Sheryl Weikal

Cis people: normalize introducing yourself with your pronouns.

If only trans and gnc people do it, we're outing ourselves. If we don't, we accept getting misgendered. And when cis people do it, it acclimates other cis people to the practice and makes it safer for trans and gnc people.

If we're to have any shot of getting out of this, I really need my fellow white people to get past our apparently hardwired belief that something being illegal means it's impossible.

Because I keep having the same conversation over and over again.

Criminal Court representing protesters pro bono today.

Turns out I didn't need four years of college and three years of law school. The rule of law under the Roberts SCOTUS is six white people asking "what would Alexander Stephens and Adolf Hitler do?"

Apparently unpopular opinion: it is neither antisemitic nor inappropriate to protest a synagogue hosting a sale of land in illegal West Bank settlements.

And what bothers me most is the number of people who oppose these protests but say Israel bombing a mosque is okay because Hamas was inside.

Last week, the Trump administration explicitly stated its intention to "neutralize" - its word, not mine - US trans people.

Since then I can count on one hand the number of cis people who have even mentioned it. A whole bunch of cis people have talked about trans people demanding too much though.

Since the GOP is proudly gutting representation for marginalized people, I would really like to see Dems respond by saying fuck it, we SHOULD have representation quotas. At least 14% of Congress must be Black. Every territory and Indigenous Nation should get a seat. At least half should be women.

Also, you know, it would be really great if people could stop saying I'm a self hating, bad, or fake Jew because I adhere to the evidently still controversial opinion that Palestinian people are no less human than I am, and deserve no fewer rights than I have.

It would really be swell.

The single largest voting bloc in the United States is cishet white people.

There are more cis white women voters than Asian, Black, Jewish, Muslim, and trans people in the United States COMBINED.

Please stop blaming marginalized people for their own oppression.

Anyway I just think everyone should have human rights regardless of where they live. Groundbreaking stuff, I know.

It's starting to legitimately enrage me that people will use the preferred pronouns of AI chat bots and not trans people.

I hate how transphobic this fucking government is. I just hate it.

This Mother's Day, please remember that 1 in 5 Black women will be evicted during her lifetime and 1 in 5 children born to a Black mom will be evicted during their childhood.

Mass eviction is as destructive and evil as mass incarceration. We just don't talk about it.

So Mercy's brother has kids - our niece and nephews - and they are adorable. I love them so much. The only problem is that they can make me feel old.

Like when I was trying to explain dialup internet to our niece and she didn't believe me that such a thing existed 🫠

Mercy, munching a traditional Jewish pickle yesterday:

"Jewish Voice for Peace really made a mistake when they passed up the slogan 'Make Pickles, Not War'. Please tell them."

Republicans keep insisting the so-called white race is dying and yet everything they do makes me respond with "if so, yay, actually, we suck."

I've received a great deal of criticism lately for taking cases, doing advocacy, and posting fundraisers for Palestinians, with people saying I care more about Palestine than what is happening here in the US.

But I disagree, for three reasons.