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Claire Keane

@theartofmadeline
DEAR READER
RMH
Xuebing Du
Jules of Nature
Today's Document
Monterey Bay Aquarium
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Janaina Medeiros
hello vonnie
ojovivo
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
Alisa U Zemlji Chuda
almost home

Product Placement
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
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Kiana Khansmith
i don't do bad sauce passes
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Reblog if you, too, are not dead- only tired and ugly.
“It turns out, when you get the cervix-havers and menstruators and non-prostate owners and front-hole owners all together, there’s at least one English term that applies perfectly efficiently to them, and only to them. That word is ‘female’. Of course, an arguably even more accessible, familiar and useful English word is ‘woman’.
Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism — Kathleen Stock
I have never bought a book so fast in my life
A leopard, two tigers and a magpie, Korean School, 19th century
I just found out from my sister that in the new West Side Story THEY MAKE ANYBODYS TRANS ???? And she was acting like it was so progressive and every time I...a detransitioner... show a negative opinion of trans stuff, she literally walks away from the conversation because I'm too bigoted to be interacted with. So to avoid that reaction I just sat and nodded and smiled while being so angry that they turned the only gender-nonconforming woman in this historic play... into a man ...
what the fucking fuck you can't have one Fucking woman with short hair, not even a straight one anymore before she gets chemically castrated and surgically altered.w
I HATE THIS PLACE
Let me mention four … non-economic conditions for the possibility of a capitalist economy. The first is a sizeable fund of unwaged labour devoted to ‘social reproduction’. This labour includes housework; the birthing and rearing of children; the care of adults, including wage workers, the elderly, and the unemployed – all aimed at the making and sustaining of human beings. These activities of ‘people-making’ constitute an indispensable precondition for ‘profit-making’. Without them there could be no ‘workers’, no ‘labour power’, no necessary or surplus labour time, no exploitation, no surplus value, no accumulation of capital, no profit. Yet capital accords them no value, is unconcerned to replenish them, and seeks to avoid paying for them insofar as it can. The second ‘non-economic’ precondition for a capitalist economy is a large fund of wealth expropriated from subjugated peoples, especially from racialized peoples. This wealth includes dependent, unfree, and unwaged or under-waged labour, but also expropriated land, looted mineral and energy deposits, human bodies and bodily organs, children and reproductive capacities – all serving as inputs to capitalist production for which capital pays little or nothing. Expropriated wealth was an indispensable source of capital stockpiling at the start of capitalism’s history, as Marx maintained; but it did not cease with the system’s ‘maturation’. On the contrary, the capitalist economy relies even now on a continuing stream of free or cheap inputs as a major source of accumulation, alongside and inter-imbricated with exploitation. Absent such expropriation of subject peoples, the exploitation of ‘free workers’ would not be profitable. Yet capital disavows its reliance on such wealth and refuses to pay for its replenishment. A third ‘non-economic’ precondition for a capitalist economy is a large fund of ‘free gifts’ and/or cheap inputs from non-human nature. These supply the indispensable material substratum of capitalist production: the raw materials that labour transforms; the energy that powers machines and the foodstuffs that power bodies; hence, arable land, breathable air, potable water, and the carbon-carrying capacities of the earth’s atmosphere. Absent these natural-ecological conditions, there could be no economic producers or social reproducers; no wealth to expropriate or free labour to exploit; no capital or capitalists. Yet capital treats nature as a source of free or very cheap gifts to which it helps itself but fails to replenish or repair. A fourth and final ‘non-economic’ precondition for a capitalist economy is a large fund of public goods supplied by states and other public powers. These include legal orders that guarantee property rights, contracts, and free exchange; repressive forces that ensure order, put down rebellions, manage dissent, and enable expropriation both within and beyond state territory; a money supply that stores value and enables transactions across broad swaths of time and space; transport and communications infrastructure; and a variety of mechanisms for managing system crises. Absent these public goods, there could be no social order, no trust, no exchange – hence no sustained accumulation. Yet capital tends to resent public power and seeks to evade the taxes that are necessary sustain it.
Nancy Fraser, What Should Socialism Mean in the 21st Century? (via shrinkrants)
Sleeping squirrels in their nest on someone’s windows ledge
Gossip is being celebrated as a radical tool for fighting oppression
https://thebaffler.com/latest/the-miseducation-of-lady-bird-oyler
The calculations required to build the blockchain ledger could be done on a 2007 iPhone or a Raspberry Pi — all the rest of the electricity is literally wasted, just to run a lottery to decide who gets the bitcoins this time. All those computers doing Bitcoin mining just buy 14 sextillion lottery tickets every ten minutes, with one winner. That’s the “work” that mining wants “proof” of — generating lottery tickets. You show your commitment, and how much you deserve the Bitcoins, by wasting power faster than everyone else.
Blog Post: “Bitcoin’s stupendous power waste is green, apparently” https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2018/05/22/bitcoins-stupendous-power-waste-is-green-apparently-bad-excuses-for-proof-of-work/
list of mundane things that feel like ancient human rituals
cleaning or wipe your bare feet
breaking off a piece of bread and handing it to someone
putting the weight of a basket on your hip or head
eating nuts or berries while hunched over close to the ground
seeing something startling just out of your line of sight and very quickly stepping or leaping on to a larger object to get a better view
cupping your hands into running water to wash your face
the unanimous protection of a baby or child in a public space where women are present
when an elderly woman laughs and grips your forearm tightly
Powerful stuff. This says so much about the brutal realities of patriarchy.
If sexism were obsolete it might. But it’s not.
Article by Meghan Murphy “It would be nice to live in a time when sex-specific categories were no longer necessary, because everyone was on an equal playing field, but this is not the world we live in. Indeed, the reason affirmative action laws and programmes were created was in order to address the fact that certain groups are historically and systemically marginalised and discriminated against. We know that women and people of colour don’t have access to the same financial resources, jobs, and positions of power that white men do. We know that white men have been overrepresented on film, television, and in the music industry, as well as in the literary world, in politics, and in positions of power, in general. … In an article headlined, “The New VMAs Categories For 2017 Are More Progressive & All About The Music,” published last month at Bustle, Alexis Paige Williams applauded the “non-gendered categories” as being “in keeping with the progressive precedent the music channel set earlier this year”. How progressive? So progressive that men outnumbered women as nominees and as award winners. Women, Williams found, had only a 28.8 per cent chance of winning what has been renamed a “Moon Person,” while men had a cushy 83.1 per cent chance. Unsurprisingly, the result of this imbalance resulted in further imbalance, and men won every single category, with the exception of a couple of collaboration tracks. … And if sexism were obsolete and dated, I might agree. But it’s not.”
Women’s opinions are constantly policed because opinions are part of the public sphere and, under a patriarchal system, women are to remain in the private sphere. (The notion that someone should “come and fix” Ngozi Adichie’s politics speaks to this policing.)
http://www.feministcurrent.com/2017/03/20/third-waves-tokenization-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-anything-intersectional/
Part of the business of tyranny is to bankrupt certain words of meaning so that they become, in the process, destitute.
Michael Chabon, adapted
If the fathers of capitalist theory (Hobbes, Smith, Locke) had chosen a mother instead of a single bourgeois male as the smallest economic unit for their theoretical constructions they would not have been able to formulate the axiom of the selfish nature of human beings the way they did.
Maria Mies and Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen, The Subsistence Perspective: Beyond the Globalised Economy (via physicalfeministresources)
Sobonfu Somé, A (M)otherworld is Possible: Questions & Comments Part 2