mid-way pride month check-in
just saw someone comment under a videoclip of the sylvia rivera interview where she insists on the modern (circa 2001) pride movement being a capitalist smokescreen, a “straight gay” movement that worships the almighty dollar, that:
and this person is likely quite young but this really really really captures the limited imagination of capitalist neoliberal indoctrination around freedom and liberation. radical queerness treated as a paintjob over a prison as opposed to the bulldozer that tears the prison down. we have to dream for so much more and endure the pain of dreaming.
#the queer owned small business third space community events venue posts a help wanted thing at least once a month #wherein they ask for someone to have availability ALL DAY six days a week. to work. a grand total of 15-20 hours during said week #the position is actually three jobs in a trenchcoat sounds extremely stressful and pays minimum wage #they also don't pay most of their artists because it's supposed to somehow be mutual aid to let people perform there #the coffee is ten dollars and their pastries are from Sysco
