{"product_id":"cultural-capital-doesnt-pay-the-rent-a-queer-memoir-9798887441689","title":"Cultural Capital Doesn't Pay the Rent: A Queer Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cem\u003eCultural Capital Doesn't Pay the Rent\u003c\/em\u003e is a story about loss, economic survival, and three decades of organizing against the interlocking hellscapes of neoliberalism. Jessica Lawless's memoir is a queer, anarcho-punk history of community care and healing justice.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn original member of Home Alive, the Seattle-based, feminist self-defense collective founded as a response to the unsolved rape and murder of a beloved friend, Lawless takes the reader into subcultural spaces of the 1980s and '90s where anticapitalist concepts of race, gender, and sexuality were developing against the backdrop of the Christian right's early culture wars.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDigging into their personal archive of pre-internet flyers, meeting notes, zines, photos, newsletters, exhibition announcements, journals, and funeral programs, Lawless explores the somatic impacts of remembering and forgetting. Her attempts to leave violence in the past lead her to the institutional violence of academia, the absurdity of the Los Angeles art world, the crushing poverty of cyclical subemployment as an adjunct professor, and the heartbreak of working in the labor movement.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReflecting on the past while entering menopause, Lawless crafts a narrative that twists and turns along a winding path, continually rejecting normative conclusions. \u003cem\u003eCultural Capital Doesn't Pay the Rent\u003c\/em\u003e is a moving account of abolitionist feminist resistance that will inspire anyone who's experienced the hopes and hypocrisies of leftist activism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jessica Lawless\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e PM Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/26\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798887441689\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLawless, Jessica:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJessica Lawless\u003c\/b\u003e is a cultural agitator and one of the cofounders of the self-defense collective Home Alive. Her artwork has been shown in galleries across the US, included in international anarchist and queer film festivals, and censored by a Catholic university. She was a regular contributor to \u003ci\u003emake\/shift\u003c\/i\u003e magazine and periodically contributes to the \u003ci\u003eAnarchist Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e. Jessica wrote the introduction to \u003ci\u003eLady Lazarus: Confronting Lydia Lunch \u003c\/i\u003e(Questing Beast, UK), contributed a chapter to \u003ci\u003eResolutions 3: Global Networks of Video \u003c\/i\u003e(University of Minnesota Press), and had pieces in the anthologies \u003ci\u003eFeminisms in Motion: Voices for Justice, Liberation, and Transformation\u003c\/i\u003e (AK Press) and \u003ci\u003ePlaces Like Home\u003c\/i\u003e (Literary Kitchen). A former adjunct professor and labor organizer, she lives in Sacramento, CA with her partner Von and their two toothless cats.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Jessica Lawless \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":48614031392925,"sku":"9798887441689","price":29.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_3cc679a4-f047-4c4c-8f0b-e5bf0200c648.jpg?v=1783463780","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/cultural-capital-doesnt-pay-the-rent-a-queer-memoir-9798887441689","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}