I think I'm reverting a bit into some misanthropic and nihilistic tendencies, but at this point I feel like I don't even care about bad things happening to cis people. Everything feels worse for trans people, and I spend a lot of time helping other trans people with problems caused by shitty cis people. I genuinely think 90% of cis breeders hate their trans kids in some way and actively make their lives harder, even the lib 'accepting' ones. I'm like 60% of the way to thinking 'yeah I'm gonna be a terrible slumlord for cis people so I can make trans people live better lives, I'll house them for free by taking money from the cis by being an exploitative landlord'. I have the possibility of actually doing this. I doubt we're having a revolution, so like... isn't this an equalizer? There's also the fact that trans people basically have no familial support, being a landlord exploiting cis people would mean we are forcing society to actually support those without it. I could see alternative arguments, like maybe if you have access to a lot of housing you could just make cheap housing for trans people and that would foster a whole community rather than having a lot of depressed cis people slaving away for a handful of homeless trans people, idk. You'd probably have to deal with anti-discrimination laws with that scheme, whereas giving housing away for free to trans people can be contractless.
Obviously I'm a communist through and through, but why should I care about others outside the community when many cis people clearly aren't in the position materially to even begin to think about communism, let alone trans inclusive communism? Talking to them won't work either when they see you as a freak from the start.
Idk what to do either here tbh I work in this field too and sometimes I just have to do normal community stuff to drown the depression out. I feel the comments have been far too harsh to marcie it's depressing. Revolutionary organ stuff is too high level and nonexistent. I've just learned to be sadly ok with how awful things are but I've helped x people and that's enough I guess
I don't think there's a way to expand on my side generally kinda wild we've helped as many as we did.
I feel like no one here is really in the trenches when it comes to this and that's why we're seeing such a reaction to what she's saying. I think everyone that's been homeless or operates a commune of some kind has had to look at the financials and cry about the abject injustice of it all. I get wanting to show up at everyone's door and extracting a warlord's tax to solve the issue.
Is there away to create some connection between your neighbours and your commune? Similar initiatives in my area host weekly events, like dinner or music where they ask for donations to sustain themselves. Aside from the money they gain, the connection with the neighbourhood functions as a security layer. It also creates a breeding pot for more political organizing.
I do an lgbt center and frankly it only really exists at the behest of one rich gay that wanted a center closer. So marcie isn't wrong that you basically need a sugar daddy who likely has no qualms about exploitation. Neighbors here are kinda dicks and bother us about any minuscule infraction
Guy doesn't really care about my housing projects much he just likes talking with other gays, I basically just control the project and give him charity write off receipts.
The centers in my area are for undocumented and homeless people and they have had to struggle a lot in the beginning with neighbours who did not want a center for homeless and documented people next to their house. The community events had a big impact on the overall opinion of their neighbours and now they have almost no issues with neighbours and get lots of donations.
We had a pretty successful Halloween party but we weren't able to really translate that into doing good shit for homeless people.
I've housed people temporarily in our lgbt center but the cops usually get called on them so it's not really safe to do that there. I'm pretty sure the neighboring business just is homophobic. And yeah my own place is filled with trans people that can only really get gig work, I'm basically an outlier for working the same job for decades.