Infoshop.io: Relationships

Accounting for Ourselves - Breaking the Impasse Around Assault and Abuse in Anarchist Scenes

Sexual assault and abuse continue to plague anarchist scenes. This essay examines the context in which community accountability models emerged and analyzes the pitfalls we’ve encountered in trying to apply them. To move beyond the impasse around sexual violence within our scenes, we’ll need to challenge the idea of community itself and take our resistance in new directions.

Topics: anarchism, relationships
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: CrimethInc
Sources: http://www.crimethinc.com/

Anarchy and Alcohol

Addiction culture and strategies for sobriety

Topics: anarchism, health, relationships
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: CrimethInc
Sources: http://crimethinc.com/

Aorta Anti-Oppressive Meeting Facilitation

Ineficient and ineffective meetings can leave people feeling drained, exhausted or discouraged, rather than inspired and energized. Good meetings help build strong, effective organizations and successful projects. Here are some foundational tips and suggestions that can have big impacts on your meetings!

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, relationships
Authors: Esteban Kelly, Jenna Peters-Golden, Kiran Nigam, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, Tyrone Boucher
Publisher: Aorta Collective
Date: Spring 2014
Sources: http://aortacolletive.org/

As If They Were Human - A Different Take on Perpetrator Accountability

The mainstream portrays perpetrators as hopeless cases, who care about nothing in life other than power and control. While it is certainly clear that those who sexually assault, abuse, or rape others do care quite a bit about power and control, it is disingenuous to declare that those are the only things they care about.

Topics: anarchism, history, relationships
Authors: Tod Augusta-Scott

Ask First - Resources for Supporters, Survivors, and Perpetrators of Sexual Assault

This zine is a guide to assisting others with issues surrounding domestic violence and sexual assault towards the liberation of all people.

Topics: anarchism, consent, relationships
Authors: Cheyenne

Betrayal

A Critical Analysis of Rape Culture in Anarchist Subcultures

Topics: anarchism, relationships
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: Words to Fire Press

Bound to Struggle

Where Kink and Radical Politics Meet

Topics: consent, relationships
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: Strikeback
Date: 2003
Sources: http://zinelibrary.net/

Collective Process - Overcoming Power

This is a handbook on group process for egalitarian collectives. Its focus is on the often unrecognized negative dynamice that can occur when people try to work collectively.

Topics: direct-action, relationships
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: The Common Wheel Collective

Fetishizing Process

An essay on consensus processes and how they might be improved.

Topics: anarchism, relationships, theory
Authors: Mark Lance
Publisher: Institute for Anarchist Studies
Date: Summer, 2005

How to Put Together Your Own Participatory, Community-Specific, Radical Consent Workshop

Topics: consent, health, relationships
Authors: Anonymous
Date: 2010

Infinite Relationships

Perspectives on polyamory and other forms of non-monogamous relatinoships

Topics: health, relationships
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: Entarchy Distro
Date: 2010
Sources: http://myspace.com/entarchy/

Learning Good Consent

Topics: anarchism, consent, health, introduction, relationships
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: Riotgrrr Press

Liberating Ourselves in the Boudoir

An anarchist-feminist perspective against BDSM

Topics: anarchism, consent, relationships
Authors: Usul of the Blackfoot
Date: 2009

Organizations versus Getting Shit Done

It's one thing to 'organize,' it's another to form an organization. For over a decade, post-leftists have criticized the organization in unflinching terms. The response has been muted. Everyone knows organizations are problematic, but nowhere are the terms clear. In this essay, William Gillis breaks down the often unspoken utility of organizations, their inherent nature, as well as their dangers and limitations.

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, introduction, relationships
Authors: William Gillis

Organizing Social Spaces as if Social Relations Matter

Topics: anarchism, health, introduction, relationships, sustainability
Authors: Cindy Milstein

Prescription for Change

Community Response to Substance Use

Topics: anarchism, health, relationships
Authors: Anonymous

Privilege, Oppression, and Resistance

A chart summarizing the relationships between a variety of types of privilege

Topics: anarchism, capitalism, class, feminism, gender, indigenous, lgbtiq, parenting, posters, privilege, race, relationships
Authors: Anonymous

Redefining our Relationships

Guidelines for Responsible Open Relationships

Topics: relationships
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: Untorelli Press

Remaining Connected through Using Consent

Topics: anarchism, consent, relationships
Authors: Carey French
Date: 2016

Strategies for Survivors

This zine is about setting goals for what you’d like to accomplish and what healing could look like in your life or in your community. Here are some things we’ve learned from our experiences supporting survivors, communities, and each other in dealing with sexual assault.

Topics: anarchism, health, relationships
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: Philly Survivor Support Collective
Date: 2013

Subversive Submissive

Issue 1

Topics: anarchism, periodicals, relationships
Authors: Anonymous
Date: 2009
Sources: http://subversivesub.wordpress.com/

Supporting a Survivor of Sexual Assault

Topics: consent, health, relationships
Authors: Men Against Rape Culture, Ubuntu

Taking the First Step

Suggestions to people called out for abusive behavior

Topics: anarchism, consent, feminism, relationships
Authors: Wispy Cockles

Ten Theses on the Proliferation of Egocrats

The Egocrat — Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Kim Ii Sung — is not an accident or an aberration or an irruption of irrationality; he is a personi cation of the relations of the existing social order.

Topics: anarchism, class, relationships, relationships
Authors: Freddy Perlman
Publisher: Some Delinquints
Date: 1977

The Revolution Starts at Home

Confronting partner abuse in activist communities

Topics: consent, introduction, privilege, relationships
Authors: Alisa Bierria, Ana Lara, Anida Ali, Bran Fenner, BrokenBeautiful Press, Ching-In Chen, Eboni Colbert, Emily Stern, Gina de Vries, Jai Dulani, Jill Aguado, Karen Lee Asherah, Kay Barrett, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarahinha, Onion Carrillo, Peggy Munson, Sarwat Rumi, Shale Moulana, The Northwest Network, Theryn Kignamasud'Vashti, Timothy Colman, Vanessa Huang, Xandra Ibarra, Ziggy Ponting
Editors: Ching-in Chen, Dulani, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarahinha
Publisher: Communities Atainst Rape and Abuse
Sources: http://www.cara-seattle.org/

The Voltairine de Cleyre Reader

Born into poverty and plagued by it her entire life, educated by nuns in a convent school, chronically ill, the survivor of a nearly successful assassination attempt, and dead at a tragically early age, Voltairine de Cleyre doesn't seem a likely candidate to become what Paul Avrich called 'a greater literary talent than any other American anarchist.' But de Cleyre was undeniably one of the most important anarchist thinkers in the US or any other country. Greatly admired by her contemporaries for her brilliant writing and tireless schedule of public speaking, her ability to approach the most complex issues with a mixture of common sense, passion, and clarity makes her works as relevant today as they were a century ago.

Topics: anarchism, capitalism, direct-action, feminism, history, relationships
Authors: Criss Crass, Sara Baase, Sharon Presley, Voltairine de Cleyre
Publisher: AK Press
Date: 2004

The Worst

A compilation zine on grief and loss

Topics: health, relationships
Authors: Anonymous

Towards a Less Fucked Up World

Sobriety and Anarchist Struggle

Topics: anarchism, health, relationships
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: Sprout Distro
Date: 2014
Sources: http://www.sproutdistro.com/

Unmarked Categories and the Question of Power

Some anarcha-feminist notes. Much of this text focuses on power, as well as the connecte issue of various forms of constraint on human action, with a particular focus on women.

Topics: anarchism, feminism, gender, lgbtiq, race, relationships
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: ERINYEN anarcha-feminist collective Berlin

Untying the Knot

Feminism, Anarchism, and Organization. The unstructured group has an important role to play in building for change. But at times it can be dominated by informal structures and elites, and it is often prone to internal arguments and insularity. How far, then, should the leaderless principles be taken?

Topics: anarchism, feminism, relationships
Authors: Cathy Levine, Jo Freeman
Publisher: Dark Star Press, Rebel Press
Date: 1984

We Are All Survivors, We Are All Perpetrators

What to do when someone tells you that you violated their boundaries, made them feel uncomfortable, or committed assault

Topics: consent, introduction, relationships
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: Rolling Thunder #1, Philly's Pissed
Sources: http://www.crimethinc.com/, http://www.phillyspissed.net/

What Is Prisoner Support

A collection of original writings from political prisoners on prisoner support and solidarity

Topics: anarchism, prisons, relationships
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: No More Locked Doors
Date: 2015
Sources: http://nomorelockeddoors.org/