Blue Bag LIfe

My week takeover of @bluebaglife from 6th-11th August 2018

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I'm Here On Holiday

Published July 2017 by Losers Gym with Rose Walsh: Don't Mention Brexit.

Reminiscent of Maos red book, inspired by pocket sized religious nonsense, in the vein of the micro blog and with a title not that dissimilar to a crass record. Including expired web links, Brexit and other Euro gazing, "Am Just Here On Holiday (And other tiny tokens)" is a a short joy that wants to be your friend.

Now finally available as a PDF download!

credits

HERE:

https://rrosethenodule.bandcamp.com/releases

Between the bourgeoisie (a rock) and the state (a hard place) or why I got this tattoo.

The underclass is a kind of fuck all that's hard to describe. Beneath and disliked by the working class, it’s less not working, more doing labour that isn't considered valid (care or criminalized; drug dealers, sex workers etc.) or just being illegal.

The community who raise me worked hard and got nowhere; and were a constant reminder I lived in the inverse of meritocracy. Relying on benefits and stealing, I came to believe I’d never survive from my own labour or by myself: basically, I was in an abusive relationship with the state.

I got day tickets out of poverty for being artistic. The offers never extended to my siblings whom i took care of. The bourge wanted me when it was interesting and called it social mobility. But people cant live in bourge heaven, only things (objects or tokens) and my actual condition was less appealing. I am thankful teachers fed my art practice but at times I couldn’t meet my basic needs.  At age 20 I was Team GB snow sculpture captain on an all expenses paid tour of China. Three months later I was homeless again, in hospital again and destitute. The bourge is a shit Dad who takes you out, gives you everything you want and then ditches you back at ya mams for months.

I recall my kid brother recently seeing “Refugees welcome, bring your families” on a sticker, he said it made it all sound so casual! Why shouldn't it be? I refuse to exist as proof it’s possible to get out of poverty with hard work. Actually, I got "out" because I am white, able bodied, had an abortion when I got pregnant and went to art school (non of these were really choices). 

Then, last year I wrote for BBL - my first time making art about and for people like me. Around the same time (late to the party) i discovered the words tramp stamp and wow what a classist discovery! immediately i knew what it meant and wanted one. There was only one word that i could think to put on my butt. so here is to more than not forgetting from were i came, but never betraying the people i love who are still there.

I worked in a whole food shop and collected buzzwords on receipts... plus peppering's of my alienation and bitterness

Home made

Half-Baked

Recycled

Decafinated 

Vegan

Unhomogonised

Gelatinous

Post Colonial

Energy weelding

Fair trade

Dead

Fresh

Anarco-co

Butter wouldnt melt

Sudo Local

Ethnic 

Eco

Immuni

Linda McCarthy

GM Bo Ho

We’re all gonna die

Oriental

Intersectional

Ayeuvadic

Metabolic

Aspirational

Dead

L G B L T +

Cutlets

and

Queeen-wahhh

Quee-Noah

Queenahh

Queen-Ho-Hahhh

MY WAR

i said she

and then i thought, fuck, i don’t know what gender they identify as.

and then i thought, you were talking about yourself, so what are you?

and then i thought, who are YOU who is saying what are you?

and then i though well you/i must be a we/they plural because there seems to be some disagreement here.

and THEN i thought but i don’t want to be them/they cause its all us and them.

and then i thought about queering that Black Flag song my war (I’m one of them)

Yes, i am a packet of horse grade peanuts, and i need to take a break from identity politics for a bit.

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Often, when someone says something prejudice, they realises as the oppressive mush falls out there face. 

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If there is anything you don’t understand here please ask.

May Day

This Colouring book is made for: Everyone alienated by the complicity/constant presence of white women in colonisation and the state. Billboards and buses. Nice teeth. Ovulating. “Unexpected item in the bagging area” she says in the supermarket, and in the station “If you see anything suspicious please report it to...” Also, for the people who in general have been feminised through labour. Anyone working in service expected to smile. Good customer service is not a human right. And, those who can't work, are looking for work or who do the work she wont. Those whose identity/body doesn’t pass the cis - het - able performance of faking orgasms, generating capital, selling yoghurt and erasing nuance. Plus, those denied the knowledge their (mental) health issues are related to the consequences of materialism. Not your shit CV, trauma, addictive behavior, mediocrity, shame, the ever growing tufts of hair. Nor cause you say bAth not baaaath. 

X X  X      H A P P Y  M A Y  D A Y  2 0 1 7      X  X X

Ps This is not for M ANarchists who refuse the inherent link between feminism/labour/capital cause of their misogyny. (Its in the communist manifesto you twat.) And those othered by, but similar to him who blame immigrants when femmes took the jobs. Duh. Remember, when she was first carried over the threshold it’s cause she was forced.

Fully femmenated, waxed, chlorinated (white), luxury communism isn’t a thing. 

Love, 

Rrose