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Eli Clare is a “poet, activist, rabble rouser, and teacher” whose books include Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberationand The Marrow’s Telling: Words in Motion. Check out his poetry and writings onhis website (particularly his lectures) and on youtube.
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So much awesome.
Every day.
no victory is too small to celebrate by doing a silly dance around your living room while wearing only socks and underwear.
When you step outside the circle of anarchy, the circle of radicals, the righteous, it becomes so BLATANT just how true the phrase “the masses are asses” is. It’s daunting. The vast majority of our society is at least one of the following: racist, sexist, ableist, homophobic, transphobic, etc. I mean, SO MANY PEOPLE are sexist and don’t have a clue that they are. And when you step outside of that circle and realize a sea of people like that awaits you, it’s overwhelming. All I want to do is open eyes, change something, help people understand, but it seems the LOT of them are avidly against you. Go to one random forum, tell someone that saying something like “you and you’re bleeding vagina are overreacting!” is a misogynist comment and spell the word ‘womyn’ and I PROMISE you there will be a huge slew of comments mocking you for that. Womyn telling you they don’t see the misogyny there. (I mean like, seriously, are you blind?) Tons of oh-so-self-righteous keyboard-ready internet-heads just so eager to mock you, to one up themselves by making sure you know how ridiculous they think you are. The amount of people, this slew, that always shows in large numbers, seem so vast compared to those of us that get it that it overwhelms me. I feel like, what the fuck can I do? You know? I can only open up so many minds, if any! There will be such a large amount of ignorance left.
It is painful because I will always have to deal with that. Being aware is painful because I can never un-see all the things I’ve realized. I will always be alert and aware of all the ridiculous things most people participate in. It is daunting and draining and hopeless. Yet I am forever committed to speaking my truth. It’s like I’m bound to be exhausted.
RSA Animate - Crises of Capitalism (via boiteaoutils)
After studying critical/marxist social theory indirectly for so long, I recently decided to crack open The Communist Manifesto. I’m surprised by how fun of a read it is, especially when compared with how dry the academic discussion of it tends to be. This video, largely the drawings, seem a close parallel to the fun, dare I say humor, of Marx’s original work.
Queer Insurrection: Dear HRC / liberal gay agenda / Courage Campaign:
Fuck you.
As a gay and lesbian movement, we are portrayed as depoliticized, harmless homosexuals who want the American dream of a fucking white picket fence and a white baby (maybe an…
