Post #2020150

@GLaDTheresCake YMMV on some of these depending on what your mini zine is arguing. IME "community" has become a huge weasel word for me in practice. I still believe it exists because I have experienced it, but never in a "leftist" organizing space. I'm interested in cultivating deep affinity with people--in building relationships where there you can really trust the person on an interpersonal, theoretical, and practical level; I am not satisfied with community building that does not have these aims. I especially hate it when community building is deliberately designed to be as apolitical and defanged of insurrectionary potential as possible, when it's really about building a socially homogenous space where the unspoken imperative is for everyone to all get along, a coercive space where it is impossible for anyone to fully exist as an autonomous individual because protecting the social order of the community takes precedence over everything. Texts below organized in order of relevance and likelihood it'll piss people off... --- "Widening the Bridges: Beyond Consent and Autonomy" by Emmi Bevensee https://web.archive.org/web/20230103131444/https://c4ss.org/content/50557 "Process-Centered Love: Dismantling Capitalist Logic in Our Relationships" by Lee Cicuta https://butchanarchy.noblogs.org/files/2025/11/Cicuta-Lee-Process-Centered-Love.pdf "The 'We' Of A Position" by Wendy Trevino https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/view/ergzhJRgouf7RuWoJQSaNHTx5vKYH4ZaLR-DHFjnhS4/ "Against Self-Sufficiency: The Gift" by Sever https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/sever-against-self-sufficiency-the-gift "No 'End' In Sight: On Cultivating Conflict With a World of Pandemics" by Iggy https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-no-end-in-sight Twitter thread from Revolutionary Feminist Front on the colonial and coercive history of RJ (restorative justice): https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1418738631758417923.html posts by MerriCatherine on abolition, restorative / transformative justice, and revolution https://web.archive.org/web/20220907175138/https://www.docdroid.net/7aARlev/merricatherine-on-abolition-restorative-transformative-justice-and-revolution-pdf "Against Community Building, Towards Friendship" by ziq https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ziq-against-community-building-towards-friendship