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Betrayal
A Critical Analysis of Rape Culture in Anarchist Subcultures

Betrayal: A Critical Analysis of Rape Culture in Anarchist Subcultures analyzes the ways in which rape takes place, is talked about, and is dealt with in anarchist subcultures. It looks at how anarchists often seek to “silence” discussion of rape by limiting it and/or preventing it and how those who do take the risk to talk about rape are often attacked and ostracized. There is also a critique of “accountability processes” and how they are often applied. Betrayal is a very critical zine to be sure, but it offers a lot for those who wish to move in new directions.

This proposal for security culture is based on reframing: on shifting our focus from fear to confidence, from risk aversion to courage, from isolation to connection, and from suspicion to trust.

Against Innocence
Race, Gender, & the Politics of Safety

In this article (originally published in LIES: A Journal of Materialist Feminism), Jackie Wang explores the ways in which the politics of innocence serves to limit social struggle. Particularly as it relates to police murders of black people, that one have the identity of an “innocent victim” is often assumed as pre-condition for resistance. People who are killed by police but who don’t fit this role, are often ignored by liberal organizations and the public at large. But such appeals – which are often aimed at white populations or that embody whiteness – serve to reinforce a framework in which revolutionary and insurgent politics are unimaginable.

The Revolution Starts at Home
Confronting Partner Abuse in Activist Communities

“I am not proposing that sexual violence and domestic violence will no longer exist. I am proposing that we create a world where so many people are walking around with the skills and knowledge to support someone that there is no longer a need for anonymous hotlines.

I am proposing that we break through the shame of survivors (a result of rape culture) and the victim-blaming ideology of all of us (also a result of rape culture), so that survivors can gain support from the people already in their lives. I am proposing that we create a society where community members care enough to hold an abuser accountable so that a survivor does not have to flee their home. I am proposing that all of the folks that have been disappointed by systems work together to create alternative systems. I am proposing that we organize.”

Rebecca Farr, CARA member

Why Misogynists Make Great Informants
How Gender Violence on the Left Enables State Violence in Radical Movements

The state has already understood a fact that the Left has struggled to accept: misogynists make great informants.

This zine looks at how unchecked misogyny in political movements/groups/whatever you want to call it creates an environment that is ripe for the recruitment and deployment of informants. Misogynist behavior is disruptive and pushes women and queer folks out of spaces, while constantly dominating the agenda.