Alt episode titles: Somewhere Over the Chase Bank, There is Community and Solidarity

They Just Want Our Money, Not Our Pride: The Rainbow Capitalism Episode

Intro Audio Excerpt: Sylvia Rivera (Rest in Power) interview from NYC Pride 2001

https://x.com/ben_0207/status/1800675695661842651

Who does rainbow capitalism benefit most? Who does it protect?

What it is and what it is not

Who gets seen in rainbow capitalism and who gets left out?

What do we do without white cis het corporate crumbs? Will we be forced to rely and lean on each other, community, village and return pride to its roots as a riot, a protest?

Rainbow capitalism is racism, facism, the anti-thesis to queer. It's not the queer celebrities making millions from marketing to and profiting from Black and Brown queer and trans folks on the margins that are going to save us, just US.

If we are fighting for us to take back our resistance and liberation from the very apolitical, corporate, white pride structure. And we're fighting to liberate ourselves and to liberate one another, and we're doing so with a strong framework of solidarity, the question is not necessarily what's our responsibility, what's our response to anti-blackness, transphobia, cisheteronormativity, imperialist capitalism that attempts, with gusto, to pervade our movement and end our lives?

The Origins of Pinkwashing and its connection to the apartheid state of Israel

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Editors note: the podcast about the genocide in Sudan I referenced is called, Society of Strife, NOT Society of Destruction.