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QueerPRINTED SINCE 1979 HoniWEEK 9, SEMESTER 1, 2019 C ULTURAL & GENDER M ARXXXISM EDITION Edward Said Acknowledgement of Country We acknowledge the traditional custodians of this land, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. The University of Sydney – where we write, publish and distribute Honi ELECTION SECTION Soit – is on the sovereign land of these people. As students and journalists, we recognise our complicity in the ongoing colonisation of Indigenous land. In recognition of our privilege, we vow to not only include, but to prioritise and centre the experiences of Indigenous people, and to be reflective when we fail to. We recognise our Given the relative proximity of this year’s autonomous queer Honi edition to a federal election, we solicited the opinions of a few community members to see what duty to be a counterpoint to the racism that plagues the mainstream media, and to adequately represent the perspectives of Indigenous students at our University. We they’d say to a political party or politician, given the chance. also wholeheartedly thank our Indigenous reporters for the continuing contribution of their labour to our learning. ear Scott Morrison and ear Keep Sydney Open ear Labor party. ear coalition of shit- Queer Honi also needs to take a specific and close look at our relationship to this land’s colonisation. For all that we can focus on our own Mark Latham, stirrers trials and tribulations, most fof us are stil settler-colonists, part and parcel of the ongoing project of colonisation that is Austraia. We struggle for liberation, but no true liberation can be achieved on stolen land. None of us are free while the travesty that is Australia continues. D D D D here isn’t enough space for can’t believe you fucked it as an you stop being such his year, as with ever year, Furthermore, an understanding of colonisation is necessary to understand the issues facing queer people today. If we understand gender and sex to be socially constructed, me to share just how much much as you did. Apart from snivelling little shit-heads you’ve proved yourself it becomes immediately apparent that our very identities, our subjectivities, the things that queers have fought so hard and so long to be recognised, are irrevocaby you disgust and anger me. being a bougie little jumped- pretending to be socialists vile homophobes, feckless shaped by colonisation and the constructions of the body that accompany it. Your racist, xenophobic, up marketing campaign run while you run fucking jockeys for the ruling class, TIslamophobic, homophobic, Iby instagrammers and aimed at Cprison camps on Manus & Nauru. Tabsolute scum of the earth. transphobic and sexist assholes don’t nightclub managers, I did have Editors-in-chief even deserve my time. You’ve put vague if stupid hopes that you might t’s such a disappointment in an don’t believe it’s worth talking Peter Burrell-Sander, Steff Leinasars, Editorial my communities in extreme danger just have been inconsequential. age of the DSA and Momentum to you anymore, begging you Klementine Burrell-Sander This has mostly been a Thanks also to the officers of ACAR and I am sincerely worried for my doing good works overseas that for scraps of mercy. The idea week of panic for me. and those who run the Collective, to own safety and the safety of so many Instead, you caused a bunch of we here in Australia have been that you’ve taken credit for Editorial Collective I’ve been paralysed by the fear of Enviro and loose organisers across other marginalised people thanks to fucking trouble and I hope you’re Ileft with lousy, uninspiring labor ISSM is sickening. I think we should Jazz lyn Breen, Layla Mhk, Elllie Wilson putting out this week’s edition of the campus, who helped shape both you. You can get in the bin thanks. all cursed as long as you walk leader who promises tidbits while maybe stop waiting for you to give Honi Soit. So much good work has this paper and the beliefs that went your treacherous path of capitalist pretending to Marxist principes. us the things all people deserve. apologism. Contributors been done over the years within into it. Hayden Moon, Lukas, Klementine Burrell- these pages that it’s hard to feel that big fuck you from a e want a night-life o better - Joe Hill on’t try and put a veneer Sander, Grace Bowskill, Wilson Huang, I could have much to offer as far as Finally, thanks to The Whelk, gender whisperer. for EVERYBODY. on your brutality, it’s not Katherine Porritt-Fraser, Ange Hall, Maddie expanding upon it. Eviemath, Frowner, Reclusive - Anon. E. Mouse working. - Anonymous Clark, Anthony McManus, Katarzyna Wagner, Novelist Thomas Pynchon A W D D Jodie Jackson, Mohammaed Awad, Justin For several years now, I’ve eagerly and a dozen others whose sage Brown, Connor Parissis awaited to release of the queer commentary has also helped autonomous edition of Honi. As inform me. Metafilter.com, it’s old- Hope Through Fear Artists pleasurable as the regular paper is, fashioned, but has a few people who Steff Leinasars, Jazzlyn Breen, EllieStephenson, the opportunity to hear directly know what they’re talking about. Peter Burrell-Sander seeks the optimism of radical negativity Alexa Potts, Andrew Herman, Oliver Mackie from a subset of voices is always The future looks bleak to me. Fascists not suffice because it is immoral, set on destroying everything they human being, equal to any other. Pawson invaluable, and the autonomous So, moving on from thanks, I hope on one side, spouting vitriolic and and unprincipled, and it will not value: whiteness, strict gender roles, Furthermore, I will not waver on editions of Honi serve exactly that some people can gain some small hateful rhetoric about me and suffice because we are staring down patriarchal heterosexuality and class demanding the same rights and On Cultural Marxism role. Check out ACAR next week, measure of joy from reading this mine, about queers and immigrants, a climate apocalypse. itself. respect for my friends and comrades, Contents Disability and Indigenous next paper. If I’ve erred in the colours, in about Jews and Muslims, about regardless of exactly why they’ve women existing and anything else We are facing down a challenge that They’re mostly right about my been marginalised by our society. semester. the image placement, or the like, so It’s worth taking a moment to will require human co-operation on intentions, but that’s because those 1 Cover they happen to take issue with. acknowledge that as fun as it be it. a global scale beyond any project changes are necessary if we want a I’m not going to tell people how they 2 Contents is to play around with cultural Fortunately, however, the very On the other, we’re faced with ever attempted before. We have but better world. can make radical change happen. nature of the beast is that as editors I do have some measure of regret a decade until the damage spreads There are dozens of groups active in 3 Election Section marxism as a concept, in the liberals. Small l, that is, the face of the inane ramblings we are not required to invent all the that there is not more of a coherent adherents of the ideology of far beyond our ability to curtail it, Radical negativity accepts that there Sydney alone around myriad issues, 4 Queer Anti-Capitalism of fascists worldwide which good works that have filled these theme holding the paper together. liberalism. While I’m not quite if that long. That’s not for a perfect is conflict in the world. Forces, and with differing strategies and methods comfortable with endorsing a Social world, but merely a habitable one. the people shaped by those forces, are all being employed. I merely want 5 Let’s Talk About Fear pages, merelly request, collate and As it was, we received submissions grossly mischaracterise the Fascism style view of liberalism, I set against eachother, and the liberal to take this opportunity to say that 6 Queers In History nature of academia and queer edit them. I do sincerely hope that across a broad range of topics, and as do believe that liberals will choose This, unfortunately, is the situation delusion that we need only discuss you’ll know you’re somewhere cullture alike, it’s a concept I’ve done an adequate job at this a result I hope instead that this paper we are in. The political challenge is matters enough to discover the root where you can do good when they’re 7 A Week B4 Mardis Gras their own comfort over change, and with real and dangerous task. represents something of a snapshot choose fascism over an alternative greater than ever. of our problems does naught but aid not trying to appease our enemies. 8 Stonewall and the GLF connotations. of the queer gestalt, a sample of that threatens capitalist property the right. I’d like to give a huge thank-you what’s occupying the thoughts of relations. Some may be questioning how this Because in the seemingly miserable 9 No Pride In Pride Week relates to queerness. Well, firstly, as It’s darker, scarier world if we fog that a belief in the inevitability to the Spice for Honi team and all queers around the University of 10 Gendered Bodies The people who complain Perhaps, in another era, this would I’m fond of saying, I and every other accept that conflict is necessary, of conflict brings, there is a beacon about cultural marxism are, their help in getting this together.

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