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[deletia-distro]

Against Gender, Against Society  (This is What a Feminist Looks Like) 

“Social war is the conflict that spans all society, social war is the struggle against society; that is to say all existing social relations. The self-destructive tendency within society, so-called ‘anti-social behavior’, the desire to command and to obey, acts of rebellion and acts of reinforcement, the riot and the return to work, these are the attacks and counter-attacks in this war. Social war is the battles between those who wish to destroy society and those maintaining it. Chaos against control. Nothingness and potential against everything and the existent. Everything that holds society together insulates us from each other; each blow to domination and control is a step closer to each other, a step away from our imposed identities, our alienation and toward infinite possibility. Because society is everywhere, the only way to escape is to win the social war; to destroy society. Gender is one of the fronts on which the social war is fought.”

A zine from ninjabikeslut, negatecity, and CTRL+Z Press on gender nihilism and social war.

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[janet-o-dad]

examples of unpaid emotional-sexual labor

HEY BABY CN I GET A SMILE? 

HEY BABY WHY YOU MAD?

HEY BABY YOU BEAUTIFUL, CAN U LOOK OVER HERE

I've read articles where they call this kind of street harassment/vying for attention "unpaid emotional labor" where scum attempt to regulate the emotions of women and not-men, where the object is to make these people smile as a means to exploitative (i.e. noncontact) sexual pleasure and the disavowal of empathy which seems pretty commonplace in the society of cis het scum. But to me captured in this moment of "smile baby!" is more essentially a _sacrifice of emotional labor_, where all labor occurs in exchange for something else; a sacrifice of my feelings to the altar of someone else's sex power, my feeling-okay handed over for your good time, my existence for your service, my day for your proprietary look. 

[janet-o-dad]

still v much jamming on Undoing Sex: Against Sexual Optimism by negatecity

This is not to say that humans, as animals prior to any development of culture, did not engage in behaviors now recognized as “sex”, but rather their discursive meaning and all the material practices constituting them are historically produced. In the same manner, humans have always acted and created, but it is only in capitalist development, in the processes that alienated and proletarianized us, that this becomes secured as “labor.” What drives us towards having sex, in the here and now, is something determined by the flows of power and economic structures that produce us as “women,” “men,” “trans,” “straight,” etc. If thousands of years ago there was a pre-gendered mode of pleasure, embodiment, and usage of genitalia, it is irretrievably lost to us. The radical contact that lesbian feminists such as Janice Raymond hoped for is endlessly absent. There is no presence of another's Self, no opportunity for the truly intersubjective. Only an endless field of touch, affect, craving, survival, and power relations, produced and mediated by our material conditions.

**only** an endless field of touch...

thanks, c.e., for writing this. here

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I finally did it.

I turned my hashtags into a bad form of e-slam poetry.

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You can't ruin it if I already did a bad job in the first place.

- NegateCity

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