queer ultra vıo lence BASHBACK! Anthology Queer Ultra Violence Edited by Fray Baroque and Tegan Eanelli Ardent Press, 2011 Licensed under Creative Commons Ardent Press is a group engaged in research, publishing, and local projects. More information at: ardentpress.org Cover Art and Book design by The Institute for Experimental Freedom www.politicsisnotabanana.com Type set with ITC A VA N T GARDE, our contribution to the abuse of the family (no pun intended), Milo Serif, who will grow up to be a big boy some day and Adelle, who continues to dominate the headlines. Ardent Press Ardent QUEER & Tegan Eanelli Tegan & ULTRA Fray Baroque Fray Edited by Edited VIOLENCE BASHBACK! ANTHOLOGY ANTHOLOGY BASHBACK! VIOLENCE Edited by Fray Baroque ULTRA & Tegan Eanelli QUEER Ardent Press Table of Contents introduction Gang Nardini Mary The With Interview 284 Fray Baroque Beautiful? Become To It Is What 278 Intimacy Criminal 272 timeline Theory Whore 268 Insurrection Queerest The Toward 256 communiqués essays & theory 34 Unconventional Queers 54 Forging A Praxis Of Vengeance Read Still Should You 92 Dispatches From The War On God Shit Random Other And Callouts, Announcements, 232 125 Rejuvenating The Struggle Court To Goes Attack Ariel 222 Against Assimilation Culture Queer Criminal A Toward 198 161 The 2009 Bash Back! Convergence Riots G20 Various From Communiqués 183 And Subsequent Drama Drama Subsequent And 183 Communiqués From Various G20 Riots Convergence Back! Bash 2009 The 161 198 Toward A Criminal Queer Culture Assimilation Against 222 Ariel Attack Goes To Court Struggle The Rejuvenating 125 232 Announcements, Callouts, And Other Random Shit God On War The From Dispatches 92 You Should Still Read Vengeance Of Praxis A Forging 54 Queers Unconventional 34 theory & essays communiqués 256 Toward The Queerest Insurrection 268 Whore Theory timeline 272 Criminal Intimacy 278 What Is It To Become Beautiful? Baroque Fray introduction 284 Interview With The Mary Nardini Gang Table of Contents of Table 290 Hell Hath No Fury: A Chronology Of Genderfuck Insurrection 298 How Is It, To Be Done In The Ass? 300 Preliminary Notes On Modes Of Reproduction 314 Interview With Gender Mutiny 320 Questions To Be Addressed Before Denver 328 Destruction Not Separation: Some Thoughts On The Church And State 332 Identity, Politics And Anti-Politics: A Critical Perspective 342 Thoughts On Developing Anarchist Queer Theory 348 Reflections On The Demise Of Bash Back! 356 Interview With An Editor Of Pink And Black Attack 362 Public Sex And Social War 368 “Let The Trans Women Speak!”: A Response To Camp Trans 2010 372 Towards An Insurrectionary Transfeminism 378 The Failure Of The Correlative Form 384 Interview With Not Yr Cister Press 392 I-Don’t-Bash-Back-I-Shoot-First bash back! is dead; bash back forever! concluding notes Tegan Eanelli ith this anthology we intend to tell an accurate W and holistic story of Bash Back! In doing so, we continue our struggle to construct the queer com- mune. The profits from this book will be distributed to trans and oth- erwise queer anarchists in prison as well as those facing legal cases and criminal charges. Subsequent speaking tours will provide finan- cial support to sustain pre-existing projects and create new transqueer models of resistance. 8 Queer Ultraviolence 9 Through collections of essays, communiqués, narratives, images, and interviews, this anthology hopes to account for what Bash Back! distribute this publication. With this in mind and in order to fend fend to order in and mind in this With publication. this distribute was and what happened to it. We have included a number of actions, permission to any and all interested queers to reproduce, and freely freely and reproduce, to queers interested all and any to permission theories, and other essays that were not explicitly or implicitly related many cannot afford to spare what little money they have. 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Bash Back! arose in a context in which patriarchy ran rampant in anarchist circles. While comfortable, white college kids dominated the so-called radical queer scene, political correctness was an epidemic illness among the potluckgoing, craft-obsessed queer “radicals.” It was this frustration with the straight anarchists and queer so-called radicals that gave way to the unique anti-identity politics form of separatism that became rooted in Bash Back! Bash Back! was not just a group or organization, but a militant tendency on the part of queer individuals.