DavidForbes

Swords against the throne

Anarchic history, queer defiance, cooking and - of course - fighting city hall. 🏴

Writer, journalist, trans gal. Asheville Blade editor


"Do Asheville police handcuff dog walkers in public parks after hours? When’s the last time late-night stargazers were forced to stand trial?

Or is this treatment reserved for journalists who question those in power?"

Thanks to Seth Stern from the Freedom of the Press Foundation for calling out Asheville authorities' draconian push to put journalists on trial for doing their jobs. The fact the Blade's a leftist news co-op who's against city hall ain't a coincidence y'all.



DavidForbes
@DavidForbes

A trans woman who fought terfs and cops with bricks back in the '70s, waving her middle fingers: Hahaha yes!

Fearghas à Foirbeis, hung for raiding cattle back in the 1300s, brandishing an axe: ha! Aye! Aye!




The person who first told me that was, not coincidentally, partly drawing on their experiences surviving the AIDS genocides.

Worth remembering, during these "the pandemic is over" days.

(Also, while everyone should of course still be masking and taking the pandemic seriously, if you're a queer leftist and you're not, what-in-the-actual-goddamn-fuck are you thinking?)