Pride Was A Riot, Sacramento
@pridewasariot.bsky.social
A Queer-identity based antifascist affinity group focused on art, outreach and education.
Lavender Angels community defense & Queer self defense training. Queers Bash Back since 2021.
Report fascist activity:
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Lavender Angels community defense & Queer self defense training. Queers Bash Back since 2021.
Report fascist activity:
[email protected]
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An intro to Community Defense (ComDef)
What is Community Defense, and how does it differ from Self Defense?
This thread will go into a brief explanation that we hope will encourage others to take brave action in the physical world around them.
What is Community Defense, and how does it differ from Self Defense?
This thread will go into a brief explanation that we hope will encourage others to take brave action in the physical world around them.
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Tonight @ Sacramento City Hall:
📍 SACRAMENTO, CA
Lavender Angels were out tonight distributing last-minute flyers in support of tomorrow’s vigil for Alvin Prasad, put together by his daughter Andrea Prasad.
Alvin was recently hospitalized in a coma after being viciously beaten in a brazen hate crime in Lavender Heights.
Lavender Angels were out tonight distributing last-minute flyers in support of tomorrow’s vigil for Alvin Prasad, put together by his daughter Andrea Prasad.
Alvin was recently hospitalized in a coma after being viciously beaten in a brazen hate crime in Lavender Heights.
November 23, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Tonight @ Sacramento City Hall:
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Bible thumping is profiteering on fake news
Terroristic threats about baptizing people in fire while standing across from the Sac LGBT center.
SACRAMENTO, CA:
Do you recognize them? They were accosting locals and customers in the Queer district, Lavender Heights, across the street from the Sac LGBT Center
They were seen wrestling a trans woman down and filming it until a crowd chased them off.
Send tips: email in bio
-more attached
Do you recognize them? They were accosting locals and customers in the Queer district, Lavender Heights, across the street from the Sac LGBT Center
They were seen wrestling a trans woman down and filming it until a crowd chased them off.
Send tips: email in bio
-more attached
November 23, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Bible thumping is profiteering on fake news
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SACRAMENTO, CA:
Do you recognize them? They were accosting locals and customers in the Queer district, Lavender Heights, across the street from the Sac LGBT Center
They were seen wrestling a trans woman down and filming it until a crowd chased them off.
Send tips: email in bio
-more attached
Do you recognize them? They were accosting locals and customers in the Queer district, Lavender Heights, across the street from the Sac LGBT Center
They were seen wrestling a trans woman down and filming it until a crowd chased them off.
Send tips: email in bio
-more attached
November 22, 2025 at 10:19 AM
SACRAMENTO, CA:
Do you recognize them? They were accosting locals and customers in the Queer district, Lavender Heights, across the street from the Sac LGBT Center
They were seen wrestling a trans woman down and filming it until a crowd chased them off.
Send tips: email in bio
-more attached
Do you recognize them? They were accosting locals and customers in the Queer district, Lavender Heights, across the street from the Sac LGBT Center
They were seen wrestling a trans woman down and filming it until a crowd chased them off.
Send tips: email in bio
-more attached
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ALERT: Christofascists have been forming across the street across from the LGBT Center. They were seen this evening wrestling a trans woman down and filming it until a crowd chased them off.
Do you know recognize these men? Send tips: email in bio
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Do you know recognize these men? Send tips: email in bio
-more attached
November 22, 2025 at 10:13 AM
ALERT: Christofascists have been forming across the street across from the LGBT Center. They were seen this evening wrestling a trans woman down and filming it until a crowd chased them off.
Do you know recognize these men? Send tips: email in bio
-more attached
Do you know recognize these men? Send tips: email in bio
-more attached
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These people need an actual life. How sad is this? Devoting your life to being bothered by what OTHERS do that doesn't affect them or anyone else.
SACRAMENTO, CA:
Do you recognize them? They were accosting locals and customers in the Queer district, Lavender Heights, across the street from the Sac LGBT Center
They were seen wrestling a trans woman down and filming it until a crowd chased them off.
Send tips: email in bio
-more attached
Do you recognize them? They were accosting locals and customers in the Queer district, Lavender Heights, across the street from the Sac LGBT Center
They were seen wrestling a trans woman down and filming it until a crowd chased them off.
Send tips: email in bio
-more attached
November 22, 2025 at 9:13 PM
These people need an actual life. How sad is this? Devoting your life to being bothered by what OTHERS do that doesn't affect them or anyone else.
Terroristic threats about baptizing people in fire while standing across from the Sac LGBT center.
SACRAMENTO, CA:
Do you recognize them? They were accosting locals and customers in the Queer district, Lavender Heights, across the street from the Sac LGBT Center
They were seen wrestling a trans woman down and filming it until a crowd chased them off.
Send tips: email in bio
-more attached
Do you recognize them? They were accosting locals and customers in the Queer district, Lavender Heights, across the street from the Sac LGBT Center
They were seen wrestling a trans woman down and filming it until a crowd chased them off.
Send tips: email in bio
-more attached
November 22, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Terroristic threats about baptizing people in fire while standing across from the Sac LGBT center.
Reposted by Pride Was A Riot, Sacramento
SACRAMENTO, CA:
Do you recognize them? They were accosting locals and customers in the Queer district, Lavender Heights, across the street from the Sac LGBT Center
They were seen wrestling a trans woman down and filming it until a crowd chased them off.
Send tips: email in bio
-more attached
Do you recognize them? They were accosting locals and customers in the Queer district, Lavender Heights, across the street from the Sac LGBT Center
They were seen wrestling a trans woman down and filming it until a crowd chased them off.
Send tips: email in bio
-more attached
November 22, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Fantastic resource here! Thank you for your tireless work!
December 27, 2024 at 6:39 PM
Fantastic resource here! Thank you for your tireless work!
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December 27, 2024 at 6:35 PM
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📌 AntiFascist Action accounts which identify, confront and remove fascist organizing from across the world. Go to the top right and click “Follow All.”
go.bsky.app/6BR9uR9
go.bsky.app/6BR9uR9
December 27, 2024 at 6:25 PM
📌 AntiFascist Action accounts which identify, confront and remove fascist organizing from across the world. Go to the top right and click “Follow All.”
go.bsky.app/6BR9uR9
go.bsky.app/6BR9uR9
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📌 Accounts which promote Community Defense. Click link, go to top right and click “Follow All.”
go.bsky.app/KuTL2yk
go.bsky.app/KuTL2yk
December 27, 2024 at 6:22 PM
📌 Accounts which promote Community Defense. Click link, go to top right and click “Follow All.”
go.bsky.app/KuTL2yk
go.bsky.app/KuTL2yk
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📌 Terrible for self defense.
Tonight on “what not to use for self defense” we’ll go down our list.
Our number one offender goes to “Wasp Spray.” Just because it says “black flag” doesn’t make it a comrade.
DON’T use wasp spray in lieu of pepper spray or other capscacin/OC alternatives.
Our number one offender goes to “Wasp Spray.” Just because it says “black flag” doesn’t make it a comrade.
DON’T use wasp spray in lieu of pepper spray or other capscacin/OC alternatives.
December 27, 2024 at 6:20 PM
📌 Terrible for self defense.
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📌 Great for self defense.
We’ve personally taste tested most OTC pepper sprays, and our recommendation this season is Sabre Red.
For the ouchie, burning, coughing, blinding, rocks-in-your-eye feeling we all know and love.
Give the gift of Sabre Red to a transphobe this season. From our family, to yours. 💜
For the ouchie, burning, coughing, blinding, rocks-in-your-eye feeling we all know and love.
Give the gift of Sabre Red to a transphobe this season. From our family, to yours. 💜
December 27, 2024 at 6:19 PM
📌 Great for self defense.
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So long as our communities are criminalized, and our defense is criminalized, it is just and right to for our communities to form defense coalitions, teams and affinities to struggle against and resist external aggression.
We encourage you to do so, and we’re here to help.
We encourage you to do so, and we’re here to help.
December 27, 2024 at 5:30 PM
So long as our communities are criminalized, and our defense is criminalized, it is just and right to for our communities to form defense coalitions, teams and affinities to struggle against and resist external aggression.
We encourage you to do so, and we’re here to help.
We encourage you to do so, and we’re here to help.
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ComDef work, under these context, could be most accurately be defined as “popular insurgency”. For no ComDef work withstands without community support, nor does it continue to be ComDef to operate within the confines of policing, it could be easily defined as “criminals protecting criminals.”
December 27, 2024 at 5:28 PM
ComDef work, under these context, could be most accurately be defined as “popular insurgency”. For no ComDef work withstands without community support, nor does it continue to be ComDef to operate within the confines of policing, it could be easily defined as “criminals protecting criminals.”
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Community defense work itself cannot work in tandem with law enforcement, by its very nature. By definition, law enforcement is an external aggressor occupying, enslaving and executing our communities — and to work with them, by collaboration or capitulation, defines you as part of these threats.
December 27, 2024 at 5:25 PM
Community defense work itself cannot work in tandem with law enforcement, by its very nature. By definition, law enforcement is an external aggressor occupying, enslaving and executing our communities — and to work with them, by collaboration or capitulation, defines you as part of these threats.
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Community Defense is the way we apply self defense to the collective self and apply redundancies, bandages and armor to our causes & movements, as active participants of the communities facing external attack.
This is not, however, community policing, nor should it be.
This is not, however, community policing, nor should it be.
December 27, 2024 at 5:23 PM
Community Defense is the way we apply self defense to the collective self and apply redundancies, bandages and armor to our causes & movements, as active participants of the communities facing external attack.
This is not, however, community policing, nor should it be.
This is not, however, community policing, nor should it be.
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ComDef work typically involves the ID, interruption and often removal of bad actors, violent agents & institutional oppression inside our communities.
This includes learning of threats perceived by our community, reacting to them, unlearning ways in which we harm our own, and sharing our processes.
This includes learning of threats perceived by our community, reacting to them, unlearning ways in which we harm our own, and sharing our processes.
December 27, 2024 at 5:21 PM
ComDef work typically involves the ID, interruption and often removal of bad actors, violent agents & institutional oppression inside our communities.
This includes learning of threats perceived by our community, reacting to them, unlearning ways in which we harm our own, and sharing our processes.
This includes learning of threats perceived by our community, reacting to them, unlearning ways in which we harm our own, and sharing our processes.
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When we view self defense as a concept, what we see are skills which increase the resilience of the self, a discipline of safety & avoiding negative encounters, personal training and goals which reflect the safety of the self.
Community Defense is a little more abstract.
Community Defense is a little more abstract.
December 27, 2024 at 5:17 PM
When we view self defense as a concept, what we see are skills which increase the resilience of the self, a discipline of safety & avoiding negative encounters, personal training and goals which reflect the safety of the self.
Community Defense is a little more abstract.
Community Defense is a little more abstract.
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That said, there are distinct differences between what one would consider self defense, or defense of the self, versus community defense, which pertain to activities which keeps our broader communities safer against bad actors, violent attackers and institutional oppression.
December 27, 2024 at 5:14 PM
That said, there are distinct differences between what one would consider self defense, or defense of the self, versus community defense, which pertain to activities which keeps our broader communities safer against bad actors, violent attackers and institutional oppression.
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By participating in skill sharing, resource distribution, the exchange of written & oral knowledge, and the granting of tools to survive threatening encounters, members of an affected community increase their likelihood of survival every day.
Simplified, an organized community is a safer community.
Simplified, an organized community is a safer community.
December 27, 2024 at 5:12 PM
By participating in skill sharing, resource distribution, the exchange of written & oral knowledge, and the granting of tools to survive threatening encounters, members of an affected community increase their likelihood of survival every day.
Simplified, an organized community is a safer community.
Simplified, an organized community is a safer community.
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We believe resilient communities are safer communities, better equipped to survive the mortal dangers of institutional violence which otherwise alienates & isolates attacks against us as unpreventable “random acts of violence.”
We know better than this fairytale myth and work accordingly.
We know better than this fairytale myth and work accordingly.
December 27, 2024 at 5:11 PM
We believe resilient communities are safer communities, better equipped to survive the mortal dangers of institutional violence which otherwise alienates & isolates attacks against us as unpreventable “random acts of violence.”
We know better than this fairytale myth and work accordingly.
We know better than this fairytale myth and work accordingly.
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Our community defense group, the Lavender Angels, takes a focus on encouraging & enabling self defense activities within our affected communities, with the goals of building queer resiliency and active participants against Queer Eliminationism.
December 27, 2024 at 5:09 PM
Our community defense group, the Lavender Angels, takes a focus on encouraging & enabling self defense activities within our affected communities, with the goals of building queer resiliency and active participants against Queer Eliminationism.