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your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

i keep saying this: trans folks need a LAVENDER BOOK.
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during Jim Crow, the lives of African Americans traveling across the South depended on the GREEN BOOK, a travel guide that became the Black Michelin of its time.

the Green Book, btw, should stand as the perfect example of antifascist and mutual aid praxis where fascism is normalize against minority, non-hegemonic groups.

#LGBTQI #travel #antifa

cover of the 1959 edition of the Green Book. it says: Guide for Travel and Vacation, The Negro Travelers’ GREEN BOOK and has hand-drawn images Black people enjoying themselves while hiking, eating, etc.
8 October at 17:38 | Open on mastodon.social
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Cookiefiend

@blogdiva A Japanese-American friend recently asked if there was such a guide for Asians traveling through Idaho and eastern Oregon and Washington.

8 October at 18:12 | Open on mastodon.social
Ryan Randall :OpenAccess: :hc:

@LPerry2 @blogdiva Hey Cookiefiend, are you asking for a current one or a historical one?

I live in Boise, Idaho—current a blue island in way too much red—and I could at least try to pass along details of the friendlier / less friendly places from my own observations if that could be helpful?

(Of course, I'm definitely aware that I don't perceive / get directly exposed to anti-Asian hate due to being a white guy who's not in a relationship or family with Asian folks—but I grew up in California and went to UC Riverside, so I've learned a lot from Asian American friends along the way. It breaks my heart that this feels necessary again, but I know that it does.)

Broadly speaking, I'd suggest trying to eat, gas up, and stay in the towns with public colleges or universities if one can.

In Idaho specifically, east to west along the interstate that means: Pocatello, then Twin Falls, then Boise.

@LPerry2 @blogdiva Hey Cookiefiend, are you asking for a current one or a historical one?

I live in Boise, Idaho—current a blue island in way too much red—and I could at least try to pass along details of the friendlier / less friendly places from my own observations if that could be helpful?

(Of course, I'm definitely aware that I don't perceive / get directly exposed to anti-Asian hate due to being a white guy who's not in a relationship or family with Asian folks—but I grew up in California and...

11 November at 15:41 | Open on hcommons.social
Cookiefiend

@ryanrandall @blogdiva That's good advice. Her aunt made the mistake of stopping in Coeur d'Alene for lunch. The restaurant owner told her to get out, his place was for whites only. That's why she was looking for a guide.
I spent my childhood in Idaho. Beautiful though Idaho is, I would never, never live there again. It hasn't changed. (P.S. I also went to UC Riverside.)

11 November at 15:52 | Open on mastodon.social
Ryan Randall :OpenAccess: :hc:

@LPerry2 @blogdiva Yuck. I'm so sorry that happened to her aunt. And I'm so sorry Coeue d'Alene is turning (back) into that kind of garbage pit.

11 November at 16:13 | Open on hcommons.social
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

"The restaurant owner told her to get out, his place was for whites only."

we weren't told so, but we were not served at a diner in Pennsylvania for the same reasons back in the 1990s, before my ex and i had kids.

Jim Crow never went anywhere.

@LPerry2 @ryanrandall

11 November at 16:16 | Open on mastodon.social
Ryan Randall :OpenAccess: :hc:

@blogdiva @LPerry2 I'm not sharing this to downplay the current trend, but to reinforce that Jim Crow mindsets have been way too widespread this whole time:

I've been quietly not served while at a diner with a girlfriend before, and an old roommate had the same thing happen for more than an hour while out with his wife (they're both Latiné, and he's also Black).

This was all in Southern California, Orange or LA County beach towns—places you'd imagine would be on board with the law set by Loving v. Virginia.

We need another wave of Civil Rights activism. We've needed the movement to continue all along.

@blogdiva @LPerry2 I'm not sharing this to downplay the current trend, but to reinforce that Jim Crow mindsets have been way too widespread this whole time:

I've been quietly not served while at a diner with a girlfriend before, and an old roommate had the same thing happen for more than an hour while out with his wife (they're both Latiné, and he's also Black).

11 November at 16:31 | Open on hcommons.social
SudoNaaame

@ryanrandall @blogdiva @LPerry2 Any and all of those books should become a thing- green, lavender, whatever. Analog or digital. While I probably wouldn't *need* them, I would rather go to places that were in those books, so I want them to be real.

Peace to everyone.

11 November at 18:36 | Open on mastodon.coffee
Kim Possible

@blogdiva @LPerry2 @ryanrandall omg. Horrible.

My friends (an interracial couple) got the cold shoulder in Savannah.

We (a gay couple) got told that the restaurant was closed when it wasn't, in Pine Mountain, GA.

Our former mayor was denied entrance, even to sit at the bar, at an Atlanta restaurant. They said her attire was too casual for their dress code. People flooded social media with pictures of white people in much more casual attire, eating at the restaurant.

11 November at 16:37 | Open on beige.party
AriSunDog, Spooky Version!

@blogdiva we were just talking about this at work last week. We were going to call it the rainbow book. I'm glad other people are on the same wavelength right now.

11 November at 16:44 | Open on beige.party
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