’s vibe: https://twitter.com/smoothposer/status/1196124520467324931?s=21
  • 18 May 2020 : @SlaybeasCorpus -wanna talk for a sec to debrief on work & catch up? Me-yeah lemme send this email first *calls, doesn’t connect* *calls back, I answer* Me-wait lemme hop on this other quick work call one sec “Ok!” Me-calls back “1 sec lemme send this email” Me-hangs up😂
  • 18 May 2020 : Hey PDX, I and a lot of other community members think it’s far past time to be having this conversation. This is not call out culture, but instead a meaningful attempt at true restorative justice & growth. Please share & read this. It’s time to talk. https://medium.com/@HoldPTUandMargotBlackAccntable/an-open-letter-to-the-city-of-portland-the-time-has-come-to-hold-ptu-and-margot-black-accountable-38519394aa04
  • 18 May 2020 : My favorite part of this tweet is everyone in the replies immediately realizing how white and racist Oregon is from watching this video. 🙃 https://twitter.com/businessinsider/status/1261534948802138114
  • 18 May 2020 : Despicable, imo. The gentrification is outta control and as someone who grew up in Bmore I have to say that this is the whitest, most racist city I’ve spent time in. Hella “liberals” who will be racist and then all tell you about how they’re “anti-racist.”
  • 18 May 2020 : There are not 0 BIPOC owned dispensaries here. There’s multiple. 🙄
  • 15 May 2020 : a snippet from every organizing call I’ve been on since March 14: No one: Literally not a soul: Me: I just want us to be coming from a TRAUMA INFORMED place because WE are ALL going through COLLECTIVE TRAUMA and we ALL deserve extra compassion. *stares aggressively @ camera*
  • 15 May 2020 : 😭😭😭😭 literally all I wanted
  • 15 May 2020 : @PortlandDSA ’s most popular sibling power duo Pepper (left, w/ @Gulujoon ) and Hugo (right, w/ @livkittykat & @alsoconnor ) are here at our meeting to give updates on the #BlackCatCaucus & their demands for no food destruction & consultation on what should be done with extra tuna. pic.twitter.com/eUDH12sqAK
  • 14 May 2020 : Yesterday I made this shitpost, which was also, coincidentally, a very shit take. A dope friend explained why in the replies & y’all should go read them for some great education on why this was reductive & harmful. AAVE isn’t another language. I’m just tired of code switching. https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1260780305482280962
  • 14 May 2020 : This is all true. This was mainly a shit post and I didn’t think enough about it before posting it honestly. The more appropriate tweet would have been “I’m tired of fucking code switching because white people are racist.” Thanks for all the time you spent writing this out.
  • 14 May 2020 : “We’re the Wild West” “Governer that’s exactly the way to describe it, you are the wild, Wild West.” I really hope the next headline I see is about some old school mass looting and rootin in Wisconsin.
  • 14 May 2020 : Operation Warp Speed? WARP SPEED? Yo this is why I don’t watch the news. I swear to god y2k transported us into the Onion newspaper.
  • 14 May 2020 : 84,000+ people dead from coronavirus. Fuck. I don’t ever watch the news but I’m spending some time with my roommate who does. And holy shit. I mean, I know and I’ve been enraged. But the flippant way it was announced? Extra heart wrenching.
  • 14 May 2020 : The irony of asking me when I applied for my nonprofit job if I was bi-lingual as though I’m not constantly and politely translating AAVE on a daily basis just to survive. 🙃
  • 13 May 2020 : Done!
  • 13 May 2020 : Spread the word: If ONE MORE white person asks me in the DMs to explain how they are being oppressive or forces me to intercede and de-escalate their accidental racism because their harming my friends/people, I’m just gonna start posting daily screenshots. Jesus Christ I’m done.
  • 13 May 2020 : again, for emphasis, I straight up can’t stand white people...
  • 13 May 2020 : oops. what a wild ride. if you made it through that little trip well then you can say you saw a story of self analysis pan out live on twitter. 😂
  • 13 May 2020 : just now realizing that this entire thread is a trauma response. I never talk about all the details of the work I’m doing cause it’s not about me. But I’ve had so many people claim I’m lying about my work since the pandemic started I feel compelled to document my accomplishments
  • 13 May 2020 : oh, I also accomplished making a new graphic, writing a newsletter copy, and creating an intake form for my organizations newest project since 6am. 🙃
  • 13 May 2020 : when we tell y’all that black femmes in the movement are EXHAUSTED... I’d need a day & a half just to explain how exhausting it is. pic.twitter.com/8LXHSVqbVP
  • 13 May 2020 : In true “black woman” form, I have helped so many people (like 3-4) process through so many different types of trauma today & it’s not even 2pm. I’ve also held space for the community to gather, scheduled another trauma fueled phone call, & experienced/witnessed racism twice.
  • 13 May 2020 : Ahhh! Here’s my solution recommendation ☺️ https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1260638185861742592?s=21
  • 13 May 2020 : I can’t see half of this thread—only Sherae’s tweets—so I’m not sure if the DM request is for me?
  • 13 May 2020 : I almost said “this isn’t to discourage white people from reading theory” but actually, yes it is. Please for the love of god put down those old ass books by those dead-ass white men. Y’all can study for a lifetime & you will NEVER CATCH UP. Just pass the mic to BIPOC & LISTEN
  • 13 May 2020 : OPPRESSION! I know white people who have been studying theory for as long as the short 2 years that I’ve been engaging in near 24/7 advocacy and direct action for the sake of my people. And then they ask how we know so much? Survival against colonizers is literally IN MY BLOOD.
  • 13 May 2020 : Me: *speaks about ___ oppressive system & provides my analysis* Yt leftists coming up to me after the event: What you said reminded me of __ theory! Did you read __ book too? Me: oh, no! I’ve never heard of that sounds cool! Yt Leftists: Where did you learn that? OH-PRESH-UN!
  • 13 May 2020 : I am, once again: tired of, angry at, frustrated with, exasperated by, and confused because of whiteness, colonialism, cognitive dissonance, and the train of thought of white “activists”.
  • 13 May 2020 : ......I literally cannot trust white people and their motivations. Why? Because it doesn’t matter the motivation. Y’all are constantly & consistently causing harm to Black & Indigenous communities with nothing but a heart full of good intent & an analysis built on colonialism.
  • 13 May 2020 : A bitch needs a break to just LIVE and try to experience the joys and support of the wonderful communities I’ve found while re-engaging with my favorite type of work—learning and growing. 💕
  • 13 May 2020 : Also consider this an announcement that when we make it to the other side of the global health pandemic, I’m taking a big step back from organizing and focusing on writing, reading, developing my personal philosophies, and engaging in online advocacy.
  • 13 May 2020 : YALL! I just scheduled my first research consultation with a local community faith leader as I consider my interest in writing a book on joy, intersectionality, oppression, & caretaking (of both self & community) as a critical and undervalued component of organizing. 😱😭💕
  • 13 May 2020 : Thank the Creator for the elders who guide us along our paths. So grateful for meaningful conversations with those who have a longer lived experience fighting and surviving under oppressive systems.
  • 13 May 2020 : I have the hiccups at 5am. Kill me.
  • 13 May 2020 : Zoom code is 843-6970-9563! I’m gonna take a bit of a power nap & then be in &out! Have fun y’all & hopefully I’ll see you here & there as we all pop in & shit! This 24hr coffee shop style hang will run until at least 6am PST! (Clearly I advertised this on social so be mindful!)
  • 13 May 2020 : I’m gonna be up late and I really fucking miss 24 hour coffee shops. If I set up a zoom from 2am-6am (PST) anybody wanna hop on and just share space while I work? (I will barely talk to anyone who gets on I just wanna share space and not be lonely while I work)
  • 13 May 2020 : In a recent attempt to bond with my father for my mothers sake, I’ve tried to make myself appealing to him when explaining theory (race first analysis and class war) by sounding like the script of Undercover Brother.
  • 13 May 2020 : This is mainly just a “polyamory is hard” tweet & also an “I clearly have commitment issues” tweet just to lightheartedly tell other people that if you’re dealing with lots of emotional processing you’re valid. I’m in 1 of the easiest relationships ever but pandemics r weird yo
  • 13 May 2020 : New long term polyam relationships during a global pandemic are sure a wild ride. Imagine juggling NRE w/ multiple, currently triggered neurodivergencies, while also having a healthy awareness of trauma bonding & while traversing power exchange... HAHA I BET THATD BE EASY 😬
  • 13 May 2020 : I’m not built for organizations. I’m built for co-operatives and autonomous networks. I’m also tired of the constant, escalated trauma of militant organizing and less wins. I’m also tired of the constant emotional labor of much of colonial leftist organizing but some wins...
  • 13 May 2020 : I hate whiteness and also organizing as a Black, Indigenous, queer femme in Portland and I hate this city for its overwhelming whiteness and ya girl is just TIRED
  • 12 May 2020 : More specifically, why is it that when I ask my brain to do shit it can never provide enough executive function but this is what I find energy for? 😂 i really am driven by nothing but spite and it now shows 🙃
  • 12 May 2020 : Why am I like this????? why did I make this. Why. pic.twitter.com/b2zVy4qKmD
  • 12 May 2020 : I’m literally inexplicably mad at my friend for ruining a funny tweet we just sent him 😑😑😑😑 I just told an adult that he “didn’t deserve that tweet.” I.....am...not enjoying learning about who and how I am during quarentine.
  • 12 May 2020 : My 20 year old brother is a wanna be capitalist/millionaire motivated by the fact that he has a problem with authority & wants to “be his own boss” so he can provide for my mom... He’s like SO close and SO resistant. 😅 Radicalizing him is going to be a lifelong project 🙃 pic.twitter.com/5EChrO6LKf
  • 12 May 2020 : There’s a question phone line somewhere on the doc but they generally don’t have to tell you why in my experience, just where. Hopping on a call here but I’ll see if l can multitask. The DOC has an online directory of numbers but it’s often not updated regularly
  • 12 May 2020 : Anyway, I’m high enough to write this small rambling thread but too high to dive deep into the opener to a thread I saved for tomorrow. So goodnight late night endless twitter void. 💕
  • 12 May 2020 : I feel like I get questions along the lines of asking how I “learned so much about _____” all the time & it always just leads to stories of experiences. I’m not working with much theory here. I’m just surviving as an oppressed person & sharing my approach on that w/ those who ask
  • 12 May 2020 : At the request of numerous friends—and my inner 12 y/o who was convinced we’d have graduated Brown & be on our 1st book tour by now—I’ve been considering writing a book about my travels & some of my analysis. Specifically as someone at the intersections of SO many margins.
  • 12 May 2020 : I’m high as fuck & most of y’all are asleep right now but I just saved the most sad & beautiful but true tweet in my drafts about my political education & radicalization in life. I’m gonna be so sad if this tweet bombs 😅😭 but I feel like I finally broke some writers block here
  • 12 May 2020 : I’m still not entirely convinced that we didn’t all get transferred into a parallel reality where we live out the universe of @TheOnion articles when Y2K happened...
  • 12 May 2020 : Lol-ing at the fact that I’m so constantly on guard for the police I’ve apparently memorized and can respond to the sound of cruiser tires on PDX pavement. Walking & I just got this huge feeling of dread as I heard cars behind me & my nervous system was like COP! Sure enough...
  • 12 May 2020 : i hold the EXACT same sentiment https://twitter.com/adrierose_/status/1260018375956107266
  • 12 May 2020 : casual racism against/fetishization of Indigenous women just ruined what could have been a really good thing in less than five minutes time. 🙃😤😭 when we tell y’all that the micro aggressions are OVERWHELMING? Oof.
  • 11 May 2020 : Finally filled out the “what I do section” of my profile for slack: pic.twitter.com/CWn6XF0LdJ
  • 11 May 2020 : Convincing my friends to let me buy them shit with this cush-y, dependable, and consistent non-profit money is the only thing I like about working in the industrial non-profit complex over doing full time sex work.
  • 11 May 2020 : PLEASE READ THIS THREAD. Also, please follow @RantzFanon because honestly since I followed them & have been consuming their media I’m no longer wondering what perspectives are missing from my feed. I resonate with SO much of what they share. Follow @AbolitionF_ists too. https://twitter.com/rantzfanon/status/1259915672131457024
  • 11 May 2020 : Here’s a great explanation of why I hate that I love this game. https://twitter.com/thenation/status/1259922478354309120
  • 11 May 2020 : Anybody building stairs instead of ramps on their animal crossing island is a cop. 🤷🏽‍♀️ sorry I don’t make the rules... #extremelyhighthots #thoughts
  • 11 May 2020 : Boop. Boop. Boop. Hi pals. There’s some serious trauma happening in my immediate friend circle. I’ve also gotten 2 new messages with crises support requests today. I have literally dozens of messages I’ve been shuffling around in priority from the last week. Please be patient.
  • 10 May 2020 : This has definitely been illuminating for me....
  • 10 May 2020 : (psa for my new followers—I’m hella polyam please don’t friend zone me)
  • 10 May 2020 : My boyfriend is looking around for rocks so that he can give me a juggling show and perhaps teach me how to juggle. (In 1st grade PE, during juggling week, I was the only kid who didn’t get it by the end. This is a big deal) He found them before I finished this tweet so: pic.twitter.com/9z0PmXdqvb
  • 9 May 2020 : Alternative headline: “Government confirms that the only way they’ll pay for your education is if you risk your literal life for capitalism.” https://abcn.ws/35ASXFm
  • 9 May 2020 : No human alive has ever seen me truly— as thoroughly into my core as one could think possible —but for the queer BLACK and INDIGENOUS creatives I’ve had the gift of meeting along the way. I’m trying to drown, happily, in a sea of that type of validation. -LS #quarantinewritings
  • 9 May 2020 : Proud to say that I’ve never used a recipe more than twice.
  • 9 May 2020 : except outside of pretty privilege this also happens to Black people in yt spaces b/c of racism. growing up, experienced this a ton. hit puberty & my tits came in? BAM. Less this. More overt racism. if you never experienced this you’re probably a white person w/pretty privilege https://twitter.com/powdergown/status/1258980842677903362
  • 8 May 2020 : What if I told you that you could offer to run with actual, real, live black runners in your neighborhood who are feeling terrified of running in PDX and simultaneously enraged by that fear. Offer to weaponize your white privilege for the marginalized if the opportunity exists https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1258854822981144576
  • 8 May 2020 : I’m so glad that I’ve only seen one white person on my social media post a selfie and talk about their RunWithMaud today... I don’t think my tolerance for it is much higher than that.
  • 8 May 2020 : Of course it’s Florida...
  • 8 May 2020 : Please share this thread from Portland JWJ on the pop-up phone zap we’re doing today to support prisoners! https://twitter.com/JwJpdx/status/1258803310976315399
  • 8 May 2020 : If you’re white, don’t respond to this tweet. Nothing you can say is worthwhile for me to hear rn. Neither your sympathy nor your analysis. Don’t dm me about it either.
  • 8 May 2020 : Can’t help but think about the fact that I feel too unsafe in PDX to #RunWithMaud tomorrow. Also keep thinking about how my ancestral trauma is far too close to the surface to at all tolerate seeing white liberals in Portland running for him when they’re so silent otherwise.
  • 8 May 2020 : Okay so I know earlier this year we said, “We’re not accepting apologies, only changed behavior.” But...Can we now shift to, “We’re not accepting apologies from white people, only sending invoices.” Can we all now agree with what ppl smarter than me have been saying for years?
  • 8 May 2020 : I straight up have never seen a reclamative word that I’ve identified more with than Quigger. I’ve been thinking about it ALL DAY LONG. Language is important. Culture is important. Validating ways to identify yourself are such a goddamned gift. Praise everything for Black people https://twitter.com/rantzfanon/status/1258442830592294913
  • 8 May 2020 : Local elections? Yes, a lil too spicy National elections? Nah, on point.
  • 7 May 2020 : https://twitter.com/adrierose_/status/1258010487461117955?s=21
  • 7 May 2020 : I swear to god if my best friend dies in prison two months before their sentence ends I’m not listening to a single soul that tries to talk me down from direct action 🙃
  • 6 May 2020 : Good morning!
  • 6 May 2020 : I guess an hour of financial terrorism was enough. Cops are gone from this immediate area now as far as I can see.
  • 6 May 2020 : 👀👀👀
  • 6 May 2020 : PDX PLEASE SHARE. IM SO FUCKING MAD. Straight up FUCK the Portland Police for ticketing people $300+ during the middle of a global pandemic and economic crises that’s caused an 18% unemployment rate in Oregon. @tedwheeler you wanna reign in your pets just a little bit? pic.twitter.com/dUpGSPxJNf
  • 6 May 2020 : We’re up to 5 now in area. They just gave a black man a 300$ ticket for driving without a seatbelt & not having insurance.
  • 6 May 2020 : YOOOOOOOOOO. This black man just passed me on the phone as a cop pulled over a 7th person. He was looki mad at the bike cop sitting there. I warned him how many are in area. He said “They just got me.” How much? 300$ ticket for no seatbelt & no insurance. Make that 8 ppl rn...
  • 6 May 2020 : Make that six. They pulled over someone else as I was typing the last tweet....
  • 6 May 2020 : I’ve literally watched them pull over like 5 people from this block in the last 20ish minutes. I’m so fucking mad. This is SO unnecessary. We have an 18% unemployment rate in OR right now @PortlandPolice & y’all are out giving tickets to people KNOWING there’s an economic crisis
  • 6 May 2020 : What. The. Actual. Fuck. Please go do something better with your time. pic.twitter.com/tkXKScxCgo
  • 6 May 2020 : #DefendPDX Three pigs are hanging out on Hawthorne between Ceaser Chávez and 50th giving out tickets. Make that four. Another cruiser sped by while I was taking this pic. Wtaf. https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1258125607587639296 pic.twitter.com/txRhh8jJcd
  • 6 May 2020 : Welp, 3 cops right on our block. Feet from the homeless man. He’s sleeping & unbothered. A car just drove by & one of the 2 bike cops said “There he is!” & took off after him. Then another bike cop went off with lights in the other direction Last nights 1312 tattoo feels timely. pic.twitter.com/xk3JaqCmPi
  • 6 May 2020 : He came back from across the street to the rest of his stuff and is now sitting down. So I’m just sitting out here & I’m gonna spend 15 mins or so waiting to make sure I don’t have to cop watch. White society really doesn’t know how to handle mental health issues. It’s tiring.
  • 6 May 2020 : I immediately through on clothes to come investigate. Looks like a local houseless neighbor of ours who I’ve given cigarettes to and talked with a few times is going through crises. (He’s always seemed a lil unstable when we’ve talked.)
  • 6 May 2020 : So I hear lots of yelling outside in front of our apartment. I look out the window from the 3rd floor. Can’t see anyone yelling but I can see a white woman hiding behind a glass door looking very upset and almost undoubtedly on the phone with pigs. I’ll be surprised if I’m wrong.
  • 6 May 2020 : RT @nerdjpg: I will now only post replies twitter warns me about
  • 5 May 2020 : Someone please bring a scalpel over and carve my wisdom teeth out of my mouth. 😭🙏🏽🦷 I’ll smoke you out and feed you in exchange. 💕
  • 5 May 2020 : I am SO hungry and SO horny rn and I have to give a report back on this conference call still and I feel like I’m nothing but a growling stomach and rock hard nipples. 🙃 Kill me.
  • 4 May 2020 : Survivors bonding over seeing other people call out their abuser (aka Elle stanger/ @ stripperwriter) is a special type of dystopian bonding but I’m here for it tbh. Folx trying to call her out for her racism, fatphobia, manipulation, & white feminism for like the 4th time.🤞🏽🤷🏽‍♀️
  • 4 May 2020 : RT @kalopanoramic: Black people, REMEMBER this. Just LOOK at how they are so close to the police. NEVER let ANYONE tell you that police bru…
  • 4 May 2020 : That’s SO fair! I said this b/c it’s based off of my own experiences organizing in PDX where we have a “large” organizing comm but it’s really a handful of BIPOC doing healing AND organizing while yt ppl just organize & think they’ve magically addressed their issues now.
  • 4 May 2020 : Dear yt people: https://twitter.com/theafrolegalise/status/1257345442087649289
  • 4 May 2020 : I literally am so traumatized and exhausted that I forced myself to go to sleep at 6:30pm—despite knowing it’s wreck my sleep schedule—all because I literally couldn’t bear to be awake and processing my far too heavy emotions.
  • 3 May 2020 : I had to buy a pregnancy test recently & Walmart had them all locked behind a glass wall. AND THEN, I was told that it would be held by a specific cashier upfront until I was ready to go. There shouldn’t be such shame, stigma, or fucking devotion to keeping safe sex inaccessible. https://twitter.com/cocomelonmum/status/1256261031795527683
  • 3 May 2020 : I couldn’t say anything but, “same, boo.” 🤷🏽‍♀️🤓
  • 3 May 2020 : me: getting hella stoned so I can force food down my throat boyfriend: scrolling down insta us: *existing quietly* him: *SUDDENLY CACKLES* me: 💥😱💥 what?? him: well.....no offense but... pic.twitter.com/dfIHPDpl9r
  • 3 May 2020 : Looking at a certain male Portland leftist who’s name begins with an L... https://twitter.com/coffeespoonie/status/1256939478331072517
  • 3 May 2020 : It’s not
  • 3 May 2020 : White people will never understand the toll it takes being the sole voice for your community in any space. Tokenization is an extra special level of exhausting, infuriating, and disheartening.
  • 2 May 2020 : This is Chloe. She’s an angel. pic.twitter.com/nXMaphv5Gp
  • 2 May 2020 : Friendly reminder that I hate Karen’s and also Karen isn’t a slur. 🙃 Signed, your friendly neighborhood Bon-QuiQui (or insert other actually racist stereotypical name for black women here)
  • 29 April 2020 : “I’ll be back, I’m going to feed the crows” is a sentence I bet my boyfriend was not expecting to hear this often when he invited me to live with him through quarentine. pic.twitter.com/tEatJHYoqV
  • 27 April 2020 : Really missing my “college track athlete” wardrobe these days. I went digging for old sweats, tights, and compression shorts but realized that I definitely need to step up my game and rebuild my athleisure wear.
  • 27 April 2020 : I’ve largely kept my hands (& my online presence) out of entanglement w/ electoralism. But as we face CoVID19, I consider more & more how we can balance small time investments for incremental change while also prioritizing the creation of infrastructure that undermines the state
  • 27 April 2020 : I should add to this that as a light skinned black femme, I wouldn’t run against Teressa. Personally, I’m not into electoral politics but the older I get as a black person, the less faith I have in white leftists & the more I see the desperation that leads us to reformism. https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1254823640014585861
  • 27 April 2020 : Sometimes we all post bad takes on twitter. Just wanna recognize that I didn’t do my due diligence in figuring out why Teressa wasn’t on that score sheet I shared BUT I stand by my explanation of that impulse in the thread. I encourage folx to RT/interact w/ the latter tweets. https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1254816682725392384
  • 27 April 2020 : Sometimes we all post bad takes on twitter. Just wanna recognize that I didn’t do my due diligence in figuring out why Teressa wasn’t on that score sheet I shared BUT I stand by my explanation of that impulse in the thread. I encourage folx to RT/interact w/ the latter tweets.
  • 27 April 2020 : When you consider the affects of misogynoir alongside the capitalist nature of our election processes, the lack of generational wealth in black families, & the necessity for exorbitant funding for visibility... Well, it’s no wonder Teressa isn’t considered a “strong” candidate.
  • 27 April 2020 : We know that black women and femmes are discredited more from the get-go because of misogynoir. Misogynoir affects our visibility in the press, how we’re presented in the press, our abilities to fundraise, and more. This all means we have to work 10 times harder for half credit
  • 27 April 2020 : Either way, Teressa has gotten an abysmal amount of coverage and mentions in the press. If I (as a light skinned black femme) were running against Teressa & saw this disparity in coverage, I’d have already pointed it out in interviews b/c that’s what a fair race entails.
  • 27 April 2020 : It seems I jumped to conclusions. Teressa didn’t fill out theIr questionnaire. I won’t delete my tweet b/c of both accountability & the recognition that my distrust w/ statist systems comes directly from years of misogynoir experienced directly by myself & other Black femmes. https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1254816682725392384
  • 27 April 2020 : It seems I may have jumped to conclusions. I refuse to delete my tweet because of both accountability and the recognition that my distrust with statist systems comes directly from years of misogynoir experienced directly by myself and other Black femmes. https://twitter.com/pnwelcome/status/1254818726165151745?s=21
  • 27 April 2020 : Ahhh, good to know! Thank you!
  • 27 April 2020 : Just wanna point out that the fact @teressaformayor isn’t on this score card is an example of misogynoir. Any candidate not pointing this out from their campaign page shouldn’t talk about being anti-racist. Anti-racism means fighting for equity even when it doesn’t benefit you. https://twitter.com/HenryKraemer/status/1254811095086166021
  • 27 April 2020 : Please RT! Can anyone point me to writings that expand on either: 1- How do we convince oppressed (& colonized) people that leftist forms of self-governance can provide more stability & equity to their day-to-day lives? 2- Mutual aid as the first step to building critical mass
  • 26 April 2020 : “Unfortunately, I have to head out but thanks for everyone’s time and energy here. Looking forward to catching up later!” Drop this in the chat and then exit before anyone has a chance to unmute their mic, say goodbye, or call attention to your message. ✌🏽😅 https://twitter.com/nehashastry/status/1254494583557365762
  • 26 April 2020 : This is the kind of energy I want to have in all moments. This is EXACTLY how much attention I need. https://twitter.com/iam__desiree/status/1254098961851351043
  • 25 April 2020 : SO much love to you. 😭 This is the sweetest thing ever. You’re a hot theyby all day everyday.
  • 23 April 2020 : Me: *on the phone with my ex-fiance* Her: I watched STARS porn earlier, and it made me cry. Me: *cackling* Her: Why are you laughing? Me: STARS PORN?!? Her: I said I watched A STAR IS BORN. THE MOVIE? With Lady Gaga?! Me: Ohhhhhh. .....I’ve never heard of that.
  • 23 April 2020 : I identify as a high-femme, #nonbinary queer. They/them pronouns feel great and really validating. She/her also still feels fine. 🤷🏽‍♀️ This is where I’m at right now in what I know will be a long journey with processing my feels around gender. But here we are. #femmescanbethems
  • 23 April 2020 : I’ve ALWAYS believed radical vulnerability and courage is what makes our movements relatable and leads to greater trust and accessibility. So here it is. If my visibility as an *ALIVE* Black, Indigenous, non-binary, high femme, communist whore helps anyone then it’s worth it.
  • 23 April 2020 : My Blackness, my out sex worker status, my PTSD, depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and my existence as a “woman” have all resulted in unbearable amounts of invalidation and additional trauma. Coming out as non-binary right now feels like more than I can bare, but...
  • 23 April 2020 : I don’t want to come out right now. This is terrifying and scary and it presents YET ANOTHER level of marginalization and opportunities to be invalidated that feels CRIPPLING.
  • 23 April 2020 : Thing is, I love pink, and glitter. And I also love my body and don’t want to make any big transitional changes. But I hate womanhood and everything it’s been constructed to mean and all that it expects of me. Womanhood feels wrong and suffocating but femininity feels natural.
  • 23 April 2020 : I hate everything about the way I’ve been socialized/treated b/c of my womanhood, the curse of big tits, &constant expectations of performed femininity. I’ve just said I was a high-femme, queer woman for years b/c being high femme& having big titties means I must be a “girl.”
  • 23 April 2020 : Long version: In the middle of this hellish dystopia, my brain and body decided to unleash a trauma wall and announce that we hate our gender, which is something I think I’ve been denying for at least the last year.
  • 23 April 2020 : This is a long coming out thread about my gender, my insecurities, my experiences with oppression, and my fears. TLDR; I identify as a high-femme, non-binary queer. They/them pronouns feel great and really validating. She/her also still feels fine.
  • 23 April 2020 : Dear Portland Leftists, Please understand that I don’t care how long you think you’ve been “anti-racist.” Very few of y’all have done the heavy lifting. The US left in general has a HUGE problem with unchecked racism and colonialist approaches to organizing.
  • 23 April 2020 : I’m SO close to losing my shit at old white people who mean well but have not done the work to dismantle their own racism or the societal conditioning that they know best. Lots of “antiracists” who haven’t done the work or even begun to start down the path of decolonization.
  • 22 April 2020 : Hit me uppppp if you want my friend code!!
  • 22 April 2020 : A LITERAL conversation I had mins ago 😭 I literally sighed “I don’t know her”
  • 22 April 2020 : me:*DISSOCIATING* boyfriend: talking to me me: watches this conversation from afar & noticing my zombie stare BF: *makes eye contact & asks how I am* Me: I am.... no longer associating with my body. What is that called? Oh. Dissociating. That. I’m not associated with her rn. pic.twitter.com/0jw4unkOx9
  • 22 April 2020 : I went searching for this because I remember it really helped me feel better. Hope it helps y’all too! pic.twitter.com/n7kIDJ5Rb0
  • 22 April 2020 : please may I have a *crumb* of context pic.twitter.com/Ocv0KnnD1e
  • 22 April 2020 : Weed is literally the only thing keeping me holding on to any semblance of sanity right now. And by right now I don’t mean in this moment. I mean generally, for life in this predictable but still devastating dystopia.
  • 21 April 2020 : Is it even 4/20 if you don’t order 20$ worth of Taco Bell for just you at 11:55pm? pic.twitter.com/DNr48s0JlZ
  • 21 April 2020 : hi, @KateBrownForOR ? I’d just really like for my friend to get out of a cage now cause he’s -at risk health wise -otherwise marginalized -was supposed to get out in March -y’all already gave me his docs Oh, AND his non-unanimous conviction was ruled unconstitutional. kthnx✌🏽
  • 21 April 2020 : it’s actually required. https://twitter.com/emmatsalageek/status/1252397259825614849
  • 21 April 2020 : I LOVE PROMETHEUS. 😻😭💕 https://twitter.com/betacuck4lyfe/status/1252423603385012224
  • 21 April 2020 : Oh shit. I just remembered I promised to go on a run tomorrow... fuck.
  • 21 April 2020 : YALL. IM SO DUMB: 😑 Me: *has my phone number listed, with my name, on the internet for work* Me, in endless conference calls: If anyone ever needs anything here’s my number ____ Me: *gets a text from an unknown number* ALSO FUCKING ME: pic.twitter.com/4m2B2XiGiU
  • 21 April 2020 : Hung up after a tense conference call with a PACKED agenda and a presentation from me. Rolled a joint. Speed smoked the whole thing. Conference call feels like years ago already. Happy Mega 4/20 y’all. Next time, remind me not to work so much pls.
  • 19 April 2020 : I fell asleep on the couch at 11pm last night AND THEN: -woke up at 11:30 to move to bed -woke up at 3:30am cause my body thought it was 6 & time to get up(???) -woke up at 6:30 for 45 minutes -woke up at 7:50 and I’ve been up since I am so tired and cranky I could cry. 😭😤😩
  • 19 April 2020 : Fatphobia and/or sexism. When I was younger they essentially told me I’d be fine and that I was showing any visible strain from the weight. I also know women who’ve been told to lose significant weight overall before being considered.
  • 17 April 2020 : Relevant articles written by Indigenous vegans would also be great. This is essentially a mutual aid/support request b/c I don’t feel like I have the emotional energy to search for this info while balancing the amount of organizing I’m doing & trauma I’m processing. TIA!
  • 17 April 2020 : I’m Afro-Indigenous & walking the hard path of reconnection & I don’t have any vegan Indigenous friends. I don’t identify as vegan. I moved in w/ my white vegan partner & I’ve been happily eating vegan & previously spent years being vegetarian & working towards veganism.
  • 17 April 2020 : In search of an indigenous vegan activist I could pay for a conversation to try and help understand an Indigenous framework & approach to veganism/conversations around speciesism. Could y’all share/tag any you know who might be willing to be paid for this emotional labor?
  • 17 April 2020 : RT @Werewoof_MD: I'm begging you, if you see a internet personality on the Left calling for the working class to rise and put their lives o…
  • 16 April 2020 : Throwback Wednesday...? 😭 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1086005977881763840
  • 15 April 2020 : This hero was already awaiting trial for shooting a pig. 💕 https://twitter.com/crepeau/status/1250473634856140800
  • 15 April 2020 : let’s be real, I’m not... 😂😭☠️
  • 15 April 2020 : Alright, alright. I know I’ve *technically* been a dues paying @PortlandDSA member for like 3 months but... today it feels official. I have now turned on message notifications for the DSA slack channel. RIP me.
  • 15 April 2020 : Hahahahahahaah I’ve been on the phone since 2pm and I have another call in an hour and a half
  • 14 April 2020 : If your group/org or even just you as an individual organizer would find helpful the perspective of an Afro-indigenous, queer, femme, formerly sex working, neurodivergent organizer & writer in how we can approach this work with intention & intersectional focus, dm me your email!
  • 14 April 2020 : The exciting thing? We’re all envisioning bold new ways of creating long-term, supportive infrastructure for the working class that is autonomous from the state. Tomorrow, I’d like to share this proposal with anyone needing help envisioning how this might work.
  • 14 April 2020 : I’ve been speaking to organizers all across the country who focus on all kinds of different issues. With all their feedback in mind, I’ve put together a 10 page detailed proposal for the theoretical & logistical approach to this work. So far, I’ve just been assessing interest.
  • 14 April 2020 : “Organizers in Portland, Oregon, are also building an Unemployed Council.” This week, we’ve had seed conversations about organizing an expansive, intersectional, & creative Unemplyed Council that is non-hierarchical & partners w/ mutual aid groups. Today it got a tiny s/o. 1/2 https://twitter.com/SamAdlerBell/status/1250145394971029507
  • 14 April 2020 : Finishing this huge ass proposal today and tomorrow is reserved for nothing but drawing logos, video games, and phone calls from prisoners. I’ve learned in the last year that prisoner support work doesn’t stop for anything & it’s really strengthened my abolitionist beliefs.
  • 14 April 2020 : Quarantine day ????: I finally convinced my partner that we should have a cat. After lots of discussion, we even compromised that she could be on the couch but not the bed. World, meet Potato. pic.twitter.com/E4Mx1BgmQM
  • 14 April 2020 : Dream big.💭 Think “communism.” ☭ Be gay. 🏳️‍🌈 Do crime. 🔥🍾
  • 14 April 2020 : hahah it resulted in a terrible mental image 😭😂
  • 14 April 2020 : I just realized I should order a thousand of those “Tile” things and super glue them to everything instead of to me lol
  • 14 April 2020 : Oh, nah. Like, I should have my earbud case glued to my arm and my vape pen glued to like, idk, a necklace too small to easily get off? 😅
  • 14 April 2020 : Yesterday my boyfriend found the 180$ apple AirPods I lost for a week after owning them for only like 3 months. Today, I lost my $50 vape pen that I bought on Friday. I shouldn’t be allowed access to a debit card and every pricey thing I buy should be super glued to my body.🙃
  • 13 April 2020 : I think you should both do it. 🤷🏽‍♀️
  • 13 April 2020 : Hi! Power of attorney for a prisoner at Columbia River Corrections Facility. Prisoners would love to give statements (anonymous & otherwise) to the press. Please feel free to DM me to arrange!
  • 13 April 2020 : The fact that I just had to look at my peripherals and check to see my frames all to figure out if my glasses were on is a really good sign I need a new fucking prescription. 🙃
  • 13 April 2020 : Alex, who is “Michelle Obama”?
  • 13 April 2020 : I wanna make a crop top T-shirt that says “sassier than spinach dip” ☠️😂 https://twitter.com/dashaunlh/status/1249612916510334976
  • 13 April 2020 : Gonna have to figure out if @PortlandDSA has any more of these sweatshirts for sale cause this thing is SO soft & as grateful as I am that my boyfriend lets me steal his, I want a ridiculously oversized one to snuggle in. pic.twitter.com/SpLyxh6Cph
  • 13 April 2020 : It’s gross enough that my partner and I are both awake and doing organizing work at 7:30am but to make it even worse, he just pulled out a calculator. Math should be illegal before 10:30 am.
  • 12 April 2020 : can we abolish the prisons yet?
  • 12 April 2020 : Being a radical queer, black, femme activist who’s already on govt watchlists AND THEN being in a position to have daily phone calls being openly recorded by the state (THAT IM PAYING FOR) sure is a whole other level of exhaustion, trauma, & paranoia.
  • 12 April 2020 : Followed on both accounts and gave shoutouts! ❤️❤️❤️
  • 12 April 2020 : My favorite: 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/HZqmDgKirw
  • 12 April 2020 : they’re now playing livin la vida loca. I think it’s neighbors outside with the kids I hear in their yard? I refuse to leave the work cocoon I have built around myself as a desk and snack storage system to check, but this is great.
  • 12 April 2020 : I’m sorry I know I said I wouldn’t be online but someone is blasting “Barbie girl” outside my window rn and it has curbed what I think was a building panic attack so just wanna give a big shoutout to whoever’s responsible for that.
  • 11 April 2020 : Today’s a BIG work day. Pushing out 2 organizing toolkits in the next 24 hours. I’m ignoring ALL phone calls/messages today unless from prisoners. If you NEED me for an emergency, please call twice back to back or dm me on FB & ask me to check my phone & I’ll get back to you. 💕
  • 11 April 2020 : Doing my communist strategizing outside, on the stoop, in a ski mask because I like making white people uncomfortable & they can’t come up and confront me about it. #thegayagenda pic.twitter.com/h8tkcap8f3
  • 11 April 2020 : Update #2: I’m drinking pog not water but I think it counts.
  • 11 April 2020 : Update: Realizing I accidentally bought unsliced bagels??? Why would anyone need an unsliced bagel. I’m so mad I gave myself accidental extra work for my limited executive function. who are y’all neurotypicals out there intentionally buying unsliced bagels??? pic.twitter.com/JML1Zm3RA0
  • 11 April 2020 : I’m gonna be working all day but it’s fine cause today’s trauma response is FIGHT not flight I guess. 🤷🏽‍♀️🙃😬 please expect a flurry of activity from me today but do not ask me to help with anything else because I already had to make a flowchart for my to-do list. kthnxbye.
  • 11 April 2020 : Internally spiraling about COVID deaths & my friend in fucking prison. I swear my brain just bitch slapped my heart because I muttered, out loud: “NO. We are NOT helpless rn. We are going to go make a fucking breakfast bagel & get some water & get to FUCKING. WORK.” Okay SSRI! pic.twitter.com/EAsdUaUMDn
  • 11 April 2020 : OMG I HAVE A TON OF LITERAL BELLS I COULD GIVE. Genius.
  • 11 April 2020 : What else is safe for me to give to the crows to make them like me besides food? I know they like shiny things... By the end of quarantine I want the crows who hang on our patio with me to be my best friends. On a related note, what do squirrels like as gifts?
  • 11 April 2020 : something to look forward to... 🙃 https://twitter.com/raccoonfrenz/status/1248787581438808064
  • 10 April 2020 : So jealous. So hungry. So inspired. 🤤
  • 10 April 2020 : I’m taking a 30 minute power nap now that we’ve reached the 24 hour mark of being awake. I’ll be back soon twitter don’t worry 😘😫😭
  • 10 April 2020 : Multnomah camp feels like it was EONS ago 😭😭😭
  • 10 April 2020 : Slamming my second energy drink of the night at 6am ☺️
  • 10 April 2020 : you’re tweeting my entire heart and soul rn 🙃
  • 10 April 2020 : this is exactly how I feel about the industrial nonprofit complex and executive directors/board members 🙃😭 https://twitter.com/adrierose_/status/1248586606430355461
  • 10 April 2020 : its daily nighttime PAN(dem)IC hours.
  • 10 April 2020 : Oooh, good idea!
  • 10 April 2020 : I can’t understand how I cut off like 95% of my hair and it’s still driving me insane in my face. Wtf.
  • 10 April 2020 : CW: Suicidal Ideation A thread filled with responses for advice on how to deal with suicidal ideation while in quarentine. Check the replies for coping advice! 💕 You’re not alone. A lot of us are struggling. https://twitter.com/prolepeach/status/1248301423109869569
  • 10 April 2020 : chugging coffee & Red Bull at 2am on a Thursday night while I crank out an additional 6 hours of work in the span of 3 hours after what has *already* been about a 50+ hour week feels a lot more like the revolution I was expecting. RIP to my already tattered sleep schedule. ☠️
  • 10 April 2020 : Oh, hey neighbor 😘
  • 10 April 2020 : An ambulance just sped off, lights and sirens flashing. My hearts so heavy. I hope nobody got critically injured in the fire. I can’t imagine how first-hand smoke damage could impact possible exposure to COVID at the ER but I hope they don’t have to find out.
  • 10 April 2020 : my future therapist as I read her/them this tweet in the future: pic.twitter.com/RqWr4jKN0C
  • 10 April 2020 : me-is stressed out me-walks outside with a joint, nicotine gum, my jammies, & a blanket to destress me-sees tons of siren lights & smoke 2 blocks away my brain-hey, perhaps we shouldn’t go down there me-hahah fuck you. you don’t give me serotonin so I’m gonna chase the lights
  • 10 April 2020 : Also, I’d really like to highlight that white people are impressively bold. This man just practically dragged his teenage-ish kid across the street and past a cop to go interrupt a fire fighter and be nosy. ☠️
  • 10 April 2020 : Smoke is too dense and the street too blinded with fire truck lights to be able to see what building exactly is on fire. I did a quick live stream on my Facebook to show folx. Thanks for watching this shitty 11pm news report. 🙃
  • 10 April 2020 : Fire on E 49th and Hawthorne on the block to the north of Hawthorne. Still very smoky and it seems they’re still currently fighting the fire. 4 firetrucks, 2 ambulances, a fire chief, and multiple cops on the scene. pic.twitter.com/aVI80QsQSz
  • 10 April 2020 : This is the whitest thing I’ve ever done but we’re in an apocalypse sooooo.....
  • 10 April 2020 : I don’t really care about anything anymore so I’m walking up there. Will update soon!
  • 10 April 2020 : 4 fire trucks just roared past my apartment near the Hawthorne Fred Meyer. Looking up the road I can see smoke and there’s a sheriff chief passing me now on it’s way to the scene. pic.twitter.com/sP7AA2zjDV
  • 10 April 2020 : The best explanation of the em dash that I’ve ever seen. 👏🏽💕🥰 https://twitter.com/cococorycollins/status/1248291806636322817
  • 10 April 2020 : This is the most accurate tweet I’ve ever seen. https://twitter.com/queenarisk/status/1246595539317202945
  • 10 April 2020 : but all these “starter-job” workers are “essential” now, huh? https://twitter.com/yuricommunism/status/1248181498571874304
  • 9 April 2020 : I need people to understand what a mess Portland weather is. Here’s what we’ve seen in the last 2.5 weeks: - 60 degree days - snow - rain - 50 degree sunny days -sleet - 40 degree blue-skied, sunny days WHILE HAILING - highs of 77 without a cloud in the fucking sky - more rain
  • 9 April 2020 : I understand that Biden will not save us or significantly undo Trumps policies. And I don’t even have faith that 45 will not throw a wrench into this election & attempt to retain power since he’s saying “mail in ballots” during quarantine shouldn’t count...
  • 9 April 2020 : I sacrificed my values and my passion once. I swallowed my anger and let fear drive my voting and I voted for Hillary. And I watched her fail. I will engage in electoral harm reduction where I deem it worthwhile.
  • 9 April 2020 : I am literally not exaggerating when I say I’d rather die than vote for any such outrageously under-qualified & oppressive candidate as Joe Biden. Vote locally. It’s harm reduction. Vote for important initiatives (like @UPNOW2020 ). Vote for a rapist if you will. I will not. https://twitter.com/pnw__woman/status/1247996369932931072
  • 9 April 2020 : hahahahah, no. Thanks for the reminder.
  • 9 April 2020 : @socialistdogmom @Showmeurbeans @livkittykat
  • 9 April 2020 : Me.
  • 9 April 2020 : Critical information to know
  • 8 April 2020 : When I came outside to work I did not factor in how much I like to work on paper and how disrespectful the wind is....
  • 8 April 2020 : Also, I tried to share this twitter thread from an Indigenous candidate for president FB told me no 🙃 pic.twitter.com/eTQkNQ2yWT
  • 8 April 2020 : Info on Mark Charles from Mark Charles since some people on Facebook asked: https://twitter.com/wirelesshogan/status/1247923516298735618?s=21
  • 8 April 2020 : I was supposed to be moving in w/ 1 of my besties in the next month & I was gonna adopt a dog (which I’ve been trying to set myself up for over the last 12 months). They brought me this note & a bunch of joints they rolled me & I sobbed. Then I saw a squirrel & sobbed harder😭 pic.twitter.com/0tyLgC4Sbo
  • 8 April 2020 : I literally wanna find a house to squat in, take over, & move into just so that I can adopt a puppy because I can’t have a pet at my boyfriends house (that I moved into) or the house I was previously living in. 🗣IF I CANT HAVE A PET THEN I DONT WANT TO BE PART OF THE APOCALYPSE
  • 8 April 2020 : I came here to say this! The second novel in the series came out recently and I’m looking forward to diving in!! SO good!
  • 8 April 2020 : Just want to announce for anyone curious that as much I talk about voting as harm reduction, I will NOT be voting for Joe Biden in the middle of a global pandemic. Instead, I’ll be voting for Mark Charles & trying to organize autonomous systems outside of capitalist structures.
  • 8 April 2020 : Laptop? ✅ Water? ✅ Sugar water? ✅ Liquified Apple paste? ✅ Corded headphones cause I like to throw away hundreds of dollars and have lost my airbuds after 2 months? ✅ One cigarette, as a treat? ✅✅✅ Ready for work in the sun! pic.twitter.com/RHKpPmKy9Y
  • 8 April 2020 : Oof. Dear tired black people, please read this thread. https://twitter.com/ebonyteach/status/1247919045925535744
  • 8 April 2020 : I’ve been advised that this may not be the best way to approach this. Keep an eye out for a short but personal piece on harm reduction, self care, and the importance of practicing intention when you speak about your drug usage to recovering, sober friends.
  • 8 April 2020 : So what does that mean? That means it’s time to wake & bake & Fight The Stigma!! Ding-ding-ding. Let’s talk about all the drugs I (may allegedly) use & why my use of them is (or would be) VALID. (everyone say hello to my FBI agent watching this thread on alleged drug use😂)
  • 8 April 2020 : The fact that my body can not handle minor survival tasks while sober and that I have to feed it a cocktail of drugs to make it do the *basic* things is not lost on me. I bet neurotypicals would have a field day with the “drug addict” shaming if they ever learned of my routine.
  • 8 April 2020 : I hate everything. https://twitter.com/nbcnews/status/1247705974648922113
  • 8 April 2020 : Oh. My. God. I took some drugs last night for entirely practical adult reasons and i just realized I legit haven’t been sleeping for the past two weeks. This is the first morning I’ve woken up and felt rested in what feels like years but was probably like 12 days.
  • 7 April 2020 : Now that I’ve moved in with my partner for quarantine & we might be co-living for the next 2-18 months (🙃😍🙈) I really need to talk to him about buying a squatty potty because this whole “gingerly placing my weight on the trash can” thing is gonna get real old real quick. pic.twitter.com/p8RUGctvYR
  • 7 April 2020 : I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS!! https://twitter.com/wehatelamar/status/1247289256894226433
  • 7 April 2020 : I’m sitting in my car CACKLING https://twitter.com/nashvilleabc/status/1247350064600809472
  • 7 April 2020 : https://vm.tiktok.com/tt7mNE/
  • 7 April 2020 : 👀💕 https://twitter.com/jtbrg/status/1247201032595214339
  • 7 April 2020 : Okay, so like, any other Black/Indigenous/Brown folx dealing with a complete and utter lack of filter when responding to white fuckery lately? 😬
  • 6 April 2020 : I have 10+ hours of work to do today and I will not be leaving my nest, kthnxbye pic.twitter.com/V6r1pux9Wb
  • 5 April 2020 : also lol-ing at this.
  • 5 April 2020 : Hahahahahahahah. NICE. pic.twitter.com/W7JNfcs2oI
  • 5 April 2020 : the meme in question: pic.twitter.com/16eNmFFO1v
  • 5 April 2020 : boyfriend: *is sleepy* me: *flashes my nipple to wake him up* him: oh! did you see that meme I shared in the group chat? me: what? him: your nipple reminded me of Tom Nook! me: pic.twitter.com/BKj64YWdMm
  • 4 April 2020 : I WAS STUCK BETWEEN 9 AND 2
  • 4 April 2020 : 4, 5, and 2 😍 both 6 & 9 are honorable mentions. https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1246277479175618560
  • 4 April 2020 : Hi, please read this story about prisoners on the inside! https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1246226074641424385
  • 3 April 2020 : This straight up looks like a scene out of Little Nicky when the preacher is there possessed by a literal son of satan. That’s how nonsensical and disturbing this is. https://twitter.com/hemantmehta/status/1246108742246113289
  • 3 April 2020 : I’m sure this has already been pointed out but you really, truly can’t spell pandemic without PANIC and I think that people really need to internalize that. Your existential dread and anxiety right now is VALID AF.
  • 3 April 2020 : Follow this page for relevant research updates on coVID-19 from Infectious Disease Specialists/Researchers! https://twitter.com/vumc_id/status/1246072929298706432
  • 3 April 2020 : I’m so grateful for the communication skills my partner and I have and are engaging with during this fucking pandemic. SO healthy.
  • 3 April 2020 : 8pm panic attacks followed by 8am press releases. This is apparently my life now.
  • 2 April 2020 : I still hate this timeline and I would still appreciate if someone would stop this ride so I can get off. Thanks. 🙃
  • 2 April 2020 : Oh, hahah plus, my mother is a pharmacist and has no PPE except gloves/sanitizer for her, her pharmacy, her patients, or any of her techs. 🙃
  • 2 April 2020 : Also, 1 of my besties is being kept in an 80 person room in prison until July. Meanwhile, I’m getting mailed release paperwork the DOJ still filed/sent despite the fact that the state CANCELLED their scheduled March release date at the last min. They shoulda been home weeks ago.
  • 2 April 2020 : Hahahah. My long distance queer life partner just told me they’re gonna start processing CoVID tests in their research lab next week. Great. 🙃
  • 1 April 2020 : Hi. I’m Lilith Sinclair and welcome to, The Danger Zone... 😂😭☠️ This brought us a lot of outraged laughter at the absurdity of the timeline we exist in. Please enjoy this “wtf” moment brought to you by the USAF circa 2012. https://twitter.com/operatormaid/status/1245154580054319105 pic.twitter.com/aDdSDP559a
  • 1 April 2020 : Thanks for the breadcrumbs. That was a worthwhile thread to read to remember how far we have to go 🙃🙃🙃 Hahah appreciate your energy.
  • 31 March 2020 : I bought a new Nintendo account with a shit ton of games downloaded for hella cheap so I have a new friend code & have to start over but ITS WORTH IT. Add me! 7195 3217 5127 Also, my boyfriend now has my old account. Please keep him as a friend. Will vouch that he’s pretty cool
  • 31 March 2020 : Update: It’s only been 5ish months but time doesn’t matter anymore and everyday feels like 5 years of organizing time soooo.... yeah 😂
  • 31 March 2020 : Day 17(?) of spontaneously isolating with my white boyfriend after 6 months of dating: Today I had to teach him what I meant when I said that he was “down with the swirl” 😂☠️🤣
  • 31 March 2020 : YESSSS. I have to start over cause we got a new console and I’m down to help!
  • 31 March 2020 : there shouldn’t be explicit, unelected hierarchies in organizing spaces. BUT, if there are, white people shouldn’t be in charge. Ever. I’ve never met a white person who was anti-racist enough to justify being in any position of power ever.
  • 31 March 2020 : Literally this will not clear up in months. Let’s do our best not to recreate imitations of bureaucratic structures, and instead plan for the best use of the next two years to create new systems for community health. https://twitter.com/nashvilleabc/status/1244792219955015683
  • 29 March 2020 : ANGEL.
  • 29 March 2020 : SWERFs be like: I know what I’m talking about! 💁🏼‍♀️ I once saw a COMMERCIAL soliciting donations for sex trafficked women 😭through a “rescue” non-profit.😍 And now I write opinion pieces on the sex industry & sex trafficking💯
  • 29 March 2020 : Why do I feel like the person who wrote this is drawing this conclusion based on their *very* relevant experience of watching EVERY single episode of Law&Order SVU. 🙄😒 https://twitter.com/melissagira/status/1244261028294283264
  • 29 March 2020 : Get animal crossing like the rest of us. Definitely dips in to already limited time for sleep tho.
  • 29 March 2020 : The video capture lol
  • 29 March 2020 : How do this?
  • 29 March 2020 : delete this https://twitter.com/tristan__isaac/status/1244098813834350593
  • 29 March 2020 : broke: visiting my boyfriend during the pandemic woke: short term moving in with my partner until quarantine is over & we can both go on rambunctious and slutty polyamory sprees
  • 29 March 2020 : The next article idea I’ll never write because I’m too busy organizing: Hyper Femininity—The way queer young girls deftly weaponize performative femininity as both a coping mechanism & a shield from violent homophobia.
  • 29 March 2020 : Oof. This apocalypse brought with it a bunch of gender dysphoria that I hadn’t really seen before. Like for years I’ve put energy into being “queer & high femme” for so many reasons, part of which was enjoyment but not all. Reading this was really validating. Thank you.
  • 28 March 2020 : Face Off.
  • 28 March 2020 : Retweeting this because I’m sitting here confused as to how I’m supposed to deal with the frequency at which this occurs when it’s not even a super constant thing yet...... https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1240423738392231936
  • 28 March 2020 : This isn’t a subtweet. The ENTIRE city of Portland has a huge anti-blackness problem and I’ve got even less patience for it than usual. Y’all need to get your shit together & make sure you’re talking to QTBIPOC & BIPOC in general before you make decisions for the community.
  • 28 March 2020 : On an entirely separate note: How many signs of the apocalypse do we collectively need across the globe before we all go into “apocalypse” mode? Asking for a friend...
  • 28 March 2020 : A few weeks ago an Indigenous friend & I were talking about how, during the apocalypse, BIPOC (& POC who aren’t antiblack) in PDX should band together & clear out a few hundred miles as a “no whites” zone so we can actually organize... I’ve been thinking on that a lot lately.😒
  • 28 March 2020 : Me, yelling into the bathroom - “John!! Can we be a cute tiktok couple now??” 2 beats of silence before, “Sure!” ☺️ this is love.
  • 28 March 2020 : Here’s your daily PSA that gender is a FUCK.
  • 28 March 2020 : I came here to say this but knew in my heart that it had already been said. 😂
  • 28 March 2020 : If I lived in a different world I’d forsure have kids. But you know, the whole being brown thing means I know I can’t consciously bring another kid in this world or slow down the fight to make it safe for others soooo, YES. What you said!
  • 28 March 2020 : You know, some of us: -don’t have kids -already had depression(& more) -have an additional 30+ hours of unpaid work to do on top of our professional jobs -have to balance keeping emotional energy up for our friend groups I’d say that we’re “totally fucked” as well, Carol... https://twitter.com/cmaddenmft/status/1243597470459805696
  • 28 March 2020 : THIS. Holy fuck this. 😩😭 https://twitter.com/oureric/status/1243546103099817984
  • 27 March 2020 : It was me. I need to hear this. 🙃 https://twitter.com/sallybluntz/status/1243632939646234625
  • 27 March 2020 : Woke up and literally the first piece of news I see is that Boris Johnson has coronavirus....
  • 27 March 2020 : yo somebody make sure AG Will Barr gets the fucking Guillotine too. Literally no one wants a little extra transphobia to go with our pandemic. Like, no thanks for the offer but maybe kick rocks instead?
  • 26 March 2020 : Where can I go in the greater Portland area to just fucking *scream* without someone calling the cops? 🙃
  • 26 March 2020 : Someone please stop the planet, I wanna get off. 🙃
  • 26 March 2020 : CHECK 👏🏽 ON 👏🏽 YOUR 👏🏽 FRIENDS 👏🏽 WITH 👏🏽 MENTAL 👏🏽 ILLNESS Please y’all. Be sure you’re saving time & space to take care of your close interpersonal networks rn—not just organizing. Imma be real, I’m STRUGGLING. But daily FaceTimes w/ 5 of my best friends are keeping me going.
  • 26 March 2020 : #PORTLAND : Read this, SHARE it, & please tag every local reporter you know. I’ve been on phone calls w/ a comrade inside every few hours for days. This morning prisoners were told there was a confirmed case inside & prisoners had to sanitize the persons bunk. OUR DM’s ARE OPEN. https://twitter.com/showmeurbeans/status/1243234521576648704
  • 26 March 2020 : Oh. My. Goddess. HIS FACEEEE 😂🙄🤣☠️
  • 26 March 2020 : Don’t be stingy. Point us to the deals 😭 https://twitter.com/uppittynegress/status/1243024874681053191
  • 25 March 2020 : So bizarre watching completely empty busses rolling by....
  • 25 March 2020 : Yes! Your body knows best and if the thought is “should I pause & rest & eat”, there’s a good chance the answer is yes. Please enjoy some you time!
  • 25 March 2020 : Be my friend, pls: 4549 4557 3393
  • 25 March 2020 : Quarantine, Day.... idk time literally doesn’t mean jack shit rn 🥴🤷🏽‍♀️ pic.twitter.com/zSUQ6p68PB
  • 25 March 2020 : CACKLING 😂😂😭
  • 25 March 2020 : I just want to give a global shoutout to all our British comrades dealing with the nightmare-ish “Herd Immunity” strategy that Boris Johnson is pushing on their country. Recognizing I got caught up in local organizing & checked on the globe today to be terrified @ that “plan”
  • 25 March 2020 : Big. Oofs. https://twitter.com/clarissambrooks/status/1242913521010081794
  • 24 March 2020 : feeling pretty lucky to have found such an easy, cheesy, gross pre-quarantine romance. sounds like exactly the kind of post-apocalyptic teen romance I would have read at 14 & I’m here for it 🙃😅😍🥴
  • 24 March 2020 : I LOVE YOUUUUU https://twitter.com/showmeurbeans/status/1242530051087687680
  • 23 March 2020 : “By the end of the day, we’re going to be talking to Tom Nook! If it’s the last thing I do!” - My boyfriend, whom I had an hour long conversation with 2 days ago begging him to see the value in a switch AND had to tag in a friend to support me in that debate.
  • 23 March 2020 : Literally the WHOLE reason I shared lol
  • 23 March 2020 : It’s “going” to get bad? 🙃 fuck. https://twitter.com/npr/status/1242117678921367553
  • 23 March 2020 : I feel old. 🙃 https://twitter.com/israhirsi/status/1241926221539282946
  • 23 March 2020 : RT @NashvilleABC: Don’t really care if us supporting a victim makes us a pariah. As long as we have one comrade that’s enough. ✊
  • 23 March 2020 : Again, and again, and again, and again, and AGAIN I have to deal with white leftist men abusing women, femmes, and non binary people (especially trans women and QTBIPOC). I’m so over it. I’m signal boosting ALL the shit until y’all get it. https://twitter.com/saltpotatoes/status/1241889541449043969
  • 23 March 2020 : As I said over a month ago, the left has a problem that we need to address. Here’s a long but thought out thread I posted to that tune. https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1226623788135043072?s=21
  • 23 March 2020 : Because of my own experiences as a black woman being manipulated, gaslit, fed-named, cop-jacketed & abused by multiple celebrated, “militant”, “leftist,” white (& Latino) men, my conscience will not allow me to do anything but believe survivors. I cannot trust white anarchists. https://twitter.com/shakinghandviii/status/1241847229968781318
  • 22 March 2020 : I swear some of these skinny, cis, white sex workers don’t understand how little they have going for them outside of being skinny, cis & white....
  • 22 March 2020 : White people I legit need y’all to share this and vote. I’m so high & I gotta know if he’s only black ppl famous so I don’t ask one of y’all this again 😂☠️ https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1241601312556339200
  • 22 March 2020 : Question: Is Luther Vandross white people famous? Curious how confused I should be that a white person doesn’t know him. White people, do you know who Luther Vandross is?
  • 22 March 2020 : Bf: Did you see that viral image where someone was talking about how they thought their nausea was a sign of #Covid_19 but it turned out they’re pregnant? Me: Oh, nooo! Fuck. That sounds awful. Bf: Yeah, but at least one of those things is easily curable. 🤷🏻 Me: ☠️ pic.twitter.com/WOs7SjqXKE
  • 22 March 2020 : Honestly, this isolation/distancing is making me realize that: 1-I’m totally fine w/ & even enjoy long distance relationships 2- I love phone calls & most people don’t 3- 1+2+ forced distancing has emboldened my flirting w/ all my polyam crushes 😂
  • 21 March 2020 : Hi. I’m fuckin losing it. Said “this CUHrona” time ☠️🤣 I’m FUCKING DONE. #blacktwitter never lets me down https://twitter.com/xian_bell/status/1241232370864238592
  • 21 March 2020 : If you thought that I’m not about to binge watch all 5 seasons of Daria while high as shit during this isolation then you 100% thought wrong.
  • 21 March 2020 : ME. YES. about to lose it on an hourly basis I swear.
  • 21 March 2020 : pic.twitter.com/Rjrcn7FNCo
  • 21 March 2020 : A selfie of me in our grey car with a sign that says “Food Service Workers! Follow @JwJpdx & tell us how to help!” pic.twitter.com/tNRs5HJB3i
  • 21 March 2020 : We’re out at the @PortlandDSA Caravan with so many wonderful people demanding the government respond to the rampant issues with their capitalist response to #covid19 . Community is more important than ever & we have to be creative with how we show solidarity & maintain distance! pic.twitter.com/VrOr21SDFF
  • 20 March 2020 : https://twitter.com/portlanddsa/status/1240486599688769539?s=21
  • 20 March 2020 : An abandoned courtyard + @PortlandDSA ’s upcoming car caravan = social distancing + protest prep. My partner & I will be driving along w/ the caravan & NOT GETTING OUT! Will we see you w/ pots & pans standing @ your windows & doors? I hope so! Stay w/ your quarantine pod. 😘 pic.twitter.com/mxkQhrxfjq
  • 20 March 2020 : me, on spontaneous daily phone calls with all my gay best friends: hey! how are you? i dont have much time to talk right now but we’re gay so I just wanna check in on your “I wanna die” levels today. you’re good? kthnxloveyoubye 💕✌🏽
  • 20 March 2020 : Me: okay now let’s take a deep breath, clear our head, & put some relaxing music on while we keep panic organizing in response to COVID Spotify: lol, sike! Here’s some mildly dystopian shit for ya instead! Me: *Flips table* pic.twitter.com/aifGBceSg3
  • 20 March 2020 : RT @legogradstudent: Hot take: If 20 formative years of your life involve a major terrorist attack, two recessions, exorbitantly expensive…
  • 19 March 2020 : Hot tip: if you pour your hard seltzer into a glass, it looks just like normal seltzer. Now, no one will know you’re drinking on the zoom call. You’re welcome.
  • 19 March 2020 : I remember at Occupy I was like: “How are y’all able to do so much organizing while drunk & high.” I also was like, “Don’t do all that at camp cause we’re near the feds & it’s a risk.” Now as I organize from home on quarantine, I’m taking shots before conference calls like “OH”
  • 19 March 2020 : a WHOLE ass mood. fuck. https://twitter.com/ok_beloved/status/1240700418990075904
  • 19 March 2020 : Really thinking about impulse shaving my head so that I can cut out the 1-10 hours a week I spend dealing with my fro and focus it on organizing or, yknow, sleep....
  • 19 March 2020 : Make signs! Post them in your window!(car OR house!) Stand in your doorway with a megaphone. Blast music. Pull out the family’s old skillet & make some noise. Whatever you do, stay safe & GET LOUD. I hope to hear Portland echoing w/ the sounds of the working class in solidarity
  • 19 March 2020 : We know that there’s SO many avid bike lovers in Portland, we’d be hard pressed to get people out on bikes, en masse, & still retain 6-10 feet of distance on the street.
  • 19 March 2020 : I’m excited about this action because it allows for following social distancing/isolation AND interaction. People not already quarantining together should NOT be getting into vehicles together. But folx can still participate from windows or front doors too!
  • 19 March 2020 : Now’s the time for creative organizing & community solidarity efforts! People housebound w/o contact & desperate for connection will inevitably take risks. Despite our general stance on cars, this tactic provides an opportunity to boost morale, maintain distancing, & spread news https://twitter.com/portlanddsa/status/1240486599688769539
  • 19 March 2020 : Another resource, about Baltimore where I grew up, but also relevant here: https://lbsbaltimore.com/the-industry-of-black-suffering-breaking-down-the-non-profit-industrial-complex/
  • 19 March 2020 : A resource: https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/08/how-white-women-use-strategic-tears-to-avoid-accountability
  • 19 March 2020 : It’s nearly 2am on this glorious #ThrowbackThirstday but ya girl hasn’t been to sleep so that means it’s still technically day three of our #LockDownLewds / #LeftistLewds series. Check the replies for some leftist content relevant to my day. 🙃 pic.twitter.com/1zHNb6FCHl
  • 19 March 2020 : Duolingo, please perform a stop. pic.twitter.com/bRBPq8vKgW
  • 19 March 2020 : 🤷🏽‍♀️ we found out we got potentially exposed together hanging out with a friend early last week so we’ve just been together
  • 18 March 2020 : Literally got so distracted drooling over him that I forgot I’m making MACARONI AND CHEESE. Of all the things to forget about, mac&cheese usually never loses. Wtf. Fuck this shit.
  • 18 March 2020 : You’re telling me I just have to sit here on the couch in this studio apartment & watch my boyfriend weighlift in the sunlight & not jump his bones and you expect me to NOT lose my mind?
  • 18 March 2020 : RT @emmatsalageek: my coworker’s mom is being tested for COVID-19 and this bundle of chaos is running around WITHOUT A FACE SHIELD ON he c…
  • 18 March 2020 : I am. 😂
  • 18 March 2020 : I literally hate white women so much. The audacity of an Instagram famous white sex worker tanking a local sex worker led mutual aid project by saying I’m using it to steal funds when IM NOT EVEN INVOLVED. Like how do you fuck up that bad?
  • 18 March 2020 : My love language is literally nonstop validation and attention. 🙃
  • 18 March 2020 : Meanwhile, I’ve been blasting cigs like a maniac and thinking about how high school tracks will be empty during the day & I can start circuit training sprints again. 😂
  • 18 March 2020 : Childcare weeks also have children who need taken care of & to worry about keeping distance from other kids. Childcare wrkrs also have immunocompromised family & need to social distance. Childcare workers also need financial assistance & to be safe. Pay people to stay home. https://twitter.com/senschumer/status/1240020778000801797
  • 18 March 2020 : I’m still really mad this didn’t get the attention it deserved.... https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1216264953587351552
  • 18 March 2020 : Come back tomorrow for more lewds and community organizing psas. Goodnight losers 😘😋💕❤️
  • 18 March 2020 : Support SWers organizing to mobilize funds for supporting sex workers. SHARE THIS TWEET. http://tiny.cc/pdxswcovidrelief
  • 18 March 2020 : Portland DSA has put out a comprehensive list of demands in regards to the city/ states lack of response to COVID19 https://twitter.com/portlanddsa/status/1239657204690456576?s=21
  • 18 March 2020 : PopMob PDX has put out a great tweet of resources! https://twitter.com/popmobpdx/status/1238590511755087872?s=21
  • 18 March 2020 : Quarantined with my boo and he took some dope pictures of me for my #HoeletariatChronicles #2 post. I bet y’all thought I forgot. Here to serve casual Slytherpuff vibes & remind you to share the tweets below to track some great PDX organizing around #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/azcuBw2Zu0
  • 18 March 2020 : Yes incubation and contagion period aren’t necessarily the same
  • 18 March 2020 : I’m also desperately awaiting answers to this question. I have very likely been around someone who was incubating right before distancing happened & I want to isolate until there’s no chance I’m still carrying it. https://twitter.com/soulflowerjess/status/1240044073227972609
  • 17 March 2020 : Straight up the worst time to realize you lost your vibrator charger.
  • 17 March 2020 : bitches be tweeting at a bunch of other organizers to slow down & drink water while answering a thousand texts/emails & feeling the slow onset of a dehydration headache because they haven’t left their bed/laptop/phone in 6 hours. 🙃 it’s me. i’m bitches.
  • 17 March 2020 : There’s so much to be done. I’m having a hard time focusing on 1 endeavor & it’s slowing me down. I’m such a big empath & have such high capacity that sometimes I forget even I have limits. Slow down. Breathe. Drink water. Plan things out. Organize your organizing & get it done.
  • 17 March 2020 : Here’s a reminder to every organizer: You CANNOT do it all RIGHT NOW. But there are probably already support networks working on the thing you just discovered needs done & we will still be helpful. We don’t need superheroes. We just need to help the working class WORK TOGETHER.
  • 17 March 2020 : https://twitter.com/imani_barbarin/status/1239976712118702082?s=21
  • 17 March 2020 : Please be amplifying tweets today from disabled communities responding to Chuck Schumer’s proposed bill with the hashtag #SeeUsSchumer .
  • 17 March 2020 : If you haven’t been engaging at all with personal & vocal anti-ableism work, but you’re a temporarily able-bodied person, now is not the time to question disabled people about how to be an ally. Listen to what they’re saying & parrot it. They’ve got enough to do, google it.
  • 17 March 2020 : (Or without credit and posted anonymously if that feels safer/better) Just trying to offer tangible means of support, but also, I’m sorry you deal with this and I relate from being multi marginalized in different ways. The left truly sucks sometimes.
  • 17 March 2020 : If you want anything screenshotted and shared while you’re on private so that your voice can be amplified while providing insulation from trolls, I’d be happy to do so. I don’t have a huge platform here but I have 20k followers on fb & always willing to amplify voices w/ credit
  • 17 March 2020 : s/o to @tristan__isaac for the dope idea! Too late tonight to get some racy new pics taken but we’re definitely doing fresh pics on the daily now. 😘💕✨
  • 17 March 2020 : Isolation Thirst Traps, Day#1 We’re gonna do a series because I’m a Leo moon & I literally thrive on attention. Plus, I’m helping organize response to COVID —so thirsty new followers getting stuck with a feed of mostly radical shit is ideal. #RentFreezeNow #solidarityforever pic.twitter.com/YeN2YKeUrC
  • 17 March 2020 : Ahahah, this is such a genius idea. I was just thinking about how I’m gonna die from lack of attention if something doesn’t change soon....
  • 17 March 2020 : “The # of coronavirus cases in the United States has more than doubled since Friday.” Now, I don’t want ppl to focus on number of cases as a way to undercut the response. Instead, I want ppl to focus on growth trends. We don’t have capacity @ this rate. https://www.msnbc.com/mtp-daily/watch/confirmed-cases-of-covid-19-in-the-united-states-crosses-4000-80725061595?cid=sm_npd_ms_fb_ma
  • 16 March 2020 : This is it. The exact rhetoric that begins us firmly down the road toward Chinese-American internment. Patronize Chinese owned (& all Asian owned) businesses. Check in on your Chinese& other Asian friends. Publicly denounce this language & rebuke or cut ties w/ any1 spreading it https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1239685852093169664
  • 16 March 2020 : Oof. Very mixed feelings seeing cops w/ sirens on blaring down residential neighborhood artery streets knowing they’re only supposed to be responding to life-threatening emergencies.... 😖
  • 16 March 2020 : wrong drawer for panties 😂 that’s all negligees, thigh highs, strappy body suits and micro tops
  • 16 March 2020 : Note to self: do not leave the lingerie drawer open unless you want a cat in it 🙃 pic.twitter.com/faiN8Qg5NI
  • 16 March 2020 : Does social distancing mean I can’t pet these magic rainbow kitties that caused the weirdest light flare I’ve never seen before? pic.twitter.com/H8CTgNZq4a
  • 16 March 2020 : Any other “Let’s Play” comic fans who thought this tweet was about one of the main characters for a sec? 😅 https://twitter.com/socialistdogmom/status/1239570456870518785
  • 16 March 2020 : I redownloaded the plague game yesterday, not gonna lie 🙃😅😂
  • 16 March 2020 : I have a feeling I’m about to be on a phone call with like 30 of my favorite organizers in the city and I’m so excited & energized about working with all of you. 😍😭 #wegotthisPDX
  • 14 March 2020 : “wiped” clean 😂☠️😫😂
  • 14 March 2020 : Okay, but imagine this: everyones social distancing/on quarantine. You & a buncha your friends can’t work or risk hanging out. Instead, yall coordinate a (preferably encrypted) video chat. You &10 of your friends dropping acid from afar & watching each other be weird in REAL TIME
  • 14 March 2020 : deadddddd ☠️😂 https://twitter.com/aniabdulhalim/status/1238285317125345286
  • 13 March 2020 : Wow, I can’t believe one phone deflated all my energy to organize. Fuck. Imma get it back but this is a sign that it’s time to take a break today, even during a crises.
  • 13 March 2020 : Someone please punch me in the face.
  • 13 March 2020 : Having to do a lot of self-crit and therapy prep evaluating the ways my executive function is most capable in a crises situation & non-existent when threat of death isn’t imminent 🙃 feeling powerful today tho not gonna lie
  • 12 March 2020 : RT @GenResistance: Wet’suwet’en has made a call out for solidarity action THIS Friday! Portland, from 5-7pm we will occupy the sidewalks of…
  • 9 March 2020 : Read the whole thread! https://twitter.com/beadagainstfash/status/1236890002669416448
  • 9 March 2020 : God, I need so much verbal validation. S/o to all my close friends who put up with my needy ass. Y’all are the real OGs pic.twitter.com/M23dwe8Tr5
  • 9 March 2020 : Our intern, in front of our ED: Wow, Lilith, you’re so happy and energized today. You’re like radiating good energy. What’s got you so happy? What I say: What, oh? Probably my new antidepressants kicking in lol! My brain: Hahaha I’m just high af.
  • 9 March 2020 : Doing workshop layouts and putting in random filler text like: 😍 pic.twitter.com/8EJVzTNrZJ
  • 9 March 2020 : Wyt ppl be like: Black coffee with just a pump or two of repurposed creamer this morning to keep me safe from the coronavirus 😂 pic.twitter.com/C0op9O1xfG
  • 9 March 2020 : I’ve listened to @whoisLukejames new album in full twice already and I just want more 😭🤤❤️🥰 between him & @JheneAiko dropping new music this week I’m in heaven
  • 9 March 2020 : HAHAAHH oh right this is why I don’t draw people because these teeth sketches are terrifying 😂☠️ pic.twitter.com/0COuq6RD32
  • 8 March 2020 : “Join @PortlandDSA ,” they said. “We have cupcakes,” they said. They DELIVERED. 😍🤤 pic.twitter.com/iqQP9yUCge
  • 8 March 2020 : My favorite thread I’ve seen so far on staying safe regarding the coronavirus and contamination/sanitation. https://twitter.com/betacuck4lyfe/status/1236740742627782656
  • 8 March 2020 : Come vote for my best friend because they work their butt off and care so much and are such a good, sweet, competent, confident, committed, & passionate comrade who also has dope praxis, wicked analysis & the cutest socialist doggo. #OpalAndSahar2020 https://twitter.com/showmeurbeans/status/1236395043990065153
  • 6 March 2020 : I quit after the shitty way they killed Derek (not the fact that he died, just how it was handled) and I’ve been thinking of starting over & continuing past that point to give it another chance but this convinced me not to so thank you very much for this thread.
  • 6 March 2020 : Gender first analysis has to be one of the worst fucking takes. All this unwavering solidarity with “progressive woman leaders” is toxic af. It’s why feminism has to be RADICALLY and aggressively Intersectional or its absolutely useless garbage.
  • 6 March 2020 : The fact that her base of supporters consists of so many white women (& unfortunately WOC, too) that are so desperate to see themselves as president to be able to wipe their hands & say “See, we did it! Women can be imperialist war-mongering murderers too. This is progress.”
  • 6 March 2020 : I don’t like Warren for so many reasons. Her decades of taking financial opportunities from Indigenous people & women of color is one. Her proud devotion to capitalism is another. But a really, really big motivation for my lack of trust for Warren?
  • 6 March 2020 : White liberals/progressives really don’t care about anyone but themselves and I need y’all to see and understand this. This is the driving motivation behind this #WarrenToBiden wave. To uphold white and class privilege & to make some slight revisions to the status quo. https://twitter.com/jess_mc/status/1235691883705389057
  • 6 March 2020 : This is my exact position on this subject. https://twitter.com/livkittykat/status/1236052968564092929
  • 6 March 2020 : Looking at that 5% with straight up murderous rage tbh.... https://twitter.com/comradekanye/status/1236022341962010624
  • 6 March 2020 : Here’s your daily reminder that white people are garbage and I really do viscerally hate most of y’all except like a solid 50 of you on this entire planet. pic.twitter.com/b2GDNxlyam
  • 5 March 2020 : I haven’t been worried about coronavirus at all up until I realized that I’m going to be getting on multiple flights in the next two months to go to conferences/trainings packed full of strangers & now I’m gonna start taking SO many extra vitamins & immunoboosters. 🙃
  • 5 March 2020 : So jealous! I just scheduled ANOTHER dentist appointment with my new insurance provider to see if they’re out enough that they’ll take them out my face. Congratulations!!!
  • 5 March 2020 : My wisdom teeth have been slowly slicing through my gums for like 4 years now and I’m at the point where I wanna take an exacto knife to my jaw. No wonder babies cry all the goddamned time. Teething fucking HURTS.
  • 5 March 2020 : Y’all really wanna convince black and Indigenous people not to vote suggesting bullshit like this.... https://twitter.com/afaltschul/status/1235620898557661184
  • 5 March 2020 : Able-bodied people—read this tweet & the replies and then think of this: If you’re conscious, medical professionals have to ask to help you at risk of legal action. Why would you think you can just “help” someone without asking? Don’t do this. Don’t touch people w/o asking. https://twitter.com/mabegoses/status/1235222324980441088
  • 5 March 2020 : Some of the pieces of Warren’s announcement of her suspension of her campaign reads like such liberal garbage. Specifically, “A year ago no one was talking about corruption.” 🙄
  • 5 March 2020 : Excuse me, sir, I did not come to tinder looking to be dragged like this. Please tone it down. pic.twitter.com/aBhkqPRz9w
  • 5 March 2020 : This is not surprising. I thought everyone knew that men are disgusting? https://twitter.com/jennyjaffe/status/1235370266563186688
  • 5 March 2020 : How did I survive life before I became a stoner?
  • 5 March 2020 : this. This. THIS. https://twitter.com/potlatchcommie/status/1235450299440984064
  • 5 March 2020 : This is a whole ass mess. https://twitter.com/shanegoldmacher/status/1235202301658386433
  • 5 March 2020 : If I could help it, I would not be attracted to men. But I can’t, so here we are....
  • 5 March 2020 : This is the most Portland thread I’ve ever seen. https://twitter.com/alexmilantracy/status/1235275567651405825
  • 5 March 2020 : Why did no one tell me I have a giraffes neck? pic.twitter.com/4o4h8WCsqJ
  • 5 March 2020 : LOLOLOLOL the irony of a known misogynistic leftist man helping to host a shitty podcast with a 3 hour episode titled “protect women & femmes at all costs” would be hilarious if it wasn’t even more enraging. Especially considering there’s a patreon set up to support it.... 🙃
  • 4 March 2020 : Okay, not gonna lie, those scooters are fucking fun....
  • 4 March 2020 : I will never adjust to introducing myself and hearing, “Oh, wait, YOURE Lilith?” Queue the instant anxiety.
  • 4 March 2020 : Last night was the first time I’ve touched a pole in months and while it’s very much like riding a bike, my arms and stomach are so fucking sore from that one set 😭
  • 4 March 2020 : oof. that’s real. I feel grateful I haven’t spaced out enough to do that one 😅
  • 4 March 2020 : I produced, cohosted, perfomed at, and DJ’d for an event tonight.... like, with performances & fundraising & music & WOW. It was so last minute & it still went FANTASTIC. I’m fighting tears & SO thankful for everyone who helped so much w/ this event. pic.twitter.com/7g3SoUrYrR
  • 4 March 2020 : Me: “Who just left their trash lying here on this table??” 🤨 Also me: “Oh, I did that....” 🙃
  • 3 March 2020 : I’ll be co-hosting this event tonight with Nikki Lev and we’ll both be performing along with a slew of other amazing entertainers! Plus, you can enter for a chance to win a lap dance from some of our sexy performers! 🤤 Spread the word! 7:30pm at Crush Bar! https://twitter.com/decrimoregon/status/1234933391042023425
  • 2 March 2020 : Is this an animal crossing joke?
  • 29 February 2020 : Me to my antidepressants: I can has just a little orgasms, as a treat? 🥺🙏🏽
  • 29 February 2020 : Okay but that sounds so fucking good tho 👀🤤
  • 29 February 2020 : https://twitter.com/davdrangel/status/1233079640341778437 pic.twitter.com/ugG9Obiz5o
  • 28 February 2020 : Just fire off this meme to all your prospective dates to set the tone pic.twitter.com/rNWGHXVMjN
  • 28 February 2020 : I’m not generally one for conspiracy theories but..... https://twitter.com/thotscholar/status/1233038110583410694 pic.twitter.com/1S6jp57zCJ
  • 27 February 2020 : This is why we need #MedicareForAll . This is why we need to understand fatphobia as a systemic—and deadly—oppressive force. This is why we need universal access to healthcare, not just “affordable” options. #EverybodyInNobodyOut https://twitter.com/showmeurbeans/status/1233044378618343425
  • 27 February 2020 : This made me laugh, so I’m sharing it. pic.twitter.com/4r6MU1TISC
  • 27 February 2020 : The white half of me really jumped out for that moment. I still can’t believe I did that shit.
  • 27 February 2020 : Me: *climbs over a moving train cause it’s in my way* Me, immediately after: Oh! Now I kinda get why white people like to do extreme sports....
  • 27 February 2020 : Your train wasn’t moving?!?! 😂😂☠️ that makes so much more sense. I’ll take the scolds. For the two seconds where I was holding onto a moving train with nothing but one hand & one foot, I just kept thinking “my moms gonna kill me if this is how I die”
  • 27 February 2020 : Amazing!! That’s fucking awesome! ✊🏽
  • 27 February 2020 : Okay but how tf did you do that cause I had to shove everything in my hands into my backpack just to even feel ready to try! I’m so impressed by you rn! We got off and I turned to my friend like, “can you believe people do this with bikes??”
  • 27 February 2020 : Y’all. I just climbed onto, over, and off of a moving train and that was one of the most exhilarating things I’ve done in a long ass time. pic.twitter.com/qwFcZNDSDz
  • 26 February 2020 : Found this portrait of @PeteButtigieg hanging on the wall at our local city liquidators. Anyone know who the artist is for credit? #corporaterat pic.twitter.com/d0os0q5BeK
  • 26 February 2020 : Oops, I forgot. Here she is. pic.twitter.com/yv6vfl7TwU
  • 26 February 2020 : Today’s outfit inspiration is brought to you by the lesbians on tiktok 🏳️‍🌈 #imgay pic.twitter.com/91OcYJHDOD
  • 26 February 2020 : That me is really an “us.” Specifically, ppl who have the privilege to be visible & forward facing (white ppl) or people who choose to do the emotional labor & take the risk involved w/ being visible because we know the movement needs it (black & indigenous ppl esp women/femmes)
  • 26 February 2020 : I see lots of ppl who “want a leaderless movement,” then turn around & aggressively idolize ppl who are in visible positions of leadership. I need y’all to make it make sense. You want consensus/democracy or you want me to answer all the problems & carry the weight. Which is it?
  • 26 February 2020 : I don’t regret saying this on tape. White people need to keep MLK’s name out of their mouths. 🤷🏽‍♀️ https://twitter.com/bread_headed/status/1232466774374801408
  • 25 February 2020 : But also, today’s coffee cup is a WHOLE “Black woman working at a nonprofit” type of MOOD. 😂 pic.twitter.com/CczcDxsyrH
  • 25 February 2020 : My desk, like my life in general, is a mess right now... 🙃 And similarly, I don’t even know where to begin in organizing it lolol fuck pic.twitter.com/5e8OA9yQxL
  • 25 February 2020 : Why is a white person holding the black sign.... there’s so much to unpack here.
  • 25 February 2020 : I’m really appreciating seeing a whole community of women in the comments lamenting the fact that cheese wrecks our bodies now. 😭😭 This whole giving up cheese or remembering to buy and take a pill thing is the worst. https://twitter.com/tigerorchid67/status/1232416720213594113
  • 25 February 2020 : What is confusing?
  • 25 February 2020 : I was not ready for my recent break up with cheese. I need this book. Someone (black) please write it. Or someone please adopt me as a younger sister and show me the ropes because I’m NOT ready. https://twitter.com/mspackyetti/status/1232413947074109441
  • 25 February 2020 : One of the side effects of the antidepressant I recently started taking again is “increased yawning”.....
  • 25 February 2020 : I need to get stoned and interviewed for thesis papers about direct action more often. I feel like I said a lot of deep, raw shit last night & don’t remember most of it. 🙃
  • 25 February 2020 : “If you could give any 1 piece of advice to ppl new to organizing direct action, what would it be?” Focus intimately on what you can control, while staying painstakingly aware of what you cant. There’s so many things you can control. You worry about what you cant & you burn out.
  • 25 February 2020 : THIS 🙃 https://twitter.com/ayathelazerbeam/status/1232083426670366721
  • 25 February 2020 : Women can have just a little bit of trauma, as a treat... 🥴🤢🙄 https://twitter.com/menwritewomen/status/1228033598332293124
  • 25 February 2020 : I use an aggressive amount of exclamation points in my text/written communications....
  • 25 February 2020 : Oh, god, when I was a newborn baby stripper I was working like 4-7 nights a week for the first like 4 months. My body still hates me for it. This last part is SO real.
  • 25 February 2020 : What the hap is even fuckening in my dating life? It’s like the parade of my most serious exes in my inbox rn 🙃 Polyam’s great and like, it’s....cool? But uhhh, I’m in the feels here over some of this shit.
  • 25 February 2020 : confirmed that this is the one true submissive emoji 😂 #imbaby 🥺 https://twitter.com/dioramies/status/1231623945700306944
  • 23 February 2020 : That music is life pin is literally 12 years old and from high school when we used to go to the mall just to steal pins and rainbow studded “leather” bracelets from hot topic & Spencer’s. 😂 pic.twitter.com/puSuo5LzCZ
  • 23 February 2020 : my partners and being able to rely on them seeing and knowing where my normal limits are. I hope that’s helpful! If you have any questions feel free to ask away! 6/6
  • 23 February 2020 : C continued) not thinking about self harm as a motivation for my play. It can be a really blurry line sometimes, but I really think that when I’m questioning if it’s healthy or not for me to do a certain type of play rn, the answer is generally no or not w/o extra help from 5/
  • 23 February 2020 : A) Do impact play if they feel comfortable recognizing where my normal limits are & putting an end to the scene if I’m pushing myself past where we normally go without safewording B) only do very light impact C) Not do impact play until we’ve had check-ins & I’m not thinking
  • 23 February 2020 : to step back & not engage in impact/pain. If I’m currently struggling with intrusive thoughts or thinking a lot about self harm, I try not to engage w/ new play partners & I tell my trusted partners before we start doing any impact play that I can either: 4/
  • 23 February 2020 : Enough for me to be in pain comfortably. Essentially, I think the only way to really find that line is to be doing regular assessments of your mental health & what your motivations are. These days, if I’m feeling like I “deserve” to be hit b/c of any number of reasons, I try 3/
  • 23 February 2020 : do that in a healthy way to process my mental health & impulses. & for a very BRIEF period of time it was okay. But then I found myself pushing past my normal impact limits because in-scene I was thinking about how this was a “normal” level of pain for me & therefore it wasn’t 2/
  • 23 February 2020 : So, l like 2 yrs ago I had a lot of stressors in my non-kink life that were affecting my mental health, & despite having done impact for yrs in a healthy way, I found myself only wanting to schedule impact play as a replacement for self harm urges. At first I thought I could 1/
  • 23 February 2020 : I don’t have top dysphoria specifically but I have struggled with self harm in the past & had to stop myself from doing impact play for a while because of the line being blurred. I’d be happy to share more but don’t wanna take up space if you’re looking for that specific context.
  • 23 February 2020 : i literally feel like my arms got a workout from how they were simultaneously tensed but also trembling ever since then 😂😂
  • 23 February 2020 : Me: speaks at protests while inches from armed riot police, at rallies, at events, & on panels VERY often with barely a flinch💁🏽‍♀️ ALSO Me: performs a single spoken word poem to a small crowd of very supportive people & shakes like a leaf through every limb of my body🙇🏽‍♀️🥺 😅🤦🏽‍♀️🤓
  • 23 February 2020 : Yes. Definitely.
  • 22 February 2020 : RT @unclebradish: Been eyeing our Leaping Stag Hoodies at https://t.co/p6y4e2bBPs ? Use the coupon code CANVASS on the @PortlandDSA webstor…
  • 22 February 2020 : there are so many white peoples in the replies of the original tweet practically *begging* for an invite to the cookout. like “OTHER white people DONT KNOW that??” 🙄😑 Get ouuutttttt. Y’all can’t even feign tone on the internet when you try. How?? https://twitter.com/lordebarrington/status/1231008852893687813
  • 22 February 2020 : Sober me was seriously so thoughtful for stoned me when picking out snacks for munchies. 🥺 I’m so stoked on this food right now. Good job sober me. 🤝
  • 21 February 2020 : RT @PopMobPDX: HB 4126 is the most dangerous sort of "Both Sides" bullshit. Call your rep and tell them what you think! #Antifaceprivacy…
  • 21 February 2020 : I cannot believe I went to the doctor this morning and they let me be seen without an ID, didn’t charge me anything, gave me two vaccines, & gave me scripts for new meds. That’s like the first time a DRs appointment has been that seamless. And it could easily be like that always.
  • 21 February 2020 : HI, EVERYONE PLEASE READ AND SHARE THIS SHORT 3 TWEET THREAD (especially if you’re a black person still campaigning for/supporting warren....) https://twitter.com/musewendi/status/1230460538146230274
  • 20 February 2020 : Struggling to get a new ID & official copies of my vital docs. It’s a vicious cycle cause to get any of the 3 replaced they want 1 of the others. It’s exasperating my struggles with mental illness. So I schedule a DRs visit & they want photo ID to check in🙃 This is the bad place
  • 20 February 2020 : Casual reminder that 1 full time job is supposed to pay enough to not only survive, but enjoy life. Capitalism is a broken system reliant on the poor to continue to be too broke(n), tired & struggling to have energy to demand freedom & fair compensation from the ruling elite. https://twitter.com/lilmissagitated/status/1230594497421008897
  • 20 February 2020 : I sure would like to not have anymore emergency situations put on my plate today 🙃 this has been more than enough for 24 hrs. On that note, I’m putting a thread up later on some retaliation happening to the comrade caged at CRCI tonight so we have a paper trail tracking this.
  • 20 February 2020 : RT @sunnydaejones: Im actually thinking about how, in the last 2 or 3 years, alot of Black cis people with large platforms continuously mes…
  • 20 February 2020 : Ugh I’m so sorry to hear that cause I’m a ball of anxiety rn
  • 20 February 2020 : Just woke up from a nightmare about being effectively kidnapped and assaulted by the police so that’s casual... 🙃
  • 20 February 2020 : Me: struggling with internalized biphobia & the erasure of my sexuality because I’m in a visible relationship w/ a cishet man Also me: *travels two hours by public transit to take a cute girl candy* My brain: SEE, WE’RE FUCKING GAY!!! Me: pic.twitter.com/TdkbGxuTiJ
  • 20 February 2020 : Prepping to get off the max at the next stop. Put a cigarette in my mouth and my lighter in hand. Started thinking about something I wanted to tweet and absentmindedly ALMOST LIT THE CIG ON THE MAX. I’m fucking losing it y’all.
  • 20 February 2020 : Reflections adter being inside the mall on a Wednesday afternoon? -Teenagers travel in swarms like bees: they’re cute, mostly harmless little creatures that when in a swarm travel with a near constant buzzing of sound. - Retail workers are heroes and are braver than marines.
  • 19 February 2020 : As we know from watching fash in DC waltz down the street in masks & with police escort: anti-mask laws are about silencing antifascists & all those who would stand up against the murderous, fascist regime of the state. Don’t let them pass HB4126! Call or email your reps today! https://twitter.com/cairoregon/status/1229940399927488512
  • 19 February 2020 : Saw this last night. Wanted to save the retweet for a time with better visibility. Please read this short thread. We should be consistently checking our use of ableist language. https://twitter.com/hijade2madre/status/1229612452519632896
  • 19 February 2020 : Same.
  • 19 February 2020 : why is Lil Nas famous enough to get things from Beyoncé but they can’t stock him up with any fresh dry erase markers for comedic effect?? 😭 https://twitter.com/lilnasx/status/1229889283558764545
  • 19 February 2020 : I fucking hate intellectuals™ so much. Y’all really do be out here just fLeXiNG those degrees for no reason, huh? To be flaunting your art degree over criticism of a shitty tattoo 😬🤔 pic.twitter.com/cRYOOZI3CU
  • 19 February 2020 : Dear @Postmates social media/marketing teams, Paying for ads that target potential customers with regional foods NOT generally available/accessible in their region is cruel, unnecessary, rude, & just a waste of marketing dollars. Target this shit in the NE US where it’ll work. pic.twitter.com/lN8rXmMD2N
  • 19 February 2020 : White men definitely do beat up and murder their black girlfriends/wives/partners when that fetishization turns from fun and exciting to tiring and shameful before their racist violence takes over. I say this as a black woman who has dated far too many white men.
  • 19 February 2020 : To the white men in tea chai te talking about the Occupy ICE autonomous zone from two years ago in the terms of it being a “nice, little blockade”: For this—and the contents of the entire rest of your infuriating liberal bullshit conversation—I fucking hate you.
  • 18 February 2020 : There is a white man in a face mask wandering around the common area between two Asian restaurants in a shared building and I’m just staring @ him trying to figure out if he’s legitimately sick and courteous or just problematic and racist...
  • 18 February 2020 : There is so much fucking transphobia on my fb feed today holy shit. Here’s a friendly reminder that terfs deserve to get their teeth kicked in. Also casual PSA to my trans peeps that I will always go to bat for you if you need me to whenever and however I can.
  • 18 February 2020 : Me too, friendo. Me too.
  • 18 February 2020 : One time at a powwow my friend said she was walking away from the elder & other non-smokers we were sitting by to “smudge her lungs” and honestly I still laugh about that joke at least twice a week. pic.twitter.com/5c4ZZNenBh
  • 18 February 2020 : Thank you!! ❤️
  • 18 February 2020 : When you recognize your *desperate* need to get back on anti-depressants but haven’t been able to access healthcare so instead you just take intermittent orgasm breaks during the day for just a little bit of dopamine (as a treat) to get you through your next few hours of work. 🙃
  • 18 February 2020 : Update: We’re at 90/100! I went ahead & made the deposit now so that it all processes in time for our comrade to make orders. If another 20$ comes in to cover the fee & extra 10 I’d be grateful b/c money’s tight this week but not dire! Pls update your followers that need is met. pic.twitter.com/LPpFIqkOE6
  • 18 February 2020 : Update: 40/100$! Thank you!
  • 18 February 2020 : Currently at (0/100$).
  • 18 February 2020 : I have Venmo too which is also @littlexhellcat ! (I also have paypal which you can dm me for cause it’s my fed name) As always, I’ll post screenshots of the deposit once I make it and will update y’all if and when money comes in along the way to the 100$ goal. Shares are helpful!
  • 18 February 2020 : Hey y’all! The prisoner who blew the whistle on the lack of hot water at Columbia River also recently got denied early release we were all planning for. He’s now got a full 5 months left instead of 6 weeks & needs $ for new shoes/toiletries. Goal is 100$! http://cash.me/$littlexhellcat
  • 18 February 2020 : A tattoo of a dead native next to her ass that she’s excusing because she’s allegedly “1/8th” Native, in addition to tweets showing her using nigga freely?? White people really do have so much audacity.... https://twitter.com/peggyfromihop/status/724815839367684096
  • 18 February 2020 : A “gender fluid ace-leaning pansexual” on the internet just told me I’m toxic for pointing out why using tacos & hot dogs to “reveal” their kids genders is bad. They also taught me cis-het is a slur & not everything is about race “on behalf of the LGBTQ community. Lucky me. 🙃
  • 18 February 2020 : Dear god I never wake up before 9 and I did not dress appropriately for this morning frostiness 🥶😭
  • 18 February 2020 : Held accountable, how...? It’s not illegal to troll people on the internet. What do y’all want? People arrested? Like as a black woman who gets death threats I know that most trolls online need blocked they don’t need the police at their door. 🙃
  • 18 February 2020 : This just in, wealthy people don’t know that lots of people genuinely can’t afford TVs.... let alone passports! https://twitter.com/theodhari/status/1229443436543193091
  • 18 February 2020 : Catch me on Facebook describing every piece of writing I share (or every OC meme I make on insta🙃) exactly like this.... 😂 https://twitter.com/itsbedtime_/status/1229439011518894083
  • 18 February 2020 : Benefits of NRE: -Lots of dopamine/serotonin rushes -care/affection/attention -lots of orgasms NRE Negatives: -is not an *actual* antidepressant -has you spending every second of your executive functioning abilities on chasing your serotonin addiction -stalls productivity
  • 17 February 2020 : Just saw some baby gays walking down the street in the sun holding hands and my elder queer heart is just so happy about the care-free way they were carrying themselves.
  • 17 February 2020 : and that’s on gay religious trauma. 💁🏽‍♀️ (This second tweet brought to you by me realizing a missed opportunity for quality tiktok content)
  • 17 February 2020 : My brain-time to go to work Me: oh yeah! Let’s get ready to go. 🧠-don’t forget to smoke for work?? 🧠-Yeah remember you gotta spend time in a church... ohhhh shit. you right, good lookin out this time brain. 🧠-np Can we maybe get some more serotonin too? 🧠-hahah nah
  • 17 February 2020 : Update: Music nerd is apparently also not accurate. Idk what language to use here... do people use the word analog regularly? Sarcastically or otherwise? ....am I the fucking nerd for thinking it was weird?
  • 17 February 2020 : Update: I’ve been rightfully informed that some of these people were not tech nerds. Instead they’re just....old? Idk. I mimicked the word analog being used about some soundboard things & never hear people use that so I thought it was nerdy. Maybe music nerds is more accurate? 😅
  • 17 February 2020 : Last night while high and hanging with a buncha tech nerds I asked if I could hit someone’s Juul because I can’t smoke my “analog tobacco sticks” indoors and I swear a piece of me died inside immediately.
  • 16 February 2020 : I’ve heard thoughts and prayers help..... unconfirmed rumors though.
  • 15 February 2020 : For WHY???
  • 15 February 2020 : IM CACKLING. Like yes POC avoid the area please but I love the thought of a bunch of hipsters in thick glasses being profiled for the first (& probably only) time in their goddamned lives. Maybe it’ll teach some white hipsters some empathy.... 🤣☠️🥴 https://twitter.com/pdxalerts/status/1228450425872867328
  • 15 February 2020 : Also if you listened to the show and haven’t heard this song, here ya go 😘 pic.twitter.com/RT5IT6oYbC
  • 15 February 2020 : Accidentally on purpose ended up on the radio and you know I couldn’t help but wax poetic about @DecrimOregon and the struggle to decriminalize sex work. 💕 We spoke about worker centers too! AND, I became a KBOO sustainer on air! Go to http://kboo.fm to do the same! 😊 https://twitter.com/mandajanehill/status/1228527882298744832
  • 15 February 2020 : Update: I love her, but this is TOO much boba 🥴😩 pic.twitter.com/oytgPjAfBZ
  • 15 February 2020 : When you give your tea-tender good tips, they give you hella boba😍🥰 pic.twitter.com/pvphzWmsHP
  • 14 February 2020 : Sending your fresh, new iPhone made memes to your official @JwJpdx inbox to be disseminated to the people be like: 😂😝😅 forreal though hit me up if you wanna help do outreach with workers or get involved with new forms of labor organizing. Email is in tha screenshot nerds!😘 pic.twitter.com/79i13HB1kM
  • 14 February 2020 : Also all those animal crossing bbs of course lol
  • 14 February 2020 : @Showmeurbeans if I, by some miracle, win this then those watercolors (& some other stuff too) have your name ALL over them. https://twitter.com/alythuh/status/1228444879845351424
  • 14 February 2020 : Just spent a decent amount of time explaining to white folx in the replies that: - this is true - it’s pointless to ask for examples w/o a complete & informed understanding of antiblack experiences Also, dropped a link in the thread w/ books to read to understand racism better. https://twitter.com/teressaformayor/status/1222290134709620737
  • 14 February 2020 : I get that curiosity but as a black woman im saying that with a *complete* understanding of what antiblackness entails its obvious. & I don’t think a lot of white ppl get just how much emotional labor it is to ask ppl to give examples because it’s an overwhelming # of experiences
  • 14 February 2020 : Antifa isn’t a specific group tho. Shes not saying theres 1 group to know is antiblack. The fact is the broader comm of antifascists engages in a lot of antiblackness & theres a lack of solidarity. Its not a critique of specific people. Its an observation which happens to be true
  • 14 February 2020 : Also I don’t understand your question about “what fact she labels Antifacsists as anti-black.” Are you asking for specific lived experiences of racism by ppl who self identify as antifa? Anti blackness is rampant across so many leftist spaces it still baffles me ppl don’t see it
  • 14 February 2020 : And yet much of anti-blackness is based around expressed opinions, beliefs and feelings. It’s hard to explain anti-black experiences to white people because so many microagressions are quantifiable. Also, antifascists are not just one designated group so we can’t point you to ppl
  • 14 February 2020 : As a black woman (w/ a lot of light skin privl) it would take a lot to even figure out where/how to begin to address the rampant anti-blackness in the PDX leftist comm. As some1 who engages in leftist spaces often, it’s something I experience often & overwhelming to try & explain
  • 14 February 2020 : Essentially that’s what the root of your question is though. If you have a better understanding of exactly how many microagressions are committed CONSISTENTLY & the breadth of racism you won’t be in a position of having to ask for specifics b/c they happen CONSTANTLY in PDX.
  • 14 February 2020 : https://www.scarymommy.com/stop-asking-people-color-explain-racism/
  • 14 February 2020 : Actually found a good one for less this time and I’m thanking all of mt Olympus for it tbh
  • 14 February 2020 : My boyfriend, as I walk out the door: “Don’t break the bank!” Me, leaving for the grocery store high as shit to get ingredients for vegan lasagna from scratch: “Okay!” 👍🏽 * * * Me, about to walk back into the apartment with 90$ worth of groceries and snacks: 🙋🏽‍♀️🥺😇
  • 13 February 2020 : I’m feeling really frustrated to see so many black people caping for Warren and her “outreach to black communities” while Indigenous folx continue to scream into the void about her explicit ties to colonialism & her perpetuation of Indigenous cultural genocide. 🙃 #Warren2020
  • 12 February 2020 : I’ve gotten an update from inside CRCI. As of about 12:30pm today hot water has been restored to the facility. However, during this 2 week period filled with misinformation & lies, there’s been a scabies outbreak that is not being dealt with. More details added to the thread! https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1227637145508073472
  • 12 February 2020 : Clearly this is spreading & the lack of response from the prison has left inmates feeling scared/concerned for their health. They’ve even gone to such lengths as spraying their sheets & blankets down with cleaning chemicals in an attempt to sanitize living/sleeping spaces.
  • 12 February 2020 : They may have access to hot showers again, which will increase their ability for sanitation, but they’re currently sharing space with inmates who have scabies & at this point the scabies has gone from one person to a total of 3 people who are housed in completely different units. pic.twitter.com/1s6ts9OjLw
  • 12 February 2020 : Prisoners sleep within arms length of each other in bunk beds, get one set of clean blankets a month no matter what, and are only learning of a highly contagious condition by word of mouth.
  • 12 February 2020 : Inmates want help in demanding the prison take serious precautions to prevent the further spread of scabies. At this point, CRCI hasnt acknowledged the scabies outbreak. Those with scabies have been spreading the word & are not under quarantine as per usual outbreak prevention.
  • 12 February 2020 : People on the inside are very confused at how hot water has been restored today after weeks of being told otherwise. This is undoubtedly a response that’s been forced from the amount of public pressure put on the prison by the public. Thank you! However, they still need help:
  • 12 February 2020 : Inmates want people to know that any officials who said the water shortage was less than 2 weeks are lying. They also said that even up until last night, prisoners who work in maintenance were told it could be upwards of 2 months before all the repairs needed are completed.
  • 12 February 2020 : I’ve gotten an update from inside CRCI. As of about 12:30pm today hot water has been restored to the facility. However, during this 2 week period filled with misinformation & lies, there’s been a scabies outbreak that is not being dealt with.
  • 12 February 2020 : Columbia River Superintendent’s Assistant - 971-673-3522 Oregon Department of Corrections - (503) 945-9090 Columbia River Correctional General Line - 971-673-3521 https://twitter.com/ansopiggu/status/1227679322397274113
  • 12 February 2020 : Okay, more messages from the comrade rolling in. The scabies outbreak is spreading. And the boilers aren’t just broken. They’re in a state of complete shambles. Here’s messages I JUST received from a comrade inside. pic.twitter.com/4XXA8obihK
  • 12 February 2020 : @PopMobPDX @IGD_News @PNWYLF @alex_zee @portlandmercury @ACLU_OR @Oregonian @wweek @KOINNews @KGWNews
  • 12 February 2020 : So this is my stopping point for today! Please tag your favorite members of the press here in the replies! ⬇️⬇️ If they’d like to get ahold of me or ask questions for more details on this, they can email me at activismactually@gmail.com or DM me for my phone number!
  • 12 February 2020 : Method #2: As our comrade asks in this screenshot, please send this to the media. I’m heading over to FB to share this update there & then I’ve got to get to work for my actual job. But if you could help get this on the radar of the press I’d be so grateful! pic.twitter.com/iRV4cpCT4o
  • 12 February 2020 : So, there’s a few ways you can help! Method 1: Phone Zap with us! (Or send an email). Tell the prison you’re concerned for the health, safety and human rights of inmates without access to hot water. Details in the picture: pic.twitter.com/tTTzbEUnKt
  • 12 February 2020 : And on top of all that, those in charge don’t know when the problem will be solved but are hoping for the end of the month which is another 2.5 weeks away. Which would mean FIVE WEEKS of freezing cold to maybe lukewarm water facility wide. This should not be the case.
  • 12 February 2020 : So here’s the issue: -People are without hot showers during the coldest months of the year -They’re supposed to be guaranteed more showers than they’re even being allowed -Sickness is spreading -The kitchen isn’t up to code w/o hot water -Inmates have said the prison is lying
  • 12 February 2020 : I can see no reason for it to take TWO WEEKS for boiler parts to be delivered to a prison (who should already keep spares) considering how much money prisons have & the fact that amazon prime fucking exists.
  • 12 February 2020 : Our comrade shares in a text that there’s been a scabies outbreak inside one unit of the prison & that in their unit 40 out of 80 people are sick right now. It’s the WINTER in the PNW & prisoners are taking cold showers with no increase in heating inside. Of course they’re sick.
  • 12 February 2020 : Not only are inmates saying they get scheduled for one shower per week right now, but that the showers are ice cold. Which is no surprise if, like I was told on the phone by CRCI staff, they’re down to one working boiler for the entire facility.
  • 12 February 2020 : Now let’s break this down: CRCI Assistsnt to the Superintendent says that inmates are on a shower schedule. Inmates say it’s 1/week but supposed to be at least 2. This website says it’s supposed to be 3, with more for those who need it for medical reasons https://secure.sos.state.or.us/oard/displayDivisionRules.action?selectedDivision=956
  • 12 February 2020 : Here’s the second half of the messages I received from our anonymous comrade on the inside: pic.twitter.com/QeDPqO1HKn
  • 12 February 2020 : “it is a LIE if she says there’s hot water.” It’s worth taking note of the time stamps in this screenshot. This is a relatively minor yet frequent issue w/communication w/inmates in that time stamps & even dates aren’t accurate. These were all received the evening of 02/11/2020. pic.twitter.com/7ktGFYvaLS
  • 12 February 2020 : I sent a rough transcript of this entire conversation to our comrade on the inside so that they could provide feedback on the situation. They sent me back the following messages which I’ve been given permission to screenshot and share under conditions of anonymity.
  • 12 February 2020 : In any case, I asked the prison, “If the boilers have been down for 2 weeks and you had professionals come out immediately to order parts, when are those expected to be in?” I was told, “most definitely by the end of the month” but that she doesn’t know a specific day.
  • 12 February 2020 : The final question in our conversation was me asking about when these parts on order, which she spoke of, were expected to be in. It’s worth noting that before we even started the phone zap our comrade inside said to me, “They’re probably going to lie & say they ordered parts”
  • 12 February 2020 : When I followed that up by telling her that inmates are reporting brief periods of lukewarm water at best, including in the kitchen, she in turn said, “All I’m allowed to say is that there is hot water and there is a plan to get this replaced.”
  • 12 February 2020 : When I told her that inmates have said they received communication about the prisons intent to have inmates fix this, she told me that inmates could file grievances internally to detail specifics of what they see happening.
  • 12 February 2020 : In speaking to Amanda Vega(sp?), the Assistant of the Superintendent at CRCI on Tuesday, I was told that the prison has hot water, has hired professionals to come out & fix things which has resulted in parts being on order, & that adults are on a “shower schedule.”
  • 12 February 2020 : This same prisoner shared that during his one scheduled shower in the last week it was cold the entire time. Our comrade asked for help & asked for folx to spread the word We called for a phone zap yesterday which has led to what an inmate said are “lies” coming from the prison.
  • 12 February 2020 : According to one inmate, prisoners have been told in the facility newsletter that they are trying to have inmates fix this & that staff are saying “we only can shower on certain days for certain units which comes to one shower a week”.
  • 12 February 2020 : Inmates at Columbia River Correctional Facility have been without hot water for nearly 3 weeks, haven’t been allowed to shower more than once a week, & are reporting that water across the facility is briefly lukewarm at best, but mostly cold everywhere, including in the kitchen.
  • 12 February 2020 : A thread detailing the situation of lack of Hot Water at Columbia River Correctional Facility in Portland, OR based on direct communication with a comrade on the inside who will remain anonymous for safety’s sake. pic.twitter.com/RqUX5kCFbZ
  • 12 February 2020 : Except sex workers don’t want y’alls boyfriends the way that girl on FaceTime might. I know very few girls that let clients see their “personal” accounts. Most OF are still under fake names & aren’t communicating unless being paid to. You can’t just slide into a SWers DMs.
  • 11 February 2020 : OP has informed me that my initial intuition was wrong and this WAS indeed made by sex workers which really warms my heart. ❤️💕✨ https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1227111776833064961
  • 11 February 2020 : That’s good to know! There’ve been previous issues with non sex workers using this language to counter fash talking about sex work abolition. I’ll quote tweet with an acknowledgement of this. Thanks!!
  • 11 February 2020 : For some reason, I reallyyyyyy doubt this was made by sex workers. But if I’m wrong, please hit us up over @DecrimOregon cause we want you to work with us in an antiracist, anticapitalist, intersectional, antifascist movement for decriminalization. ❤️ We wanna hear from youuuuu. https://twitter.com/portlandsticker/status/1226885875776180225
  • 10 February 2020 : This morning my boyfriend took a look at my outfit and called me his “cute lesbian girlfriend” and while this does mean I should give him a short talk about erasing bisexuality, I’m also always excited to give off big lesbian aesthetics. pic.twitter.com/UOBPXWZAi8
  • 9 February 2020 : TED WHEELER I SWEAR TO FUCKING GOD. Your cops drove by a crowd of people huddled in the rain literally being peaceful & “non-destructive” & pointed loaded weapons at them as they drove by. Please tell me & everyone else how that is de-escalation? Toddlers have better manners. https://twitter.com/tedwheeler/status/1226645110961496065
  • 9 February 2020 : @Showmeurbeans with the multitasking skills on fleek. They are: -Listening to speakers -Playing #LegendOfZelda - AND doing that signature @PortlandDSA hiss at mentions of capitalism ALL.👏🏽AT.👏🏽ONCE.👏🏽 pic.twitter.com/DAgvtORV8Z
  • 9 February 2020 : @livkittykat - “All in favor of approving this motion?” @Showmeurbeans - *raises hand holding the switch they’ve been playing on for the last hour & then fumbles to raise the hand holding their voting card instead.” Me - *cackling maniacally*
  • 9 February 2020 : Alright, I’m done ranting about misogyny & violence on the left. Gonna go back inside and listen to the rest of this DSA general meeting & try not to keep fuming. 🙃 Fingers crossed I don’t log back into twitter to find my mentions full of angry men whining about how I’m wrong.
  • 9 February 2020 : Believe leftist women talking about the violence they experience from the left. Even if their abuser has been around 20+ yrs. Even if their abuser is a “comrade.” ESPECIALLY if their abuser punches nazis & does not a damned thing but punch nazis & calls themselves “radical.”21/21
  • 9 February 2020 : So consider this thread a challenge. A call to action. A desperate and very angry cry for support and solidarity from supposed comrades. BELIEVE WOMEN AND FEMMES. We apparently need to say this still. 20/21
  • 9 February 2020 : It’s such a big problem that we see the creation of groups like Femmes Strike Back here in Portland who come together in solidarity because of the exact type of rampant misogyny that I’m referencing in this thread. It’s an endemic issue. From PDX to Georgia to Ohio & on. 19/
  • 9 February 2020 : We talk a lot about the St. Paul’s principles and keeping criticism internal. But what do we do when people weaponize St. Paul’s principles against vocal victims of internal violence who find no justice or support through repeated internal requests for accountability?
  • 9 February 2020 : As a movement, we in the left need to understand the rampant frequency with which we excuse the misogynistic, ableist, transphobic, & anti-black behaviors of so many individuals. And we need to address it radically. We need to LIVE transformative justice & accountability. 17/
  • 9 February 2020 : Should we idolize these people or think that nobody will be able to take their place if a handful of men have to step back because they are consistently & actively causing harm to women, femmes & other oppressed groups? NO. Please god no. We need to do better. 16/
  • 9 February 2020 : Should we be especially thankful for those people who recognize their privilege and are willing to go out onto the streets & physically confront fash? Yes! YES! 1000 times over. 15/
  • 9 February 2020 : Who do we often see taking the most risks of arrests? Men. So who gets the most frequently idolized and placed in a position of being beyond reproach? Men. & who do we see painting requests for radical accountability as a personal threat/attack? MEN. Over & over & over again. 14/
  • 9 February 2020 : What does this mean for a city like Portland, Oregon which is already overwhelmingly white? It means the people on the front lines are often men, especially white men. Who do we as a society KNOW to be two of the most oppressive groups? White people. And men. 13/
  • 9 February 2020 : There’s SO many types of privilege which enable people to be in the block. Just a few examples of reasons people can’t join the block: - physical disability - any of the MULTITUDES of reasons people can’t risk arrest - for their mental health 12/
  • 9 February 2020 : And just real quick lemme get in before this thread gets too visible & people start telling me that I shouldn’t “disrespect the block” with that last tweet about privileges in punching nazis. I’ve been a part of the block. I’m speaking from experience. 11/
  • 9 February 2020 : And y’all, I’m TIRED. We can talk all day about how “activism isn’t just punching fash.” But when we consistently IDOLIZE people who have the privilege and ability to punch fash, we inevitably put them on a pedestal where they are untouchable in regards to accountability. 10/
  • 9 February 2020 : But, HERES THE THING YALL: I consistently see men who are committing these forms of interpersonal violence weaponizing the risk of harm they experience on the front lines to effectively silence all who would question any aspect of their behavior, no matter how problematic. 9/
  • 9 February 2020 : Lookin for specific examples of what comes with step 5? Here are some things I’ve heard: - You’re dividing the left. - (Your abuser) said he’s sorry! - (Your abuser) isn’t involved in organizing or leadership & they just mobilize to the streets against fash. They’re not a threat
  • 9 February 2020 : This has happened TO ME and also to women & femmes around me. Often women/femmes who are multi-marginalized and experience violence in the form of misogyny which is ALSO coupled with transphobia, racism, AND specifically anti-blackness. 7/
  • 9 February 2020 : Step 5: Victims of misogyny (& other types of harm) often receive some varying level of pushback from those who ally themselves w/ these abusers. And really, I said step 4 is where it breaks down, but step 5 is where we consistently undermine our spoken values w/ behavior. 6/
  • 9 February 2020 : Step 4(& this is where it breaks down): person who caused harm is generally offered mediation & turns it down OR engages in mediation in extremely bad faith, often gaslighting victims/presenting themselves as a victim in local leftist communities. I’ve seen this SO many times.
  • 9 February 2020 : Step Two: Harmed individual (MOST often women or femmes) tell this man (& his friends, & other community members) that they have experienced harm from this man and it needs to stop. Step Three: People give basic affirmations immediately followed by offers for mediation. 4/
  • 9 February 2020 : Here’s the cycle that I see repeated over and over again. Step One: Leftist man—who is consistently engaged in nothing but “community defense” & violence against fash—harms a leftist woman (trans or otherwise), non-binary person, or person of color (usually BIPOC). 3/
  • 9 February 2020 : Its NOT “dividing the left” to call attention to the fact that the transphobic, misogynistic, racist, ableist, & etc socialization that we all receive needs further dismantling in our movement. Especially when time & time again “mediation” w/ abusers hasn’t worked. 2/
  • 9 February 2020 : Here’s the thing y’all. I personally know MULTIPLE women & femmes who quit engaging in activism on the left because they’ve spoken out about misogyny, sexual aggression, & varied forms of violence from leftist men who were excused & viscerally defended b/c they “do good work.” 1/ https://twitter.com/ayathelazerbeam/status/1226618738717253632
  • 9 February 2020 : Outside smoking a cigarette. Blew my smoke towards the street cause I try to be mindful of pedestrians & the wind whipped it right into some poor guys face. I felt bad until he went inside, ordered coffee, & came right back out to light up his own cig. 😂
  • 9 February 2020 : Black friends, I’m new to picking my hair out and wearing it in an Afro. Is there some trick to keep my curls from coming down past my eyes and turning me into a sheepdog? 😅 My glasses frames already cut into my vision & I don’t need something else to be distracted by lol pic.twitter.com/PKfjZEwYaq
  • 9 February 2020 : I find it real ironic that the person who likes to casually tell people he thinks I’m a cop is the same person who says he hates the pigs/police state but ran around a WHOLE park celebrating and gloating about the arrest of fash.... Please, make it make sense. I’m begging y’all.
  • 9 February 2020 : HAHAHAHAH laid down to take a post rally nap at like 4pm Saturday & did not set alarms because my insomnias been out of control lately. I JUST WOKE UP. Does this mean I’ve leveled up if my depression naps last 15 hours?
  • 9 February 2020 : Idk if I’m supposed to wait a day to say this or not but can I just point out how weird it is to literally cheer as the police arrest someone & then chant ACAB as they drive away with that person in tow? SO glad Farley got chased. Never happy to see the police state in action.
  • 8 February 2020 : ^^^^courtesy of my unlocked phone sitting in a comrades pocket as I prepped eye wash 😂
  • 8 February 2020 : DtI’m I’m guy da daft tdstystyssyt etud etutduudtdutudtutduystysystystystststdytystdtdytdtdtdtydtdyttdyddytdtdytyddtdtytytytytytytdtytytdtydydtdytydtyddytdttdgah cc
  • 8 February 2020 : “This is the Portland Police Bureau. Stop throwing things at officers.” Hi, I’m fucking dying. 😂
  • 8 February 2020 : UPDATE: I walked to the store. Got alcohol. Came back. Am doing Botha.
  • 8 February 2020 : Went to store. Got riot mom supplies. Got dinner supplies. Forgot to get something to drink besides water. Planning on getting stoned. Knowing I will regret being high & only being able to drink water. Deciding if I wanna walk 4 blocks to get juice or waste money on gopuff. 🤔
  • 8 February 2020 : Despite the fact that I fucking loathe being put into a moral position of having no choice but to spend my limited free time out in the street protesting, it does feel really good stocking up on riot mom supplies. Got lots of hot hands, snax, & water for all you cuties tomorrow.
  • 7 February 2020 : February 7th 2020 is CANCELLED. So is February 8th 2020 as well. Problematic bitches.
  • 7 February 2020 : Oklahoma, what the actual fuck? https://twitter.com/koconews/status/1225608498014310401
  • 7 February 2020 : (3/3) Contemplating the fact that she is in the unusual position of being an American infected with coronavirus, Rebecca Frasure said that she is “just a normal person.” “It’s weird that so many people are going to know about this,” Rebecca Frasure said. -- Fedor Zarkhin”
  • 7 February 2020 : (2/x) ...in the week. She was supposed to be back at work Feb. 17, but “that’s not going to happen now," she said. Among her plans for the quarantine were to watch a lot of TV and to listen to an audio version of a new book by Margaret Atwood, “The Testaments.”
  • 7 February 2020 : (image description because it’s too much text to fit into 400 characters of alt text! 1/x) A screenshot of an article posted by the Oregonian. The text in the screenshot says: “Rebecca Frasure works for a medical health plan in Oregon, she told The Oregonian/OregonLive earlier...
  • 7 February 2020 : Read an article from @Oregonian about a Forest Grove woman who tested positive for the new corona virus & I just wanna know what the FUCK is this xenophobic line? “Just a normal person” You & every other fucking person with this illness REBECCA. Being from the US isn’t special. pic.twitter.com/vUKiYRKyxY
  • 7 February 2020 : Great thread on the implications of the common framework we use to talk about “weaponizing privilege.” Touches on the frequent duality of anti-blackness & “privilege” & how privilege is used to “legitimize” struggle instead of uplift oppressed people to a position of visibility. https://twitter.com/HariZiyad/status/1225408915518742528
  • 6 February 2020 : I really need this whole Portland false spring thing to not be so goddamned random and unpredictable. I’m tired of either wearing a thousand layers & having to carry around multiple layers when I strip for the warmth OR being freezing cold because I wore light clothes.
  • 6 February 2020 : Note to self: do not make fresh guacamole and then scratch the inside of your ear without thoroughly washing the jalapeño juice off your hands 😭
  • 5 February 2020 : Still laughing at the fact that on Iowa caucus night someone asked if I knew any results reporting & I said something along the lines of “I think Bernie was in the lead, then Hillary, then buttigieg” before having to say “wait, fuck, no—that other racist white capitalist lady”
  • 5 February 2020 : Wow. Y’all. I just realized that you can’t choose to continue to see tweets of people you’ve blocked and just wow, what a great way to make sure abusers don’t pop up in your feed but you can still track what tf they’re doing.
  • 5 February 2020 : THIS IS A CURSED IMAGE. (and I’m sorry but I want you to suffer too) https://twitter.com/dancingfool75/status/1224237375359873024
  • 5 February 2020 : No —at a small class size based nonprofit.
  • 5 February 2020 : Mildly annoyed that I inadvertently wasted 250$ but feeling really good about my decision to withdraw from the Spanish class I had enrolled in. Learning Spanish is still a high priority for me but I’m realizing it’s just not feasible for me to do rn.
  • 5 February 2020 : I keep seeing more white people on the internet who need to read and understand this: pic.twitter.com/pkW8gXgLFq
  • 5 February 2020 : White women really are so bold. Like, y’all have no shame. Here’s a casual reminder for white folx who think they should be allowed *any* input on how black people talk about, reference, or deal with racism: https://twitter.com/burberrre/status/1224845133767680002 pic.twitter.com/hWuoGzTI0i
  • 5 February 2020 : PSA for you and all other white people: pic.twitter.com/oLyc4pCldY
  • 4 February 2020 : Nobody better come mansplain the way the electoral college was founded in response to this because this is rhetorical and I’ll fight you.
  • 4 February 2020 : I just.... y’all.....WHY DO WE HAVE DELEGATES?? https://twitter.com/jaylencavil/status/1224531122354298881
  • 4 February 2020 : I may be physically sitting inside a Taco Bell at 2pm on a Tuesday eating my first meal of the day right now, but I am also *EMOTIONALLY* sitting inside a Taco Bell at 2pm on a Tuesday eating my first meal of the day. Y’know?
  • 4 February 2020 : I have never wanted to abandon my whole life and flee the country by any means possible as much as I do trying to navigate getting replacement copies of my vital documents without any “primary” form of identification WHICH I CANT GET without my vital documents. Fuck this.
  • 4 February 2020 : Really wish I knew what this older foreign white lady on the phone behind me was saying about climate change in another language on the phone right now. I just need to know *how* uncomfortable to feel while surrounded by grey haired white women on all sides. 🙃 are you a comrade?
  • 4 February 2020 : Mood. Big mood. https://twitter.com/socialistdogmom/status/1224702959059193856
  • 4 February 2020 : Living as an activist with PTSD, depression, and anxiety is funny cause like I actually have SO MUCH MOTIVATION to get shit done but I just CANNOT get out of bed b/c executive dysfunction so I lay around while my anxiety SPIKES & then imposters syndrome starts SCREAMING at me and pic.twitter.com/ml5HOsT3dd
  • 4 February 2020 : Both from a logical and emotional standpoint I know and am confident in my personal truth that I do NOT want to birth/raise my own children. But when my bestie sends me videos of toddlers meeting their newborn siblings for the first time my uterus starts SCREAMING INCESSANTLY.😭
  • 4 February 2020 : I just hissed at a DSA event for the first time and I feel like a REAL Portland DSA member now. That shits fun.
  • 4 February 2020 : I’m seriously sitting in the back seat of this car with my nose out the cracked window in the freezing cold air like a fucking dog just so I don’t barf 😭
  • 4 February 2020 : Dear Uber and Lyft drivers, please do not keep your car smelling like a Macy’s perfume and cologne department. Signed, the nauseous as fuck passenger in your back seat. 🤢
  • 4 February 2020 : Hi, yes, hello, where do I sign up to get paid to tell white women they’re racist? Because that is a dream I didn’t know I had until right now.... https://twitter.com/allahliker/status/1224430949548601344
  • 4 February 2020 : *ID
  • 4 February 2020 : ALL I WANT IS A NEW IDEA TO BE ABLE TO BUY MY OWN CANCER STICKS GODDAMNIT 😭 there should not be this much running in circles for a new ID when I KNOW y’all know who tf I am @StateDept 😤 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1224492046368395264
  • 4 February 2020 : Really fucking annoyed that in the last 8 days the government increased their fee for 1-2 day shipping for my replacement birth report request by 65¢ and will only accept money orders meaning I have to go get a money order for a fucking dollar to make up the difference 🙃😡😤
  • 3 February 2020 : I literally hate the government.
  • 3 February 2020 : I work like 40-50+ paid, salaried hours a week plus another 15-20+ volunteering. But I sure do like to tweet about how much I hate the rich in my time off so if you wanna compensate me for that too l’ll take it. 😘 https://twitter.com/taylorbold/status/1224120447589060609
  • 2 February 2020 : Me: makes the Beyhive* angry Beyhive: Replies with statements like, “GET A JOB! Here’s the url for LinkedIn! Here’s the url to Indeed.” Me: Lol boring. I will not even bother to respond Beyhive: *Sends me money for linkedin* Me: is my new job making Beyoncé stans angry? pic.twitter.com/MefIltiprW
  • 2 February 2020 : A list of bourgeoisie celebrities who have children and *also* have a networth of billion+ dollars who *still* deserve the guillotine whenever we get to that point, collectively: - All of them
  • 2 February 2020 : Okay, as much fun as this is, I’m done engaging with the BeeHive in my mentions. Unsurprisingly, we’ve made a quick turn towards digital blackface & white people thinking they can say nigga cause it’s the internet. 😅 Please stay mad & distracted. Imma take a nice hot shower✌🏽🥰
  • 2 February 2020 : I said I feel *sad* for the child. She’s an unwitting victim to the toxicity of celebrity culture and idolization of the wealthy. Her parents on the other hand are still billionaires. I never forgot she was a kid but maybe folx her put her on a pedestal for who her parents are do
  • 2 February 2020 : I’m really happy I’ve cultivated a twitter feed that is almost completely devoid of celebrity worship and fandom-ship. I almost never see posts idolizing bourgeois celebrities. Today, a bunch of tweets abt JayZ @ this racist SuperBowl trickled through & it was such a surprise.
  • 2 February 2020 : Seeing my mentions fill with people THIS upset I talked about class warfare in respect to Bey&Jay really does show me how far we have to go in teaching working class people about the harm that is inherently done by the 1% hoarding money & therefore life/earth saving resources.
  • 2 February 2020 : Bb, you’re so close to getting it. The whole Kardashian clan deserve the guillotine & Kanye too. You can thrive on a few million dollars but when you’re hoarding billions while the earth literally burns & flint STILL doesn’t have water then your turns over, time to redistribute $ https://twitter.com/asliyonce/status/1224102950567587840
  • 2 February 2020 : I’m LIVING for the upset stan accounts already beginning to flood my mentions b/c I dared point out that Jay & Bey’s net worth is over a billion dollars. 😅 People wanna talk about them “giving back” but if they gave back money @ any worthwhile rate they wouldn’t have a billion $
  • 2 February 2020 : they get the guillotine too....? if the post was about that I would’ve commented on it.
  • 2 February 2020 : I believe I may have upset the beehive stan accounts.... let’s see how much my notifications continue to *buzz* throughout the day. 🐝😅 https://twitter.com/beyriahsfantasy/status/1224095053724950530
  • 2 February 2020 : I live to see ANYONE experience @PortlandDSA ’s aggressive and seemingly coordinated hissing against the bourgeoisie. Because I live in Portland & was still *very* bamboozled the first time I heard/saw it. 😂 https://twitter.com/livkittykat/status/1224050602310688768
  • 2 February 2020 : I never said it was *THAT* serious. But I didn’t find your (and everyone else’s) jokes idolizing her funny and I was sharing my take. 🤷🏽‍♀️ https://twitter.com/derrickakordei/status/1224093267769335815 pic.twitter.com/hbhrZNtJ0d
  • 2 February 2020 : right??? my feeds full of cutesy commentary about her running shit and I’m like YALL. I know she’s a child & I don’t blame her but this makes me just as sad as I am happy she won’t want for anything. Plus that level of fame and no privacy as a kid fucks w/ ppl.
  • 2 February 2020 : Y’all. I’m still so shook that I didn’t know the name/face of the (recently) former OR house leader who’s generally supportive of Decrim & also criminal justice reform until she recognized me on the street. Like what is life. I feel like a fraud of an advocate. Oops.
  • 2 February 2020 : any other black people looking at videos of Blue feeling sad for this kid that she’s being raised on the wrong side of the eventual class war? Don’t get me wrong I want my people THRIVING but a billionaires a billionaire & her parents still get the guillotine.... https://twitter.com/derrickakordei/status/1224083807168540673
  • 2 February 2020 : “I don’t appreciate the way you’re bullying me but I’d be happy to have a live-streamed debate with you about the documented evidence of my racism &multiple accounts of my abuse that youve been talking about as long as we can set a rule that you wont hit me.” This was real life. https://twitter.com/mamoudoundiaye/status/1223642152393236482
  • 2 February 2020 : Sitting outside practicing the spoken word poem I wrote as a part of my continued efforts to memorize it and a group of people walked by and heard me and looked back and it was very embarrassing 🙃
  • 1 February 2020 : I really wanna go see this cheesy ass Valentine’s movie but I CANNOT go see it with my boyfriend because we will be insufferable and I will be disgusted with us for the whole movie so will someone else please volunteer to go with me? https://twitter.com/photographmovie/status/1223369419436376066
  • 1 February 2020 : I’m often told I’m intimidating when I am existing confidently as a black woman in nearly any public space. It’s SO frequent. I’m just not being the subservient woman they expect of me. When I’m organizing w/ intent of being intimidating, I then become the “angry black woman.” https://twitter.com/Werdondastreets/status/1222600174331211777
  • 1 February 2020 : Struggling to understand how you can accurately call people mad at an ACAB tattoo “bootlickers” in a post in which you reference that same ACAB ink as a “prison/hate tattoo” 🤔🙄🧐 https://twitter.com/sm_iron_prince/status/1223475567657463808
  • 1 February 2020 : I NEED y’all to read this VERY good thread about responding to vague FB “plans” for a KKK march. Last night, I asked if a thread on the threat existed hoping someone’d link to one like this. We can’t take chances w/ the KKK but we also need to assess risk before spreading panic. https://twitter.com/popmobpdx/status/1223427384990322689
  • 1 February 2020 : No! trash collectors are fucking heroes. I don’t blame you for wanting to fight thinking that.
  • 1 February 2020 : I grew up in Maryland and as someone currently sitting in Portland, OR traffic I would like to formally challenge this statement and nominate Oregon’s garbage drivers as the worst drivers in the nation. https://twitter.com/socialistdogmom/status/1223396864495685633
  • 31 January 2020 : A bitch did not cry. 🙌🏽 Thats 2/2 meetings of NO TEARS. I’m so proud of me. (I was not, however, able to control my laughter at the absurdity of a number of different situations. Life in the nonprofit complex y’all.) https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1223357588344983553
  • 31 January 2020 : Bout to go have a meeting with my boss so like cross your fingers for me that I don’t cry? (don’t worry though, I intentionally didn’t wear makeup because of my meetings today😊)
  • 31 January 2020 : if you don’t follow @iambeckyd then are you even gay.....? https://twitter.com/iambeckyd/status/1223352133149433861
  • 31 January 2020 : The response to retweet ratio on this tweet is just......👩🏽‍🍳 *chef’s kiss* https://twitter.com/tedwheeler/status/1222986465124028416
  • 31 January 2020 : I say that with both love and a mild amount of frustration. Checking your ego is a good thing and it seems like you’re making the right decision. Probably a good idea to hang back until you’re literally too terrified to do anything but be on the front lines.
  • 31 January 2020 : Here’s a casual reality for your ego to process that might help out: there is nothing glamorous about being on the frontlines and “clout” and “recognition” are endlessly exhausting.
  • 31 January 2020 : Here’s my daily reminder for all you humans on the internet: White people are awful. Happy Friday.
  • 31 January 2020 : I just, I’m kind of at a loss for words right now. I’m appreciative of the community. We protect us. direct action gets the goods. But also this shit is terrifying & I guess I just really wanna encourage all the white ppl organizing to #defendpdx to do some radical mutual aid too
  • 31 January 2020 : Are the KKK going to be marching through the streets in hoods and robes? Probably not. But let’s be real this country is fucked up and bold as hell right now so maybe. And seeing imagery of those hoods reinforces that possibility even if it’s unlikely.
  • 31 January 2020 : Like yes I’m glad people are mobilizing and there’s an immediate response. But also, are you checking in on your black comrades? Because the generational trauma being triggered right now is fucking overwhelming. And we have to go to work like shit is normal.
  • 31 January 2020 : I think a lot of white people (and nonblack poc) don’t understand how triggering it is to see imagery of the KKK in flyers announcing that we have to mobilize against the KKK. I don’t care if a black person is punching a klan member in a hood. (Mini thread)
  • 31 January 2020 : Good thread: https://twitter.com/econbrkfst/status/1222969479887409152?s=21 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1223091324737351680
  • 31 January 2020 : Here’s one: https://twitter.com/baronvonstaples/status/1222994602862399488?s=21 https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1223091324737351680
  • 31 January 2020 : Do any people have a thread up yet on the fact that the literal KKK is planning to march in Portland on the 8th? I’d like to spread the news but I don’t have 1 ounce of emotional labor left tonight to go looking for info about the ppl who’d like me dead.
  • 31 January 2020 : I will also do it for free. Is it okay if I go off script?
  • 30 January 2020 : This is Bean. https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1223010767730962432 pic.twitter.com/jgs6nzWZIO
  • 30 January 2020 : I just met a Rottweiler named Bean on the max and she is 2 years old and she’s an angel bb and I’m in love with her. That is all.
  • 30 January 2020 : Cancer sun search history be like... #astrologymemes ? #amidoingthisright ? pic.twitter.com/yfUMjzE4DX
  • 30 January 2020 : @TwitterSupport please read this brief thread and then update my account immediately, thanks! 💙✔️
  • 30 January 2020 : The former OR House majority leader (and current candidate running for Secretary of State) just stopped me on the street because she recognized me from my organizing work. Do I get a twitter blue check now?
  • 30 January 2020 : #TAXTHERICH (also #eattherich ) https://twitter.com/ttr_pdx/status/1222936195505651713
  • 30 January 2020 : “Powell's declined to comment on whether it had received specific pushback to the event from Portlanders.” I mean, if you count me hiding all the copies that were on display at the front of the store last week then yeah, I guess... https://twitter.com/aaronmesh/status/1222681290958262272
  • 30 January 2020 : hahahaahahah so i JUST remembered I scheduled an interview on behalf of Decrim Oregon for tomorrow morning (aka today) @ 10am🙃
  • 30 January 2020 : Stopped for lunch with a friend today to catch up, talk about our advocacy work, and just generally shoot the shit. My favorite part of the convo? Him: So what I’m hearing is that you’d rather get hit by a car than go to work? Me: Yes.
  • 30 January 2020 : I literally fucking hate white people. That’s it. That’s the tweet. White people are fucking awful. All of them. Yes, you too.
  • 30 January 2020 : Gotta love crying at work 🙃
  • 28 January 2020 : Y’all. YALL. Looking at dance videos of me as a baby stripper is SO painful. 😫😅😭
  • 26 January 2020 : I did not spend 2+ hours doing my makeup and then clean out my asshole in the hopes of getting fucked tonight just to get beat up by body dysmorphia & dissociation as soon as I put on lingerie & look in a mirror. 🙄😡😤
  • 26 January 2020 : This little girl is confidently strutting around the hotel lobby in a floral dress & bright pink rain boots, while dragging her stuffed husky around on a leash & it’s the cutest thing I’ve ever seen but also I hope she grows up into the good type of white lady.
  • 26 January 2020 : pic.twitter.com/eHIctbugHC
  • 26 January 2020 : REALLY proud that less than half of the clothing items I bought today were black or only neutrals. Like I actually invested in some color in my wardrobe. And only one thing I bought wasn’t on sale. Bless.
  • 26 January 2020 : This is why I hid the all the copies of this train wreck book that were on display at my local huge, tourist trap bookstore today. Like, NO. Y’all are not about to put this right at the front door for white people with this exact mindset. 🙄 https://twitter.com/ztsamudzi/status/1221232511314874370
  • 26 January 2020 : OMG Veganaise is my favorite newly learned term for shitty racist white vegans which exist in the plenty. Maybe I’ll start saying “I can’t stand vegans” less and start saying “I fucking hate the Veganaise ppl.” https://twitter.com/odetomedusa/status/1221215487402496002
  • 25 January 2020 : When your moms an enabler who never gets girl time so you mean to go out bra shopping and end up buying half of a whole new wardrobe cause she keeps picking out hella cute things for you to try on 🙃😫💸
  • 25 January 2020 : Hi my name is Lilith and I’d like to officially welcome you to the hot mess express line train. And before you ask—yes, you do get a complimentary invisibility cloak just like mine when we complete boarding. 😂 pic.twitter.com/MNn3LS850c
  • 24 January 2020 : Look at this GOOD BOI hanging out in a bow tie at the coffee shop 😭😍😫❤️ pic.twitter.com/H1DWomS6dv
  • 24 January 2020 : I hate white men. So much. And women. Oh, God I fucking hate white women. White people. I just can’t stand white people.
  • 23 January 2020 : Me: I really need to go pick up the headphones I left at @sarahforpdx ’s office after talking with them about sex workers right and decrim Also me: *Buys new headphones because the mall is a closer walk from my office and it’s been chilly/wet* 🤦🏽‍♀️
  • 23 January 2020 : RT @WordsandGuitar: So not only did they give millions to a white woman to "tell the undocumented migrant story" (which no one asked her to…
  • 23 January 2020 : I’m still confused at how I haven’t yet scared off my boyfriend by being too intense or overwhelming w/ my highly emotional Cancer sun energy, too ridiculously extra Leo moon, or overly affectionate Libra rising. However, my cheesy ass plans for V-day will be the real test... 😂
  • 23 January 2020 : Go read the responses cause this video is getting ALL the love and respect it deserves in the replies 😂🙌🏽😫❤️🙌🏽 https://twitter.com/onlyfanobtainer/status/1219655140287885313
  • 22 January 2020 : “There was this woman who was just a huge slut in the late 60’s — wait, I mean the 1800’s.” - @redavian telling me about a particular episode of a podcast about sex work 😂😂😂
  • 21 January 2020 : That is SO beautiful!! Where is this from??
  • 21 January 2020 : Lol I’m 2 blocks from my office and almost got hit by a car while crossing the street with *clear* pedestrian right of way and I’m low key mad they didn’t hit me. I heard squealing breaks & turned to find a car like inches from my leg and I’m like bro you were so close my dude.
  • 21 January 2020 : @boudwinart on Instagram is a former SWer turned full time artist who still does a lot to support SWer communities and they make AMAZING work!
  • 21 January 2020 : I keep thinking that if I can just surround myself with *enough* people I love and care about this city will be tolerable and so far Portland has proven me wrong every time. 🙃
  • 21 January 2020 : Me @ 5:30pm - *Telling my nonprofit E-board about how stressful this job is & making jokes about needing my therapy payed for* Me @ 12:30am - *googling mental health urgent care providers near me* pic.twitter.com/x6S5PdIQ3v
  • 21 January 2020 : I feel like I have 4 main modes of existence lately which include: - feeling like I’m gonna throw up - fighting back tears - numb - all of the above, simultaneously The bonus mode which has been coming on for brief periods is feeling both happy & yet guilty at the same time
  • 21 January 2020 : Oops - same.
  • 21 January 2020 : YALL I CANT BREATHE. 😂☠️ I’m walking to get snacks for my orgs exec board meeting. Waiting for a light to cross the street & VIBING to this song I just discovered. So my stripper ass starts spinning on the street pole while waiting & my executive director bikes past like 😳👀🤣
  • 20 January 2020 : What did I do to deserve this many cuddles as soon as I woke up? 😭🥰😫😍 pic.twitter.com/ich8KjaIj7
  • 19 January 2020 : I had ONE glass of champagne at the bachelor party I worked last night and I feel SO hungover today. How is that even possible??? 😭😭
  • 19 January 2020 : After a stream of choice swearing and several misadventures, I now have this cute and colorful braid/long ponytail combo. 🥰💜💕🤎💚 pic.twitter.com/7wl9pHQTBK
  • 19 January 2020 : Y’all. I’m so excited to go be a stripper tonight. 😭 I’m about to do my fucking hair and shave and be high femme as hell and make moneyyyyy for it and wear cute lingerie and put on all the makeup. I know I’m looking at it through rose colored glasses but I miss this so much 😫
  • 19 January 2020 : Omg I might get to do stripper shit tonight and I’m so exciteddddd 😭
  • 18 January 2020 : Sex workers: Please pay for your porn Civilians: I’m too poor to afford 5$ for nudes. SWers: Well porn is a luxury not a right but at least please don’t support exploitative websites & contribute to harm. Civs: Fuck you I need porn to live & even if I can afford it I won’t pay
  • 18 January 2020 : I legit just saw someone online say “morality is a luxury for the rich” in regards to some debate that popped off because a SWer told people it’s unethical to pirate porn b/c we need money to survive under capitalism too. And I...just.... Porn is a luxury for everyone my dude. pic.twitter.com/CZytGmpPYI
  • 18 January 2020 : Also can we talk about how those are freezer precut French toast, some rolls outta can, some eggs with a slice of plastic yellow cheese melted on top after and like.... basics? Why the “females” but also why you freaking out over this....
  • 18 January 2020 : Is this a balanced breakfast? pic.twitter.com/QhjZAVykIQ
  • 18 January 2020 : At this rate, I would like one—JUST ONE—week in 2020 where someone in my life does not experience significant trauma. Anything else will be considered an extra special gift from the universe at this point.
  • 18 January 2020 : Why would I side eye you for hating on hipsters? That’s one of my favorite pastimes.
  • 17 January 2020 : All your favs are somehow problematic. Stop idolizing individuals. Full stop.
  • 17 January 2020 : The level of cognitive dissonance needed to wear a “Stop The Violence” T-shirt designed with imagery of the same yellow caution tape police use to block off the scene of their frequent extra-judiciary murders of black and brown bodies is simply outstanding and unsurprising. https://twitter.com/tedwheeler/status/1218268708600045568
  • 17 January 2020 : I reallyyyyyyyyyyyyy need to get back into therapy.
  • 17 January 2020 : I kept reading the image and trying to figure out how to possibly split up that hashtag in a way that totals 8 words. I thought I’d forgotten English for a second before I realized you meant Econ’s tweet itself. 😂
  • 17 January 2020 : I’ve decided that I want to start doing Drag King shows and one of my biggest goals with that is just to make super feminine straight girls in the audience sexually confused.
  • 17 January 2020 : To the would-be conservative pundit and Mexican-American woman who watches me, fed names me, & wants to pretend to be a journo while attempting to use Wiki as a credible source 😅 Please come up with better lies and libelous claims about me. I’m tired of the same ole, same ole.
  • 17 January 2020 : I had the most wild and insane dream/nightmare alternate reality walkthrough last night while sleeping. Holy shit.
  • 17 January 2020 : He made direct eye contact with me while sensually placing a marshmallow off the floor into his mouth and his name was “The Marshmallow King.” I will never be the same.... #thisisthebadplace https://twitter.com/showmeurbeans/status/1218049850287120389
  • 17 January 2020 : CW: sexual assault Sometimes when I walk home alone—armed with self defense weapons—on dark, foggy nights like this, all I can think about is the fact that I’m one of the FEW afab people I know who’s never experienced rape & I wonder what the odds are of me getting home safe...
  • 17 January 2020 : Okay but one of my other best friends just told me that I’m giving off “serious Angela Davis vibes right now” with my Afro, glasses and leather jacket and it’s taken the lead. https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1216301227077554176
  • 16 January 2020 : I am SO tired.
  • 16 January 2020 : Let’s make 2020 the year of RADICAL solidarity with ALL marginalized groups. That means making your post accessible for Deaf, HOH, Visually Impaired or Blind communities. To anyone who might think it takes too long, check your ableism &privilege please. A little goes a long way.
  • 16 January 2020 : I know the FB algorithm is a bitch & it prioritizes pictures over text or shares from other pages. So, if you want to post a screenshotted picture of a text post to FB for the algorithm boost on your page, that’s FINE and I do it too. But just USE IMAGE DESCRIPTIONS PLEASE.
  • 16 January 2020 : Facebook is easy! Just put the full image description in the caption of your post. But here’s a general accessibility reminder for FB: If you can just *share* a text post instead of screenshotting it to share, then just DO THAT. On that note...
  • 16 January 2020 : On Insta, it’s a lot easier to put image descriptions for text heavy graphics into the picture caption itself. But sometimes I still run out of space so I write “Image description in comments!” in my caption & then just post it in comments! Just reply to your comment until done.
  • 16 January 2020 : On twitter the built in image description tool has a maximum of 420 characters. With all the text heavy graphics we tend to share, that often isn’t enough space. When I run into that problem, I write into any tweet w/ pictures that “The image description will be in the replies.”
  • 16 January 2020 : You can add alt-text to images fairly simply via twitter as long as you have the correct setting turned on. Go to settings, then Accessibility, and under the Vision section, turn on the option to compose image descriptions. pic.twitter.com/9lXLt9Z9Gz
  • 16 January 2020 : If you’ve never written an image description, here’s an article describing how to do it and what type of information from the image you need to include. https://www.perkinselearning.org/technology/blog/how-write-alt-text-and-image-descriptions-visually-impaired
  • 16 January 2020 : Closed Captioning: Not only do Deaf and Hard of Hearing (HOH) communities need closed captioning for accessibility, but also most people watch Instagram & FB videos w/ sound off. Here’s a link to an article about 3 of the best tools. I use Clipomatic. https://thatleomartinez.com/closed-captioning-instagram-stories/amp/
  • 16 January 2020 : Don’t know how to do this? I’m gonna share some quick links to resources cause I’m TIRED of not being able to share your posts about accessibility & advocacy from these *huge* accounts without downloading the whole post and doing all the work to make sure it’s accessible.
  • 16 January 2020 : (Quick thread) If you do online advocacy & don’t put image descriptions on your posts or captions on your videos I don’t like you.... It’s 2020. Stop saying you’re against #ableism if you can’t take a few minutes out of your day to make your posts #accessible .
  • 16 January 2020 : Survival under capitalism is a fuck. I’m fighting to see sex workers able to work safely & with autonomy. But I also want a world where ppl don’t have to choose to engage in ANY job they hate to have a roof over their head & food to eat. PLEASE SHARE. https://t.co/TjsUyo8fQY
  • 16 January 2020 : I will literally always do whatever I can to support poc—and especially BIPOC— sex workers. No holds barred.
  • 16 January 2020 : My boyfriend going on vacation has been great for my productivity and we’re only an hour into two weeks apart 😹
  • 16 January 2020 : Today is a GET SHIT DONE DAY. Updating my calendar. Scheduling meetings. Finishing some tasks I’m behind on for work. Prepping for worker organizing. Answering my backlog of emails. Working on Decrim OR things. I’m feeling powerful.
  • 15 January 2020 : Dear Portland.... https://twitter.com/vmoning/status/1217318524588380161
  • 15 January 2020 : Can we kick white people off the Internet?
  • 15 January 2020 : Me: *joins the local DSA slack* Me, 5 minutes later: how do I mute things on slack?
  • 14 January 2020 : I unabashedly care more about black and indigenous peoples personal struggles than I do about white people. Point blank. Full stop. I care *extra* about trans bipoc struggles. I care even less about cis-het white folx—especially college educated, degree-holding ones.
  • 14 January 2020 : It’s not a coincidence that the LARGE majority of people interacting with this post with positive responses or affirmations of agreement are white & especially white women. Academia as an institution is a VERY largely racist, classist, homophobic/transphobic, & ableist entity. https://twitter.com/michellecardel/status/1216785202590015488
  • 14 January 2020 : Here’s our final update! Y’all are so amazing and I’m so thankful for all the help in sharing out info about this fundraiser! pic.twitter.com/c07GVQGwZA
  • 14 January 2020 : I really need white people to stop feeling sad when their bipoc & poc friends share about their experiences with the effects of racism on their day-to-day lives and start feeling ANGRY. I’m not sad. I’m fucking tired and pissed off. Find your anger & use it to organize.
  • 13 January 2020 : Existing as a black woman trying to advocate for sustainable, intersectional, & equitable practices at an almost entirely white leftist nonprofit is literally more emotionally exhausting then sitting naked in the lap of openly racist and sexist cishet white men in the strip club.
  • 12 January 2020 : I’d like to formally second this motion. https://twitter.com/Showmeurbeans/status/1216499807071522816
  • 12 January 2020 : There is literally nothing even marginally “incredible” about a comfortable white man sitting idly and doing nothing to mitigate violence being inflicted by another unremarkable white man... https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1216243738256838656
  • 12 January 2020 : RT @IwriteOK: I am so fucking tired all the time
  • 12 January 2020 : Imagine telling on yourself like this with a whole smile on your face. I would NEVER 🥴 https://twitter.com/rochelleriley/status/1216378998122536961
  • 12 January 2020 : I feel like it’s very on brand for me to show up to my first DSA general meeting late and still detoxing. 🙃😂
  • 12 January 2020 : Retweeting this thread for visibility in case Indigenous folx that follow me might have some advice to weigh in with. But also because reading through all the replies reminded me how anti-blackness is ubiquitous across ALL of our spaces including Native spaces. https://twitter.com/devilishgrin000/status/1216375870736257024
  • 12 January 2020 : ENTIRELY relatable. I think it’s something a lot of people only learn through experience lol.
  • 12 January 2020 : This is very sound wisdom that everyone should remember.
  • 12 January 2020 : My best friend just told me that I “look like a lesbian on tiktok” right now and I think it’s the nicest thing anyone has said to me all year?
  • 12 January 2020 : Fire can has just a little bit of paper, as a treat. pic.twitter.com/tgd5EXZujV
  • 12 January 2020 : A friend said panda conservation & revitalization efforts are going slow because the pandas in captivity are too lazy or they’re too nervous to fuck while people are watching. My other friend: “Have they tried taking the pandas to a rave?” #givethepandasecstasy #savethepandas
  • 11 January 2020 : If you think I’m not gonna go watch this cheesy ass movie on Valentine’s Day then you’re fucking wrong my guy https://twitter.com/photographmovie/status/1190282348698324992
  • 11 January 2020 : I look like such a fucking nerd with straight hair holy shit.
  • 11 January 2020 : Being awake on the west coast to watch this bullshit hit the internet in real time has me convinced that this is not only the bad place but I’m in the 9th level of Dante’s inferno.
  • 11 January 2020 : I just discovered the worst part of living on the west coast of the US and dealing with a night of insomnia..... which is still being awake to see Donald trump wake up and start tweeting live in real time. 🤮
  • 11 January 2020 : “I’m sorry, but I’m gonna need to talk to a manager.” pic.twitter.com/i2UPLrVFMe
  • 11 January 2020 : Very tired. Don’t know why tf I decided to do wreck my hair like this. Dying laughing at how this last section of hair looks compared to the rest of my semi-straight head. 😂 pic.twitter.com/x3rBTagixZ
  • 11 January 2020 : Actually, fitted suits in general? 🥴👔👀 #thatsmykink
  • 11 January 2020 : Also any woman or femme in a suit. 😍😩👏🏽
  • 11 January 2020 : Tall, ripped black men in tight fitting suits will foreverrrrr slay me 🤤👀🥵
  • 11 January 2020 : That’s it. This is the best tweet. Shut twitter down and we’ll call it a wrap. https://twitter.com/prolepeach/status/1215168734941405184
  • 11 January 2020 : I just ordered vegan ramen when I took myself out to dinner and I’m now convinced that veganism is a sexually transmitted disease.
  • 11 January 2020 : Taking myself on a dinner date alone because I deserve it and I’m so fucking excited for some time by myself.
  • 11 January 2020 : I have this same body suit in a “nude” tone! also that harness is wonderful. Performative femininity gets exhausting for me in SW even as a cis-woman & I have so much respect for all the non-binary & trans workers I know engaging with the constant performance for work.
  • 10 January 2020 : So, uhhhh, any idea on the price range these will be in and when you might be thinking about launching that? Need to know how much to save up 😅 cause those sound beautiful and id definitely be interested in a pair when they one day come out!
  • 10 January 2020 : That sounds GORGEOUS 😍😍😍
  • 10 January 2020 : I love the two colors for cancer. Just curious what the edging color would be?
  • 9 January 2020 : I’m just laying in bed rapid fire sneezing trying to keep my eyes open long enough to send emails. Also, my face/jaw hurts.
  • 9 January 2020 : Late night, deliriously sick & tired thots, part 1: Damn, this intentional & reciprocal care and affection shit really do be addictive as fuck don’t it??🧐 Y’all been out here living like this? Organizing & shit while also being supported emotionally & nurtured physically?🤨🥴🤔
  • 9 January 2020 : I’d also have some sort of system set up where they have jars for spending, saving & donating. & up until like, 10 (maybe 13) a dollar each of their allowance would go to savings/donating & the rest they could choose what to do with. 13 & they don’t get forced to save anymore
  • 9 January 2020 : If I had kids, I’d have a baseline allowance that is feasible long term, goes up some proportionate amount every birthday & isn’t dependent on chores. However, I’d also keep a list of bigger, harder chores that my kid could chose to do to earn more money.
  • 9 January 2020 : *CRINGING* and also screaming internally.
  • 8 January 2020 : I swear when I’m sick is one of the only times I actually eat 3 meals a day....
  • 8 January 2020 : That’s not how fetishization works though. Fetishization is built upon a caricature of what’s to be expected or else is based on a distinct “othering” of certain groups. I really think you don’t understand the intricacies of how fetishization functions in relation to sex work.
  • 8 January 2020 : SUPPORT 👏🏽 BIPOC 👏🏽 SEX 👏🏽 WORKERS 👏🏽 SUPPORT 👏🏽 BIPOC 👏🏽 SEX 👏🏽 WORKERS 👏🏽 SUPPORT 👏🏽 BIPOC 👏🏽 SEX 👏🏽 WORKERS 👏🏽 SUPPORT 👏🏽 BIPOC 👏🏽 SEX 👏🏽 WORKERS 👏🏽 SUPPORT 👏🏽 BIPOC 👏🏽 SEX 👏🏽 WORKERS 👏🏽 SUPPORT 👏🏽 BIPOC 👏🏽 SEX 👏🏽 WORKERS 👏🏽 SUPPORT 👏🏽 BIPOC 👏🏽 SEX 👏🏽 WORKERS 👏🏽 SUPPORT 👏🏽 BIP pic.twitter.com/LypWGC6AZY
  • 7 January 2020 : I get your point but you’re going about it in the wrong (and harmful) way. Porn doesn’t cause violence — but society sure does like to use women living sexually free and open lives as an excuse for the violence men beget against us. Censoring ppl is not the way to avoid harm.
  • 7 January 2020 : It’s one thing to say, “Do not use sacred cultural items like headdresses depicted in a sexualized nature in costumes because it’s disrespectful & leads to fetishization.” It’s another thing to say “Don’t start a native porn company because it will cause more violence.”
  • 7 January 2020 : This is once again victim blaming though. I’m intimately familiar with this narrative b/c it’s the exact same narrative people use to try & say that the entire porn/sex work industry should be shut down. The argument relies on an idea that open sexuality is a reason for violence.
  • 7 January 2020 : Native sex workers literally already exist... I don’t get this idea that our ancestors can have their beliefs modernized and weaponized for the sake of arguments on the Internet which would have been hard to even conceptualize hundreds of years ago.
  • 7 January 2020 : So many people in the replies acting like Indigenous sex workers DONT ALREADY EXIST. 🙄🙄🙄 Can you imagine beaded toys?? A cute plug with a dope beaded design instead of a giant fake diamond?? I stan. https://twitter.com/N8VChey/status/1214218397421981698
  • 7 January 2020 : And sometimes some of us want both depending on the hour 🙃😅💕
  • 7 January 2020 : Yeah, totally, jk! Unless.....? (That’s actually a fantastic idea.)
  • 7 January 2020 : I immediately interrogated all my office-mates. Apparently they are also in the men’s bathroom. And in the basement bathroom. And they’ve been here for a week and I just didn’t notice earlier today?? I am bamboozled.
  • 7 January 2020 : There is suddenly a giant pump bottle of Listerine in the shared women’s bathroom on our floor of the office building and I... have so many questions? Why? Who? Do the men have it too? Is it every floor of the building? Is someone trying to make a statement? When?? ❓❕❓❔ pic.twitter.com/X0gm7ppyjC
  • 6 January 2020 : Next time my partner says, “I’m sick - I don’t know if you should come over. I don’t want you to get sick too,” I really need to fucking listen & not lean into my sun sign screaming at me that I need to take care of them. I feel like fucking garbage today. 😭
  • 6 January 2020 : Y’all are so amazing! Current donation total is at $1,937.43! pic.twitter.com/zOGZKx9VdB
  • 6 January 2020 : Current total of donations is at $1,699.43!! Thank you! pic.twitter.com/533zjGIKXB
  • 5 January 2020 : I’ll see you there at 5! Come get free food, hang out, and meet folx in the community! https://twitter.com/cari_luna/status/1213946459176886273
  • 5 January 2020 : Update: Current total of $1434.43 in donations. pic.twitter.com/EKp7LETg90
  • 5 January 2020 : The last 48 hours has been a whirlwind and I’m emotionally exhausted and feel like I’m on the verge of tears, but anyway I get to go sit with a bunch of other rad organizers in Portland & talk about diversity of tactics so there’s that....
  • 5 January 2020 : This is what we mean when we discuss the rising tide of fascism, racism, xenophobia these 4 years. These things are what “America” was built on. We continue to slide into a more authoritative, militarized, imperialist, & oligarchical regime. #NoWarOnIran https://bit.ly/2STs4Iw
  • 5 January 2020 : The best explanation I’ve seen: https://twitter.com/momo_obrien/status/1152117677571432448?s=21
  • 5 January 2020 : Thank you everyone! The response has been amazing. We’ve raised $1206.43 so far! If (when at the way things are going) we reach 2k I’ll be making another update to the main account letting folx know you can stop sharing but any further funds sent will continue to go to them! pic.twitter.com/V0SDPB2kbZ
  • 5 January 2020 : We’re sitting at a current total of $674.43! Thank you everyone! pic.twitter.com/vEaeYnjUuh
  • 5 January 2020 : Smart cause I told them I lost my wallet. Devious cause they asked if I had a debit card and I said no, like a liar. Dumb cause I gave them my legal name when they ticketed me like a fucking liberal idiot. Anyways, NO TICKET. HUZZAH!
  • 5 January 2020 : Jokes on me. Got off the max at the end of the line and they’re checking tickets. Definitely about to get a ticket.
  • 5 January 2020 : Who needs to pay for a pole studio to practice in when you can just hop on the max for free and do stripper shit on the city’s dime? #farelesstransit #farefreemax #justportlandthings pic.twitter.com/PrHrxsHu47
  • 5 January 2020 : Endlessly blown away by all of you! We’re right at the point of getting barebones needs covered. Total is 495.43 rn! Continued shares are so appreciated to help get a new car not on the verge of breakdown & make sure these funds last longer for food! pic.twitter.com/SoFhOn9Q8E
  • 5 January 2020 : Currently raised total: $315.43 pic.twitter.com/ZNPYixQKyz
  • 5 January 2020 : Currently raised total: $215.43 Thank you so much for the donations!!! And also the shares! Please keep sharing! pic.twitter.com/VlSscJBBtj
  • 5 January 2020 : Yes, that worked!! Thank you so much!
  • 5 January 2020 : Funds can be sent to: - Venmo @littlexhellcat Cashapp http://cash.me/$littlexhellcat Paypal: DM @activismactually [on FB or Instagram] for details Raised: $135.43
  • 5 January 2020 : Funds will then be put towards; continued survival costs, a new car after hopefully selling the current vehicle for scraps, backup money for emergency housing due to instability of current offers for short term arrangements.
  • 5 January 2020 : All their resources were recently drained from a family emergency. Open ended fundraiser with a minimum need of $500. The $500 will be used immediately for: travel out of Portland, food for this week, comforts/enjoyable things to help heal post-trauma.
  • 5 January 2020 : Text from the attached fundraiser graphic: Emergency Mutual Aid Need for a brown, queer, trans sex worker. In severe need of funds for a houseless PDX sex worker who needs to get out of state immediately for their physical & emotional safety after extreme violence from a client.
  • 5 January 2020 : Yet another houseless, brown, QTPOC sex worker has experienced extreme sexual violence @ work. I’m coordinating w/another SWer to get them out of town & somewhere safe. Minimum goal is 500$. This thread will start off with the text of this graphic for accessibility & then updates pic.twitter.com/1h1Ac869Fu
  • 4 January 2020 : Hi, yes this astrology website just dragged me and I’d like to make a complaint.... 😬 “Cancer doesn’t really understand how someone could have trouble getting in touch with their emotions and can have unrealistic expectations because of this.”
  • 4 January 2020 : A couple reminders as we gather for ANOTHER anti war, anti imperialism protest. Many protestors: -have jobs -don’t want to spend all our free time rallying -would rather be doing mutual aid & creating new systems for success All anti war protestors are: -Doing you a favor pic.twitter.com/nwSqu8BwL0
  • 3 January 2020 : My life partner is so aggressively supportive of me and I love them so much for it. I cannot imagine the last year of my life without them. I feel so lucky to have them in my life through all the big changes, traumas, & transitions we’ve gone through in almost 2 years.
  • 3 January 2020 : If by some miracle I get 95$ sent to my cash app I’ll delete this tweet so no one keeps donating and write a separate thank you post instead of the usual way I leave up his fundraisers & post screenshots of deposits for accountability.
  • 3 January 2020 : Has anyone else just felt increasingly nauseous over the last 24 hours?
  • 3 January 2020 : Sharing this tweet? A vibe. https://twitter.com/showmeurbeans/status/1212942111638618113
  • 3 January 2020 : My issue is that I’m a Leo moon and I don’t go to drag shows in anything less than a full face of makeup and probably heels. 😂
  • 3 January 2020 : Today I’m going to a protest and then to dinner and then to a drag show and idk how to dress for all those things at once....
  • 3 January 2020 : Nazis literally deserve such a tragedy. Nazis deserve far worse than losing material possessions.
  • 3 January 2020 : Adorable. I wish just thinking of weed was enough to increase my energy levels lol
  • 3 January 2020 : What is this??
  • 3 January 2020 : https://twitter.com/cnbc/status/1212952194498093057 pic.twitter.com/D5WmelpsbH
  • 3 January 2020 : More US soldiers will likely die due to this act of continued xenophobic & racist imperialism. But innocent communities of color (black & brown children & families) will continue to bear the brunt of horror experienced when the US industrial military complex launches attacks. https://twitter.com/a_busy_woman/status/1212937927786991616
  • 3 January 2020 : I know this shit isn’t funny but dark humor will get me through life and I really read this promoted hashtag as “this is my world war” like some cutesy fucking trend of wartime aesthetic posts and I just..... pic.twitter.com/HHAeigGbun
  • 1 January 2020 : Also, I shaved my head 20 minutes after a friends funeral so I feel that. Better the hair than anything else. ❤️
  • 1 January 2020 : You have my number. Please call if you need boo. I’m also in my feels. Proud of you.
  • 1 January 2020 : I mean I 100% support this but wigs for work ALL THE TIME SUCKED. But also it was really freeing and I’m enjoying growing out my natural hair.
  • 31 December 2019 : @apihtawikosisan pic.twitter.com/8XBZqi2nrd
  • 31 December 2019 : Me: I don’t want children. 🙅🏽‍♀️🙅🏽‍♀️ Someone give me a hysterectomy. This baby making factory is CLOSED FOREVER. 😤 *sees Indigenous bbs dancing in regalia* 🥺🥺😭😍😩 Alright, you heard the boss! Open ‘er up! We gotta get a baby started ASAP or this uterus will literally explode.
  • 31 December 2019 : I just got so excited about my fucking ndn taco that I straight up just INHALED hot sauce and now I might by dying. 🙃😭 pic.twitter.com/jmTSDZm7dK
  • 31 December 2019 : Going to a powwow before I go veg out on my friends couch all night and take my braids out. Didn’t wanna deal with waist long hair though so I chopped my braids in half 😂 pic.twitter.com/V5hJeJI5qW
  • 31 December 2019 : I just texted my pharmacist mom a screenshot of this question! Will let you know if she gets back but also you can call the pharmacy that you picked it up from and ask to speak to the pharmacist and ask this question!
  • 30 December 2019 : HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAHAH
  • 30 December 2019 : Right? That’s what I stuck on too...
  • 30 December 2019 : “dont kiss boys at midnight its new years eve not new years steve,, be a lesbian” - Darcie Milaine Howell (or whoever said it first cause on fb you never know)
  • 30 December 2019 : Fuck. I’m choking laughing. Get out. I hate white people so much. https://twitter.com/GregoryMcKelvey/status/1211726686175186944
  • 30 December 2019 : 💕A list of things I enjoy that I commit to doing more of in 2020: -going to drag shows -dancing -yelling @ cops -modeling -therapy -reading for fun -blocking haters online -playing w/makeup -scream -getting my nails done -making colonizers uncomfortable Show me your list!😊❤️
  • 30 December 2019 : 😬😬😬😬😬😬😬 https://twitter.com/socialistdogmom/status/1211716889342287872
  • 30 December 2019 : Not a lot of trust built with most of the residents here Ted. It’s why people are still putting so much pressure on you to work towards a fair reform for police contracts. Because nothings changed while they’re still insulated from any discipline for murder.
  • 30 December 2019 : "I tell you, 'Meet me after school at 3 o'clock. Right? We're gonna fight. And I come with the intention to fight. And then you get mad because I kicked your butt. And then you go back & you wail off & whine & complain."-Outlaw, re; heavy police violence against unarmed residents
  • 30 December 2019 : "I tell you, 'Meet me after school at 3 o'clock. Right? We're gonna fight. And I come with the intention to fight. And then you get mad because I kicked your butt. And then you go back & you wail off & whine & complain."-Outlaw, re; heavy police violence against unarmed residents https://twitter.com/phillymayor/status/1211704605291229184
  • 30 December 2019 : Good morning. Portland’s most visible race traitor and wanna be Kamala Harris will soon be leaving for Philadelphia and I hope sincerely hope Philly rocks her shit and breaks her down. https://trib.al/rxR5gFj
  • 30 December 2019 : I have a strong love/hate relationship with the internet. https://twitter.com/KillaCali27/status/1211453970302095365
  • 30 December 2019 : I’m fucking HOLLARIN 😂😭🤣☠️ https://twitter.com/realmpjohnson/status/1211454267762073602?s=21 https://twitter.com/kittynouveau/status/1211347829077229574
  • 30 December 2019 : Whaaatttttt is that and where can one generally find it?
  • 30 December 2019 : Working on late Christmas present for boo which is BDSM/relationship style related. Simultaneously sexy & cheesy & full of feels. Which is bringing lots of smiles & blushes & heartthrobs as I write it but is also making me horny while I sit in this random coffee shop & I just🙄🙃
  • 30 December 2019 : Finishing my second cup in a row of black coffee and I’m yawning like I just woke up 🙄 working in a coffee shop for 4 years really fucked up my caffeine tolerance for life 😫😭
  • 30 December 2019 : 😂😂😂😂 too real. She’s giving out fist bumps and we’re throwing hands 👊🏽😾
  • 30 December 2019 : “We ain’t never did that before why you thought today was the day to do that shit” 😂😂😂😂😂
  • 29 December 2019 : Listening to Caroline by Aminé and really missing the club and pole. So I ran to the back car on the max & did a bunch of pole tricks on the bike hanging rack and god it feels good to just say “fuck what people think” & have fun hanging upside down & doing splits on poles.😋🤩😝
  • 29 December 2019 : Folding laundry and found shirts from two fights for two different issues led by people I love and who are very dear to my heart. ❤️ pic.twitter.com/nENHENpDev
  • 29 December 2019 : Me: *checks FB Messenger notification* New message: *hey you* Me, out loud: NoOoOOoo. Nooooo. No. Don’t do this don’t do this dontdothis DNTDOTHISSS please no pic.twitter.com/IGZu6KuVmT
  • 29 December 2019 : Wanna be cute and post cheesy, kissing selfies of me and a boo. Also wanna have some small semblance of privacy in the online sphere. Also wanna protect all the boos from the bullshit that comes with me being a highly online & visible organizer. 🙃 send help. Am stress.
  • 29 December 2019 : RT @IamGMJohnson: Walt https://t.co/2DH6oaLAZP
  • 29 December 2019 : Not gonna lie, I kinda wanna ask my boo thing to pirate the CATS movie so we can get high out of our minds and watch it from the safety of his couch...
  • 29 December 2019 : HAHAAHAHAHAH happy new year to me I lost my wallet last night with the only piece of govt issued ID that I own since the feds stole my documents when they detained me @ the border this year & I haven’t gotten new ones yet b/c depression so like fuck me right? 🙃 pic.twitter.com/ZCtOKBLZFU
  • 28 December 2019 : Me: *hates Portland (both the city in general & a large majority of its residents) with the fiery, spiteful passion of satan coursing constantly through my veins* All my loved ones: *settled down in Portland; aggressively love & support me; continually beg me not to leave* Me: pic.twitter.com/yuSOUeiZ7F
  • 28 December 2019 : I just saw someone explain why a skinny rich white woman musician who “gives back” & “breaks down barriers” is “worth being idolized” & I just... Y’all really need to stop idolizing people in general. That shits not cute. Celebrities. Community figures. Organizers. W/e. Stop it.
  • 28 December 2019 : I AM FUCKING CRYING 😭 yo this shit really do be happening tho 😂☠️ white people gotta chill. pic.twitter.com/v9i7RHzQ1x
  • 28 December 2019 : 👏🏽💕👏🏽🔥✊🏽 https://twitter.com/latimes/status/1210752228622921729
  • 28 December 2019 : Although re-reading your tweet I think they’re wrong, tbh. Pretty privilege is definitely real. And desirability goes hand in hand with it in regards to racism and all the other -isms I mentioned in regards to this being an intersectional issue.
  • 28 December 2019 : I’d be happy to link that thread here if you can find it but people are already talking about the ways desirability is tied to racism and white supremacy. It’s a common conversation of how Eurocentric features & white/light skin are idolized. I’m trying to bring a missing POV.
  • 28 December 2019 : I mean.... to be fair it is pretty damned big and this book was a present so I can’t really blame him but that chapter two title? pic.twitter.com/EADC8BHr6h
  • 28 December 2019 : If this doesn’t SCREAMMMMMM “Get OUT” to you then I really don’t know what does. My mans needs HELP. They done took his soul and all. https://twitter.com/sandyleevincent/status/1210554949697986561
  • 28 December 2019 : Here’s a few to save and have in your arsenal if it ever happens again! 💕 Sorry that happened to you and that’s EXACTLY why I denied both pictures. pic.twitter.com/lD4ZIxIWIB
  • 28 December 2019 : Update: they really tried it.... I declined again. Sometimes I fucking hate technology. pic.twitter.com/x5MzG32LN2
  • 28 December 2019 : My airdrop stays on. Some stranger on the max with the iPhone name “your mom” just tried to send me a random picture. The notification said “your mom would like to airdrop a picture.” I declined it and then sent them this: pic.twitter.com/uvaa8IufnS
  • 27 December 2019 : Lololol @CashApp got us all out here looking like this thooooooo $littlexhellcat https://twitter.com/vrytiredmom/status/1210704366581276672
  • 27 December 2019 : RT @anishinaa_bae: Another reminder again, do not use white sage if you are not Indigenous. It's appropriation, and it's ugly and yes cause…
  • 27 December 2019 : Pretty privilege & desirability politics is a double edged sword where women (trans & cis) and non-binary femmes are involved. All I ask is that we save space for recognizing the intersections of so many systems that result in simultaneous pretty privilege & sexual violence (end)
  • 27 December 2019 : And I didn’t even touch on in this thread the way “pretty girls” are socialized from birth - specifically around their looks- and the ways that can lead to body dysmorphia, eating disorders, anxiety, & severe identity crises as we grow in older & our looks change.
  • 27 December 2019 : We need to be holding space for all the sex workers leading the fight for Decriminalization who’ve built a whole career off of weaponizing pretty privilege but can tell you intimately about the extremes of violence that come along with being seen as “desirable” by the masses.
  • 27 December 2019 : We need to be sure we’re yanking skinny white Karen down off the pedestal when she won’t pass the damn mic but recognize that the *gorgeous* skinny, passing, black, trans woman who definitely holds pretty privilege also experiences the violence of dehumanization that comes with.
  • 27 December 2019 : When we talk about desirability politics and pretty privilege, we *NEED* to do so through an intersectional lens— especially as it applies to radical organizing spaces and the way we save time and space for people who hold the mic and share their story/takes.
  • 27 December 2019 : I could go on about this for hours but I’ve got things to do so I’m gonna start wrapping this up.
  • 27 December 2019 : The cis-het white men who run the world & who set up the institutional structures which bolster pretty privilege don’t like to acknowledge that they have sexual attraction to fat bodies, trans bodies, black/brown bodies, disabled bodies. But they do & they choose violence to deal
  • 27 December 2019 : When women are seen as conventionally “pretty” we’re generally not being seen as pretty so much as we’re “sexy” or fuckable. That’s the reality. It’s why desirability politics is so wrapped up in fatphobia & transphobia- it’s not about beauty it’s about male sexual gratification.
  • 27 December 2019 : But I do think it’s important that we recognize the way desirability is a double edged sword - ESPECIALLY and primarily for Women and also cis-women. We get caught up sometimes in how men and women can have pretty privilege but men don’t as often have to deal with the violence.
  • 27 December 2019 : I want to avoid exactly what Da’Shaun speaks of here & not let this thread turn into a “my life is hard too” conversation. I acknowledge the very valid and important feelings folx have around pretty privilege like what you’ll find in this thread. https://twitter.com/dashaunlh/status/999842815357149185?s=21
  • 27 December 2019 : I ran out of space but desirability politics is an ableism issue as well. And I think it goes without saying but clearly it’s also directly tied into racism and broken down even further by colorism, too. There are so many layers to this.
  • 27 December 2019 : The thing I think we’re missing is that desirability politics is a starkly intersectional issue. Its a fatphobia issue. Its a rape culture issue. Its a feminist issue. Its an issue tied to the shaming of sexual freedom & its religious roots therein. It’s a mental health issue.
  • 27 December 2019 : My job as a sex worker was basically to weaponize my “pretty privilege.” Every sex worker that exists on this planet can tell you a story of how their desirability has brought the bag to their feet and also brought violence knocking on their door.
  • 27 December 2019 : I think when we talk about desirability politics we need to talk about how this issue is tied directly to rape culture & the way the world runs off of the simultaneous commodification and shaming of sex and women’s bodies.
  • 27 December 2019 : I think that “pretty” people & those who benefit from desirability -like myself- need to be conscious of the ways that we can and often do effectively silence more marginalized voices (both by accident and on purpose.)
  • 27 December 2019 : I recently retweeted this thread that makes mention of why the conversation around desirability politics needs expanded and to be given nuance. And I agree with that wholeheartedly & it’s prompted this thread. https://twitter.com/zaluibaorimi/status/1210637226788499458?s=21
  • 27 December 2019 : I point this out because the level to which I choose to perform femininity is *directly* related to how much privilege I receive out in the world on a given day— but its also directly related to how much I will be dehumanized & exp. misogynoir & sexual based violences.
  • 27 December 2019 : I think it’s also worth clarifying that there are intersections of pretty privilege like with anything else. My experience with the effects of desirability are related to my skin color, me being cis, and my hair - but also the way I choose to dress, style my hair, do my makeup.
  • 27 December 2019 : I think it’s HIGHLY important that we talk about the inherent privileges that come with being perceived as conventionally attractive — both in and of itself in regards to “beauty” but also because 99.99% of the time it is paired with skinny privilege.
  • 27 December 2019 : As an activist, organizer, and sex worker who’s been actively fetishized since age 12 for being visibly black/brown but with enough Eurocentric features & racial ambiguity to be palatable to white society, I have a lot to say about pretty privilege & desirability politics.
  • 27 December 2019 : Me when I see @cashapp ending peoples year on a postive note with the biggest #UltimateCashAppFriday & sending people a whole $500: #yourebreathtaking http://cash.me/$littlexhellcat #KeanuApproved pic.twitter.com/UgiayeVHSH
  • 27 December 2019 : http://cash.me/$littlexhellcat cause I’m not gonna *not* take a chance at free money I could use to find housing 🤷🏽‍♀️ https://twitter.com/cashapp/status/1210611169297420292
  • 27 December 2019 : I don’t know if she can teach it. I think it might be me just talking about these things constantly and never stopping until nothing phases her any longer. Or doing things so much more crass that a boyfriend older than her seems like a nonissue. 😬😅
  • 27 December 2019 : Yesterday my mom curiously asked me about one of my former play partners/Dominants that she met once, 2 years ago, & who was like 5 years older than her. & she was just casually wondering what happened to our relationship. She really is so good & has gotten so desensitized 😅😅
  • 27 December 2019 : If you’ve never intentionally dunked half a box of triscuits into your microwaved ramen like you would Oreos in milk, then are you even really depressed?
  • 27 December 2019 : Looks right 😂
  • 27 December 2019 : Update: we are still here, I need to dust my heater, and I also need to sweep under my dresser apparently. pic.twitter.com/s6b7AaYxCW
  • 26 December 2019 : capitalism.
  • 26 December 2019 : The hardest part about polyamory is planning the NYE kiss. You & your partner gotta gather all your other partners. Then all your metamours gotta do the same w/their partners. Then you gotta coordinate the positions &spins to make sure every1 gets all their kisses before 12:01am
  • 26 December 2019 : Me, every single day that I open up the World Wide Web: pic.twitter.com/2Lr4gTV19T
  • 26 December 2019 : My roommates cat and I are straight up just sitting on opposite sides of the heater as we wait for the room to warm and I think we’re bonding. 😂 pic.twitter.com/J6nupiRjsa
  • 26 December 2019 : I have seen so many bastardized versions of this illustrated graphic originally made to showcase a consensual kink called “bimbo-ifacation” and this is one of only two remakes that I absolutely adore. 😊 #sexworkersownourmeansofproduction https://twitter.com/twochangzzzz/status/1209958011046899718
  • 26 December 2019 : Hot take: Not all lesbians identify as women and nobody gets to tell them they’re not lesbians because of that. 🙃
  • 26 December 2019 : Baby queers kill me sometimes with their commitment to speaking over queer/lbgtqia2s+ elders (esp. those more marginalized) as we try to teach them about the harmful side effects of some of their *hot takes.* Like bb we understand shits rough but pls don’t canabilize each other.
  • 26 December 2019 : I don’t wanna keep subjecting mxsandry to this so I’m not gonna reply again but -at 18 I recognize you probs don’t remember that discourse & the gatekeeping around bisexuality that happened so just like plz listen to queer elders as we explain how your position is harmful/not new
  • 26 December 2019 : pronouns don’t equal gender. I’m saying gender identity is a very intimately personal thing for so many people that it’s weird you feel comfortable asking a stranger to explain theirs to you for why? Bi has changed to include enby/trans folx. The same way other terms can be fluid
  • 26 December 2019 : Do you know queer history?? Bisexual was *originally* defined as “attraction to men and women” and the general understanding was of bisexuality as along the binary. Do you not remember the discourse that happened when pan was introduced & people cried that bi was for men/women?
  • 26 December 2019 : @maximoffdanvers @mxsandry As a cis, bisexual woman I’m just here to tell you that you & others can define identity however you wish. It’s the same reason that I can call myself bisexual even though I date anyone including trans/enby ppl because words are fluid & change as time passes & societies change.
  • 26 December 2019 : Some lesbians are attracted to nonbinary, femme aligned people. Definitions of words are fluid. You’re gatekeeping. The weirdos comment is dismissive af. You don’t deserve complex explanations of some1s gender identity just b/c they exist online & their pronouns should be enough
  • 26 December 2019 : By the time I was 24 I told my parents I: -don’t believe in white jesus -am bisexual -quit college -engage in lifestyle bdsm -am a stripper, then a whore -think all cops deserve guillotines -think the military is a scam -wanna see the USA fall They don’t challenge shit anymore😅 https://twitter.com/neo_url/status/1209913018924097537
  • 26 December 2019 : This is also relevant: https://twitter.com/marxist_kgirl/status/1209979678313897984?s=21
  • 26 December 2019 : Their pronouns are literally in their bio. Not that you deserve to demand to know a strangers gender on the Internet after gatekeeping queer identities along the gender binary. 🙄
  • 26 December 2019 : Essentially it seems. https://www.teenvogue.com/story/heres-the-actual-story-behind-hey-there-delilah/amp
  • 26 December 2019 : I’m 100% sure it could! Makeup is magic & there are so many different types of smoky eye! As I taught my mom, you dont need an occasion to practice makeup! I learned via lots of bored(tipsy) nights playing w/ looks @ home from Pinterest/YouTube till I found what works on my face!
  • 26 December 2019 : I bought my mom a set of makeup brushes for Christmas but the real present is that I’m about to sit her down with ALL of my eyeshadow pallets that I brought from home & teach her how to do a smokey eye. ☺️✨
  • 25 December 2019 : I have been attacked..... https://twitter.com/kendraaaleighh/status/1209344393338998784
  • 25 December 2019 : Of course, it’s an experience wrapped up in cis-privilege. However it’s definitely an interesting human thing that we have this obsession with names & blood family connections - especially as a black person already far removed from my actual ancestral family line/name.
  • 25 December 2019 : It’s a bizarre experience being a cis person who goes by a different first AND last name than my fed name. It’s awkward when people talking to me compliment my parents for my name or ask for the story of why I changed it, what my name means to me, or “how my mom feels” abt it. https://twitter.com/jennplusplus/status/1209301527518744578
  • 25 December 2019 : RT @kelpeigh: @disabledsirena @jennplusplus @RogueBlue5 “But I gave birth to a [deadname]!” You gave birth to a screaming baby and you rai…
  • 25 December 2019 : Those aren’t perks. They should all just be normal parts of any and every job. We shouldn’t be speaking like “job security” is some huge special perk that should result in a trade off in how much you can actually earn in said job. It’s exploitative & unnecessary.
  • 25 December 2019 : Is this applicable? Because I feel like twitter presented this in the algorithm as an answer.... pic.twitter.com/mytHyv27bf
  • 25 December 2019 : 12 year old brother turns 13 in a week and I swear to god I can’t handle kids from ages 10-21. 🙃 We’re at the point now where I’m pretty sure every direct question I’ve asked 12 this week has been answered with “I don’t know.” 😒😒😒
  • 25 December 2019 : One of my brothers is one of those lucky/unlucky kids who has a birthday on Christmas Day. My mom and I made him a Minecraft cake. I made the sword & it was like making an edible puzzle. Moms made the cake & did the grass/writing. We are proud. pic.twitter.com/xbHs7SqD71
  • 25 December 2019 : My chaotic side really came out 20 minutes ago when I took a bite of my friends homemade edibles they gifted me for Halloween while at my mothers house who is very anti weed. 😬 It’s always a gamble on how strong they’re gonna be 😂
  • 25 December 2019 : I actually *spit* I didn’t just sit there in spite 🙃😂🙄
  • 25 December 2019 : Sitting at the table while my baby brothers say “Whatsup monika” (my nigga) to each other back & forth laughing. My white mother: I’m staying out of this convo Me: Probably for the best My 8 year old brother: It funny cause we’re all negroes except for you mom. Me: *spite*
  • 24 December 2019 : It’s pretty impossible not to be. pic.twitter.com/WYwEsMvAZO
  • 24 December 2019 : She’s so good at balancing. 💕❤️ pic.twitter.com/lGcwzGnOP3
  • 24 December 2019 : It’s 7:30AM. She woke me up at 6:50 to let her out to go pee and then sprint in circles with her in the backyard w/ her literally frozen toys. Now we’re back inside & shes whining about coming in too soon in the most passive aggressive way. 🙄 pic.twitter.com/r4volpqlf3
  • 24 December 2019 : Deaf and Hard of Hearing folx should not have to beg strangers for help to get the attention of celebrities to ask for accessibility. Just plan on having interpreters so that ppl don’t have to jump through hoops to support you. https://twitter.com/dulcemariao93/status/1208842913863458816
  • 24 December 2019 : Pics or it didn’t happen.
  • 24 December 2019 : Every time I’m at my parents place I literally cannot go anywhere without this dog being no less than 8 inches away from me at all times. I love her. Her official new nickname from me is Shadow. pic.twitter.com/IDtIpVKFza
  • 24 December 2019 : I’m stress eating and it’s in these moments I really learn the depth of my own depravity and disgusting nature. Despite my recent issues processing dairy I’m currently shoveling velveeta Mac&Cheese with bbq sauce into my face loving every bite and also hating myself.
  • 24 December 2019 : I generally don’t believe in manifestation but I genuinely feel like I just manifested this being the necessary timeline for that man to get off at the next stop cause I was about to get kicked off of a train otherwise....
  • 24 December 2019 : I swear to lil white baby jesus that if he doesn’t shut the fuck up soon so I can’t hear his annoying, white “like dude, totally!” voice I’m going to walk up to him and tell him how much genuine joy I have about the idea of his racist grandma dying in front of him.
  • 24 December 2019 : Listening to some white people a few seats behind me talking about their racist old grandmas that they smoke weed with and this white boy literally just loudly said on this train, “I love my racist grandma” and I really hope his grandma dies on Christmas Day. Like, genuinely.
  • 24 December 2019 : Brb my ovaries just exploded and now my face is leaking. 😭😭😭 https://twitter.com/_sjpeace_/status/1208897960630730755
  • 24 December 2019 : Listening to a straight white hippie couple argue about how he’s learning her native language (something Eastern European) and how the app he’s using is nonsensical & they’re just going in circles right now and I think I might lose my mind. 🙃🙃
  • 24 December 2019 : White people really do just be wanting to die in the most outrageous ways, huh? https://twitter.com/cptnrwrpnts/status/1209076308266889216
  • 23 December 2019 : This world is fucked and exhausting. I just DM’d you on Instagram boo. Hit me back if you need anything.
  • 23 December 2019 : Let me be one to say that you deserve to express all of your emotions —rage, grief, stress, anxiety, exhaustion— in whatever way is right for you. Sending you mad love sis.
  • 22 December 2019 : I can’t believe I went to like 4 fucking stores looking for white tights and not a single one of them was a fucking sex store or stripper clothing shop. How fucking dumb of me.
  • 22 December 2019 : RT @lilnativeboy: A multi millionaire is making her fans donate .50cents to “Native American Organizations” She also never apologized for…
  • 22 December 2019 : I was disappointed/disgusted to see the normalized conversation from folx on my timeline thirsting after Dababy. I was curious & went looking for the thirst trap that inspired these posts only to find leaked nudes & feel gross that I saw them. Him being a man doesn’t make it ok.
  • 22 December 2019 : Looking at his hoodie ties gives me anxiety..... https://twitter.com/thegam3r357/status/1208578479001874432
  • 21 December 2019 : If someone has any level of celebrity then it’s much harder to win a US libel suit because they would have to prove that you: - knew what you said was untrue - said it anyway - could reasonably be proved to use it with the intention of causing harm or hurting their reputation
  • 21 December 2019 : On my way to visit Micah and the bus driver just told a passenger “the jail is the end of the line.” Passengers like “oh, Issa jail.” Driver: yeah, like a transitional jail. Me: Sir that is a minimum security prison....
  • 21 December 2019 : You want me to go shopping TWICE the weekend before Christmas???
  • 21 December 2019 : About to go to the mall on the Friday night before Christmas because I’m bad at planning..... pray for me.
  • 20 December 2019 : Of all the oppressive groups, by and far, I see white cis-women as the most dangerous and insidious. The cognitive dissonance they possess in relation to their power and privilege is terrifying and dangerous.
  • 20 December 2019 : Fash: comments on 14 week old post Me: gives a cursory glance at her profile and finds this gem of a comment.... Let the trolling of the troll begin ✨ pic.twitter.com/Yc5eFHuXW6
  • 20 December 2019 : run.
  • 20 December 2019 : Since Taco Bell won and I forgot about Muchas Gracias being there I went to Muchas Gracias lmao. I figured all the leftists who votes would lean towards giving money directly to immigrant communities lol
  • 20 December 2019 : I am walking to get my shame meal. Headphones in. Right side of the sidewalk. And some kid rolls past me on a skateboard on my right and brushes my arm catching me off guard. I swear I almost just punched a child y’all. There was so much space on the left hand side. 🙄
  • 20 December 2019 : Oh! Is there? That ones out then. Thank you for the heads up.
  • 20 December 2019 : Me, walking out the door: “I’m going to walk to tacobell for dinner” Roommate: are you.....sure? There’s like 4 Mexican restaurants on that one corner. Taco bell, qdoba, Chipotle, muchas gracias.... Me: Well I asked twitter and Taco Bell won over fancy Taco Bell so.....
  • 20 December 2019 : I’ve eaten ramen and nothing but for the past 3 days 😹✨ but I agree! Ramen is such good comfort food!
  • 20 December 2019 : It’s 6:30pm. I’ve consumed 2 glasses of water today. It’s time for my depression meal. Where should I get the cheapest, most sadness-fighting dinner imaginable from?
  • 20 December 2019 : Tag yourself: I’m “isolated to avoid taking stress out on folx” 🙃 https://twitter.com/andrewrileypdx/status/1207750532103733248
  • 20 December 2019 : Oof. I feel this really fucking hard.
  • 19 December 2019 : lol at the fact that I took a break from sex work because the constant racism & need to perform white-washed femininity was reaching a point that it was critically bad for my mental health only to take a job that is apparently worse for my mental health? 🙃
  • 19 December 2019 : I consider you very lucky and hope you don’t have the displeasure of interacting with him.
  • 19 December 2019 : Okay but like, the guy who owns this is a narcissistic garbage human and incidentally also extremely ingrained in Portland’s stripping community. 🙃🙃 I just want to make that PSA.
  • 18 December 2019 : I hadn’t paid much attention to these proceedings at all until 45 minutes ago when I read a summation of the days events as a means of absurdly dark comedic relief in seeing just how outrageously hellbent Republicans are on keep 45 in office no matter the cost.
  • 18 December 2019 : My unasked for opinion on today’s impeachment hearings? The hearing will be largely inconsequential except as a means to strengthen the implementation of 45’s eventual attempt @ dictatorship & to confirm who you know that is still reliant on the state as a means of saviorship.
  • 18 December 2019 : SCREENSHOT OF RECEIPT FOR ACCOUNTABILITY pic.twitter.com/6Cvpzx4ams
  • 18 December 2019 : UPDATE: GOAL REACHED. 140/140$ goal met!
  • 18 December 2019 : Update: $110/140 goal
  • 18 December 2019 : Update: $60/140 goal
  • 18 December 2019 : Update: 20/140$
  • 18 December 2019 : If you can help I’ve got cashapp, Venmo, and PayPal. Cashapp is http://cash.me/$littlexhellcat and Venmo is also @littlexhellcat . You can DM me for PayPal info! I’ll also post updates on this thread as money is contributed & will update when we reach goal!
  • 18 December 2019 : Normally I do about 100 every 2 weeks for phone/commissary so he can keep his sanity by staying in contact with folx and be able to afford food he can actually keep down considering all his medical needs. Whenever I do these fundraisers I post screenshots of receipts of transfer.
  • 18 December 2019 : Prisoner Mutual Aid Fundraiser - 0/140$ Fundraiser for a LGBTQ brown activist and prisoner. Micah’s in need of support with funds and I’ve seen poured so much money into DecrimOregon this month that I don’t really have anything at all to contribute. Cashapp/Venmo: littlexhellcat pic.twitter.com/00P3dGEfT6
  • 18 December 2019 : What folx sound like actively supporting @PeteButtigieg in his candidacy. 🙃🙃 pic.twitter.com/YBgw8RtzAp
  • 18 December 2019 : Me scrolling through these pics like, “I’m not dark skinned so she damned sure not... her neither...oooh, if y’all don’t get these racially ambiguous & therefore privileged mfs off this dark skinned thread.” I’m DROWNING in privilege from colorism & they not all dark skinned.
  • 18 December 2019 : this is supposed to say mercilessly but I’m tired and just reveling in the memories of mind-numbingly good sex and frequent serotonin washes and it’s a gift of mercy to be made to forget the stress of my day to day so 🤷🏽‍♀️😅
  • 18 December 2019 : I don’t know how the fuck I’d be coping with my life if I weren’t getting laid as regularly and as well as I am right now. I’m snuggling my stuffed animals in bed like “why are my hip flexors SO sore...? oh it’s because I got mercifully fucked last night thank god”
  • 18 December 2019 : A thread full of polls regarding financial instability/poverty/the pervasive threat of houseless-ness many US residents face. Worthwhile to share, engage, and take a hard look at the results. https://twitter.com/anthoknees/status/1207016139005382656
  • 18 December 2019 : Stoppppppppp. 100% not a hero. Just a loud angry person with a knack for social media sometimes. I’m sure we’ll see each other around soon! ❤️
  • 18 December 2019 : THAT WAS ME WITH THE WHITE BRAIDS AND WE MISSED A CHANCE TO CONNECT IRL AND IM SAD NOW BUT BALANCING TWEETING & MAKING A GRAPHIC FOR DECRIM & WATCHING FOR FASH I WASNT VERY SOCIAL IM SORRY😭😭
  • 18 December 2019 : @KelsCara I didn’t realize that was you with the dog!!!!
  • 18 December 2019 : Wow, where did you find that gif of me irl, from right now?? 😹 #everydayantifascist #antifapussyposse pic.twitter.com/NATfKKrKyP
  • 18 December 2019 : Thank you everyone for not judging me for the RAMPANT typos. I have big thumbs and they were numb as fuck out there.
  • 18 December 2019 : She’s so fucking scummy.
  • 18 December 2019 : Fash *almost left* about three times. I’m walking away rn. The sex worker event is done and disperse. it’s just Farley & like 1 person left surrounded by antifascists. Tired of doing this shit in my free time. Grateful for the folx consistently w/ me in the streets.
  • 18 December 2019 : Farley filming, “Antifa is threatening to fight me right now and I don’t know why I’m just standing here.” Some random girl who walked up, “IDK MAYBE ITS BECAUSE YOURE A FUCKING NAZI?!” Farley meekly, “I’m an independent journalist...”
  • 18 December 2019 : A lot of fash walking away. This woman in read starts screamingly Farley films. A few fash come back. Haley and crew hang out the corner waiting to make a full retreat. pic.twitter.com/Hw0KO7eZeZ
  • 18 December 2019 : Grateful for antifascists willing to engage with and distract fash as people gather to mourn and read the names of sex workers who’ve lost their lives this year..... pic.twitter.com/HSiqZjhRrq
  • 18 December 2019 : Bunch of pioneer square security watching. Maybe one cop amongst them? pic.twitter.com/hSYcCVA6ZZ
  • 18 December 2019 : Katy is actively and intentionally misgendering a trans person.
  • 18 December 2019 : Alyssa Bang/Visenhalen(?) is here too. pic.twitter.com/VFENhcsMi0
  • 18 December 2019 : Haley Adams hanging out with Katy real buddy buddy. pic.twitter.com/vRmqZEdUtO
  • 18 December 2019 : pic.twitter.com/bqhj5XQV9Z
  • 18 December 2019 : @PopMobPDX @RoseCityAntifa @AntiFashGordon
  • 18 December 2019 : Fash, including Haley Adams and Katy W at pioneer squar as SWOPPDX hosts a memorial for sex workers. Farley is here. They’re yelling on the corner. #defendpdx pic.twitter.com/BZfHaXjF7y
  • 18 December 2019 : Should be spending my time focusing on mourning those sex workers we’ve lost to violence on International Day To End Violence Against Sex Workers. Instead I’m gonna go stand in the cold to keep an eye out for fash who might be targeting sex workers. Feeling #MournAndFight deeply
  • 17 December 2019 : Does anyone remember seeing (or have the screenshot of) Farley talking about crashing the SWOP event for international day to end violence against sex workers tonight? I’ve been digging but don’t see any other fash mentioning it & im trying to assess what to expect.
  • 17 December 2019 : Wow. 1st selfie I took this year was in the early hours of the morning, in Tijuana on the border after doing medic work on asylum seekers as the US govt rained down tear gas on them/us. The last was after emceeing an event @ the nonprofit I work for.... I have a lot of feelings. https://twitter.com/feministgayry/status/1206667035553550337 pic.twitter.com/hgVvasBsrU
  • 16 December 2019 : pic.twitter.com/DVTZAQ9cS4
  • 16 December 2019 : This is far too fucking close. If you wear this & still get your shit rocked don’t be surprised. MAGA hat chuds present a credible fear to marginalized groups. Yts need to stop making these “ironic” hats. Your stupid joke isn’t worth raising the anxiety level of ppl around you. https://twitter.com/benioff/status/1206033692193259522
  • 16 December 2019 : Read this whole thread. https://twitter.com/wendellpotter/status/1206623259698974724
  • 16 December 2019 : Know what’s great? That random burst of executive function that enables you to put away your laundry & clean your room after 6+weeks of depression naps. Know what’s awful? When you gotta do it while ya can but that leaves you up cleaning until 3am the night before a big event.🙃
  • 16 December 2019 : 🙋🏽‍♀️
  • 16 December 2019 : Me: *grabs a handful of candy on my way out the office.* Me: ooooh, whats an all white one mean? My subconscious: DANGER. It means danger. Me: true, true. you right... pic.twitter.com/8FtnV4HLib
  • 16 December 2019 : Before you reach out to that insanely busy organizer you know to schedule an in person 1-on-1 ask yourself, “Could this be a brief phone call?” https://t.co/kPU9QDuzPB
  • 15 December 2019 : I think you need more context to this. I saw a BUNCH of tweets about santacon yesterday. One sec.
  • 15 December 2019 : Texas really fucked my sleep schedule all the way up.
  • 15 December 2019 : I’d like to nominate the cast of Good Times. With the *potential* of an exception for James Walker but I doubt white folx know him either. pic.twitter.com/CcUFnOXiLl
  • 15 December 2019 : I introduced a nearly 40 year old white man to Aaliyah recently so like... no, not all white people know who she is.
  • 15 December 2019 : The irony of this is I have a stable job at a ngo (stability being something that was hard to have safely in SW as a black woman in a racist, white city post FOSTA/SESTA) & yet I regularly bemoan the fact I’d much rather be doing full time FSSW. Capitalism will never be freedom. https://twitter.com/critterbuns/status/1205467973739274241
  • 15 December 2019 : Me, watching this video: pic.twitter.com/VaUMFdF7uy
  • 15 December 2019 : Why......?
  • 15 December 2019 : Wow, this is the first time in life I’ve read one of these and felt like I’m right on track... https://twitter.com/GabbiBoyd/status/1205551804068564992
  • 15 December 2019 : What a beautiful timeline treasure I found. @GregoryMcKelvey calls out Ted Wheeler, below that, a friend responds to @tedwheeler calling him a bootlicker & saying his tweet is a pr stunt. The algorithm puts them together and I just.... *chefs kiss* 👩🏽‍🍳 pic.twitter.com/HstBaWpJx3
  • 15 December 2019 : I meant to call into the steering meeting while I was in Texas but alas, I neither put it on the agenda nor called in. 🙃 Next month though for sure. We’ll be a bit more prepared too.
  • 15 December 2019 : This is a “pay to park” only zone from 7pm-6am. 😛💸💚 pic.twitter.com/5A2E6Iceuv
  • 15 December 2019 : Imagine showing your whole ass like that in public. What if I’m fulfilling the dominate role as a cis woman? What if either of the partners involved is non-binary? What if it’s a same-gender couple engaging in bdsm? Then what? Make it make sense.
  • 15 December 2019 : Imagine being so misguided as to think that consent relies on equilateral (and binary) gender justice in all frameworks of life or else it is invalid. This is the *EXACT* same logic that swerfs use to cry “Its imposible to consent to sex if money is involved.” It’s toxic & wrong pic.twitter.com/S0ut39Zcts
  • 14 December 2019 : If I can be a spokesperson for DecrimOR while working at a nonprofit, you can pursue what will give you an opportunity to live in stable conditions while still fighting for your passions. You don’t have to forgive yourself for surviving under capitalism cause it’s not your fault.
  • 14 December 2019 : This article was helpful for me. I hope it’s a helpful tool for others in learning how to come to terms with and handle/manage their intrusive thoughts. And I hope it can be an educational tool for folx who aren’t familiar with this common symptom of anxiety & depression. (End)
  • 14 December 2019 : If we can raise societal understanding of the various ways mental illness shows up in peoples lives & is impacted by our own unique, day to day situations, we can begin forming collective solutions to fighting against these issues together and not on our own as individuals.
  • 14 December 2019 : Dealing with mental illness is not- and will never be- linear. But if we can acknowledge our struggles, name them, and be willing to be courageous in talking about them, we can start to expand societal awareness of these all too common issues.
  • 14 December 2019 : I haven’t been *actively* suicidal in years now. I haven’t self-harmed in probably close to a year now, (about 6-8 months) but it’s something I have to fight off a little more regularly. And that’s ok. It’s just the reality of how my mental illness shows up in my day to day life.
  • 14 December 2019 : It’s something we don’t talk about a lot but I genuinely think it could use more discussion and awareness. Despite frequent thoughts of suicide, I don’t consider myself in danger. I recognize that these impulsive thoughts I can’t control do not define me. And yours don’t either.
  • 14 December 2019 : Every time I walk across a bridge/overpass my brain likes to go, “what if we jumped off this bridge right now?” Sometimes it’s a single passing thought while I’m crossing - sometimes I hear that thought with every step I take on that bridge until I’m a few feet clear of the drop.
  • 14 December 2019 : Intrusive thoughts are something I deal with probably every other day at least but every few hours at most. They show up in a lot of different ways for different people but for me, they’re often centered around suicide and self harm.
  • 14 December 2019 : CW: intrusive thoughts, self harm, suicide (Thread) I had to explain to someone today that Ive frequent intrusive thoughts about self harm/suicide. I didn’t explain in detail, but here’s my reality in case anyone finds comfort in knowing youre not alone: https://theheartysoul.com/intrusive-thoughts-debilitating-anxiety-symptom/amp/
  • 14 December 2019 : Why are men so dumb?
  • 14 December 2019 : before anyone slides into my replies, please know that I’m 100% gonna be blocking any vegans that come into my replies telling me about the anti racist vegan communities they might be apart of. Y’all need to do more work before BIPOC can trust the vegan comm. I’m not here for it.
  • 14 December 2019 : I accidentally said, “I fucking hate vegans” in front of my vegan coworker at our nonprofits staff holiday party— nevermind the fact that I’m currently *dating* a vegan. 🙃😭🤦🏽‍♀️ I should’ve said that I hate that colonialist, racist vegans are by far the loudest vegans I ever see.
  • 13 December 2019 : I organize out of desperation, frustration, & disgust at the current state of the world. Looking through a global, national, & local lens; things are dire. But whatever keeps your fire lit—hope, anger, fear, spite—I encourage you to foster it & try to spread your flame to others https://twitter.com/livkittykat/status/1205573183509848069
  • 13 December 2019 : 😭😭😭😭
  • 13 December 2019 : Imagine being excited to *PAY FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS* to attend a meet and greet with a capitalist candidate that could easily finance the entire existence of every person in that room if they each lived to be over 100 years old & walk away with just this shitty signed poster... https://twitter.com/russellcstevens/status/1205394149286899714
  • 13 December 2019 : From the absolutely dead-panned voice saying Bloomberg’s name over this track to the cringey dancing to the amount of effort put into supporting a billionaire, this is extremely embarrassing.... https://twitter.com/nickciarelli/status/1205354210465742848
  • 13 December 2019 : Legitimately went and bought a slurpee to cheer myself up after that missed connection with the cute juggling bus girl. Don’t know why I put effort into flagging that Im gay when pretty girls talking to me sends me into a state of panic where I forget how to fucking speak. 😭😩
  • 13 December 2019 : IS THIS HOW MY ROMANTIC COMEDY WAS SUPPOSED TO START??! Should I have jumped off at the next stop and ran to give her my number. I’m so mad at myself. She was so cute. That was so wholesome. Wtf. Goddamnit.
  • 13 December 2019 : Plot twist— I’m sitting by the door and she’s getting off at her stop and I just said, thank you that made my day. And she goes “I’m glad it did. I love your hair btw.” *gently patted my knee* “It’s cute, you’re cute” on the way out the door. I’m just like WAIT IM GAY COME BACK
  • 13 December 2019 : There’s a very very cute girl sitting on the bus just like... juggling... in her seat? It’s really helping break up the existential dread I’ve been feeling sitting and thinking about the state of the world.
  • 13 December 2019 : Wait, I found a small win: https://twitter.com/gcb_union/status/1205349889376260097?s=21
  • 13 December 2019 : Yes. I’m with you. I’m sorry.
  • 13 December 2019 : Apparently I can draw roses? Who knew?? 🌹 #rightsnotrescue #breadandroses #decrimnow https://twitter.com/decrimoregon/status/1205336850308550656
  • 13 December 2019 : I’ve been eating meat again since I started stripping. But I’m talking to my elders and indigenous loved ones about learning how to hunt and skin and sustainably use all parts of an animal and then only eat byproducts that I’ve sustainably had a hand in harvesting & fully using.
  • 13 December 2019 : In my personal opinion, all dairy cheese is good cheese. I have never had cheese I’ve been disappointed in (except cottage cheese) until I started eating vegan cheese. But yes, the best of dairy cheese is also expensive.
  • 12 December 2019 : Probably.
  • 12 December 2019 : That is me. Where did you find that picture of me from a few years ago?
  • 12 December 2019 : I do know that. They’re expensive. I’m upset.
  • 12 December 2019 : I was vegetarian for almost 2 years, tried to go vegan, and couldn’t make it more than a month for no other reason than that I didn’t want to live in a world without cheese. Now I’ve developed lactose intolerance & I don’t know how to cope with my existence. Life is bleak.
  • 12 December 2019 : We wearing nothing but grandpa sweaters and beanies this winter cause I want the world to know I’m gay. pic.twitter.com/7TibA545Lg
  • 12 December 2019 : I have 4 stuffed animals that sleep on my bed every night & it gives me *anxiety* trying to remember to keep a cuddling rotation so that nobody feels left out or unloved too many nights in a row & I just realized some people have to do this with literal children & I’m just like pic.twitter.com/GgJ1DiYg29
  • 12 December 2019 : This is the whitest thing you’ve ever written and I just needed to point that out 😅
  • 12 December 2019 : The white women must be stopped. As per usual... https://twitter.com/wannasworld/status/1059989652487069696
  • 12 December 2019 : This is Francis. She has a grumpy face. And sometimes, she screams. pic.twitter.com/UQwixKQ0kU
  • 12 December 2019 : 👏🏽 just 👏🏽 keep 👏🏽 scrolling https://twitter.com/anthoknees/status/1204907976181469185
  • 11 December 2019 : Activist/advocacy things is @activismactually Personal account full of lewds, modeling, & memes is @lilithxsinclair 💕
  • 11 December 2019 : The absolute 180 of what my close inner circle of friends looks like over the last year has been absolutely wild. I feel so blessed to be surrounded by some of the most amazing organizers & grateful for the few friends that have managed to stay close despite my wild new lifestyle
  • 11 December 2019 : By far the best 60 seconds of my day so far. Thank you.
  • 11 December 2019 : The endless struggle of attempting to censor snark is SO real.
  • 11 December 2019 : When the packaging says snack bags, they mean taquitos right? That’s what this is made for.... pic.twitter.com/xL1CPPYrfN
  • 11 December 2019 : 🙃🙃🙃 https://twitter.com/breenewsome/status/1204458929574555649
  • 10 December 2019 : The most beautiful gif I’ve ever seen. https://twitter.com/marisaxsabino/status/1203542121828896768
  • 10 December 2019 : A forever mood. https://twitter.com/kiteboytolly/status/1204473523369963521
  • 10 December 2019 : This video clip is an interview Wheeler did at the last community listening session. Make sure you come to the next to tell him how you feel about the state of Portland policing and what needs changed in the upcoming police contract negotiations. https://twitter.com/uniteoregon/status/1204181661572714496?s=21
  • 10 December 2019 : This is what pretty privilege is and means. https://twitter.com/danavivianwhite/status/1204163897621696517
  • 10 December 2019 : @tedwheeler - “We’re all sort of thinking the same things in terms of accountability, oversight, use of force, and what-not.” Do you really think so Ted? B/c rn your residents are lamenting over another life needlessly stolen by @PortlandPolice and you are...? pic.twitter.com/fCfuOqBdtM
  • 10 December 2019 : "Portland Police Officers responded to a dynamic situation involving an armed subject," Portland Police Chief Danielle Outlaw said in a news release. Outlaw was on scene Sunday with Mayor @tedwheeler .” And yet, we see radio silence from Wheeler regarding this issue.
  • 10 December 2019 : Who, in this case, would that be? Well, when we talk about the capital owning people whom wrap their hands around the leash of local police forces, we can start with @tedwheeler and the (white, often male) millionaires like him who have SWARMED to Portland, OR in recent years.
  • 10 December 2019 : Of course, the reality of this situation need be built on the backs of an understanding that police & the systems that protect them weren’t actually made to protect & serve the people. Cops exist solely to protect capital and directly serve those who own the capital.
  • 10 December 2019 : The fact that the phrase “suicide by cop” not only exists but needs no explanation in the United States is an enraging travesty. There is no reason why any force designed to “protect & serve” the people need be so militarized & aggressive.
  • 10 December 2019 : In a DM I just got from a local Portland resident who intentionally and regularly listens to police scanners, they paint a picture of responding cops who acknowledged this might be an attempt at suicide by cop & they still went in guns blazing. I’m disgusted & unsurprised. pic.twitter.com/JPL5aCr9V2
  • 10 December 2019 : “Police said the officers used both lethal a”& less-lethal weapons against the man --Vervloet said he only saw a rifle.” “An officer who stayed on the bus with witnesses told them not to discuss with each other what they’d seen...” “Hicham said, shaken. “It happened so fast.”
  • 10 December 2019 : And furthermore, police should not ever be the first responders to incidents regarding mental health crises. We see over and over and over again that police, especially @PortlandPolice , do not have the deescalation skills (or basic empathy) needed to respond to these calls.
  • 10 December 2019 : “My brain was drawing the bead-line of where the bullet could travel if they missed,” Vervloet said.” RESIDENTS SHOULD NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT BEING FATALLY CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE WHEN POLICE ARE RESPONDING TO CALLS ABOUT PPL IN MENTAL HEALTH CRISES. #PoliceState
  • 10 December 2019 : “The man had made his way onto the sidewalk alongside the Starbucks parking lot and was standing with his hands still at his sides, Vervloet said. The officer pointed his rifle in the man’s direction, and the direction of Starbucks.” A witness reports nonaggressive behavior.
  • 10 December 2019 : I didn’t even make it all the way through the article I was SO frustrated at that quote regarding the officers being unable to confirm whether or not the man they gunned down was carrying knives or “other weapons” but the story gets worse from there.
  • 10 December 2019 : Another screenshot shared with me, presumably pulled from a social media comment section, claims from a witness that the deceased was carrying “2 little knifes.” How is it that every single witness has reported unquestionably that this man was carrying knives & police are unsure? pic.twitter.com/PABaxX7w6C
  • 10 December 2019 : This is a screenshot from the NextDoor app detailing a report from neighbors discussing this police murder. “If you’re around [mental illness] and exposed to it you know how to react and I guess PPB isn’t.” pic.twitter.com/yjcy2PVrRE
  • 10 December 2019 : MULTIPLE witnesses, not even including the two folx on record who called this in, report that Henrikson was carrying knives & yet, “Sgt. Kevin Allen said Monday he could not confirm whether the Henriksen was armed with a knife or other weapon.“ https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2019/12/man-killed-by-portland-police-had-history-of-mental-illness-witnesses-say-he-seemed-confused.html
  • 10 December 2019 : Entirely accurate. I’m a cheap date.
  • 10 December 2019 : As ppl wax poetic supporting the complete censorship/abolition of porn I’d like to post this ironic picture I took in the club with a workbook a former client was made to do. I’d love to see us have a convo about how many therapists denounce “sex addiction” as a valid diagnosis. pic.twitter.com/KfkARriF8l
  • 10 December 2019 : I can only imagine I’d be the exact same!
  • 10 December 2019 : Side effects of hardly ever drinking: one cider at dinner and I am noticeably tipsy. Fuck. 😳😂☠️
  • 10 December 2019 : YALL, the blurry person in this picture just interrupted their friendly argument/debate to emphatically weigh in on the topic at hand and then dash back to his table. I’m DYING. 😂☠️ pic.twitter.com/KC7Thlyc9e
  • 10 December 2019 : There are two white, masc punks sitting in this sizzle pie drinking beer, wearing snarky black Christmas sweaters, arguing *loudly* & gesticulating wildly) about canon timelines within the marvel universe and I’ve never been so cognizant of the fact that I live in Portland, OR.
  • 10 December 2019 : I apparently am in the mood to be drunk right now...
  • 10 December 2019 : I legitimately *should not* be budgeting for a 65$ pair of earrings right now but I definitely was about to drop all the monies if they hadn’t sold already 😅😭🙌🏽 they’re literally so beautiful. Just glad I got to see your wonderful art. 12/10 would recommend.
  • 10 December 2019 : Wow these are some of the most beautiful earrings I’ve ever seen 😭😍 https://twitter.com/shutupbrit/status/1204121283249786880
  • 10 December 2019 : .........so what were you recommending then????
  • 10 December 2019 : 😍😛🍑 Oh, wait.... you said grass. 🌾 I did just eat a salad and pizza instead actually.
  • 10 December 2019 : “Sunday marked the year’s fifth fatal shooting by Portland police officers, making 2019 the deadliest year for police shootings since 2010.” https://www.opb.org/news/article/southeast-portland-officer-involved-shooting-investigation/
  • 10 December 2019 : Moping around walking in circles on the sidewalk just mumbling “now what do I doooooo” 🥺😩
  • 9 December 2019 : My happy ass was practically skipping on my way to get sushi only to walk up and find the cheap sushi bar closed 😭😭
  • 9 December 2019 : It’s *mildly* easier now that I can say “I work as an organizer for a politically involved nonprofit” & leave it at that. It was much harder to say, “I travel the country recording/yelling at the state, making educational materials, organizing protests & helping people in need”
  • 9 December 2019 : The funniest thing about being a community organizer and grassroots social media advocate/content creator is trying to explain to older gen family members what exactly it is that I do.
  • 9 December 2019 : This is the funniest thing that has happened today, by far. ☠️ pic.twitter.com/8Cb6N3v9Y3
  • 9 December 2019 : Me: I’m curious to know what you think about ________. I really want your honest thoughts. Seriously, please don’t censor it, I value your opinion. My friend: *gives their honest opinion* Me: pic.twitter.com/KA2Dma0aXZ
  • 9 December 2019 : I am so emotionally exhausted and overburdened I feel physically sick and nauseous.
  • 9 December 2019 : No Justice. No peace. No murderous police.
  • 9 December 2019 : Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck. Fuck. I’m so tired. I’m so fucking tired. I’m so goddamned fucking tired. Fuck the police. Fuck this country. Fuck colonialism & capitalism & imperialism & the continued militarization & all this constant death.
  • 9 December 2019 : Portland police have killed another resident today. I’m hearing unconfirmed reports that this person was in mental crisis. If so, it marks a heart wrenching & disturbing (but unsurprising) continuation of PPB responding to mental health calls & murdering our neighbors in need. https://twitter.com/rpeavyhouse/status/1203801347625078784
  • 8 December 2019 : I am chock full to the brim with serotonin this morning and it feels so good. 😭
  • 7 December 2019 : I’ve braided half my head. I can’t remember what direction to keep going in. And I’m getting picked up in like an hour and 45 minutes 🙃🙃
  • 7 December 2019 : I have now completed another 2.5 braids of varying sizes and I wanna shave my head again 🙃
  • 7 December 2019 : I am lazy and distracted and it has taken me like 2 hours to do these 4 braids so like please pray for my sanity plz pic.twitter.com/3YMzroz6p6
  • 7 December 2019 : In truth, I am essentially one giant, sentient, walking chicken nugget.
  • 7 December 2019 : Thanks for asking, ЯussiaИ И3stiИg ъot 🇷🇺🤖! You can donate to the @UPNOW2020 campaign via the “Contribution” tab on the http://UPNOW2020.org website! There’s option for 1-time donations or monthly! Plus they still have dope tshirts left I bet you could DM them about buying! https://twitter.com/bojrizzle/status/1203187740407287808
  • 7 December 2019 : Don’t want this sad, sad life for your children? Help fight for universal preschool. I did not go to preschool and look how I turned out. pic.twitter.com/uJyogaDwtS
  • 7 December 2019 : Me, 7pm-Yes, I’ll make a donation to @UPNOW2020 b/c preschool’s an important part of ensuring kids’ healthy development into adulthood Me, 9pm-Wearing fleece Christmas jammies. Standing in front of a microwave cooking my dinner & singing “chicky nug nugs, chicky chicky nug nugs”
  • 7 December 2019 : Sometimes I look at pages that share content from my Facebook page and I’m like 😱 “WOW, this page with 5,000 followers shared my content to their page?!?!?” And then I remember my page somehow now has nearly 20K followers & I’m a confused dork with imposters syndrome. 🙃😅😨
  • 7 December 2019 : IT HAPPENED AGAIN. Damn @PortlandDSA , y’all really are so good at spontaneous hissing at wealth inequality. It’s impressive. 👏🏽
  • 7 December 2019 : At a fundraiser for @UPNOW2020 (which is an important campaign you should follow^^) & when income inequality comes up, half the crowd hisses for a sustained 3 seconds @ least. Me: Did y’all plan that?!? @Showmeurbeans - “No, @PortlandDSA is just really good at hissing.” 😂😂
  • 6 December 2019 : I’m more concerned about the indiscriminate firing of dozens of rounds into a vehicle in the middle of rush hour traffic tbh....
  • 6 December 2019 : I definitely forgot how much a full impact play scene takes out of your body. I’m SO hungry today. But I have pretty, blossoming bruises sprinkled across my body that are very enjoyable. 😊✨💕😇
  • 6 December 2019 : Jesus fucking Christ https://twitter.com/iwriteok/status/1202834155123494912?s=21
  • 6 December 2019 : Disgusting. I don’t have words. https://twitter.com/rklueber28/status/1202746837758889984
  • 6 December 2019 : You’re a badass and rockstar and I’m virtually sending you so many power ups to help you get through shifts during these dark times. You got this! pic.twitter.com/xuipTq693X
  • 6 December 2019 : Lol at this idea I had of, while on a brief hiatus from sex work, doing kink & bdsm themed photoshoot again for nothing but fun and the joys of creating. In actuality my body dysmorphia is straight up the worst it’s ever been in my life. Transitions are hard.
  • 6 December 2019 : Thank you for speaking your truth. And simultaneously I’m so sorry this society demands your constant emotional labor and vulnerability to “prove” that you deserve normal human rights and fair working conditions. I send you strength and love and SO much gratitude.
  • 6 December 2019 : 3 old Swedish people walking on the sidewalk behind me. They see an electric car and start speculating on “how they charge those things.” One goes, “What no one is thinking about—what do you do with ALL THOSE BATTERIES? millions of them! Hundreds of millions of them!”
  • 6 December 2019 : My teeth hurt just thinking about it lol.
  • 6 December 2019 : If I put together a workshop/skill-share on social media as a tool for community education, would anyone be interested in attending something like that?
  • 6 December 2019 : Do you just swallow them whole or chew on fruity ice cubes?
  • 6 December 2019 : waht.
  • 5 December 2019 : When people ask me what type of music I listen to I’m going to stop trying to sound like a rounded human being & just answer honestly— I listen to musical soundtracks, 90’s r&b/rap, and big band jazz music. That’s it. And it’s mainly musicals. Spotify has been dragging me today.
  • 5 December 2019 : Left my laptop charger at home by accident and I’m SO mad at myself for it.
  • 5 December 2019 : When there’s not a price on bundles at the beauty supply store so you’re prepping your wallet for the worst and it ends up being a third less than you were anticipating 🙌🏽😭🙌🏽
  • 4 December 2019 : I literally cannot even imagine living past the age of 35. Shit sounds exhausting. And literally unimaginable. Someone asked me if I had a 401K recently and I laughed in their face.
  • 4 December 2019 : Same.
  • 4 December 2019 : “While the court said it recognizes ‘vigorous advocacy of conflicting viewpoints may create feelings of anger, fear, annoyance or loss of control’ to a police chief...” The court really said, “We know getting told you suck, well, sucks but...” 😂😂 https://twitter.com/maxoregonian/status/1202305555244539904
  • 4 December 2019 : That’s definitely what I thought. Unsurprised to see the proud connection but also very confused. I stood laughing on the sidewalk at the absurdity as I took pictures.
  • 4 December 2019 : It is 11am and today has already been a wild ass ride. Anyway, here’s the most ridiculous cop car I’ve ever fucking seen. pic.twitter.com/tavbZcxtIU
  • 4 December 2019 : cashing a check through BoA since they’re the bank the univ wrote the check through & it just worked out this way. Have to get it verified before they’ll cash it. I explain I have a credit union & bank attendant says “why did you not think to cash this at your bank”😒😑🤭
  • 4 December 2019 : I just.... Activism can look like a lot of different things. A lot of G4S employees still don’t understand the major role their employer plays in deportations & convincing them to look for new employment is a drop in the ocean but it’s still a drop.
  • 4 December 2019 : I have to cash the check I got from a university at Bank of America and they don’t open until 10am so I’m standing here and their security guard smiled at me. He’s a G4S employee. 🤢 I almost took a sec to explain to him how they work with ICE but then this woman pulled up & I... pic.twitter.com/jFO2FYDWdB
  • 4 December 2019 : Successfully navigating public transit alone in cities I’m not at all familiar with always makes me feel like I can do this adulting thing.
  • 4 December 2019 : It is so fucking foggy at SeaTac right now. Jeesh.
  • 4 December 2019 : Second update: I am at the airport and I am reminded how much I hate human beings.
  • 4 December 2019 : Update: have not packed. Gonna nap and speed pack in the 30 minutes before I have to leave because I’m a garbage human ☺️
  • 4 December 2019 : this just in, Kamala Harris was Assigned Cop At Birth. Apparently, blue lives do exist... but they definitely don’t matter. #copisntarace #bluelivesactuallydontexist #kamalaisacop https://twitter.com/independent/status/1201997577606045701
  • 4 December 2019 : Condescending people? Like men who explain to successful women, who spend a large portion of their time on twitter, how the block feature works and whom they should use it on...? Don’t talk to her Mike.
  • 4 December 2019 : @this_vid please!
  • 4 December 2019 : Thanks!
  • 4 December 2019 : I generally don’t retweet a lot of politicians but uhhhh, watch this video please. And then share it far and wide. https://twitter.com/berniesanders/status/1201968538895958018
  • 4 December 2019 : Hi I have to leave for the airport in 2 hours and I just got out of my first shower in 3 days and I still have to pack all my clothes to fit into my carryon bag & I am, as per usual, a procrastinating piece of shit. 🥶✈️ But i have an aisle seat in an emergency exit row so 🤷🏽‍♀️😴💕
  • 4 December 2019 : I am both speechless and entirely unsurprised... https://twitter.com/buttwitchery/status/1201733402992340992
  • 4 December 2019 : -the idea of radical vulnerability as an organizing tool -the rampant weaponization of white woman tears as a form of violence -the DIRE need to create more accessible revolutionary spaces by dismantling the rampant & unaddressed ableism, fatphobia, & whorephobia of the left https://twitter.com/thatericalper/status/1201712755641929728
  • 3 December 2019 : Low key wanna get an outline of a handprint tattoed around my throat with the finger pads tattoed in red for where people choking me need to squeeze to be safe. I’m tired of teaching people how to choke safely. “Just follow the guide and squeeze the red zones, please.” 😂
  • 3 December 2019 : 😂😂😂😂 https://twitter.com/tristan_puig/status/1201949476044165120
  • 3 December 2019 : The last time I was at the border I had a SO whom I spent a lot of time on the phone with and who regularly read me to sleep over the phone & I’m realizing now how helpful that was to me in staying well mentally despite constant government surveillance and intimidation.
  • 3 December 2019 : I do wanna clarify though that this text is weird and disconcerting because it’s written so professionally and impersonal. Like dang, please don’t be a copy/pasting robot with consent in any form - sexual or emotional. 🤢
  • 3 December 2019 : Okay but I started seeing someone new & we’d hooked up a few times but 1 day we were in the car & I just said “hey is it okay if I send you random nudes? Just wanna double check.” Affirmative consent is hot & sometimes ppl can’t be having nudes pop on their phone anytime of day😅 https://twitter.com/suzannahweiss/status/1201642800418156544
  • 3 December 2019 : Getting to the point where I’m gonna start needing ASMR videos that somehow incorporate the sound of helicopter blades passing overhead since that’s my bedtime white noise every time I’ve fallen asleep anywhere near the US border, be it the Indigenous village or the streets of TJ
  • 3 December 2019 : I’m actually glad I read this article. It was an interesting and informative piece. https://twitter.com/kitoconnell/status/1201653849595039744
  • 3 December 2019 : what could possibly go wrong...? The no cops part is great. The response on looks alone part???? https://twitter.com/shanedkavanaugh/status/1201547818931896320
  • 3 December 2019 : Faith is all well and good. but all the faith in the world isn’t going to save you from a tragic accident, gun violence, sudden health issues and the like. You can simultaneously have faith in the possibility of a future while recognizing it’s not at all guaranteed or promised.
  • 3 December 2019 : Doing some light reading before bed 💕😊 pic.twitter.com/SzMJJFHXYj
  • 2 December 2019 : Y’all better not retweet this cause I’m probably gonna delete it in like an hour I’m just DYING internally right now struggling to keep my RBF strong. 😂 pic.twitter.com/SmwAIjB9N1
  • 2 December 2019 : I swear on my life I’m not trying to be a petty piece of garbage but watching a white man tend to the sacred fire all I can hear is my water protector friends voice saying, when a similar occurrence happened this year, “Only a white man would make a fire that everyone can see.” pic.twitter.com/G9pKqUHARE
  • 2 December 2019 : Oh, hey mr military men, long time no see. What’d you get up to in the last hour? Anything exciting? Find any freedoms flying around over the US? Always concerning to see a military helicopter fly overhead, door open, uniformed man sitting on the hangar. https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1201582668779008002 pic.twitter.com/q0lDlLdeUa
  • 2 December 2019 : I hardly ever go to the theaters but this book - and the true story it covers- changed my life and I have high hopes for this adaptation. https://twitter.com/common/status/1201555045096910848
  • 2 December 2019 : *cough cough* looking around at some of these nationally idolized white Portland strippers like... https://twitter.com/raanibegum/status/1200524709944856582 pic.twitter.com/sqx92yLUN9
  • 2 December 2019 : “And—despite social seclusion—everyday women have much to thank sex workers for. Historically, sex workers have been heavily involved in activism and have pushed hard to progress women's and workers' rights, both within and outside the sex work industry.” ✊🏽 https://twitter.com/decrimoregon/status/1201590799277924354
  • 2 December 2019 : Bringing this back because it’s FUCKING HILARIOUS and I just showed everyone awake at the village this video and laugheddddd 😂 I actually snort laughed so hard someone said bless you and I’m now embarrassed. https://twitter.com/momo_obrien/status/1152117677571432448
  • 2 December 2019 : I’m gonna fucking CRY. It feels so good to post writings. I’m not sharing the link now because uhhhh, itd do terribly in the algorithm. BUT if you wanna play detective my piece on the Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe is hosted on the Activism, Actually blog. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Will blast it tomorrow 😊
  • 2 December 2019 : The only one that matters... 👇🏽🙇🏽‍♀️ https://twitter.com/glitteryybutt/status/1200844592637235201
  • 2 December 2019 : I’m realizing I may have phrased this poorly. I’m referring to a headlamp which helps me see but also explicitly marks my exact position to any feds around the camp. But the point still stands. Thank you love. 💕
  • 2 December 2019 : As someone who’s had an IUD for 7 years (which has largely eliminated any/all period symptoms) & is dealing with the hormones running out & the reintroduction of periods, it amazes me that anyone is able to bleed for days every month w/o murdering someone.
  • 2 December 2019 : IT SHOULD NOT BE THIS HARD TO GET A FOUR MINUTE VIDEO FROM MY PHONE TO MY LAPTOP IM GONNA SCREAM 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃
  • 2 December 2019 : Aren’t kids the best?!?! 😂😂😂
  • 1 December 2019 : Also, we got there, made assessments and were on our way back - away from the fire- before CBP pulled up. Which like, why tf is CBP responding to a fire anyway???? But also why did we have a better response time?? Cops/law enforcement shouldn’t be responders for fires. At all. pic.twitter.com/KVx6RLKtEC
  • 1 December 2019 : All that being said, the fact that my first response was “let’s drive *towards* the towering flames” really had me questioning the white in me & telling it take a step back 😂
  • 1 December 2019 : Pulled up & realized that it is confirmed to not be a controlled burn but we also heard sirens headed toward us so no need for us to have contact with the police. And the house on the property wasn’t close enough to the fire for it to seem @ risk before emergency services came.
  • 1 December 2019 : Wake up. See MASSIVE flames. Drive towards massive flames. Then we can make decision about calling emergency services. pic.twitter.com/SpAaLhJUEh
  • 1 December 2019 : I don’t care how many times I’ve smudged or laid out spirit plates or paid my respects or called upon my ancestors—walking around a graveyard at 2am in the dark with a spotlight (read; target) on my forehead while in an area filled with feds will never not be mildly terrifying.😭
  • 1 December 2019 : Lol, okay feds. I see you. I post about it being slowed down in the last hour. Five minutes later 2 CBP agents on quads drive past the village along the levee access road. I’m comfy now & in a position to see but not easily film most sides of the village, so no video this time.
  • 1 December 2019 : It has been thankfully quiet this hour. I get relieved from watch soon-ish. It’s been a busy night tonight and I’ve been on high alert for most of it. I meant to be working on graphics right now but I’m taking a little break in an attempt to start getting my mind ready for bed.
  • 1 December 2019 : Heard a loud ass noise, went on a perimeter check. Mid-perimeter check there’s a LOUD fucking bang and the sound of running. We go to check it out. It’s just some fucking opossums who went to antagonize dogs & are now being chased by said dogs. Rude idiots making my heart race.
  • 1 December 2019 : Literally JUST NOW, at 12:13am, another CBP patrol car drives slowly past the village along the levee access road. 🙃 pic.twitter.com/9jqVLynpXd
  • 1 December 2019 : 11:54pm, anotherrrrrr CBP agent on a quad SPEEDS past the village along the levee access road which runs alongside it. I whip out my camera & miss it again. Another quad speeds behind them. I catch the second CBP quad of the minute on video. pic.twitter.com/otGfqiVg4x
  • 1 December 2019 : Sometime around 11:45pm a CBP agent on a quad speeds past the village on the levee access road that runs against the property line of the cemetery Yalui Village is situated on. He’s quick & I don’t get video. I’m annoyed. It inspires me to start this thread.
  • 1 December 2019 : 9:43pm, ANOTHER CBP patrol trucks drives along the road that runs south of the village. Just before the village he slows down & stops with his lights off. I shine my bright ass headlamp on him & he turns his lights on & starts *slowly* driving past. I record this video. pic.twitter.com/zDSrgyP9Cs
  • 1 December 2019 : 9:24pm, a helicopter flies from the southwest towards and over the village. A minute or so later another helicopter flies over us coming from the southeast. I did not catch it on camera. pic.twitter.com/X3pJtDfOMq
  • 1 December 2019 : 9:22pm, Another CBP patrol truck rolls by the village. pic.twitter.com/GGflJQ62zS
  • 1 December 2019 : 8pm, A CBP agent on a 4wheeler/quad drives on the southern road that runs along the village. I fumble taking a video in time. “Don’t worry, look- another ones coming up the road.” 8:08pm A second CBP agent on a quad rolls by. I’m fumbling and my finger blurs the shot but: pic.twitter.com/IRu8jOMhKV
  • 1 December 2019 : It’s 11:45pm. Let’s start with what I’ve seen so far, tonight. 6:26pm, CBP patrol truck is parked probably about 500 feet from the village on the road that runs south alongside it. He sits there for a few mins. I shine my light & take a picture. He turns around & drives past. pic.twitter.com/TnmF744pw2
  • 1 December 2019 : (Thread) Since I’m gonna be up late tonight on watch, I’m about to just start tweeting every single time CPB does some fuck shit around Yalui Village as a means to show people what the ramping up of government surveillance of Indigenous land & water protectors looks like.
  • 1 December 2019 : I’m covered in mud. My article is done and being edited for me to publish tomorrow. I’ve got my first graphic done for the tribes use. I’m working security at the Village rn and will be making infographics tonight for my media pages tomorrow. I feel so much more in my element rn.
  • 1 December 2019 : Hahaha, I’m so glad it’s not just me.
  • 1 December 2019 : I was waiting to hear your take on this. I read through like 3 reviews and then decided to read a synopsis and avoid going to see it. But I saw you talking about avoiding spoilers so I was curious how you’d feel.
  • 1 December 2019 : Sharing only to ask if anyone has a link cause these are cute AF. Also cause I’m gay and #butts . https://twitter.com/lilankhan/status/1200803345478361088
  • 1 December 2019 : Hi, yes, hello this is such a good deal and y’all ask me where to buy Indigenous made goods all the time so go buy this. https://twitter.com/emmatsalageek/status/1200866455543255040
  • 30 November 2019 : 😍😭💕✨ https://twitter.com/bydvnlln/status/1200872654338744320
  • 30 November 2019 : Fun guessing game here @ the Texas border! What’s that rumbling sound approaching...? A) A farmer on some type of harvesting equipment B) An ICE/CBP agent on a quad C) A CBP agent driving a tractor I have not seen C yet but have heard stories & I wanna get a pic of that so bad.
  • 30 November 2019 : Frantically making series of social media graphics and doing write ups on the border situation while slowly melting in the Texas humidity 🙃🥵💦 #iamdamp
  • 30 November 2019 : Oof. Last night I had all kinds of dreams about being detained by the feds and also flashbacks of the torture tactics they used at #OccupyICEPDX last year.
  • 30 November 2019 : Ahhh, the song of my people. ✨ Bummed for the organizers being treated bad (but only a tiny bit since they were happily campaigning for a cop🤔), STOKED to watch her campaign go up in flames like every cop car deserves. 😊🔥 https://twitter.com/melissagira/status/1200507437201141766
  • 30 November 2019 : Laying on a cot at 1am in the Texas humidity at an Indigenous village at the border where a tribe is working to protect the land because of CONTINUED cultural genocide & this white woman is saying she misses seeing “indians.” I am BIG MAD. (Also thnx to whomever captioned this) https://twitter.com/shaunoboyle/status/1200569610963214338
  • 30 November 2019 : I am officially at the border and (currently) safe. Expect lots of media updates on the current situation at the border with the Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe of Texas (as they continue to resist wall construction) in the coming days.
  • 29 November 2019 : THIS JUST IN, FROM THE STRAIGHTS THEMSELVES - no one can know their sexuality until they try all the flavors first. Men can’t say they’re straight until they suck a literal dick (attached to a man) to make sure they know. Sorry, I don’t make the rules. I just spread the news. https://twitter.com/_bobbythagreat_/status/1200422720573448193
  • 29 November 2019 : Two *theoretically* conflicting things can be simultaneously true. Example? Being in a hetero-passing relationship provides a level of privilege & insulation from harm BUT ALSO Bi/pan people deal with biphobia & erasure of their sexuality when in hetero-passing relationships
  • 29 November 2019 : Landed in San Antonio and the person who ended up coming to pick me up from SAT & bring me back to the tribe is a friend I met at an asylum seeker shelter in Tijuana 11 months ago. It’s been WILD reflecting on our experiences in the last year. So much has happened, good & bad.
  • 29 November 2019 : Makeup is both art and magic. https://twitter.com/zephanijong/status/1200095652233056263
  • 29 November 2019 : Internally, I’m laughing at this. But tbh, with my whole being I’m just thirsting over this man watching him talk. Seriously, just like read me a story all animated like this, please? https://twitter.com/yahya/status/1200214679131492355
  • 29 November 2019 : There are puppies. THERE ARE PUPPIES. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. I TOUCHED PUPPIES. pic.twitter.com/dadgXX6Op5
  • 29 November 2019 : It’s been 4 full months since I’ve been back to Texas to help the tribe. I spent 2.5/3 months here earlier this year. We pull up, I tell my friend “Ah, this feels like coming home.” I walk in the door and the first thing the chairman says to me is, “What happened to your hair?” pic.twitter.com/X2v8Gr6vuI
  • 29 November 2019 : Yo, Texas. I’m in you.
  • 28 November 2019 : Okay, so this view was fucking phenomenal. #pnwonderland pic.twitter.com/OOXtlRdKAR
  • 28 November 2019 : ✌🏽 See ya later, PNW. pic.twitter.com/AyTc8WDwSJ
  • 28 November 2019 : Oof. https://twitter.com/akayatuk/status/1200145544535932929
  • 28 November 2019 : I bought snacks and walked out the airport store thinking, “why do I feel like I’m forgetting something...” Now I’m sitting here as we cruise towards the runway just sad. 😔
  • 28 November 2019 : 20+ flights in 12 months and I forgot to buy gum before getting on this flight. Fuck. RIP to my sanity as I try to get my ears to pop.
  • 28 November 2019 : OMG. my bio says “queer woman” but I always wish I had space for my pronouns & everything else, but this tip about putting it in your location is EVERYTHING. such a good idea.
  • 28 November 2019 : My co-pilots name is Billy Richardson. The lead flight attendants name is Al. White people names make me laugh sometimes not gonna lie...
  • 28 November 2019 : I eat meat and this is still one of the most disgusting things I’ve ever seen. 🥶🤢😭🙈 https://twitter.com/iwriteok/status/1200131495341494272
  • 28 November 2019 : Do people with nut allergies just like, not fly?
  • 28 November 2019 : No-one: Absolutely no one: Alaska Airlines Flight Attendent: “If you have a #3 Russell Wilson Seahawks Jersey on you are welcome to board.”
  • 28 November 2019 : Fucking typos. Clearly that’s supposed to say bad....
  • 28 November 2019 : Me: I have to catch my plane. Come say goodbye guys! 5,8 & 10year old brothers: BYE! WE LOVE YOU! Me, walking out the door: Remember! The pilgrims are the bag guys in history & you can’t discover land people were already living on! Your school lied to you! Enjoy dinner! 🤗💕
  • 28 November 2019 : The pilgrims were murderers and turkey tastes like napkins. 🙃 pic.twitter.com/bZoRqNnfnx
  • 28 November 2019 : Lol the MOST awkward. It’s an incredibly impressive accomplishment to be so tone deaf.
  • 28 November 2019 : For all the current parents, future parents, or childcare providers on my feed, here’s a great hack I wish I knew when I was in childcare: https://twitter.com/stylezboogiee/status/1199183655123509250
  • 28 November 2019 : LOLOLOL FUN FACT WASHINGTON FRIENDS: Cat Eye Stabby Protection Items are ILLEGAL in the state of Washington. So if you’re gonna forget to take your stabby cat out your bag at an airport, make sure it’s not the SEATAC airport or they’ll CALL THE POLICE.
  • 28 November 2019 : The plus side of flying this much means that I hardly ever have to go through logging into WiFi at airports because my phone remembers all of them and just automatically connects lol
  • 28 November 2019 : Doesn’t it?!?!
  • 28 November 2019 : At the airport on a major “holiday” which seems to be a theme of the last few years. 🙃
  • 28 November 2019 : Oh, my god. I wanna just buy a bunch of military branch hats and troll conservatives in them. Walking around in a USMC hat “ooh-rah”-ing everyone and talking about how I fought to protect the freedom to get abortions as often as I want. 👏🏽👏🏽 https://twitter.com/soggy__burrito/status/1199757028383584256
  • 27 November 2019 : I really love my new travel pillow cause you can look at it & see cute little bunnies & carrots, or you can look at it & see cute lil bunnies amid a field of magic wands. Of course the BDSM fanatic in me interprets it as a representation of my inner rope bunny & love of toys.😊 pic.twitter.com/QOhtvGu3Zi
  • 27 November 2019 : Update, I still have not started packing... https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1199575805296140289
  • 27 November 2019 : Off memory and off the top of my head here’s a few awesome *actually* Indigenous bead artists to support! @beadagainstfash @IndigenousBeads
  • 27 November 2019 : If you fill a bong with wine instead of water, will you get cross-faded quicker? ......asking for a tipsy friend.
  • 27 November 2019 : Simultaneously operating multiple twitter pages with very different protocols for what content is shared and what engagement style are okay is a long game of DM’ing tweets found on your various timeline back and forth to the accounts you actually want to share that tweet from. 🙃
  • 27 November 2019 : TFW you’ve been getting laid super regularly again for the first time in over a year and then realize that you’re about to go two full weeks without sex/orgasms. 😭 pic.twitter.com/EIY5RI47Us
  • 27 November 2019 : ONLY reason I’m not is because I have to be at my work office by like 8am and leave FROM work at 3:30pm lololol. Otherwise, that would be me 100%.
  • 27 November 2019 : Is anyone surprised I waited until the night before I leave to pack a bag for a week long trip? 🙃🙃 Because Im not. And you shouldn’t be.
  • 27 November 2019 : Stop that’s the prettiest cat I’ve ever seen 😩😍😭
  • 26 November 2019 : Very, very relatable. Sending you love which will also one day come with a text back 🙃
  • 26 November 2019 : It’s the kind of day where I’m googling “How To Fight Imposter’s Syndrome” while trying not to cry at work. Here’s a good resource I found for anyone who might be struggling with #ImposterSyndrome , too. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-be-yourself/201708/nine-ways-fight-impostor-syndrome?amp
  • 26 November 2019 : Also found this while looking for the video 😂 pic.twitter.com/JYLvnEEL6V
  • 26 November 2019 : Found it! 😂 “Fuck Ted Wheeler on 3!” “Uhmmm, could we get a recess please?” ☠️👏🏽😂 https://www.facebook.com/AFAPropDepot/videos/223904201548171?vh=e&d=n&sfns=mo
  • 26 November 2019 : what white nonsense is this? https://twitter.com/popcrave/status/1198986589600440327
  • 26 November 2019 : Stuck on the fact that it’s normal for me—as an afro-Indigenous, queer woman—to say goodbyes to people before I head to frontline protests & get told, “Please don’t get killed by the police.” Today, my response got to be, “It would be US military troops but I’ll try to be safe.”
  • 26 November 2019 : Does anyone have handy that clip of video from a city council meeting where the commissioners are all standing posed for a picture and someone yells out “fuck Ted wheeler!” and he like physically reacts? I need a Tuesday pick me up and want to laugh. 😂
  • 26 November 2019 : Police “unions” are garbage bullshit groups that do nothing but protect police from accountability or consequences for literally murdering people with impunity. Here’s an explanation from PDX Jobs with Justice about why it’s important to #ChangeTheContract . https://twitter.com/jwjpdx/status/1199403411671699458
  • 26 November 2019 : You can follow the tribe on FB here: https://m.facebook.com/pages/category/Nonprofit-Organization/CarrizoComecrudoTribeOfTexas/posts/ Or specifically follow the Yalui Village efforts on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/yaluivillage/ I’ll be supporting coverage via my twitter but also on my media page on FB here: http://www.facebook.com/activismactually
  • 26 November 2019 : Here’s documentation/coverage of the Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe’s delivery of a Cease and Desist letter to the US Govt. https://newsmaven.io/indiancountrytoday/news/carrizo-comecrudo-block-construction-on-border-wall-with-cease-and-desist-order-OTxAwKB88UehCY7PKy8ARQ/
  • 26 November 2019 : In May I documented the tribes trip to the TX State capitol to protest a bill (which passed) further criminalizing acts of resistance against oil pipelines and increases the maximum sentencing for Native water/land protectors and environmental activists. https://activismactually.wixsite.com/revolution/blog-1/texas-house-passes-anti-protest-law-chants-of-kill-the-bill-save-the-land-echo-across-the-floor
  • 26 November 2019 : The tribe is also working to #ChangeTheNarrative and teach people that so many migrants being targetted by the govt are people Indigenous to the Americas. The “border” severed many tribes when Turtle Island was colonized. https://www.keranews.org/post/native-american-tribe-protests-treatment-migrants-us-border
  • 26 November 2019 : “‘We’re a recognized tribe and no one’s going to tell us who we are especially some idiots in Washington,’ said Juan Mancias of the indigenous peoples' tribe Carrizo-Comecrudo, who led protests on Monday.” Juan doesn’t mince words & I love him for it. https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/wildlife-advocates-local-indigenous-tribes-protest-preparations-border/story?id=60859814
  • 26 November 2019 : South of the wall, the feds plan to clear a 150-foot “enforcement zone,” raising fears that bodies will be exhumed, and most of the cemetery razed. https://www.texasobserver.org/indigenous-activists-set-up-protest-camp-at-south-texas-cemetery-to-stop-trumps-wall/amp/
  • 26 November 2019 : The tribe has been resisting this government and its tactics since long before 45 got into office. https://xicanation.com/tlahtolli-carrizo-comecrudo-nation-of-texas/
  • 26 November 2019 : The tribe needs support and continued awareness around this fight. I’ll be sharing a few links here with articles from the last year of their resistance. Any shares or signal boosting would be greatly appreciated!
  • 26 November 2019 : Despite a Cease & Desist letter provided to the people surveying and clearing the tribe’s land on the border, the US continues to prepare to raze through burial grounds & install a wall that will destroy the local ecosystem & animals’ ability to survive, let alone thrive.
  • 26 November 2019 : The US Govt continuously treats Indigenous existence and survival as a direct threat to the govt & it’s operations. The US wants to see Indigenous/Native people completely removed from their lands and their traditions/culture. A culture built strongly on respect for our planet.
  • 26 November 2019 : The tribe has had this village (and previously a number of other villages) set up at/near the border as a means of resistance. They recognize that setting up a traditional village and simply *existing* on their land is a powerful form of resistance.
  • 26 November 2019 : I’m preparing to leave for the border to support the Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe of Texas by staying @YaluiVillage — the village they’ve set up on sacred burial grounds that the US govt is preparing to raze through for this wall. They have 300+ military troops deployed to the area.
  • 26 November 2019 : Took 150$ out of my bank account today for mutual aid. Came home to a 150$ check today from a university for a speaking engagement I did during a symposium they hosted on race/revolutionary struggle. Moral of the story? Univ. should pay community organizers for our time & voice.
  • 26 November 2019 : Coalition to close the concentration camps! @ccccpdx (:
  • 25 November 2019 : Without this note, there definitely would have been an official complaint filed! 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/zDJCvCKwDx
  • 25 November 2019 : Men are such socially inept creatures and I will always be amazed by it. 😂😂
  • 25 November 2019 : Wow, I love this human so much. https://twitter.com/uncle_buttface/status/1198762716732674048
  • 25 November 2019 : Anarchist men and white folx (and especially white men) need to learn to stay in their lane when it comes to nitpicking the miniscule details of the work that more marginalized leftists are engaged in. The left has a problem w/ toxic misogyny & racism. I will die on this hill.
  • 25 November 2019 : I literally get so mad when I see supposed leftists shitting on my very principled & hard working friends doing all types of mutual aid, advocacy, & activism. Like, I see red every time. Especially b/c it happens *disproportionately* to women/femmes & black/Indigenous folx.
  • 25 November 2019 : Molly is a saint and an angel and anyone who copjackets her is an idiot and a baseless fool. Just so we’re all clear, here. 💕 https://twitter.com/socialistdogmom/status/1198977600397467648
  • 25 November 2019 : This is an IMPORTANT thread. https://twitter.com/eliovsb/status/1198445735903141888
  • 25 November 2019 : Honestly I’m tired of my phone invading my privacy. 48 hours ago I was THINKING “whatever happened with that cats movie? We all laughed @ the trailer for the week & I haven’t seen it on the Internet since” and then today I get this sponsored ad?! Get out my head pls apple thnx. https://twitter.com/catsmovie/status/1198379852920832000
  • 25 November 2019 : Sharing just because this gif is fucking amazing 😂 https://twitter.com/tihstniauoy/status/1198683679704391680
  • 25 November 2019 : Im not sure how I found Anthony Clark’s twitter—I think it might have been through @AlbertLee2020 —but I’m genuinely & happily surprised to see the extent to which he *gets* it. He’s been clarifying his support for decrim over legalization (and why) all day. More like this plz!👏🏽 https://twitter.com/anthonyvclark20/status/1198796227866955776
  • 25 November 2019 : Wow. I do not appreciate being dragged in public like this at all... https://twitter.com/paigemc911/status/1197943929003491329
  • 25 November 2019 : A fantastic explanation of why we demand the decriminalization of sex work and not the legalization of our labor! 💕 https://twitter.com/_ashlake_/status/1198768176991002627
  • 25 November 2019 : That’s a good summation. Thanks! Glad you asked and understand, now!
  • 25 November 2019 : Decriminalization—not legalization— please, and thank you.
  • 24 November 2019 : I already spend most of my time trying to weaponize my privilege & trying to learn how to be a better advocate/ally. I think this is just an opportunity to publicly voice my intention to infuse my efforts in Decrim w/ more convos about its intersections w/ healthcare. /end
  • 24 November 2019 : I’m recognizing that while I speak intermittently on healthcare access & reproductive rights, I could be utilizing my privilege to be doing more. And I’m sure a lot of us could be as well. I’m not sure what the larger point of this thread is... /6
  • 24 November 2019 : This all has me thinking about reproductive health rights for people with uteruses & the severe lack of access found in so communities - trans folx, poor people, the uninsured & those w/ pre-existing conditions, sex workers. The list goes on. /5
  • 24 November 2019 : But even more so, thinking about my experience in sex work, it’s a huge privilege to know that I’ve got a safeguard against pregnancy if more traditional means of safe sex (condoms) were to fail with any of my clients. On top of that, I still have insurance coverage. /4
  • 24 November 2019 : I was a 19 year old college student when I first got my IUD. Even with being on my mother’s decent healthcare insurance, I still couldn’t have afforded the co-pay OR the fee to actually have my IUD put in place. My parents picking up those fees was another huge privilege. /3
  • 24 November 2019 : First of all, having access to healthcare coverage is (unfortunately, still) a HUGE privilege in the United States. My healthcare coverage enabled me to be able to see a doctor to talk about IUDs in the 1st place. But also, my parents are middle class. /2
  • 24 November 2019 : My IUD is due to come out in March. I’ve been enjoying nearly 7 years of only having very mild period symptoms for 1-2 days every 3-6 mnths. As the hormones begin to run out, my cramps are coming back more regularly & it’s awful. It’s leading me to think a lot on my privileges./1
  • 24 November 2019 : I’m so sorry hahahah. They’re simultaneously so smart and so dumb at the same time. But I guess I relate because sometimes I can be so needy all logic and reason leaves my mind entirely, too. 🤷🏽‍♀️😅
  • 24 November 2019 : Nevermind. Pretty sure she just gave me a fat lip violently head butting me in her excitement to hug me and be in my lap when I sat down on the couch. What a dummy.
  • 24 November 2019 : If you ever learn how please teach me cause lately I’m giving off nothing but drooling and heart eye emoji vibes and it’s not okay.
  • 24 November 2019 : Look at this big, smart baby I love her so much. pic.twitter.com/2irQcxKpbX
  • 24 November 2019 : Thank you for being there as well! I’m out of town but definitely wanted to go. Much appreciation and respect for the explanations!
  • 24 November 2019 : No need to explain yourself. This is just an opportunity I saw for another reminder to the community at large about not using the term prostitute if they’re not a FSSW. For what it’s worth, I fully support harassing Joey+friends lol & I’m not here to tell folx how to fight fash.
  • 24 November 2019 : Thanks for being there! This message is mainly/only really directed at whoever tagged the bus. Which like, I 100% support tagging that bus. I’m just tired of explaining to folx why they need to stop using the term “prostitute” as though it’s their own or its not problematic.
  • 24 November 2019 : control and exploitation of our women. Stand with us!” Below the text post is two photographs. One is a crowd of approximately 35 ppl standing in a crowd on a paved street. The second image is a grey bus with the phrase “Antifa Prostitutes RUN PDX” ragged on it in orange paint.
  • 24 November 2019 : nonsense trying to provoke us and disrupt our walk against this assault on the weak among us. When we got back to the bus we noticed a message which read, “Antifa Prostitutes RUN PDX”. The evil among us is real and your participation is essential to break strongholds of...cont.
  • 24 November 2019 : human lives. They disrupt solicitation and purchases of human lives and work with law enforcement. As we walked down 82nd Avenue in Portland we started getting harassed by 4 males in black hoodies and one had a face mask on. They were taking pictures, videos and shouting...cont.
  • 24 November 2019 : The text body of the Facebook post from FlashLove reads, ““This morning we joined an amazing group that has been actively speaking out and raising money to fight back against sex trafficking. There was a great turnout of people who want to see an end to this treatment of...(cont)
  • 24 November 2019 : Also, here’s an image description for the post above because Twitters character limits for accessibility suck and are ableism in action. [Image description: A screenshot of a Facebook post from page Flash Love. Top says ‘Flash Love is in Portland, Oregon.’ ...Continued...
  • 24 November 2019 : As well-intentioned as this as, & as thankful as I am that folx showed up to disrupt Joey+friends as they loudly conflate sex work w/ trafficking & denounce them both, it’d be nice if leftists listened to sex workers when we say that prostitute is a slur only FSSWer can reclaim. pic.twitter.com/BlK6A2EAuW
  • 24 November 2019 : HAHAAHAHAHAH SO much for me being excited to go see frozen 2 😭😭😭😂😂☠️☠️☠️ https://twitter.com/bbyvnus/status/1198342987207581696
  • 24 November 2019 : Just saw a picture of Kamala Harris’ husband for the first time and I’m so confused at anyone who still doesn’t recognize that she’s just a cop in a skirt....
  • 24 November 2019 : Peanut butter is *HIGHLY* overrated and not really good. https://twitter.com/jonbecker_/status/1196805486907052033
  • 24 November 2019 : 12 year old brother has been seemingly depressed and introverted all day. Moping on his phone. Wouldn’t order anything, eat anything, or interact at our family dinner. Now he’s on the phone with his gf & he’s like a completely different person. Kids relationships are valid.
  • 24 November 2019 : I swear everyone thinks me and one of my (amab, gay, non-binary) best friends are straight for each other which we laugh regularly about. 😅😅😅
  • 24 November 2019 : She didn’t. She looked at me all mad and then turned and walked away without the rest of her party but like.... this is the kind of insidious and entitled white bullshit we put up with regularly and y’all it FUELS me in my organizing so I’m not even mad about it.
  • 24 November 2019 : I sit back down in the chair I just swapped out and make very strong direct eye contact with her again —while some of her friends are still clearing out from her table — just WISHING she would say some shit.
  • 24 November 2019 : So once she stands up & hands the baby to the assumed mom, she’s just standing all huffy on the other side of our table now. So I make eye contact again, turn around while her friends are still moving from the table, & switch our uncomfy seat out for the 1 the baby was on.
  • 24 November 2019 : But then they start packing up to leave like 45 seconds later and I’m like !!!!! This bitch knew they were leaving soon, knew we needed another seat, and just sat there staring and then being vocally rude to a child.
  • 24 November 2019 : So I turn to her, make direct eye contact, and say *loudly* “He SAID excuse me.” And ohhhhh, does she look mad that I fucking spoke to her. Especially while looking directly at her. She just grinds her teeth and doesn’t respond. Which, fine...
  • 24 November 2019 : THEN, as he’s sitting down in his seat which is closer to Highchair Heather than mine, this woman with the baby says audibly “excuse me is a word” which like FIRST OF ALL NO ITS NOT ITS TWO WORDS. but also, he fucking said excuse me!
  • 24 November 2019 : THEN - my 12 year old brother goes to the bathroom. He comes back & has to squeeze between me & Highchair Heathers friend. He says “Excuse me, sorry” as he turns sideways & squeezes through while me & this other woman squeeze closer to our respective tables.
  • 24 November 2019 : We’re looking around trying to find empty seats and this woman is just WATCHING US. We find one chair. A worker has to get us an uncomfortable chair from the waiting area & apologize for the “missing chair.” Whatever. Fine. I don’t wanna cause a scene so I just let it go.
  • 24 November 2019 : The baby is balanced on a chair, presumably from our table, despite the fact that there’s literally a baby seat right next to her and in front of our chair which I know from copious amounts of childcare experience can accommodate the baby’s fucking car seat.
  • 24 November 2019 : There’s a white family seated at the table right next to ours. A white older woman who I swear looks exactly like the grey haired version of BBQ Becky (blue sweater & all) has a small baby in a car seat that she’s interacting with.
  • 24 November 2019 : Adding on to this a story of the types of experiences I’m used to in this white ass town that are completely common and which happened tonight. So, we had a party of 7. 30 minute wait. We get seated. And the table has only 5 chairs. We look around...
  • 24 November 2019 : It’s petty as fuck and yet my brothers live in a very wealthy (obviously) almost all white town and I’m just so disenchanted w/ how wealthy white kids are raised I can’t help but be happy for them to not get everything they want @ every SINGLE moment they’re alive. 🙃😬😓
  • 24 November 2019 : I think I might be a garbage human... We’re @ Red Robin & my 2 (black) baby brothers got the last balloons & this little white girl in a very fancy dress is crying over not having a balloon & im just sittin here like “good, she needs to learn she doesn’t get everything early...”
  • 23 November 2019 : The irony of that 3rd picture of these “end demand” fash is that this crowd of boys looks like every group of entitled-asshole frat boys in the strip club we’d complain about sitting at the stage and trying to to tip 1$ per song per 10 people I swear. https://twitter.com/mandogcar/status/1198326297929248768
  • 22 November 2019 : RT @LammaticHama: The contract with the Sami for Frozen 2 looks cool and I'm happy for the flick. But lets be clear. Disney does not have a…
  • 22 November 2019 : Just booked a hotel in Washington for two nights and was APPALLED at having to pay nearly 70$ in taxes and fees 😭 Oregon really has me fucking spoiled knowing how much things cost up front. Why the fuck does the US make taxes a surprise at the end?? 😤😩
  • 22 November 2019 : Anyway, cancelled my date this weekend and will be out of town so if you had plans to need me, please, yknow, don’t. 🙃
  • 22 November 2019 : Just found out my 12 year old bisexual baby brother ran away from home on Tuesday (he was found safe that night) AND NOBODY TOLD ME UNTIL TONIGHT. 🙃 Soooo, yknow. This is fine. Everything’s fine. I’m not freaking out at all.
  • 21 November 2019 : Also: ask me about the resistance efforts the Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe of Texas are engaging in at the border to protect their land and burial sites from being razed through in the name of this stupid wall. Also, also: ask me how you can help the Tribe.
  • 21 November 2019 : Important life update: my hair is now long enough to be put up into just two ponytails. I’m fast tracking my way to being able to throw my hair up in just one ponytail without having to fucking part it and I’m so excited about this progress. pic.twitter.com/qMOGbKfzUy
  • 21 November 2019 : Legitimately the first thing I thought was “that headline is horribly written.” 😅 Of course immediately followed by the thought of, “why the fuck do they think so many people live in New York to begin with??”
  • 21 November 2019 : I mean, the answer is capitalism, colonialism, and an idea that our validity is based on our level of productivity & the ability to commodify our existence. But it’s still wild to me that some people have been so far removed from our humanity & capacity to exist outside of work.
  • 21 November 2019 : It’s still really striking to me that some people hold on to this idea that once you hit 18 & you’re pushed into the “real world” you have to maintain a constant outward appearance of decorum, preparedness, & “adulthood.” Why do we pressure ourselves to give up childhood joy?
  • 21 November 2019 : Imaging having the AUDACITY to start off a clip setting the standard for greatness with Janet, Whitney, & Prince only to proudly unveil a comparatively bland lineup honoring a decade of Taylor “Queen of Unflavored Aioli” Swift https://twitter.com/ciara/status/1197167717070958595
  • 21 November 2019 : Lololololol. Can we talk about the accuracy of the Yang Gang one? https://twitter.com/bananastandpdx/status/1197419476913754114
  • 21 November 2019 : wait, it’s not? https://twitter.com/fraybomb/status/1197170652748357639
  • 21 November 2019 : I’m so excited to move into my own place in March and have a space that is safe and secure and my own little personal organizing hub 😼🥰💕
  • 20 November 2019 : It’s been really wholesome, enjoyable, & sweet to be very newly seeing someone and to be in a position where we both feel comfortable & excited about the idea of planning special events to share together 4 months into the future. 😊
  • 20 November 2019 : I’m doing some neighborhood canvassing/scouting as research for a campaign we’re prepping to launch at work and I really was not prepared for how blindingly sunny it is in Portland, OR on this mid-November day.
  • 20 November 2019 : Hi, do this please cause it’s hilarious and such chaotic good energy. https://twitter.com/antifa_cs_anz/status/1197061412624814081
  • 20 November 2019 : Just throw a makeup wipe into a plastic bag or something and shove it in your pocket. Now you’re prepped for all the day might bring! Lol
  • 19 November 2019 : One more tweet to round out my long, emotional lunch break; until the vegan community seriously addresses & at least begins to drown out the overwhelming white supremacy present in vegan spaces, I will forever be wary of people who identify themselves foremost as vegan activists.
  • 19 November 2019 : Lol he follows me?!?! Thanks for sharing so I could know to block. 😂
  • 19 November 2019 : So, they’re putting kids in solitary confinement now. People need to know, but I found reading this to be seriously distressing so I’m burying it in RTs. Content Warnings; severe child neglect, distressing quotes, severe emotional turmoil, mentions of self defecation & urination https://twitter.com/proudbulba/status/1196867384176300032
  • 19 November 2019 : All those above things are pieces of my identity that give me systemic privilege over others. Anyway, this tangent has gone sideways but yeah. PLEASE ask me to uplift work on social media/use my platform. Or ask me if I’d like connected with XYZ. But pls don’t sign me up for 💩
  • 19 November 2019 : For anyone who—like many others— wants to say, but oh, Lilith you’re an Afroindigenous, queer, neurodivergent, sex worker &woman. How’re you privileged? I’m cis. I’m able bodied. I’m skinny. I’m light skinned & generally perceived as “conventionally pretty.” (⬅️Which are related)
  • 19 November 2019 : But being this visible doesn’t mean I have time for infinite connections or endless bodies of work. So here’s a friendly reminder that the next time you CC someone or recommend someone to reach out to another, check in with that person first to understand their boundaries.
  • 19 November 2019 : Yo, if people could stop connecting me with folx when I didn’t ask for it that would be great. 🙃 Being visibly involved in politics organizing the way I am is a direct result of both systemic privilege(s) and a whole lot of hard work.
  • 19 November 2019 : Good morning. If you would like some education about sex work feel free to read the responses to this where ppl explain why imperialism is bad, how sex work is work, and why the military is more exploitative & dangerous than the sex trade industry. https://twitter.com/bankslvrd/status/1196445870272778245
  • 19 November 2019 : *warmed not warned...
  • 19 November 2019 : Is it outrageous that during this article, as I read descriptions of those hellish experiences, I was also surprisingly warned by the fact they’re repeatedly referenced as sex workers & there’s no use of terms like “prostitute”?
  • 19 November 2019 : I sure would like to be able to go to (t)werk on the weekends instead of having to do work on the weekends. 🙃 Maybe one day my schedule will slow the fuck down and I can pick up shifts at the club again...
  • 19 November 2019 : If I weren’t an activist/wild empath & I had the ability to disconnect from this path, I would be the shittiest most bougie high-femme garbage being. I just stared at my nails *lamenting* over the fact I’ll need to trim them down for practicality when I go to the border🙄
  • 19 November 2019 : The fact that I know I’m getting hit tomorrow night after my late meeting is going to be all the inspiration I need to make it through the long day. 🤤🤤🤤 it’s hard and *painful* work being baby, but somebody’s gotta do it. 😇🥰🍑
  • 19 November 2019 : I am CACKLING 😂😂
  • 19 November 2019 : Hi, I love my friends and I cannot wait to move in with one of my besties this March. 😭😍👏🏽😂 pic.twitter.com/ZL1VwCCP7g
  • 19 November 2019 : A very good, very important thread. All my closest friends and I consistently do this with one another and it has significantly strengthened our relationships and enable us to better support one another. Please read this thread. Comes w/ helpful hints for how if ya keep reading! https://twitter.com/anthoknees/status/908005740811452416
  • 19 November 2019 : Right?? Tbh now that you mention it I’m realizing that when I first started watching I kept waiting for them to pan across a growing crowd as it progressed to 200 & then just got so caught up with those fierce kids I forgot about that blatant lie. 😂😂
  • 19 November 2019 : My director thought he might have been “familiar with my work.” But I REFUSE to believe there is any possibility that I’ve made it to a level of name recognition that I’m able to garner that sort of reaction from an older male stranger by first name alone.
  • 19 November 2019 : At tonights event, I was standing by the director of my nonprofit while he spoke with a man I didnt know. I introduced myself by name & he said “Oh! THE Lilith??” & walked away. I don’t know if he was making a joke abt the history behind my name or knew of me & I’m still confused
  • 19 November 2019 : YOOOO. Baby girl with the braids is ON POINT. And home girl in the puffy coat making sure they pack that shit up. Wow. I could cry. An entire crowd of royalty. Queens. I stan. https://twitter.com/yaf/status/1195414073350991873
  • 19 November 2019 : BABYGIRL WITH THE BRAIDS IS FUCKING ON IT. She 👏🏽 is 👏🏽 my 👏🏽 HERO 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
  • 19 November 2019 : Which medical training course do I have to graduate from for this to come with my certificate? 🤔🤔 Ive no need for it while medic-ing but can think of some other uses... 👨🏻‍✈️☠️ https://twitter.com/jatayler/status/1196297334226739200
  • 19 November 2019 : Don’t mind me, singing merrily in the fields... my little grassroots journalist heart is just over here fangirling at super minor interactions with fucking awesome journalists I have a lot of respect for. 🎶🤩🌸🍃 #noticemesenpai
  • 19 November 2019 : @tedwheeler gives some words after a brief introduction by a PCC staffer. He welcomes everyone. Remarks, “A lot of people felt upset that there wasn’t an opportunity for more community engagement” last time the city went through these negotiations.
  • 19 November 2019 : Ted & Joanne will go around listening in on these conversations but theyll not be participating in the discussions. The convos will be documented & notes from these discussion will be compiled into an executive report for commissioners to review & take into account moving forward pic.twitter.com/zi3Hgo9LFp
  • 19 November 2019 : The index cards will be read over/tallied up & the top 3 most common issues will be the 3 topics of convo being facilitated tonight. Those 3 topics will be delegated to a number of separate tables where professional facilitators will lead ppl through these community conversations
  • 19 November 2019 : Upon arrival there is a check in desk where people are being asked to fill out an index card with the “most important issue you want to discuss tonight.” pic.twitter.com/I4WUZAXW0z
  • 19 November 2019 : Okay, here we go. Let’s try this again. Here’s the format of this public listening session in regards to the upcoming Portland Police Association’s upcoming contract negotiations.
  • 19 November 2019 : This is a fucking messssss. I see why they tried to do this. I get the logic. But it seems disjointed and also hard to understand.
  • 19 November 2019 : Actually, JK again. My phone isn’t connecting to the WiFi and I don’t have good enough service to post videos. Will post the intro videos later.
  • 19 November 2019 : Actually JK I took some videos and I’ll post them here real quick. First one doesn’t have ASL interpretation in frame and for that I apologize.
  • 19 November 2019 : (Thread) So I’m here at the community conversation and public listening session hosted by city hall and y’all this set up is WEIRD. I’m not going to be live-streaming the event because the structure is...interesting. But I will explain how they’re approaching this endeavor.
  • 19 November 2019 : To live tweet the community listening session or not to live tweet the community listening session? 🤔🤔 There’s whispers about splitting us up into small groups based on issue focus. Which I think is a dumb idea & I hope doesn’t happen but will also answer this question for me.
  • 18 November 2019 : I don’t know if my fear of heights is rational enough to believe that any giant piece of metal suspended in mid air couldn’t fall. I mean.... it’s probably accurate. My head could comprehend the mechanics (maybe?) but tell my heart we’re safe in an elevator & it’ll laugh yknow?😅
  • 18 November 2019 : Of COURSE the elevators at Amazon were always breaking. That is so on brand. Workers shouldn’t have to deal with *constant* workplace breakdowns and inadequacies like this.
  • 18 November 2019 : I’ve ridden this elevator like 3 times today and now it’s suddenly being worked on without announcement or discernible reason and that is terrifying as someone afraid of both heights and elevators. I’ve been on this elevator twice today, did I almost get trapped?!? 😩 pic.twitter.com/RwVfKbdUyw
  • 18 November 2019 : Planning out my work week honestly, like... https://t.co/EWxO5YLqGj
  • 18 November 2019 : Just so y’all see this! @PopMobPDX @nyclawgrrrl @alex_zee @avitale @deray @livkittykat @AlbertLee2020 @GregoryMcKelvey @itsmikebivins @samswey @carenotcops @RoseCityAntifa @PortlandDSA
  • 18 November 2019 : Thats all I’ve got on this for now! Do me a favor & RT this thread so more people know about this opportunity to engage? #ChangeTheContract #CareNotCops #policeaccountability #policereform #demilitarizethepolice #abolishpolicing #pdx #defendpdx #portlandpolice
  • 18 November 2019 : I encourage folx to go look at the presentation @samswey & @deray gave for a bit of background/context of this conversation. You can find that here: https://www.portlandoregon.gov/hardesty/article/743261 The website for Campaign Zero is here at https://www.joincampaignzero.org/
  • 18 November 2019 : If you want more accountability for the police and the ability to actually ensure consequences for their abusive, exploitative, and murderous actions - PLEASE COME OUT TO THIS EVENT. We need folx to come make their voices heard.
  • 18 November 2019 : As residents of PDX, WE employ the city officials who oversee the police. Essentially - & I cringe to say this but, honestly - WE are the “bosses” the police should be accountable to & negotiating with. The police are supposed to work for & in the best interest of residents.
  • 18 November 2019 : Police “union” contracts are notorious for including provisions and clauses that act as a means to shield cops from any shred of accountability or punishment - no matter whether they’re giving illegal citations, intoxicated on the job, or literally murdering people on the street.
  • 18 November 2019 : The Portland Police Associations “union” Contract will be expiring summer 2020. Negotiations between the City of Portland & the PPA are slated to begin this January. Leading up to this, City Hall hosted @deray & @samswey . Here’s my coverage of that -> https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1179076780235227136?s=21
  • 18 November 2019 : Here’s a screenshot of the details of the event created on Facebook by @Pdx_resistance . Next few tweets will by why this event is SO important!! Here’s a link to the event page. https://www.facebook.com/events/2426211597697600/?ti=icl pic.twitter.com/rsiiij9pWx
  • 18 November 2019 : (Thread) There’s an event today in Portland, put on by city officials, where the public can weigh in on changes we want to see made to the Portland Police Association’s “union” contract. (We all know it’s not a real fucking union but come tell them how want cops held accountable) pic.twitter.com/rQaBrGcKTf
  • 18 November 2019 : Literally anyone: “When, tomorrow?” Me: *clutches pearls* Oh, NOOoo. 😂😂 https://twitter.com/smoothposer/status/1196124520467324931
  • 18 November 2019 : RT @BadSalishGirl: Brass and Buckskin 🖤✨✨ https://t.co/GqYgdt9ptz
  • 18 November 2019 : a relatable energy.
  • 18 November 2019 : just wanna recognize real quick here that this un-original tweet content comes from an uncredited meme I found that I didn’t wanna write an image description for 🙃
  • 18 November 2019 : 𝕳𝖊𝖑𝖑 yeah, I’m a 𝓰𝓲𝓻𝓵! 𝔾 — 𝓰𝓮𝓮 𝕀 — 𝓲’𝓭 ℝ — 𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓵𝓵𝔂 𝕃 — love to do some unreciprocated & unpaid emotional labor!
  • 16 November 2019 : Read this 1000 times in a row and then pass it on with a retweet, please.... https://twitter.com/jexblackmore/status/1195549310177427458
  • 16 November 2019 : UPDATE- @tedwheeler *WILL* take $$ from strippers but apparently neither he nor his campaign will acknowledge: -me the stripper who called him out -the fact adult industries aren’t the same as oil/coal/pharma -the fact strippers aren’t the only sex workers https://www.wweek.com/news/city/2019/11/15/portland-mayor-clarifies-i-will-take-money-from-strippers/
  • 16 November 2019 : Heyyyy, @tedwheeler . Me, again.👋🏽 Wanna say that the “corporate side” of adult entertainment is STILL not the same as oil, coal & pharma. Also, sex work isn’t just strippers. ALSO we don’t want “legislation that prevents wage theft.” We want DECRIM now. https://www.wweek.com/news/city/2019/11/15/portland-mayor-clarifies-i-will-take-money-from-strippers/
  • 16 November 2019 : To do list: - Go buy groceries to last me until I leave for the border - Come home - Get high as fuck - Sleep hella good before this 8 hour executive board “retreat” talking about equity tomorrow that I’m probably going to cry during 🙃
  • 15 November 2019 : Can you get a few gallon size bags or find like a clear trash bag that you can stuff in your normal bag? And then right outside the venue you can empty your normal bag into the clear plastic ones, show them your normal bag is empty & maybe ask them to keep it at a reception desk?
  • 15 November 2019 : Sitting in a Lyft with a couple black and brown organizers on our way back from a panel we spoke at. We just barely got caught at a train crossing with noturiously long freight trains. 10 minutes in there’s still no end AND THEN a second train comes from the opposite way. 😭😫😭
  • 15 November 2019 : I know a bit. Bogged down with other things but working with a few other SWers in OR to begin outreach to dancers/cam workers/fssw etc to work towards decrim &see who has time/interest in organizing or learn best ways to discreetly get comm input w/o asking ppl to out themselves.
  • 15 November 2019 : Life in this colonial, imperialist, & capitalistic hellscape is still a pile of flaming garbage but the fact that I’m getting laid regularly & have a cutie to cuddle up to/force to listen to musical soundtracks/watch Disney movies with sure is helping my sanity.
  • 15 November 2019 : I downloaded it a while ago and completely forgot that it wasn’t free! I don’t believe there’s a free version. How much is it? I could probably cash app you the amount to download it boo 💕
  • 15 November 2019 : I ran away to smoke a cigarette & run to the bathroom & accidentally missed the ending but apparently there was a call to action for a mass mobilization to DC for the poor people’s campaign on June 20th, 2020! So y’all keep your eyes open for updates on that posted somewhere!
  • 15 November 2019 : I ran away to smoke a cigarette and run to the bathroom and accidentally missed the ending but apparently there was a call to action for a mass mobilizations to DC for the poor people’s campaign on June 20th, 2020! So you can keep you eyes open for that to be posted somewhere. (:
  • 15 November 2019 : A WHOLE HOUR??
  • 15 November 2019 : Men: *exist* Me: God, I fucking can’t stand men.
  • 15 November 2019 : 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 SAY IT LOUDER https://twitter.com/contextcap/status/1195182644020989952
  • 15 November 2019 : Live from the event: It’s 7:24 pm and local hero lets me bum smoke, and lighter. Also let’s me pet his dog. 12/10 goodest doggo and stand up human.
  • 15 November 2019 : Decided to sneak out from the front and go pee... did not bring my cigarettes. How dumb. I am dumb. That was dumb.
  • 15 November 2019 : THIS EVENT IS 5:30-8:30 AND NOT 5:30-7:30?!?! Who plans a THREE HOUR speaking event for one person?!?!
  • 15 November 2019 : Wow, didn’t realize until this moment just how close we were to a world free from Andy Ngo. How unfortunate... Third times the charm, right? pic.twitter.com/hXWWJSzTKp
  • 15 November 2019 : Me: *tweets about having to pee* Me, 30 seconds later: *chugs the rest of my cold coffee at 7pm*
  • 15 November 2019 : I have to pee. I’m in the 2nd row. I’m clad in tight clothing. I’m struggling because I’m so uncomfortable in this room right now I’m either gonna get up, pee, & run away from this building (& have to apologize profusely to my colleagues) or sit here & suffer until it ends soon.
  • 15 November 2019 : Aight, my anxiety is spiking & I’m starting to very strongly dissociate so here’s the end of this (mildly snarky) live-tweeting endeavor because I’m no longer focusing on the actual words being said by the speaker or the religious folx vocalizing in a way that makes my skin crawl
  • 15 November 2019 : “There’s always been a need in every age for people who will engage in moral dissent.” - Rev. Dr. Barber.
  • 15 November 2019 : We wouldn’t. Which makes it even more laughable and also insidiously harmful that they decided to do this.
  • 15 November 2019 : “Just because you’re educated don’t mean you’re not foolish.” - Dr. Barber Says that education can teach people how to hide their meanness in creative ways.
  • 15 November 2019 : @clipomatic ! You can only record 60 seconds of video at a time but the caption editing option that pops up right after you finish recording a clip is really intuitive and easy to use. Also, thank you! I got them for cheap from @Firmoo on a bogo sale! 😊
  • 15 November 2019 : Anyway, that aside, Dr. Barber points out that one of the worst things folx can say right now is, “We’ve never seen anything like this in America.” It’s an important acknowledgment that this “moral crises” we’re looking @ is long precedented.
  • 15 November 2019 : Holy shit, I’m so uncomfortable in this room right now.
  • 15 November 2019 : He questions if “America” is even worth being passed on to the next president. Points out that this moral crises is bigger than any *one* president, although it might be exasperated by one.
  • 15 November 2019 : “What is interesting is freedom is not in one constitution. What you’ll find is liberty... liberal...” The crowd chuckles demurely. I’m curious how many of the folx laughing at that jab at liberals are actually radical...
  • 15 November 2019 : He speaks on US elected officials who are sworn into office and how they swear on the Bible, often “pray” when they open meetings and sessions & such, only to turn around and “PREY” on the people they swore to uplift, protect, & act in the best interests of.
  • 15 November 2019 : I don’t know why I came to something like this when I hold severe trauma in my bones from my experiences in black southern baptist churches coupled with the colonization that forced Africans&Indigenous folx into Christianity. 🙃All these “mmm-hmmm” & “THAS RIGHT”s are triggering.
  • 15 November 2019 : He quotes a line of ancient Hebrew scripture, and then says “The response from a brown, Palestinian Jew that I follow - Jesus Christ” explained how nations will be judged. Goes over the well known scripture verse that begins with “When I was hungry...” (Matthew 25:35-40)
  • 15 November 2019 : He begins by reading the beginning of the Declaration of Indpendence. “We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men — first mistake...” On finishing that line he says, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish [the government] and to institute new government.
  • 15 November 2019 : The video ends and Dr. Barber walks out to loud applause and a standing ovation. He gives a shoutout to the OR Poor People’s Campaign. “We are not trying to create an organization, we are trying to create an organism. . . . It’s movement time.” pic.twitter.com/iHjnjZpnt8
  • 14 November 2019 : Accessibility or bust ✊🏽💕 much love! thanks for sharing!
  • 14 November 2019 : Probably the chickens, tbh...
  • 14 November 2019 : Good article. & it’s nice to see a larger *federal* discussion about the decriminalization of sex work in addition to mentions of Warren & Bernie’s refusal to announce a clear position on decrim. When I get some time I’ll be reading the 30 page proposal. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ne8pwq/ayanna-pressley-calls-for-decriminalizing-sex-work?fbclid=IwAR2Eae1ALv62sTcKQDMTX2JxdkFxB2cwhG89QHtyKcyNt2UkZzur1yDu-ms
  • 14 November 2019 : Honestly, that’s all I got time for today. But to conclude: - Mayors alienating sex workers from engaging in the democratic system is a form of continued state violence - Implying SWers are as bad for ppl as oil, pharma, & tobacco is BAD - @tedwheeler has run out of brain cells?
  • 14 November 2019 : This all barely touches on the fact that Ted is simultaneously alienating a LARGE group of workers who’ve gotten more vocal & gained more respect *nationwide* in our radical requests to be seen as fucking human - but he’s also choosing not to comply with Portland citizens wishes. pic.twitter.com/HRXDJCgSGh
  • 14 November 2019 : Hey, @tedwheeler , when you were sending Burk to have meetings with myself & others-lying about not ever allowing PPB to sweep the #OccupyICEPDX encampment & begging us to cooperate to some extent with the feds-did y’know you were sending your chief of staff to talk with a whore? pic.twitter.com/TsQHxNNl7q
  • 14 November 2019 : Having a seated mayor running for re-election effectively alienate adult industry workers from his campaign further supports the structural oppressive systems in place keeping sex workers from accessing resources. PLUS it acts as a means of providing validation to SWERF rhetoric. pic.twitter.com/qvpT3wxnMq
  • 14 November 2019 : Adult entertainment workers are not inherently bad and the services that we provide are not harmful. Big pharma, tobacco, and oil industries ARE harmful and dangerous. Including us in a group together implies that adult services are bad, wrong, and/or harmful. pic.twitter.com/XPzV37O5TM
  • 14 November 2019 : Fun fact - Portland has one of the highest densities of strippers in the country. Good job, Ted, on alienating thousands of workers from contributing to your reelection campaign — not that any of us support you anyway. pic.twitter.com/nzlUhbmGkX
  • 14 November 2019 : 2 things - “prostitute” is a slur and you should reference those workers who provide that type of contact as full service sex workers. - Also, pushing sex workers out of the ability to exercise political engagement is violence. pic.twitter.com/v7t0XQ9gn5
  • 14 November 2019 : “His campaign also will not accept contributions from certain industries: Pharma, oil, coal, firearms, tobacco, adult entertainment are banned and others could join that list.” Including adult entertainment workers on a list with these other industries is fucking laughable. pic.twitter.com/gLmXtyni4X
  • 14 November 2019 : Alright, so here’s a thread of videos providing my analysis - as a sex worker - of exactly why it’s so awful of @tedwheeler to refuse campaign donations from adult industry workers (aka sex workers.) Here’s the @wweek article that mentions this decision. https://www.wweek.com/news/2019/11/13/portland-mayor-ted-wheeler-sets-lofty-campaign-contribution-limits-for-re-election/ pic.twitter.com/88vLW4IxbF
  • 14 November 2019 : Okay, but forreal Im furious about #TedWheeler refusing donations from adult industry workers - aka sex workers. Gonna explain why in a second after I read their announcement. Stay tuned.
  • 14 November 2019 : It is November. I’m wearing on orange and black outfit today. If you say a word to me about pumpkins or Halloween I will ignore your existence. This has been a PSA.
  • 14 November 2019 : Lololol, hey Ted! We don’t wanna give you our fucking hard earned money anyways. However, if you need to budget some of that 5K towards stress relief, therapy and/or self care on the campaign road, you know where to find us..... https://twitter.com/gregorymckelvey/status/1195055141134618624
  • 14 November 2019 : I don’t know why I downloaded all these dating apps when I’m neither emotionally available nor competent enough about scheduling to fit someone else into my jam packed busy life. 🙃
  • 12 November 2019 : Considering a conversation I had today this is a very timely post I think I needed to see and I appreciate you sharing it and also mentioning other issues that you were told about.
  • 12 November 2019 : Me: Downloads dating app Me: Is immediately mad I’m having to swipe through so many fucking centrists and liberals to find remotely tolerable human beings ALSO ME: Sees leftist I know who liked my profile *immediately deletes dating app*
  • 12 November 2019 : Also; for accountability here’s the screenshot of my receipts. The 10$ went to Micah and I’s texting account so I can send him an update to let him know we deposited funds, pass messages for him along, and so he can text me critical updates as needed to put posts like this up! pic.twitter.com/3iDQHKA00O
  • 12 November 2019 : UPDATE: We’ve made the goal (170/165$) but anything else y’all send in the next 24 hours will be divided between commissary and his phone account (another 20$ to commissary just to be safe and the rest will go to his phone). Y’all are amazing, thank you! https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1194024532308156416
  • 12 November 2019 : UPDATE: We’ve made the goal (170/165$) but anything else y’all send in the next 24 hours will be divided between commissary and his phone account (another 20$ to commissary just to be safe and the rest will go to his phone). Y’all are amazing, thank you!
  • 11 November 2019 : Yo! If you have spare funds for a QTPOC activist in prison after targeting by ICE last year, we’re trying to raise 165$ so he can place a bulk order on commissary to make it through the holidays since they STOP ALLOWING ORDERS FOR 3 WEEKS FOR THANKSGIVING🙄 http://cash.me/$littlexhellcat pic.twitter.com/99H8t2BUuj
  • 11 November 2019 : Lololol I literally went to look after I saw your tweet and have never been to her page before. You know what that means, boo?? It means we’re on a Portland leftist block list together!! 🤗😊🥰 #Achievementunlocked pic.twitter.com/6jrHO6sITs
  • 11 November 2019 : I just got a new phone service and phone number set up and the realization that my abuser will no longer have my number is SO freeing. Holy fuck. 💕😭❤️
  • 10 November 2019 : @this_vid
  • 10 November 2019 : This is the best thing I’ve ever seen. Unironically, I love this. Stupid fucking nationalists thinking this is bad. (Except the very beginning is racist but besides that, the freedom punching and shit is great) https://twitter.com/scrowder/status/1192779255786221569
  • 10 November 2019 : Yo, I’m SO not here for Elizabeth “I’m Just A Player In The Game” Warren and her capitalist fake ally bullshit. Y’all white women really out here stanning her and her fake white allyship and appropriative Indigenous fuckery? 🙃🙃 https://twitter.com/queeninyeiiow/status/1193264968604499968
  • 9 November 2019 : To the Walgreens employees who just watched me stubbornly juggle & then buy a giant stuffed unicorn, children’s coloring book, 2 bags of candy, chicken nuggets, ice cream, & orange juice all while wearing sunglasses inside: I’m sorry. I’m so sorry. You did not deserve to see that
  • 9 November 2019 : Wearing sunglasses at night due to medical necessity sure is a great reminder not to be such a judgemental ass about seeing people in sunglasses inside buildings. Also wearing sunglasses when it’s not “normal” is a great way to get people to not say a fucking word to you.
  • 9 November 2019 : Right eye, duh. I eventually need the whole right side of my body done away with so I can take my final form as the ONE TRUE LEFTIST. Anyway, I got cash. When you getting the eye?
  • 9 November 2019 : It is 7:30pm. I’m walking down the street in black chucks, pastel pink velvet pants & a sunrise colored crop sweatshirt. I’m wearing sunglasses. “Tears Don’t Fall” by #BulletForMyValentine blasts in my ears. I am on my way to Taco Bell. I realize suddenly, this is the bad place.
  • 9 November 2019 : Someone please carve my eye out of my head with a spoon?
  • 8 November 2019 : Read this thread, in its entirety: https://twitter.com/stellar_tombs/status/1192148011956264960
  • 8 November 2019 : I tried to tell her that dick is abundant and low value but she didn’t listen.... https://twitter.com/razorfemme/status/1192899762770587648
  • 8 November 2019 : My face is very swollen from this stupid sty & crying hurts BUT I’ve found cute ways to protect my eye from light (which also hurts). Also this is what me fake smiling looks like I guess. Idk why I felt the need to smile but uhhh, if I ever smile at you like this it’s a lie.🤷🏽‍♀️ pic.twitter.com/dSeJhOzWrF
  • 8 November 2019 : Relevant; https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/cartier-boss-with-75bn-fortune-says-prospect-poor-rising-up-keeps-him-awake-at-night-10307485.html
  • 8 November 2019 : When tankies drive you insane, seize the memes of production. ps if you’re a “leftist” and you think post revolution we should abolish sex work because it puts “children at risk” or it’s “not possible to consent when money’s involved” I want you to know I will shank you. pic.twitter.com/MddUbMzi2j
  • 7 November 2019 : In other news, I didn’t take my makeup off after a photoshoot the other day and now I have a sty for the first time in years and I have to lay with hot towels on my face a few times a day for the next week. 🙃 #ohlooktheconsequencesofmyownactions pic.twitter.com/S2Oqoo2wHJ
  • 7 November 2019 : Idk why I’ve been going to coffee shops to do my work while my office building is closed when I could have been sitting in bed sending emails and building presentations without pants or a bra on the whole time 🤔
  • 7 November 2019 : Give this person a podcast at the VERY least.
  • 7 November 2019 : Overheard at the cafe I’m working from while our office building is closed, “Why would I get married? It’s like picking out what you want for breakfast 10 years from now... what if you’re not even an oatmeal type of person 10 years from now?”
  • 7 November 2019 : Trying to figure out how to afford a plane ticket to go support autonomous indigenous organizing at the border and wanted to offer a reminder that I will suck dick (or make you a custom resume or copy edit your writing) for money. 🤗💕✨
  • 7 November 2019 : RT @ProudBulba: RT if cops make you feel unsafe
  • 6 November 2019 : I guess big thanks to global warming for this warm & sunny, 65 degree November day in Portland, OR? #thanksobama #andalltheothercolonizers #globalwarming pic.twitter.com/94nT53FhDA
  • 6 November 2019 : Brb, crying reading through all of this. 😭 The journey to reconnection with my Native heritage has been one of listening, learning, growth, decolonization, & a LOT of humbling moments. If you’re going through the same, read this thread for a lot of good advice and affirmations. https://twitter.com/indigenousai/status/1192041800028045312
  • 6 November 2019 : same reason they date women who remind them of their moms; it makes them feel comfortable and at home 🙃
  • 6 November 2019 : I need someone to come pick my jaw up from where it fell on the floor when she said “My kids can’t hear me because they’re listening to kids bop” 💀
  • 6 November 2019 : He’s deadass like “I don’t know what you’re talking about I never had a tamale I just found this empty husk I swear” https://twitter.com/arisbae__/status/1191470829072203781
  • 4 November 2019 : 💪🏽❤️🙃 #WeCanDoIt #RosieTheRiveter pic.twitter.com/Vu2G0vXVmo
  • 4 November 2019 : 🙋🏽‍♀️💕✨
  • 3 November 2019 : I’m retweeting this cause it’s *really* great to see a person with this many followers using Clipomatic to ensure their social media videos are captioned and accessible. #normalizeaccessibility https://twitter.com/aoc/status/1191062276079595520
  • 3 November 2019 : Nah, they got booted on sight as soon as they walked in. There were no attention seeking shenanigans outside of their entire existence as fash so they’ve painted themselves as victims. And I *highly* doubt the bar would ever make a statement.
  • 3 November 2019 : 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 https://twitter.com/tchallaback/status/1191046938377904128
  • 3 November 2019 : In conclusion: -STOP posting about an “antifa” strip club b/c it makes us a target 🙅🏽‍♀️ -STOP posting about makin it rain there while using iron arrows b/c it’s dangerous& you won’t 🙄 -If you truly wanna give money spread the word via signal& secure channels not social media 🤫
  • 3 November 2019 : I’m so serious right now. Individuals from that strip club are already facing targeting from fash. This is *personal.* That club is the last spot I danced & the first spot I’m going back to. If fash come in while I’m there I’d never be able to go back.
  • 3 November 2019 : Like, LETS👏🏽BE👏🏽 REAL👏🏽 I’m an out anti fascist sex worker. This shit is EXTRA dangerous. Like literally people finding out you’re a sex worker is already dangerous. Fash finding out is fucking terrifying. Do y’all not realize it’s dangerous to single out businesses like this?
  • 3 November 2019 : “But we should reward businesses that are anti fascist” whined the white anarchists as I’m sure will happen if some of them see this post. Here’s the deal; y’all know you’re not gonna go make it rain on the dancers at this club. You don’t have $100+ per dancer to go do so.
  • 3 November 2019 : SO, that being said, strippers are already targeted for violence by men the world over. Fash are extra violent. Advertising a strip club as an “antifa” spot is fucking dangerous for all us dancers. Please delete those dumbass “I’m gonna make it rain at _____ club” posts stat.
  • 3 November 2019 : WE’VE GOT FASH FACING A WHOLE ASS LAWSUIT. Why? Because they: A) Target any space deemed as antifa B) Literally cannot control their fucking violence towards antifascists
  • 3 November 2019 : First of all, you have to know strippers/sex workers already face violence & assault on a regular basis in the strip club. You also gotta know that fash literally watch leftist pages & fucking target places you advertise as “antifa bars” or antifa friendly businesses.
  • 3 November 2019 : I really need PDX to stop retweeting information about the strip club that 86’d Haley & crew. Like, y’all truly don’t understand how to have solidarity with sex workers. Let me tell you why blasting the name of that club across leftist channels is BAD & I really NEED you to stop.
  • 3 November 2019 : Hey Mike, you know how when places gain attention in Portland as being “antifa” spaces then fash target those bars more? Well this is fucking dangerous cause strippers already face ridiculous amounts of violence & we dont need more targeting by misogynistic fash. This is reckless
  • 3 November 2019 : “Identity is what makes it possible to fight, solidarity is what makes it possible to win.” - Ricardo Levins Morales at the @JwJpdx annual dinner and fundraiser. pic.twitter.com/W7Z5T6XzLF
  • 2 November 2019 : my heart is SO full watching this video 😭😭 https://twitter.com/rafaelshimunov/status/1190587471882596352
  • 2 November 2019 : The IRONY of the fact that I just missed my max because I was standing outside the wait area smoking, music BLASTING in my ears, and reading this 🔥🔥 thread on @trimet ’s shitty policies is too rich. Anyway, read this. It’s important. https://twitter.com/tchallaback/status/1190473702946693121
  • 2 November 2019 : Sitting outside in the sun adding songs to the playlist for the pre-dinner reception for our nonprofit fundraiser like, “The white people will love this.” 😂😂😂
  • 2 November 2019 : I know! NYPD is the fucking worst right??
  • 2 November 2019 : The youth are alright. 💕 https://twitter.com/taylorlorenz/status/1190428476706308098
  • 1 November 2019 : ❓❓❓ you were at my birthday party.... 🤔
  • 31 October 2019 : RIP to a legend. https://twitter.com/adultswim/status/1189693530005999617
  • 31 October 2019 : In the Bible it is said that - women are to be submit to men (Eph 5:22) - sex makes people unclean (Levit 15:18, 24) -women are degraded by becoming prostitutes (Levit 19:29) - money earned from prostitution shouldn’t be spent b/c it’s immoral (Deut 23:18)
  • 31 October 2019 : Christianity has been continually enshrined as the basis for the guiding values of the US since its birth. US Presidents have referenced the USA as a “fine christian nation” despite congress being forbidden from promoting 1 religion over others or restricting religious practices
  • 31 October 2019 : I’ll make references back to Christianity for 2 reasons: 1) Christian religion is what overwhelmingly dominates the western world & the US in particular 2) I was raised in a southern baptist household so it’s the religion I’m most familiar with & I know when to stay in my lane.
  • 31 October 2019 : Many religious texts the world over have stories and declarations that are interpreted to mean that: - women are to be subservient to men - sex outside the confines of heterosexual marriages is immoral - sex that deviates in purpose for anything but procreation is an abomination
  • 31 October 2019 : All that being said, it’s time to get to the meat of this thread - the ways criminalization & prohibition efforts are directly tied to society’s puritanical views of sex/sexuality & the ages old “debate” over whether women deserve autonomy based on long held religious ideals.
  • 31 October 2019 : Decriminalization efforts work to recognize #sexworkers as members of the labor force while *also* recognizing the ways that governmental bodies would still attempt to control & regulate how these workers can receive payment, screen clients, or arrange safety nets if “legalized.”
  • 31 October 2019 : Adversely, the #DecrimNow movement is a *global* effort to demand agency, autonomy, & safety for sex workers the world over; especially women.
  • 31 October 2019 : This being true, I want to acknowledge in this thread that while men can be sex workers too, their existence as consensual sex workers is not what is under attack. The purpose of prohibition efforts is to further regulate, control & extort power over a woman’s body -trans or cis.
  • 31 October 2019 : Furthermore it’s important to recognize that while there are men all over the world that engage in sex work, the platform for its further criminalization & prohibition commonly erases them from the conversation, constantly referencing “victims of the sex trade” as she & her.
  • 31 October 2019 : It’s important to recognize the ways that the constant criminalization of women’s bodies neither begins nor ends with sex work. It’s as much related to antiabortion rhetoric as it is to sexist pay inequities & demands that “female” nipples be censored so aggressively.
  • 31 October 2019 : Good morning & happy Halloween! This morning let’s talk about something a lot of politicians find too *SCARY* to talk about — the decriminalization of sex work & how it’s criminalization points to the USA’s continued inability & unwillingness to separate church & state. (thread)
  • 28 October 2019 : Stop.
  • 28 October 2019 : My face at the @OrDA4thePeople candidate forum when the candidates won’t stop conflating sex trafficking with consensual sex work after being told twice they’re not synonymous but I know we’re on a time schedule so I can’t chew them out like I really wanted to. 😂 pic.twitter.com/aOpJVE9nJP
  • 28 October 2019 : Sex worker and thank you! https://twitter.com/davidminpdx/status/1188626033387327489
  • 26 October 2019 : @BVWkrUnion is out here at the Hawthorne @BurgervilleUSA to demand living wages and fair working conditions with some amazing spooky chants! “Trick or treat, smell my feet. Give me something good to eat. If you don’t pay us more, we’ll shut down your fucking store!” #UnionStrong pic.twitter.com/9oOb5V6NIr
  • 26 October 2019 : When Zack Fox said “I wanna get a whip and crash it into white-owned businesses” I really felt that, you know? 😅 #stopgentrification #standupfightback
  • 25 October 2019 : Related: LOOK AT THIS GOOD UNION BOI SUPPORTING THE @BVWkrUnion PICKET AND STRIKE TODAY. pic.twitter.com/Bj96PLsvUe
  • 25 October 2019 : Local to Portland and just hearing about the @BVWkrUnion week of actions to support the strike? You can still join in tomorrow! Picket starts tomorrow at noon at the Hawthorne location! Come eat spooky pancakes with us there! pic.twitter.com/6HT87svDeZ
  • 25 October 2019 : Not local to Portland but want to support the efforts to establish the first fast food restaurant union in the nation? Click the link to donate to their Strike and Hardship fundraiser: https://www.gofundme.com/f/bvwu-strike-and-hardship-fundraiser?pc=fb_dn_postdonate_r&rcid=r01-157151059123-5567fad85189401e&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fb_dn_postdonate_r
  • 25 October 2019 : Burgerville Workers are currently on strike at 4 locations as @BurgervilleUSA continues to stall on paying living wages. For a company that’s supposedly sustainable, local, & fresh, they don’t seem to understand that workers living on poverty wages can’t sustain positive morale🤔
  • 25 October 2019 : It’s a Scooby Doo themed picket Shaggy! Don’t be a scab! 🧡✊🏽 Happy to stand with @BVWkrUnion for one of the stops of today’s roving picket and excited to stand with them tomorrow for the continuation of their week of events as they launch their strike! Remember to Boycott BV!! pic.twitter.com/N2CvykqcYN
  • 25 October 2019 : 3 hours into braiding and I’m at the halfway point. Last time I did my braids it took me like 15-20 hours. I’m so pleased with the learning curve here. 😻
  • 25 October 2019 : Who needs sleep when you could be cute? pic.twitter.com/ziryhF7d8C
  • 25 October 2019 : Hey @trimet where do I file a complaint about feral hogs riding the max without paying fare?? #acab #farelesstransit #TriMet #faredodgers #fareenforcement #pdx #Portland #portlandpolice #feralhogs pic.twitter.com/BZ1QrUNuOO
  • 25 October 2019 : Hi this is my new favorite reaction meme. ❤️👏🏽😅 https://twitter.com/mothercr33p/status/1187430827187027968
  • 24 October 2019 : Ways to get me to your meeting: Have dogs Ways to ensure I’m 100% distracted at your meeting: Have dogs pic.twitter.com/6WWQPj5FXw
  • 24 October 2019 : Yes, they did! 💕
  • 24 October 2019 : This is what my life has come to.... pic.twitter.com/9x7nAVcmiG
  • 23 October 2019 : This whole subthread gives me lifeeeeeeeee.
  • 23 October 2019 : My favorite thing is seeing people’s faces when I tell them I’ve done sex work — and still engage in sex work when I can — outside of my salaried position with a non-profit as an organizer. Especially when they subsequently learn I’m the only one in my office without a degree.🤣 https://twitter.com/prestonmitchum/status/1187149153173942273
  • 23 October 2019 : I’m in a meeting right now and can’t listen to this (and it’s not accessible because lack of captions) but like, REALLY? Really??? Colo-fucking-rado? 🙄 https://twitter.com/kyleclark/status/1187113457939820544
  • 23 October 2019 : @alex_zee @PopMobPDX @OPALEJOR @teressaformayor @sarahforpdx
  • 23 October 2019 : Anyway tell your friends at 1:50 there were cops and dogs at Gateway Transit center off the blue line. @trimet knows that they if they put an iota of energy into the research they’d be able to support alternatives for fare-less transit.
  • 23 October 2019 : @Trimet : We got more fare enforcement so we don’t have to work with cops & can make sure ppl are paying b/c we know thats what yall want. Literally every1: Nah we dont want POC being intimidated while just trying to fucking exist. Trimet: Uhmmm, NAH. Here’s some more cops&dogs. pic.twitter.com/ytaFxq4Os0
  • 23 October 2019 : I made a CRITICAL mistake getting dressed this morning in putting my body suit on *over* my tights. 😭 Getting completely naked in the stall is not at all ideal. 😂😅
  • 23 October 2019 : White people, READ THIS THREAD IN ITS ENTIRETY and then retweet it so your followers can do the same. It is literally a VITAL conversation. https://twitter.com/michaelharriot/status/1186468302400507904
  • 22 October 2019 : Okay, well, drunk me didn’t just break but also lost my most cherished necklace that I wore every day for fucking years soooo, pretty sure I’m done drinking for a while. 😤😭😩
  • 22 October 2019 : 🎵Solidarity forever 🎶 https://twitter.com/jamiep72061/status/1186490355916525568
  • 22 October 2019 : The first rule I got taught at the *official* Antifa School of Leftist Theory ™ was “Always know your exists and never fuck your comrades.” I immediately fucked that up and it seems I still have not learned from the consequences of my own actions. 🤔😅
  • 21 October 2019 : Also @Twitter @TwitterSupport it’s ableist bullshit that you put a limit on Image description length. #accessibility #ableism #accessibilityislimitless pic.twitter.com/yA6JcoRqgZ
  • 21 October 2019 : Someone favorited a tweet from this thread recently and as we approach the national colonizer holiday of thanksgiving I’m bringing this thread on bullshit US exceptionalism back to the top of my feed. #decolonize #decolonization #fucktheusa https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1147007631380353024
  • 21 October 2019 : Do 👏🏽 Not 👏🏽 Comment 👏🏽 On 👏🏽 My 👏🏽 Status 👏🏽 Defending 👏🏽 Capitalism pic.twitter.com/0fZCdoJj0F
  • 21 October 2019 : Brb, crying because I feel so seen. 😭 This tweet is important.
  • 20 October 2019 : Accurate.
  • 20 October 2019 : I’m dressing up as Leeloo Dallas for a Halloween kink party tonight and I’m very excited about it.
  • 19 October 2019 : THE MOST ACCURATE TWEET THIS WEBSITE HAS EVER SEEN 😂
  • 19 October 2019 : Things that are endlessly frustrating; NOT BEING ABLE TO JUST CLICK SHARE ON CONTENT FROM HUGE MEDIA PAGES B/C THEY DONT PUT IMAGE DESCRIPTIONS. If you don’t make #accessible posts I can’t ethically share it as is but y’all post good info sometimes so PLEASE CATCH UP
  • 19 October 2019 : Immigrant workers are good enough to hire, pay unliveable wages, & risk their lives on buildings that will pad the pockets of the 1%. As soon as they speak out about the horrors faced b/c of capitalistic corner-cutting, their lives lose all values in the eyes of our overlords. https://twitter.com/juansaaa/status/1185328496060616704
  • 18 October 2019 : RT @RedCanarySong: @MsGizelleMarie organizer of NYC stripper strike says sex work allowed her to financially survive in this world. She has…
  • 18 October 2019 : Casually reminded in this moment how much I despise men. 🙃
  • 18 October 2019 : right?!?!
  • 18 October 2019 : Me: I’ve been seeing someone new which has been nice. My mother: Nice! Me: .....he is a white man. Mom: wait, what? I don’t think I heard you? Me: I said he’s a white man. My white mom: *snorting with laughter* WHAT? I seriously thought I must have misheard you. Really?
  • 17 October 2019 : Sending you much love and validation. 💕✨ Fuck these people.
  • 17 October 2019 : My nonprofit is looking for new office space & someone just suggested we build tiny offices & park them in the lot of our allied organizations & now I’m raving about wanting to build tiny offices in a tricked out bus we can bring to actions w/ office space, snacks & art supplies.
  • 17 October 2019 : XR is bullshit and in my opinion the entire global XR movement has lost all credibility and potential for forward progress because of the nearly daily dumpster fires of these groups. Keep fighting radically for climate justice. Don’t do it under an XR banner. https://twitter.com/louis_allday/status/1184897770215428097
  • 17 October 2019 : In honor of all the TERF-y Portland citizens hopping on to @JoAnnPDX and @sarahforpdx ’s feeds (and everywhere else) with their bullshit: pic.twitter.com/Er1dHKPiR2
  • 17 October 2019 : pic.twitter.com/oyNZkYAaqz
  • 15 October 2019 : I aspire to write my lowercase g like that but it never seems to come fluidly enough to not look weird and forced af
  • 15 October 2019 : Working in an office is really making me want to get my nipples pierced again. I feel like my office hoe vibes aren’t strong enough and nips/piercings peeking out through my shirts will really help me accomplish the vibe I’m going for.
  • 15 October 2019 : Yes, because it cute. pic.twitter.com/dkpzVSP1TJ
  • 15 October 2019 : On what I can only assume is the rooftop of some bougie high rise. Which is ironic and extremely fitting that you can see the sun rising over this gentrified, white, capitalist hellscape of a city in the background.
  • 15 October 2019 : Wheeler announced his re-election campaign with no ASL interpreters and in front of a sea of white faces in suits except for one light skinned black man whom I can only assume was a “diversity hire” or some similar tokenized identity for a watered down attempt at representation. pic.twitter.com/OQgDKhnoE3
  • 15 October 2019 : Hard same!! https://twitter.com/shutupbrit/status/1183991533982408704
  • 15 October 2019 : I want a medicine wheel emoji. I want other emojis representing Indigeneity too but we all know white people would completely fuck up everything wholesome in the world if there were emojis representing war bonnets, beadwork, or medallions. Anyway, gimme a medicine wheel @Apple .
  • 15 October 2019 : Hi!! Right back at you! 💕✊🏽❤️
  • 15 October 2019 : ☕️ When the youth give amazing takes and someone brews that tweet into some fresh hot tea..... 👀🍵 https://twitter.com/commiespookyboi/status/1184005991819403264
  • 15 October 2019 : 👇🏽👇🏽💕👏🏽 https://twitter.com/pnwylf/status/1183877578051899398
  • 15 October 2019 : Having a conversation with a POC friend and we’ve come to a shared #HOTTAKE : We’ve decided that telling black people to stop smoking cigs is racist cause white people can’t understand our already reduced life expectancies & the positive impact of that coping mechanisms. 🙃😅
  • 15 October 2019 : Imagine shitting on PNWYLF for respecting indigenous people & then praising the SHARPS participation when they showed up not in block as requested b/c we recognized that risk of fash attacks were low & wanted to make space to radicalize libs like the right is actively doing. pic.twitter.com/DrSRjAqsfV
  • 15 October 2019 : Imagine thinking that pointing out any level of intimidation means we’re scared ¬ that we’re highlighting how insidious these intimidation tactics are. This was followed up with “We’re not scared &we will escalate.” Also I’m an anarcho-communist but keep calling me a lib🙄😂 pic.twitter.com/wxuMukLjh6
  • 15 October 2019 : Imagine thinking that insulting indigenous leaders on Indigenous People’s Day at a protest centering indigenous voices is a *good take*. This is counterrevolutionary. However it’s also the same performative leftist gatekeeping that harms our efforts to recruit folx to the left. pic.twitter.com/5nxNEkgVrf
  • 14 October 2019 : Ya girl is TIRED. That is all.
  • 12 October 2019 : I don’t think I’ve ever felt more happily gay then when my very gay friend brought me a car jack for a flat and told my high femme ass “I can hold a flashlight but changing that tire is on you.” AND THEN I FUCKING CHANGED IT BY MYSELF WITH MY GAY GIRL SUPERPOWERS. 💁🏽‍♀️💅🏽🚙💕
  • 12 October 2019 : This is iconic. 😂👏🏽
  • 6 October 2019 : Say it louder! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 https://twitter.com/communisthug/status/1180842872486146048
  • 5 October 2019 : Also, this: https://twitter.com/tariqnasheed/status/1180615313471107072?s=21
  • 5 October 2019 : "Brown lived in constant fear that he could be the next victim of gun violence," Merritt wrote on Facebook. "Brown deserves the same justice he sought to ensure the Jean family."” https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2019/10/05/man-fatally-shot-apartment-complex-near-dallas-medical-district-suspect-loose/ Alternative source: http://www.tmz.com/2019/10/05/botham-jean-neighbor-eyewitness-testify-shot-dead-killed/
  • 5 October 2019 : “Lee Merritt, a civil rights attorney who represents the Jean family, called Brown a "former athlete turned entrepreneur" whose slaying "underscores the reality of the black experience in America."
  • 5 October 2019 : As someone I know so aptly put it, this is the “thin blue line in action.” This is what “justice” for black men in the US looks like. (Brief thread) pic.twitter.com/lqM7Fv41QY
  • 5 October 2019 : If you’re not following people in different marginalized communities who have different experiences with oppression, how’ll you learn to be a better ally? Here’s today’s challenge: follow people that walk through the world differently than you & take the time to learn from them. https://twitter.com/catchthesewords/status/1180624037053157377
  • 5 October 2019 : When your crush posts a selfie to Facebook but you don’t want any of your mutual friends to know that you have a crush on them so you’re just sitting there in your head imagining what you wanna comment like: 😍😘😏🤐🥴🤤 pic.twitter.com/oOFH8me2FK
  • 5 October 2019 : Today I met a cloud and also got to watch a white woman exemplify everything that is wrong, reductionist, self-serving, deflecting, and just plain ignorant in the world of Portland activism on one of my posts. I got to drink white tears twice today AND meet a cloud.12/10 good day pic.twitter.com/Z1lrdMyUOj
  • 5 October 2019 : Brooklyn 99 or Bust https://twitter.com/socialistdogmom/status/1155314952862916608
  • 4 October 2019 : Bringing this back AGAIN because I love it so much. https://twitter.com/thustweetsdavid/status/1130938014463680513
  • 4 October 2019 : The only other thought I would like to add as an addendum to this statement is that once my queer platonic life partner was explaining how they experience asexuality to me & my response was “that sounds like a superpower as an organizer. NEVER being distracted by sex??”
  • 4 October 2019 : Sometimes self care looks like pausing what you’re doing to give yourself an orgasm so you can stop being horny and focus on sending press releases to the media late into the night. 🤷🏽‍♀️ #radicalselfcare #normalizemasturbation #selfLOVE
  • 3 October 2019 : Just accidentally retweeted something to a campaign account that I meant to retweet here on my personal account. With the number of different pages (personal + Coalition/project related) that I’m logged into on FB, Twitter, & Insta Im surprised this doesn’t happen more often tbh.
  • 3 October 2019 : 💕💕💕 https://twitter.com/prestonmitchum/status/1179801681279803392
  • 3 October 2019 : What the fuck is even happening in this country? How have White House staff not muzzled him yet? https://twitter.com/nbcnews/status/1179770843372691460
  • 3 October 2019 : Posting LEWDS. Posting *lewds* not leads. As much as I miss my legit “journalist for a newspaper” days, I need to clarify that my autocorrect fucked me up and I was best at Twitter when the name of the game was anonymous lewds.
  • 3 October 2019 : I used to be good @ Twitter when all that was expected of me was cursing my existence, posting leads, & the occasional dad joke. Now we out here organizing the revolution & writing critical thesis papers on oppression 280 characters at a time & there is a STEEP learning curve.😂
  • 3 October 2019 : It took 3 separate ppl telling me that I seemed trapped in a constant cycle of abuse before I severed all ties with a leftist man I was never even *officially* in a relationship with but stayed working alongside doing national organizing with for months. This shit is insidious. https://twitter.com/eeeeevilyn/status/1179461527578935296
  • 3 October 2019 : A C A B. Know your rights. Don’t trust the police. Cops can and will lie to you. https://twitter.com/maxoregonian/status/1179451129328852992
  • 2 October 2019 : pic.twitter.com/TP7xJl0b8y
  • 2 October 2019 : It’s so important for white organizers to understand that their outreach to POC activists/speakers/organizers means nothing if it comes with a set of predetermined expectations. Let us establish our own boundaries & involvement level outside your hopes for our labor/stories.(3/3)
  • 2 October 2019 : We do a disservice to POC when we ask them to be involved in our coalitions/campaigns/rallies with the unspoken expectation of them helping drive the push for equity by cherry picking from their social circles for more POC involvement or asking them to identify problems (2/3)
  • 2 October 2019 : This is part of the insidious trade-off in SO many “progressive” organizing spaces. I see so many non-white ppl (esp. bipoc) being asked to perform intense emotional labor and give trauma porn stories at rallies as a way to create diverse, representative spaces. (1/3) https://twitter.com/tamaranopper/status/1179428613713620992
  • 2 October 2019 : I’ve read tweets& shit about the whistle blower & this whole impeachment convo but tbh I haven’t been paying it much attention cause I have no faith in the gov. That being said I’m listening to The Daily’s podcast ep on the complaint & they keep saying “he said” & I’m like 😑🙄
  • 2 October 2019 : I’m poor and I need someone to take me on a date to the corn ma(iz)e and hold hands and be gay and cute and drink hot chocolate and shit.
  • 1 October 2019 : pic.twitter.com/vtaxBYZKNb
  • 1 October 2019 : It felt so good! Was tedious as hell but spanned down from following like 1100 people to a cool almost 700 focused on social justice and change. Already excited for all the people I’m gonna start seeing boosted in my feed!!
  • 1 October 2019 : Just went on a HUGE unfollowing spree and feeling really excited about cleaning up my timeline. I’ve gone through so much growth and learned so much since I made this account for anonymous shit posting in 2014. Excited to focus in on a lifetime of organizing & advocacy.
  • 1 October 2019 : I will be continuing to work on captioning this video & re-uploading accessible versions as quickly as possible around prior commitments. Again, I apologize for my lack of ability to get this up/captioned & wish City Hall were more proactive about accessibility not just when req.
  • 1 October 2019 : For now, heres a brief video of the beginning of the answer to a question on how @deray / @samswey would build a police force. I’m frustrated we haven’t been able to caption it yet & want this video to exist as proof of why City Hall should ensure interpreters are *ALWAYS* present. pic.twitter.com/2KJluM9tmH
  • 1 October 2019 : When PDX City Hall knows events are going to be live-streamed to the public, it should ensure that those videos will by FULLY accessible to the public online. We know Deaf/HOH citizens are interested in staying informed in a timely manner. Online resources should be accessible.
  • 1 October 2019 : Due to technological issues, we’re struggling to get accessible and captioned videos available to post online of the work session today. This is why it’s important for municipalities to ensure that interpretation is provided & they are ADA compliant ALWAYS, not just when asked.
  • 1 October 2019 : My personal favorite ally for accessibility advocacy and bff Andrew Tolman (Founder of Fingers Crossed Interpreting, @KITEBOYTOLLY ) is working on getting those clips captioned for full accessibility. Will be posting them as they are edited & accessible.
  • 1 October 2019 : Excited to see so many folx at the table/engaged in the conversation. @JamesOfsink & @Johnnthelefty here from Portland’s Resistance. @GregoryMcKelvey is here. So is Donna Hayes from “Oregon DA for the People”/“Don’t Shoot PDX”. Community activists here on the local & natl level. pic.twitter.com/J2nii2sSPG
  • 1 October 2019 : Currently in a meeting but I have a 7 minute video of a question and answer from @JoAnnPDX for @deray and @samswey that l’ll have to cut down before I can post it to twitter. Will have it up within the hour, though!
  • 1 October 2019 : Presentation is now officially over & folx at the table are now in question/answer with @deray & @samswey . Here’s their final slide with a list of resources from their presentation. http://mappingpoliceviolence.org http://joincampaignzero.org http://useofforceproject.org http://checkthepolice.org pic.twitter.com/kjiqMCFiLm
  • 1 October 2019 : Gotta acknowledge real quick that this room is full of intersectional justice advocates, activists, and reps from different orgs. Folx from political campaigns, direct action organizing groups, interfaith justice movement organizers, and the like. Nice to see PDX turn out.
  • 1 October 2019 : What’s problematic and so permissive about the language used in this law is the “use of or”. Essentially, as @samswey explains, according to OR law, committing crimes listed in this text or *suspected* of committing said crimes can be at risk of having deadly force used on them. pic.twitter.com/FI9bhW0vjx
  • 1 October 2019 : “Oregon has the most permissive law around use of force policies in the country.” - @deray “We know that cities have the jurisdiction to pass laws that are more restrictive [in regards to use of force policies.]” - @samswey pic.twitter.com/Km2kJBMFWx
  • 1 October 2019 : To understand this graph more, you can go to http://useofforceproject.org/ pic.twitter.com/0dFQYkv9A0
  • 1 October 2019 : Austin had an understanding that the City’s membership in regards to bargaining for contracts specifically includes the citizens of the city. This is an important distinction in regards to legality of whom can be involved in conversations about union contracts. pic.twitter.com/0dIhXaHrdN
  • 1 October 2019 : I just wanna take a quick moment to acknowledge the fact that there is not an ASL interpreter here, and that I haven’t looked at the livestream so I don’t know if it’s being captioned well. But I know captions here are disjointed & covering the presentation text so I apologize.
  • 1 October 2019 : 1 in 5 murders in Phoenix last year were committed by Police Officers. When the community tried to establish early warning systems, they ran into the issue of NOT HAVING DATA TO USE because the records were “systematically destroyed” as per provisions in the police contract. pic.twitter.com/Qpi8vFPk1A
  • 1 October 2019 : Information is moving and rolling SO quickly as I take specific notes and try to live tweet and take pictures. 😅 So here’s some pictures of slides. But the link to the live stream from the city is in the first tweet. pic.twitter.com/QxwuSDe8JC
  • 1 October 2019 : Police Chief Danielle Outlaw sits at the table with @deray , @samswey , @JoAnnPDX & others as Sam explains the frequency in which disciplined police officers are reinstated to the force after challenged disciplinary decisions made by arbitrators who are not accountable to the city. pic.twitter.com/pYczHkJLpr
  • 1 October 2019 : PDX Mayor Ted Wheeler sits in the chamber floor taking notes as @deray and @samswey enter the portion of their presentation where they share examples of problematic provisions in Police Union Contracts across the country. #policeaccountability #policeviolence pic.twitter.com/WiNl8sm49S
  • 1 October 2019 : In most other developed countries, we see that police can deescalate and solve problems that arise where people are unarmed or armed with non lethal weapons (weapons besides guns). Fifty percent of those [in Portland] who use of force is used against are house less people. pic.twitter.com/4wxyvqHvZq
  • 1 October 2019 : Looking at PDX: Racial disparity increases as rates of violence increase. “This is not unique to Portland but that doesn’t make it okay.” - @samswey pic.twitter.com/YCgMzAKyUf
  • 1 October 2019 : A graph showing the breakdown of data showing that rates of violent crime are not indicative of rates of police violence and murders. pic.twitter.com/LtF2WQd0KB
  • 1 October 2019 : St. Louis has the highest rate of police violence. A black man in St. Louis is twice as likely to be murdered by police as a person anywhere else is likely to be murdered by anyone.
  • 1 October 2019 : Every year there are 1100-1300 deaths by police. There are 1-2 murders every day. Also, for every one lethal police shooting there are two non-lethal shootings. - Via @samswey
  • 1 October 2019 : (Thread) I’m here at the Portland Work Session on “National Best Practices in Police Union Contracts” work session with @Deray & @samswey of Campaign Zero. Happening now. Please share! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1niaq51Z2Uw pic.twitter.com/w7TZFJh0Qs
  • 26 September 2019 : The coping methods I’ve learned in therapy have been vital to me not losing my mind. The medicines I’ve taken to adjust serotonin imbalances have been the difference between being suicidal and having more manageable despair, stress, & frustration over the state of the world.
  • 26 September 2019 : Okay, but like, now I’ve got music from Hamilton stuck in my head... pic.twitter.com/SiBhcqx5Pt
  • 26 September 2019 : Alright well here’s the best random accidental hilarious thing I’ve seen on twitter today... pic.twitter.com/JlnJ0b0ouQ
  • 26 September 2019 : There’s a mom on the max, sitting between her two kids, and reading Harry Potter aloud to them. I’m SO in my feels over it. My mom and I used to go to the midnight releases of the books & race to each read it in like 24 hours so we could talk about the whole book & I just... 😭😍
  • 26 September 2019 : On page 2/10 of a packet with background information for our new project @ my new job, I found a link to a helpful website & ended up finding probably 50+ pages of research I need to read. Never mind I still have to get thru the next 8 pages of this initial research packet. 🙃😂
  • 25 September 2019 : I think it’s really funny when right wingers are like “YALL NEED MENTAL HELP” as an insult. Like, yeah bud. We live in a depressing, intolerant, murderous, & capitalistic country on a globe that is actively dying. That shits traumatic. We all need mental help. Especially you.
  • 24 September 2019 : One of my media posts from “Activism, Actually” was shared with credit by “The Other 98%” on Facebook and I’m fucking freaking out. They have like 6 million followers. 🙌🏽❤️✊🏽
  • 23 September 2019 : Reflection #1 from my commute to my first day at a new civilian job: It’s been a while since I actually had to worry about picking out clothes to put *on* for work as opposed to picking out lingerie to take off.
  • 14 September 2019 : We’re moving to public session. @AlbertLee2020 is the first to speak. “I believe democracy requires choice. And that’s something that we haven’t had for a generation.” pic.twitter.com/GGBQK1tWC9
  • 14 September 2019 : An attendee says that she is from the Coalition of Black Trades Unionists and the whole reason she came to the OABA meeting is because they are looking for partners to help with the census. There a 3 ways to fill out the census; online, by phone, and in person.
  • 14 September 2019 : Another attendee brings up the census again. Says that something we need to focus on is “getting more [black people] involved in counting the census.” Tells a story of the last census and receiving a call to get involved and then months later being told he was ineligible.
  • 14 September 2019 : Question: If Oregon is being granted a new congressional seat, when will that be effective? Answer: 2023
  • 14 September 2019 : Discussion moves forward to talk about the 2021 session and the redistricting that will take place in Oregon to prepare for the creation of a new seat. It’s highlighted that most likely the metro area will be divided because of population density but, “how do you do that fairly?”
  • 14 September 2019 : An attendee brings up Stacy Abrams “Fair Fight” initiative and the fact that sometimes it’s not about asking people to do things to help you as much as it can be about saying “I agree with you.” He says, “Sometimes the choir needs a pat on the back, too.”
  • 14 September 2019 : The importance of an accurate census in Oregon during the upcoming year is discussed - especially in regards to making sure that minority communities are accurately represented so that future policy can be used to efficiently and positively affect the most oppressed groups.
  • 14 September 2019 : There’s been a discussion about the calls coming down from D.C. for a constitutional convention and the ways that oppressive figures in national legislature can use that opportunity to make significant and catastrophic change on a national level.
  • 14 September 2019 : Discussions have occurred about the importance of focusing on legislature at the federal level. There’s a need to be proactive about being involved in facilitating support for national change as well as at the local level.
  • 14 September 2019 : “Nobody can be on the sideline anymore. We need to uplift that when we talk to the community.” - OABA President Calvin O L Henry pic.twitter.com/dGsT1HMvm9
  • 14 September 2019 : Flyer has been passed out to attendees: What Benefits BLACK Oregonians Benefits ALL Oregonians! OABA is focusing this year on: Affordable Housing & Healthcare Protection from Police Livable Wages Quality Pre-K-12 Education Access to Higher Education All Human & Civil Rights pic.twitter.com/Rdx593J45T
  • 14 September 2019 : Treasurer Carolyn Leonard brings up a project that’s being worked on by Dr. Pulla Reddy in regards to heart health and the disproportionate rates of heart failure in black comm. She passes out a proposal about addressing “Community Education on Heart Health and Heart Failure.”
  • 14 September 2019 : OABA Officers are giving reports. Vice President Aneesah Furqan-Peace echos a lot of what has been discussed and highlights the upcoming conference in April and also the internship attached. Secretary Lisa Collins shares a brief bit about how she joined OABA.
  • 14 September 2019 : We’ve stopped for a quick 3 minute break for refreshments. I definitely ran outside for a cigarette so tbh they’re probably gonna start again before I dip back inside. pic.twitter.com/bKf7t60X0C
  • 14 September 2019 : In regards to youth involvement, Education Committee Chair Lela Assem uplifts that there is an (unpaid) Internship for Youth to work with OABA on the upcoming Oregon Black Political Convention In April. Students can get credit for courses and use it as experience on their resume.
  • 14 September 2019 : A long discussion has occurred of people discussing the importance of involving the youth, young adults, and their parents generation and inviting them to “get political.”
  • 14 September 2019 : A discussion starts on how the changes needed can be implemented. She says, “White people don’t know enough about this. White folks throw out terms of diversity and inclusion and the like, but they have no idea how to make that a reality in the black community.”
  • 14 September 2019 : The presenter tells a harrowing story of a young black girls experience in middle school last year. “Our children can’t go to school when they’re afraid.” The young girl was told by 3 students that they’d get the “KKK to kill her” and she didn’t tell anyone but her out of fear.
  • 14 September 2019 : Education Committee Chair Lela Assem recommends people read “A Different Vision” by Susan Anglada Bartley. It is a book about racism in public education and is relevant to children’s experiences in PDX.
  • 14 September 2019 : Another attendee says “Guadalupe is not a friendly superintendent for the Portland School district. He does not like the black community and he is blatant about it.” Lots of head nods and verbal agreement with that statement. “We need black people to come sit up front @ meetings”
  • 14 September 2019 : There is a call out from a woman for help. She is the first Russian speaking person elected to the Board of Clackamas Community College. She’d like recommendations for black and brown individuals that she can help grow into leadership to be the next person to take that position.
  • 14 September 2019 : She addresses white supremacy in the city and state. She uplifts Portland United Against Hate and the work they’ve done to fight racism. She also praised the work that’s been able to be accomplished since @JoAnnPDX got elected.
  • 14 September 2019 : The grassroots efforts have been instrumental in getting these progressive (and often minority) figures elected to positions on school boards.
  • 14 September 2019 : The conversation moved forward to a presentation by Education Committee Chair Lela Assem. There are exciting moves happening in state school boards where black & brown men and women are being elected to local positions.
  • 14 September 2019 : According to some community members at the meeting, The Commission on Black Affairs is an Oregon statewide group but they have not been proactive in addressing the housing crisis. The question needs to be asked, “What are you doing for the community?”
  • 14 September 2019 : Comments on the community brought up by attendees: - White people (and others) are moving into traditionally black communities and being extremely disrespectful to families in the area - This presentation was helpful for comm members because it helped break down SB 608 for them.
  • 14 September 2019 : A discussion begins from an attendee and OABA member who brings up the struggles that occur when black parents who owned housing pass away and then their “2-5 children are struggling” and the child who wants to keep the house doesn’t have the means and neither do the others.
  • 14 September 2019 : The committee chair explains his opinion saying that “We have to walk before we can run.” He recognizes that these bills and legislative wins often work in stages and need to be continuous. “This is not a cure-all; this is just the beginning.”
  • 14 September 2019 : @AlbertLee2020 is in attendance at the OABA meeting. During the question period he brings up that there are exemptions in SB608 for “renters who own 4 units or less. So they can discriminate... if they own 4 units or less.” He asks the committee chair for his thoughts on that.
  • 14 September 2019 : The Housing Committee Chair explains that “within OR, black people represent 1.9% of the population.” He says “We are not the largest minority group in the state. We need to educate the community.”
  • 14 September 2019 : An attendee and OABA member asks if there’s been any positive affect in the black community with the passage of SB 608. The bill was only passed this spring and there are not statistics but the reality is that “many black people in the comm. don’t know SB 608 exists.”
  • 14 September 2019 : He explains the history of the legislature Senate Bill 608 which “prohibited landlords from terminating leases without a cause.” pic.twitter.com/YNXzIssEnO
  • 14 September 2019 : While explaining this graphic from 2017 he explains that 45% of households were renters. “The pendulum is moving away from home ownership to home rentership.” pic.twitter.com/vQcVIDniUY
  • 14 September 2019 : He begins a presentation on OR’s affordable housing problem. “Rent today for a 1, 2, [or] 3 bedroom apartment is close to what it was for a mortgage 5 years ago. It doesn’t make sense to spend that money without building equity because that’s how wealth is passed on.” pic.twitter.com/tTAYoqxA7D
  • 14 September 2019 : After an announcement on an upcoming for the OABA board, the next period of the meeting begins with OABA committee reports. The first report comes from Housing Committee Chair James Robinson, Jr.
  • 14 September 2019 : The meeting started off with introductions. During the introduction to the purpose of today’s combined meeting of OABA members and the public, president Calvin O L Henry explained, “We need people not to be fair weather people, we need people to be long distance runners.”
  • 14 September 2019 : I’m here at Irvington Covenant Church attending a meeting of the Oregon Assembly for Black Affairs (OABA). The OABA is a statewide nonpartisan and nonprofit organization that has been “working to lessen the disconnect among black Oregonians” for over 40 years. Have a thread❤️:
  • 9 September 2019 : Casually coughing up blood on a Monday afternoon like: pic.twitter.com/NzUB8Hnl8M
  • 5 September 2019 : Choke me + fishnets FOR SURE
  • 20 August 2019 : THIS IS A FUCKING CROW AND I WILL FIGHT ANYONE. You don’t understand how much this fucked me up. I just screamed “This is a bird” and threw my phone. https://twitter.com/dsquintana/status/1163083819605475328
  • 14 July 2019 : Major media outlets are reporting that Willem van Spronsen was killed by Tacoma police for attacking Northwest Detention Center. This is a misrepresentation. He was targeting the GEO transport vehicles across the street. Here is his manifesto. Please share his words. #AbolishICE pic.twitter.com/N6QyYuhW97
  • 30 May 2019 : Bonus content: 😂 pic.twitter.com/yBCYiYVkxf
  • 30 May 2019 : In honor of some bullshit that has me furious rn, please enjoy this gif of Chris Cantwell idiotically pouring cow-milk down his burning face after being maced by “communists.” I consider it highly unfortunate the non-sterile milk didn’t lead to severe infection. pic.twitter.com/Jhe2ep2r2j
  • 13 May 2019 : For everyone: #mothersdaylove #mothersday #MothersDay2019 #motherhood #MothersDayWeekend pic.twitter.com/1Z69ODPz3Y
  • 13 May 2019 : For sex-worker mamas: #sexworkiswork #endsexworkstigma #mothersday #sexworkerstigma #sexworker #DecrimNow pic.twitter.com/z9t5JQGL77
  • 13 May 2019 : For non-binary afab parents: #enby #transinclusion #transgender #nonbinary #genderqueer #mothersday #afab pic.twitter.com/JCJe9Nk0dp
  • 13 May 2019 : For black mommas raising children in our racist society; #BlackMamasMatter #Blacktwitter #strongblackwoman #mothersday #blackwomen pic.twitter.com/GJaJEyL6VD
  • 13 May 2019 : For the matriarchs of indigenous families: #indigenouswomen #aboriginalwomen #mmiw #nativeamerican #mothersday pic.twitter.com/OJPoOUS9i8
  • 13 May 2019 : For migrant mother’s in the US facing severe pushback and prosecution: #migrant #mothersday #migrantes #exodusnotinvasion pic.twitter.com/dGImqaMHVm
  • 13 May 2019 : A THREAD: This Mother’s Day I wanted to take the time to honor the mothers (and parents) who deserve some extra support and recognition today. Happy mother’s day to all mother’s out there, but I’m sending an extra special bit of love out as well. So... pic.twitter.com/1Rd7oh5M4t
  • 9 May 2019 : I’ve been trying to share updates on this situation but don’t have details. Here’s an opportunity.Hear reports on attacks at Venezuelan Embassy in DC on Thursday call, May 9th 7pm EDT http://bit.ly/WILPFUSCallwithMedeaBenjaminPresentation #HandsOffVenezuela #PeaceOverWar TAKE ACTION: http://bit.ly/BlockUSWaronVenezuela pic.twitter.com/LPDmbOC0GF
  • 7 May 2019 : Officers asked for Identification to “identify who disrupted this meeting.” Officers have admitted that disruption of a house meeting is a “rule not a law” and they’re not being detained. But they’re refusing to return ID cards. #HB3557 #TXLeg
  • 7 May 2019 : Indigenous members dropped banners and chanted “Kill the bill, save the land” as the vote occurred. pic.twitter.com/Ud93RvSaTn
  • 7 May 2019 : There’s been about 5-7 bills presented for final vote. The house should be bringing #HB3557 up for vote at any moment now. Indigenous folx in opposition to the bill are sitting in the House of Reps gallery awaiting the vote. pic.twitter.com/1jwVFchrXE
  • 7 May 2019 : 1:24pm and we are back on track to being late to start. I’m on 20% battery and we’re the 7th bill up for vote so I’m gonna be silent until #HB3557 comes up! #TXLeg #TXlege #protectorsnotcriminals pic.twitter.com/oSqKBYub1T
  • 7 May 2019 : Aaaand, we’re breaking for an hour long lunch period. And a representative just stepped up to the podium to invite everyone to a bi-partisan bible study during lunch and I’m just like... A) Gross B) Ew C) separation of church and state? D) oh yeah Im in Texas.
  • 7 May 2019 : We all know that legality has no direct correlation to morality. The primary defense of this was legal language to say “But cops want this and we should do it” and “but what about criminals.” We should question anything that cops are championing in legislation. Always.
  • 7 May 2019 : This is actually highly concerning to me. I recognize this is a state bill and not federal and I’m not a TX citizen but the ramifications of streamlining investigation process to catch “fugitives” as the rep said seems like a step forward towards decreased privacy rights.
  • 7 May 2019 : Here’s the language of the bill which was in question. Seems like there’s an interest in muddying the definition of “designated law Enforcement” to support easier processes of authorizing govt surveillance and tracking equipment. This bill passed forward to engrossment. pic.twitter.com/BzZdBcz21q
  • 7 May 2019 : However, their is a representative challenging this bill. Asking a lot of strong questions about whether this bill makes it easier for investigators to authorize “dinging phones.” The bill proponent says not “easier, more streamlined.” Not sure how that’s not the same thing.
  • 7 May 2019 : HB 4157 regards policing and criminal investigation. They’re wanting to take a step away from part of the process in regards to legal processes between investigators, defendants, prosecutors and judges. I’m not entirely clear exactly what this bill entails...
  • 7 May 2019 : Things moving a mile a minute now. It’s impressive because literally 4 minutes ago the floor looked like this for like 15 minutes: I was sitting here thinking of how much extra respect I have for political analysts and reporters who listen to this day in day out between boredom pic.twitter.com/ylElExGdqw
  • 7 May 2019 : 4 bills so far have been withdrawn from the calendar. It must be so frustrating dealing with this day in and day out.
  • 7 May 2019 : These speakers and reps sound like they went to a training on speaking like an auctioneer. Holy shit I can barely understand this.
  • 7 May 2019 : “If you have a bill on today’s calendar, please be ready to come up and explain your bill that is on the calendar.” The first bill has been withdrawn from the calendar. Someone yells, “That’s a good way to start!” with a laugh.
  • 7 May 2019 : Anyway, I guess it’s the 75th anniversary of that park soon. Happy almost birthday Big Ben National Park. May you one day be as well known as your significantly more famous name sake. 🎂 #nationalparks #bigbennationalpark #usegotism
  • 7 May 2019 : This rep is talking about Big Ben National park. Apparently, “When people from Paris, London, China...” & etc think of TX they think of Big Ben National park because that “is Texas.” I’m astounded he thinks it’s known internationally since I’m literally in TX & didn’t know of it pic.twitter.com/lBgu22yFSI
  • 7 May 2019 : We’ve been sitting here in silence another 10 minutes. I set my phone down on the ledge while I switched lenses on my camera. Apparently that’s a no-no. A polite man in a suit had to walk across the room to tell me as much.
  • 7 May 2019 : We’re back up with an introduction of guests. I’m realizing my phone is on 40% battery and I specifically know of an action taking place in response to discussion of #HB3557 . I’ll be popping in with basic updates up until that point but don’t want to speak on things I don’t know.
  • 7 May 2019 : And we’re immediately rolling into things. Rep. Gonzales is up to talk about HR 1510 - a memorial resolution. There’s a recognition in memorial of a community member in their district who has recently passed. The resolution quickly passes.
  • 7 May 2019 : Oh! Gavel used. Members asked to take seats and take any conversations outside.
  • 7 May 2019 : 10 minutes later and we have no major update except a bunch of people have sat down and they took the message down from the reader board that said “Announce guests.”
  • 7 May 2019 : Definitely should have made sure I had an extra battery for charging my phone and not just 3 extra batteries for my camera. #babyjournaliststruggles It’s been 6 years since I was doing regular reporting and photojournalism y’all. Welcome back on this ride w/ me. pic.twitter.com/XGCHy1he0j
  • 7 May 2019 : I don’t come to events/sessions/hearings like this often. But I do follow quite a few people that do. And as is, seemingly, par for the course; it’s 10:45AM here & this session was originally supposed to begin at 9am. No clue how long we’ll be here. Probably shoulda brought snax pic.twitter.com/m3qWljDtFg
  • 7 May 2019 : You may have seen this bit of media I previously published through this account; created & posted by the Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe of Texas in response to the bill. These laws set precedent for felony charges for anyone deemed a “protestor” & could implicate press on site as well. pic.twitter.com/kdKYu4YNiC
  • 7 May 2019 : A vast number of local groups, organizations, and grassroots coalitions have been fighting against #HB3557 and its sister bill in the Senate, #SB1993 . Some of these groups are here today to tell the House that #ProtestorsAreNotCriminals . #txlege #txleg pic.twitter.com/RkWpZyZNBx
  • 7 May 2019 : (Thread) I’m in Austin, at the TX capitol, preparing to witness the TX House of Representatives enter into session. Today, reps will be casting a vote on #HB3557 - which aims to criminalize “protestors” who interfere with “critical infrastructure” and its construction. #TXLeg pic.twitter.com/T0h2Xt0B3O
  • 22 February 2019 : Oh, hey, that is also me, with more details. https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1098790727541129223
  • 3 January 2019 : FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PLEASE SHARE. Press release from activists on the ground regarding the US government deploying tear gas on migrants on New Years Eve! #MigrantsNotCriminals #NYE #ExodusNotInvasion #BorderWall #NoWallsNoBorders pic.twitter.com/f8rYVyJPG0