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I have no doubt that revolution will happen; I feel it as strongly as I do the first conscious breath in the morning. What is concerning to me what kind of society and movement against White Supremacist Patriarchal Capitalism we are building in the here and now. It is increasingly disheartening to be in spaces that don’t see the contributions of feminist thought and other gender oppressed folk to be as important as works about narrow definitions of class. In an environment of such intense class reductionism, where crucial theory is either left out of discussion or completely out of the practice of the revolutionaries real social interactions I have been left to ponder where my place actually is in this struggle. I see the struggle against Capitalism as one that must, at it’s core be anti-racist and feminist, because my life has not been merely shaped by being a person born into the ghettos of the United States. I am a Black Queer, which means my life and politicization has revolved around the politics of race and gender oppression under patriarchy. Continue reading →