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 by Feral Faun  Bloodlust A feminist journal against civilization The concept of gender is an artificial definition, an attempt to order us. It is absurd. It is  a limitation on our diversity. It is a lie.  Gender is nothing more than a social role. Its attachment to our genitals is purely a  convenience not unlike the convenience of using skin color to determine who should be slave  and who should be master. The development of the genitals in the fetus shows that “male” and  “female” genitals are really just variations on the same basic theme, which occur for the purely  biological convenience of reproduction. Yet this socially defined, artificial role seems to be the  most important thing for one to learn in this society. The first announcement when an infant  is born is, “It’s a boy!” or “It’s a girl!” But the baby doesn’t accept this definition. It has a vora¬  cious desire to know all, to be all. It encompasses a universe of po...

 The nuclear family is after all sadly a staple of like every culture in the world as much as that is a tough pill to swallow Extended families, though. Kinship networks are how people got things done before everyone was kicked off of their land and had to earn wages to purchase commodified, transactional social interactions, including purchasing food to feed their disabled aunt instead of growing it themself.  We got SSI due to the fact that no one could afford to take care of anyone again. This included elderly, unemployed, and disabled who were just dying from crime or exposure. Nuclear families just came about recently, relatively speaking, and they got that name because they are the smallest possible unit to still reproduce society. Extremely unstable, however. As for the "family structure" part of the flyer, non-Europeans are usually even more patriarchal. For example, the Chinese are very patriarchal, as are the Arabs and even the sub-Saharan Africans. Atlantic said ba...

 For the  Civilized to  Leave  Civilization  From Flag textsBLOODLUST: A feminist journal against civilization Some thoughts  on choice,  coercion, and ne¬  gotiation  In line at a grocery store, a friend and I begin talking about camping gear: sleeping bags, tents,  warm clothes, and knives. This friend was in the midst of preparations for departing an intensely  urbanized area in search of deeper connections with wild geographies, and I was helping this de¬  parture. As our conversation progressed, we inevitably mentioned the term “anarcho-primitivism”  out loud. The customer in front of us (surely eavesdropping) suddenly interrupted us to ask, “What’s  primitivism?” As my friend began to provide some basics of an anarcho-primitivist perspective (the  critique of domestication, mass society, etc), the customer sarcastically broke in: “Oh, so that’s why  you’re buying your camping gear from REI?” Before my ...

 

Liberal 2.0ers and non Liberal 2.0ers (like to the right) have switched places. While some of my views overlap or blur the line with the Liberalism 2.0 views below a bit (I agree with some aspects of Afro Pessimism, and I also am not a anti Prostitution hard liner as I am flexible in that area) I still echo the jist of what I write below in terms of how the formerly Liberal 1.0 views in each paragraph below in general are better than the Liberal 2.0 hijacked version Prostitution is exploitative and it exploits women. It is ‘empowering’ only for a lucky, privileged few. In a more just world, relationships and sex should not be commodified and should not be reduced to monetary exchange so that the poor must sell their bodies to the rich. (Liberalism 2.0 version: ‘Sex work’ is the hip new cool thing and people ruthlessly exploiting and using each other is somehow ‘empowering’ and progressive). Freedom of speech is vital and you should be able to light heartingly make tongue and c...

credit  https://web.archive.org/web/20220307162206/https://salvage.zone/the-flatness-of-blackness-afro-pessimism-and-the-erasure-of-anti-colonial-thought/  . In Nigeria, the country with the world’s largest Black population, the ‘afterlife of slavery’ takes on a completely different meaning than in the US. While slavery had existed in Igbo society before colonisation, it accelerated with the increasing demand for slaves on the other side of the Atlantic. When slavery was officially abolished in many parts of the West, Adiele Afigbo writes in The Abolition of the Slave Trade in Southeastern Nigeria, 1885–1950, Igbo slave markets were flooded with ohu and osu slaves, whose descendants to this day retain the stigma of their ancestors – they cannot intermarry with freeborn and are excluded from important community organisations. In a recent New Yorker article Nigerian novelist Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani argues that: Igbo discrimination is not based on race, and there are no visual mar...

From  here “Rather than celebrate Blackness as a cultural identity, Afro-Pessimism theorizes it as a position of accumulation and fungibility (Saidiya Hartman); that is, as condition—or relation—of ontological death. One of the guiding questions of Dr. Wilderson’s engagement with Afro-Pessimism asks, How are the political stakes of analysis and aesthetics raised and altered if we theorize the structural relation between Blacks and Humanity as an antagonism (an irreconcilable encounter) as opposed to a (reconcilable) conflict?” Afro Pessimism says that the Middle Passage ontologically changed African lives in a way that even exceeded the existential imprints left by the Shoah: Jews went into Auschwitz and came out as Jews, Africans went into the ships and came out as Blacks. The latter is a Human and a metaphysical holo caust.  Question: Why are the theorists under consideration [in this seminar] called “Afro-Pessimists,” and what characteristics do they have in common? “Afro-P...