queer – 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.”

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.”

Transmasc DIY HRT

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

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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.”

Writings of the Mary Nardini Gang

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

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“Being queer complicates the way we experience our role under capitalism. Queer bodies are often forced to sell their labor in ways that would be excluded from traditional marxist narratives of what it means to be a worker. This includes service workers and sex workers. These forms of exploitation problematize the often heteronormative and patriarchal ideas surrounding what is and isn’t labor. Ultimately, the positions of queers and proles intertwine- we are the class that has no control over our bodies. This means different things in different situations. But the bosses who manage our time and the queer-bashers who manage our gender are clearly all class-enemies.”

Arming Negativity: Towards the Queerest Attack

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

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“Towards the abolition of gender and against reformist projects, my anarchist war does not limit itself to the confines of politics. Instead, it includes a queer nihilist life-experience of becoming ungoverned by gender and any other social constructs intended to subjugate and discourage individual uniqueness. Beyond the limitations of theory, this also includes clandestine attack on the manifestations of society, negating the domestication of law and order.”

Being Transgender During Trans Genocide

Posted on 2025/03/10 by pandemoniumdistro

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“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.”

Against Gender Against Society

Posted on 2025/03/10 by pandemoniumdistro

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“Exclusion is not remedied by inclusion but by attacking those forces that
exclude, which are numerous and are rarely entirely within our control.

Gender is a tool of war. There is a war waged against our bodies, our minds, and the potential of our relationships: the social war. What is gender and what is it to be gendered? Genders are socially constructed categories that correspond to nebulous parameters surrounding behaviors, sexualities, aesthetics, socio-cultural roles, bodies, et cetera. Genders concretize differently in different places, times, and individuals; some will experience gender as very constricting, while others will never hit the boundaries their genders impose on them. Gender is inextricably connected to sexuality, and both perpetually shape and define each other. The two most commonly imposed genders are man/male and woman/female, and to stray away from them, move amongst them or act against them summons the enforcement agents of society. Gender benefits those who want to control, socialize, and manage us and offers us nothing in return. Every time a person is scrutinized and gendered, society has attacked them, confined them, waged war on them.”