Queering Anarchism

Addressing and Undressing Power and Desire

Deric Shannon, J. Rogue, C.B. Daring, Abbey Volcano

• Publisher: AK Press
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9781849351201
• eBook ISBN: 9781849351218
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Anarchism
• Index: Social Sciences

"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 gender mutiny, queer sexualities, and anti-authoritarian desires. Through embodied histories and incendiary critique, the contributors gathered here show how we must not stop at smashing the state; rather normativity itself is the enemy of all radical possibility."—Eric A. Stanley, co-editor of Captive Genders

What does it mean to "queer" the world around us? How does the radical refusal of the mainstream codification of GLBT identity as a new gender norm come into focus in the context of anarchist theory and practice? How do our notions of orientation inform our politics?and vice versa? Queering Anarchism brings together a diverse set of writings ranging from the deeply theoretical to the playfully personal that explore the possibilities of the concept of "queering, " turning the dominant, and largely heteronormative, structures of belief and identity entirely inside out. Ranging in topic from the economy to disability, politics, social structures, sexual practice, interpersonal relationships, and beyond, the authors here suggest that queering might be more than a set of personal preferences?pointing toward the possibility of an entirely new way of viewing the world.

Contributors include Jamie Heckert, Sandra Jeppesen, Ben Shepard, Ryan Conrad, Jerimarie Liesegang, Jason Lydon, Susan Song, Stephanie Grohmann, Liat Ben-Moshe, Anthony J. Nocella, A.J. Withers, and more.

Deric Shannon, C.B. Daring, J. Rogue, and Abbey Volcano are anarchists and activists who work in a wide variety of radical, feminist, and queer communities across the United States.

Table of contents

• Dedication
• Preface
• Gay Marriage and Queer Love
• De-essentializing Anarchist Feminism: Lessons from the Transfeminist Movement
• Police at the Borders
• Gender Sabotage
• Anarchy without Opposition
• Lessons from Queertopia
• Queering the Economy
• queering heterosexuality
• Polyamory and Queer Anarchism: Infinite Possibilities for Resistance
• Sex and the City: Beyond Liberal Politics and toward Holistic Revolutionary Practice[1]
• Tearing Down the Walls: Queerness, Anarchism and the Prison Industrial Complex
• Queer-Cripping Anarchism: Inter­sections and Reflections on Anar­chism, Queerness, and Dis-ability
• Straightness Must Be Destroyed
• Acknowledgments
• Author Bios
• (dis)Contents
• Index
• Support AK Press
• Copyright