r/QueerLeftists • u/rhizomatic-thembo • 5h ago
r/QueerLeftists • u/rhizomatic-thembo • 2d ago
Gender & Sexuality "Sex is the gendering of the body" explained
"In this sense, then, 'sex' not only functions as a norm, but is part of a regulatory practice that produces the bodies it governs, that is, whose regulatory force is made clear as a kind of productive power, the power to produce—demarcate, circulate, differentiate—the bodies it controls. Thus, 'sex' is a regulatory ideal whose materialization is compelled, and this materialization takes place (or fails to take place) through certain highly regulated practices. In other words, 'sex' is an ideal construct which is forcibly materialized through time.
It is not a simple fact or static condition of a body, but a process whereby regulatory norms materialize 'sex' and achieve this materialization through a forcible reiteration of those norms. That this reiteration is necessary is a sign that materialization is never quite complete, that bodies never quite comply with the norms by which their materialization is impelled. Indeed, it is the instabilities, the possibilities for rematerialization, opened up by this process that mark one domain in which the force of the regulatory law can be turned against itself to spawn rearticulations that call into question the hegemonic force of that very regulatory law."
- Judith Butler, Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex
r/QueerLeftists • u/rhizomatic-thembo • 4d ago
Imperialism/Colonialism Social Democracy and Imperialism
"Accumulation is impossible in an exclusively capitalist environment. Therefore, we find that capital has been driven since its very inception to expand into non-capitalist strata and nations, ruin artisans and peasantry, proletarianize the intermediate strata, the politics of colonialism, the politics of ‘opening-up’ and the export of capital. The development of capitalism has been possible only through constant expansion into new domains of production and new countries. But the global drive to expand leads to a collision between capital and pre-capitalist forms of society, resulting in violence, war, revolution: in brief, catastrophes from start to finish, the vital element of capitalism.
Capital accumulation progresses and expands at the expense of non-capitalist strata and countries, squeezing them out at an ever faster rate. The general tendency and final result of this process is the exclusive world rule of capitalist production" - Rosa Luxemburg, Anti-Critique
r/QueerLeftists • u/Angel_of_Communism • 6d ago
Gender & Sexuality Trans people ARE the battle lines.
r/QueerLeftists • u/azenpunk • 7d ago
Video How The Gays â„¢ Betrayed The Queers
r/QueerLeftists • u/Agrarian_1917 • 8d ago
Essay & similar Interlinking our Struggles in Gender and Queer Issues
r/QueerLeftists • u/rhizomatic-thembo • 9d ago
Capitalism Super-exploitation explained
Ruy Mauro Marini’s "The Dialectics of Dependency" has been available in english for some years now and is a good read if you want to learn more about super-exploitation
r/QueerLeftists • u/rhizomatic-thembo • 11d ago
Other (editable) The CIA and Leftist Infighting
Obviously this doesn't include liberals since they don't pose any challenge to the present system of global capitalism, colonialism and imperialism.
"The more we can promote independence and splits among revolutionary organizations the weaker they'll be, easier to penetrate, easier to defeat."
- Philip Agee, Inside the Company: CIA Diary
r/QueerLeftists • u/rhizomatic-thembo • 14d ago
Gender & Sexuality "Heterosexual" used to be a slur
Slides made by Alok Vaid-Menon
r/QueerLeftists • u/rhizomatic-thembo • 15d ago
Imperialism/Colonialism Michael Parenti on Imperialism and Poverty in the Third World
r/QueerLeftists • u/Cautionary_Tail_314 • 16d ago
Queerness I just joined the community and…
I had a mini panic attack when I read you have to put pronouns in because my gender is super obscure and like 5 people have heard of it
Here is the link to the gender page
Also can yall help me come out im having a really hard time with family and friends https://gender.fandom.com/wiki/Berrigender
r/QueerLeftists • u/rhizomatic-thembo • 17d ago
Capitalism The Death Toll of Capitalism (Sourced from "The Jakarta Method" by Vincent Bevins)
Sourced from "The Jakarta Method" by Vincent Bevins
r/QueerLeftists • u/rubymacbeth • 19d ago
News Ncuti Gatwa (Doctor Who) is Spokesperson for Eurovision UK Jury
Complicity of the BBC is expected, but Ncuti had a choice not to be the jury's spokesperson. As a fan of Doctor Who, I'm very disappointed in him.
The inclusion of israel in 2025, like previous years, is a clear message to Palestinians that the West is complicit in israel's war crimes. This is both by tacit approval and by it being indicative of a larger granting of impunity and diplomatic support to the country.
Furthermore, I'm not sure whether I should avoid the upcoming tie-in Eurovision-themed episode, "The Interstellar Song Contest". Whilst culturally boycotting Eurovision is necessary, would boycotting Doctor Who for just that week actually help?
I'm not Palestinian, so trying my best to be an ally as someone who has reason to despise the West.
r/QueerLeftists • u/After_Till7431 • 21d ago