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[fullpraxisnow]

“At the core of capitalism there is not only the symbiotic relation between waged-contractual labor and enslavement but, together with it, the dialectics of accumulation and destruction of labor-power, for which women have paid the highest cost, with their bodies, their work, their lives.”

– Silvia Federici | Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (2004)

[newwavefeminism]

Does anyone know the origin of this quote?

[theygetit]

This girl gets it.

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

just so you know

the US minimum wage that we all agree is too low to live on ($15,080/yr) is far more than many legally disabled people receive in benefits

the maximum SSI for a single person is $8,796/yr if a disabled person marries another, each drops to a max of $6,600/yr

while you’re fighting for 15 maybe look at that too

[fogblogger]

Not to mention we aren’t allowed to have more than $2,000 saved at a time. EVER. Like EVER or we lose all benefits completely. In the bank, in cash, it doesn’t matter. The government literally keeps us poor, while also making us pay immense amounts of money for health care that we require to even survive or function (let alone work enough to be able to get off of benefits, not to mention that there are a ton of people who will never be able to do that anyways). It’s a very, very broken system and not one that was ever meant to actually help anyone. 

Plus, “marriage equality” is still a huge problem for disabled people (as you can see), which is something almost everyone is ignorant to/doesn’t care about. 

DO NOT LEAVE DISABLED PEOPLE OUT OF YOUR ACTIVISM. 

[nocturnalvisionary]

Btw that’s $733 a MONTH they want us to use for rent, food, and everything else. I asked once why it’s so low- how that’s even fair. She responded that they only factor in how much it would cost for rent and for food (with food stamps). That’s it. That’s all the government thinks we need to live. Rent and food.

[illness-adnauseum]

And in case you weren’t aware, the disabled cost of living is much higher than the fully abled cost of living.

Mobility aids are expensive. Medications and supplements are expensive. Special diets to accommodate illnesses are expensive. Avoiding a long list of allergies is expensive. Wheelchair accessible home and car modifications are expensive. Hiring someone to do all your cleaning and laundry because you can’t is expensive.

And yet they still give us so little money that abled people couldn’t possibly live on it.

[fuckyeahfeminist]

As if the two are even close to equivalent.

[attndotcom]

[shencomix]

Travelogue, Week 7

image / twitter / facebook / patreon

[pastelpuddle-deactivated2018042]

maybe instead of walking a mile in someone elses shoes we should just believe that they walked that mile in the first place

think how much time we could save everyone if we didnt doubt the steps others have taken, just because we didnt experience it first-hand

[garfieldminusgarfield]

G-G the book - G-G on Facebook - G-G on Twitter

[grumble--grumble]

I liked the internet more when it wasn’t 20% advertising.

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[jessehimself]

Law Students Attempt to Lecture Law Professor About Black Lives Matter, Fails Miserably… 

Fantasy over reality

[constellations-soc]

Postcolonialists, over the past 35 years, have called for a dramatic change in the way colonialism is approached. The central concern is with the narrative of modernity. Modernity has both temporal and geographical dimensions. The temporal concerns rupture – the idea that at some point in time something happened to western societies which transformed them from pre-modern into modern societies. The Renaissance, the French Revolution and the industrial revolution form the key pillars of this story, together facilitating the Enlightenment, the emergence of democracy and the rise of capitalism in the West (Bhambra, 2007). This narrative reaffirms the idea that some places in the world are today modern, while some are not. Combined with the temporal variable, this logically means that some societies are ‘behind’ western societies, existing in their past rather than in a global present. Modernity is therefore commonly theorised as simultaneously distinctive and Western European in its origins. What is interesting for our case is that postcolonial scholars often generalise about Europe, implying that the whole continent might be subsumed into their critique. And yet not all of Europe pursued representative democracy, capitalism or human rights (key indicators of modernity) at the same point in time as the ‘western core’. This peripherality to conceptions of modernity raises interesting questions for sociology in postsocialist spaces.

Mayblin L, Piekut A and Valentine G (2016) “Other” Posts in “Other” Places: Poland through a Postcolonial Lens? Sociology 50(1):63 (via socio-logic)

[grumble--grumble]

I just want to be wanted by someone.  No more rejection and abandonment.

[themarysue]

Wolverine is a man’s man; he’s the ideal we aspired to, even if we didn’t always admit it. He is an important touchstone for so many comic nerds. The character isn’t entirely bad—he can inspire us to better ourselves. Heck, Wolverine is probably one reason I became a martial arts student, spent a lot of time and effort discovering that I loved foreign languages, and wanted to be a journalist, but his warmed-over Hemingway idea of manliness has outlived its sell-by date. It’s manhood as seen by a lonely teenager, and it’s time we all grew up.

Contributor Jesse Emspak places the toxic masculinity of nerd culture on Wolverine’s shoulders (x)