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Dangerous Spaces
"Fuck therapy, I just want to fight back" - a queer homeless comrade in the PNW
"Action dries your tears" - a PMS slogan that we heard from some Greek comrades
This section explicates some of the reasons why we just can't stand to exist like this anymore and we're going to do something about it. You will not be able to silence us with your violence. We are not the crazy ones, you are. We've got nothing but healthy responses to a sick world.
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A Modest Proposal from Some Crazy Bitches
- https://downandoutdistro.noblogs.org/files/2019/02/dangerous.pdf, page 30
- A communique from "one of many future autonomous cells of crazy bitches," encouraging direct confrontation and vengeance against rapists and rape apologists.
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Healing and Fighting: a false dichotemy
- http://www.anti-politics.org/distro/2009/fight_back-read.pdf (pages 21-25)
- An anti-civ piece discussing how fighting back against our oppressors is a necessary part of healing, comparing the connection between healing and struggle to the body's process of fighting an infection.
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'Hurting Yourself', Icarus Project
- https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/6714401/hurting-yourself-the-icarus-project
- A harm reduction resource for those who self-harm.
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Profesto of the Prostitutes War Group
- https://prostituteswargroup.wordpress.com/2017/04/11/pro-festo-of-the-prostitutes-war-group/
- Sex workers rejecting reformist, legalizing solutions and instead putting their skills towards insurrection and social war.
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Queers read this
- https://untorellipress.noblogs.org/files/2013/10/queers-read-this.pdf (anger pages 3-4)
- notes on the justifiability of anger
Discussion
- So, what are some things you'd like to destroy? (Don't worry about the how right now, just name what needs attacking!)
- What do you do with your anger? Where in your life do you feel like you can express it and where do you keep it hidden? Where do you direct it?
- Has safety ever felt attainable to you? When safety isn't an option, what do you try for instead?
- Have you ever experienced fighting back in a way that feels more healing than burnout-inducing? What strategies, tools, approaches, and relationships made it so? In an experience where that wasn't the case, what could have gone differently?