shut up already @purposehorse - Tumblr Blog

the sean combs verdict is making people confront the dangers of the liberal feminist line on sex work before my very eyes. combs’ defenders say consent absolves him of any wrongdoing (which the court agrees), and the people unhappy with his acquittals are struggling to not say you can’t purchase consent, or that the presence of consent doesn’t preclude the presence of (sexual) exploitation. what radical feminists and communists have been saying for decades...😬

pure

the mere act of consenting to an act of labor does not negate the power dynamics that mediate said act of labor. consent does not render exploitation impossible. you can absolutely love your job, agree to the terms of employment, and still be exploited based on the power dynamics mediating said job. the liberal feminist line on sex work, which is the liberal line on labor in general, is that consent precludes exploitation. this ideology obfuscates abusers like sean combs and renders their violence invisible.

guerillas-of-history

Coordinadora Arauco-Malleco (CAM)

A Mapuche resistance group fighting against the historic discrimination and extreme poverty their people have suffered for centuries. They are heavily focused on combating the exploitation and expropiation of their ancestral lands.

whatevergreen

There are at least 1.9 million Mapuche people, mostly in Chile, and a lesser number in Argentina, with many active resistance groups.

Argentina's 'Trump' Javier Milei is targetting them:

Some 40 people form a circle on the dusty, late-summer grass. Following days of uncertainty and fear, cut off from most forms of communicati

All oppressed people have the right to violence

official-lucifers-child

every time i think, i take 10 damage

biglawbear

And every time we kiss I swear I could fly

x-unnamedgraves-x

goth neofamily featured in neopets art gallery #41 (2001)

smallsups

"on top of the mound / all covered in mound / i lost the stick i found / when a creature popped out"

-me, b. 3/28/1996

"there once was a very tall mound / whose top was all covered in mound / and inside was the mound / and below was the ground / and I sat with my friend on the mound"

-lea, b. 3/28/1997

unsubconscious

Musical accumulation and sitting at Parco Sempione, Milan, Italy, by Armand Pierre Fernandez, 1973

showstudio

florian hetz

butchfagminotaur

i think the clearest thing to notice is that lots of trans ppl are generally happy and excited to be trans and to exist and t*rfs are fucking miserable every minute of every day

purposehorse

this is extremely not true

#being brutalized makes you unhappy #my stereotype of terfs is middle class and lacking critical consciousness

primordialangels

Jiro Matsumoto's Wendy (1996)

amare-habeo

Frida Kahlo (Mexican, 1907-1954)

Frida’s plaster corset with a hammer and sickle (and unborn baby), circa 1950

Dry plaster and mixed media

legendary-scholar-deactivated20

St. George’s Collegiate Church in Tübingen, Germany. A window in St. Georges Collegiate church in Tubingen, Germany, showing a man being executed on the Catherine wheel. The window was installed by the Duke of Wuerttemberg as atonement for wrongly executing an innocent man.