Boredom: An Anti-Capital-ist Tool by Be Oakley

Boredom: An Anti-Capital-ist Tool
Essay and design by Be Oakley
Copy edited by Yvonne LeBien
Published by GenderFail October 2026
Risograph printed Black Flat Gold and Blue
3rd Edition of 300
100 pages

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Boredom: An Anti-Capitalist Tool is a new essay and publication by GenderFail founder Be Oakley. This essay is broken into fragments of thoughts 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: siblings

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 asks the following questions, including but 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?

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