Emma Goldman Book Club

Collage: Left upper quarter, cover of the the zine "Towards the Queerest Insurrection" text reads,"Towards the Queerest Insurrection" Right upper quarter, mugshot of Emma Goldman with text that reads "Emma Goldman Book Club" Lower half, excerpt from the zine "Toward the Queerest Insurrection" text will be posted below.

"Assimilationists want nothing less than to construct the homosexual as normal - white, monogamous, wealthy, 2.5 children, SUVs with a white picket fence. This construction, of course, reproduces the stability of heterosexuality, whiteness, patriarchy, the gender binary, and capitalism itself. "

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Collage: Left upper third, mugshot of Emma Goldman with text that reads "Emma Goldman Book Club". Left middle third, excerpt from the zine "Toward the Queerest Insurrection" text will be posted below. Left lower third, image of Devine with text "Filth is our politics! Filth is our life!" Right upper half, image of a AKM with the text "Let's get decadent". Right lower half, cover of the the zine "Towards the Queerest Insurrection" text reads,"Towards the Queerest Insurrection"

"In short, this world has never been enough for us. We say to it, “we want everything, motherfucker, try to stop us!""

From Toward the Queerest Insurrection

(4/4) ...and in bars and clubs all along Christopher street. This is our idea of voluntary association of free individuals! Many mark this as the most sexually liberated time this country has ever seen. Though, the authors of this zine wholeheartedly believe we can outdo them."

(3/4) ...That’s what we call mutual aid!In the time between the Stonewall Riots and the outbreak of HIV, the queer community of New York saw the rise of a culture of public sex. Queers had orgies in squatted buildings, in abandoned semi-trucks, on the piers...

(2/4) ...The house provided a safe and free place for queer and trans street kids to stay. Marsha and Sylvia as the “House Mothers” hustled to pay rent so that the kids would not be forced to. Their “children”scavenged and stole food so that everyone in the house could eat...

(1/4) Small text "In 1970, Stonewall veterans, Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera founded STAR - Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries. They opened the STAR house, a radical version of the “house” culture of black and latina queer communities...

(4/4) ...With the pre cum of desire on my lips I knew from then on that I was an anarchist. In short, this world has never been enough for us. We say to it, “we want everything, motherfucker, try to stop us!”"

(3/4) ...And when I was sixteen a would-be-bully pushed me and called me a faggot. I hit him in the mouth. The intercourse of my fist and his face was far sexier and more liberating than anything MTV ever offered our generation...

(2/4) ...We don’t give a shit about marriage or the military. But oh we’ve had the hottest sex - everywhere - in all the ways we aren’t supposed to and the other boys at school definitely can’t know about it...

(1/4) Large text "To be clear: We’ve despaired that we could never be as well-dressed or cultured as the Fab Five. We found nothing in Brokeback Mountain. We’ve spent far too long shuffling through hallways with heads-hung low...

From Toward the Queerest Insurrection
We'll be reading this June 3
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Collage: Left upper third, mugshot of Emma Goldman with text that reads "Emma Goldman Book Club". Left middle third, excerpt from the zine "Toward the Queerest Insurrection" text will be posted below. Left lower third, image of Devine with text "Filth is our politics! Filth is our life!" Right upper half, image of a AKM with the text "Let's get decadent". Right lower half, cover of the the zine "Towards the Queerest Insurrection" text reads,"Towards the Queerest Insurrection"

"In short, this world has never been enough for us. We say to it, “we want everything, motherfucker, try to stop us!""

From Toward the Queerest Insurrection

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Two freshly bloomed flowers with rain drop on a petal.

Two freshly bloomed flowers with rain drop on a petal.

A well connected Franklin, TN business is being used as a meeting place and staging area for local Fascists and Neo-Nazis (Active Club, Patriot Front) and is threatening Franklin Pride on June 3

https://www.reddit.com/r/nashville/comments/ifv8hy/the_lewis_country_store_family_tree/?

Collage: Left upper quarter, excerpt from the zine "Toward the Queerest Insurrection" text will be posted below. Left lower quarter, mugshot of Emma Goldman with text that reads "Emma Goldman Book Club" Right upper quarter, cover of the the zine "Towards the Queerest Insurrection" text reads,"Towards the Queerest Insurrection". Right lower quarter, excerpt from the zine "Toward the Queerest Insurrection" text will be posted below.

"Lenin and Marx have never fucked the ways we have. We need something a bit more thorough - something equipped to come with teethgnashing to all the intricacies of our misery. Simply put, we want to make ruins of domination in all of its varied and interlacing forms."

Collage: Left upper quarter, excerpt from the zine "Toward the Queerest Insurrection" text will be posted below. Left lower quarter, mugshot of Emma Goldman with text that reads "Emma Goldman Book Club" Right upper quarter, cover of the the zine "Towards the Queerest Insurrection" text reads,"Towards the Queerest Insurrection". Right lower quarter, excerpt from the zine "Toward the Queerest Insurrection" text will be posted below.

"The discourses of heterosexuality, whiteness and capitalism reproduce themselves into a model of power. For the rest of us, there is death."

Collage: Left upper quarter, excerpt from the zine "Toward the Queerest Insurrection" text will be posted below. Left lower quarter, mugshot of Emma Goldman with text that reads "Emma Goldman Book Club" Right upper quarter, cover of the the zine "Towards the Queerest Insurrection" text reads,"Towards the Queerest Insurrection". Right lower quarter, excerpt from the zine "Toward the Queerest Insurrection" text will be posted below.

"When police kill us, we want them dead in turn. When prisons entrap our bodies and rape us because our genders aren’t similarly contained, of course we want fire to them
all. When borders are erected... we see only one solution: every nation and border reduced to rubble."

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(5/5) ...purses and kicked them with their high-heeled shoes. A police car was vandalized, a newspaper box was burnt to the ground and general havoc was raised all throughout the Tenderloin."

(4/5) ...called for backup. The customer’s turned over the tables, smashed the plate glass windows and poured onto the streets. When the police reinforcements arrived, street fighting broke out all throughout the Compton’s vicinity. Drag queens beat the police with their heavy...

(3/5) ...clientele with impunity, grabbed the arm of one of the queens and tried to drag her away. She unexpectedly threw her coffee in his face, however, and a melee erupted: Plates, trays, cups and silverware flew through the air at the startled police who ran outside and...

(2/5) ...The restaurant’s management became annoyed by a noisy young crowd of queens at one table who seemed to be spending a lot of time without spending a lot of money, and it called the police to roust them. A surly police officer, accustomed to manhandling Compton’s...

(1/5) Small text "One weekend in August of 1966 - Compton’s, a twenty-four-hour caf- eteria in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood - was buzzing with its usual late-night crowd of drag queens, hustlers, slummers, cruisers, runaway teens and neighborhood regulars...

(12/12) ...These positions can become tools of a social force ready to create a complete rupture with this world. Our bodies have been born into conflict with this social order. We need to deepen that conflict and make it spread"

(11/12) ...and create instead a position based in our alienation from this normalcy, and one capable of dismantling it. We must use these positions to instigate breaks, not just from the assimilationist mainstream, but from capitalism itself...

(10/12) ...We need to swiftly and immediately articulate a wide gulf between the politics of assimilation and the struggle for liberation. We need to rediscover our riotous inheritance as queer anarchists. We need to destroy constructions of normalcy...

(9/12) ...and capitalism itself. If we genuinely want to make ruins of this totality, we need to make a break. We don’t need inclusion into marriage, the military and the state. We need to end them. No more gay politicians, CEOs and cops...

(8/12) ...Assimilationists want nothing less than to construct the homosexual as normal-white, monogamous, wealthy, 2.5 children, SUVs with a white picket fence. This construction, of course, reproduces the stability of heterosexuality, whiteness, patriarchy, the gender binary...