May 2013
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Spent 15 minutes today gossiping with my therapist about Jamaica Kincaid’s latest book and all of the neighbors, businesses, and locations it references by name. It’s amazingly hyper-specific, down to the local landscaping business and street by street directions to her old house (where Shirley Jackson also used to live).
I don’t know anything about the details of her actual...
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Braided Hate: So in light of the DGR debacle I’ve... →
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So in light of the DGR debacle I’ve been thinking a lot about political inconsistencies. And I was wondering what is your favorite personal political inconsistency?
Mine is that though I really crave the idea of not having any kind of personal holding or investment in identity (wish for the destruction of any kind of gender system) or subculture I really love being a girl and...
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This morning I decided the day was too nice to not take off from work, and, as I explained to my coworkers, I was really saving my employer money because I was going to have absolutely no work to do and since I’m hourly I just won’t get paid for today.
Instead I was awoken to the sound and smell of coffee being made and luxuriated in bed until we poured ourselves cups and sat on the...
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“Although the category of class remains analytically powerful, I would argue that...”
– From the introduction to The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries by Kathi Weeks
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“I think Ellie just tolerates me.”
– My boss addressing her concerns about me to one of my coworkers.
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“Let me be clear: to call these traditional work values into question is not to...”
– From the introduction to The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries by Kathi Weeks
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Sometimes I think the greatest obstacle is commenters on anarchistnews.org.
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anarcheluxemburg:
If you’re a real Marxist, you wouldn’t use money. Only linen. Exchange everything with linen. Like, I’ll trade you 20 linen, for what? 2 coats?
I took a terrible Marx class with a professor who didn’t properly understand the difference between exchange value and the labor theory of value and it caused all sorts of confusion as we fumbled through an intense class...
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“Work produces not just economic goods and services but also social and political...”
– From the introduction to The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries by Kathi Weeks
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“Indeed, as Postone observes, ‘‘on a deep, systemic level, production is not for...”
– From the introduction to The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries by Kathi Weeks
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“Waged work remains today the centerpiece of late capitalist economic systems; it...”
– From the introduction to The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries by Kathi Weeks
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Reminder to myself to better think through anti- or non-productive activity, self-care/self-indulgence and radical policing of behavior as discussed on lowendtheory, and the labor done by others that is necessary to allow myself to be “useless.”
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On Audre Lorde's Legacy and the "Self" of...
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[Image: from the Black Community Survival Conference, DeFremery (locally known as Lil’ Bobby Hutton) Park, Oakland, CA, March 29, 1972. I first encountered this image via Alondra Nelson’s brilliant book Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination.]
“If I were president, I would solve this so-called welfare crisis in a minute and go a long...
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Guide to the David Wojnarowicz Papers ca.... →
braidedhate:
Wojnarowicz’s papers available in an online database.
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April by Louise Glück
No one’s despair is like my despair—
You have no place in this garden
thinking such things, producing
the tiresome outward signs; the man
pointedly weeding an entire forest,
the woman limping, refusing to change clothes
or wash her hair.
Do you suppose I care
if you speak to one another?
But I mean you to know
I expected better of two creatures
who were given minds: if not
that you...
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I mean, if you’re going to be a transphobic piece of shit, at least get the terminology of your inaccurate analogy right.
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Dude, everyone knows it’s cis-Indian, not bio-Indian.
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When I eat something especially delicious I do this annoying thing where I can’t stop talking about how good it is. Every other bite I have to dramatically exclaim “Oh my god! This is soooo amazing!” Last night I wasn’t hungry but I took a bite of my partner’s veggie sausage, pepper, and onion hoagie and it was possibly the best thing I’ve eaten ever (or at...
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I’m trying so hard to remember my riseup.net email password so I can better recall why I’m not friends with a lot of people and find the amazing line someone wrote in “an email to the community” boldly defending rape jokes by invoking the long tradition of brazen comedy, including Italian clowns.
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I changed all of the “Important Moments of Crying in Art” series to just “Crying in Art” because the importance was lost long ago in favor of obsessive cataloging.
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Literally bored to tears
I cried at work today because I was so bored. It actually takes a lot to get me to cry nowadays.
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I still think that my true calling is to be a pun copywriter for catalogs.
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