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“Against Equality is an online archive, publishing, and arts collective focused on critiquing mainstream gay and lesbian politics. As queer thinkers, writers and artists, we are committed to dislodging the centrality of equality rhetoric and challenging the demand for inclusion in the institution of marriage, the US military, and the prison industrial complex via hate crimes legislation.
We want to reinvigorate the queer political imagination with fantastic possibility!”
Dear People, The zine “Grrrls Write” is starting to blossom into a tangible zine and not just an idea. But I need your help! Since this is a collective zine, I need people to submit their work. Although this is a feminist zine, it does not require the pieces to be gear…ed toward strictly feminist topics. Please, feel the freedom to write whatever you want. No limitations on topics, language, or length. (but no novels please, costs too much to print). Being in school or work limits writing and stifles your artistic ability to express yourself. “Grrrls Write”, inspired by the Riot Grrrl movement, provides anyone the opportunity to write whatever they want. Art and photography are also accepted. So please please please get involved. Message me, comment on this anything. Don’t be shy.
The DEADLINE for the first issue is Monday, Nov. 28th. Message me and I’ll give you my email address to send me your final copy.signal boost
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This is a book about fighting back. The dominant culture—civilization—is killing the planet, and it is long past time that those of us who care about life on earth began to take the actions necessary to stop this culture from destroying every living being.
By now we all know the statistics and trends: 90 percent of the large fish in the oceans are gone, there is ten times as much plastic as phytoplankton in the oceans, 97 percent of native forests are destroyed, 98 percent of native grasslands are destroyed, amphibian populations are collapsing, migratory songbird populations are collapsing, mollusk populations are collapsing, fish populations are collapsing, and so on. Two hundred species are driven extinct each and every day. If we don’t know those statistics and trends, we should.
This culture destroys landbases. That’s what it does. When you think of Iraq, is the first thing that comes to mind cedar forests so thick that sunlight never touched the ground? One of the first written myths of this culture is about Gilgamesh deforesting the hills and valleys of Iraq to build a great city. The Arabian Peninsula used to be oak savannah. The Near East was heavily forested (we’ve all heard of the cedars of Lebanon). Greece was heavily forested. North Africa was heavily forested.
We’ll say it again: this culture destroys landbases.
And it won’t stop doing so because we ask nicely.
We don’t live in a democracy. And before you gasp at this blasphemy, ask yourself: do governments better serve corporations or living beings? Does the judicial system hold CEOs accountable for their destructive, often murderous acts?
Here are a couple of riddles that aren’t very funny—Q: What do you get when you cross a long drug habit, a quick temper, and a gun? A: Two life terms for murder, earliest release date 2026. Q: What do you get when you cross two nation-states, a large corporation, forty tons of poison, and at least 8,000 dead human beings? A: Retirement, with full pay and benefits (Warren Anderson, CEO of Union Carbide, which caused the mass murder at Bhopal).
Do the rich face the same judicial system as you or I? Does life on earth have as much standing in a court as does a corporation?
We all know the answers to these questions.
And we know in our bones, if not our heads, that this culture will not undergo any sort of voluntary transformation to a sane and sustainable way of living. We—Aric, Lierre, and Derrick—have asked thousands upon thousands of people of all walks of life, from activists to students to people we meet on buses and planes, whether they believe this culture will undergo that voluntary transformation. Almost no one ever says yes.
If you care about life on this planet, and if you believe this culture won’t voluntarily cease to destroy it, how does that belief affect your methods of resistance?
Most people don’t know, because most people don’t talk about it.
This book talks about it: this book is about that shift in strategy, and tactics.
This book is about fighting back.
We must put our bodies and our lives between the industrial system and life on this planet. We must start to fight back. Those who come after, who inherit whatever’s left of the world once this culture has been stopped—whether through peak oil, economic collapse, ecological collapse, or the efforts of brave women and men resisting in alliance with the natural world—are going to judge us by the health of the landbase, by what we leave behind. They’re not going to care how you or I lived our lives. They’re not going to care how hard we tried. They’re not going to care whether we were nice people. They’re not going to care whether we were nonviolent or violent. They’re not going to care whether we grieved the murder of the planet. They’re not going to care whether we were enlightened or not enlightened. They’re not going to care what sort of excuses we had to not act (e.g., “I’m too stressed to think about it,” or “It’s too big and scary,” or “I’m too busy,” or “But those in power will kill us if we effectively act against them,” or “If we fight back, we run the risk of becoming like they are,” or “But I recycled,” or any of a thousand other excuses we’ve all heard too many times). They’re not going to care how simply we lived. They’re not going to care how pure we were in thought or action. They’re not going to care if we became the change we wished to see. They’re not going to care whether we voted Democrat, Republican, Green, Libertarian, or not at all. They’re not going to care if we wrote really big books about it. They’re not going to care whether we had “compassion” for the CEOs and politicians running this deathly economy.
They’re going to care whether they can breathe the air and drink the water. We can fantasize all we want about some great turning, but if the people (including the nonhuman people) can’t breathe, it doesn’t matter.
Pedagogy of the Oppressed is the most widely known work of educator Paulo Freire’s.
The first chapter explores how oppression has been justified. Freire admits that the powerless in society can be frightened of freedom. He writes, “Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift.”
A must read.
Fire at Midnight, Destruction at Dawn: Sabotage and Social War (zine)
Sabotage will take many forms but it must always be done so with the intent of expanding our revolt globally. Solidarity with the struggles of others will then become little more than an after…
derrick jensen - how shall i live my life?: on liberating the earth from civilization
A free download of a Jensen book I’ve never read. Yes please! Thanks for posting this!
hoax co-editor rachel has just finished her newest perzine, reimagining queer community!
reimagining queer community is a personal investigation into my evolving relationship to queerness, as well as some of the ways in which i navigate queer spaces around me. some of the topics in this zine include: alienation and estrangement from the queer community, what it means to feel connected, the myth of a cohesive queer community, being a spectator versus being a participant, (personal and shared) queer histories, and potential strategies to build new alliances.
this was my first attempt at making a twenty four hour zine (it wound up taking three days due to work/life interruptions, but who’s counting?) it is 20 pages, 1/4 sized and text heavy. i am asking for $1, a trade. or a friendship! if you are interested, please message me in the ask!
Book: Privilege, Power and Difference by Allan G. Johnson
Note: Digital Read
URL: http://www.mediafire.com/?21l3r9e1svl8h9v
Description:
Privilege, Power, and Difference… is a tool for people alike to examine systems of privilege and difference in our society. Written in an accessible, conversational style, Johnson links theory with engaging examples in ways hat enable readers to see the underlying nature and consequences of privilege and their connection to it. This… book was been used across the country.. to shed light on issues of power and privilege.
Outlaw Midwives Zines
Edited and put together by Mai’a, the Outlaw Midwives zines are a compilation of writings related to pregnancy, childbirth, abortion, and raising children, specifically as relevant to marginalized mothers, such as women of color, trans* mothers, and poor women, by midwives and other birth/reproductive justice advocates. The concept is as follows:
We envision anti-violence safer communities where mothers and children heal from reproductive violence, because it is when we are whole and confident in our own leadership, are we able to co-create healthy communities.
Communities in which loyalty to a mother’s choice is 99 percent of being a midwife and in which we define ‘motherhood’ as love by any means necessary.
Communities in which we care for ourselves developing spiritual and physical awareness so that we can hold the space, the energy, the vision for folks to make decisions that center freedom, community and revolutionary love.
We must mother ourselves. Hold ourselves the way that we hold our children. And know that our wisdom is stronger and more knowledgeable and relevant than outside expertise. We must live the lives that are given to us. And trust others to do the same. For the sake of our survival. For the sake of our ancestresses. For the sake of our communities. For the sake of love. (via the Outlaw Midwives website by Mai’a aka GuerrillaMamaMedicine/MaiaMedicine)
Outlaw Midwives zines are available to read online:
Outlaw Midwives Vol. 3 is in the production and due out probably in July 2011.
