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Variations | CTWG

The mildest suggestion of a queer aporia in the gender regime sets off the obsessive policing instinct of its loyal attack dogs. The passion with which these dogs are called to defend the holy gender relation betrays their correct intuition of how fragile this supposed ‘eternal’ ironclad structure really is.
— Read on ctwgwebsite.github.io/blog/2025/Variations/

Drawing on the examples of the Paris Commune and 20th century workers’ councils—’the only new invention of the communist movement in the 20th century’—Bernes distills their successes and failures into a description of communism that is at once abstract and practical
— Read on heatwavemag.info/magazine/issue02/red-may-theses/

Poetry in the face of history: Letter to an Israeli soldier | MadaMasr

Under what conditions could a confrontation between poetry and history yield to the defeat of history? And what is it in poetry that could defeat history? Is it the simple act of bearing witness? The deep, sharp gaze? The pressing quest to embody experience? Or is it the desperate attempt at making meaning? We don’t know. All we know is that we received, read, and translated poetry as the Israeli assault on Gaza, and now in Lebanon next door, rages on.
— Read on www.madamasr.com/en/2024/10/06/feature/politics/poetry-in-the-face-of-history-letter-to-an-israeli-soldier/