White Flag: Giving consent only when it feels freely given.
Black Flag: Acting so that others do not feel coerced.
mhtac just had a skillshare—and we have to say, this was pretty cool for our first offical event, because we created trans community in downtown middleton for the first time. we taught each other how to make zines, compared notes on the heteronormativity of the suburbs, distroed resources, and generally were queer in a place that attempts to stamp out everything other than nuclear families with 2.5 children, small dogs, and houseplants they will inevitably kill. we know that we dream of more than suburban assimilation, and we’ve finally found others in middleton who share our anarchy. and we need reliable community, a network, a scene, a family. we need to queer public space while reveling in the collective realization that, even in the suburbs, we can still find the queerest of insurrections. (and yes, we are shamelessly imitating queer ultraviolence in this communiqué. sorry not sorry.)
So we are hosting a reading group, at the Prairie Cafe on November 18 from 10 AM to noon CT. We have chosen this establishment to send the shivers of releasing power–the White Flag, surrender–through the profoundly closeted onlookers who will inevitably be horrified, and to awaken the warmth of autonomy–the Black Flag, transgression–in those who would dominate us and erase themselves. Our text is “White Flag / Black Flag: A Spiritual Anarchism Workbook,” a work that explores the individualist anarchist values of self-liberation without the domination of others fused with classical Chinese literary structures of chance and choice. The text is not easily Googleable, so here is a link: https://shakespearefordogs.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/wfbf-zine.pdf. I invite you to explore the inherent unresolved tensions within its values, and to discover what repressed gyrations they awaken within you.
check out this event: https://isthmus.com/events/mhtac-reading-group-white-flag/?occ_dtstart=2023-11-18T10:00
look at our big gay website: https://linktr.ee/tranarchymiddletonhills