THIS IS OUR BLOOD.

Kevward | 28 | he/him and xe/xem | English. Queercore to the core.

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Discover over 1000 queer punk bands and artists from across the globe

www.bit.ly/Queercoresheet

Another update has hit queercore and queer punks spreadsheet! Now up to 1064 listed. New entries include some deathcore, skramz, noise rock, and (of course) hardcore and punk.

The spreadsheet is always expanding, and does rely partly on community input! If you think someone is missing or information needs updating- let me know on here or on Instagram @/literalcarrot. I'm only one person so sometimes things get missed!

queercore bands :)!

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DITZ // The Lexington // 06.02.2019

[makingqueerhistory]

The Erotica Magazine That Paved the Way for Horny Lesbian Art

On Our Backs portrayed lesbian sex and sexuality, with real lesbians.

Created by, for, and about lesbians, On Our Backs came about in the tumult of the “feminist sex wars,” a deeply polarizing internal debate in the feminist movement regarding sex, sexuality, pornography, erotica, and BDSM. Divided into sex-positive and anti-porn camps, the sex wars saw rabid disagreement on what the nature of things like pornography were doing for lesbians and for society as a whole. Many feminists argued that pornography and erotica were inherently objectifying and abusive. Writer and theorist Andrea Dworkin argued that not just pornography but heterosexual sex as a whole was a “means of physiologically making a woman inferior,” and claimed that anyone aroused by porn that depicted sexualized violence (whether real or scripted) “was evidence of a mind that’s absorbed the propaganda of the patriarchy and eroticized the subjugation of women.” On the flipside, sex-positive feminists argued that pornography itself was not an inherent evil, but rather its morality was dependent upon the creators and participants. Rubin, one of the founders of the lesbian feminist BDSM group Samois, believed sexual liberation was a key component of the feminist movement and that public expressions of female sexuality were crucial in asserting women’s existence as fully realized beings.

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Transandrophia is not real. Literally every big name dude trying to say it's real is a huge misogynist (and even huger transmisogynist). they just rebranded transmisandry to transandrophia because they realised calling it misandry reveals how much it is complete and utter bullshit.

[forthegothicheroine]

“Swastikas in punk are basically another way for kids to get a rise out of their parents and maybe the press, both of whom deserve the irritation. To the extent that most of these spikedomes ever had a clue what the stuff originally meant, it only went so far as their intent to shock. “It’s like a stance”, as Ivan [Julian] says. “A real immature way of being dangerous.” Maybe. Except that after a while this casual, even ironic embrace of the totems of bigotry crosses over into the real poison… Something harder to pass off entered the air in 1977, when I started encountering little zaps like this: I opened up a copy of a Florida punk fanzine called New Order and read an article by Miriam Linna of the Cramps, Nervus Rex, and now Zantees: “I love the Ramones [because] this is the celebration of everything American — everything teenaged and wonderful and white and urban…” You could say the “white” jumping out of that sentence was just like Ornette Coleman declaring This Is Our Music, except that the same issue featured a full-page shot of Miriam and one of her little friends posing proudly with their leathers and shades and a pistol in front of the headquarters of the United White People’s Party, under a sign bearing three flags: “GOD” (cross), “COUNTRY” (stars and stripes), “RACE” (swastika). Sorry, Miriam, I can go just so far with affectations of kneejerk cretinism before I puke.”

— Lester Bangs, The White Noise Supremacists

[forthegothicheroine]

I am once again asking all punks and fellow goths to read The White Noise Supremacists before saying punk was “always” about kindness and leftism.

[tiredsoundsofagnes]

GIVE VIOLENCE A CHANCE !

[yourbadbehavior]

physique at cbgb in st louis 02/25/24

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[bi-astolfo]

Yes, investigation claimed at least 1,200 detainees 'dropped off the grid' from 'Alligator Alcatraz'

The claim is not new — the Miami Herald published its findings in summer 2025.

[standwithdaanes]

source for the congresswoman thing as well, because i hadn't heard about that:

Rep. LaMonica McIver Faces 17 Years in Prison Over ICE Jail Inspection

The Trump administration has repeatedly attempted to restrict or thwart congressmembers’ access to ICE jails.

[deadeyedcarnist]

An NHS hospital is starving a severe ME patient and has now stopped giving her fluids

Savannah has now lived with severe ME for several years - but the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in South London is putting her life at risk

In an email to her primary doctor on 13 January, Savannah wrote: “Since 4 January, I have eaten five times in total. These were not full meals and were repeatedly interrupted by retching, heaving, and emesis until intake became impossible. This starvation is not by choice. It has occurred directly as a result of the hospital removing Cyclizine, a medication that is medically necessary for me to tolerate food, fluids, and other essential medications.”

Her Gofundme & details to how funds will be used:

Donate to #SevereMErgency:Save Savannah from dying inside NHS hospital, organized by Sam Pearce

Very Severe ME patient 23 year-old Savannah Victora-May is at … Sam Pearce needs your support for #SevereMErgency:Save Savannah from dying i

Please donate to help Savannah if you can, and spread this if you can’t. I can’t think of a more blatant example of medical racism and sexism in the UK than this.

[foreverpunk69]

Physique, Olympia 

[northstarsports]

I'm really gonna need people who claim to care about gender inclusion on sports to stop saying "trans people" or "trans kids" when they mean trans women and girls.

[northstarsports]

Just for example before anyone gets annoying about this:

These are direct from the WKF (world karate federation) "Transgender Rules" document.

Here are there requirements for trans men to compete in men's divisions:

Obviously annoying but basically they're asking for a doctor's note that says go for it and that's it.

In contrast, these are the rules for trans women:

(yes it spans 2 pages) They are demanding that any trans woman who ever wants to compete at any level have transitioned hormonally before the age of TWELVE. They're looking for invasive information about someone's puberty stages (which if any girl was able to transition that young, what are the odds she can prove it??). They require regular testosterone testing and require you to be at a level under that of some cis women FOR YOUR ENTIRE LIFE. This policy clearly is designed to make sure that trans women will never be able to compete in women's divisions; these standards are simply unrealistic and absurd. And I didn't even include all the rhetorical justifications earlier in the document about all the biological advantages "males" supposedly have.

By the way, this doesn't only apply to the sparring competition (which is "skin contact" not full contact fighting), but also to the kata (forms) competition which is entirely non-contact and truly has no need to be gender divided in the first place. And this isn't even a professional league—it's all amateur except for an handful of people with sponsorships. It's not even an Olympic sport except for once in 2021.

If you truly cannot see a disparity here or you feel like justifying this in any possible way then you are not an ally to trans women and you don't actually believe in gender inclusive sports. This is what structural transmisogyny looks like, and this is why we need to be fighting specifically for trans women and girls and not just "trans people" generally.

[queerwelsh]

Bisexuality pages from ‘Freaky Queer,’ a punk, anti-war, working queer zine published in Cardiff in 1992. Transcript below.

Sources (that they used in these pages of the zine):

Off Pink Publishing, Bisexual Lives, London, 1988.

Lorraine Hutchins & Lani Ka’ahumanu ed. Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out, Alyson Publications, USA, 1991.

This whole copy of ‘Freaky Queer’ is available to read here.

Keep reading

[my-deer-friend]

Yes.

(QZAP is the Queer Zine Archive Project - check out their digitised archive!)

[theinternetarchive]

'leather lesbians with a punk look at the sydney gay and lesbian mardi gras,' by photographer c. moore hardy, 1995.

[vioyume]

Queer Zine Archival Project (QZAP)

With all the chaos that is currently happening in the US (I'm not American), I feel that it's important to not lose hope in what we are still fighting for and to continue to express our experiences and desires when it comes to being/supporting the LGBTQ+ as a whole.

Because unfortunately, America has a very strong influence on the rest of the world.

The very least I can do is share and encourage going through the QZAP website since zines played a major role within LGBTQ history. The website has very much helped me learn the experiences of what people have been going at that time, and I believe much of it can be applied now.

But I also encourage people to create zines of their own so that we continue to stay strong remind others that our existence will not be going away.

Link to Archive

What's a Zine and how to make one?

Look through this post to find out

It also inspired me to share the archives.

Want to Donate a Zine?

Fill out this form.

Other LGBTQ+ Archives:

Assorted Early Zines by Houston LGBT History

Lesbian Herstory Archive

Digital Transgender Archive

Gale: Gender and Sexuality Research Archive

Queer.archive.work

Queer Music Heritage

Anchor Archive (They have more than lgbtq+ topics)

Queer Zine Library

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Strong Boys // Pink Death

Try pick when we die and we have no choice Even in death the church owns our rights Pink death, pink death Pink death, pink fucking death

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STRONG BOYS