Lane Smith 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥
Author of "78 Acts of Liberation: Tarot to Transform Our World" (Sounds True, 2024)
Tarot & Politics zine editor • they/he
🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 Bi Trans GenX Anarchist in Baltimore City
www.mxlanesmith.com
- Solidarity With Children by Madeline Lane-McKinley Trust Kids: Stories on Youth Autonomy & Confronting Adult Supremacy edited by carla bergman Hidden in Plain Sight: The Tragedy of Children's Rights by Barbara Bennett Woodhouse Children in Slavery Through the Ages by Gwyn Campbell
- There are truly so few people across the entire political spectrum who aren't indifferent to or don't hate & resent children or exploit them. Epstein is just the very tip of the iceberg of mass disregard for children's personhood. As a single parent it's hard to trust literally anyone with my kids.
- Tell me 5 classes you took in college (undergrad, 1997-2001) Gender & Politics Mediated Bodies African-American Absurdist Playwrights Nietzsche & Foucault Ethical Theories
- Reposted by Lane Smith 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥No need to imagine. The country incarcerates children as young as 9 years old daily in youth prisons and jails. Those children are routinely sexually and physically assaulted and also emotionally tortured. They are fed terrible food and given barely any education. This country has done this for yrs.
- Reposted by Lane Smith 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps
- Reposted by Lane Smith 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥The spirit that I read the people who are saying 'we warned you about this' wrt to the imperial boomerang & other types of roosting chickens we are dealing with right now, exceptions aside, is less about trying to be right than it is about hoping that if there is a next time they will be listened to
- Reposted by Lane Smith 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥Remember when Kyle Rittenhouse killed people after walking around like this at a protest? www.nytimes.com/2020/11/02/u...
- Shoveled the first 6 inches while it's still fluffy. I'm not trying to give myself a heart attack on the day I'm actually ready to go somewhere.
- Reposted by Lane Smith 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥But, anyway, while I am a deeply political animal most of my political work is done offline. This shall continue. My politics are clear, both in how I live and in my written work, and my social media is not apolitical. It's just not where I organise.
- Reposted by Lane Smith 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥But what folks don't realize, is that an antiblack society is a society built around death. Slaughter and necromancy ass settler colony. The violence is *never* limited to only Black people, and by not opposing Black death, you give you ok for ALL manner of life to be obliterated by this society.
- Reposted by Lane Smith 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥The reason why you don’t know how to process what is happening is because you found it permissible when you were under the illusion it could only happen to other people.
- Reposted by Lane Smith 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc... Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.
- Go ahead and make fun of people who rush out to buy milk before a snowstorm – I just know you have a sad little life where you don't even care about being able to drink hot chocolate while gazing out over the quiet blanket-covered land sparkling with frost.
- Reposted by Lane Smith 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥I keep seeing leftists from outside of Minneapolis say they’ve seen all this before, and no, you haven’t. I’ve been at this for 30+ years and I haven’t either. It’s not what you’re picturing. This is something else
- Reposted by Lane Smith 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥I've never seen a population more united. If people can hold onto that unity, if people can accept that different people will have different ways of confronting fascism, if we can remind NGOs and orgs that they can join but not control the resistance, then, well, people here will write history.
- Reposted by Lane Smith 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥It's genuinely a leaderless (or leaderful) movement, decentralized in a way that the state is absolutely unequipped to handle. There are a few basic skills involved, and so people teach each other those skills, and people are collectively refining them.
- Reposted by Lane Smith 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.
- I think the thing you need to know about me if you follow me on here is that if I say I was ready to fight then I was feeling quite jovial. If I say I'm cool or fine, watch out. If I'm deadpan, then I'm laughing at my own dry humor. If I'm lol'ing and being silly then I am struggling mentally, bro.
- I ordered coffee & a donut at Dunkin and then they asked me if I wanted any food with it, and I was ready to fight 😅
- But instead of saying A DONUT IS FOOD!!!!! 👹 I said "It's just a snack" 😇
- When everywhere is like "the gas leak isn't coming from us so it's safe to come in" but the whole damn neighborhood smells like gas, that doesn't exactly feel safe. WTF is the source? #Baltimore
- Reposted by Lane Smith 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥Very excited to announce that submissions are open for our next anthology, which will explore THE MOON archetype. Looking for artwork + creative writing, all guidelines are outlined here. therebis.substack.com/p/the-moon-s...
- In my book, "78 Acts of Liberation," I discuss the murder of forest defender Tortuguita in my chapter on The World #Tarot card which is associated with Saturn, the planet ruling today's New Moon in Capricorn. That chapter is about wholeness, and what that means for us in contrast to totalitarianism.
- "We may never 'complete' antifascism, but the ongoing, continual work of keeping it at bay, with the vision of a fascism-free world on the Horizon to strive toward, creates a world closer to the one we want where the wholeness of all people is held and cared for, interconnected with one another...
- "The World also invites us to see how all instances of oppression are interrelated. These connections can feel overwhelming, but it also means that any disruption we engage in can have an effect on the whole."
- Reposted by Lane Smith 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥Three years ago today, Georgia state police murdered Tortuguita as part of their drive to destroy the Weelaunee Forest and build a deadly police militarization center. Tort fought for a world without police and capitalism, and so should we. Viva, viva Tortuguita.
- There's a chapter in my book on race traitors. I wasn't just being cute matching them to the Tarot archetype of Traitor. This is essential. There's no denying whiteness when that power draws its borders around you, but you can still work against it. "Treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity."
- Reposted by Lane Smith 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥The Minneapolis AFL-CIO calling for a general strike is a big deal and we should treat it like a big deal. Also it's a good idea. LFG minneapolisunions.org/system/files...
- Reposted by Lane Smith 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥Block instantly.
- ✅ @icegov.bsky.social has been verified by @bsky.app.
- Reposted by Lane Smith 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥I'm loathe to post anything from the Washington Post, but I can't find anything about this anywhere else yet. This man isn't the first immigrant they've murdered. And he won't be the last. That's why it's imperative that everybody needs say that they should be abolished, period.
- SCOOP from Douglas Macmillan Medical examiner believes death of man in ICE custody was homicide, recording says www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
- Noooooo! My barber just told me that he's leaving the shop. 😭 The person who has been most consistently involved in my gender-affirming care & for the longest. He's like a therapist to me. This is worse than a breakup. 💔💈
- If you don't like the far left approach to making change, you should give us lots of money. It's for training. That's how you think it works, clearly. We'll train ourselves to 'do better.' 😇
- It's only fair that if you fund the far right to try to rein them in that you should do the same with the far left; that would be the centrist, moderate, middle of the road, balanced position. 🙏🏻
- Point being, whenever you hear "training" just replace it with "funding" because that's what it is.
- Am I a bad queer for having a hard time deciding between Emo Night and a Headed Rivalry dance party on the same weekend? The thing is, if the Emo Night crowd isn't very queer I won't be surprised & I'll still have fun but if the queer dance party is taken over by straight women, I'll be furious.
- *Heated Rivalry 🙄
