Our consumption values and habits can be analyzed at the intersection of many conspiring systems of oppression such as: capitalism, racism, and cisheteropatriarchy. Many marginalized people navigate these systems, on a daily basis, with little to no room for individual choice or self-determination. From the food we eat to the porn we watch, we are forced to participate in corrupt and unsustainable patterns of behavior due to the self-destructive system of capitalism. The way cis men are primarily socialized to treat other genders reflects the characterization of our bodies as commodities rather than human. --Chiamaka Nwadike, Editor-in-Chief
