Liz Firebrand

@uselessbird1312

it/she | Birmingham | anarchafeminist, anti-imperialist, antifascist

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Liz Firebrand@uselessbird1312· Jul 2

We found a chainsaw lol

Slightly rusty chainsaw on a pavement lit by a torch spotlight

Liz Firebrand@uselessbird1312· May 14

🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱 Visited Albania last year, it was such a marked improvement in personal safety compared to any so-called British city to be surreal. Walking arm in arm with my then girlfriend right after Albania beat Serbia in a football qualifiers, no threats, no slurs, no violence, not even pointed stares

2 cars on a Tirana street. The driver of the closer car waves to the camera. The other car has a man standing through the sunroof waving 2 large Albanian flags

Liz Firebrand@uselessbird1312· Mar 25

Obligatory @gbclegal.bsky.social PSL number from @shedreamsinneon.bsky.social :))))

Same arm cast, a phone number is written across the side

Liz Firebrand@uselessbird1312· Mar 25

My girlfriend painted her teeth with lipstick to sign my cast 🥰🥰

Arm plaster cast with names signed on it, notably are 2 black arcs of teethmarks

Liz Firebrand@uselessbird1312· Mar 22

Touched grass too hard

Liz Firebrand@uselessbird1312· Mar 7

Theyre selling the gun that killed shinzo abe in Morrisons

A toy gun on a ship shelf with twin barrels on top of the body, resembling vaguely the homemade pistol that killed shinzo abe

Liz Firebrand@uselessbird1312· Mar 3

Endlessly relevant

American *sees something American happening Americanly in america*: what are we a bunch of ASIANS?!?!???

Liz Firebrand@uselessbird1312· Jan 14

Love and rage from the so-called UK 🖤 I'd love to play this with my folk band if you'd be alright with that

Liz Firebrand@uselessbird1312· Nov 22

I am not interested in knowing what the penis heroin is

"Your nonmonogamy compass results" "relationship-compass.com"
"Content not viewable in your region" (the red dot is placed right at the bottom of the graph just off the left side

"More surveys, guide to hooking women on your penis heroin, twitter"

Liz Firebrand@uselessbird1312· Nov 10

Fucked up a nice blazer i got from a clothes swap by shrinking it in the wash but at least I've got fun material to patch onto my clothes now

Denim skirt with patches of the band Affray and artist Floralis on, as well as a half sewn patch which is a pink and black mesh pattern

Liz Firebrand@uselessbird1312· Aug 12

brit *sees something british happening britishly in britain*: what are we a bunch of ASIANS?!?!???

Liz Firebrand@uselessbird1312· Jul 1

Digbeth, my beloved

The side of an abandoned redbrick warehouse building, graffiti right at the top says "kill wes streeting" next to a trans flag

Liz Firebrand@uselessbird1312· Jun 29

Never seen a group of queers cheer louder than when this fucking car honked at their banners and flags in support of palestine action, and the driver was clearly just as excited back

British taxi cab covered entirely in purple fur with massive cat ears

Liz Firebrand@uselessbird1312· Jun 7

Happy pride month 🔻🔻🔻

Person in a kitchen wearing a green apron with a keffiyeh tied round their head and face

Liz Firebrand@uselessbird1312· May 6

No borders no nations

Chalk on a pavement with some words crossed out to read "deportation is just kidnapping"

Liz Firebrand@uselessbird1312· Apr 30

2/2

There were no serious injuries from the assault, it was managed and everyone moved off safely with no police interference (until now). Further carceralisation after the fact does nothing to actually prevent future harm from those who wish to harm us and instead builds a learned helplessness among our communities that we can only rely on the State to protect us, the same State which we are seeing more and more wishes to have us eliminated. If this helplessness can be learned then it can be unlearned and the State will see what organised trans wrath looks like.

Who will be violently enforcing bathroom ban, who already violently enforces repression on the most marginalised among us?

And who protects us?

ACAB

* further information on Yerbery: https://hopenothate.org.uk/2024/11/08/national-rebirth-party-dead-on-arrival/

** Carceral: relating to prisons, state 'justice' systems, or extension of the prison system through a community by actors like the police

***Quote from Against 'Hate Crime', with words by Kay.

Liz Firebrand@uselessbird1312· Apr 30

Repost from BrumRadicalUnityHive, Food Not Cops, and the Revolutionary Anarchist Group who aren't on bluesky 1/2

ON THE ARREST FROM SATURDAY'S TRANS LIBERATION DEMO

We are appalled at the news, and in particular the community reaction to it, that one person has been arrested in the wake of Saturday's Not Your Scapegoat demonstration against the supreme court's EA2010 ruling.

The events which led to this arrest came just after the successful confrontation of Alek Yerbury* on New Street. This man, self-styled after hitler, surrounded by a meager fascist gang of his so-called National Rebirth Party (several of whom we have been able to identify), was successfully driven off. This should be the focus of our attention in this new week. Trans mobilisation moved these cowards off, not the cops nor 'security' staff, and this has been near entirely scrubbed from the public record.

On the arrest, we do not dispute the general series of events, that people on the demo were assaulted, allegedly by the arrestee, and we send our love and solidarity to those affected by the assault. However, we come out against the carceralisation** of this person and 'activists' demanding prosecution. The person allegedly linked to the assaults was seemingly unaffiliated with Yerbury, and was seemingly more upset by swearing than the cause of the demo. The likes of Yerbury's fascist LARP, but especially the so-called british state that may continue to carceralise the arrestee, are far more harmful to Trans people than any singular individual who we will likely never meet again.

The conditions that necessitated this demonstration are the same conditions now placed upon the arrestee, those of bodily control and domination.

Singular prosecution of so-called 'hate crime' does nothing to liberate Our healthcare, Free our Comrades, and bring back Our Dead. It only allows for the police to "gain legitimacy...while justifying the expansion of policing and surveillance power which primarily target poor, Black, Muslim, [Queer, Trans], and undocumented communities."***

We reject the celebration of this arrest, and we reject the narrative being built up that queer and trans communities are weak and in need of the Strong Police to save us. We reject making a scapegoat of this one person in the eyes of the State, placing the blame for transphobia at their feet, at a demo which should have understood the issues with doing this. We should instead be celebrating the fact that fascists attempting to build a base in Birmingham turned tail and fled almost as soon as they saw us coming. They know, as the State knows, that we are a force to be reckoned with when we act together.

Liz Firebrand@uselessbird1312· Apr 23

Rest in piss bozo

Picture of my hands with POPE DEAD written across the nuckles

Liz Firebrand@uselessbird1312· Apr 12

An edited LGBT foundation poster. It shows 2 lesbians sat at a cafe table with a lesbian flag in the background. The image has crudely drawn balaclavas over their heads, and one holds a crudely drawn molotov. Text on the poster reads: there are over 720k lesbian and bi women in the UK. It's time we made our voices heard! #votewithbricks (the word bricks is clearly edited over something else)

Liz Firebrand@uselessbird1312· Mar 29

Police Station support needed in Birmingham today

🚨Police Station Support needed🚨

Oldbury Custody Suite, 26 Kelvin Way, West Bromwich B70 7LE
Support needed from now until this evening (at maximum)

An antifascist protestor was arrested at today's demonstration outside the Reform conference and is now being held at Oldbury.

We need people available to provide station support over the next few hours.

This means waiting outside to greet them when they get released, get them food, drink, cigs anything else they may need - to give them the support they deserve

Dm for more details

Liz Firebrand@uselessbird1312· Mar 21

Love digbeth sometimes

Front of a police station on a high street. ACAB is written on the front wall in spray paint

Liz Firebrand@uselessbird1312· Mar 20

If anyone wants to annoy a fash email inbox:

Screenshot from reform UK website saying:

Where
Utilita arena Birmingham, king Edwards road, Birmingham B1 2AA, United Kingdom

Contact
Kiera
Events@reformparty.uk

Liz Firebrand@uselessbird1312· Mar 20

Their previous post is on Instagram here: www.instagram.com/p/DHHC_MOoSl...

- If there are interactions with the police, remember GBC's 5 key messages:
No Comment
No Personal Details
Under What Power?
No Duty Solicitor
No Caution
and have their protest support line number (07946 541 511) close to hand

See our previous post to find contact details for the venue and email+call them to encourage them to call off this fascist rally.

Liz Firebrand@uselessbird1312· Mar 20

Reposting from BrumRadicalUnityHive and Brum Queers4Palestine who aren't on here: 🏴🚩OPPOSE REFORM UK🚩🏴 JOIN THE ANTIFA™️ BLOC 28th March Meet at 1740 @ Snell Park, Utilita Arena side entrance Heading to Utilita Arena entrance for 1800

Text over green background and drawing of red and black flags:

🏴🚩OPPOSE FASCIST RALLY IN BIRMINGHAM 🚩🏴
JOIN THE ANTIFA™️ BLOC

28th March
Meet at 1740 @ Snell Park, Utilita Arena side entrance
Heading to Utilita Arena entrance for 1800

Nigel Farage and his Reform Party cronies are planning to host a rally in Utilita Arena. After they got thoroughly upset at "Antifa" disrupting their recent event in Kernow let's continue to make their life a misery for as long as they stick around in Birmingham!

SAFETY

- This will be an event with potentially dangerous fascists turning up and walking through the city throughout the day, don't arrive or leave alone if you can avoid it.

- Please mask up. Medical masks are perfect for protecting yourself and others from covid and flu, and double to help reduce state and fascist surveilance.

Liz Firebrand@uselessbird1312· Mar 19

Tweet from @hermit_hwarang :
american *sees something american happening americanly in america*: what are we a bunch of ASIANS?!?!???

Liz Firebrand@uselessbird1312· Mar 14

Yeah

Bottle of car glass cleaner on a shop shelf, the label is peeling back to say ass cleaner

Liz Firebrand@uselessbird1312· Mar 5

My local red-browns were at it immediately

Skeet from Bob From Brockley. Reads: former Blairite turned Corbyinista and now Workers Party of Britain deputy leader Chris Williamson praising Trump and Vance yesterday. Via @pabloite.bsky.social

Skeet contains a screenshot of a Facebook post from Chris Williamson which reads: three cheers for DonaldTrump and JD Vance who told Zelensky a few truths today about the needless bloody war in #ukraine Instead of applauding the president, the pathetic Liberal warmongerers are clutching at their pearls

Liz Firebrand@uselessbird1312· Mar 5

Meme with a pic from metal gear with text over saying "just found out about McDonald's Why did God do this to our Pentagon?

Liz Firebrand@uselessbird1312· Feb 24

This article was shared to acorn brum members by someone after it was published. This is the only acknowledgement the management have made and it and is just threats towards the antifascist actors 4/

Whatsapp message screenshot. It reads:

Hi everyone, we've been made aware that some members have been added into a whatsapp group where allegations are being made about staff members. The allegations being made are very serious and need to be investigated properly. For avoidance of doubt ACORN does not endorse or tolerate any anti-semitic, homophobic, transphobic or other discriminatory behaviour.

It is extremely important, both ethically and from a legal point of view that these allegations and any documents repeating them are not shared further. Doing so could prejudice any investigation, cause upset and distress and could be legally actionable if false allegations are made. This could also be very damaging to ACORN, which is something that we all want to avoid.

The creation of this whatsapp group, adding in members by taking their personal information without thir consent is a serious breach of data protection law. We are investigating the data breach so please let us know if you have been added into a whatsapp group without your consent and wish to raise your concerns. You can do this by emailing the branch email account.

We understand that this is upsetting and concerning to people but we and the wider organisation need to act to ensure the proper process is followed in addressing the allegations, prevent any further misuse of peoples' data and to find out how this data breach has happened. Please act sensitively and with restraint and help us and the wider organisation to deal with this appropriately

If anyone has any evidence of misconduct that is evidence for the investigation please contact paul.barnes@acorntheunion.org.uk

Liz Firebrand@uselessbird1312· Feb 24

Jesse seems to have been quietly removed due to this email being sent to a comrade elsewhere in the country a few months later. In Birmingham we have heard nothing 3/