100 Inmates in Shakopee, Minnesota, Wear Blue to Support Demands Made by LGBTQ Prisoners
Submitted by R Totale on Jun 25 2019 17:37
Inside Shakopee Prison on Saturday 25th June, prisoners wore blue - the only color they can wear without getting in trouble - to protest in favor of changes demanded by LGBTQ prisoners. This story was first published by the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee.
A Response to Police Repression Following Hamilton, ON, Pride
Submitted by R Totale on Jun 24 2019 18:50
The following statement from the anarchist community center The Tower responds to the recent repression against those targeted by police after clashes erupted between those defending Hamilton Pride and the far-Right.
E21-22: The Stonewall riots and Pride at 50
Summer 2019 marks 50 years since the iconic rebellion against the police raid of the Stonewall Inn in New York City. The LGBTQ patrons and locals, many of them people of colour, and most of them working class, fought back against the police in 6 days of rioting. Then they organised, revolutionising the LGBTQ rights movement, and sparking Pride.
UPDATED - Solidarity with Detained Cuban Anarchist and LGBT Activists
Submitted by R Totale on May 12 2019 09:23
Havana, Cuba – Following tensions around the cancellation of the state sponsored LGBT march and the effort by activists to call for an independently organized one, two anarchist and LGBT activists, Isbel Diaz Torres and partner Jimmy Roque Martinez, are believed to have been detained by Cuban authorities. The detentions are seen as an attempt by the Cuban state to suppress and intimidate outspoken activists whom they see as leaders and vocal activists in the LGBT community in Cuba. This story was first posted by Black Rose Anarchist Federation.
“Give me my job back, say sorry, and don’t do it again” – Interview with a worker sacked for being trans
An interview with a British trans IWW member who was fired for using the toilet at work, but after the company was picketed by the Sheffield section, got their job back.
Whose personal is more political? Experience in contemporary feminist politics
An academic article by Alison Phipps about how some feminists deem their traumatic personal experiences more worthy than others in order to negate the rights and organising attempts of sex workers and transwomen.
‘Deficient’ Womanhood: Girldick and Transmisogyny as Debilitation/Capacity
Original article located here: medium.com/@chriscoles_66854/deficient-womanhood-girldick-and-transmisogyny-as-debilitation-capacity-889fa751946e
Legacy Of The Pink Triangle - Sam Lowry
From the Nazis' concentration camps to the streets of London today, lesbians and gay men have been a target of fascist attacks. Sam Lowry examines this history of persecution.
From issue 2 of Anti-Fascist Action's Fighting Talk magazine, 1992.
Anarchy #01
First Issue of the Second series of Anarchy magazine from February 1971, cover title is Towards a Rational Bisexuality, and many articles concern sexuality and Queer liberation.
Notes on Early Soviet Attitudes to Homosexuality
Submitted by Reddebrek on Apr 3 2018 18:15
Fragments of information concerning the attitudes of the Bolshevik government in its early years to homosexuality.
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