Professor Cooldad @dconley@witches.town

"I should listen to PWR BTTM!"
"wait why can't I find any of their music"
*checks wikipedia*
"fucking god dammit"

(tl;dr they're abusers, cw assault)

My son's baseball games have gone from wonderful outdoor activity to being an hour and a half of mental agony. They're... they're not good.

What did Minecraft guy do this time?

(I'm still laughing about when he was sad about being so rich)

✨ I feel like I need some glitter for this look ✨

#cutewitches
https://witches.town/media/Rn5vjVMl9qPPctIW_7Y

Should I have cw'd this? Sorry if so. I don't feel like I've had the opportunity to have this kind of discussion, even in a shouting-into-the-void kind of way, in a long time, so I'm really enjoying it. I know I'm long winded, but that's sort of part of the point of the exercise.

And I am *absolutely* here for the intersection of queer and class, i.e. not thinking cis white gay men "making it" is sufficient. Prioritizing "working class" queer people, especially QPOC, is very important.

(But that's making sure class politics informs my queer politics, not that my queer politics "are" class politics)

But I might be missing the point, or focusing on that in lieu of the broader thesis. eg a paragraph later, "The emphasis and dogged maintenance of the heterosexual nuclear family is a product of capitalism. All who violate it are criminalized."

See the professor who was arrested for "breaking into" his own house. He was fairly high in class but his race didn't protect him from the police. Class was not the all-important factor there. And ignoring intersectionality in favor of class struggle is only going to fuck us.

"Rather than dissecting who we are and dividing ourselves into neat compartments that await token representatives to 'intersect' our oppressions for us, is it possible to see that these oppressions are manifestations of class oppression?"

I still think I see class as one of the intersections of kyriarchy, and possibly one of the more important ones, but not the only one.

About halfway done with "Queer Liberation Is Class Struggle" now. I think it has the same viewpoint as that Jacobin livetweet that caused a stir a while back, that intersectionality hurts the class movement, but says it much better/less obviously shitty. I'm not sure if I agree, but I'm willing to think about it.

Somehow* I came away from the art festival mostly with things from the local revolutionary bookstore

(*this is not all that surprising)
https://witches.town/media/xtMmaCy9fcThPwZy1I8

Is it physically possible to hear Hungry Like the Wolf and not sing along to the "do do do do" part?