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Courage (in Chicago)

From Nudism As An Illegalism

The following text is my reportback from Bash Back! 2023, simultaneously published here and submitted to Bash Back News, where I hope it will be published soon. There are more than a few references that might be obscure to folks who weren't there, who don't know some of the pertinent lore. I hope that that does not diminish the value of the piece to the wider readership.

TOTW: fellas, is it queer to be gay?

TOTW: fellas, is it queer to be gay?

Topic of the Week - guest contribution by MK

An middle schooler in my life asked me a question to this effect the other day, and for this tranarchist, it kickstarted the most beautiful kind of existential crisis. Of course this tweenage organizer, who didn't use the a-word for herself, was gay—but in her possibly-ungovernable gay (and maybe queer) self, was she still practicing anarchy to some extent?

A hundred queer anarchist criminals turned a golf course into a public sex forest

do you know the anarchist origins of golf?

source: bbnews.noblogs.org (https://bbnews.noblogs.org/post/2023/09/20/a-hundred-queer-anarchist-cri...)

Blue flashing lights pass by, oblivious to our collective trespass. A hole in the fence, hotties passing through, passing into each other. A new world cums into being, a rupture on the leisure pastures of the rich. Cruising utopia, at least for a night. Queers writhing over each other, defiling one another. Sweet melodies accompany soft caresses, the sound of piss gurgling beside a couple kissing. Determined fuckers splayed out on tarps. The line between criminality and sensuality? Sorry she's not in tonight.

Questions to be Considered Before Chicago

Questions to be Considered Before Chicago

From Medium by Elisha Moon Williams

“What is Bash Back!?”
“What does it mean to resist oppression?”
“What is our purpose?”
“Is our violence of substance or of image?”

These are questions that have ruptured throughout queer anarchist history since the late 2000s. Bash Back! has been called many different things over the years. If you ask 5 queer anarchists, you’re likely to get 6 different answers. Some have claimed that it is a decentralized network of autonomous queer anarchist cells. Others have considered it a gang, a tendency, or even just a symbol. According to certain folks, they’re all of these things and more.

Bash Back! Is Back

Bash Back! Is Back

From CrimethInc.

Reviving an Insurrectionary Queer Network: An Interview

In 2007, in the course of preparations for actions against the 2008 Republican National Convention, an insurrectionary network of queer anarchists formed under the umbrella Bash Back! Over the following three years, this network participated in a vibrant array of confrontations, organizing efforts, and publications, expanding and intensifying the struggle against sex and gender normativity. Today, as fascists and other bigots renew their assault on queer and trans people and anarchists fight back, there is an urgent need for renewed coordination and innovation. In this context, participants in the original Bash Back! network have called for a new Bash Back! convergence in September 2023.

Bash Back! Int'l Convergence 2023

Bash Back! Internation Conference, Chicago, Sept 8-11

From bashback.info

In 2008, queer anarchists gathered in Chicago to plot a disruption of the electoral spectacle and cohere a network out of emergent youth crews in multiple cities. Fifteen years later, the proposals put forward then criminality, autonomous self-defense, riots, and orgies are needed more than ever.

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