{"id":2717,"date":"2014-07-02T13:00:37","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T11:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/?p=2717"},"modified":"2014-07-02T13:00:37","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T11:00:37","slug":"assimilation-vs-liberation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/?p=2717","title":{"rendered":"assimilation vs liberation"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Assimilationists want nothing less than to construct the homosexual as normal – white, monogamous, wealthy, 2.5 children, SUVs with a white picket fence. This construction, of course, reproduces the stability of heterosexuality, whiteness, patriarchy, the gender binary, and capitalism itself. If we genuinely want to make ruins of this totality, we need to make a break. We don\u2019t need inclusion into marriage, the military, and the state. We need to end them. No more gay politicians, CEOs, and cops. We need to swiftly and immediately articulate a wide gulf between the politics of assimilation and the struggle for liberation. We need to rediscover our riotous inheritance as queer anarchists. We need to destroy constructions of normalcy, and create instead a position based in our alienation from this normalcy, and one capable of dismantling it.”
\n\u2014 Toward The Queerest Insurrection, via Son of Baldwin<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“\u2028Gay Pride\u2122 is subordination to the State and Empire.
\nGay Pride\u2122 is homage to capitalism, patriarchy, and white supremacy.
\nGay Pride\u2122 is co-optation of queer radicalism by liberals, Democrats, academics, hipsters, and NGOs.
\nGay Pride\u2122 is the eradication of trans bodies and narratives, and queer militancies.
\nGay Pride\u2122 is gala events for the elite.
\nGay Pride\u2122 is walking past homeless queer youth.
\nGay Pride\u2122 is assimilation into straight society.
\nGay Pride\u2122 is corporate.
\nGay Pride\u2122 is destruction of queer histories of mutual-aid, resistance, shame, promiscuity, creativity, humor, love, community, brutality, poverty, and disease.
\nGay Pride\u2122 is “we’re just like you”.
\nGay Pride\u2122 is safe, privileged, accommodationist, vanilla, temporary, and very boring.
\nGay Pride\u2122 is to ignore trans women of color being beat by police and murdered by street bigots.
\nGay Pride\u2122 is to achieve equality and sameness, to settle and be conditional, to compromise. Nothing more. Always less.
\nGay Pride\u2122 is forgetting about those affected by HIV\/AIDS.
\nGay Pride\u2122 is “straight-acting”, “masc only”, “promise I’m not that gay tho”, “sry no effeminate guys”, “not into Asians”, “prefer white guys”, “no fatties or trannies”.
\nGay Pride\u2122 is gender binary.
\nGay Pride\u2122 is on the sidewalk, obeying the police when they say the party is over.
\nGay Pride\u2122 is neglecting all of the queer and trans prisoners held captive by the State.
\nGay Pride\u2122 is marriage and military.
\nGay Pride\u2122 is poor people of color being pushed out of their neighborhoods by a white gay gentry.
\nGay Pride\u2122 is refusing to avenge religious fundamentalists who cause young queers to commit suicide.
\nGay Pride\u2122 is \u201cthings aren\u2019t that bad in Russia.\u201d
\nGay Pride\u2122 is being able to participate in the military-industrial complex, kill and rape people in other countries in the name of “freedom”, yet be fired from a minimum wage job in the US because of your sexuality and\/or gender identity.
\nGay Pride\u2122 is giving a shit about corporate media and entertainment.
\nGay Pride\u2122 is pretending electoral politics will bring about social change.
\nGay Pride\u2122 is a rearranging of the existing social order only to accommodate a few, as opposed to collective liberation and dismantling of oppressive systems.
\nGay Pride\u2122 is nationalism.
\nGay Pride\u2122 is to water down and tranquilize – to make “normal”.
\nGay Pride\u2122 is men and women who arm themselves to kill people who are deemed criminals, deviants, and terrorists by the State.
\nGay Pride\u2122 is business casual or muscle tees.
\nGay Pride\u2122 is the invisibilization of people of color.
\nGay Pride\u2122 is to dismiss queer Palestinians being murdered by the Israeli apartheid state.
\nGay Pride\u2122 is gay men being misogynist pigs and committing verbal, physical, and sexual violence against women and it being “okay” since they’re gay.
\nGay Pride\u2122 is obscuring histories of Western colonialism and silencing Indigenous voices.
\nGay Pride\u2122 is “speak English or go back to your country”.
\nGay Pride\u2122 is a mythology and an opiate.”
\nWILLIAMLUKAS<\/a>: “GAY PRIDE\u2122 IS \/\/\/ JUN 2014”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Assimilationists want nothing less than to construct the homosexual as normal – white, monogamous, wealthy, 2.5 children, SUVs with a white picket fence. This construction, of course, reproduces the stability of heterosexuality, whiteness, patriarchy, the gender binary, and capitalism itself. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,9,22,41,43,35,27,8,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-racism","category-critica-sociala","category-economic-justice","category-english","category-identity","category-intersectionalities","category-lgbtqi","category-links","category-sexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2717"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2723,"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2717\/revisions\/2723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}