Doing my best to write an apology for submitting work late that doesn't sound like this
Really enjoying how the Western news media is spinning the Cuban referendum. "It was contentious/undemocratic" 2/3rds of the population voted yes in a referendum with 75% turnout. "Cuba persecuted gays in the 60s/70s" says country that didn't decriminalize homosexuality until 2003.
—hunger & desire
clementine von radics // denis sarazhin // paper bags by fiona apple // kiss by edvard munch // denis sarazhin // climbing by lucille clifton // intimacy by angelica alzona // audre lorde
letters to milena by franz kafka // camouflage by ron hicks // the golden notebook by doris lessing // ? // a letter to galatea kazantzaki by nikos kazantzakis
— dissociation
the book of disquiet by fernando pessoa // a breath of life by clarice lispector // againts the mass of the night by kaye donachie // how to dissapear completely by radiohead // normal people by sally rooney // rené magritte // virgina woolf // by me // enrico robusti
Oscar Wilde, De Profundis // @i-wrotethisforme // Jorge Louis Berges // @smokeinsilence //@viridianmasquerade //Jorge Louis Berges // @honeytuesday // Kaveh Akbar // F. Scott Fitzgerald // AKR //Olivie Blake, from “Alone With You in the Ether” // Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrimage
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
[text ID: I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.]
—On Love, Marina Tsvetaeva
[text ID: I just want a humble, murderously simple thing: that a person be glad when I walk into the room.]
"I say I'm done with religion but still find myself praying when I cry" religion + queerness
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you guys seem to prefer my happy ww but I'm depressed so you'll simply have to cope my bad
Anonymous asked:
Sorry if you're not the right person to come to but I think my friend has been reading up on TERF stuff because she's trying to unlearn radically inclusive rhetoric and I don't know what to direct her to that's critical rather than "gender critical" if you know what I mean. Do you have any advice?
I'm not very good at providing readings on this, but I could offer some works from Clara Zetkin, particularly her piece Proletarian Women and Socialism:
The investigations of Bachofen, Morgan and others seem to prove that the social suppression of women coincided with the creation of private property. The contrast within the family between the husband as proprietor and the wife as non-proprietor became the basis for the economic dependence and the social illegality of the female sex. This social illegality represents, according to Engels, one of the first and oldest forms of class rule. [...] The machines, the modern mode of production, slowly undermined domestic production and not just for thousands but for millions of women the question arose: Where do we now find our livelihood? Where do we find a meaningful life as well as a, job that gives us mental satisfaction? Millions were now forced to find their livelihood and their meaningful lives outside of their families and within society as a whole. At that moment they became aware of the fact that their social illegality stood in opposition to their most basic interests. [...] Therefore the liberation struggle of the proletarian woman cannot be similar to the struggle that the bourgeois woman wages against the male of her class. On the contrary, it must be a joint struggle with the male of her class against the entire class of capitalists. She does not need to fight against the men of her class in order to tear down the barriers which have been raised against her participation in the free competition of the market place. Capitalism’s need to exploit and the development of the modern mode of production totally relieves her of having to fight such a struggle. On the contrary, new barriers need to be erected against the exploitation of the proletarian woman.
Zetkin puts forward the Marxist position, based on Engels' work The Origin of Family, Private Property, and the State, that the social oppression of women is developed from the gendered division of labour, wherein women take up the role of domestic maintenance, maintaining and reproducing the conditions that allow men to labour. She points out that, as Marxism illustrates, since every school of thought and movement within class society is, inevitably, a school of thought and movement of a certain class, there is a significant difference between the women's movement of the bourgeoisie and that of the proletariat. Further, she details how the political-economic basis of women's oppression, the gendered division of labour, is being made obsolete, as service work and domestic production are no longer carried out in the individual household, solely by women, but by modern industry, wherein the division of labour is a far more complex one between workers.
Alexandra Kollontai also presents many of these same points in her work Communism and the Family, and is, I would say, much easier to read. This Marxist feminist analysis and critical theory would be continued by later authors, including Angela Davis, particularly in her work Women, Race, and Class, which I sadly can't find a link for reading online. More than just class, the intersection of race with womanhood is also an incredibly important aspect that, as with class, creates important lines of struggle that white, bourgeois feminism does not (and cannot) address, with its reductionism.
If your friend is disillusioned by regular bourgeois feminism, and looking for some hard-hitting 'critical' stuff, then hopefully this would provide something more substantial than jumping down the radfem rabbit hole.
i feel like the thing 'vote!' people don't understand is that like. the point of playing Good Cop Bad Cop is to arrest you. there's no way for you to somehow engage that'll make your situation any better, and desperately trying to swing Good Cop to your side is just partaking in your own interrogation - that's why they do it. the only winning move is not to play. don't engage, get a lawyer.
i mean, that's the thing that never comes up in these discussions, right? it's never a discussion about tactically voting for a communist party as part of the aboveground struggle, it's always 'vote for this liberal capitalist party'. the discussion isn't really about whether minor gains or tactical victories can be won for the people through electoralism, or the discussion would be about whether the political party of the people should engage in electoralism. the discussion is about whether the people can, actually, participate in politics, achieve their own goals with their own political organs that actually represent them; or if, on the other hand, it's hopeless, and they should just cling to the coattails of the ruling class, to try to beg for fewer beatings.
you're sitting in the interrogation chamber, thinking you're buying yourself time by cooperating with the lesser evil, that you've outsmarted them. they're both standing outside, laughing at you.
So today the United Nations through their investigation of Shireen Abu Aqleh’s murder confirmed that she was indeed killed by Israeli army.
Obviously this isn’t anything new, and Palestinians knew from the start who did it, but it what’s important to remember is from the moment she was killed, the reaction from Zionists/Israeli officials was to pin the death on Palestinian fighters, even Naftali Bennett (Israel’s Prime Minister) tried to argue that Palestinian gunmen killed her.
It’s also hard to forget how her funeral was attacked by Israeli police, to the point where her pallbearers dropped the bottom of her coffin - all live on camera. She is one of the dozens of journalists killed by Israel, and I hope she and all the others get their justice.
Anonymous asked:
Why delete the period app? 😟
I am saying to delete period tracking apps because that data can be used against you in court if suspected to be pregnant. I deleted mines years ago because I learned how they use the data in various ways such as to advertise things to you. Now, though, in the wake of Roe v Wade being overturned, this data can be used far more insidiously.
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