Goddammit it can be difficult to keep up with this blogging thing… Especially as a sense of propriety really makes me feel like i have to mention some things, even things i may have nothing particularly intelligent to say about. And of course, as i may have mentioned earlier, there …
Checking out how to blog a Youtube video – this is Kids On TV’s latest… note to self (and others!): doublecheck html afterwards as the first time i did this youtube screwed up the permalink…
I spotted the following on a mailing list i am on, and i thought it worth reposting here. The new Nepalese constitution represents a radical leap forward for the people of Nepal, yet questions remain about how far the changes will go. Especially of concern is how trans people, queers …
Vienna Protest Against Execution of Queer Teens in Iran The following is a very interesting and thoughtful argument about how queers in the US can best to act in solidarity with their “sexual minority” counterparts in Iran. While i may not be in the same groove as the authors, i …
It may be that i am a space cadet, or it may be that so little outreach has been done locally, but i just noticed that there is an “International LGBT Human Rights” conference planned as part of the Outgames happening in Montreal this summer… i only clued into this …
QUIT! activists who formed the Estee Slaughter team at LGBT Freedom Day in San Francisco. (QUIT!) The following article is just another reminder as to why i do not normally participate in Queer Pride events… the rightwards turn of the queer community over the past ten years just makes the …
Gramsci Is Dead: Anarchist Currents in the Newest Social Movements ISBN 0745321127 Pluto Press 2006 In Gramsci Is Dead: Anarchist Currents in the Newest Social Movements, Richard Day of Queens University argues for a supposedly “new” kind of radical activism, one which is neither revolutionary nor reformist. He describes this …
The revolutionary white right in North America is built on two beliefs: that white people form an objective biological group superior to all others, and that as a collectivity whites are in a state of perpetual competition with all others. The Hobbesian vision of nature, in which all are at …
I have been thinking about racism and anti-fascist activism recently. I have about five Word documents going with various thoughts about this, so i hope to be able to make them semi-coherent and post them over the next little while. At the moment, they’re pretty incoherent, but i’m hoping that …
Caliban and the Witch: Women the Body and Primitive Accumulation (Sylvia Federici, Autonomedia 2004) Reviewed by Karl Kersplebedeb Back in May 2005, at the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair, i bought a copy of Silvia Federici’s latest book, Caliban and he Witch: Women, The Body and Primitive Accumulation. Suffice to say, i …