BASHING BACK!

A theatrical escapade documenting 25 years of resistance fierce and fabulous. Inquiry and fantasy can be lavishly bequeathed to bashingbackplay@gmail.

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Shame!  Shame!  Shame!  Shame!

various gay rights groups from the early 90s used this slogan to play on the idea of gay pride Note: This is the first of a selection of chants that will be posted daily from now until the performance. The series can be found under the “interview” sub-heading. 

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Gay Anarchists Between Confrontations With Police, Montreal, 2012

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Bash Back! East Lansing, Michigan, 2008 Communique

To those who have threatened to kill us in the past week:

You have put us in camps. You have imprisoned us otherwise. You bombed our bars and clinics. You helped pass anti-Gay legislation. You have killed us in the streets and beat us in your schools. And that one time when we were 13 you let us jerk you off in your tree fort. So get the fuck over it! 

Trans and Queer folks face threats of violence on a daily basis. We have dealt with this shit our entire lives. As a result, we find your rhetoric to be unoriginal and frankly a bit stale. Furthermore, your yelps of legal repercussions, hell, and murder do not deter us. They just fuel our fire, baby. Bash Back! Is devoted to exposing, confronting, challenging, and smashing our oppressors to itsy bitsy pieces. We’re fixing to tear this world of heteronormative control to shreds. We are everywhere and will meet you at every opportunity. We know that you call us terrorists because our very existence terrorizes you. That makes us proud, but you ain’t seen nothing yet. Nevertheless, we must remind ourselves that your bizarre delusions are not enough to liberate us from patriarchy. One day, soon enough, the secret Tranny sleeper operatives posing as your spouses will wake, and oh what a day that will be! So you want social war? Bring it! We can fuck you up while we’re fucking each other. We pack heat in our bedroom and on the streets. Bet you can’t do that, KKK.

PS Next time y’all decide to flood us with death threats it might be a good idea to refrain from giving us your full names and email addresses…just a thought.

-Bash Back! East Lansing, Michigan, 2008

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Bash Back! Anarchists Smash Westboro Baptist Church Fascists at the Republican National Convention, Minneapolis, 2009

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Schedule

Our riotous evening of community history will grace your eyes and ears on the occasion of Hampshire College’s Division Three Theatre Festival between April 12th and 16th. Please, keep your pansy peepers peeled for further updates on places & punctualities.   

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Bash Back Pittsburgh Communique

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Interview With AB101 Veto Riot Participant

That was our mindset. We just took action, there was nothing new in our response. But to your point of why tonight was the night, it was critical mass. It was the last straw. The word betrayal has been thrown around. You know for me, the notion of it, my visual memory is much more up close, as opposed to like a crowd, you know, sense of it. Because I remember exactly, I was in front of that window, at that computer room, you know with glass and, and, you know, the fire going and stuff like that, and it was the first time, and I hope only time, that I heard someone say to me “dude your shirts on fire.” Because I did not know that’s how close, and the shit is happening, and you know my anger, my rage, it was so palpable I didn’t even notice I was on fire. You know it wasn’t a big fire, but to be that focused on, you know, directing my anger elsewhere, to not notice something like that, it just seemed like we had been disappointed by a lot of stuff, betrayed by a lot of stuff, but for me personally in my mind it was the idea that one man, like how dare he, the people had spoken, and this fuckin dude had promised he would sign it, this was the last no for me, and I think for a lot of people.

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Bash Back!, Milwaukee, 2008