south salish sea anti-civ, nihilist, queer anarchy
“As the occupied land referred to as the USA regresses into a fascist dictatorship things are very bleak for transgender people. Trump campaigned hard on trans genocide and began delivering as soon as he took office. From legally detransitioning transgender people at a federal level to going to work erasing all information in federal records on transgender people Donald Trump is starting to erase us and preparing to do things that are much, much worse.”
“Children are the future. Frequently interpreted literally, this familiar adage carries an important theoretical underpinning: we must plan for the children of today to become the next purveyors of the social order. In the polemic No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive, Lee Edelman coins the term reproductive futurism and calls for Queer opposition to it. Edelman argues that the conception of children as our future is the political idea of the Child: our participation in politics is predicated on building a better world for our children. Planning for a future world, whether by reform or envisioning an end-game utopia, has the neat benefit of revealing the social systems and institutions we wish to manifest. Rather than living for present and people who live now (including ourselves), we hope to assert the dominance of our politics and desired social order to shape children who will benefit from-and continue-our vision. Planning for this future society precludes the possibility of instead ending or rejecting society entirely. To escape our captivity to Future we must kill the Child: reject the idea of reproductive futurism in favor of an ecstatic queer anti-politic.”
“A definition of nihilism could be the realization that ‘the conditions in the social organization are so bad to make destruction desirable for its own sake independent of any program or constructive possibility.’ This exposes one of the greatest ideological flaws of modern activism: the articulation of the specific world-to-be as a result of your actions does not guarantee that world’s creation.”
“So the law did what it does and took the rights away from millions in the matter of a day. People showed up in the streets to protest but all theyre doin is beggin the government to give em their rights back. Don’t they know that’s not how this works? They can post as many instagram stories and hold as many candlelight vigils as they want but shit aint gonna change.”