I've worked 13 hours straight and had to organize a push to get us fed dinner.
There's a good chance I'm stuck here for 2 more hours, meaning I get 0 time to do anything except sleep and do this again.
I want to quit so badly, but I'm basically forced to be here because this job market is such shit that it took a year to get this job. And I consider myself lucky to have this.
There's a thread on lemmygrad from someone that's also exhausted around the discourse about the American "left". Yes we suck, yes we are privileged compared to a lot of people, yes our organizing is tame and not effective, yes my material conditions mean I'm not doing adventurism and neither are my comrades.
BUT don't claim we're not trying. I know people working two jobs. I technically have 2 jobs and am maybe able to get back on my feet financially in a few months. We still do what we can and it's not enough but we're not at that point. Yeah that's privileged if you call being scared shitless of being homeless and being abused by literally every other human here...
I'm tired
One of the worst thing liberalism has done is individualizing concepts such as privilege. Its about structures, the individual matters basically nothing in it. Thats why reverse racism isnt a thing. Why female gaze doesnt exist. And why there is no such thing as heterophobia.
Truly. Many individual men have it worse than many women, and many indivitual white people have it worse than many black people. It isn't evidence that the patriarchy or racism don't exist and don't favor the demographic they're meant to uplift.
Solidarity isn't about everyone sharing in the same oppression. It's understanding that there are privileges and oppressions that we don't participate in, but that we fight for the emancipation of everyone from all of them.
I'm begging y'all to read any intersectional feminism text and internalize it.
This is a great quote, I'm saving it.
Anything you recommend in particular and something I could read on a phone during break today? 🤞today is a shorter day
Angela Davis' Women, race, and class is a classic and a good introduction to the topic.
Ty
No problem! Btw, the whole situation in your post sucks. Hope it improves. Sending you good vibes.
As I've heard it said, averages mean nothing when you're living in an instance.