convergence

From Journal for the Study of Radicalism by Spencer Beswick

Radical Collectives and Continental Convergences in the 1980s

Gay Anarchists Pursuing Eruption
Gay Anarchists Promoting the Ecstatic
Gay Anarchist Portal Enthusiasts

Calling all anarchist queers, abolitionist faggots, decolonial baddies, nasty dykes, criminal gender deviants, anti-assimilationist sluts, and insurrectionary hookers! Please join us in so-called Portland, Oregon for a weekend of action, discussions, action, orgies, parties, conflict, workshops, rupture, filth, and more.

From Saguaros & Sabotage - Counter-Info for the Valley of the Sun

The Southwest stands as both a crucible and a casualty of empire, a scorched frontier where settler colonialism, capitalist extraction, and technological “progress” converge in ritual violence against land and against life. From greenwashed data centers to uranium and copper mines polluting Indigenous lands, the region reflects the on going violence empire relies on in order to survive.

From The Eclipse

The Eclipse Committee Manifesto

Are you not burning with rage beneath this empire’s unsettling sun?

From Earth First! Journal

The Megamachine spreads its devastating skewers in all directions:

towards the ocean floor, other planets, and the last remaining areas of wilderness on Earth. There are many places to take a stand against a suicidal culture which, if not thwarted, will not stop before all known lifeforms have been consumed by runaway technological expansion. Not least of all in the Rhineland, so-called Germany, a European heartland of industry and extractivism.

From Montreal Anarchist Tech Convergence

Technology is a steaming pile of whatever. The salad of transistors, capacitors, and wires that we marinate in for 17.2 minutes before we drink our coffee are the first thing we see each morning, while our subversions of the droppings of surveillance capitalism are the last things burning their images into our retinas before we close our eyes each night. The AI-augmented totality that numbs our senses and optimizes our labour lumbers on, vulnerable but unhindered. Let's not say we never tried.

From Medium by Elisha Moon Williams

“What is Bash Back!?”
“What does it mean to resist oppression?”
“What is our purpose?”
“Is our violence of substance or of image?”

These are questions that have ruptured throughout queer anarchist history since the late 2000s. Bash Back! has been called many different things over the years. If you ask 5 queer anarchists, you’re likely to get 6 different answers. Some have claimed that it is a decentralized network of autonomous queer anarchist cells. Others have considered it a gang, a tendency, or even just a symbol. According to certain folks, they’re all of these things and more.

From Asia Pacific IWA (Facebook link)
June 13, 2023

Comrades from Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Myanmar, Pakistan and Thailand attended the 2nd Asia Pacific IWA Convergence in Jakarta 10/11 June.