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has anyone noticed recently that it's expensive
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Mimikyu V (2022) - Brilliant Stars Illustrator: saino misaki
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[“Why were Communists like Flynn so opposed to homosexuality, when they were—for the most part—on the progressive side of so many other civil rights issues? Bettina Aptheker, a queer feminist academic who was raised in the party (and who knew Elizabeth Gurley Flynn), cites three reasons. First, paralleling the claims of the US government, the Communist Party USA expelled homosexuals as potential security risks, because they could be blackmailed into naming other party members. When Aptheker came out as a lesbian in the late 1970s, an older comrade told her that “sex was solely for reproduction,” and during the 1950s “she was instructed by the Party leadership to talk with several women comrades about their sexuality… [and] ask them to leave the Party” for security reasons. Neither this comrade nor the women she helped expel ever protested the party line.
On a deeper level, Aptheker points out, the party was as misogynistic as any other institution in the 1950s, and there was “no critical analysis… of the family, or of its patriarchal character.”62 Questions of domestic violence or sexual abuse were considered “private and personal matters.” The party conjured up an imaginary, idealized working-class (heterosexual) family, which was the archetype we would all return to when the toxic effects of capitalism had been destroyed. Under this rubric, queerness was envisioned as (at best) a decadent by-product of the capitalist system, which would naturally go extinct when the workers’ revolution came.
Finally, the party was firmly opposed to any politics that undermined the central place of the class struggle, whether they were feminist, homophile, or anti-racist. As much as these issues could be integrated into a worldview that prioritized class, the Communist Party embraced them. And much as individual members of the party were more accepting of queer sexuality than the party line acknowledged, some were also critically engaged in anti-colonial, anti-racist, and feminist organizing, despite the party’s overall hesitance on these issues. But officially, this work was often seen as a distraction, or even a sign of capitalist indoctrination—a mode of thinking that would be carried over to many of the activist movements of the next two decades.”]
hugh ryan, the women’s house of detention: a queer history of a forgotten prison, 2022
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Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?
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Translation request for @spraxinoscope
Original video on Bilibili. English added by me :)
To offer more insight into this guy's whole schtick as requested, he is dressed as a Taoist/Daoist priest. He is located in Thailand according to his Bilibili bio and his username translates to TacticalJoe. The seals on his gun are talismans, which are a practice in Daoism popular seen in TV and television. I couldn't make out exactly what his say, but the first characters seems to be 恶莫[...] indicating that it's a ward against evil, or a lucky/protective talisman, probably meant to imbue the bullets with extra power. Chinese online culture has a tradition of dressing up for the bit but where the costume comes in specifically is likely due to the fact that words associated with Daoism, such as 道 (dào; the way) and 法 (fǎ; method) are also found in words related to firearms; 弹道 (ballistics), and 枪法 (marksmanship), for example. There's also a certain novelty/edginess in dressing up in the garb of a religion that promote harmony and just blasting away. Plus, he usually says something sort of irreverently related to Daoism in most of his videos. Hope that helps clarify a little!
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Uffe Isolotto, Danish pavillon, 59th Venice biennale.
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my husband has this image saved for whenever i grow distant
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[“There are many competing definitions of socialized medicine, but the term is generally understood to incorporate a number of common characteristics. First, from a liberatory standpoint, socialized medicine is principally understood as a more equitable distribution of medical care, or healthcare, in which this distribution ceases to be a matter of whether an individual’s class, finances, race, ability, or gender preclude them from receiving needed care. Second, socialized medicine is understood to be a program taken up by the state and provided to those recognized within its borders as its citizens, though not always to those the state does not recognize as its own. Finally, socialized medicine is often thought of as a state welfare program that can capably be situated within an otherwise capitalist state.
We take issue with these definitions, as they can serve to limit our imaginary for what is possible under health communism. Equitable distribution, or redistribution, is an important goal, but what is necessary is to move categorically further. We share the sentiments expressed by others in international health justice fights: health communism means all care for all people. While this is often expressed through appeals of need— that “everyone should receive the care they need”— we advocate for a more expansive approach than this.
As we will discuss, the determination of need has become inculcated within capitalist logics and what we will describe, in WASTE, as a determination of an individual’s “debt/eugenic burden” relative to social provision of care, treatment, or support a state deigns to provide. Similarly, our project advocates for an essentially internationalist approach to health communism. We will not separate health from capital by fighting for minor reforms that perpetuate the segmentation and policing of state borders and boundaries. We call for a radical abundance of care that functionally casts off centuries of ideologies of austerity, subjection, and extraction.
It is therefore important to recognize that, even as we fight within the US for policies like Medicare for All, the task at hand is much greater than one program could capture. It is the total reformation of the political economy of health, and in so doing, the total reformation of the political economy. This is why, we argue, while many states may have systems that are referred to as “socialized medicine”—like the United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS)—in reality no such system of truly socialized medicine exists, or can exist, within the capitalist state. Perhaps this is why, among all the social democracies that have instituted some form of socialized medicine, none have achieved communism. Countries with broad socialized medicine and social welfare programs routinely still maintain their surplus populations with overt antagonism. Our trans comrades have fled the UK to continue their hormone therapy, in the face of artificial barriers imposed by the NHS’s Gender Identity Clinic system. Our disabled comrades in Canada hold disdain for the social democratic politicians in the US who point to the Canadian Medicare system as a panacea that should be reproduced, rather than the engine of austerity and repression they experience it as. Despite having “socialized medicine,” these social democracies are still, at their heart, imperialist and capitalist states. As Vicente Navarro has written, “The British National Health Service is not a socialist island within a capitalist state.”]
health communism, by beatrice adler-bolton and artie vierkant, 2022
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