ThePurpleOctopus 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇹🇼
@thepurpleoctopus@lgbtqia.space
Soft-inked greetings from ThePurpleOctopus 🐙 Queer, non-binary, trans, pan, polyam and many-armed, and thinking in several directions at once. I like curiosity, kindness, politics with teeth, art with feelings, and science done properly. I like languages, cats, cows, trains, and the Oxford comma. I'm a Translator and Teacher by trade, a Traveller by desire. Here to listen, to learn, to tangle gently, and to leave the tide a little warmer than I found it. [Berlin/Amsterdam]
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CW: anti-queer violence, hate crime, discrimination
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The perpetrator of the attack on Berlin Pride has been shot by the police. For many, that seems to close the case.
It doesn't.
We want answers. We want to know why this happened, how it happened, whether it could have been prevented, and whether anyone else was involved. We want this investigated thoroughly, not quietly filed away and forgotten.
And we refuse to let our pain become a weapon against innocent people. We will not allow an attack on our community to be used to target other marginalised communities.
Nor will we accept conservatives, the far right, or fascists suddenly pretending to stand with us. They have spent years fuelling hostility towards queer people. They hate us too. They are not our allies.
Justice means truth, accountability, and protecting everyone from hatred, not simply choosing a different group to hate.
#Berlin #BerlinPride #Pride #LGBTQIA #Queer #StandWithQueerPeople #AgainstHate #NoToFascism #Solidarity #HumanRights