Clara

“The public sphere invented during this time period, which Habermas writes is “always already oriented to an audience,” even in its moments of reading and private media consumption, is not observed by an eye that watches from above. Rather, it is inspected and scrutinized by other self-governing actors within the public sphere, creating the feeling of having to perform for invisible eyes while in public spaces all of the time.”
― Alice Sparkly Kat, Postcolonial Astrology: Reading the Planets through Capital, Power, and Labor

“Liberal critiques of sex work often frame it within questions relating to consent. Does a sex worker consent to work? These critiques ignore issues of consent within other industries. Does any worker consent to work?”
― Alice Sparkly Kat, Postcolonial Astrology: Reading the Planets through Capital, Power, and Labor

“This love is supposed to be part of the compensation of doing our job. But people are less comfortable considering that love is not compensation; love is work.…”
― Sarah Jaffe, Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

“If the utopianism of American agrarianism is a dream of land liberated from commercial interests, then whiteness is also the dream that workers can become liberated from having class interests.”
― Alice Sparkly Kat, Postcolonial Astrology: Reading the Planets through Capital, Power, and Labor