sup!! we welcome two new Wellness Center staff members this week: Emma and Karey! in today's installment, we talk about the origins of some of the structural hierarchies that dominate our lives - primarily patriarchy and white supremacy - and connect our experiences with them as we've grown over the years, as well as to the different places we’ve lived. we also discuss how things like the #MeToo movement have changed how we interact with others, and not necessarily for the better. capitalism and the State apparatus, together with the help of the Church, have been the primary driver of the ongoing phenomenon of “primitive accumulation” since the enclosure of the Commons and the end of the "feudal stage of history." women were particularly affected by this transition from feudalism to capitalism, as they disproportionately lost much of their previous autonomy (and lives) thanks largely to the witch-hunts in Western Europe/18th-19th century New England. they quickly became displaced from the land and their traditional practices through State repression, making the surviving women alienated non-owners. the invention of the nuclear family, along with the propagandizing of heteronormativity/violent repression of LGBTQ+ people, created the conditions for women to have no choice but to become dependent on men. a power dynamic was constructed that included women, who from then on existed chiefly as domestic laborers and "people who be shopping" (PwbS), and men, who existed as “breadwinners” and therefore owners of money, aka power. this largely explains the disparity between men and women in possession of/access to capital and wealth, in a society still rampant with misogyny.we also know that similar conditions exist across race, seen through the construction of a racial hierarchy which attempts to justify the exploitation of & violence toward black and indigenous people of color (BIPOC). colonialism, enslavement, and genocide of the indigenous nations and African captives, which eventually gave way to neocolonialist forms of exploitation via red-lining, wage/prison slavery, Jim Crow, gentrification, and gerrymandering, has dispossessed millions of BIPOCs, with economic, political, and social disparities on full display in society.“Before the advocates of positive whiteness remind us of the oppression of the white poor, let me say that we have never denied it. The United States, like every capitalist society, is composed of masters and slaves. The problem is that many of the slaves think they are part of the master class because they partake of the privileges of the white skin. We cannot say it too often: whiteness does not exempt people from exploitation, it reconciles them to it. It is for those who have nothing else.”“The white race is neither a biological nor a cultural formation; it is a strategy for securing to some an advantage in a competitive society. It has held down more whites than blacks. We hold that so-called whites must cease to exist as whites in order to realize themselves as something else; to put it another way: white people must commit suicide as whites in order to come alive as workers, or youth, or women, or whatever other identity can induce them to change from the miserable, petulant, subordinated creatures they now are into freely associated, fully developed human subjects.”Excerpts from The Point Is Not To Interpret Whiteness But To Abolish It by Noel Ignatiev - highly recommended!!!http://www.campusactivism.org/server-new/uploads/abolishthepoint.pdfCaliban and the Witch - Silvia Federicihttps://www.akpress.org/calibanandthewitch.htmlfollow us!!twitter: @kareytodd, @APPwellcenter, @four1111sinstagram: kareytodd, four1111s