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If you had AIDS in those terrible early years and your family wouldn’t know you, even if you were dying; if doctors were afraid to touch you, even if you were dying; if anyone who knew of what you were dying might turn away, you went to Lyn, who built one hospice in our city after another. If you were being abused or your children were, you went to
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expertise and entrepreneurial interest in victimhood and exploitation
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
To resist the erosion of empathy, we must invite people to participate in acts of care, defense, aid, and rescue. We must normalize acts of mutual aid amid the everyday crisis of capitalism and build these mechanisms into our organizing work at the ground level.
Mariame Kaba • Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care
Israel/Palestine and the Queer International by Sarah Schulman
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7 DISABILITY AND FAT STUDIES Support-Group Identity Theory
Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
Berrent accused those who joined the Women’s March of being selfish, implying that any community building needed to take place within WeWork’s walls. “That,” Berrent said, “was a ‘Me Over We’ decision.”
Reeves Wiedeman • Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork
Radical friends reject the fantasy of exemplary self-sovereign autonomous individuals optimized for efficiency and productivity. They know that this is a poisonous projection by materially advantaged individuals who seek to leverage their competitive edge within the austerity conditions they co-created.