User:Davethebrave371

Truth and Beauty
Hello, my name is David Spencer and this is my user page.

I was born on occupied Esquimalt land, lived most of my life on occupied Esquimalt land, and shortly before moving to occupied Haudenosaunee land, I lived briefly on occupied Songhees land. I've recently moved back to occupied Esquimalt land. I'm an activist, anarchist (of a libertarian socialist/anarcho-syndicalist/anarcho-communist flavour, with post-anarchist tendencies), a nihilist-leaning absurdist and a theological noncognitivist (it's clumsy, but I feel that igtheist is a bit too silly/easily misheard as atheist). I identify more as genderqueer/non-binary trans than I do as anything within the gender binary, but my beard usually leads people to refer to me as male. I am not male, and neither are beards. I use the singular they as a pronoun rather than male pronouns. Similarly, my identity/orientation as regards sexuality is more closely related to pansexuality/omnisexuality than those which define themselves within the restrictive structure of the binary. I have recently been diagnosed with severe clinical depression, GAD and SAD, symptoms of which began in early 2012 and have steadily worsened since then, and I am in firm solidarity with Mad Pride and those who identify within it as I do.

My primary focus as an activist is anti-poverty activism and Indigenous rights activism, with a strong focus on Decolonization, Postcolonialism and Intersectionality. As such, I acknowledge here my minority world privilege, white privilege and able-bodied privilege, which remove barriers for me whether I oppose the imbalance of barriers implicit in the currently existing white supremacist, ableist/sanist, patriarchal/misogynistic, heterosexist/homocidal global capitalist/authoritarian economic system or not.

I was born two days after Iosif Shklovsky passed away, which means I was probably conceived some time between the most recent transit of Earth across the Sun as seen from Mars and the inaugural flight of Virgin Atlantic's Maiden Voyager. If Aubrey de Grey can achieve his aims in my lifetime, maybe I'll take a Virgin Galactic spaceflight to Mars for the next one! Or, hopefully, there won't be corporations in space, and I'll just take a spaceflight in someone's DIY spacecraft (or make one myself)! Because if corporations aren't gone by 2084, we'll probably all be dead.