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Ky and his family, who are now homeless after being evicted, are trying to raise at least $800 for a storage unit and hotel + food and water. He can't work right now 'cuz his car keeps breaking down. Once again he's been reaching out to personal contacts for help and getting nothing in return. Hotel fees are more of a priority for him than the storage unit right now because of the heat; he also needs funds to fix his car, which is his only source of income and also his family's backup shelter ATP. Progress: $35/960, I think this is stalled, he hasn't posted any new text updates Source: https://x.com/i/status/2076046047780946267 Venmo: Kenyota-Petersom (with an "m" at the end) PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/kypeterson91 Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/kypeterson #mutualAid #mutualaidRequest #EmergencyCrowdfund #TransCrowdfund #TransMutualAid #BlackMutualAid@mutualaid@fedigroups.social

@ana@starlite.rodeo "Family is just another word for censorship!" remains one of my favorite movie quotes (from John Waters' Cecil B. Demented)

@shonalika@deadinsi.de You may get some mileage out of this article in the racial microaggression section, which has multiple real life examples https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00918369.2021.2020543 While thinking of media examples this question actually made me question what exactly does "subtle" mean in the context of racism. Like, "subtle" for who? Can you use the concept of "subtle," covert, microaggressive racism without constructing it in contrast to "unsubtle," overt, plain old aggressive racism? What is the function of arguing that "subtle" racism must be taken seriously "too," if not to ultimately appeal to those who are inclined to not take it seriously, whether that's someone who doesn't want to believe their racism "counts" or a racialized person minimizing their own (and/or other racialized people's) experiences of oppression as a reactionary form of survival? Anyways, the specific media examples I was going to bring up were Get Out (the horror is not just the body stealing, the horror is the entire social system of white supremacy and anti-Blackness that enables body stealing to happen, just as you cannot decontextualize Sid's discomfort in the first half from the context of him interacting with white people who are trying to steal his body, you cannot decontextualize so-called "micro"aggressions from the aggression built into the structure of a racist society) and Sorry to Bother You (the rapping scene, which satirizes the alleged "micro"aggressive nature of the scene). On a separate note, looked through the comments, have read Terrorist Assemblages, homonationalism has nothing to do with what you're talking about, although it is absolutely still a book I would recommend

RE: https://ni.hil.ist/@flowrot/116791518314467488 Update, he talked to his landlord, who wants at least half the rent today. So right now Ky is trying to get $750 today, $500 of which will go towards the rent and $250 towards utilities

@GLaDTheresCake YMMV on some of these depending on what your mini zine is arguing. IME "community" has become a huge weasel word for me in practice. I still believe it exists because I have experienced it, but never in a "leftist" organizing space. I'm interested in cultivating deep affinity with people--in building relationships where there you can really trust the person on an interpersonal, theoretical, and practical level; I am not satisfied with community building that does not have these aims. I especially hate it when community building is deliberately designed to be as apolitical and defanged of insurrectionary potential as possible, when it's really about building a socially homogenous space where the unspoken imperative is for everyone to all get along, a coercive space where it is impossible for anyone to fully exist as an autonomous individual because protecting the social order of the community takes precedence over everything. Texts below organized in order of relevance and likelihood it'll piss people off... --- "Widening the Bridges: Beyond Consent and Autonomy" by Emmi Bevensee https://web.archive.org/web/20230103131444/https://c4ss.org/content/50557 "Process-Centered Love: Dismantling Capitalist Logic in Our Relationships" by Lee Cicuta https://butchanarchy.noblogs.org/files/2025/11/Cicuta-Lee-Process-Centered-Love.pdf "The 'We' Of A Position" by Wendy Trevino https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/view/ergzhJRgouf7RuWoJQSaNHTx5vKYH4ZaLR-DHFjnhS4/ "Against Self-Sufficiency: The Gift" by Sever https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/sever-against-self-sufficiency-the-gift "No 'End' In Sight: On Cultivating Conflict With a World of Pandemics" by Iggy https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-no-end-in-sight Twitter thread from Revolutionary Feminist Front on the colonial and coercive history of RJ (restorative justice): https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1418738631758417923.html posts by MerriCatherine on abolition, restorative / transformative justice, and revolution https://web.archive.org/web/20220907175138/https://www.docdroid.net/7aARlev/merricatherine-on-abolition-restorative-transformative-justice-and-revolution-pdf "Against Community Building, Towards Friendship" by ziq https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ziq-against-community-building-towards-friendship

@leaf@fursuits.online @kakurady@fursuits.online I prefer to think of it as "by any means necessary" (with the historical principle of moving from a political position of counterviolence that entails) but yes like with any ideological concept, upaya is not free from co-optation by, for example, so-called dharma teachers who use it as a license to be abusive / oppressive / coercive to their students. More right-leaning Buddhists would actually say that *I'm* co-opting Buddhism for my own political agenda and that Buddhism is supposed to be "free from politics" or whatever That having said I'm pretty sure the app designers are selling the capitalist recuperated form of "Buddhism" that's pretty much exactly what Kay Ohtie was talking about in his comment (https://blimps.xyz/@KayOhtie/116213943557641257) And even in the context of advertising, from what I've learned, Buddhists are supposed to avoid speaking dishonestly, recklessly or provocatively, which is exactly the opposite of the clickbaity pitch the ad has: https://www.lionsroar.com/right-speech/

Ky's family is in danger of losing their housing again after being behind on rent. Their goal wasn't met and Ky said they're at risk of losing everything. Their power got disconnected and they have to raise extra to get reconnected: $77/265 EDIT: power bill goal met Venmo: Kenyota-Petersom (with an "m" at the end) PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/kypeterson91 Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/kypeterson #mutualAid #mutualaidRequest #EmergencyCrowdfund #TransCrowdfund #TransMutualAid #BlackMutualAid@mutualaid@fedigroups.social

Latest #MutualAidRequest from Ky is $115/500 for rent, utilities, Internet. Previously the goal was $1000 but he's grateful half of it was able to eventually get raised. He's trying to get the rest by Friday I'll update this post when I see updates from his Twitter (@ KyPeterson5). In general I've seen him give updates when there's new donations in or if the crowdfund is stalled but not when the goal has been met Venmo: Kenyota-Petersom (with an "m" at the end) CashApp: TarotOfTheSky PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/kypeterson91 Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/kypeterson

He only got a $6 donation today 🫠

Ky needs help with rent again, which was due on the 25th of June. He and his family just got all their stuff taken out of the house *after* the landlord took all the money that's been raised 🫩 landlord was saying there are people who can pay the rent on time He's been trying to do all that he can to raise funds but the money's just not coming in and between needing to go back to the hospital because of post-recovery complications, making calls/texts to people to ask for help, just recovering power at his home, and the general stress of everything that's going on, it's hard for him to be regularly plugging this crowdfund and providing updates. There's a supporter in contact with him who gives supplementary updates on an alt Twitter account he created, which is where I'm sourcing part of this info. Goal was $0/273 but since he and his family are now officially homeless, it's likely that any funds raises will be used to pay for temporary housing (like at a hotel) and save for new housing Latest update: they're living out of his car and need funds for housing and possibly storage until they can have housing secured, and they don't even have funds for a hotel right now. They only have the clothes on their backs and a few things they were able to load into the car. Venmo: Kenyota-Petersom (with an "m" at the end) PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/kypeterson91 Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/kypeterson #mutualAid #mutualaidRequest #EmergencyCrowdfund #TransCrowdfund #TransMutualAid #BlackMutualAid@mutualaid@fedigroups.social

Ky still needs help clearing overdue rent, which was due on the 25th of May. He's been doing deliveries for money but it's been slow They need to raise $313 and his family will be evicted in a few hours with nowhere else to go if the goal is not met. Last update is not current and he's been offline for several hours, no idea if the goal was met or not Venmo: Kenyota-Petersom (with an "m" at the end) PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/kypeterson91 Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/kypeterson #mutualAid #mutualaidRequest #EmergencyCrowdfund #TransCrowdfund #TransMutualAid #BlackMutualAid@mutualaid@fedigroups.social

So this goal has repeatedly not been met and his crowdfunding posts have had low traction on Twitter but also on here. Current update is: they need to raise $360.90 to get back into their house after the house fire and pay the overdue electric bill. Ky was hoping to get the funds at least for rent yesterday but that didn't happen. Shit's super fucked and he and his family really need all the material support they can get Venmo: Kenyota-Petersom (with an "m" at the end) PayPal: https://www paypal.com/paypalme/kypeterson91 Ko-Fi: https:// ko-fi.com/kypeterson

Ky has been struggling for several days to raise funds to pay an overdue power bill of $486.90. He's trying to get this goal met March 23 (U.S. Eastern Daylight Time) ; his family was displaced by a house fire and they need $1200 total. Stalled horrifically Venmo: Kenyota-Petersom (with an "m" at the end) PayPal: https://www paypal.com/paypalme/kypeterson91 Ko-Fi: https:// ko-fi.com/kypeterson @mutualaid@fedigroups.social @mutual_aid@starflower.space @MutualAidVisibility@mastodon.social

@mutualaid@a.gup.pe Ky will be well enough to work next month, but in the meantime, he needs help raising $20/400 to pay his bills Venmo: Kenyota-Petersom (with an "m" at the end) PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/kypeterson91 Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/kypeterson

@mutualaid@a.gup.pe Ky still needs $0/100 to cover his expenses Venmo: Kenyota-Petersom (with an "m" at the end) PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/kypeterson91 Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/kypeterson