Lilah @NightRose@eldritch.cafe

Hi I’m Lilah! Most of what you need to know about me is in my profile. Only other thing you need to know is how I’ll respond to interactions:

Just in time for TDoR, my transition ceremony is now on OpenSiddur: https://opensiddur.org/prayers/secular-calendar/international/transgender-day-of-visibility-march-31/ceremony-of-gender-affirmation-and-name-change-by-lilah-rosenfield/

Just so it’s clear: my politics vacillate between DemSoc and left-LibSoc, but I’m basically always in the southwest quadrant.

It’s okay to follow if you have auth-left tendencies, but please be aware that if you unironically stan Stalin or NK, or are completely uncritical in your adulation of other leftist leaders, then I’m gonna be giving you hella side-eye, especially if you’re a dude. I probably won’t follow you back, and may mute you.

👋👋👋 if your intersectionality does not include Jews, your intersectionality is bullshit 👋👋👋

This has been a toot series on the Israel Palestine conflict by Lilah.

I mean, on the one hand this shows that liberals are getting into mutual aid. On the other hand, this shows what happens when liberals get into mutual aid.

Like, yeah the group is open, but it makes it really hard to trust organizers when they leave up a post not just by *A* cop but the Executive Director of the incredibly reactionary Fraternal Order of Police

So I want on the Facebook page for my local mutual aid group and this was like the fourth post

Again, I think, a failure to really comprehend the power of her platform.

Back on the bad side of things, is the failure to really conceal the identity of the attackers she calls out. I was honestly pretty shocked when she started that section. It was so clearly a petty and hurtful attempt to get back at folks who she felt had made her life miserable, and honestly was just really unfortunate.

And in parallel she basically makes the argument that she’s only been able to survive multiple wave of cancellation because of her relative privilege. She’s rich an powerful enough that she does not need the community she alienated for her survival. Not all are so lucky. (Ofc the question remains, would those who don’t have other networks really be cancelled in the way she has. She implies yes through a particularly gruesome edge case, I’m not as sure)

It’s unfortunate that she doesn’t make this point explicitly because it would give her the opportunity to genuinely empathize with her critics, we’ve all grown up in a neoliberal hellscape where destruction and carcerality is basically the only language we have for dealing with injustice.

Basically two linked points here: she never explicitly says, but all the arguments she makes build up to, the idea that in some ways, the model of cancellation is deeply carceral: it essentializes bad traits and seeks to destroy the offender.

I’m also genuinely on board with some of the points she makes about both the emotions and politics of having a community you consider yourself part of an vulnerable to turn against you. There are a couple of really interesting theses in that realm that she gestures at, but does not necessarily make fully.

Good thing one is her unequivocal apology for the “old school transsexual” tweet and partial retraction of The Aesthetic (though again, her excuse that she was basically working through her own feels on gender fails to account for the size of her platform)

Having watched the whole contrapoints canceling video (all 100 minutes of it), imho there’s a mix of good and bad: bad thing one is basically that she fails to acknowledge or even really demonstrate an understanding of the difference in harm caused to marginalized folks between talking to or even being friends with somebody who has problematic views on a personal scale and platforming then to your half a million person mostly cis audience.

Hard to describe the slowly creeping horror of recognition as I process the title, then the author of the second article that comes up in a library search for “furries”