Monthly Archives: September 2017

Against All Odds: Abolishing Gender, Abolishing Poetry

Posted on 2017/09/20 by Warzone Distro

Text from the zine: “Because of our misplaced desire to find ourselves within societies society, poets become absurdly competitive. Invoking abstract concepts of authenticity to either validate or invalidate writing. There is no valid or authentic poetics because the individual … Continue reading →

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Against Gender Against Society

Posted on 2017/09/14 by Warzone Distro

Text from the zine: “We must turn against society itself. Gender is a war against all of us, and for those who desire freedom, nothing short of the total eradication of gender will suffice. To those of us who wish … Continue reading →

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An Insurrectional Practice Against Gender: Considerations on Resonance, Memory, and Attack

Posted on 2017/09/14 by Warzone Distro

Text from back cover: “There are certain practices that exist in the ways in which self-proclaimed “radical trans” people and “anarcha-feminists” of certain activist subcultures have set into motion in response to the question of gender. These include consent zines/workshops, … Continue reading →

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Arming Negativity: Towards the Queerest Attack

Posted on 2017/09/14 by Warzone Distro

From back cover: “My queerness is an experimentation that never ends. It is the totality of a life lived against the law, insubordinate and wild. It is not a communist politics but a nihilist negation to all systems that attempt … Continue reading →

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Baedan: Queers Gone Wild (An excerpt from Baedan: A Journal of Queer Nihilism issue 1)

Posted on 2017/09/14 by Warzone Distro

Text from back cover: ““ If we can determine anything from our project of queer negativity, it is that capitalism has an unlimited capacity to tolerate and recuperate any alternative politics or artistic expression we could imagine. It is not … Continue reading →

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Blessed is the Flame: An Introduction to Concentration Camp Resistance and Anarcho-Nihilism

Posted on 2017/09/14 by Warzone Distro

From back cover: “Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame. Blessed is the flame that burns in the secret fastness of the heart. Blessed is the heart with strength to stop its beating for honor’s sake.Blessed is the match … Continue reading →

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Criminal Intimacy

Posted on 2017/09/14 by Warzone Distro

Text from back cover: “We do not offer ‘criminal’ or ‘queer’ as identities, nor as categories. Criminality. Queerness. These are tools for revolt against identity and category. These are our lines of flight out of all restraint. We are in … Continue reading →

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Dangerous Spaces: Violent Resistance, Self-defense, & Insurrectional Struggle Against Gender

Posted on 2017/09/14 by Warzone Distro

Text from back cover: “We are not asking for a right to the streets, we are taking them; we are not asking for advertisements that do not objectify women, we’re destroying the commercial mechanisms that objectify women; we are not … Continue reading →

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Degenerations: Between Pride and Gender Victimhood by Anna Beniamino

Posted on 2017/09/14 by Warzone Distro

From back cover: “I am anarchist, I am not feminist because I see feminism as a sectorial and victimist withdrawal, I have never made any gender discrimination although I don’t use gender­friendly linguistic conventions, on the contrary I often use … Continue reading →

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Destroy Gender

Posted on 2017/09/14 by Warzone Distro

Text from the zine: “My personal experiences with gendered violence are only taken seriously in light of revealing myself as a trans woman. Our theories should start from the ways we have experienced gender violence in our daily lives, not … Continue reading →

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Dysphoria Means Total Destroy

Posted on 2017/09/14 by Warzone Distro

Text from back cover: “There is no revolutionary identity here, only an irreconcilable conflict against and through identity. This despair and this hatred is the result. Subsequently, identity-based attacks upon gender will not be able to collapse gender. My taking … Continue reading →

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Espacios Peligrosos: Resistencia violenta, Autodefensa y Lucha insureccionalista en contra del género

Posted on 2017/09/14 by Warzone Distro

““No estamos pidiendo derechos por las calles, estamos hablando de ellos; no estamos pidiendo anuncios que no nos conviertan en mujeres-objeto, estamos destruyendo los mecanismos comerciales que nos deshumanizan como mujeres; no estamos apelando al poder masculino para que termine … Continue reading →

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Gender Anarky: Selected Writings

Posted on 2017/09/14 by Warzone Distro

“Gender Anarky is (was?) a collective of radical trans women resisting in the California prison system.” Gender Anarky pdf

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Gender Nihilism: An Anti-Manifesto

Posted on 2017/09/14 by Warzone Distro

“We are radicals who have had enough with attempts to salvage gender. We do not believe we can make it work for us. We look at the transmisogyny we have faced in our own lives, the gendered violence that our … Continue reading →

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Infinite Relationships: Relationships without bounds or boundaries, love without limits, without ends

Posted on 2017/09/14 by Warzone Distro

Text from back cover: “The alternative, which this fear of solitude prevents us from seeing, seems more preferable: a world without borders, in which each of us would be part of a broader family of lovers and friends, with no … Continue reading →

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Let’s Talk Consent

Posted on 2017/09/14 by Warzone Distro

An excellent guide to putting consent into practice. lets talk consent pdf

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Marriage & Love by Emma Goldman

Posted on 2017/09/14 by Warzone Distro

“In our present pygmy state love is indeed a stranger to most people. Misunderstood and shunned, it rarely takes root; or if it does, it soon withers and dies. Its delicate fiber can not endure the stress and strain of … Continue reading →

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Only A Tsunami Will Do: For A Post-Feminist Anarchy

Posted on 2017/09/14 by Warzone Distro

Text from back cover: “Men, women, …fighting for the elusive Happily­Ever­ After­Plus­$’More. This powerful enemy includes a mindset requiring controlled, predictable (despite acknowledging its impossibility), identifiable order according to a Mass­ter plan. But it is perhaps, first and foremost, the … Continue reading →

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Pieces of Self: Anarchy, Gender and Other Thoughts

Posted on 2017/09/14 by Warzone Distro

“My intention in putting this zine together is to make available essays that clarify the connections between the origins of patriarchy and civilization, that analyze the function of gender in this society and the effects that gender constructions have on … Continue reading →

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Poly Amor: An exploration and expression of polyamorous relationships

Posted on 2017/09/14 by Warzone Distro

This zine explores polyamory, its origins and its practical manifestations. PolyAmor pdf

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QUEER FIRE: The George Jackson Brigade, Men Against Sexism, and Gay Struggle Against Prison

Posted on 2017/09/14 by Warzone Distro

A collection of histories, speeches, and interviews with members of The George Jackson Brigade and Men Against Sexism. These stories give inspiration for the multiform queer struggle against prison, capitalism, and the state. queer-fire pdf

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Safety is an Illusion: Reflections on Accountability

Posted on 2017/09/14 by Warzone Distro

Text from back cover: “People in relation to each other create healthy or unhealthy exchanges. There is no absolute for “fucked up,” “healed,” or “safe” ­ it changes with time, life circumstance, and each new love affair. It is with … Continue reading →

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Setting Fire to The Church of Social Justice: 3 Critiques of Identity Politics, Call-Out Culture & Other Forms of Statist Thinking

Posted on 2017/09/14 by Warzone Distro

A multi-perspective, thorough and in-depth look at identity politics, call-out culture and the accountability process and their relationship to church and state. Published by Dandelion Distro ( www.facebook.com/dandeliondistro ) Setting Fire to the Church of Social Justice pdf

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Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries

Posted on 2017/09/14 by Warzone Distro

Text from the zine: “It seems obvious that the study of history is a necessary element of continued war against the present world. There are tools lying in every failed insurrection, every temporarily-established zone of free play, every campaign of … Continue reading →

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To Destroy Sexuality

Posted on 2017/09/14 by Warzone Distro

Text from the zine: “Of course, we realize how many obstacles we have to overcome to make our aspirations into something more than the dreams of a small and marginal minority. We are keenly aware that liberating the body for … Continue reading →

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Toward the Queerest Insurrection

Posted on 2017/09/14 by Warzone Distro

Text from the zine: “Some will read “queer” as synonymous with “gay and lesbian” or “LGBT.” This reading falls short. While those who would fit within the constructions of “L”, “G”, “B”, or “T” could fall within the discursive limits … Continue reading →

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This is Not a Love Story: Armed Struggle Against the Institutions of Patriarchy

Posted on 2017/09/14 by Warzone Distro

Text from the zine: “Many feminist theorists and activists categorically condemn “violence”– be it offensive or defensive, physical or verbal– on the grounds that “violence” (an extremely ambiguous term in itself) has its roots in patriarchal culture and the patriarchal … Continue reading →

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Queer Ultraviolence (Spanish version)

Posted on 2017/09/14 by Warzone Distro

La collección que sigue comprende varios ensayos y comunicados de la monstruosidad conocida como Bash Back! Estas selecciones sirven como un destello a lo que será una antologia más completa que pronto será publicada por QI (Queer Internacional). QI es … Continue reading →

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War on Patriarchy , War on the Death Technology

Posted on 2017/09/14 by Warzone Distro

The collected statements ,essays , and communiqués of direct action and the Wimmin ’ s Fire Brigade. War on Patriarchy War on The Death Technology pdf

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3 Positions Against Prison

Posted on 2017/09/13 by Warzone Distro

Text from back cover: “One and a half centuries ago, slavery was abolished by the United States government. This followed an enormous social struggle over abolition–wars were fought between pro-slavery elements and abolitionist elements. There were slave revolts and armed … Continue reading →

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Against Prisons, Politics, Society

Posted on 2017/09/13 by Warzone Distro

Text from the zine: “There appears to be a trend in radical circles of distinguishing prisoners based on their so-called ‘crimes’, with the intent (conscious or not) to identify ‘political prisoners’ who, by virtue of their actions, are more deserving … Continue reading →

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Attacking Prisons At Their Point of Production: A Brief Look at Militant Actions Against the Prison Industrial Complex

Posted on 2017/09/13 by Warzone Distro

Attacking-Prisons-Point of Production pdf

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Celling Black Bodies: Black Women in the Global Prison Industrial Complex

Posted on 2017/09/13 by Warzone Distro

“Since the early 1990s, increases in the prison population in England and Wales have sparked a boom in prison construction, leading commentators to comment on ‘the largest prison building program since the middle of the 19th century’ (Morgan, 1999: 110). … Continue reading →

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Locked Up

Posted on 2017/09/13 by Warzone Distro

Text from back cover: “Prison is the most direct, brutal expression of power, and like power it must be destroyed, it cannot be abolished progressively. Anyone who thinks they can improve it now in order to destroy it in the … Continue reading →

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Survival in Solitary: A manual written by & for people living in control units

Posted on 2017/09/13 by Warzone Distro

Text from back cover: “The federal penitentiary in Marion, Illinois, went on permanent lock down in 1983. This created the first “control unit”. Now, in addition to the federal government, some forty states have built these “maxi-maxi” prisons — representations … Continue reading →

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Writing to Prisoners FAQ

Posted on 2017/09/13 by Warzone Distro

An informational guide to writing and supporting prisoners. writing_to_prisoners_FAQ pdf

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I WILL NOT CRAWL: excerpts from Robert F. Williams on Black struggle and armed self-defense in Monroe, NC

Posted on 2017/09/12 by Warzone Distro

Text from the zine: “Somebody in the crowd fired a pistol and the people again started to scream hysterically, ‘Kill the niggers! Kill the niggers! Pour gasoline on the niggers!’ The mob started to throw stones on top of my … Continue reading →

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Guide To Racist Symbols

Posted on 2017/09/12 by Warzone Distro

Guide-to-Racist-Symbols pdf

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Autonomous Resistance to Slavery and Colonization; two essays by Russell Maroon Shoatz

Posted on 2017/09/12 by Warzone Distro

Text from back cover: “These early Maroons were able to overcome language barriers, mistrust, and the growing influence of racial doctrines that eventually evolved into the white supremacist cultural construct outside of the swamp. That is not to say that … Continue reading →

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Anarquía y Alcohol: Realmente desperdiciadx Cómo lo demoníaco llegó a ser civilizado

Posted on 2017/09/12 by Warzone Distro

“Anarquía y Alcohol logra hablarnos de la problemática del alcohol en el ámbito político sin caer en tópicos ni en el dogmatismo que caracteriza a este debate; nos guía en un viaje por la historia de la civilización ­según defiende­ … Continue reading →

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