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4 months ago

A QUEER APOCALYPSE IN THE WASTELAND

Do you like Mad Max? Do you like V for Vendetta? Do you like Conan the Barbarian? Do you like discussing queer things and ideas, trans things and ideas or anarchist things and ideas? Are you interested in ethics or politics? Do you have opinions on how people should live with each other in this wasteland as we try to brave its cruelties?

Then this book is for you!

https://archive.org/details/a-queer-apocalypse-in-the-wasteland

#politics #anarchy #queer #trans #lgbtq #lgbtqia #nonbinary #madmax #vforvendetta #alanmoore #furiosa #ethics #morality #sex

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5 months ago

Introductions Toot

I maintain an account on one or two other instances on Mastodon but none of them give me 11001 characters per toot. So that is why you can also find me here so that if I have something more substantial to say then I can.

I am a queer human (in every sense of the term queer) of middle age and politically and ethically engaged. My politics I would describe variously as self-organisatory, pirate or anarchist. I write books about this, which I'm sure I will post links to, so if you want details about that then read those. I have no faith in governments, democracy or authorities of ANY kind to solve human problems and if you need to ask why, well, you haven't been paying much attention for the past few millennia have you?

I like friendly people and will generally live and let live but there is a definite outsider or underdog vibe to me so I usually orientate myself more to people like that. I am not generally impressed with the mainstream and walk my own journey but fellow travellers are welcome to walk a mile or two with me if they are going that way. For the rest, well, let's see what happens.

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5 months ago

"I find it hard to imagine how we could ever have "free societies" if we cannot even raise in ourselves the desire to be such people as think for themselves and create their own ethical values and relationships. The latter is a necessary and sufficient condition of the former."

I write about this - and how we need to become guerrillas, pirates and anarchists possessed of an "anti-politics" - in my book GUERRILLA MIND.

Authoritarian capitalism will only ever lock us in a prison as it kills everything. Are we - not them - really serious about change?

You can read my book here:

https://archive.org/details/guerrilla-mind

#politics #books #writing #anarchy

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4 months ago

This book is basically an anarchist 101 or manifesto but it takes the route of engaging in setting out anarchist analyses, principles and values by exampling the court speeches and associated writings of five anarchists who were condemned to death for their beliefs.

If you want a grounding in anarchist ideas in straightforward English then this compact text is for you.

#politics #anarchy

https://archive.org/details/jolly-rogers-anarchist-values

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1 day ago

SEX AND INTERSEX (AND GENDER)

"If a child is born with two X chromosomes, oviducts, ovaries, and a uterus on the inside, but a penis and scrotum on the outside, for instance, is the child a boy or a girl? Most doctors declare the child a girl, despite the penis, because of her potential to give birth, and intervene using surgery and hormones to carry out the decision. Choosing which criteria to use in determining sex, and choosing to make the determination at all, are social decisions for which scientists can offer no absolute guidelines."

(Biologist Anne Fausto-Sterling, "Sexing the Body")

The recent US govt statement on "sex" talks about "sex at conception". At conception EVERYONE IS INITIALLY FEMALE as possible male characteristics cannot even develop for several weeks. That is part of a process which may, in some people, not develop in a binary way or in a predictable way. In addition, not everyone is either XX (usually female) or XY (usually male) in terms of chromosomes. In fact, the notion of a strict, hard binary is entirely false. This is NOT a matter of numbers for even the possibility of one single deviation proves the binary is not true to reality. The fact is a binary, which is the same as a deliberately created gender division, is artificial and a political project. As Fausto-Sterling says in the same book:

"But why should we care if a 'woman'
(defined as having breasts, a vagina, uterus, ovaries, and menstruation) has a 'clitoris' large enough to penetrate the vagina of another woman? Why should we care if there are individuals whose 'natural biological equipment' enables them to have sex 'naturally' with both men and women? Why must we amputate or surgically hide that 'offending shaft' found on an especially large clitoris? The answer: to maintain gender divisions, we must control those bodies that are so unruly as to blur the borders. Since intersexuals quite literally embody both sexes, they weaken claims about sexual difference."

Neither sex nor gender nor sexuality, a number of leading biologists say today, are a simple matter of "what's there". Increasingly, social factors are also seen to matter. For govts, it becomes a matter of politics (and political dogma) too. In one fell swoop, the US govt has attempted to wipe out intersex people and trans and non-binary people. This is based on ignorance and flawed thinking as part of a political agenda for an entirely political purpose.

They can never be allowed to succeed. For biology does what it can not what orange fools tell it to.

#trans #intersex #nonbinary #queer #lgbtq #lgbtqia #politics #usa

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4 months ago

A QUEER APOCALYPSE IN THE WASTELAND

Do you like Mad Max? Do you like V for Vendetta? Do you like Conan the Barbarian? Do you like discussing queer things and ideas, trans things and ideas or anarchist things and ideas? Are you interested in ethics or politics? Do you have opinions on how people should live with each other in this wasteland as we try to brave its cruelties?

Then this book is for you!

https://archive.org/details/a-queer-apocalypse-in-the-wasteland

#politics #anarchy #queer #trans #lgbtq #lgbtqia #nonbinary #madmax #vforvendetta #alanmoore #furiosa #ethics #morality #sex

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4 months ago

This book is basically an anarchist 101 or manifesto but it takes the route of engaging in setting out anarchist analyses, principles and values by exampling the court speeches and associated writings of five anarchists who were condemned to death for their beliefs.

If you want a grounding in anarchist ideas in straightforward English then this compact text is for you.

#politics #anarchy

https://archive.org/details/jolly-rogers-anarchist-values

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5 months ago

"I find it hard to imagine how we could ever have "free societies" if we cannot even raise in ourselves the desire to be such people as think for themselves and create their own ethical values and relationships. The latter is a necessary and sufficient condition of the former."

I write about this - and how we need to become guerrillas, pirates and anarchists possessed of an "anti-politics" - in my book GUERRILLA MIND.

Authoritarian capitalism will only ever lock us in a prison as it kills everything. Are we - not them - really serious about change?

You can read my book here:

https://archive.org/details/guerrilla-mind

#politics #books #writing #anarchy

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5 months ago

Introductions Toot

I maintain an account on one or two other instances on Mastodon but none of them give me 11001 characters per toot. So that is why you can also find me here so that if I have something more substantial to say then I can.

I am a queer human (in every sense of the term queer) of middle age and politically and ethically engaged. My politics I would describe variously as self-organisatory, pirate or anarchist. I write books about this, which I'm sure I will post links to, so if you want details about that then read those. I have no faith in governments, democracy or authorities of ANY kind to solve human problems and if you need to ask why, well, you haven't been paying much attention for the past few millennia have you?

I like friendly people and will generally live and let live but there is a definite outsider or underdog vibe to me so I usually orientate myself more to people like that. I am not generally impressed with the mainstream and walk my own journey but fellow travellers are welcome to walk a mile or two with me if they are going that way. For the rest, well, let's see what happens.

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