
"Some will read 'queer' as synonymous with 'gay and lesbian' or 'LGBT'. This reading falls short. While those who would fit within the constructions of 'L', 'G', 'B' or 'T' could fall within the discursive limits of queer, queer is not a stable area to inhabit. Queer is not merely another identity that can be tacked onto a list of neat social categories, nor the quantitative sum of our identities. Rather, it is the qualitative position of opposition to presentations of stability - an identity that problematizes the manageable limits of identity. Queer is a territory of tension, defined against the dominant narrative of white-hetero-monogamous-patriarchy, but also an affinity with all who are marginalized, otherized, and oppressed. Queer is the abnormal, the strange, the dangerous. Queer involves our sexuality and our gender, but so much more. It is our desire and fantasies and more still. Queer is the cohesion of everything in conflict with the heterosexual capitalist world. Queer is the total rejection of the regime of the Normal."
- The first page of Toward The Queerest Insurrection, written by a self-identified "criminal queer" in Milwaukee in 2008.
This zine was pretty popular with anarchist-activists who loved identity issues when it first came out a few years ago even though it was the first stab the infamous Midwest queers took at using the identity of "queer" as a negation of identity. People didn't get it, and even after reading it a dozen times, I think I'm still starting to pick up on stuff I missed the first eleven reads.
Download: http://www.zshare.net/download/790073276e4794f1/

How Is It To Be Done is a Tiqqun piece about... Well, how it is to be done, rather than what is to be done. I guess it's almost written as a poem, which I think is pretty cool.
Download: http://www.zshare.net/download/79007369937e2825/
And the indigenous zines, which I don't have the patience to explain everything about:

Download: http://www.zshare.net/download/790075951618eaf6/

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Download: http://www.zshare.net/download/79007457bec0bd57/
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