#1400

No matter how you slice it –setting aside the frequent intellectual pretense and critical/theoretical aspirations: Acetylene Eyes is a Tumblr sex blog.

There’s A LOT of invisible privilege that goes into the making something like that. Although I’m Asian-American, I mostly pass as white. I have a job that pays a living wage in New York Goddamn Fucking City–which is not nothing.

Additionally, I have several top of the line devices that keep me all-but-constantly connected. Not to mention enough down time after paying my bills, feeding myself, keeping a roof over my head and clothes on my back to keep up with this endeavor.

That’s amounts to a mountain of privilege and I don’t take that lightly/I realize being able to do this necessitates a certain social responsibility. So every 50th post, I make a point of taking a step back and point to the fact that the focus of this blog is an infinitesimal speck in a much larger, much more pervasively unequal and fucked system.

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With these posts I usually try to opt for something comprehensive. I’m not sure that’s possible here. The western media is focusing on the continued terrorist attacks (both by Daesh inspired malcontents and Islamaphobe asshat bigots) in London; continuing the trend of overlooking much more staggering and brazen attacks in predominantly Muslim countries. (Also, in London there was a devastating fire in a predominantly low incoming high rise that was both preventable and had been warned about. No one listened and as many as 80 people died including Khadija Saye–an accomplished photographer whose career seemed to be on the cusp of exploding with notoriety before she perished in the fire.)

In the U.S., another trans woman Josie Berrios became the 13th Trans Woman murdered in 2017.

Charleena Lyles, a WoC + mother of four who was pregnant was killed by Seattle Police after reporting a burglary. Not to mention the miscarriage of justice that was the acquitting on all charges of the despicable racist piece of garbage that is Officer Jeronimo Yanez who as you’ll recall murdered Philando Castile for smoking pot in front of his daughter. (As a friendly reminder: don’t call the police; FUCK THE POLICE. And if that offends you, then maybe you should research the racist ass history of the police and realize that there is no differentiation between Blues Lives Matter, the KKK and the fucking pigs.)

There was a shooting at the practice for a charity baseball game for GOP house representatives. Of course the news is fixated on the fact that the shooter was a Bernie Bro. And are overlooking the fact that he had a history of domestic assault charges. Or, you know, that the slavish dedication to the NRA’s agenda that is a central facet of the Republican party directly led to this attack. Oh and the fact that virtually every mass shooting for the last 20 years has been perpetuated by a white, cishet Xtian male but no, one whiff of a potential leftist bias and the GOP are suddenly up in arms about how the left needs to chill their divisive rhetoric. Continuing the tone deaf Repub hypocrisy that is becoming the defining characteristic of the current regime. Oh yeah, and a queer WoC ends up saving the life of one of the most blatantly homophobic bigots/NRA supporters in the House. How’s that for irony…

And speaking of irony: remember how North Carolina wanted to protect women and girls from the threat of sharing restrooms with trans woman? Yeah, well they just passed a bill that once a woman has consented to sex, she can’t revoke it. So really the concern wasn’t for women, it was all about men policing women and access to them.

And that’s not even getting into the verdict in the Bill Cosby sexual assault trial or the current efforts of the Senate to ram through a disastrous health care bill, composed with almost no public oversight, a proposal that’s nothing more than an effort to give massive tax breaks to the fabulously wealthy at the expense of the poor and middle class.

Lastly: the first year I lived in NYC (2007) I remember subtle shifts in the way things went down that signaled the dot.com crash. Those same premonitions are beginning to manifest on a much grander scale. I fear things are about to go from awful to much, much worse.

Kiss your friends and never let an opportunity pass to tell those you love most that you love them. Shit’s scary enough out there already. Worse isn’t something I can even begin to process at the moment.