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Queering Anarchism: Addressing and Undressing Power and Desire
by
C.B. Daring (Goodreads Author) ,
J. Rogue (Goodreads Author) , Deric Shannon , Abbey Volcano (Goodreads Author) , Martha Ackelsberg
"A much-needed collection that thinks through power, desire, and human liberation. These pieces are sure to raise the level of debate about sexuality, gender, and the ways that they tie in with struggles against our ruling institutions." - Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, "Outlaw Woman"
"Against the austerity of straight politics, "Queering Anarchism "sketches the connections between...more
"Against the austerity of straight politics, "Queering Anarchism "sketches the connections between...more
Paperback, 255 pages
Published
January 29th 2013
by AK Press
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[this is a short review that may be expanded at a later date]: the worst parts of this volume (and they are legitimately wretched] is the resurfacing of anarcho-communism as a conceptual framework to understand struggles (it's not like i shouldn't expect this from AK press, but i still feel the ok with calling a dying and obsolete system odious) specifically in "Radical Queers and Class Struggle: A Match to Be Made" (Gayge Operaista) or reproducing work that has been literally done thousands of...more
Half the essays were pretty great and critical of the notion that we can screw our way to freedom; the other half, unfortunately, exemplify some of the most obnoxious trends in radical queer politics. Of particular note is "queering heterosexuality," a rather insufferable piece written by a "non-straight-identified heterosexual" who uses the word t****y to describe some transgender people she hung out with once. There's also an essay that literally calls binary-identified transgender people coun...more
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