politics for cute girls

I think more girls should be Marxists

[jingerpi]

"I'm quite sure that people will look upon my attitude and sentiments and look for hypocrisy and hatred in my words

My revolution is born out of love for my people, not hatred for others"

-Immortal technique, poverty of philosophy

[jingerpi]

"At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality."

-Ernesto Che Guevara

[jingerpi]

“When you see people call themselves revolutionary always talking about destroying, destroying, destroying but never talking about building or creating, they’re not revolutionary. They do not understand the first thing about revolution. It’s creating.”

-Kwame Ture

[jingerpi]

Don't ever let my critiques or analysis of oppression be misconstrued as hatred for my fellow proletarians, the default state for proletarians is to be loved by me. You have to actively betray our class for me to find hatred there. I will defend the rights of the marginalized strata of our class to ruthlessly critique those who assist in their marginalization, but never be mistaken- I strive for solidarity with the whole proletariat, to anyone who will stand with us.

[jingerpi]

info:

Hi, I'm a queer woman in my 20s. I post about Marxism, (trans) feminism, and occasional media analysis or art. I'm white and from the imperial core, so do with that what you will. I'm also poly, plural, and disabled. that being said I'm not the biggest on labels and seek to understand things through materialist analysis rather than individualist identity.

Death to all settler colonialism.

tags:

#self post - a post which I have written with some degree of care or substance. can be a reblog too if I add a lot to it, these are posts I don't want to lose.

#talking - posts that are mostly text or where I'm OP, but aren't quite the level of detail or care of a "self post"

#art - self explanatory

#us politics - tag for us centric politics. i don't typically tag things critical of us politics as this, but rather things from within the country which are totalizing or "assume the viewer is usamerican" type posts.

#media stuff - tag for discussion of movies/anime/tv shows/games, sort of fandom adjacent discourse (tagged since I usually talk politics)

#pmmm - Madoka posts

#signalis - Signalis posts

#discourse - discourse topics that people may be tired of or involve responding to bad/incorrect "takes"

#discourse I guess? - technically discoursey but less weird

#marxism / #feminism / #trans feminism - mostly self explanatory. posts about those topics have the tags (usually)

content warnings are done with "#[topic] warning" and sometimes I will add a "#cw [thing]" when it is a common issue/tag e.g. "#cw sa"

[inkskinned]

Every day I handle more money than I will ever make. Every day.

At the start of my employment, my boss showed me videos of people stealing, and we both had a chuckle about it. How silly they were! There was a camera overhead, and it’s not to watch the shoppers. See, we can’t actually stop shoplifters. They get away with it maybe nine out of ten times. But we, who are watched and tallied and witnessed? We are always caught.

At first it was hard to hold one hundred dollars bills. An amount I had never seen before. An amount that didn’t exist in my household. It’s normal now. Here is something that is not for me.

“What the hell, I’ll take another,” says the man, pondering our 200 dollar watches. What the hell. Total comes to 580 and not even a flinch in his face. I have been working for 11 hours today and made only 110 dollars. It will go to my rent. Today I work for free, it feels. When I get my check, I will have 35 dollars left for food and saving.

The six hundreds he hands me go into the cash register. For a moment, I imagine having money. Then I put it away, counting out his change.

I know for a fact we sell our products for double what they are worth. That I could be making commission. That they could hand me those 580 dollars and change my life and not even mark the difference in their checkbooks. He’s not the only sale they make today, but I am the reason they made it. He’s not the only one spending 600 dollars, but if I hadn’t spent two hours with him telling me about his life, he wouldn’t have spent any. I go home. I don’t own a watch.

I have watched and rewatched a video on how to make salmon four ways. My shopping list is always the same. Pasta. Rice. Tuna. If I can afford butter it was a good week. I dream of the world I will never walk in, where I can throw the best fish fillet in the cart with a shrug. I hold hundreds in my hand and look up at the camera. I put them under the cash drawer.

I go to work. I scrap together my savings. I eat my bowl of rice slowly. My manager takes a paid week off from work just for his birthday. He owns a yacht. 

I’m not worth the cost of a watch.

[inkskinned]

i wrote this while i was working at orlando’s walt disney world parks.

i was part of their college program. i moved to the state for it. they legally owned the building i was living in and still charged me rent. i ostensibly was being charged to work for them. it was a 2 bedroom apartment and they placed 6 adult women in it in forced triples.

as many as one in ten disney employees have experienced homelessness while working for the company. despite huge efforts to unionize, strike, or otherwise demand fair treatment; disney has refused to increase employee quality of life.

disney admits publicly that a good portion of their success is because the employees (“cast members”) are dedicated, passionate, and selfless. this is never reflected in pay. even “face” characters (ie those that are princesses etc) make barely above a minimum wage.

at the time that i worked there, i made $8.50 an hour. at one point i was asked to create a human shield around a bag because a bomb dog had alerted to it. for eight fucking dollars an hour.

i now work a very cushy office job. i have bought the salmon and cooked it all four ways.

i go to the store. i am nice to the person behind the counter. she looks up at the camera while she counts out my change. there is nothing fundamentally different about her and i.

we are both worth more than the watch, anyway.

[marxistlesbianist]

Only a general women's movement has the power to liberate trans women, but only a union of trans women organized within such a movement has the power to ensure that it does liberate trans women. Likewise, only a proletarian socialist movement has the power to liberate women in general, but only a general union of women organized within the proletarian movement has the power to ensure that it does liberate women.

As an oppressed people, we cannot rely on the privileged classes to discover our own interests, but as a minority we also cannot rely on our independent forces to overthrow such powerful systems. A strategic alliance of all oppressed people's is needed to build socialism, whilst autonomous unions of oppressed people are needed to protect ourselves and advocate for our interests within the coalition.

Do not mistake the failures of particular movements in the US for an indication of the general impossibility of such a strategic alliance. The reactionary hegemony is a temporary phenomenon, whilst class struggle is the permanent condition of class society. No movement will appear if we don't build it, but history is on our side.

[jingerpi]

I really like that we can just put weird chemicals in our bodies and make them do strange things. kind of incredible luck that drugs exist

[jingerpi]

drug user (takes prescribed medication) (it's all drugs anyway the distinction is fake made to throw people in prison)

[jingerpi]

I really like that we can just put weird chemicals in our bodies and make them do strange things. kind of incredible luck that drugs exist

[jingerpi]

interesting how liberals will spend hours lecturing you on elections by fearmongering about an opposing candidate instead of actually saying any reasons you should vote for their preferred candidate but the moment you respond to their attacks of China by pointing out some issues are kinda unavoidable and this particular problem is in fact 50x worse in the U.S. they jump straight to screaming "whataboutism!!!" at the top of their lungs like you're 15 year olds in a debate club

[memories]

One iced latte with low-fat #awa milk, please.

[communist-hatsunemiku]

maika._.cosplay

[liminal-x-wave]

[curseworm]

the secret cheat code for women is realizing you dont have to date men

[curseworm]

this doesnt just go for lesbians it goes for bi women and straight women too. i cant even count how many times straight women have told me “i wish i was a lesbian so i didnt have to date men” but guess what … u Dont have to date men 

[curseworm]

to be clear this also isnt necessarily saying ‘go date women instead!!’ its just saying…. u dont have to date men. u dont have to be dating women in order to not date men! in fact if ur not attracted to women at all please dont date women just as a substitute for men. but if dating men isnt making u happy… u dont have to do that. u dont have to make a space in ur life for men

[curseworm]

im singlehandedly destroying every mans mental health by telling women its ok to not date them

[dear-girl-something]

kids will be like "appy juice is my favorite" and when you ask why theyll say its because of dialectical materialism

[dear-girl-something]

kids will be like "appy juice is my favorite" and when you ask why theyll say its because of dialectical materialism

[jingerpi]

[definitely didn't just get baited voice]: posting fake links that logs you out of Tumblr is actually transmisogynistic I think because it disproportionately affects girls who have to keep remaking and don't remember which login this most recent account is tied to

[jingerpi]

okay but for real I can't get back into my account 😭

[cannibal-flowerbomb]

Happy USAmerican Capitalist Copaganda month here's a "dyke" symbol because we have enough fucking pride flags.

Made by me by combining the transfeminism symbol with the commonly accepted lesbian symbol (Two Venus symbols side by side).

This symbol is not exclusive to anyone but rather represents a love of women by women and those who consider themselves to be aligned that encompasses all forms of sapphism and is strictly INCLUSIVE of transfems and transgender women. Because trans women are female, too. This is not up for debate if you are using this symbol.

This is otherwise a free to use/edit/repost/re-upload symbol representing all the feminist misandrist radical killjoy TMA (or TME if you're with it) dykes in your DNI. They're angry and misogynists should be scared because they aren't leaving.

Because I'm sick of the flags. I'm sick of the endless labeling. I'm picking up the old tools instead.

[husbanddaughter]

they literally deleted all existing reblogs of that post from existence btw<3

[m4timel]

[jingerpi]

[definitely didn't just get baited voice]: posting fake links that logs you out of Tumblr is actually transmisogynistic I think because it disproportionately affects girls who have to keep remaking and don't remember which login this most recent account is tied to

[shimeji-simulation]