Swarm!

My name is Aric McBay. I’m the primary author of the book Deep Green Resistance and was (rather briefly) one of the original people behind the organization which Be Scofield writes about on your website.

You mention in your piece that I’m a founder, but what you probably don’t know is that I left the organization at the beginning of 2012 after a trans inclusive policy was cancelled by Derrick Jensen and Lierre Keith. Many good people and good activists left the organization for that reason.

I find these transphobic attitudes to be disgusting and deeply troubling, and it bothers me a lot to have any past association with people promoting transphobia.

For me, trans rights and trans inclusion are fundamental to building effective movements and to building a world worth living in. Speaking as the main author of the book that inspired the organization in the first place: they are most definitely my core values.

And transphobia—like racism and sexism and classism and homophobia—is a poison that those in power use to destroy movements and ruin lives. When faced with such poisons, who needs COINTELPRO?

Solidarity between movements is the only hope we have. I would appreciate it if you would mention this as an addendum on your piece, because I want to make it clear to people that I, and the vast majority of radical environmentalists, fully support trans rights and trans inclusion. I don’t want to allow a few outliers to drive wedges between movements that can and should support each other.

And you can quote me on that.

In solidarity,

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—	Aric McBay (via angry-hippo)

You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were five minutes ago.

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—	Grow every second (via 6-666)

pleatedjeans:

Depression Part 2 by Hyperbole and a Half is the most important thing you’ll read all day.

xwarbrain:

parscilla:

instead of publicly shaming girls for wearing shorts on an 80 degree day you should teach teachers and male students to not overly sexualize a normal body part to the point where they apparently cant function in daily life

hipocampo:

(quote via tomefirst)

lastreetsblog:

USA Today graphic illustrating a League of American Cyclists ranking of the most, and least, bike friendly states. Read the article, here.

veganemelda:

The Women of Parks and Recreation | People’s Most Beautiful issue

Can we appreciate the fact that Amy Poehler is the only white woman in this spread?

The diversity in terms of gender and race in Parks and Recreation is enough to make me like it, forget that it’s fucking hilarious and thus one of the few shows I watch that isn’t horror/sci-fi themed.

Can we talk about the fact that they don’t use the setting of Indiana as an excuse to completely whitewash the show? And they portray Women’s Studies as an awesome class to attend, even for clueless white males? And have an adorable 3 legged pitbull in a few episodes, and save the animals from being killed when a shelter is shut down? And how they have a self-identified feminist on the show who, while I disagree with her politics, is not a horrible stereotype? They even had a queer poly relationship going for a while? And how Anne and Leslie’s relationship (OTP BROTP!) is so beautiful in light of the fact that so many women portrayed in media are either actively plotted against other and barely interact, yet they are always complimenting each other, helping each other, and ripping each other new ones when necessary AND on top of that met as adults (why is media so scared of new good friends? It’s always childhood friends that are the “most important”, fuck that noise)?

This show is just soooooo good.