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This is my opinion based on reading a ton of queer manifestos. Tell me what you think in the comments, but remember that “trust me, bro” isn’t a source.

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In June 2025, The Center for LGBTQ+ Studies (CLAGS) at the City University of New York hosted a queer bondage kink workshop about bootlicking in which participants wore leather, polished each others boots, talked about why this was an anti-capitalist practice, and discussed fisting (yes, that is what you think it is) using boot polish.

Watch the full video here:

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Just when you think you’ve seen everything.

In June 2025, The Center for LGBTQ+ Studies (CLAGS) at the City University of New York hosted a queer bondage kink workshop about bootlicking in which participants wore leather, polished each others boots, talked about why this was an anti-capitalist practice, and discussed fisting (yes, that is what you think it is) using boot polish.

This is the full presentation from the event. We watched it on my show but the audio of the event was quiet and so I’ve corrected that in this version.

Enjoy. Clips of this will be posted separately.

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Here is the event registration website for this event. (Archive)

The Instagram post for the event on CUNY’s CLAGS IG account.

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Sometimes the left says the quiet part so loudly, only the most dense people will refuse to listen.

Such is the case with this clip.

When the left says “whiteness,” they are not talking about skin color.

They’re talking about SYSTEMIC RACISM, or the SYSTEM that upholds RACISM.

That system is capitalism.

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Dylan Rodriguez is a professor at the University of California, Riverside.

Dean Spade is a professor at Seattle University Law School.

In this clip, they discuss using VIOLENCE to ELIMINATE PEOPLE in their joyful liberatory work of overthrowing capitalism.

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We watched this full presentation on my show. Find the recording here.

We watched a wild documentary released in 2023 (but filmed in 1999) about queer activism and it will show you to see how ingrained this ideology already was back when Bill Clinton was still in office and Republicans were obsessed with impeaching him over a b******b in the Oval Office (though it started long before that).

This documentary demonstrates the clear difference between assimilationist and anti-assimilationist activists.

Here is the original video of the documentary without my commentary, archived here for historical purposes.

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If you want to understand why overturning gay marriage is a really horrible idea, you need to understand that the people trying to destroy the nuclear family never wanted gay marriage legalized in the first place.

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Did you know that, in Queer Marxism, straight does not mean heterosexual?

Straight means normal / normativity

Normativity means the culture norms that uphold capitalism (the gender binary and nuclear family)

Gay people can be straight too in Queer Theory.

In this video, I present the receipt.