Calling all working class queers! 

Queer and, especially, trans people, experience higher rates of poverty and unemployment, due to workplace discrimination and breakdown of family ties, amongst other things, but are those who grew up with more and lost it (downward mobility) the same as those who didn’t have much to begin with?

Are you one of those working class fem/butch dykes Joan Nestle and Leslie Feinberg wrote about (or dream about being a part of that scene)?

Do your BDSM practices include regular household items or toys you made yourself because you don’t have the money to splurge at a sex shop?

Do you not have a place to take sex partners to since all the dark rooms closed down in your town and the gay bar is now a show for straight women on hen dos?

Are you constantly torn over accepting or turning down requests to perform in full drag for a pittance because maybe some money is better than nothing?

Have you or your friends been sued by a mainstream (L)G(BT) charity for denouncing their dodgy practices?

Some of these are oddly specific, I know. You don’t have to relate to any of these. Any submission from working class and poor queers will be considered.

Read more: https://theclassworkproject.com/lumpen-18-call-out/

#WorkingClass #queer #ClassStruggle #RainbowCapitalism #QueerLiberation #lesbian #gay #trans #genderqueer #lgbt #lgbti #lgbtia #nonbinary #fem #femme #butch

I remember when I told some people that they would miss rainbow capitalism if it came to stop being a thing.

That despite it being annoying, pandering and deeply fake, it was still a good indicator for society's tolerance to us. Some of them looked at me with wide eyes and acted as if I had said something really stupid.

Well, here we are.

You get my point now?

#rainbowcapitalism

https://wickedlizzie.substack.com/p/meme-culture-in-advertising-and-the

New essay is live:

When Performance Marketing Loses The Plot

#corporateposturing #FacebookAds #BroDNA #rainbowcapitalism #manosphere #brocode #dei #mememarketing #performativeallyship #bigblanketco #advertising #target #substack

Does this crap by #PinkwashNews and #Lyft seriously surprise anybody?

the unbearable apathy of #PinkNews (this is about #trans people in kansas)
#BlackFedii #BlacckMastodon #trans_catdad #LGBTQ #RainbowCapitalism #Tonedeaf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9f6XUFXsyU

CONTEXT: So, in a thread on Piefed, somebody asked me this:

how do you personally feel about Pride Month? Particularly, the corporate side of it, the rainbow filters on the brands that historically prosecuted queer identity.

Myself personally I find them turning queer identity into products to consume and collect rather disgusting.

And I wanted to repost my answer here, because I think I managed to express myself quite well and it encapsulates some thoughts that I have about this topic.

Pride Month is super important for the community. It's both a moment of joy and a moment of open resistance for us. As for the corporate side of it, I take it as an indicator. Like, for example, no matter what, I will never tolerate brands or even fucking sponsorships at my local pride march. That is absolutely out of the question. But companies pandering to specific communities is nothing new. And it's not limited to the queer community.

Corporate pandering, to me, is like a canary in a coal mine.

When it's singing, the air is breathable. So when we have the rainbow logos or the Black Lives Matter corporate post or Black History Month colored logo or whatever, it is a sign that as a whole it would be perceived as, not only unacceptable in the current society to be openly against these things and communities, but is even perceived as marketable and profitable to be openly for these things.

When the canary stops singing, something is wrong with the air, and it's time to get out. So when companies stop doing these things, and instead don't mention them, it's a sign that the wind is turning. That posting open support is deemed risky. That at least a certain part of society is questioning the validity and value of these things

And finally, when the canary is dead, the miners are next. When companies start openly posting against these things, when it becomes marketable and profitable to be openly racist, to be openly transphobic, to be openly homophobic, it's a sign that society as a whole and not just the ruling class, is hostile to these ideals and people.

I hate that it is, and I want to change it, but we live in a capitalist society. Right now, it's the rules of the game. So I'm using capitalism as an indicator of society's acceptance of progressive ideals and hostility towards marginalized groups. Because at the end of the day, I would rather fight against capitalism in a capitalist hellhole where corporate people display their pronouns and say "black lives matter" rather than a capitalist hellhole where corporate people don't do these things.

The canary stopped singing.

#pride #pridemonth #lgbtqia #rainbowcapitalism #capitalism

Pandering Pride: What Is Rainbow Capitalism? (w/ Naomi Stryker)

https://peertube.gravitywell.xyz/w/8JDrGz56Qd4QNgv5VND2Rs

Anyway. Happy Birthday to this caregiver, woman warrior, activist, survivor. Thank you for sharing your words, and thanks to those who have archived these precious records. https://youtu.be/hI2bxUSRF7I

#SylviaRivera #TransRights #Capitalism #RainbowCapitalism #MovementCapture

Pride was a riot and a refusal.

Ryan Conrad, activist, social movements historian, and cofounder and editor of Against Equality, joins us on Resistant Communiqués #podcast to dissect what we lost when radical queer politics and queer liberation became assimilation and rainbow capitalism.

🎧 Listen: https://bit.ly/rc2025ryanconrad

#queerliberation #queerpolitics #rainbowcapitalism #againstequality #resistantcommuniques

for the indelible pinkwash… Ally Paints…

July's are always a bit more grey…

possibly from all of the seasonal wildfires and smog

or from the greater darkness of US Nationalism #July4th

#Pinkwash #RainbowCapitalism #Capitalism #Art #DigitalArt #Illustration #Queer #QueerArt #BrentPruitt #BrentPruittArt #GayArtist #QueerArtist #LGBTQ #July4 #IndependenceDay