Capitalism has turned the legitimate organizing and activism efforts of everyday people seeking support and care for their communities into a competitive spectacle. Activism is in its flop era. That’s an uncharitable characterization, but based on current events and public sentiment it’s an apt one in the wake of CBS’ announcement for their soon to...
Author: Adrie Rose (Adrie Rose)
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To Say That Disability Will Disappear When Capitalism Does is Eugenics, Not Liberation Theory
The greatest insistence that I can somehow power through my disability comes from the people that claim that my brain would simply work if capitalism was eradicated. CW/TW: Ableist language, eugenics I don’t know who decided that “Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder” was an accurate or effective description of what ADHD does to a person, but...
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I Wish I Could Put My Caribbean Culture On A Plate And Eat It Before It Disappears
My mother tells a story of coming to a foreign country as a child, feeling isolated and unmoored from the Caribbean culture that shaped her, but finding an anchor in food. My grandfather taught my mother to cook. He imparted his understanding of and love and respect for food. She talks about it often. Standing...
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Idea: Only Fans PPV but it’s Me Fighting Bella Thorne
My life is not made better by Bella Thorne treating me, or my fellow sex workers, like lab rats to be studied for, apparently fabricated research. Not to participate in internalized whorephobia or whatever, but I wish this new wave of alleged sex worker allyship would end. Look, I get it. We’re six months into...
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How Capitalism Destroyed the Potential of Afropunk
It is clear that Afropunk has been bastardised and its original mission has been degraded into nothingness. I remember my first concert like it was yesterday. I was sixteen and my best friend and I were in love with Jackson Rathbone of Twilight fame. Learning that he was the frontman of a short-lived folk band...
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Enough Of The Disappointing And Violent White Moderate
A white moderate would sooner set me on fire, douse the flames, and then accuse me of harassment for asking why they lit the match. I have to be honest, I don’t give a fuck about American politics. Maybe local politics a little bit, but in the larger sense, I don’t care about electoral politics....
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The Criminal Justice System: Returning Citizens Share Their Perspectives
The loudest voices discussing the criminal justice system often aren’t the voices we should be listening to. Three returning citizens share their stories here. In September 2019, the 34th Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania, John Fetterman, stated plainly and clearly that his one goal for his term is to keep people from dying needlessly in prison....