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Aleksei Ilídio Valentín (he/they) ✡️♿🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Profile picture
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Nov 26, 2017 • 34 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X
The shadows are drawing in, darklings, and the nights are filling with ice and frost.

But we've got some cards to read, so pull up a chair for #TarotTonight.
Tonight's card is from Les Vampires Oracle, and deals pretty bluntly with death. If you can't handle that, please mute the thread. I know this hits home for some folks who don't need extra stuff to deal with.

Got it? Good. On to "Death Rites."

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Aleksei Ilídio Valentín (he/they) ✡️♿🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Profile picture
Jul 18, 2018
For every abled telling disabled folks to just get our own reusable straws that bend and clean them, I present to you one of the greatest child killers of the 19th c: the rubber feeding tube. This is where single-use straws came from, in part. #StrawBan
nourishingdeath.wordpress.com/2013/08/15/mur…
Sterilising bendable plastic is exceptionally hard, and requires boiling and never getting any tears, scratches, or other surface damage to the straw where bacteria can lurk and turn deadly.

That's asking a lot to end 0.003% of plastic pollution. Get it right or die.
And if those reusable straws get any surface damage? They require basically being autoclaved. Special equipment, expensive equipment, for the people most likely to be below the poverty line, just so we can drink safely? THAT is your exchange?
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Aleksei Ilídio Valentín (he/they) ✡️♿🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Profile picture
May 31, 2018
The White House demanding Samantha Bee be fired for calling Ivanka a name is the exact thing the Bill of Rights was talking about when it talked about free speech.

The government, which includes the President, can't shut down speech because it's unfavourable or insulting.
This is literally textbook, constitutional law 101 shit.

You cannot demand, as President, that someone lose their job for insulting a member of your government. Which Ivanka is. She represents the President all over the damn globe. She's part of this government now.
Rosanne Barr was fired by her employers because she made a racist statement, and that was against their interest. That's the free market.

Samantha Bee's employers cannot be compelled by the President to take the same action for insulting a political figure, esp his daughter.
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Aleksei Ilídio Valentín (he/they) ✡️♿🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Profile picture
May 26, 2018
You...have you read about the slave trade? Tearing apart enslaved families? Native removals and residential schools? Immigration exclusion acts? Japanese internment camps? The US prison system?

This IS America. This has ALWAYS been America.

Son, read a motherfucking book.
I don't know how you can know about any aspect of American history, from genocidal extermination of Natives to how the for-profit prison system operates, and think that the children ICE has "lost" are somehow a break with American patterns of behaviour.
The only difference is that people are talking about it and caring about it with a wider audience than usual.

This is how ICE has operated for years. This is how America has operated for centuries.
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Aleksei Ilídio Valentín (he/they) ✡️♿🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Profile picture
May 2, 2018
Okay, so slavery is trending, thanks Kanye West. And hopefully, y'all know that if you aren't Black, this is your time to sit back, listen, and learn, because it isn't your time to speak.

Got that? Good.
However, as someone who has taught US History, I know how little most non-Black people really know about slavery in the Americas, and how foundational it is to Western dominant culture.

So I'm going to start tweeting some books so folks can educate themselves.
Because we also all know this isn't a topic to demand Black people educate about, and with a library card, you can learn enough to confront your local racist and spare Black people that much more work.

That's how this works, btw.
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Aleksei Ilídio Valentín (he/they) ✡️♿🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Profile picture
Apr 10, 2018
Strap in, folks, because this is a cautionary tale about letting teenagers too smart for their own good write theology without oversight.
So my grandparents on mom's side were Catholic, and at the time, I had a Catholic boyfriend. So I ended up doing lots of random stuff at the parish because, well, boyfriend. I ended up befriending all the artsy, queer Catholic kids who were afraid to come out. Shock.
The youth group leader decided that the Passion Week play they did every year needed a revamp. I had just done a production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat with them and helped do staging and re-writes to make it work for the cast.

So this nice nun asked me.
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Aleksei Ilídio Valentín (he/they) ✡️♿🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Profile picture
Apr 8, 2018
If @AmazonStudios wants to really make this a departure from the Peter Jackson films, then they need to hire PoC, women, and queer people to run this thing and write it. theonering.net/torwp/2018/01/… via @theoneringnet
I've been writing a Middle-earth filled with queer people, brown people, and women with @thelionmachine for a decade. And it's all in-line with the medieval world Tolkien drew upon.

We're also academics who've written on Tolkien studies, so yes, we know what we're talking about.
Gondor should be full of brown people. The Númenoreans were essentially a blend of Egyptian and ancient Israelite people. They have a spirituality based on the sacredness of death as a mercy and a gift. Boromir should look more like Oded Fehr.
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