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Here is a thread about lives worth, queer and authority:
"Many societies take pains to #gender individuals with objects, tasks, and food, yet we repeatedly see that gender is not as important in the very young and the very old, and that gender is often most strongly marked when people are of reproductive age (Gilchrist, 2007)"
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-lgbtq-studies/chapter/intersectionality/ @patriarchy
“The repeated stylizations of the body—everyday acts and gestures—are themselves performatives, producing the gendered identity of which they are thought to be the expressions.”(Alberti, 2013, p. 95)
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-lgbtq-studies/chapter/intersectionality/ @history @histodons
"When we look at contemporary civil rights movements, we see the #police describe these actions as violent for damaging property or resisting arrest. The injuries suffered by businesses or police are registered and punished as losses, while the loss of life suffered by the Black folks the police murder and the loss of freedom and safety of protestors are treated as not mattering."
https://www.joscelyntranspiring.com/post/non-violence-and-thrown-bricks by @JoscelynTransient
"Drag dramatizes and makes explicit mundane, everyday gender rituals and, through this repetition of gendered actions, suggests that essentialist presumptions about correct or authentic genders can be reworked (#JudithButler , 1990, p.338)."
‘To choose to appear as “female” when one is male is always constructed… as a loss, as a choice worthy only of ridicule’ (#bellHooks, 1992, p.145).
"More veterans die by suicide every two days than were killed in action in 2019."
Dean Spade: "Where there are U.S. military bases, there is intense sexual and gender-based violence. This includes sexual violence towards women living near military bases, towards sex workers of all genders, towards women inside the U.S. military, and harassment and sexual violence towards people perceived as weak or as gay or as trans. This is just a normal part of what U.S. militarism is. It's inseparable from the culture. Rape as a tactic of U.S. militarism is as old as U.S. militarism itself, going all the way back to the systemic rape of Indigenous people to colonize and settle North America."
"Trans inclusion in the military, like marriage equality, does nothing to redistribute wealth, stop police violence, housing and health care crises plaguing queer and trans communities."
“When it comes to trans advocacy, we want to ask what reforms will save trans people’s lives. The answers are clear: access to housing, income, food, childcare, health care. Military inclusion advocacy does not make the list.”
"What is effective and pragmatic is whatever reduces contact with the police".
by Wren Sanders, 2021, https://www.them.us/story/case-against-lgbtq-military-inclusion-explained 
☭ @breton the only war I will ever want to be a veteran of is the war against poverty, illiteracy, and the despotic reign of capital.
"Performing non-heteronormative bodies and behaviours is associated with being perceived as risky, dangerous and deviant. The correlation between queerness and deviance leads to a number of detrimental consequences, including police over-policing and criminalizing young LGBTQ+ individuals in public spaces, queer people underreporting hate crime incidents for fear of secondary victimization, and overall scepticism and mistrust towards the criminal justice system."
A study published in 2021, conducted in Europe, by Rachele Girardi: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09589236.2021.1979481