"Barack Obama, interestingly, said in his statement that she had “broken the glass ceiling for other women”. Only in the sense that all the women beneath her were blinded by falling shards. She is an icon of individualism, not of feminism."
April 10, 2013
February 18, 2013
Dear Privileged Sex Workers
White Sex Workers…
High Priced Sex Workers…
Able Bodied Sex Workers…
Indie/Alt Sex Workers…
HAVE A FUCKIN’ SEAT.
Stop pretending that making 100k per year is normal for more than a minuscule margin of all sex workers.
Quit putting down low-rent and barter workers. We don’t all turn tricks to be blond, skinny millionaires at 25. We don’t all work at the Bunny Ranch, or KOD, or Scores. Some of us are late on rent and sick and disabled and most of us are Black and Brown, and many of us are parents, and we are not all sitting stacking paper and being halfway feminist and mad at anyone with a critique of the business. Lots of us work in the back of cars, dance on wooden stages that give us splinters, do extras (yes, do extras, get over yourself), and have pimps. Lots of us make normal ass amounts of money. Most of us are not rich.
Few of us have unionized. Most of us would likely lose our jobs if we even tried.
No one owes you information about whether or not they are in this industry. Lots of us could literally not afford to tell you even if we wanted to. Which why would we want to tell you when you already decided that anything less than 300$ an hour is shameful and means we should get another job. Who wants to tell your judgmental, skinny, white ass anything?
For Real Tho’,
Dynasty (W)Rex
Salutes this [my bold].
February 16, 2013
"The buzz word in popular feminism today is empowerment. When I became a feminist many years ago, the word we used was liberation. Unlike empowerment, liberation is a collective concept which means that even if my life is all rosy and “empowered,” it doesn’t mean shit for those women who are doing low paid jobs while trying to raise families. In fact, there is a very good chance that elite women’s empowerment is built on the backs of other women whose exploited labor provides the goods and services that enable a good career and a comfortable lifestyle. The low pay of nannies, cooks, cleaners, sweat shop workers, and day care providers means that wealthier women are freed up to make a salary that no doubt does feel empowering."
— Gail Dines (via reconnect-restore-rewild)
(via queerhairyvag)
August 26, 2012
April 23, 2012
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So there it is: the difference between a stay-home mother and a welfare mother is money and a wedding ring. Unlike any other kind of labor I can think of, domestic labor is productive or not, depending on who performs it. For a college-educated married woman, it is the most valuable thing she could possibly do, totally off the scale of human endeavor. What is curing malaria compared with raising a couple of Ivy Leaguers? For these women, being supported by a man is good—the one exception to our American creed of self-reliance. Taking paid work, after all, poses all sorts of risks to the kids. (Watch out, though, ladies: if you expect the father of your children to underwrite your homemaking after divorce, you go straight from saint to gold-digger.) But for a low-income single woman, forgoing a job to raise children is an evasion of responsibility, which is to marry and/or support herself. For her children, staying home sets a bad example, breeding the next generation of criminals and layabouts.
All of which goes to show that it is not really possible to disengage domestic work from its social, gendered context: the work is valuable if the woman is valuable, and what determines her value is whether a man has found her so and how much money he has. That is why discussions of domestic labor and its worth are inextricably bound up with ideas about class, race, respectability, morality and above all womanhood. You can talk all you want about equal parenting; nobody is raising his son from earliest childhood to see as the most important job in the world being a stay-home father dependent on a high-earning wife. Nobody says to men in college, “You can be a physicist, or you can be a homemaker—it’s your choice!”
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April 21, 2012
"Drug trafficking is the only economic enterprise that enables a poor person to acquire the means to drive the same cars and wear the same clothes as the rich. Of course, unlike the legitimized beneficiaries of greedy capitalism, these profiteers lack the power to influence government spending or public policy. They function only as a fascist force that brings violence and devastation into what were once stable communities. They do the work of exploitation and genocide for the white supremacist capitalist patriarchal ruling class. Like mercenaries sent from first world nations to small countries around the world, they devastate and destabilize. This is class warfare. Yet the media deflects attention away from class politics and focuses instead on drug culture and youth violence as if no connection exists between this capitalist exploitation and the imperialist economies that are wreaking havoc on the planet."
— bell hooks (via wretchedoftheearth)
(via domesticterrorism)
February 4, 2012
The Empire Line by artist Gavin Fernandes, explores the politics of clothing and its relationship with class and caste in 19th century India ruled by the British Raj. (2007) (via wired)
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