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QueerRiot
@queerriot.bsky.social
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Anarchafeminist | Squidkid with love for all Sloshers & member of Wave Prism | profile pic by solisaureus | banner by winded-wolf | She/They
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queerriot.bsky.social
My friend really needs help covering monthly expenses while surviving in a tough care giving situation. Please share and give what you can! We need ongoing support to help meet their goal of stability.
Mutual Aid Request Goal: $1,500/ every month Venmo: @Chopzilla For: a disabled autistic queer Black person Who is: looking for work while struggling with C-PTSD, lives with and takes care of elderly father who has dementia and limited mobility, with the help of their trans sibling, coping with a stressful living situation, struggling to function while searching for a full time job that is supportive and accepting of their accommodations, and works within their caregiving schedule This experience has been an unexpected emotional, financial, and mental drain for them without rest. Navigating life while dealing with - decreased functioning, reduced tolerance to various stimuli, chronic/debilitating stress that affects memory and triggers skill regression, figuring out how to make things work in a world that dismisses accommodations, and trying to find ways to keep their family afloat - has been extremely difficult and marred with uncertainty. I know times are tough/rough for everyone but please give what you can! Thank you so much!
October 4, 2025 at 11:18 PM
queerriot.bsky.social
A friend needs help, please share and add what you can!
Venmo: @Transtenderism
M.A. ask: please chip in. Do you hate orange cheeto, peeon musk, and zuck-sucks?! Laser beams! Pew pew pew! Engage in D.E.I. & everything that pisses off those cry baby snowflake red hats in one go! Donate to a Queer Trans Black Activist's survival: Just do it! Venmo: @Transtenderism Background is an eagle shooting laser beams from the eyes over a faint flag, eagle is to the right of a blue unicorn, all of this is above a rainbow over an American flag.
February 8, 2025 at 1:46 AM
queerriot.bsky.social
The logic here seems to be that disruptions to the system is the time to be implementing more changes. I agree with that, but it is a big claim to be able to do it through policy. I think the evidence later in the book doesn't support her claim. We'll get to that part in a later chapter.
Revolutionary Power aligns with the broader principles of the Green New Deal and posits that this unique moment in history - when states across the country are transitioning a 100-year-old fossil fuel-based energy system to one based largely on renewable energy resources - provides an unprecedented opening for structural change. In the same ways that the Green New Deal's advocates seek to use decarbonization as a gateway to a more fair and just society, Revolutionary Power provides an advocacy framework to transform the power relationships embedded within the electricity sector, a transformation that, I believe, will also lead to a broader social change. This book is a playbook for the transformation.
November 16, 2024 at 11:07 PM
queerriot.bsky.social
*taps the Lubchansky comic panels about revolutions and nonviolence*
Sigh. Audre Lorde said it best that the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. I had slim hope that this book would propose policy as a potential solution, not the only solution.
Mattie Lubchansky comic titles "Great moments in peaceful protest history: the appropriate way to get what you want!" Panel 1 1791: Haitian slaves ask very nicely to be free and are immediately liberated by all those reasonable white people. Panel 2 1799: The French people politely ask for liberal democracy in a strongly-worded letter. Louis XVI gleefully abdicates. Everyone parties. Panel 3 1969: New York's gay community hosts the NYPD at a neighborly kegger at the Stonewall Inn. Homophobia promptly eradicated from the American psyche, forever. Panel 4 1965: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. challenges Alabama governor George Wallace to a friendly game of golf. King birdies on twelve, ending systemic racism.
November 15, 2024 at 3:02 PM
queerriot.bsky.social
Yes, Black & Indigenous people front and center! Oh wait..... Oh no there it is. Policy is the only thing that can save us, not other forms of insurgency. How are we supposed to upend the oil companies grip on our society through policy when they spend millions on politicians?
Further, I argue that people of color, poor people, and Indigenous people must serve as the architects of the new system. They must actively engage in the creation of the new energy system so as to upend the embedded and unequal power dynamics that are a direct outgrowth of the current energy system. Rather than taking up arms to facilitate a revolution of the energy system, the revolution must be fought on the unfamiliar terrain of energy law and policy. This power revolution calls for the absolute transformation of fundamental aspects of the energy system: renewable energy policy, the financial institutions and quasi-financial institutions that funs energy projects, and the utility sector itself.
November 15, 2024 at 3:02 PM
queerriot.bsky.social
I 100% agree with the premise that this fight must center the most marginalized!!! I think we are going to differ on how that is achieved. The material realities of energy & power access, especially for diaabled people, in our daily lives is crucial here.
Revolutionary Power makes three central claims. First, energy connects to every aspect of life, and the energy system defines nearly every aspect of socioeconomics and health. Second, the transition away from the fossil fuel-driven energy system offers an opportunity to upend existing socioeconomic inequality and foster lasting structural change. Although these first two claims are not altogether new, the book's third claim - and novel contribution- is to situate the technical domain of renewable energy policy within a broader civil rights discourse concerning inequality and access to justice.
November 15, 2024 at 3:02 PM
queerriot.bsky.social
The main thesis laid out that renewable energy transition built by the current system will perpetuate the harm of the current system. Green capitalism (but it's renewable!) and oil companies get to save us from the crises they wrought while making even more money.
In my experience, "easy" climate solutions might actually threaten to leave marginalized communities even more marginalized in the face of climate change. I have seen how large-scale renewable energy projects displace and divide Indigenous communities and rural communities and have cumulative environmental impacts on ancestral land. I have also seen the very same corporate and financial interests that played a large (continued in next image alt text). Role in developing and financing the fossil fuel-oriented projects that led to the current climate disaster jockey for space to maintain influence in the renewable energy, economy, seeking to profit off the disaster they created. Role in developing and financing the fossil fuel-oriented projects that led to the current climate disaster jockey for space to maintain influence in the renewable energy, economy, seeking to profit off the disaster they created.
November 15, 2024 at 3:02 PM
queerriot.bsky.social
This is a very polite way of not naming white people (liberals mostly) who have repeatedly failed to act. It also doesn't outright say that some of this urgency is created by those in power, politicians and corporations, on purpose as they drag their heels to address the problem.
My main objective is to model an approach of justice first in pursuit of averting catastrophic climate change rather than one of climate first, justice later. For many who feel the imminence of the climate disaster and who believe that the time to act on climate was last century, the idea of pursuing justice-oriented aims as we tackle climate change seems unwise, slow, and unwieldy. Their instinct is to focus first on shoring up the base and pick the lowest-hanging fruit and easy solutions to lower carbon emissions. I am not at odds with these people, but I would suggest they look at the evidence.
November 15, 2024 at 3:02 PM
queerriot.bsky.social
She is an excellent storyteller so far & her life as a queer, black woman informs her policy work. My politics & job in renewable energy lead me to doubt that reform is going to reshape the energy system enough to work for Black, indigenous, and poor people, but I am curious.
In my work on this issue, I have learns that few really disagree with the following truth: climate change will force us to rethink the way we generate energy, distribute energy, and regulate the system. Our disagreements, however, lie in how much we will change the system. Will the system be redesigned to replicate the current structures of power and control, or will we reimagine our system to benefit those so often left out of discussions regarding system design?
November 15, 2024 at 3:02 PM