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Title: Queer Revenge Author: Nova Ishtar Daggers-Drawn Language: en Topics: Anarchism, queer nihilism, social reproduction
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Fuck the #Resistance. We are the Insurgency.
Politics is about a reconciliation that brings the systems of domination
into greater levels of legitimacy and relevance.
The truth is that the institutions of our society are shot through with
rapists, racists, homophobes, abusers, misogynists, eugenicists, and any
other kind of nasty shit you could imagine.
Kavanaugh is not an exception, nor are any of the many people this
system was happy to sacrifice. As long as the system marches forward all
incremental work toward an equal society can be erased later. New
shitheads will be hired (or elected). New policies, laws and rulings
passed.
They can just wait for us to forget and try to build a better cage in
the meantime. Or until our coalitions are absorbed and sterilized, to be
kept as pets to corral their more unruly fellows.
And toward what? Global apocalypse? Toward planetary specicide on a
level never seen before in human history? And we just… negotiate?
I want no eco-politic. No queer politic. No anarchist politic.
Especially no worker’s politic. I only seek the power to destroy this
system and that’s not a power to be found in compromise and
reconciliation.
Patriarchy carries with it a generalized anxiety– the institutions of
our society cannot guaranteedly manufacture sexual combinations capable
of reproduction. They cannot totally control the production of a
replacement workforce.
Homophobia, transphobia, misogyny, natalism and eugenics– the oppression
and exploitation of woman, gay, feminine, transgender, gender
non-conforming, autistic and disabled people and people of color ; these
are the other end of the fear. The terror that the system could break at
the most basic level.
Natalism is beliefs, customs, and systems that have been constructed to
ensure high birth rates of “desirable” children– aka children who will
grow up to be loyal workers.
What natalists would often like to avoid is the existence of
“undesirable” or “degenerate” elements. That means women who refuse to
keep natalist and other dominant social values, but also LGBT people and
unassimilated populations (usually people of color).
This makes eugenics simply the most advanced and most scientific front
in the natalist regulation of bodies. It isn’t the most powerful tool in
the continuation of the natalist regime tho– that award goes to
patriarchal violence.
Patriarchy is the “rule of fathers”, itself seated in the family and in
the so-called community that is overseen by formal or informal male
elders. Purely this is seen in the Catholic and Mormon churches, whose
structure literally incorporates a panel of symbolic fathers.
But it’s also in the modern Republican and Parliamentary States,
themselves modeled in part on the Roman State– which in its republican
form offered shared power to the Patricians (fathers of prominent
families) in the Senate.
So when the fascists attack LGBT, feminists, BLM, leftists and other
movements they are in a large part doing so to maintain the natalist
system and thus cisheteropatriarchal white supremacist capitalism.
What could we add to this disgusting society that would undo its
continuing genocides and slavery and concentration camps and
exploitations of the earth and all its life? What could we add to this
society that would stop its call to global extinction?
It declares war on us, why shouldn’t we return the favor?
“Radical activism” has taken the form of social advertising for so long
that we don’t understand what it means to seize power outside of the
marketplace of ideas or the spectacle in general.
Our power isn’t big and showy. It’ll happen in little places where a
person suddenly overcomes their harness of imposed anxieties and acts to
disrupt.
In the blood of the beast we are a cancer. In each machine we are the
dud circuits and faulty wires. In every tree we’re a spike catching the
blades of a chainsaw. In every city we are vandals tearing down the
edifices of the system to reveal bloody teeth with human corpses hanging
out of them.
We have declared an absolute war on this society and everything it
represents.
If you are a servant of this society: know that we will make it even
more undependable. Your gods will be unseated.
If you are a friend of ours: Fuck Politics, Seize Power.
Queerness is not a contribution to this society but the negation of one
of its colonial dimensions– the cisheteronorm. This dimension is the
capture and capitalization of human bodies to create pairs that will
reliably generate individuals who can be subsumed to the needs of
productive forces.
These ideal bodies are binarized, heterosexual, white, able, and
educated– that is, they are domesticated. They become the kind of people
who aspire to make new workers who will perform more strenuous acts of
self-sacrifice in devotion to capital and the extractive-productive
complex.
This system does not exist for our sake, we are grown and trained like
cattle for its slaughter; for the slow bleeding of hours that happens
between punches in the timeclock. That some of us seem to pull levers
and strings hides the gears of ideology that guide them in turn. It’s
the phantom of this system that possesses all of their bodies and seeks
to possess ours.
So then on one dimension of this, our queerness says “Our bodies are not
to be defined for the benefit of this system. We can engage in all kinds
of sexual combinations, self-define our roles, and break out of these
ruts of pre-determination. Our bodies do not simply produce for the
State or capital. We are not the belongings of great fathers or
factories to be manned. My life is my own.”
It is the burning of the false family. The family as corporation, wed to
the State by charter– attempting to form the uberprole of tomorrow, the
newest product in the line.
It is injury to the patriarch, who in blue jeans beat us in hopes of
instilling the violence of patriarchy that we were so slow to learn and
in church robes tortured our bodies to drive out the demons– that is to
force us to abandon our own bodies to their control.
I confess then, father. We are the demons. We have come to destroy this
all.
And you cannot stop us.
When I say that every queer person needs a squad to operate with I mean
a set of friends, lovers, and accomplices.
I mean no separation between the acts of living and the social war. No
politics; only power.
I mean that our existence will be snuffed as soon as we aren’t a threat,
so our very way of life should be absolute struggle with the systems of
domination with the full intention of their destruction.