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Bash Back! Ultraviolência queer
“Bash”, verbo inglês cuja tradução pode ser: bater com força ou criticar severamente. “Back”, advérbio da mesma língua, pode ser traduzido como: de volta, devolver. A expressão ‘bash back’ afirma um revide; exclamativo como um berro, um rosnado que antecede o ataque. No final da primeira década dos anos 2000, Bash Back! foi o nome usado por queers anarquistas para nomear uma proposta de propagação de práticas libertárias e ações diretas, pela expansão de uma rede anti-hierárquica de levantes descentralizados, compostos por táticas múltiplas de antiopressão e antiassimilação.
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December 24, 2021
Estava com esse livrinho desde a Black friday do ano passado, uma das razões que demorei para lê-lo foram as frustrantes letrinhas com que foi impresso, acho que quiseram preservar uma estética diminuta quase de bolso e foderam com a edição toda, dei conta de lê-lo por 1/3, depois procurei um pdf e transformei em epub para ler com letras de tamanho decente. Mancada demais imprimirem um livro que fica cansativo pra ler, assim não tem papel que resista ao ebook.
Enfim, o conteúdo vale a pena demais, representa o anarquismo queer americano da virada da última década, como bem faz um apanhado geral do anarcoqueer através da história (é mais antigo do que você supõe), além de exemplificar estratégias de luta e a essência queer contra o assimilacionismo burguês e heteronormativo.
Altamente recomendável, mas prefira epub ou mobi.
Enfim, o conteúdo vale a pena demais, representa o anarquismo queer americano da virada da última década, como bem faz um apanhado geral do anarcoqueer através da história (é mais antigo do que você supõe), além de exemplificar estratégias de luta e a essência queer contra o assimilacionismo burguês e heteronormativo.
Altamente recomendável, mas prefira epub ou mobi.
July 14, 2021
opinião de tradutora vale? Foi muito legal reler uma tradução que moveu muita forças, conversas, corpos, tretas & alianças. Um pouco de faísca e porrada pra lembrar todo dia que o conforto do assimilacionismo (de qualquer ordem) não vale a pena.
May 14, 2012
I knew relatively little about Bash Back! before reading this book, it was just something I heard about from those who were apart of it. Before reading this, I only knew about one particular action (mount hope) and a vague description of others (as confrontational and ridiculous), I also only read one essay ("Toward the Queerest Insurrection") and heard excerpts from two others ("Preliminary Notes On Modes Of Reproduction" and "How It To Be Done In The Ass"). So when I head about this Anthology being worked on I was exited, as Bash Back! seemed really interesting, and I was then eager to learn more about it. It was really interesting and fun to read all the included communiques and Theory/Essays that were included within this book. They really helped me to understand the various actions, Ideas, and conflicts that took place in and around Bash Back!
over all really sexy stuff, and of course (in agreement with the only other review of this book so far) Up the militant Queer Hooligans!
over all really sexy stuff, and of course (in agreement with the only other review of this book so far) Up the militant Queer Hooligans!
June 8, 2025
muy interesante
October 5, 2021
Adorei o livro e suas provocações. Um compilado de textos insurrecionais que provoca muitas reflexões. Conhecer a rede Bash Back! é fundamental para qualquer pessoa que queira conhecer formas de quebrar o cistema. No sentido da Bash Back!, porém, é necessário passar pela desidentificação com as estruturas que alicerçam esse cistema, inclusive as políticas de identidade. Eu estou pronta e você? Afinal, queerizar é verbo de ação!
November 13, 2012
A lire absolument!
June 7, 2018
Reads extremely fast, you'll laugh, you'll get angry. A fantastically angry queer rush from start to end
June 8, 2024
an excellent collection of texts, that even though they are already from ten years ago, permeate a really strong zeitgeist of queer resistance against oppression. included also is self-abolition of the queer identity — the recuperation of our complex existence into marketable and academic categories. while you can take or leave particular writings, this is absolutely a must read.
a refreshingly witty and fabulous collection. Bash Back! as a network, and this collection both served as essential in breaking through the still-present psychology of victimization pushed by liberalism. a needed intervention in the Queer ecosystem. not for the tenderqueer faint of heart. (and, most curious after a revitalization of Bash Back! as of 2023)
“Those who keep up with academic queer theory will surely be aware of the self-described “anti-social turn” in Queer Theory. It seems that the newest trend within the queer academy is to focus on the queer negativity, to critique society, and to refuse traditional politics. At a time when society itself is falling apart, when unprecedented amounts of human beings are recognizing that they have NO FUTURE and are proceeding accordingly, we must call this academic trend by its name: recuperation.
Some idiot tries basing his thesis on the queer riots at the G20; Judith Butler delivers a speech at a conference at the New School about “queer anarchism”; Jack Halberstam seeks to valorize the negative and trace the anti-social turn; a class at the University of California is called ”criminal queer” (yet the instructor denounces the activity of insurrectionaries on that very campus)—one after another queer academics line up to jump on the negativity bandwagon. Each appropriates the activity of insurgents toward the ends of strengthening their own careers. They take anti-social activity and use it to reproduce the Academy as a central engine of society itself. This is the ultimate treason. In theorizing about the activity of Bash Back! it is my ambition to demonstrate real queer assaults upon the social order. In doing so, this collection should clearly expose those for whom negativity and revolt are mere matters of image.
Queer insurrection demands that each of us become a theoretician. More importantly, it demands that the anti-social turn, the turn against society, remains in the streets. Our revolt and our theory must be inseparable from our daily life. Toward this end, Bash Back! can be read as an attempt to expropriate queer theory from the Academy and put it toward the service of queer revolt; to dynamite the distinction between theory and life. For the sake of organizing this book, we split the texts between essays and communiques. To a large extent this is a false dichotomy that doesn't accurately describe the activity of Bash Back!, which never recognized a distinction between its theorists and its combatants. Rather, it sought to queer this distinction and offer a praxis wherein theory is embodied in the very activity of those who theorize. A book that declares NO FUTURE offers only words. A riot that declares the same demonstrates a step toward insurrection.
Death to the Academy!”
a refreshingly witty and fabulous collection. Bash Back! as a network, and this collection both served as essential in breaking through the still-present psychology of victimization pushed by liberalism. a needed intervention in the Queer ecosystem. not for the tenderqueer faint of heart. (and, most curious after a revitalization of Bash Back! as of 2023)
“Those who keep up with academic queer theory will surely be aware of the self-described “anti-social turn” in Queer Theory. It seems that the newest trend within the queer academy is to focus on the queer negativity, to critique society, and to refuse traditional politics. At a time when society itself is falling apart, when unprecedented amounts of human beings are recognizing that they have NO FUTURE and are proceeding accordingly, we must call this academic trend by its name: recuperation.
Some idiot tries basing his thesis on the queer riots at the G20; Judith Butler delivers a speech at a conference at the New School about “queer anarchism”; Jack Halberstam seeks to valorize the negative and trace the anti-social turn; a class at the University of California is called ”criminal queer” (yet the instructor denounces the activity of insurrectionaries on that very campus)—one after another queer academics line up to jump on the negativity bandwagon. Each appropriates the activity of insurgents toward the ends of strengthening their own careers. They take anti-social activity and use it to reproduce the Academy as a central engine of society itself. This is the ultimate treason. In theorizing about the activity of Bash Back! it is my ambition to demonstrate real queer assaults upon the social order. In doing so, this collection should clearly expose those for whom negativity and revolt are mere matters of image.
Queer insurrection demands that each of us become a theoretician. More importantly, it demands that the anti-social turn, the turn against society, remains in the streets. Our revolt and our theory must be inseparable from our daily life. Toward this end, Bash Back! can be read as an attempt to expropriate queer theory from the Academy and put it toward the service of queer revolt; to dynamite the distinction between theory and life. For the sake of organizing this book, we split the texts between essays and communiques. To a large extent this is a false dichotomy that doesn't accurately describe the activity of Bash Back!, which never recognized a distinction between its theorists and its combatants. Rather, it sought to queer this distinction and offer a praxis wherein theory is embodied in the very activity of those who theorize. A book that declares NO FUTURE offers only words. A riot that declares the same demonstrates a step toward insurrection.
Death to the Academy!”
March 28, 2024
C'était assez cool mais ça se limite vraiment au titre et vaut mieux être à l'aise avec l'insurrectionalisme et la théorie féministe radicale pour pouvoir comprendre correctement les textes
Y'a des critiques intéressantes mais souvent ça tombe trop court du fait qu'il y'ait pas assez de recherches sur les choses critiquées, mais c'est compensé en prenant les choses très second degré et sympa
Y'a des critiques intéressantes mais souvent ça tombe trop court du fait qu'il y'ait pas assez de recherches sur les choses critiquées, mais c'est compensé en prenant les choses très second degré et sympa
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August 12, 2022Some really valuable essays, worth the read but my gods, the introduction is meaningless pedagogical garbage for the sake of pedagogical garbage.
"... With the revolution complete and the black flag burned, the category of queer must to be destroyed..."
What?
"... With the revolution complete and the black flag burned, the category of queer must to be destroyed..."
What?
July 14, 2021
a collection of work completely of its time - and one which informs current struggles and serves as a call to action.
April 11, 2022
So good!
December 4, 2025
Faut le lire vraiment, pour sa culture queer et pour pas désespérer.
February 27, 2025
Important documentation of queer antagonistic vengeance
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June 10, 2025Seamos explícitos: Somos criminales queer y anarquistas, y este mundo no es suficiente para nosotrxs y nunca lo será. Queremos aniquilar la moralidad burguesa y dejar este mundo en ruinas. Estamos aquí para destruir lo que nos esta destruyendo.
January 30, 2014
It's been two years since this book was released, and I'm only now getting around to reading it. (The honest reason is that I never wanted to ruin the spine on my own copy and have finally borrowed a friends'.)
I remember the hype when the pieces in this book were first published (mostly online), but at this point in time a lot of it seems like History. And while it may be an exciting history that allows some of us to reminisce, it speaks of a scene that I no longer see around me.
Anyhow, this is good stuff and still had me amped at some points, but also pushes me closer to despair when considering the lack of this sort of action now. I am always more interested in the attack than the orgy, and QUV definitely puts the focus on the insurrection, even if it is–pardon the pun–bound together with the sex.
I remember the hype when the pieces in this book were first published (mostly online), but at this point in time a lot of it seems like History. And while it may be an exciting history that allows some of us to reminisce, it speaks of a scene that I no longer see around me.
Anyhow, this is good stuff and still had me amped at some points, but also pushes me closer to despair when considering the lack of this sort of action now. I am always more interested in the attack than the orgy, and QUV definitely puts the focus on the insurrection, even if it is–pardon the pun–bound together with the sex.
August 3, 2016
4.5 stars. An important and informative historical document- showing the on the ground details of strategy, tactics, and ultimately internal conflict thru the "rise and fall" of an insurrectionary network/tendency/gang/whatever...
a super inspiring, very entertaining read...
highlights for me were the communique "in support of autonomous animal action; call for trans-species solidarity with tillikum", the section by gender mutiny, and the conclusion "bash back! is dead; bash back forever!"
great book, well organized and laid out...absolutely fabulous
a super inspiring, very entertaining read...
highlights for me were the communique "in support of autonomous animal action; call for trans-species solidarity with tillikum", the section by gender mutiny, and the conclusion "bash back! is dead; bash back forever!"
great book, well organized and laid out...absolutely fabulous
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November 3, 2016Once upon a time I was in a socialist group marching on Harvey Milk Day, and Bash Back! showed up, and I thought they were a joke. Now I realize Bash Back! was Doin It Right and the socialists were the joke. This was a good book too, FWIW.
December 21, 2021
je ne veux plus entendre le mot "queer"...
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