Novara based meeting

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Nothing wrong with drawing people in using non-miserable topics as such, though some of that list sounds very Novara. I note they're tapping the old Rosa Luxembourg euro to fund it.

Just on a back of the cigarette box type calculation. 17 articles commissioned - I presume everyone got paid a ball-park of 150 quid per submission.
That is 2,500 grand for the whole exercise from that shiny Rosa Luxemburg money.
Meanwhile, I know of a housing group which got scolded by RL for investing money towards political work rather than strictly educational stuff.

 

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Yeah I get you, not everything there is shit, but even on this, their content is all over the place. Give the sex work podcast a listen if you don't believe me. Some pretty bonkers suggestions there that any women who have sex at all are sex workers because all sex is work, talk about 'pay pigs' and that all good feminist men should pay for sex, as well as some rather quite uncomfortable chatter about the lonely type of client with possible suicidal ideation which was awkwardly shrugged off. Lots of talk also about the 'whoreocracy', which i'm sure incels would pick up the right side about.

Yeah, looking at that thing I did notice this, which seems a bit glaring:

I guess there's an argument to be made for publishing a range of different views, but still sounds like Laura has some pretty major differences with Rivkah B's interviewees.

It's increasingly common for the 'left' to get thrown in with whatever flavour of the week topics novara, or other outlets and individuals, is pumping out though. For any 'ordinary'* person looking at this, what exactly does it offer them? I wouldn't be so annoyed with this but this isn't just an online thing anymore between avatars which can be waved away, but has increasingly real-world effects and implications for organising. There should absolutely be room for speaking about politics and sex at the same time - just not in a boxollogy fashion. I'm 30 myself, and am very lucky to have a stable home with my partner - I know many many other men and women without such luck, some still living with their folks and unable to pursue relationships, others with full families forced to move back home in cramped housing. For me, this is one of the more real questions about sex in our society right now.


*by ordinary, i simply mean someone non-politicised

Did you ever see this, btw?

Crisis of family and friends: Working class experiences from west London - Angry Workers

The crisis of the family as a way to live together and bring up kids is nothing new. Working class families have always been portrayed as chaotic (missing dads, single/teenage mums, feral kids), but with the housing crisis and austerity things have become harder and workers are forced into new...

www.angryworkers.org

But yeah, I can see your point, but still feels like earlier posts were tending to say "sex isn't worth talking about As Leftists" more than they were saying "these particular articles/podcasts about sex are not very good". Which is a very different argument.
And fwiw, I think that things shouldn't be one-size-fits-all and not everything has to appeal to an "ordinary" person. Like, this book sounds like it would have very little appeal to a non-politicised punter, probably far less than the Novara stuff, I still think there's a place for it though.