Notices by Cocoron :sunbeam: (cocoron@sunbeam.city), page 2

The Guardian UK, despite its Leftist trappings, is absolutely at the top rung of cultural institutions in the United Kingdom. Its flavour of Feminism is is composed of women who are firmly within the socio-economic elite and who are invited to write for them: baronesses, MPs, party leaders, top selling authors, major journalists. I don't know many British trans women who fit into this category (yet).

This doesn't just stop at Feminism, either. Other areas of social justice such as race, ecology, disability, health and even economic issues are overwhelmingly represented by voices in them which are well off, educated and au fait with British cultural institutions (newspapers, television, universities, etc).

Classist attitudes spreads through every aspect of political and social life in the UK like a disease.

This obviously is not to deny the existence of the many good Feminist movements and individuals who don't fit into this elite group, but this is the problem: They are very rarely given a voice in the UK. Trans, queer, black and brown and especially working class Feminist voices in the UK are very rarely given a platform. The face of Feminism in the UK is white, middle class, middle aged and cishet.

I am 100% certain that a large part of the TERF attitudes that seems to characterise a lot of mainstream Feminism comes from British (English) fixations on class.

Compared to other countries Britain experiences next to no social movements which are grassroots. Social progress in the United Kingdom is expected to be spearheaded by the upper class and their cultural institutions. Platforms for Feminist discourse in the UK is almost entirely given to wealthy, privileged white cis women.

The difference between the US Guardian and the UK Guardian editors on trans rights is reflective of the difference between American and British Feminism at this moment in time.*

Feminism in the US seems to be (sometimes) moving towards an intersectional perspective that incorporates voices across the range on issues like class, race, and ecology.

British Feminism is extremely institutional, and is dominated by privileged women like Germaine Greer and JK Rowling.

*Generalising

running off to the mountains to build a solitary commune ❌

digging in your heels against the exploitation present in your own community and learning and teaching self-empowerment and solidarity alongside your neighbours ✅

I've asked this before but where's a nice place in Canada for a queer person to live that's not too expensive

Really love it that the state and market have transformed ecology into a stick with which to beat and shame low-income consumers

If anyone has any tutorials or literature on drawing/shading in a way that imitates woodcuts that would be really really appreciated

#MakeLibertarianSocialistAgain

@everyone Verso Books are currently doing a 50% sale for the whole of September

I love Anarchism and Communism. Capitalism can eat my ass. Socialism forever. I'm drunk.

millennials are killing capitalism by not being paid enough in wages to sustain a consumer-driven economy

The appeal of Nationalism grows stronger every day as the Capitalist system atomises individuals, destroys communal institutions, and erects barriers of hatred, class and xenophobia between humans so much that people across all continents have nothing to which they belong except in an invented mythos based on a fabricated historical narrative

Listen, I understand people wanting to feel a meaningful connection to their homes and communities, but you don't need Nationalism for that.

By far the biggest threat to life on this planet is Capitalism. Other economic systems might require mass industrialisation, but what makes Capitalism so unique in this regard is the engine that drives it: Growth for growth's sake.

The need for ever-larger profit margins, ever expanding markets, ever higher GDP. All of our planet must be colonised, disrupted and turned into commodities, even past the point of irreversible destruction. If you care about the planet, you can't be a Capitalist.

I almost forgot the obligatory post

https://youtu.be/Gs069dndIYk

Sunbeam City co-op members are currently discussing ways in which we can engage with and empower a diverse group of people who have been historically unable or discouraged from engaging with cooperatives such as ours.

#solarpunk environs

The Sunbeam City #cooperative is officially approved and open for membership on OpenCollective! 🎊 👏 ☀️ 🌻 🎊