Why I Identify As A Black Anarchist...

From YouTube

Why do I identify as an anarchist—specifically, a Black anarchist? I share my journey from early organizing and labor work to international protest. From the Black Panther Party’s survival programs to my time at Standing Rock, in France during Nuit Debout, and traveling through the Philippines, I’ve seen how mutual aid, decolonization, and direct action can transform our understanding of freedom.

What Color Is The Smoke? (In conversation with Follow The Fires)

From Muntjac Magazine

First of all, I should stress that I’m from England and as such my experiences are going to be very different from anyone involved in radical (anti)politics in another continent, however lots of this article had me feeling like Haraami has shed further light on something that isn’t new, per say, but still isn’t talked about enough.

Identity as a Project

From Cyber Dandy by Cyber Dandy

An article was posted to LibCom recently

It is a decent analysis of Identity Politics, but like most, it misses what I think are some rather important points about Identity. I talk about some of this in my essay “Identity is Impossible,” but it is worth re-stating. The first thing to understand about Identity, in general, is that it is impossible. There isn’t just an occasional identity crisis impacting a society or an individual. Identity itself is built on a crisis that is fundamental to existence, to the ontological nature of consciousness. Since we are not things, we cannot ever identify completely with things… including conceptual things. So identities are always in crisis and they are constantly a territory of conflict.

Call Out from Nowhere

A new, growing, and malignant "collective" of native writers are working on Issue 9 of Black Seed: A Journal of Indigenous Anarchy.

We open this invitation to Indigenous anarchist/autonomist/nihilists who might submit texts (in any form such as essays or poetry & things in-between) regarding the immense subject of “WAR.”

The Faggots & Their Friends on Immediatism podcast

Immediatism now has available readings of the full text of the classic The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions, by Larry Mitchell. Delightfully told through story, it is a history of the experience of non-normative sexuality in the seventies, in the north american context. The concept and writing came about in San Francisco and the book was published in 1977 by Calamus Books, New York City. It is now available through distros including ContagionPress.com and LittleBlackCart.com, as a faithful reprint. If your interest is the concept and metastory, you might enjoy listening to the introduction (episode 765) and also the afterword which is included in the final episode's intro (episode 769). Surprisingly, the endearing story ends with what can be read as an allusion to recuperation and an analysis against identity politics.

ToTW: Beyond Left and Right

The Right and The Left are no more nuanced than any of the other identity terms that many anarchists recognize as superficial and massifying. That said, models for groups of people can be helpful, so what are better models to use? Obviously anarchists are familiar with color-coding (red, green, etc). What if that were made more interesting? Shading? Hues? Polka dots? What would your creative and generous model be for how to understand and talk about differences and similarities?

Politics As Religion, Ressentiment & Identitarianism

from Rune Soup

Politics As Religion, Ressentiment and Identitarianism: Finding the Ekumen with Rhyd Wildermuth

Finding The Ekumen gets its name from Ursula K. Le Guin's space utopia, effectively an anarchist version of Star Trek's far more militant United Federation of Planets. So if we are going to have a series of discussions beyond traditional politics, we should begin with a discussion of what politics is, what it isn't and where it might be that you come in. I can think of no one better than Rhyd for that chat, so here it is!

Identity Politics on Immediatism Podcast

Enjoy these nine episodes on identity and critiques of identity. Lupus Dragonowl discusses the politics of affect and suggests exodus versus submersion in identities. Locating a Green and Pink Anarchy, by Artxmis Graham Thoreau, is a newer essay to The Anarchist Library. Lawrence Jarach provides a number of excellent jumping-off points for a study group discussion. Neal Keating looks at race as a fiction. Andy Robinson critiques ethnicity as social control, and this essay was included in AJODA #62.

Callout for Submissions for new journal 'Identity Is Crisis' (D&O Distro)

'We find ourselves stuck inside a suffocating false dichotomy in the realm of (anti) politics as it relates to concerns around the topic of identity. On the one hand, we find that the desire to destroy civilization/society in its totality and to attack in the here and now, is occupied, claimed and recuperated by those only concerned in destroying the existent as long as such an existent does not include themselves.

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