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klarast.bsky.social
PhD in game studies, main interest: games and memory cultures. an artist formerly known as @frenolestes (and that one other thing). from Poland, living in Leipzig. always antifascist. she/her 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️
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"The three trans women I got to know worry they’ve been totally forgotten and erased, and that there’s no hope out of this genocide to even begin to think about their identities outside of being Palestinian and resisting death and starvation at the moment."

I just like to post these data from time to time to puncture the mythological aura of mid 20th c protests. They were less popular than pretty much any 21st c mass action & people criticizing them used the same lines. Protest is about people coming together, shaping narratives, & building power.

This is how. Greta Thunberg spits fire and gives you the only media training you may ever need.

so I think this British author either has a particularly inflexible speech apparatus or is just being casually racist

“Trump is using military forces to stop a protest — I want y'all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.” Doechii at the #BETAwards

Whenever people talk about non-violent resistance to a fascist government I think about how Ghandi's advice to German Jews was and I quote "The Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher’s knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs" Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

I think it's one of the moments where some fragments of Central & Eastern Europe history could be instructive to people in the US

it seems that Charli XCX just symbolically ended the brat era at Primavera, one year after kicking it off at Primavera

time bandits!

Ten years ago nobody in their right mind gave a single crap where trans people went to the toilet and the only reason anyone does now is because they were radicalised by Facebook and a handful of insane newspaper columnists and that’s just embarrassing all round