Boredom: An Anti-Capital-ist Tool is a new essay and publication by GenderFail founder Be Oakley. This essay is broken up into fragmentsa of thoughts about boredom broadly centered around boredom as a revolutionary and anti-capitalist tool. These are divided into the following topics:
1. Shame Shame Shame Shame Shame
2. Boredom as a source of misplaced pride
3. Boredom and laziness: sibling
4. Bullshit Jobs and the power of boredom
5. The powerful connection between boredom and dreaming
6. Boredom as a state of play
7. Forced boredom: Stillness through Invisible Illness you
This essay ask the following questions including and not limited to:
Boredom as a tool for the working class?
Do working class people have time to be bored?
What does working class Boredom look like?
Boredom: An Anti-Capital-ist Tool
Essay and design by Be Oakley
Copy edited by Yvonne LeBien
Published by GenderFail September 2023
Risograph printed Black Flat Gold and Blue
On French Paper ( (Speckletone 70IB text Sand and Speckletone 80IB cover Black)
1st Edition of 325
64 pages