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Any resources or links on hierarchy, the social war and alternatives? Like on methods to practice horizontalism, opposition.. analysis on hierarchy and intersectional anti authoritarianism? For the next info drop!

*POSTING A SERIES OF POSTS BY QueerPoCalypse LA STORMING @ the (A)narchistz Bookfair in LosAngeles this weekened Dec.6, 7 and 8* AGAINST ALL ASSIMILATION, TOWARD LIBERATION AND INSURRECTION

we were birthed into subordinating structures, how fucked up is that

i feel really bad for the people that have to hang out with me everyday and hear my anti everything rants, but i mean, society...

a comrade

I don’t know how to tell the variations of ‘I miss you’ to take consuming caresses into the realm of conversation

to capture a thread of desire and share it with you unraveling like unsewn prints in every direction we fail to look these are the thoughts that comfort me on rough nights spent between yearning and reflection but either way I am drawn to dark to spaces and fields where I can do much but never enough where the mirror of our masters pushes me to taste bitter and bite back at the hope where the fog of this war dreams rhythm into my steps and my reach towards another is only a breakaway from what is known where vibes of hatred and pain or sentiments of happy a spectrum of shared moments give fuel to revolt this visage of struggle in our veins does nothing to dampen desire a wing stretching it’s cartilage out of the cramped condition digging our heels into concrete a knot forming on my tendon a bruise pulsing the beat of my mortality reminding me of all that I could give

this system makes no sense it's so absurd.  really effective at distracting and recuperating desire though.

rant

there is so much to detest and sometimes even the little things lose their shine we live in a terrorist regime

unless there is some sort of call out or break in day to day reality (disrupture) and people not only stop acting from a place of apathy, but from a place of conformity to this fucking political process, we're gonna fucking die under a magnifying glass. 

we need to break the police narrative. we need to break the reform narrative. we need to break the 'work real hard for your boss' narrative. the narrative of assimilation. of moving up in the ranks, competing, earning power oh yeah, we need to break the power narrative the social war narrative that fucks up our lives everyday

i mean some people are just resigned to oppression because they believe it is the responsibility of an outside force (whether religious or political) to save them. they either view death as a revolution (transformative rapture) or wait for some 'end of times' sort of 'right' mixture of sparks and masse to.. what. 

our struggle is already nearly insurmountable with difficulty on an individual and interpersonal level- society causes anxiety, marginalization, alienation and silencing preventing most from recognizing their own oppression. we are busy deconstructing our own fucked up internalized shit meanwhile the world is still being run by dictators and patriarchs, secret societies, armies and a dominant moral cisheterosexist social code.

i don't want individual liberation; i need collective revolt. through our revolt we will build spaces to fucking exist in and breath for five goddamn seconds but we can also build capacity to project back outwards into the meaningless void that captures our bodies and minds- the social war.

it's like people need to wait for the point of no return or some big flashing neon sign or billboard so we can realize we need to act in solidarity with one another. we need to act. it's like people have already decided that OUR struggle together against doom is so futile they can't possibly imagine acting against it, so they just justify their inactivity or passivity because of 'measured risk' or this predetermined narrative (whether biblical or fucking theoretical).  

because if this is fascism, then OUR struggle (as opposed to the audacity of our individual struggles in society) against society and the mechanics, structure and function of this capitalist and authoritarian regime is INEXHAUSTIBLE.  we cannot possibly do enough to destroy enough to breathe enough angst into the void that is this fucked up clusterfuck of powermongering shitfuckery. and we shouldn't have to water our shit down or apologize for calling out oppression or have to paste our anger into cookie cutter soundbites that sound good for the status quo.

there are not going to be LESS police. there are not going to be LESS pressures/stresses. what the fuck are people fucking thinking voting for some privileged master at the top of the symbolic representation system.  that urges assimilation and 'equality' like we're not HERE and QUEER and fucking over this system that compels us with expectations and false idols.

it's gotta be subliminal messaging or some shit because i'm like HOW CAN YOU NOT SEE THIS WHAT THE FUCK. people are not taught to think, to talk, to share, to listen, to FUCKING LISTEN, to fucking think that we could fucking have our own ideasl that we could put them into practice without them being commodified/ without creating consumers, without oppressing people! 

what. the. fuck.

meanwhile in classrooms all over amerika today people said the pledge of allegiance, they talked shit on republicans and democrats by fucking label, they ate their fucking cheerios while reading the new york times thinking they are well read engaged 'citizens', they violated people, they justified their urges for power, they thought about moving up at work, they thought about how to get laid, they thought about being more popular than their friends, they thought about making enough money to buy some technological apparatus, they thought about food but not growing it, they thought about consuming and consuming and consuming but not CREATING or compassion.

we have no energy consciousness. we are not taught consent. we do not learn various and varying interpersonal communication skills. we are not taught to explore our sexuality, our ideas, our identities, to make ourselves fluid and not binaried or fucking isolated and uniform. we are taught to be miserable and to work for the benefit of a few.  every aspect of our lives tries to bully us into conforming.

the only way i feel i can exist and have it be 'worth it' at all at this point of realizing how fucking produced i have been by this chaotic unjust factory of a so called 'civilized' thoroughly colonized society is by thoroughly challenging or betraying every value that has been inculturated into me. this will be my revolt. there is no 'creating the new' we are only possibly capable of unlearning the old and in that process we practice things that are new to us- ideas and energies and methods that can attempt to not replicate oppression. all we have is the attempt.

it's an attempt! god will not grant us any serenity for our attempt. 'god' the figurative, a theoryhead, a complex symbology of humyn identity and meaning. we will die, but do you see? this society will not die with us! if you live up this world for all its excess as you consume it will consume you. there is much to betray, comrade. let us do what we cannot not do, what we must. let us forget what we 'can' do, or what is possible. and let us only, always and continuously attempt.

When you go to LA Pride or whichever Pride this year please take a moment to remember the noncompliance, entrapment, hate crimes and police brutality that the gay liberation movement faced in the 50's and 60's and 70's and 80's out on through today. remember that before there was a 'gay rights' movement that catered to the political bottom line (a middle class ascribing white gay moderately conservative male) there were queers and drag and liberation and rejection of assimilation in favor of radically altering the hegemonic social institutions that capture us, assign us genders, police our sexualities and assimilate us to stop being queer so we can be good workers for capitalism! Please remember it's not all about CORPORATIONS making money off of your struggle by treating you like the rest of their consumer/customers. Please remember it's not about that sheriff recruitment booth, and think of how many POC and queers are uncomfortable by the spectacle that has become Pride because of the constant thread of forced assimilation or celebration. What have we become?! when do marginalized communities have enough people together or space to actually talk or even do something about the issues/oppressions they face? well i'll tell you, when we do have enough people to actually talk about the issues that face us we're drowned out by music, or programme, or symbolic marches. We're told to celebrate our tokens. As if there is not yet work to be done! as if our genders and sexualities aren't being policed! as if we don't continuously exclude TRANS folk from our spaces by erasing their struggle with all kinds of normativity! as if forced assimilation and the narrative of 'equality' really applies to ALL of us! Please remember that 'rights' are only privileges when they can be selectively granted and taken away by the governmental and even social institutions that dominate our lives. and that privileges are not YOURS to hold onto, but a system to betray! Some of us don't want to keep begging for the rights given out by this system built by white property owning puritan males; it wasn't written for us. it doesn't represent us. and we can never be represented by another, we want to determine our own lives!. we don't want tokenized space facilitated by friendly faced cops, we don't want what humynity people care to grant us with a vote or forced smiles and less gay bashing! we want to take it, to bash back! remember this as you celebrate, that we exist. that this conversation is unfolding and will continue to unfold. and just maybe, understand that these spaces will not go unagitated for long. LIBERATION NOT ASSIMILATION. Solidarity with all those who resist the commodification of our dissent and the rendering of our ongoing struggles into symbolism and consumerism.

consequence is not a reason not to act. in fact, usually any particular consequence has been created deliberately to keep you from believing you can act, and is built on the basis that people cannot be trusted to act. hence, law.  these unwritten and written codes of action/consequence preserve a dominant social order and keeps us immobilized, and so we only ever have or take as much as is permitted to/of us. 

we only fail when we determine our actions, or fail to act, on the basis of external consequence rather than our communal needs.  the number one reason for this is because we don't have access to the power narrative that has created 'consequence', it is not used by all people but by particular people (who usually carry privilege) to subordinate some and protect themselves or legislate other, usually more marginalized, people. these people have been called 'minorities' in reference to their degree of power, and the fact remains that consequences for those with power and consequences for those without power are different because of the dynamics of power itself. it is the power of inclusion, and of exclusion, of applause or of consequence.

this shows us a very important thing. if power determines consequence, then what is the consequence of challenging power itself- the definition and application of it, the inversion of it, the demolition of it's forces. could it be that negating consequence is a negation of power itself?

the urge to act according to consequence (or to avoid it) produces an allegiance to a static relationship with our environment (stability- when we are not static beings) and a societal fear that we can lose more and have less than we already have unless we perform accordingly. this causes us to assimilate in order to 'improve' our conditions under the framework they have been granted to us. instead of believing we can digress and transform our frameworks, to make these conditions extinct.

we are constantly told to make what we can of our oppression in order to improve it, to change our lives in 'appropriate' ways and to avoid consequence thus correlating change with positive reinforcement and demeaning actions towards change that engage confrontation rather than erase it. the social war does not care for consequence because it plays out in secretive manipulative ways; it polices our genders and tells us that if we want to be safe we have to identify ourselves accordingly.

meanwhile the consequences of poverty and patriarchy play out over and over again in the night on dimly lit streets. if we are to ignore it, the consequence of our ignorance may find us anyway- in the form of an assault or any other traumatic experience in the hostile spaces of public or social life. if we are to engage it, the very disruption of breaking the narrative of acceptance and consequence-avoidance is seen as a challenge on society itself (and why shouldn't it be!) and these actions carry with them consequences that exist beyond formal imposition (i.e. not just laws or police, but other institutions such as family or friends, informal coercion to re-conform to silence and acceptance of social oppression). 

but if we engage it; there are others like us who will find us. who may not have found us otherwise. if one of us ignores or deviates consequence; then this brings the light of mind to others who lurk in shadows avoiding it. this is our courage; not in avoiding the nasty promises fascism has for us lurking in the night but knowing that their violence and terrorism is only justified if it succeeds in preventing us from expanding our ideas and practicing to act.