Sublime

Little girls, she argued, were worth nothing more than the medals they could win, so they were starved, abused, and used to keep their bodies and skills perfect—like “pretty boxes.”

Taylor of using allyship as an aesthetic… and they get mad at her for not doing what they want… but she’s a capitalist to her core. Most of her security team is ex–Special Forces, ex-FBI, or other former law enforcement officers. I’m not sure why fans expect her to be all, ‘Defund the police! Tear down the system that made my dream come true.’… It’

She has never practiced martial arts or received any special training, she never learned to use a hammer, a knife, or a pistol, and yet, under the surface, her experiences of violence have served as lessons in feminist self-defense.36 Without her even realizing it, they have given her the resources needed to reason, judge, act, and strike—that is,

emancipatory politics must always destroy the appearance of a ‘natural order’,

We have to refuse to support the system that sucks the blood, vitality, and life from the limbs of workers.

If the left hopes to revive the idea of the working class as the leading force within a new counterhegemonic bloc, we will have to envision that class in a new way—intersectionally, if you will—as not restricted to the white, straight, male, majority-ethnicity, manufacturing and mining workers, but as encompassing all of these other occupations—pai