Hello from Paris!
One more day and we’re liberated from Trump, if not Trumpism!
This week, instead of writing a newsletter, I’ve been doing some of the final work on the new edition of the Lesbian Avenger Handbook. In the process, I ran across a version of the first flyer handed out to recruit Avengers in 1992.
In some ways, it seems even more radical today. Because even though many of us still strike our radical anti-capitalist, anti-racist poses, as dykes we’ve largely embraced it all, the Government, Media, Entertainment, The Money System with our nonprofits and grant-seeking, School with the theories it imposes non-consensually on our lives, Religion whose practitioners we’re supposed to respect even when they don’t respect us, and Politeness… Politeness above all. That fucking gag, that strangling, silencing noose around our irrelevant dyke necks.
My god, we’re still wasting our lives being careful. (I am, anyway.)
“Imagine what your life could be. Aren’t you ready to make it happen?”
Sincerely
& enragedly yours,
Kali Gogswell