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Reading: Queering Anarchism
Edited by: C.B. Daring, J. Rogue, Deric Shannon, Abbey VolcanoSections Covered:
* “Police at the Borders by Abbey Volcano
* Gender Sabotage by Stacy aka Sallydarity
* Link to full text: Queering Anarchism
This week, we covered two of the most foundational texts in queer anarchist theory. Together, they form a blueprint for dismantling all social structure—not just the state or capitalism, but identity, gender, sexuality, and even the self.
Abbey Volcano’s Police at the Borders critiques how radical queer spaces construct new hierarchies under the illusion of liberation, replacing the old order with a new one governed by aesthetic rebellion and behavioral conformity. Meanwhile, Stacy’s Gender Sabotage takes it further, arguing that gender itself is a colonial, capitalist technology that must be abolished in its entirety—not expanded, not diversified, but destroyed.
These essays aren’t about inclusion. They’re about obliteration. This is the ideological core of the queer Marxist project.
🧠 Key Concepts
🔹 Police at the Borders – Abbey Volcano
* Queer as Hierarchy: Radical queer spaces often enforce a new orthodoxy—polyamory, kink, gender fluidity—as the price of admission. Anyone too monogamous, too binary, or too private becomes suspect.
* Oppression Olympics: Power is redistributed by victim status. “The most marginalized in the room” becomes the unquestioned authority, and disagreement is framed as violence.
* Inverted Policing: Rather than abolish the moral order, they reverse it. “Queer” becomes a gatekeeping identity—and those who fail to perform it correctly are policed just as harshly as they were by the systems they left behind.
* Queer as Context, Not Essence: Volcano pushes back on using “queer” as a fixed label. Instead, it should describe a relationship to power and normativity—not a new static identity enforced from the margins.
🔹 Gender Sabotage – Stacy aka Sallydarity
* Gender as Colonial Tool: The gender binary was constructed through capitalism and colonialism to control labor, family structure, and sexuality. The witch hunts, Christian morality, and racial slavery all played a role in producing “woman” as a subordinate class.
* Masculinity as Training for Violence: Patriarchy doesn’t just exploit women—it programs men. From boyhood, they’re taught to dominate, suppress emotion, and weaponize rage. But Stacy argues this training can be undone.
* Feminism Must Abolish Gender: Identity is a false refuge. The goal isn’t to expand gender categories—it’s to dismantle the binary altogether. Gender stratum (the hierarchical division of sex roles) must be destroyed, not diversified.
* Intersectional Coercion: Gender oppression is inextricably tied to race, class, and colonization. The political construction of difference is what naturalizes domination—and it must be unraveled systemically.
⚠️ Significance
These essays form the intellectual infrastructure behind:
* Abolish-the-family rhetoric
* Radical queer pedagogy in schools
* Normalization of public sex, polyamory, and sex work as political acts
* The rise of “queer” as a performative litmus test
* The rejection of biological sex in favor of infinite identities
This isn’t about protecting the marginalized. It’s about eliminating the concept of normal—and punishing anyone who insists on boundaries, privacy, or tradition.
Volcano and Stacy aren’t fringe voices. They’re canonical in the spaces where these ideas are taught, trained, and exported into policy, education, and activism.
💬 Selected Quotes
“We’re anarchists because we want to get rid of cops—not be them.”— Abbey Volcano
“We are imprisoned by a gender binary… If we don’t behave appropriately, there are plenty of prison guards to put us in our place.”— Stacy aka Sallydarity
“If the ‘opposite’ is liberating, then we are still being defined by the original form.”— Abbey Volcano
“The witch hunts, which involved the torture and murder of hundreds of thousands of women, occurred in conjunction with the transition to capitalism and the colonization of the Americas.”— Stacy aka Sallydarity
🎯 Why It Matters
If you want to understand the real goals of queer Marxist movements, read these essays. The project isn’t to be accepted into society—it’s to dismantle society itself.
This ideology doesn’t liberate—it reorganizes control through cultural coercion, moral shaming, and identity-based hierarchy.
They aren’t abolishing borders. They’re policing them differently.
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