num_pages: 224
description: Capitalism has infiltrated every aspect of our personal social economic and sexual lives. By examining the politics of gender environment and sexuality we can see the ways straight cis white and especially male upper-class people control and subvert the otherqueer non-binary BIPOC and female bodiesin order to keep the working lower classes divided. Patriarchy and classism are forms of systemic violence which ensure that the main commodity of capitalisma large disposable cheap and ideally subjugated work forceis readily available. There is a lot wrong with the ways we live work and treat each other.In essays that are both accessible and inspiring Lori Fox examines their confrontations with the capitalist patriarchy through their experiences as a queer non-binary working-class farm hand labourer bartender bush-worker and road dog exploring the ugly places where issues of gender sexuality class and the environment intersect.In applying the micro to the macro demonstrating how the personal is political and vice versa Fox exposes the flaws in believing that this is the only way our society can or should work. Brash topical and passionate This Has Always Been a War is not only a collection of essays but a series of dispatches from the combative front lines of our present-day culture.
language: English
title: This Has Always Been a War
publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press