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Quill Griffins (xe/xir) 🌹

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Sociologist • Writer • Radical Dreaming of a world without money… Free Palestine! Free Turtle Island! AuDHD Neurodivergent Agender Non-binary Queer (Pronouns: xe/xir or they/them) AI is theft, ecocide, and shit

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Quill Griffins (xe/xir) 🌹 @quillgriffins.bsky.social · Jul 13

Not Gay as in “happy”, Queer as in:

Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · Jul 13

"Capitalism is temporary. Dykes are forever"
Seen in NYC

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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · Sep 2

Animal Liberation stencil seen in Copenhagen, Denmark

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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · Sep 2

Street art spotted in New Orleans

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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · Sep 2

Anti-nazi poster spotted in Thornbury, Melbourne

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · Sep 7

#OtD 7 Sep 1976 Ian Davies, a gay social worker in London, won reinstatement after being demoted for a "gross indecency" conviction. First 25 colleagues walked out, then 1300 workers said they would strike and the council relented. Learn more in our book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/be-...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · Sep 7

#OtD 7 Sep 2011 700 longshore workers in the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and their supporters blockaded a grain train from entering a non-ILWU terminal, facing down violent police attacks. After a long struggle, they won concessions stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1076...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · Sep 1

#OtD 1 Sept 1949 trans revolutionary Leslie Feinberg was born. Ze worked in factories before writing powerfully about LGBT+ issues and publishing hir first novel, Stone Butch Blues, in 1993. Hir last words: "Remember me as a revolutionary communist" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8159...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · Sep 1

#OtD 1 Sep 1911 five women published the first issue of Japan's first all-women literary magazine, Bluestocking, credited with sparking the feminist movement in Japan. Often banned, it was still a commercial success and became more radical over time stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8155...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · Sep 1

#OtD 1 Sep 1976 over a hundred prisoners at Hull Prison rioted to protest against brutality from staff. The disturbances continued until 3 Sep, by which point two-thirds of the prison had been completely wrecked stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8162...

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · Sep 1

Revoking an entire nationality’s visas is collective punishment and never acceptable — especially in this moment when millions of Palestinians lack equal rights, basic healthcare, and so much more at home, forcing them out of the US is unfathomably cruel.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...

U.S. Suspends Visas for Palestinian Passport Holders, Officials Say

The move will stop, at least temporarily, travel for medical treatment, attending university, visiting relatives or conducting business.

www.nytimes.com

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · Sep 1

#OtD 1 Sep 1974 Puerto Rican attendees at a Labour Day event in Newark, New Jersey rioted against police after years of brutality, as well as poor living and economic standards. The police department mobilized virtually its entire 1,500-member force stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8161...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · Sep 1

#OtD 1 Sep 1920 a mass occupation movement started in which almost all the metalworking factories in Italy were occupied by their workers. It was a high point of the Biennio Rosso (Two Red Years) of near-revolutionary upheaval stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8156...

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Quill Griffins (xe/xir) 🌹 @quillgriffins.bsky.social · Aug 31

That part. People have already been tricked into believing in authoritarianism, which was by design. Snap out of it!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Aug 31

every day i see hundreds of comments of people spinning elaborate scenarios to explain how trump can control everything and all opposition is futile. a) i think a lot of you need to log off and stop following professional doomsayers. b) i think a lot of you are cowards

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · Aug 30

Remembering Fred Hampton born Aug. 30, 1948, assassinated Dec. 4, 1969 by Chicago police and the FBI

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Quill Griffins (xe/xir) 🌹 @quillgriffins.bsky.social · Aug 30

a close up of a woman 's face with a purple shirt on .

Alt: Lindsay Lohan in that one scene in Mean Girls where she wins the Mathletes competition by saying “The limit does not exist!”

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Quill Griffins (xe/xir) 🌹 @quillgriffins.bsky.social · Aug 30

“Now is not the time for purity tests. We have to vote for the Fascists to save democracy. Donate $30 now!”

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · Aug 30

maybe if we sang “Free Palestine” to the tune of “Sweet Caroline” we could get more white people on board

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Quill Griffins (xe/xir) 🌹 @quillgriffins.bsky.social · Aug 30

Unfollowing for the “moral purity” line, which has been utilized so much to stop progress and justice and further genocide that it should never ever be used.

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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · Aug 29

"Your worth is not related to your income"
Sticker spotted in Oamaru, New Zealand

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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · Aug 29

"Be Gay, Do Crime"
Seen in Sydney

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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · Aug 29

"Police are Murderers"
Seen in Jogjakarta, Indonesia where mass anti-government protests are taking place

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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · Aug 29

Graffiti and clashes with police in Makassar during the ongoing anti-government protests across Indonesia

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · Aug 29

#OtD 29 Aug 2016 600 oil refinery workers in Curaçao walked out for more pay. The strike continued for over two weeks, until a general strike broke out in its support. Faced with closed schools, shops, and no electricity, the employers caved stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1008...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · Aug 29

#OtD 29 Aug 1979 after years of fruitless campaigning, 30-40 activists took direct action and occupied the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare in protest at homosexuality being classified as a mental illness. They quickly won stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1247...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · Aug 29

#OtD 29 Aug 1944 the Slovak national uprising began against the Nazi occupation and the collaborationist govt. Tens of thousands took part, 12,000 of whom were killed. Though largely repressed, partisan resistance continued until liberation in 1945.

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