This Has Always Been a War

This Has Always Been a War: The Radicalization of a Working Class Queer | Lori Fox

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Lori Fox, a nonbinary journalist in Whitehorse, holds strong opinions about many things in these essays. They can spin a spellbinding tale, whether it‘s about working as a fruit-picker, being assaulted on the job as a server, or recounting their father‘s belief that he‘d found a portal to hell. They have a wrathful burn-it-all-down approach to fixing capitalism that seems naïve, but perhaps I‘m the one that needs more anarchy in my thinking. LGBTQ

TrishB And I am immediately attracted to the burn it all down. Stacked as I would read but my son‘s partner will love this. 2y

Lindy @TrishB Ha! I checked in with my queer nephew who lives in the same town as Lori Fox. “Peak queer gossip fodder” and also “a cool human” are his comments about them. 2y

TrishB Well they sound fun! 2y

Lindy @TrishB 😜 2y

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Lindy

This Has Always Been a War: The Radicalization of a Working Class Queer | Lori Fox

!!! Tell us how you really feel, Lori Fox!

Lindy Later on in the same chapter that contains the quote pictured, Fox says: “I don‘t mean to detract from Atwood‘s work, which I personally think has about as much colour and personality as an old plastic bag; she has her fans, though her work clearly isn‘t for me.” 2y

Graywacke Such a well stated comment, but not to an author anyone else would apply it to. I mean Atwood can be a little slow at times. But, weird. Which book led to that rant? 2y

Lindy @Graywacke Fox mentioned The Handmaid‘s Tale and The Testaments in a discussion about dystopian fiction by cis women, but I think her comments about Atwood‘s writing were directed towards her oeuvre. 2y

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Graywacke @Lindy It feels so beyond reasonable to me. Maybe because I‘m lacking the context. 2y

Lindy @Graywacke The context is straightforward: Fox really dislikes Atwood‘s writing. It comes up as an aside during a critique of feminist dystopian novels. Her stance is over-the-top… but unequivocal. 2y

Graywacke @Lindy ok. I certainly agree with your assessment. 🙂 2y

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Lindy

This Has Always Been a War: The Radicalization of a Working Class Queer | Lori Fox

The people with money have their money, in part, because they don‘t pay their workers what their labour is actually worth. Part of how they get away with doing that is by telling working-class people that not only is their work not worth very much, neither are they.

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Lindy

This Has Always Been a War: The Radicalization of a Working Class Queer | Lori Fox

Capitalism is not simply an economic system; capitalism is culture. Specifically, capitalism is *our* culture. And under capitalism—within our culture—working-class bodies are property.

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