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Anti-fascist artist debuts anthem for queer resistance against genocide [1]
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Date: 2023-06-24
When the jackboot of eradication politics breaches your community and mandates mass death: what will you do?
This question is the crux of VILENCE, the latest single and music video by artist and activist Precious Child. The track releases in the midst of a Republican-led moral panic and culture war campaign openly calling for genocide against transgender and non-binary people. And who has heeded these calls?
Right-wing media canonizing anti-LGBTQ+ narratives globally.
State legislators writing hundreds of bills and laws to criminalize LGBTQ+ existence.
Fascist and neo-Nazi gangs targeting public spaces for queer life with hate crimes and terrorist attacks.
According to The New York Times , in just the last 11 months there have been over 350 anti-LGBTQ+ hate incidents across the country: including violent hate crimes, fascist armed rallies at drag shows, and even bomb threats against children’s hospitals that offer lifesaving gender affirming care. Not to be outdone by their radicalized base: Republican lawmakers have introduced over 650 bills directly targeting the existence of LGBTQ+ people— more than double last year’s shocking 315 anti-LGBTQ+ bills.
A recent report from an independent think tank researching LGBTQ+ issues and laws characterized this situation as “ a war against LGBTQ people in America and their very right and ability to openly exist.” Pride Month this year has been marred by this spike in fascistic hostilities— and the Human Rights Campaign made history three weeks ago by officially declaring a National State of Emergency for LGBTQ+ people in the United States for the first time in the group’s 43 year history.
For many LGBTQ+ activists: the writing on the wall is crystal clear. Despite nearly 80% of Americans supporting LGBTQ+ rights— that support appears lukewarm and unenthusiastic when it comes to militant defense of the LGBTQ+ community. Precious Child wants to change that. In a statement, she wrote:
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