Aren't half the posters on this fora, transgender?
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@previous (introman !/3ZwFHfJFI)
More than half are internet only trannys. They identify as women without all the hassle of passing. Some dudes in dresses have never even worn a dress
Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 9 years ago, 34 minutes later, 41 minutes after the original post[^][v]#766,262
> More than half are internet only trannys. They identify as women without all the hassle of passing. Some dudes in dresses have never even worn a dress
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@previous (J)
Im not. Ive even seen videos of people protesting womens centers. Ive read articles about how women should be called menstruators. All of that happened. If you saw kkk members on the internet, would you believe racism isnt real?
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> Im not. Ive even seen videos of people protesting womens centers. Ive read articles about how women should be called menstruators. All of that happened. If you saw kkk members on the internet, would you believe racism isnt real?
No but I don't think Stormfront posters represent white men, even though Stormfront has an active IRL propaganda unit
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@766,448 (kook !!OPZbEQMT1)
Link to that article please!!
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@766,649 (J)
You dont think that a lot of white people are racist?
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Tldr ex con tranny steals profits from Portland's womens march
just came across some information today after doing some research, and really wanted to share what I found because it’s just so messed up. It’s in relation to the Women’s March movement, and I first saw mention of it on Feminist Current, and followed it up because I was curious.
Basically, the organisers of Women’s March on Portland partnered with a trans non-profit organisation called Portland Trans Pride (or PDX Trans Pride) to sponsor their event and collect donations for them, with the understanding that PTP would take a cut of the donations to cover their own expenses (how charitable!) but would pass the rest of the money on to the WMP to cover the cost of the event, and that any further funds left over would be put towards funding future activism/events under the WMP banner.
Well, surprise, surprise, turns out that Portland Trans Pride only has one real board member, transwoman Rebekah Brewis, and that the WMP organisers were not aware of this at the time. Apparently there were previously two other women who were board members of Portland Trans Pride (I’m going to go out on a limb and guess actual biological women since one of them was Brewis’s then-girlfriend), but one had been kicked off the board by Brewis six months earlier, and his girlfriend had also subsequently left due to the relationship ending. After the march, Brewis refused to release details of how much money he’d received in monetary donations, refused to release any of the money to Women’s March on Portland, ignored all correspondence from them, and absconded to Canada. According to the statement on Facebook released by WMP, the stolen funds included at least $22,000 raised through T-shirt sales.
Read their Facebook statement here:
“Women’s March on Portland
24 February at 00:59 ·
MESSAGE FROM MARGARET JACOBSEN:
I was one of the lead organizers for the Women’s March on Washington: Portland (aka the Women’s March on Portland, “WMP”). We sought a fiscal sponsor for the event. Rebekah Brewis, the Executive Director of Portland Trans Pride (“PTP”), agreed to have PTP serve as the fiscal sponsor. Our plan was to raise funds for the march that took place in Portland on January 21, 2017.
We did not have a written agreement with PTP, but we expected it would receive some portion of the funds raised for acting as our sponsor. People who advanced funds for expenses for the event were to be reimbursed. If there were additional funds left over we hoped to apply those to other events down the road. Both PTP and WMP represented on their Facebook pages and in communications with the public that funds that were donated would be earmarked for WMP.
People could contribute in a variety of ways. They could donate goods or services. They could buy t-shirts and a portion of the proceeds would go to WMP. Purchases were made through PTP’s PayPal account. Or, they could donate directly to WMP via PTP’s Pay Pal account. Expenses would be paid or reimbursed out of those funds. Some were reimbursed during the planning stages of the event.
The event was very successful and we raised more than we expected! We raised approximately $22,000 from t-shirt sales. We do not know how much was raised from direct donations because we do not have access to those records.
After the event was over we contacted Ms. Brewis to discuss the need for additional reimbursements and how to handle the remaining funds. At that time Ms. Brewis said it was her intention to keep all of the funds for PTP, which was never agreed to. She then stopped communicating with us about this issue. We learned shortly thereafter that while she indicated on her application to the DOJ that PTP had three board members, two of them had stopped being associated with PTP approximately 6 months before she applied for her non-profit status and the event itself. Stephanie Anderson, who is listed as a Board member on the application for non-profit status, said that she had been told by Ms. Brewis she was “kicked off” the Board back in June, 2016. According to Ms. Anderson, the other Board Member was Ms. Brewis’ girlfriend, and following a break up she too had been disassociated from PTP for some time.
We attempted to reach out to Ms. Brewis multiple times to follow up on her intentions. We also wanted to ensure that those who donated received the proper documentation regarding their donations, regardless of which organization received the funds. We had an attorney attempt to reach her via telephone, email, Facebook, and fist class and certified mail. All of these efforts were unsuccessful.
Late yesterday we saw that Ms. Brewis had posted that she was leaving the United States for Canada. To our knowledge, PTP has not been dissolved as a non-profit is required to do.
We are very concerned for the people who donated in good faith to WMP. We want to ensure that their donations are recognized. We are also concerned that Ms. Brewis appears to have misrepresented the legitimacy of her organization to WMP, and as a result is personally benefiting from the funds that were intended to go to either WMP or PTP.
PayPal has a 45 day period in which people can contest charges to their accounts. We want to make sure that those individuals who donated directly to Pay Pal can do so in the time they have.
There are a number of documents to support this complaint. I am sending them via separate email to Linda Vazquez at her email address. If you have any questions or need any additional information, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Brewis has since released a statement of his own on Facebook accusing two of the WMP organisers of transphobia, both of whom are Black women. He claims he is holding onto the money because of their ‘transphobia’ and their association with other transphobic groups, and says that the accusations of transphobia have to be legally settled (presumably to his satisfaction and in his favour) before he will hand any money over (which will be never, I mean, come on). He also accuses the organisers of not being genuine activists, saying they are ‘jobless’ (actually a lot of activists are poor and/or jobless because OPPRESSION, hello) and that they want to exploit the list of donors for corporate gain. I mean, that’s not impossible, this entire Women’s March movement is very corporate, but from having a quick look at these two Black women on Facebook and other places around the internet, they both seem pretty legit to me. I would trust them with my activism dollars long before I would trust Rebekah Brewis anyway. Giving a shit about women is obviously not what this guy is about at all, he just wants that money for his own corporate profiteering. I also love the slip early on where he describes the relationship between the two organisations in this language: “Our [Portland Trans Pride’s] lead role and control of the Women’s March on Portland”. Yep. That’s exactly the right description, actually. We are in a situation where trans organisations are controlling and dictating women’s activism, and it’s terrifying. And trans organisations obviously know they’re doing it. They’re proud that they’re doing it. Do you fucking understand this, women? Do you understand that you’re being controlled by men in dresses to make sure that you don’t get too out of hand and start demanding anything like, oh, I don’t know, actual liberation from male rule?
kook !!OPZbEQMT1 quintuple-posted this 9 years ago, 6 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#766,773
PDX Trans Pride condemns the transphobia perpetuated by Margaret Jacobsen and Erica Fuller, past Women’s March on Portland co-leaders through their recently published false narrative about our organization and it’s leaders, along with our lead role and control of the Women’s March on Portland 2017, which we fully permitted, insured, and fiscally sponsored. These individuals (who are jobless) have been trying to access the list of donations we’ve received so they can profit off of the event for their own corporate gain (Our Executive Legal Director was told by Margaret Jacobsen that the Oregon Governor’s office and “Kate Brown” “wanted a role in future marches” and that it’d be great to “make corporate profit off this statewide” which WE never intended to do- and to establish a separate organization, which is prohibited by our organization’s rights). These individuals and anyone supporting them will be held accountable for libel through our organization’s attorneys regarding matters of consequence, among other pending legal actions.
This afternoon we published a post condemning certain actions by certain transphobic leaders of both Portland’s Resistance and Don’t Shoot Portland. On the day of the Women’s March on Portland 2017, Don’t Shoot Portland crashed the stage without the knowledge nor permission of our organization, and made many transphobic remarks, including call us “transgenders”. About 2 months ago, one of our leaders was attacked by a person named Danialle from Don’t Shoot Portland, who policed whether she had the surgery or not in determining if she was a “real woman”. In response, we have been investigating the matters legally and have stop authorizations on all transactions related to the March until matters are settled civilly and legally due to noncompliance with our programming and due to the attacks we have witnessed by these individuals and associated organizations.”
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Tranny led communist attack on Vancouver's feminist library
The Vancouver Women’s Library launched on Friday night in a small space on the Eastside. Women of all ages and varied backgrounds who came to celebrate and socialize were surprised to be met by protestors, who not only harassed them verbally, but attempted to physically bar them from entering the building.
Local feminist activist Jindi Mehat told me that she arrived at 1670 Franklin Street close to 9 p.m. There were people standing outside holding a banner reading, “Trans Communist Cadre,” and the situation was tense, she said. Mehat and a friend went inside, only to find things were “even worse” in the library.
“I heard a man saying really loudly, ‘I wish they would take all of the SWERF and TERF books off the shelf,'” she said. “I found it really shocking that he was very performatively spewing that kind of language in a feminist space, because those are clearly really misogynistic terms.”
Mehat entered the room where the catalogue of books was and saw two women standing in front of the books with their hands on their hips, physically taking up as much space as they could in order to prevent people from seeing the shelves. “I didn’t realize that’s what they were doing at first,” she told me. “I thought they were maybe just standing there and not being very conscious of how much room they were taking up in that small space.”
“I said, ‘Excuse me,’ very politely to one woman and then sort of tried to slip around behind her to get closer to the books to look at them, and she said to me, under her breath, ‘If you push me one more time you’re going to be sorry.'”
Mehat considered leaving, saying, “I was pretty concerned there was going to be some violence. Some of the protestors had been drinking heavily.”
Jen Kim, a feminist activist and member of the Guerrilla Feminist Collective, had a similarly intimidating experience. Arriving at about 8:30 p.m., she walked up to the door of the building, where one person holding a sign physically blocked Kim from accessing the door, pushing her aggressively. “They used all of their body force and I almost fell,” Kim told me, but she kept trying to work her way around them. “I managed to inch slowly past them and open the door, fearing they’d push and shut the door on my hand or arm.” During this time, another man stood beside Kim, yelling slurs at her. She managed to get in eventually, struggling past the individual blocking the door.
There were 29 protestors outside at one point, drinking beer. Approximately six to eight protestors came inside, some of whom began smoking in the non-smoking building, which hosts a number of artist studios. One woman shouted, “No SWERFs, no TERFs,” and another accused the library founders of “violence.” An elder feminist asked the protestors to explain the accusation of “violence,” saying:
“I’ve been in feminism for a hell of a long time — longer than most of you, and I’m supporting you and I’m supporting [this space]. I think you need to examine the library and I think you need to talk before you use such words, without really understanding.”
None of the protestors qualified their use of the word “violence” to describe the existence of a small, volunteer-run women’s library, and instead launched into various accusations rooted in disingenuous and confused interpretations of feminist analysis.
“To say that women who take a global view of prostitution and see it in a context of racism, colonialism, capitalism, and misogyny — who aren’t just focused on white Western middle class camgirls — are ‘exclusionary’ makes no sense,” Mehat said. “It doesn’t hold up to any cognitive scrutiny.”
“And these are the same people that trumpet that they are being silenced? Well, what were they doing here? They were trying to silence and intimidate and bully feminists,” she added.
A male protestor proceeded to rip a S.C.U.M Manifesto poster off the wall. Apparently confused about the content of the book and who the author was, he defended this act by claiming the S.C.U.M Manifesto was written by a woman “who was beating up transwomen.” (Valerie Solonas did no such thing. Of course, no feminist in history has ever done such a thing.)
Near the end of the night, the protestors poured red wine on the bookshelves and books, stole alcohol, and pulled the fire alarm, resulting in a charge of up to $500 to the volunteers who run the library. The library’s hand-painted sandwich board was stolen the following day.
One of the books protestors threw red wine on at the launch of the Vancouver Women’s Library, Feb 3, 2017.
“Absolutely, we were frightened,” said Keira Smith-Tague, a member of the Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter collective who attended the event. “Especially when there were men in there intimidating us physically.”
Jeannine Mitchell, an original founder of the Vancouver Women’s Bookstore, attended the launch, but arrived after the police had been called and the protestors had left the building.
“The last thing I expected was pickets outside,” Mitchell told me. “When we started the [Vancouver Women’s Bookstore], people had different views on feminism, but everyone was glad that we were opening — it was a resource for the community.”
Mitchell told me there were nearly 30 people outside when she arrived, “a number of whom were men.” She was shocked at the extremity of the signs, some of which claimed the library founders hated women and were fascists. “It just seemed over-the-top,” Mitchell said.
“Greeting somebody else’s community project with such an overkill of anger and hatred seems like an odd way to be using resources to help women,” she added.
A pamphlet handed out to women by protestors at the launch of the Vancouver Women’s Library.
While the list of demands from the protestors was shared online by a group called Gays Against Gentrification (GAG), the group denies involvement in the protest. The note itself, passed along to women at the launch in the form of a pink pamphlet, rattles off a number of misrepresentions and outright lies about feminist politics and the aims of the library, and goes on to libel one of the founders, em laurent, demanding she step down.
Co-founder, Bec Wonders, told me that, counter to the claims of the protestors, the catalogue is very diverse in terms of authors and perspectives. But even if what the protestors said was true, banning books is a dangerous thing to advocate for. In Nazi Germany, books that represented dissenting views or ideology were targeted for burning. The Christian right continues to work to ban “blasphemous works” today. These protestors, ever-fond of loosely throwing around the term, “fascism,” seem unaware of how fine a line they walk when fighting to ban and censor work that challenges their preferred discourse and mantras.
In this case, the list of books the group demanded be banned seemed cobbled together, based on little more than a scan of titles.
Among the 20 titles the protestors have demanded be banned from the library were: Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach, a book that teaches healing through Buddhism and meditation; First Buddhist Women: Poems and Stories of Awakening by Susan Murcott; and The Female Man, a science fiction novel by Joanna Russ. The list also includes books that are critical of men’s exploitation, abuse, and commodification of women, including: Andrea Dworkin’s Pornography: Men Possessing Women; Not a Choice, Not a Job: Exposing the Myths about Prostitution and the Global Sex Trade by Janice Raymond; and Kathleen Barry’s Female Sexual Slavery (inexplicably spelled “Sl*v*ry” in the pamphlet).
Wonders found the list inconsistent. “It’s not a real conversation or critique.” Laurent agrees:
“You can definitely tell that this list is born out of a vacuous approach. Anything that signified an association with the second wave — even if the content had nothing to do with second wave politics — was put on the list. It’s hard to take it seriously…”
Despite claims that the library is “trans- and sex worker exclusionary,” the space is neither. It is open to everyone (though memberships are for women only), and the website states: “We welcome all women, regardless of creed/class/gender/race/sexuality.”
The catalogue itself features a diverse selection of texts, from various political perspectives — many not political at all.
“We have texts by Leslie Feinberg, we have texts by Amber Dawn, we have books on global sex work,” Wonders tells me. The catalogue also includes fiction, poetry, mysteries, multilingual books, and Wonders says they want to expand their children’s section. Their library is still small (though it’s growing very quickly as donations pour in) — started from the founders’ own personal collections and the collections of other women.
“We don’t censor any text as long as its written by a woman, so any donation that comes our way, we’ll put it on the shelves,” Wonders tells me.
“We also have a ‘wish list’ feature on our website, so you can suggest texts if you feel like something’s missing or you want to read something… We’re trying to be as varied as possible, with as many genres as possible. When it comes to the overtly political texts, we do want to carry opposing views, but it’s important to us not to censor anything.”
While many are baffled as to why protestors would focus their energy on shutting down a library, Smith-Tague says the protest was rooted in “anti-woman attitudes,” aimed at silencing feminist voices and history:
“Women’s resistance and the women’s liberation movement has, as long as it’s existed, been willfully written out of history. It’s clear that in this day and age there are still misogynist attitudes towards promoting women’s liberation and the books that contain some of that history. This attempt to shut this project down was just another example of that.”
It’s difficult to know who was behind the protest or what the group represents. One protestor told Smith-Tague they were not an organized group or collective, and another note published by GAG states the protestors are “a decentralized group of individuals.” Though chatter online about the library spread far and wide, in terms of official organizing, I found only one Instagram post* on the account of a man named Jason Riach (who witnesses identify as the same person who ripped down the S.C.U.M. Manifesto poster, and who was among those verbally harassing women in front of the building):
Regardless of what the protestors hoped to convey, the hostility towards women’s history and contribution to the canon of political thought was palpable. One protestor even held a sign announcing, “The Second Wave Is Over.” While theorists like Marx have yet to be deemed irrelevant to today’s leftists, women whose writing is only 40 or 50 years old are already being erased, characterized as out-of-date and insignificant.
“It’s so much harder for women to hold social currency,” laurent told me. “I read Aristotle and Plato, but am told Andrea Dworkin is ‘no longer relevant?’ I don’t buy that.”
Indeed, the existence of a women’s library seeks to counter the notion that men’s work, history, and ideas are intrinsically of more value than women’s.
Wonders points out that, beyond the sexism inherent to efforts to erase and dismiss an entire generation of women’s writing, “To generalize about a whole array of literature that was produced by women is ahistorical.”
“It’s really important to have an archive that reveals the fullness of women’s history,” laurent says. “A lot of contemporary feminist book sections are missing key historical texts — with the library, we’re able to reveal and demonstrate the fullness of women’s literature.”
In general, the protestors seemed to lack any interest in productive engagement with either the library or the women. Rather, they repeated various claims rooted in nothing of substance, made numerous assumptions that turned out to be untrue, and advocated the arbitrary censorship of women’s work.
Based on the shock and confusion expressed by feminist elders who attended the launch, it’s fair to say this particular backlash is one we have never seen before. Isolated and emboldened in online communities, young leftists have become comfortable attacking without asking, silencing without thinking — knee-jerking their way towards a doctrine that vilifies anyone who doesn’t join their church.
“We are living in a seriously politically divisive and dangerous time, globally,” Smith-Tague told me.
“There are people who have an incredible amount of power to oppress people in North America right now. Last month, women came together at the global Women’s March, and even though we didn’t all agree on every issue, we could at least understand that the stakes are very high right now and that alliances are necessary. To me, that is exactly the attitude that people who want to organize for social change need to be taking on.”
Smith-Tague questioned the decision to put one’s efforts towards “destroying a small grassroots women’s library,” adding, “They clearly don’t have an analysis of the reality we live in and of what’s important right now.”
While this protest and these demands for censorship will have no impact on the survival of the library (indeed, in light of the protest, the founders tell me they have been inundated with support and donations, countering the attack), it is distressing to see these tactics used against a systemically marginalized group. Patriarchal society has long determined women’s culture and words to be dangerous — systemically squashing and undermining any attempts to escape our subordinate status, dividing us to prevent solidarity among sisters. No matter what you put on your banner, no matter what you chant in defense, joining those efforts puts you firmly on the side of the oppressor.
*EDITOR’S NOTE, 02/08/2017: The Instagram page and post featured was public at the time of publication. The account was set to private after the publication of this story.
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@766,782 (Sophie)
Come on. You are unnecessarily verbose. You know that.
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@766,785 (kook !!OPZbEQMT1)
Feminism is word salad. For real woman rights, consult your locak International Institute of Juche Studies chair.
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Sophie replied with this 9 years ago, 7 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#766,796
@previous (kook !!OPZbEQMT1)
Word root of Juche means "pragmatic indigenism" literally but is more geneewlly referred to as "self reliance". Women exhibiting self reliance need not suffer the pitfalls of exploitative opportunists scapegoating patriarchal boogeymen under the pretext of the absolute absolvement of victim responsibility, something disproven by the sociologically functionalist Routine Criminal Activity Theory, thereby redoubling a mandatory requirement for women to exhibit chaju in all interpersonal affairs (including sexual). Juche thus relevantly debunks bourgeois feminist word salad conceptions of female anomie and lacking autonomy, a self-beckoned plight of damsel in distress bourgeois female.
kook !!OPZbEQMT1 replied with this 9 years ago, 9 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#766,799
@previous (Sophie)
And do most trannies practice juche?
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@previous (kook !!OPZbEQMT1)
Transgendered persons, regrettably, are mostly parasites clinging on the coattails of neofeminism.
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> Tldr ex con tranny steals profits from Portland's womens march > > just came across some information today after doing some research, and really wanted to share what I found because it’s just so messed up. It’s in relation to the Women’s March movement, and I first saw mention of it on Feminist Current, and followed it up because I was curious. > > Basically, the organisers of Women’s March on Portland partnered with a trans non-profit organisation called Portland Trans Pride (or PDX Trans Pride) to sponsor their event and collect donations for them, with the understanding that PTP would take a cut of the donations to cover their own expenses (how charitable!) but would pass the rest of the money on to the WMP to cover the cost of the event, and that any further funds left over would be put towards funding future activism/events under the WMP banner. > > Well, surprise, surprise, turns out that Portland Trans Pride only has one real board member, transwoman Rebekah Brewis, and that the WMP organisers were not aware of this at the time. Apparently there were previously two other women who were board members of Portland Trans Pride (I’m going to go out on a limb and guess actual biological women since one of them was Brewis’s then-girlfriend), but one had been kicked off the board by Brewis six months earlier, and his girlfriend had also subsequently left due to the relationship ending. After the march, Brewis refused to release details of how much money he’d received in monetary donations, refused to release any of the money to Women’s March on Portland, ignored all correspondence from them, and absconded to Canada. According to the statement on Facebook released by WMP, the stolen funds included at least $22,000 raised through T-shirt sales. > > Read their Facebook statement here: > > “Women’s March on Portland > > 24 February at 00:59 · > > MESSAGE FROM MARGARET JACOBSEN: > > I was one of the lead organizers for the Women’s March on Washington: Portland (aka the Women’s March on Portland, “WMP”). We sought a fiscal sponsor for the event. Rebekah Brewis, the Executive Director of Portland Trans Pride (“PTP”), agreed to have PTP serve as the fiscal sponsor. Our plan was to raise funds for the march that took place in Portland on January 21, 2017. > > We did not have a written agreement with PTP, but we expected it would receive some portion of the funds raised for acting as our sponsor. People who advanced funds for expenses for the event were to be reimbursed. If there were additional funds left over we hoped to apply those to other events down the road. Both PTP and WMP represented on their Facebook pages and in communications with the public that funds that were donated would be earmarked for WMP. > > People could contribute in a variety of ways. They could donate goods or services. They could buy t-shirts and a portion of the proceeds would go to WMP. Purchases were made through PTP’s PayPal account. Or, they could donate directly to WMP via PTP’s Pay Pal account. Expenses would be paid or reimbursed out of those funds. Some were reimbursed during the planning stages of the event. > > The event was very successful and we raised more than we expected! We raised approximately $22,000 from t-shirt sales. We do not know how much was raised from direct donations because we do not have access to those records. > > After the event was over we contacted Ms. Brewis to discuss the need for additional reimbursements and how to handle the remaining funds. At that time Ms. Brewis said it was her intention to keep all of the funds for PTP, which was never agreed to. She then stopped communicating with us about this issue. We learned shortly thereafter that while she indicated on her application to the DOJ that PTP had three board members, two of them had stopped being associated with PTP approximately 6 months before she applied for her non-profit status and the event itself. Stephanie Anderson, who is listed as a Board member on the application for non-profit status, said that she had been told by Ms. Brewis she was “kicked off” the Board back in June, 2016. According to Ms. Anderson, the other Board Member was Ms. Brewis’ girlfriend, and following a break up she too had been disassociated from PTP for some time. > > We attempted to reach out to Ms. Brewis multiple times to follow up on her intentions. We also wanted to ensure that those who donated received the proper documentation regarding their donations, regardless of which organization received the funds. We had an attorney attempt to reach her via telephone, email, Facebook, and fist class and certified mail. All of these efforts were unsuccessful. > > Late yesterday we saw that Ms. Brewis had posted that she was leaving the United States for Canada. To our knowledge, PTP has not been dissolved as a non-profit is required to do. > > We are very concerned for the people who donated in good faith to WMP. We want to ensure that their donations are recognized. We are also concerned that Ms. Brewis appears to have misrepresented the legitimacy of her organization to WMP, and as a result is personally benefiting from the funds that were intended to go to either WMP or PTP. > > PayPal has a 45 day period in which people can contest charges to their accounts. We want to make sure that those individuals who donated directly to Pay Pal can do so in the time they have. > > There are a number of documents to support this complaint. I am sending them via separate email to Linda Vazquez at her email address. If you have any questions or need any additional information, please do not hesitate to contact me. > > Sincerely, > > Margaret Jacobsen” > >https://www.facebook.com/womensmarchportland/posts/719750951539675 > >http://archive.is/DjRaG > > > Brewis has since released a statement of his own on Facebook accusing two of the WMP organisers of transphobia, both of whom are Black women. He claims he is holding onto the money because of their ‘transphobia’ and their association with other transphobic groups, and says that the accusations of transphobia have to be legally settled (presumably to his satisfaction and in his favour) before he will hand any money over (which will be never, I mean, come on). He also accuses the organisers of not being genuine activists, saying they are ‘jobless’ (actually a lot of activists are poor and/or jobless because OPPRESSION, hello) and that they want to exploit the list of donors for corporate gain. I mean, that’s not impossible, this entire Women’s March movement is very corporate, but from having a quick look at these two Black women on Facebook and other places around the internet, they both seem pretty legit to me. I would trust them with my activism dollars long before I would trust Rebekah Brewis anyway. Giving a shit about women is obviously not what this guy is about at all, he just wants that money for his own corporate profiteering. I also love the slip early on where he describes the relationship between the two organisations in this language: “Our [Portland Trans Pride’s] lead role and control of the Women’s March on Portland”. Yep. That’s exactly the right description, actually. We are in a situation where trans organisations are controlling and dictating women’s activism, and it’s terrifying. And trans organisations obviously know they’re doing it. They’re proud that they’re doing it. Do you fucking understand this, women? Do you understand that you’re being controlled by men in dresses to make sure that you don’t get too out of hand and start demanding anything like, oh, I don’t know, actual liberation from male rule?
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It's speculation on my part because I have no real data.
I'm not obtuse and will call individuals white, but when talking about a large population I try to be more specific and break down by ethnicity (which I define as a culture based upon one's race) . British is not Irish is not Polish is not Italian is not American etc.