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[aaliyahbreaux]

help keep a black trans woman off the streets

hey guys its aaliyah! a few days ago my land lord basically told me my female roommates aren’t comfortable sharing a room with me because I’m transgender??? they said tht me being transgender & having friends over (which wasnt detailed in the craigslist ad) is huge problem & I’m basically being given a month to leave. if you follow me on IG you know I’ve been trying to get a new job because my current one at starbucks hasnt been cutting it. they barely giving me any hours & because of that I’ve had to reduce my savings these past couple months from $400 to $100 just to get by. Good news is I found a new place in the area tht I can afford Bad news is its gonna be $900 to move ib (monthly $600 plus $300 deposit) if there is any way yall could spare a couple bucks each to help me get there I would more than appreciate it.

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[guerrillatech]

[yugiohz]

mr. and mrs. movingcastle are ready for summer

[aly-semi-archived-deactivated20]

Capitalism is getting very much more dystopian very quickly

[queeranarchism]

It’s a matter of time before companies start their own Pod-communities and ‘strongly encourage’ workers to live there and set up rules like no alcohol and no defamation of the company in the Pods. 

As nightmarish as this is (and it is), this is only new for documented white people. From seasonal archiculture workers to construction workers to sweatshops, ‘sleep where you work and live your whole life controlled by your boss and coworkers pressured to spy on you’, has been very much a thing for a looooooooong time. 

This is one of many things capitalism has always done to workers and now they’re going “hhmmmm.. if I can do this to some workers, why not all of them? if I present it as a hip new way of urban living people for the ‘freelancers’ that I exploit, I might even be able to do it without the armed guards that run my sweatshops and plantations.”

[yyyyddmmsupremacy-deactivated20]

I don’t really get the issue with the “sex is banned” part tho

[queeranarchism]

I don’t want to hyperfocus on that part because ‘live without privacy, convert your bed into a desk by day and just work work work’ is distopian enough as it is and I don’t really want to distract from a conversation about the new fuedalism to just talk about sex. 

But can you not understand how that monotomous soulless life defined by work becomes even more soulless when you are not permitted to engage in (what is for most allosexuals) one of the most intimate moments of recreational joy and interpersonal connection? & how much it says about our lack of power when we live in places that control our sexual and reproductive lives? 

[yyyyddmmsupremacy-deactivated20]

well yeah, but it’s communal living. I mean you’re spot on with the rest but idk, a ban on sex when you share your living quarters with like two dozen other people? it doesn’t seem that deep tbh. 

[queeranarchism]

You know, I’ve spend time in socialist and anarchist self-organized communal living spaces where lots of people shared bedrooms because they liked it and all these spaces had a place for sex. They all acknowledged that that was a thing many humans loved and valued and so they organized to make that good thing possible. Some had a spare room with a lock on the inside that couples could use, others had dorms where sex was okay and dorms where it was not so people could choose where to sleep. It is not difficult to have communal living for those that like sharing bedrooms and also organize a place for sex. 

This, however, is not communal living. This is crammed, dehumanized corporate living. This is squeezing as many people as possible into a space defined by work. The inhabitants own nothing in this space and have no control over their environment, they can’t even paint the walls let along organize the space to meet their needs. In such a space, sex is made impossible on purpose:

“We built the pods facing each other so the community polices itself”

The people that made this could have organized privacy and opportunities for sex. They deliberately did not do this, they dilerabetely designed the space for minimum privacy. The purposeful banning of sex from this space is just one part, but one very obvious part, of the way these spaces are not build for humans, they are build for employees whose whole identity should be limited to their productivity. 

[hopesterling]

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, mining communities and factory towns encouraged workers to join their ranks by offering company housing and company stores, where workers and their families wouldn’t have to worry about money, because their rent and whatever they wanted from the store would simply be deducted from their paychecks.

Didn’t take long for workers to realize they were spending over 100% of their paychecks, and would have to work the rest of their lives in soul-crushing poverty to pay the company back.

[patrickat]

Slavery isn’t gone, it just changed its name.

[vampireadamooc]

Adding to what @robstmartin has to say:

“I sold my soul to the company store” isn’t just a line in a song, it’s about Miner’s Scrip. When coal mines forced their employees to live in company housing, paid them in company credit usable only in the literal company store, and they charged astronomical rates for rent and food. 

Most miners ended up in multi-generational debt because their wages were so low they could not afford the basic necessities of food, clothing and shelter and ended up owing so much to the company store their grandchildren would essentially be enslaved to the company to pay off the debt.

This becomes especially chilling when you realize Cheeto Supremo ran on a policy of “bring back coal jobs”.

[terriblejoker-deactivated202202]

This is just deadass feudalism 2 Electric Boogaloo

[zenosanalytic]

Gilded Age exploitation popping up at a time when Gilded Age inequality has returned. That’s not a coincidence. I can’t speak for the Tories, but in the US bringing ^^^THIS^^^ back has been the goal of the Republicans since the New Deal.

[gehayi]

By the way, the lyric isn’t “I sold my soul to the company store.” It’s “St. Peter, don’t you call me, ‘cause I can’t go/I OWE my soul to the company store.” Which is a hell of a lot bleaker, and, given how expensive company stores were and how deeply in debt employees could be when they died, painfully accurate.

[white-throated-packrat]

Here’s a playlist of pre-1970s American bluegrass music about how much coal mining is trying to kill you – you worked for a company, lived in company housing, shopped at company stores, owed the company money, and got to die of black lung disease at the age of 50: https://www.allmusic.com/album/music-of-coal-mining-songs-from-the-appalachian-coalfields-mw0000490027

We don’t need that to be a revived economic model for the future, thanks.

[peachdoxie]

@thatbanjobusiness

[oxidi]

Bolwoningen is a Dutch community in Den Bosch, Netherlands. It consists of 50 spherical houses grouped together with winding paths between them. The community was built in 1984 by artist and sculptor Dries Kreijkamp with a grant from the government to build experimental housing.

Each Bolwoning (literally ‘bulb house’, or ‘ball house’) is constructed with reinforced concrete and fiberglass. Each house has three main levels, with storage in bottom. The top space features unique round windows that offer panoramic views. The houses have been and continue to be occupied since the community was first constructed.

[oozins]

mosquito bite poem

[oozins]

poem transcript :

i’m getting kissed under clover crowns. i’m getting kissed

in the church parking lot

while our lady of sorrows looks right at me, fresh flowers lain at her feet.

i’m getting kissed in the purple jaw

of night,

this

nameless thing where you dance and i watch.

where i look up with big eyes, and

meet you. where you try to

get me to believe in something

terrible and true and tender.

still. i’m getting kissed like a new thing. i

don’t want to confuse instinct and desire.

i bite down and mean it i let myself

want that small place where your neck meets your

strong shoulders i think about your hands,

in relation to other things, and

sigh into the thought.

because you say “i want you to be happy.

even if it costs a little blood”

i just smile and smile and you miracle grin at me, watching me

ruddied and trembling but your teeth are

beside the point (lie). maybe

the point is that even with all this blood i

still shake blues and purple bruise

when you look at me, laureled, heart pumping

quick blood, and say my name.

i can’t believe you wanted to dance with me back then.

i can’t believe i speak and you listen—

nameless thing where you say ‘please?’ and i say ‘yes.’

i’ll meet you. i’ll keep meeting you in the middle of all this hurt.

the center of my fresh wound— a soft, pink thing.

i get to know you for two more days. but i’ll get to tuck this half memory sweet into the

soft part of my mouth for the rest of the summer

[jadenvargen]

scorchin

[jadenvargen]

print for anyone interested ^__^ https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/jadenvargen/scorching-hot/

[11990904]

source

[valtsv]

gay, straight, whatever. we all want someone to take us to the aquarium.

[jadenvargen]

jesse from breaking bad top surgery

[strayhopes]

The number of messages I’ve failed to answer across all my devices and media platforms will be weighed against my soul on judgment day, and I will be cast into hell

[layinsomesoftdirtdude]

@erinaskelley

[marauders-in-pajamas]

just having a moment with these three

[gexrgiakitty]

reblog this with your sign and your best friend’s sign because I wanna see

[lezzysel]

unplugging your phone from the charger is like picking a fruit.

[campaignagainstcliche]

- Ursula K. Le Guin

[aguacatito]

[ID: Le Guin: Well, to preach that story is conflict, always to ask “where’s the conflict in your story?” —this needs some thinking about. If you say that story is about conflict, that plot must be based on conflict, you’re limiting your view of the world severely. And in a sense making a political statement: that life is conflict, so in stories conflict is all that really matters. This is simply untrue. To see life as a battle is a narrow, Social-Darwinist view, and a very masculine one. Conflict, of course, is part of life, I’m not saying you should try to keep it out of your stories, just that it’s not their only lifeblood. Stories are about a lot of different things.]

[c86]

Luke Gilford spent four years immersing himself in LGBTQ+ rodeo culture – and discovered a world where steer-roping meets lip-sync battles and camp glamour

[layinsomesoftdirtdude]

lol my surgery date got moved up which is! awesome for me but also means i dont get to go 2 graduation teehee (: