I think the trickiest thing to communicate to people in the Anglosphere at the moment, as an Eastern European, is not how bad things are but how quickly these bad things can change.

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rhelune@todon.eu — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 08:17:22 GMT

@iris_meredith @emma Then Poland became a Catholic hellhole and PiS was forcing pregnant people to bring sepsis to term. Human rights and civil liberties are never won, it is a perpetual tug of war.

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faithfulljohn@mastodon.scot — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 08:15:07 GMT

@iris_meredith

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iris_meredith@mastodon.social — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 08:10:59 GMT

@emma When my parents boarded a cargo ship to leave Poland back in 1989, they thought the regime would last forever. By the time they arrived in New Zealand (ironically enough, just in time to meet the dockworkers' strike here), the regime in Poland had collapsed and we were on the way to democracy. Things appear eternal, until they aren't.

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pawsplay@dice.camp — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 08:09:00 GMT

@iris_meredith Just watching Mamani in NYC, I know we can fix 60 percent of this stuff in the first ten months, and things will be doing so much better we will have the strength, energy, and will to keep going as we repair and improve things.

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emma@orbital.horse — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 08:05:09 GMT

@iris_meredith thanks, that's good to know.

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iris_meredith@mastodon.social — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 08:01:03 GMT

The material basis for all of this is gone. It has been for a while. They can't make this stick without actual material reasons for maintaining traditional gender roles, and after industrialisation those have just *gone*

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iris_meredith@mastodon.social — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 07:59:55 GMT

Regular people, even ones that are not particularly political, are actively defying their governments around trans people. They know this is bullshit. This current reactionary wave is a very, very fragile thing. It is horrifying now, and it causes us a lot of pain, but... we aren't trying to break three thousand years of bigotry and oppression any more. We're trying to break maybe five years of slightly shitty backlash.

I think the trickiest thing to communicate to people in the Anglosphere at the moment, as an Eastern European, is not how *bad* things are but how quickly these bad things can change.

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