Tag Archives: 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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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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Canceled: A Short DIY Guide To Surviving & Recovering from Social Banishment

From back cover: “Despite what some believe, patterns of harm or abuse can be broken and left in the cemetery of the past. Every individual has the power to break those patterns and redefine and recreate their self. Who you … Continue reading →

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Toward Terra Incognita: A Critical Look at Cultural Essentialism, Nationalism, and Body Policing

“I feel nationalism has escaped the grave long enough. With this text I seek to instigate and encourage an anti-authoritarian flame that once and for all sets fire to its anarcho-confused, stumbling corpse. I also encourage anarchists to question the … Continue reading →

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Cultural Appropriation is a Toxic Concept

From back cover: “I have faced racism — it is a fact of my life as a woman of colour. But I refuse to be on the cultural appropriation bandwagon — I find it nearly insulting that while I deal … Continue reading →

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Cult of Resentment: How Identity Politics Fails Everyone

From back cover: “Individuals are nearly as unique as their fingerprints might suggest. Attempts to lump large swathes of people together is often based on ones own limited ability, or willingness, to know and genuinely understand other unique individuals on … Continue reading →

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Another Word For White Ally is Coward

“The fear that we would like to critique here is the fear of forming one’s own opinion, the fear of developing one’s own analysis and then acting upon it. We do find fault in this fear of the White Ally. … Continue reading →

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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

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Against Innocence: Gender, Race & The Politics of Safety

Text from back cover: “Ultimately, our appeals to innocence demarcate who is killable and rapable, even if we are trying to strategically use such appeals to protest violence committed against one of our comrades. […] When we rely on appeals … Continue reading →

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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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From Identity to Individuality: A Nihilist’s History in Leftism

From back cover: “Rather than adhering to these strict rules, we felt free to communicate our individual desires… …My friends of all different socially constructed identities – by race, gender, sex, etc – could behave as they wished, without being … Continue reading →

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