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Month: September 2023

MY QUEER INSURRECTION IS AS BLACK AS NIGHT

Posted on 2023/09/27 - 2023/10/01 by bbnews
tw// ass beating @/StrawberryThe_SkunkWolf tried 2 pull up n i rocked that nigga shit LMFAO :face_with_tears_of_joy: :face_with_tears_of_joy: :face_with_tears_of_joy: try talkin shit bout my fursona again n see what happens :middle_finger:

Bash Back 2023 was more or less what I expected it to be, a healthy amount of faggotry in-between questionable politics and ultra-violence. Shout out to the wrestling! What was also expected was the all-too-familiar experience of being a black anarchist in the predominately white anarchist subculture. This is why “Black anarchist reflections” felt like the most refreshing thing that’s come out the bb! for me. I feel that it is worth adding a few more things to what those folks said.

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Black Anarchist Reflections, From Bash Back! and Beyond

Posted on 2023/09/25 - 2023/10/01 by bbnews

We are writing this document as black anarchist attendees of Bash Back! who are trying to grapple with some of the broader issues/organizational questions within the black anarchist milieu and how those convos came up during the weekend for us and our homies. While we come from a variety of political backgrounds, we share a committed desire to insurrection and revolt for black autonomy. It was great to meet one another and kick it over the weekend. We got to hash out the answers to some questions. There was a lot of necessary conflict at Bash Back!. While reportbacks are fun, though often misleading, our aim in this document is to talk in a broader, abstract way about some of the questions and dynamics that occurred for black participants.

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Gleefully Cutting My Teeth on Others And In Raucous Filthy Love

Posted on 2023/09/25 - 2023/09/26 by bbnews
furry orgy

I want to begin by saying that I know I am the tendency that you speak of, the queer tendency toward immolation and self-annihilation, that I want to blow up the artificial sun of this world, to go off the rails, to end the nightmare.

It hurts and is gut-wrenching to know that I am my mother’s child.

I can’t give a proper followup to the beautiful and eloquent love-letter you wrote.

I am the exact type of tendency where I can’t be caged by the standard social control mechanisms, that factional bitterness is where I feel at home only to destroy the factions until we are all once again individuals, that I want to bring the war home (I of course gleefully fight in the war on terror), that I love the energetics of forward motion “the speed and violence of action”, that I want to BLOW UP THE SUN, and I am sometimes otherworldly possessed by the necromancy I use for strength, our dead, the tortured souls, the “past” locked away and attempted to be solidified as “history”, that I foolishly play with arcane magic as I tight-walk the razor-wire.

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 a minor contribution to a humble conversation 

Posted on 2023/09/24 - 2023/09/25 by bbnews

A recent text, “a humble conversation on why you shouldn’t name your group” has reprised an older conversation among anarchists set off by a “letter to the anarchist galaxy.” Both outline the strategic risks and detriments posed by the decision to claim attacks as named formations. Contributing to this conversation, and in partial response to those demanding reportbacks from the Bash Back! Convergence, it makes sense to take a moment to name one proposal which was *not* put forward last week: the return of Bash Back! as a named organization. A number of pieces in Queer Ultraviolence lay out the limits hit by BB! in that form, and are worth revisiting for those curious. Those limits can only be harder in the current cybernetic-identitarian hell.

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A Bash Back! reportback from a group of janky & rowdy queers who had a gay ol time

Posted on 2023/09/23 - 2023/09/24 by bbnews

“Queers are marked as victims while violence is understood to be only the tool of the masters. The queer anarchist project embodied by Bash Back! Is first and foremost a refusal of victimhood and a reclamation of the violence taken from us by progressive ideology and used against us by queerbashers and the State. It was a crucial shift for Bash Back! to break with those who refused to recognize the importance of this reclamation. It served to cohere and solidify the insurrectional queer tendency around the question of violence…”

~ back cover of Queer Ultraviolence, 2012, Fray Baroque & Tegan Enelli.

Bash Back! was nothing short of the joyfully militant & orgiastically unhinged gathering it advertised itself to be– queer AF, silly, sexy & sketchy antics ensued almost every day/nite. A lot of us felt held in an urban space where there was room to be all kinds of things & ways, & not much was taboo.

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Fuck Bash Back! 23

Posted on 2023/09/23 - 2023/09/26 by bbnews
stark white wall with "fuck bash back" written on it and also smudged out as if someone tried to put a lot of effort into erasing the "bash back" (but not the "fuck" [as if anyone could ever erase bash back!])

Fuck these middle aged organizers and their bullshit attempts to appease our rage. We will not be fucking stopped. Were you ever even nihilists?? You are almost as bad as the tiqqunists. We’re not some academic conference. So we’re saying no more workshops. All we want is orgies and actions. We want to be together and fight when we need to and wherever the fuck we want.

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I think we can do better!

Posted on 2023/09/21 - 2023/09/24 by bbnews

I wanted to address what I fear may be a tendency among some claiming to be anarchists. I’m speaking about a pair of actions, that targeted anarchist or anarchist-adjacent events, emerging from within the anarchist space. Both use the language of eugenics, are critical of events without mask requirements, and so far have only been carried out using paint.

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we cut our teeth on each other

Posted on 2023/09/21 - 2023/09/24 by bbnews
a grungy brick wall with a graffiti tag that says Bash Back

    a (love) letter to the tendency that lit the fire at the Bash Back warehouse rave, (aka the queer tendency toward immolation and self-annihilation). If you think that this address does not include you for whatever reason, i encourage you to pretend it does for emotional effect. Find the tendency that lit the fire at the Bash Back warehouse rave inside yourself.)

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A hundred queer anarchist criminals turned a golf course into a public sex forest

Posted on 2023/09/20 - 2023/09/21 by bbnews
the lower half of a body wearing neon pink tights and platform heels walking through grass at night, golf clubs in each hand, golf balls strewn about the grass

Blue flashing lights pass by, oblivious to our collective trespass. A hole in the fence, hotties passing through, passing into each other. A new world cums into being, a rupture on the leisure pastures of the rich. Cruising utopia, at least for a night. Queers writhing over each other, defiling one another. Sweet melodies accompany soft caresses, the sound of piss gurgling beside a couple kissing. Determined fuckers splayed out on tarps. The line between criminality and sensuality? Sorry she’s not in tonight.

We perverted Chicago’s Marovitz golf course, had a great night doing it. Imagine the next day, a confounded golfer cautiously lifting a damp towel between two fingers, realizing all at once, their eyes passing over the sex litter drying on the sunny green.

We did this for ourselves, but also to express solidarity with the intractable freaks who held down the Weelaunee forest. Since the very first fiery attacks carried out by queers in defense of that place, we’ve laughed and cried and raged with our feral siblings. If we only defend, we end up with our backs against the wall. All it takes is some boltcutters, encrypted messaging, and trusted friends to open up new fronts in the war for the wild. No more empty rhetoric around ‘territorial struggle’ without a total re-imagining of the terrain. We carved the chaos star into the sand bunker to remind that the forest is a propulsive utopia, spreading in all directions!

xoxo
an autonomous extra-curriculars committee at bb!23

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TERF Show Vandalized: Trans Autonomy Forever

Posted on 2023/09/20 - 2023/09/24 by bbnews
the entrance of a building covered in grafitti: "NO TERFS ON OUR TURF!"

TERF SHOW VANDALIZED: TRANS AUTONOMY FOREVER, PART 3

On the second night of the transphobic Women’s Declaration International convention in San Francisco, as the TERFs hid in the Hilton Hotel behind police lines, we vandalized the location of their scheduled art show down the block. When we left, the gallery windows were painted blood-red with a message for Lierre Keith, Kara Dansky, and their dusty-ass TERFlings: “NO TERFS ON OUR TURF! Ⓐ”

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