SpookyGenderCommunist

What? I thought we were all Dirt_Owl alts!

Counterpoint: they are the left wing of fascism

Origins of the Family, Private Property, and The State by Engles - Incredibly foundational for any discussion of queerness and Marxism. Doesn't really need much introduction.

Make Way for Winged Eros by Alexandra Kollontai - There's a section in here which Is a historical materialist account of the history of Love. It doesn't address queerness outright, but it doesn't take a huge leap to see how Kollontai is outlining the ways that homosexual subcultures were prevalent in early forms of class society.

Caliban and the Witch by Sylvia Federici - Though principally about the oppression of Women, this book is a Marxist account of the early modern witch hunts, their relationship to enclosures of the Commons, and Colonialism in the Americas. Federici is principally concerned with how this process impacted cis women, but it applies just as much to queer people, as both groups were violently forced into more regimented roles in the process of reproductive labor. This brought with it a renewed conception of "women's" work as being tied to the home, and a systematized valorization of hetronormativity.

Capitalism and Gay Identity by John D'emilio - basically what it says on the tin. D'emillio is building off of Engles, and lookhe political economy of the family, and how it relates to that labor socialization process that I talked about. As queer people are forced into environments of socialized labor, they started forming independent cultures and conceptions of self, under industrial capitalism, which would set the stage for modern queer organizing.

Transgender Warriors by Leslie Feinberg - my favorite book on this list, and one that ties all the others on this list together. Feinberg is doing an historical materialist analysis of transness, which can be broadly applied to queerness generally. I would probably read this first, as it's pretty accessible. It patches some holes in Federici's book, by looking at how that witch hunt process also punished gender nonconformity, fleshes out stuff that Kollontai only hints at, and is just a really fantastic work of historical materialism.

I made a post about this awhile back, that I'll just quote here:

While queerness has always existed, and cultures throughout history have had queer subcultures, such as the Kathoey in Thailand or Molly Houses in England, the development of Capitalism brought with it a trend towards a more systematized, wider reaching regimentation of reproductive labor, then what had been seen under previous forms of class society.

On the one hand, this brought about the categorization and subsequent oppression of queer people. But on the other hand, industrialization brought people into urban areas, socialized labor, and allowed those, now more intensely oppressed, queer people to form larger communities, and start organizing politically at scale.

Since the Soviet Union had not industrialized, that pressure on queer people in the Soviet Union, to organize at a large scale, didn't exist. And the prevalence of queer organizing in the more industrialized west, brought Stalin's administration to make the idealist error that queerness was an outgrowth of "bourgeois decadence", rather than material conditions.

PSL are Marcyites, who are Trots that accidentally stumbled into being MLs.

This is the future leftists want

The Settler-Colonialism

DATA, DON'T FAIL ME!!!

"What if the Ottomans had lightsabers"

me, crying as I line up Lenin against the wall, lift up my Estrogen injecting gun, and pull the trigger

The porn of this show, by simply existing, is infinitely funnier than the show itself

COVID mask? Check. Dyed hair? Also check.

This shit is so funny to me, because and attempt to make a character look "woke" turns out a decently designed and somewhat visually interesting character. But the characters who the audience is supposed to like just look like the most boring, uninspired, slop you've ever seen.

Angry boomer finger point? Check.

Why do they all do this? Lmao