This Has Always Been A WarCapitalism 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