Anarchists Against Poverty NQ

04/09/2026

a thought worth pondering

03/09/2026

End Strip Searching of Children
All children must be treated with dignity.
Children should never be strip searched

But right now, across the country, children are still regularly subjected to violent and degrading strip searches by police and prison authorities. For children who have already experienced violence, s*xual abuse or trauma, this invasive practice can be profoundly retraumatising

Independent Senator for Victoria

03/09/2026

End shackling during childbirth
Childbirth is sacred. But right now, across the country, people in custody can still be shackled while giving birth.

Childbirth is one of the hardest things a person can experience. Shackling people during childbirth is medically dangerous, traumatising, degrading and unnecessary

Independent Senator for Victoria

02/09/2026

30/08/2026

As long as you have to work for someone else, making them wealthier and wealthier, just to make sure you can pay to keep the lights on, make sure you have a roof over your head, and put food on the table....you're not truly free.

30/08/2026

30/08/2026

YUWI, YOU SHOWED UP TODAY
A huge thank you to the community today!
People arrived at Yuwi Free Shop with food, clothes, new children's toys, kitchenware, household goods and much more. Others put cash into our hands to keep this going. We left the River Wharves with a very full trailer.
We shared a sausage sizzle, homemade ANZAC biscuits, fresh coconut, conversation and care. People came to give, people came to receive, and many did both. That's important, because mutual aid rejects the idea that some of us are the helpers and everyone else should be grateful recipients. We all need each other.
Our fishing workshop doubled in size. The wind and high tide defeated any chance of a catch, but the kids learned about baiting rods and casting, watched, tried, laughed and will hopefully come back to try again.
Groceries, clothes, coats, blankets, hats, kids toys, pet care items, personal hygiene products, household goods (too many tings to list) all went out today, but so did something harder to measure: connection.
Yuwi Free Shop receives no government or corporate funding. This is ordinary people pooling what we have and making sure it gets directly into the hands of people who need it. No judgement. No proving your poverty. No deserving and undeserving. No "helpers" vs "the helped", just people sharing.
And to our vollies who keep turning up, setting up, packing down, cooking, sorting, carrying, teaching and caring — thank you. This doesn't exist without you.
In a system that teaches us to compete, hoard and survive alone, choosing to care for one another is resistance.
Take what you need. Give when you can.
Solidarity, not charity.
We stand and resist on stolen First Nations land.
Sovereignty was never ceded.

29/08/2026

Yuwi Free Shop is open today from 10.30am to 1.30pm. Find us at the River Wharves Activity Shelter. Free Sausage Sizzle Free Groceries Free Clothes Free Household Goods Free Books Free Kids Toys and heaps more! Everything we have has been donated by the Community for the Community. We invite you to come down and take a share of what grassroots mutual aid has provided.
We stand and resist on stolen First Nations land. Sovereignty never ceded.

29/08/2026

Yet some folks still favor the deny-nary over what and whom Actually, Proveably Exist. 🟣💛✨️

*The Whale is a Southern Right whale and I will add a supporting post in the comments, but feel free to look it up and find out what other inters*x/non-straight examples in the animal kingdom you can find, too!

"The terminology and definitions used to talk about inters*x individuals have changed over time, especially when referring to people. But according to University of Pennsylvania historian Beans Velocci, who studies the history of s*x classification, scientists use the term inters*x to describe bodies that, regardless of species, cannot be easily categorized as either male or female. Not all inters*x individuals have XXY chromosomes — the term encompasses individuals with a range of characteristics arising from differences in genetics, hormones, and anatomy. An inters*x individual may have s*x organs or a physical appearance that diverges from the norm. Some individuals, for instance, have a Y chromosome and te**es but their cells don’t respond to male s*x hormones so their external anatomy is more feminine.

While inters*x animals are often infertile and unable to produce offspring to help a population grow, Velocci says that in social species such as whales, inters*x animals likely play important nonreproductive roles that benefit the population in other ways.

Studying inters*x animals has helped scientists better understand how genes and hormones shape individuals as they develop. Through the process of domesticating livestock, people have known about inters*x cows for thousands of years. On Vanuatu, in the South Pacific, islanders nurture a unique strain of inters*x pigs prized for their delicate spiraling tusks. More recently, researchers have also documented inters*x horses, dogs, moose, sheep, fish, and many different types of invertebrates. Inters*x animals are rare across species, Crossman says, but they’re “more common than we historically thought.”

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