i’m seeing way too many takes from grown ass leftists who should know better that downplay the increasing puritanism of our culture being connected to the larger spread of fascism at large worldwide and it’s quite disappointing
I think a lot of the faux concern about young people being “prudish”/“anti-sex” is not only reductive but largely an expression of adults’ feelings of entitlement to sexual access of vulnerable young people and seeing them working to set boundaries on that access enrages people.
we're getting boring shit because the mass consolidation of creative capital under media conglomerates incentivizes the constant churning out of formulaic, easily digestible images and stories ... i wish this critique wasn't so misplaced :/
@ChloeNumberIII
right, like gerwig was making a point about how toxic men can be about movies, not pigeonholeing the godfather, so it’s weird that ppl are interpreting it as the latter
like can u ppl be serious for a second? u know very well that the problem is not The Children, it’s the wider culture that feeds them increasingly reactionary conservative propaganda wrt gender and sexuality
how is it not ABUNDANTLY clear by now that the downplaying of sexual liberation as a serious leftist political goal has allowed rampant transphobia to fester and spread in liberal US and UK
-naively hoping they’ll “figure shit out eventually”. who’s gonna teach them exactly? algorithms, which we know for a fact espouse reactionary propaganda? let’s stop pretending that a widespread culture of silence abt sex doesn’t affect our society’s youngest and most vulnerable
and furthermore, we as knowledgeable adults have a responsibility and obligation to give children and teens access to accurate and affirming education on gender and sexuality. it is massively irresponsible and dismissive to simply “leave kids to their own devices”-
grown ass ppl who claim to be Politically Educated pooh-poohing away their chance to potentially transform youth sex education on a massive scale as part of a wider project of liberation. please bffr
@prisonculture
was just reading a paper last night on queering care work and it said that the ppl who hold on to the illusion of being 100% autonomous under capitalism depend on service/care work the most. struck me hard
“wow i didn’t know punk was a poster” punk was posting about hating cops and homophobes on livejournal before many of us even thought to begin our posting careers. put some respect on that man’s name
NEWS: Kao Saelee, the incarcerated California firefighter who was facing deportation to Laos, has been released from ICE. He spent 22 yrs in prison + then ten months in ICE jail, after CA handed him over to immigration authorities.
Today, he finally reunited with his family
anybody who’s cooked w both sriracha and gochujang knows that they’re extremely different condiments w extremely different properties and uses. just say u think all asians are the same and go LOL
@prisonculture
this is why it pissed me off so bad when liberals were using that "this is accountability, not justice" line after the chauvin verdict ... the verdict was neither accountability nor justice :|
@WrittenByHanna
u know how like, ben carson has done insane miraculous successful surgeries but also believes that aliens made the pyramids... not all intelligence is the same ig 😭
@Angela3vino
His wife Lisa Joy is one lucky lady and also an extremely talented, beautiful, and accomplished writer/director. I highly recommend listening to both her & Jonathan’s episodes of the David Chang podcast.
not to play the fucking race card but this is a great example of what feels 100% fake to me about the recent wave of support for asian-americans. i didn't mention this in the thread but obviously the fact that my parents and i are chinese is a huge part of the picture here
more pics from the shoot courtesy of
@artvojd
!! if someone were to buy the copy linked in the source above and post hq scans the iwc would thank u forever lmao 💘
@DykeToziers
@dykeprivilege
hello ! not op but yes, close to the knives is his most famous autobiographical work. some other titles he authored:
-memories that smell like gasoline (his last published book)
-in the shadow of the american dream (his published diaries)
-the waterfront journals
Text messages between Elizabeth Holmes and Sunny Balwani today at the
#Theranos
trial.
Holmes:
"You are the breeze in desert for me."
"My water."
"And ocean."
"Meant to be only together tiger."
Balwani: "OK"