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Tag Archives: LGBTQI
The Stonewall riots and Pride at 50
From the Working Class History collective, two excellent podcast episodes on the Stonewall riots and radical gay politics of the time and today. A further contribution to radicalising pride.
Breaking through the domestication of the Stonewall Riots
‘Q’ then, will never be a coherent letter tacked as a bridge on some list of identities. The past decade shows the poverty or ruin of every attempt to do so. We’ve said already that these words are magic. We … Continue reading
Paul Preciado: Politics of desire beyond woman and man
With women’s day on the horizon and the international call for a global feminist strike to mark the 8th of March, we share a text in translation by Paul Preciado that pushes at the limits of feminist thought and practice. … Continue reading
Queer desire and revolution
If we behave like those on the other side, then we are the other side. Instead of changing the world, all we’ll achieve is a reflection of the one we want to destroy. Jean Genet, The Balcony Limited by the world, … Continue reading
Beyond Negativity: What Comes After Gender Nihilism? – Alyson Escalante
(photographs by Mike Disfarmer) Subvert the social and civil order! Aye, I would destroy, to the last vestige, this mockery of order, this travesty upon justice! Break up the home? Yes, every home that rests on slavery! Every marriage … Continue reading
Stonewall: Re-Politicising Pride
THE ANAL MACHINE (Apocryphal poem by Paul B. Preciado) In front of the heterosexual machine It rises, fierce, the ANAL MACHINE The non-hierarchical connection of the organs The redistribution of pleasure And anal collectivisation Announce a SEXUAL COMMUNISM That is … Continue reading
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Tagged Judith Butler, LGBTQI, Maurice Blanchot, Paul B. Preciado
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Feminism and beyond in May 68
France’s May 68 not only created space for the emergence of a radical gay movement in the country (with the FHAR), but a parallel feminist movement as well, as expressed in the Mouvement de libération des femmes (MLF). We share a … Continue reading
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Tagged Feminism, france, Françoise Picq, LGBTQI, May 68, Paul B. Preciado, transfeminism
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Was there something queer about May 68?: The FHAR and Guy Hocquenghem
Workers of the world, masturbate! Front Homosexuel d’Action Revolutionnaire slogan We should put into practice the truth that there is no revolutionary subject—there is no subject at all. There are only historical drives that ruffle this or that part of our … Continue reading
Women’s day and the struggle of every day: María Galindo
A feminist-anarchist voice from the “South”: María Galindo and the critique of “Women’s Day” …
In praise of riots: From Stonewall to Minneapolis
Published with CrimethInc. Collective (28/06/2020) … Stonewall Means Riot Right Now: What the Queer Uprisings of 1969 Share with the George Floyd Protests of 2020 “Stonewall was a riot.” In the 51 years since the uprising at the Stonewall Inn in … Continue reading →