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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 →

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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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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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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Criminal Intimacy

Text from back cover: “We do not offer ‘criminal’ or ‘queer’ as identities, nor as categories. Criminality. Queerness. These are tools for revolt against identity and category. These are our lines of flight out of all restraint. We are in … Continue reading →

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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 →

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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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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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Espacios Peligrosos: Resistencia violenta, Autodefensa y Lucha insureccionalista en contra del género

““No estamos pidiendo derechos por las calles, estamos hablando de ellos; no estamos pidiendo anuncios que no nos conviertan en mujeres-objeto, estamos destruyendo los mecanismos comerciales que nos deshumanizan como mujeres; no estamos apelando al poder masculino para que termine … Continue reading →

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Gender Nihilism: An Anti-Manifesto

“We are radicals who have had enough with attempts to salvage gender. We do not believe we can make it work for us. We look at the transmisogyny we have faced in our own lives, the gendered violence that our … Continue reading →

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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 →

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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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To Destroy Sexuality

Text from the zine: “Of course, we realize how many obstacles we have to overcome to make our aspirations into something more than the dreams of a small and marginal minority. We are keenly aware that liberating the body for … Continue reading →

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Queer Ultraviolence (Spanish version)

La collección que sigue comprende varios ensayos y comunicados de la monstruosidad conocida como Bash Back! Estas selecciones sirven como un destello a lo que será una antologia más completa que pronto será publicada por QI (Queer Internacional). QI es … Continue reading →

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A is for Nihilism

This zine does not represent any “official” definition, nor a new program or political ideology. Instead it merely presents some common anarchist-nihilist ideas which encourage an anti-political critique of all social control and order, in favor of individual empowerment, anarchy … Continue reading →

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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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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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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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The Phoenix Project: Initiatives of Combative Anarchy, 2013-2014

A collection of the first 14 communiqués of the Phoenix Project, an anarchist initiative of informal attacks against power. Text from this zine: “For us, there is no middle ground. They who declare openly their anarchist intentions are facing a … Continue reading →

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