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Chronic illness, probably neurodivergent. White & anti-whiteness. #SolarPunk #Climate #DeGrowth #StrawBale #LivingMachine #Construction #Engineering #Crochet #GreenBuilding #SciFi #Anarchy
Liberals DNI. Just kidding, I love you liberals. Don't block me just because I'm right

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SallyStrange , to bookstodon group
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(Some) ignorant leftbros: "Class first! No idpol!"

Scholars of right wing politics/economics: "All these right-wing thinkers are much more comfortable thinking about the blurred lines between sexual and economic politics than many thinkers on the left. And they understand that Keynesianism rests on a certain kind of sexual contract. Any challenge to this order—whether it be an escalation of wage or benefit claims, or the flight from sexual normativity, or unmarried women claiming welfare benefits—disrupts the fiscal and monetary calculus on which Keynesianism rests."

Above remark from "The Extravagances of Neoliberalism", an interview of Melinda Cooper (author of "Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance") by Benjamin Kunkel, in The Baffler.

Archived, no paywall link: https://archive.is/pLYsA#selection-929.1-929.479

Original link: https://thebaffler.com/latest/extravagances-of-neoliberalism-kunkel

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Greenseer ,
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@SallyStrange @bookstodon I always feel that those on the Left aho wish to reduce everything to class to the exclusion of all else care more for what is usually a very superficial dogma than manifesting actual change

Without recognition and due value for the experiences of different communities, there can be no intersectionality and without intersectionality there will be no change. As you say..the Right gets this only too well

SallyStrange , to histodons group
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Getting a full discussion of colonialism on Jamaican morning TV. (Starts about minute 7)

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https://youtu.be/SaqPLlCJ_Xk?si=ybTa94J9yt4yVwuz

SallyStrange , to bookstodon group
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10 authors, of whose books I've read at least five:

Ursula Le Guin
Kim Stanley Robinson
Octavia Butler
N. K. Jemisin
Becky Chambers
Iain M. Banks
Martha Wells
M. R. Carey
Lois McMaster Bujold
Vonda McIntyre


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sorkus ,
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N.K. Jemisin
Ursula K. Le Guin
Juli Zeh (german)
Nedi Okorafor
Naomi Novik
V.E. Schwab
Cory Doctorow
Neil Gaiman
Terry Pratchett
Isaac Asimov

Honorable mentions comics:
Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda for Monstress series and The Night Eaters

SallyStrange , to blackmastodon group
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Since people are talking about Kent State, Ohio, 1970, it's a good time to talk about Jackson State, Mississippi, 1970.

Similar situation, except there was no active protest, just a bunch of students hanging out. The mayor of Jackson declared a riot and called in the pigs. Someone threw a glass bottle, not at the pigs, but they still opened fire. Phillip Gibbs, a student at Jackson State, and James Green, a high school student who was walking home from his job, were murdered by cops. Many others were wounded.

Left: photo of James Earl Green, age 17

Right: photo of Phillip Gibbs with his wife, Dale

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https://www.jsums.edu/margaretwalkercenter/gibbs-green-50th-commemoration-exhibit/the-gibbs-green-tragedy/

https://www.mississippifreepress.org/2986/i-saw-all-the-carnage-jsu-remembers-gibbs-green-tragedy-in-virtual-town-hall

Sepia-toned photo of a couple in a casual seated pose, looking towards the camera. She is on the left, nearly sitting on his lap, smiling, wearing a dark knee-length dress with buttons up the front and a wide collar, holding a white purse. Her hair is straight, shoulder-length, curled at the end, with bangs. He is wearing light-colored slacks and a boldly patterned shirt, like a Hawaiian shirt, and has his arm around his wife. His hair is short and his expression is more curious than friendly.

MisterWanko ,
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@SallyStrange @histodons @blackmastodon so we're bringing back "pigs"?

LilyoftheRally ,

@MisterWanko @SallyStrange @histodons @blackmastodon I get the point, but calling cops "pigs" is insulting to pigs.

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