sex, gender, queer shit – Pandemonium Distro

Defend Pride Direct Action Handbook

Posted on 2025/06/05 - 2025/06/20 by pandemoniumdistro

“Queer people are under attack. Homophobia and transphobia never really went away completely, but we are living through a historic resurgence. Across the United States, Republican politicians have been working to pass hundreds of bills attacking LGBTQ+ people. Meanwhile in the streets, violence against us is steadily increasing, and Proud Boys, neo-Nazis, and other hate groups attack, harass, and distrupt LGBTQ+ events. Times are tough, but we’ve been here before. And we know what it takes to survive.”

Queens, Hookers, Hustlers

Posted on 2025/06/05 - 2025/06/05 by pandemoniumdistro

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“The history of the resistance of gender-variant misfits and rebels is incomplete without understanding the central role of hooker networks that united hustlers, queens, hair fairies, and radicals during the 1950s and ’60s, a pivotal era that led to the first gay riots that had the police fleeing the streets in San Francisco and New York. Yet most published accounts of “transgender” history neglect a thorough examination of street queen and hustler culture. We know vaguely about the admirable radical exploits of Sylvia Rivera, Marsha P. Johnson, and the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries, yet few authors have situated their projects (opening houses for trans kids on the street, hustling for rent and for raising funds for the radical wing of Gay Liberation) within a history in which these practices were regular occurrences among the informal networks of queens and hustlers turning tricks and defending each other from violence in many urban areas across the United States.”

We Got This! Volume One: Safe Calls, Screening and Buddy Systems for Sex Workers

Posted on 2025/06/05 - 2025/06/20 by pandemoniumdistro

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“As sex workers, we are often barred from putting basic protections in place while we work (eg working at a brothel with other workers, openly discussing services).
In spite of this, we use bazillions of genius little tricks to work how we want. This zine isn’t about how we should work. It’s just about sharing how we actually work so we can think creatively about our safety and decide for ourselves from all the possibilities”

Ho Lover: about dating and friending sex workers

Posted on 2025/06/05 - 2025/06/05 by pandemoniumdistro

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“I have been asked a bunch of times if it’s hard to have sex workers as lovers. Does it make me feel insecure about our sex? Do I get jealous? Do they get sick of sex? Do I worry about my sexual health? Before I address some of these questions, I want to instead question why the queries are always about negative things. I don’t understand why not many people say – “wow, you’re so lucky – that must be amazing”, or “tell me about all the great things you must get to experience”, or even simply, “congratulations, sex workers rock!” So I want to start with some of the many ways I have greatly benefited from having sex workers as lovers and friends.”

Arm Trans Youth

Posted on 2025/06/05 - 2025/06/20 by pandemoniumdistro

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“Take hormones illegally! Defy your parents! Defy *your* state!

Trans youth must be ARMED with the means to liberate themselves: armed with the knowledge of themselves and their history, armed with the tools of self-defense in all its forms from analysis to action, armed with the means to transition collectively and autonomously with their peers, armed by a new non-hierarchical trans family, a community that teaches defiance.”

Queer Ultraviolence: A Bash Back Anthology

Posted on 2025/03/18 by pandemoniumdistro

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“Through collections of essays, communiqués, narratives, images, and interviews, this anthology hopes to account for what Bash Back! was and what happened to it. We have included a number of actions, theories, and other essays that were not explicitly or implicitly related to Bash Back! as a name. In this context, if we do not recognize the actions of related tendencies and publications, then we fail to tell the complete history of Bash Back! as a network and as a tendency.”

Transfem DIY HRT

Posted on 2025/03/11 - 2025/03/12 by pandemoniumdistro

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Information collected from diyhrt.info and formatted into a zine.

Transmasc DIY HRT

Posted on 2025/03/11 - 2025/03/12 by pandemoniumdistro

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Information collected from diyhrt.info and formatted into a zine.

Be Gay Do Crime

Posted on 2025/03/11 by pandemoniumdistro

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“We proceeded, despite the end of the world, seeking joy everywhere we could. Our communiques took the ruins for granted and we insisted upon dancing amid them. Sex parties, dance parties, street parties, reading parties – partying emerged as a central form in that frenzied moment. Our later inquiries into the sacred nature of the revel – into the bacchanals and nighttime sabbats – revealed an intrinsic relationship between partying and the world-making arts. In our parties, we opened onto connection with each other, onto other realms and other gestures.”

Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries: Survival, Revolt, and Queer Antagonist Struggle

Posted on 2025/03/10 - 2025/03/10 by pandemoniumdistro

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“This is the question that is running through our minds. Do you really want Gay Power or are you looking for a few laughs or maybe a little excitement. We are not quite sure what you people really want. IF you want Gay Liberation then you’re going to have to fight for it. We don’t mean tomorrow or the next day, we are talking about today. We can never possibly win by saying “wait for a better day” or “we’re not ready yet” If you’re ready to tell people that you want to be free, then your ready to fight. And if your not ready then shut up and crawl back into your closets. But let us ask you this, Can you really live in a closet? We can’t.”