faq’s first public event was organised on the 7th of January 2015. It can be rewatched here.
“Queering Anarchism: Straightness Must Be Destroyed”
a discussion with Saffo Papantonopoulou
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[…] the title is provocative on purpose. I do want
it to be unsettling. I want it to be unsettling for straight people.
When I was writing it I sort of had a mixed image of who my imagined
audience would be. The point of the whole book was, to be a kind of a
beginner’s guide to intersection between queerness and anarchism. So I
imagined a common audience, not a theoretically abstract one. An
audience who are new to queerness, new to anarchism. The point of the
essay unfolded in the process of writing it. Basically I wanted to get
away from all that “oh, some people are gay and some people are
straight, and some people are trans or bisexual” and everyone has their
own sort of self-identification. This is a neo-liberal
approach. “Some people like Coke, and some people like Pepsi”. We
rather think about sexuality and gender as some systems that have a
history that’s political. We don’t just have our sexualities, we are
part of a historical process. Part of the idea that straightness is a
system, is that I am not talking about identification, I am talking
about a larger system that we need to think about… We have different
words for it, we call it heteronormativity, patriarchy, cis-sexism.
These are all different manifestations of this larger thing. We can call
it straightness, we can call it heteropatriarchy, we can call it
transphobia. All of these things that manifest themselves in different
ways. So, a cis person, who is gay, who is transphobic, that’s also a
form of straightness