This is why I find academia to be the most hypocritical place from which to be building towards radical struggle (I'm including myself in this indictment). The entire edifice is structured around getting published, being visible, centering one's voice and analytical acuity... 4/
...-even when- one is writing about the importance of reproductive labor or collective mobilization or the need to decenter leadership. We are structurally incentivized to appropriate radical reproductive work, and seek celebrity, not solidarity. 5/
TL:DR, mad love to the people on the ground giving rides, taking care of old people, prescribing suboxone to unhoused folks, visiting people in prison, cooking, cleaning, caring, loving, and not writing or instagramming a lick about it. 6/6
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