tfw yr trying to vibe in the lowest sediment of the relative surplus-population but the dwp recruits you as a floating member in the reserve army of labour
I'm at work pretending to be a functional, responsible adult but actually my brain is still playing All The Things She Said on loop with the club scene embedded to the back of my eyelids I'm suffering send help
@LaylaInBristol Plus he’s making films in the traditions of Ken Loach and Mike Leigh so idk maybe for US film audiences there’s less of a familiar film language for audiences with this kind of social(ist) realist stuff that’s not so explicit in it’s politics.
@LaylaInBristol Culturally the in-community attitudes towards being a sw-er are very different in the US & the empowerment stuff broadly more predominant which maybe makes some of the labour analysis in SB’s work less visible to audiences?
@LaylaInBristol I think they the noisiest & most committed to writing opinion pieces but have also seen UK & Europe workers buying in or not seeing it on the basis it’s anti-sw.
disgusting little world we're building. harder and harder to research things, beneficial to make up nonsense, deregulation, oppression, murder, murder, murder
Been on the internet since 1999 and it’s never been this bad. Google is useless, once findable information is deleted or buried. Wanton cruelty and sadism used to be contained to places like 4chan now it’s every social media site. Ubiquitous AI imagery is deeply unpleasant to see
rly appreciate scholarship like this that adds complexity to the political journeys of figures like lorde & rich - who ppl love to quote n invoke - & also describes with love the steadfast political clarity and commitment of the wonderful june jordan
"When both were participating in an anti-apartheid poetry reading in 1986, June Jordan approached Adrienne Rich and said, 'I completely and absolutely detest your views on Israel and I love you.'" @m_myglory examines a Black feminist falling-out. https://t.co/KzQnwuucEy
I really can’t get over how diligently the cops are making the case that they are the real victims of violence this week, somehow the people with the most to fear.