Friday 3 February 2023, 7pm.
For this next reading group, we’re going back to a subject that we were interested in later: queerness and anarchism.
We’re returning to some essays from Queering Anarchism from AK Press. You can buy the book here or download the selections for free below. We’re also reading an essay from a cool materialist feminist journal that was around Oakland a few years ago, LIES.
Readings are available here:
- “Gender Sabotage” by Stacy aka sallydarity (Queering Anarchism)
- “Straightness Must Be Destroyed” by Saffo Papantonopoulou (Queering Anarchism)
- “Against Gender, Against Society” by nila nokizaru (Lies)
About the reading group
The 831 Anarchist Discussion Group aims to introduce anarchist ideas and then eventually to deepen our knowledge of anarchist theory and history. You do not have to be an anarchist to attend! Anyone is welcome to attend who is interested and has a genuine curiosity about radical political theory. All readings will always be available for free online, but reading beforehand is not required to attend and participate. Free and open to everyone. (Donations requested for the OCB Direct Aid fund)
Previous anarchist reading groups:
January 2023: What is anarchism? Part II:
- “Anarchism 101” by Adrienne Onday
- “Spread Anarchy, Live Communism” by Invisible Committee
- “An Invitation to Desertion” by Bellamy Fitzpatrick
- “The Principles of Anarchism” by Lucy Parsons
- “Anarchism” by Howard Zinn
December 2022: Anarchist perspectives on the Russian-Ukrainian War
November 2022: Reading from the Zapatistas
October 2022: Spanish Civil War
September 2022: Queering Anarchism
August 2022: Indigenous Anarchism
- Accomplices Not Allies: Abolishing the Ally Industrial Complex (An Indigenous Perspective)
- Unknowable: Against an Indigenous Anarchist Theory
May 2022: Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology, David Graeber
April 2022: Zoe Baker: Means and Ends: an anarchist critique of seizing state power
March 2022: Black as Resistance
February 2022: The Split between Anarchism and Marxism at the First International
- Wayne Price, “The First International and the Development of Anarchism and Marxism”
- Michail Bakunin, “On the International Workingmen’s Association and Karl Marx”
November 2021: Three classic essays
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