Max AirborneKeep showing up. Keep fighting. Intensify our care for each other so we can get through this with our bodies alive and our hearts intact and building the world of our wildest dreams.
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When I first started trying to get these shirts out to fat folks, someone said to me it’d continue to be an uphill battle because “fascism” was not a word or concept that was widely used or understood here in the so-called united states. Meanwhile repression and surveillance are intensifying. Protestors and organizers are being violently arrested, kidnapped, killed by militia, cops and feds in coordinated attacks. Disabled folks and fat folks are still targeted by the medical system, BIPOC most, and so much worse under a pandemic. (Remember, the nazis started mass killing with disabled folks, and now covid is providing an easy excuse to triage those considered disposable.) Medical experimentation and forced sterilization are happening in migrant concentration camps and elsewhere. All this on stolen land, where genocide, enslavement and incarceration are already an interwoven part of the violent systems that are desperately grasping for increased power. This is some of the context in which we declare that we will fight fascism.
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Squad up. Figure out who has your back, and whose back you have. Figure out whose leadership you’re listening to. Make plans. Engage however you can, whether it’s from your bed or the streets. We need all of us.
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Thank you @owuwatobi for showing up and bringing some joy so we keep remembering what we are fighting for. —max
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[image: Black person with red braids, glasses and a big smile sitting in a power wheelchair wearing a brown tshirt that says “Fatties Against Fascism.”]
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First posted on instagram at @fatlibink
