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Tag Archives: anti- identity politics
Our Dreadlocks are Revolutionary: Conventional Beauty Standards, Bodily Autonomy & Anarchy
From back cover: “Here is the real test. Do you believe someone has a right to their own body? If you answered, “Yes, but…” then you don’t. There are no conditions, exceptions, or asterisks attached to someone’s rights. If you … Continue reading
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Tagged anti- identity politics, cultural appropriation, cultural essentialism, dreadlocks, identity politics
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Good Cop Radicals: How the University & Nonprofits Make Counter-insurgents Out of Middle Class Leftists.
Good-Cop-Radicals-Imposed-for-Zine-Printing pdf
Posted in Anti-Racism/Anti-Fascism
Tagged anti- identity politics, working class
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Decolonizing Individuality: Anarchism, Anti-Colonization & Anti-Speciesism
from back cover: Since the reproduction of colonialism takes place on an individual level, individuality can be understood as a battle-ground; one can either choose to surrender to the pre configured meaning and values of industrial society, or assert a … Continue reading
Posted in Anarchist/Anti-Authoritarian, Animal Liberation & Earth Liberation, Anti-Racism/Anti-Fascism
Tagged anarchist-nihilism, anarcho-nihilism, animal liberation, anti- identity politics, anti-civ vegan, anti-colonialism, anti-colonization, anti-identity, Flower Bomb, indigenous veganism, individualist anarchy, radical vegan, Terra Ivy, total liberation, vegan anarchy
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Identity Crisis: Identity, Politics and Anti-Politics (An Excerpt from Queer Ultra Violence Bash Back! Anthology)
This text was retrieved from Bash Back! is Dead; Bash Back Forever! which is part of a larger anthology called Queer Ultraviolence. We find these texts to be an exceptionally valuable contribution to queer nihilist theory and practice, and so … Continue reading
Posted in Anarchist/Anti-Authoritarian, Gender Anarchy/Relationships
Tagged anarcho-nihilism, anti- identity politics, anti-civ, BASH BACK! Queer Ultraviolence, domestication, gender nihilism, green anarchy, insurrection, nihilism, post-left anarchy, post-leftism, queer insurrection, queer negativity, queer nihilism
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Identity and Power
From back cover: “We are against identity because we think it holds this oppressive reality together. Our identities as marginalized people are our inheritances that separate us as inferior. For centuries, distinctions of inferiority have been used as the building … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchist-nihilism, anti- identity politics, anti-identity, Here and Now Distro, individualist anarchy, post-left anarchy
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Race is ‘Spooky’
From back cover: “Race is an extremely important aspect of our contemporary world. It’s one of the first things you recognize in someone from as young as 3 months old and negative association begins before most enter preschool (Sullivan et … Continue reading
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Tagged anti- identity politics, anti-colonization, anti-racism, cultural appropriation, cultural essentialism, identity politics, max stirner, Onyx, post-left anarchy, post-race anarchy, race essentialism, race nihilism
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Fuck Around and Find Out: An Obituary for Victimhood
“Here, I reflect on a specific memory that involves physical abuse and sexual assault… …after years of accumulated anger and despair, something changed. The line between life and death blurred as I stood up holding a chair over my head … Continue reading
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Tagged anarcho-nihilism, anti- identity politics, armed self-defense, community, domestic violence, Flower Bomb, individualist anarchy, morality, nihilism, non-violence, sexual assault, statism, youth liberation
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Against The Gendered Nightmare
From back cover: “In the past several years, the question of gender has been taken up again and again by the anarchist milieu. And still few attempts amount to much more than a rehashing of old ideas. Most positions on … Continue reading
Posted in Gender Anarchy/Relationships
Tagged anarcho-nihilism, anti- identity politics, anti-civ, baeden, gender anarchy, green anarchy, Little Mouse Fun, queer nihilism
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Against All Odds: Abolishing Gender, Abolishing Poetry
Text from the zine: “Because of our misplaced desire to find ourselves within societies society, poets become absurdly competitive. Invoking abstract concepts of authenticity to either validate or invalidate writing. There is no valid or authentic poetics because the individual … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchy, anti- identity politics, anti-identity, anti-politics, gender abolition, gender nihilism, poetry, post-left anarchy, queer
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Against Gender Against Society
Text from the zine: “We must turn against society itself. Gender is a war against all of us, and for those who desire freedom, nothing short of the total eradication of gender will suffice. To those of us who wish … Continue reading
Posted in Gender Anarchy/Relationships
Tagged anarchy, anti- identity politics, anti-civ, anti-politics, armed self-defense, Attack, gender nihilism, individualism, insurrectionary anarchy, nihilism, post-left anarchy, queer
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An Insurrectional Practice Against Gender: Considerations on Resonance, Memory, and Attack
Text from back cover: “There are certain practices that exist in the ways in which self-proclaimed “radical trans” people and “anarcha-feminists” of certain activist subcultures have set into motion in response to the question of gender. These include consent zines/workshops, … Continue reading
Posted in Gender Anarchy/Relationships
Tagged anarchy, anti- identity politics, anti-civ, anti-politics, anti-sexism, armed self-defense, Attack, Dangerous Spaces, gender nihilism, insurrectionary anarchy, queer, trans insurrection, transgender
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Arming Negativity: Towards the Queerest Attack
From back cover: “My queerness is an experimentation that never ends. It is the totality of a life lived against the law, insubordinate and wild. It is not a communist politics but a nihilist negation to all systems that attempt … Continue reading
Posted in Gender Anarchy/Relationships
Tagged anarchy, anti- identity politics, anti-civ, Beyond Negativity: What Comes After Gender Nihilism, Flower Bomb, gender, gender nihilism, Gender Nihilism: An Anti-Manifesto, individualism, individualist anarchy, insurrection, nihilism, post-left anarchy, queer nihilism
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Baedan: Queers Gone Wild (An excerpt from Baedan: A Journal of Queer Nihilism issue 1)
Text from back cover: ““ If we can determine anything from our project of queer negativity, it is that capitalism has an unlimited capacity to tolerate and recuperate any alternative politics or artistic expression we could imagine. It is not … Continue reading
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Tagged anarcho-nihilism, anti- identity politics, anti-civ, domestication, gender nihilism, green anarchy, insurrection, nihilism, post-left anarchy, post-leftism, queer insurrection, queer negativity, queer nihilism
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Dangerous Spaces: Violent Resistance, Self-defense, & Insurrectional Struggle Against Gender
Text from back cover: “We are not asking for a right to the streets, we are taking them; we are not asking for advertisements that do not objectify women, we’re destroying the commercial mechanisms that objectify women; we are not … Continue reading
Posted in Gender Anarchy/Relationships
Tagged anarchy, anti- identity politics, anti-civ, anti-sexism, armed self-defense, Attack, gender anarchy, gender nihilism, nihilism
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Destroy Gender
Text from the zine: “My personal experiences with gendered violence are only taken seriously in light of revealing myself as a trans woman. Our theories should start from the ways we have experienced gender violence in our daily lives, not … Continue reading
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Tagged anti- identity politics, anti-civ, anti-patriarchy, anti-sexism, baeden, gender nihilism, insurrectionary anarchy
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Dysphoria Means Total Destroy
Text from back cover: “There is no revolutionary identity here, only an irreconcilable conflict against and through identity. This despair and this hatred is the result. Subsequently, identity-based attacks upon gender will not be able to collapse gender. My taking … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchy, anti- identity politics, anti-civ, Dangerous Spaces, gender nihilism, insurrectionary anarchy, post-left anarchy
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Only A Tsunami Will Do: For A Post-Feminist Anarchy
Text from back cover: “Men, women, …fighting for the elusive HappilyEver AfterPlus$’More. This powerful enemy includes a mindset requiring controlled, predictable (despite acknowledging its impossibility), identifiable order according to a Masster plan. But it is perhaps, first and foremost, the … Continue reading
Posted in Gender Anarchy/Relationships
Tagged anarchy, anti- identity politics, anti-civ, anti-politics, armed self-defense, gender nihilism, individualism, insurrectionary anarchy, nihilism, post-feminist anarchy, post-left anarchy, queer nihilism
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Pieces of Self: Anarchy, Gender and Other Thoughts
“My intention in putting this zine together is to make available essays that clarify the connections between the origins of patriarchy and civilization, that analyze the function of gender in this society and the effects that gender constructions have on … Continue reading
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Tagged anti- identity politics, anti-civ, anti-sexism, gender anarchy, gender nihilism
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Setting Fire to The Church of Social Justice: 3 Critiques of Identity Politics, Call-Out Culture & Other Forms of Statist Thinking
A multi-perspective, thorough and in-depth look at identity politics, call-out culture and the accountability process and their relationship to church and state. Published by Dandelion Distro ( www.facebook.com/dandeliondistro ) Setting Fire to the Church of Social Justice pdf
Posted in Gender Anarchy/Relationships, Recently Added Zines
Tagged abuse, accountability process, anti- identity politics, call-out culture, Dangerous Spaces, identity politics, individualism, post-left anarchy, power dynamics, relationships, safe space, self-defense, social justice, statism
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BITING BACK: A Radical Response to Non-Vegan Anarchists
Text from back cover: “Veganism is not merely a dietary choice, but a challenge to the dominant anthropocentric narrative. It is not about purchasing different products but cultivating new relationships with non-human animals which are not based on hierarchies and … Continue reading
Posted in Animal Liberation & Earth Liberation
Tagged anarchism, anarchy, animal liberation, anti- identity politics, anti-capitalism, anti-speciesism, biocentrism, direct action, eco-defense, environmentalism, insurrectionary anarchy, Social War, vegan anarchy, veganism
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Accomplices Not Allies: Abolish The Ally Industrial Complex
This zine presents a strong critique of the political identity of “ally” and the activists who have built an “ally industrial complex” based on their anti-oppression credentials. Written from the context of indigenous struggles, this zine criticizes and explains several … Continue reading
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Tagged ally industrial complex, allyship, anti- identity politics, anti-colonialism, indigenious resistance
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Against Identity Politics: Spectres, Joylessness & The Contours of Ressentiment
Texts from back cover: “What is being criticized here is a particular political style, rather than a theoretical orientation – a style which labels as oppressive any deviation from a particular political line, which resorts almost immediately to public denunciation … Continue reading
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Tagged ally politics, anti- identity politics, call-out culture, essentialism, gender nihilism, identity, individualism, post-left anarchy, race
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Ain’t No PC Gonna Fix It Baby: A Critique of Ally Politics
Text from back cover: “Anti-authoritarian white allies often express that they are working with authoritarian or nonpartisan community groups, sometimes on projects they don’t believe in, because the most important thing is for them to follow the leadership of people … Continue reading
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Tagged ally politics, allyship, anti- identity politics, anti-capitalism, anti-identity, anti-racism
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An Obituary for Identity Politics
From back cover: “Rather than taking aim at identity itself and the apparatus maintaining this paradigm, energy is spent tearing one another down, ignoring the complexity of individual uniqueness, and playing the State’s role of defining each other based on … Continue reading
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Tagged anarcho-nihilism, anti- identity politics, anti-civ, anti-identity, decolonization, domestication, Flower Bomb, George Floyd, identity, identity politics, illegalism, individualism, individualist anarchy, nihilism, post-left anarchy, rioting
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Complices No Aliades
“Esta provocación está planteada para intervenir en parte de las tensiones actuales alrededor de la solidaridad/trabajo de apoyo al ser las trayectorias actuales, desde mi perspectiva, contra-liberadoras. Agradecimientos especiales a DS En Phoenix por las conversaciones que han conducido a … Continue reading
Posted in Anarchist/Anti-Authoritarian, En español
Tagged anarchy, anarquismo, anti- identity politics, anti-colonialism, direct action, Español, insurrectionary anarchy
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Dangerous Foundations: An Argument Against the “Identity” in Identity Politics
A well-written, thorough critique of identity and a proposal for its total abandonment. Dangerous Foundations Anti-Identity pdf
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Tagged anarcho-nihilism, anarchy, anti- identity politics, anti-essentialism, anti-politics, Attack, individualism, insurrectionary anarchy, nihilism, post-left anarchy, post-leftism, Social War
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Desire Armed: Anarchy and the Creative Impulse
Text from back cover: “My freedom is not a promise for the future, but a way to continuously confront the world where I exist now, taking possession of my life with all my might, in conflict with everything that stands … Continue reading
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Tagged anarcho-nihilism, anarchy, anti- identity politics, anti-essentialism, anti-politics, Attack, individualism, insurrectionary anarchy, nihilism, post-left anarchy, post-leftism, Social War
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Essentialism and The Problem of Identity Politics
Text from the zine: “Essentialism is the idea that there exists some detectible and objective core quality of particular groups of people that is inherent, eternal, and unalterable; groupings can be categorized according to these qualities of essence, which are … Continue reading
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Tagged anarcho-nihilism, anarchy, anti- identity politics, anti-essentialism, anti-politics, Attack, individualism, insurrectionary anarchy, nihilism, post-left anarchy, post-leftism, Social War
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Identity, Politics, Anti-Politics: A Critical Perspective
A critique of identity politics from a queer, anarchist perspective, arguing that identity politics runs the risk of forming cross-class affinities between queers, women, and people of colour, and assimilating radical struggles into establishment politics. Originally published in Pink and … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti- identity politics, anti-essentialism
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Leftism 101
This zine collects two excellent essays by Lawrence Jarach: “Leftism 101” from Back to Basics: The Problem of the Left put out by the Green Anarchy collective and “Anarchists, Don’t let the Left(overs) Ruin your Appetite” from Anarchy: A Journal … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchy, anti- identity politics, anti-essentialism, anti-politics, Attack, individualism, insurrectionary anarchy, nihilism, post-left anarchy, post-leftism, Social War
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Let’s Become Dangerous: For the Diffusion of the Black International by Conspiracy of Cells of Fire
Text from the zine: “No, our burned banks are not a way of protest or a token of friendship and solidarity with the “poor person” who does nothing and sits on his couch. It is a way to express our … Continue reading
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Tagged anarcho-nihilism, anarchy, anti- identity politics, anti-politics, Attack, conspiracy of cells of fire, FAI, individualism, informal organization, insurrectionary anarchy, nihilism, post-left anarchy, post-leftism, Social War
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Negate Politics, Affirm Cuteness
A zine against “growing up”, politics and workerism. Negate Politics pdf
Posted in Anarchist/Anti-Authoritarian, General
Tagged anarcho-nihilism, anarchy, anti- identity politics, anti-essentialism, anti-politics, anti-work, anti-workerism, Attack, individualism, insurrectionary anarchy, nihilism, play, post-left anarchy, post-leftism, Social War
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Post-Left Anarchy: Leaving the Left Behind
Text from back cover: “Post-left anarchists reject all ideologies in favor of the individual and communal construction of self-theory. Individual self-theory is theory in which the integral individual in context (in all her or his relationships, with all her or … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchy, anti- identity politics, anti-essentialism, anti-politics, anti-work, anti-workerism, Attack, individualism, insurrectionary anarchy, nihilism, post-left anarchy, post-leftism, Social War
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Really Though, Not All “Black” People Give A Fuck About “White” Dreads
Text from back cover: “Just ‘cus people share the same institutionalized form(s) of oppression don’t automatically mean they share the same visions and objectives on how to destroy it. These are important differences that shouldn’t be flattened. While these groups … Continue reading
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Tagged anarcho-nihilism, anarchy, anti- identity politics, Flower Bomb, illegalism, individualism, insurrection, post-left anarchy, race, race nihilism
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Revolutionary Solidarity: A Critical Reader for Accomplices
A collection of essays that thoroughly critique identity politics, ally politics and other forms of liberalism found in anarchist circles. Revolutionary Solidarity pdf
Posted in Anarchist/Anti-Authoritarian, Anti-Racism/Anti-Fascism
Tagged allyship, anarchy, anti- identity politics, anti-essentialism, anti-politics, anti-racism, Attack, individualism, insurrectionary anarchy, post-left anarchy, post-leftism
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Safety is an Illusion: Reflections on Accountability
Text from back cover: “People in relation to each other create healthy or unhealthy exchanges. There is no absolute for “fucked up,” “healed,” or “safe” it changes with time, life circumstance, and each new love affair. It is with … Continue reading
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Tagged accountability process, anti- identity politics, call-out culture, Dangerous Spaces, nihilism, post-leftism, relationships, safe spaces
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Some Notes on Insurrectionary Anarchism
This zine lays out the basic principles of insurrectionary anarchism: attack, autonomous self-organization, rejection of management, illegality, informality, the synthesis of individualism and communism, and immediacy. Some Notes on Insurrectionary Anarchism pdf
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Tagged anarcho-nihilism, anarchy, anti- identity politics, anti-politics, Attack, individualism, insurrectionary anarchy, nihilism, post-left anarchy, post-leftism, Social War
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Total Destroy #3 A Milwaukee Anarchist Periodical
Text from back cover: “In a police report describing a black bloc at the Republican National Convention, one ever-so eloquent officer claimed that he observed a group of over one hundred anarchists “doing being totally out of control”. While we … Continue reading
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Tagged anarcho-nihilism, anarchy, anti- identity politics, anti-civ, anti-politics, Attack, gender nihilism, individualism, insurrectionary anarchy, nihilism, post-left anarchy, post-leftism, Social War
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Terror Incognita
Terror Incognita challenges conventional notions about consent, violence, sexuality, desire, and freedom, in hopes of pushing the discourse about these subjects far out of familiar territory. Terror_Incognita pdf
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Tagged anarcho-nihilism, anarchy, anti- identity politics, anti-essentialism, anti-politics, Attack, gender nihilism, individualism, insurrectionary anarchy, nihilism, post-left anarchy, post-leftism, Social War
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The Limits of Contemporary Anti-oppression Theory and Practice (A critique of Privilege Theory and Cultural Essentialism)
Text from back cover: “Communities of color are not a single, homogenous bloc with identical political opinions. There is no single unified antiracist, feminist, and queer political program which white liberals can somehow become “allies” of, despite the fact that … Continue reading
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Tagged allyship, anarchism, anti- identity politics, anti-ally politics, anti-essentialism
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