Kolibri
I dunno where to share this so I'll just share this here, but im going through Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue, and I really liked this part. Probably been shared before by others, but I don't care. It just too good not to be shared again
spoiler
So who will lead our movements today? Recently, many in the trans communities have been discussing “What makes a leader?” We’ve grown up in a society that places much more value on some human lives than on others, where a few are considered shepherds, and the rest sheep. We have been taught that we have no power to change the most miserable conditions of our lives. But that’s a lie.
Everyone in this room is a leader. Each of us is needed as an organizer, as an activist in the decisive struggles that lie ahead.
There’s a wonderful Chinese proverb that advises “The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.” The people who are making history today are the organizers, the activists, those who are building coalitions, distributing leaflets, making calls, sending out e-mail, mobilizing others out of their despair and into motion. The leaders are the ones who are “doing it.” And the responsibility and role of leadership is to develop leadership in others.
In the words of African-American poet June Jordan, “We are the ones we have been waiting for.”
I'm like, suddenly finding myself extremely tired suddenly, like I only been up for like a few hours, but now it suddenly feels like I haven't slept in days
venting now about health stuff
fucking god damn it. can I at least get upset without feeling like. sick? I feel like throwing up now and also my nose is fucking bleeding. like it stopped. but just fucking hell. well now im less upset at least and more angry. that one way to stop feeling upset.
never fucking mind! it still bleeding. im going to sleep.
venting about my mom passing a little cw: grief
I really hate it when the random feeling of grief hit. Mainly jut like, the sadness that comes? I was thinking of a past friend, and then my thoughts trailed to my mom that like. I dunno. Just like never seeing her again. Nor will I ever see her house or anything again. Just gone.
Section 5 was extremely depressing and I just kept thinking how all those landlords should've been killed. Also it was really depressing searching up about the mines of Potosi. Also like, it was really weird I guess like nutrients? and or calories? was measured in nitrogen and carbon?
Despite how depressing it is, it is nice Marx like, does his analysis like that and illustrates this stuff? Along with looking into conditions of the proletariat.
@KurtVonnegut@hexbear.net I hope it's okay to ping you? I just wanted to say like, this part in section 4 really reminded me a lot of what you said last week about like, underemployment
The third category of the relative surplus population, the stagnant, forms a part of the active labour army, but with extremely irregular employment. Hence it furnishes to capital an inexhaustible reservoir of disposable labour power. Its conditions of life sink below the average normal level of the working class; this makes it at once the broad basis of special branches of capitalist exploitation. It is characterised by maximum of working-time, and minimum of wages. We have learnt to know its chief form under the rubric of “domestic industry.” It recruits itself constantly from the supernumerary forces of modern industry and agriculture, and specially from those decaying branches of industry where handicraft is yielding to manufacture, manufacture to machinery.
I can't always avoid not talking to him, it's not always avoidable. And besides there are times when I do want to talk to him