SpookyGenderCommunist [they/them, she/her] @ SpookyGenderCommunist @hexbear.net

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I was gonna say, my first thought was "Is that JT?"

Oof, my kidneys 😭

And yet, you bothered to publish it 😔

Scrimblo Bimblo

Comrade Chiitan

I saved up and bought a reasonably beefy Mini PC, and turned it into an emulation console with Batocera. PS3 emulation runs like an absolute dream. But who needs backwards compatibility, when we can resell you the same game from 15 years ago, again, at full price???

OK, but there kind of is a "My Neighbor Totoro 2". It's called Mei and the KittenBus, it's a short film that only gets shown at the Ghibli Museum in Japan, and it features various other cat-based forms of public transportation...

"left leaning"

Wasn't the whole point of Morning Joe that Joe Scarborough is a conservative?

Hamas prefers Zoom.

I've been playing of old PC games lately. What's the Civ4 dune mod called? 👀

No, in fact the only people I'm seeing who find it funny are boomers on Facebook

But that's not what the title means. The eponymous "Desert" being referred to in the title is both the physical process of desertification, and as a symbol of refuge from the state.

For the author, The Desert is inherently a place brimming with life. Not only in terms of flora and fauna, but also in terms of the various indigenous and nomadic people's, for whom a connection to the ecology of the desert, and the general hostility of the environment to outsiders, provides a respite from the gaze of the bourgeois nation state which so often seeks their extermination.

Something something, don't make me tap the sign. Something something, no investigation no right to speak. Something something, lib

What's your favorite parking lot?

Yeah, but have you considered that this scene from the movie

Is just like chuds losing their shit over not being allowed to go to Burger King? Checkmate, leftists

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.

The Settler-Colonialism

DATA, DON'T FAIL ME!!!