Anarcha queer day of the Zagreb Anarchist Bookfair

Friday, 13 September

Anarcha queer day of the Zagreb Anarchist Bookfair

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https://squ.at/r/ak93

Vrrrane in collaboration with the Zagreb Anarchist Bookfair collective are organizing a day 0 of the official bookfair as a forum to address specifically anarcha-queer topics! It will be held mostly in english.

Attempts at reenvisioning our future as a place of solidarity, mutual aid, equity and degrowth require questioning existing power structures. Addressing social inequities is at the very heart of criticizing authoritarian structures and without it, we can never enable egalitarian and equitable relationships that are key to any anarchist vision.

The patriarchy continues to contribute to the marginalization, exploitation and violent repercussions against us who do not obey the strictly defined, submissive roles surrounding the figure of the dominant cis-male. Even in our anarchist collectives and communities, these power structures are reproduced and too often go unchallenged and unquestioned. This enables violence and further subjugation/marginalization/domination and poses a direct obstacle to our visions.

Queering anarchy thus means upsetting the structures that our communities are built on. Too often we see the same old patterns being reproduced in radical anarchist circles and spaces: cis-male domination, reproduction of power and domination dynamics, modes of subjugation and exploitation, as well as a lack of care and empathy. The questions of how to radically queer anarchy have an urgent need to be addressed – and here is an attempt at creating a forum for anarcha-queers prior to the general Zagreb Anarchist Bookfair.

Vrrrane, anarchaqueer-feminist group: vrrrane@riseup.net
ZASK, zagreb anarchist bookfair: anarchistfair@riseup.net
https://www.zagrebask.org/

Bookfair participants:

Acerbic (Slovenia)
Active Distribution Publisher (International)
Adela (Croatia)
AKT, Trans Anarchist, Mutual Aid and Community Collective (Serbia)
ASI, Anarcho-Syndicalist Initiative (Serbia)
AntiPolitika (Balkan)
CAS, Center for Anarchist Studies (Croatia)
Centre International de Recherches sur I’Anarchisme – CIRA (Switzerland)
CLS, Center for Libertarian Studies (Serbia)
DAF (Croatia)
dhp ak47 (Croatia)
Diógenes Magazine (Colombia)
Imagen Ácrata (Chile)
Benkos Reclus (Colombia)
Active Distribution (Croatia)
KIZ Baraba (Serbia)
Las Kumpas – Red Feminista Abortera Antofagasta (Chile)
Foreigners Everywhere (Croatia)
Hrana, a ne oružje! – HNO (Croatia)
Nina Čolović (Croatia)
OLTA – Anti-Fascist Collective (Austria)
Anarchist Bookfair Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Sick Comrade (Germany)
Solidarity kitchen (Serbia)
Što čitaš? (Croatia)
Vrrrane, Anarchaqueer-feminist group (Croatia)
ZASK, zagreb anarchist bookfair (Croatia)
Zdenko Franjić (Croatia)
Volonteri (International)

Date & Time: 

Friday, 13 September, 2024 - 10:00 to 22:00

Is this a callout or mobilisation?: 

  • international callout

Category: 

  • book shop/info shop/library
  • course/workshop
  • discussion/presentation
  • meeting
Postaja
Livadarski put 17
10000 Zagreb
Croatia

Squat: 

Presently squatted

Anarchaqueer-feminist group

categories: 

  • action/protest/camp / book shop/info shop/library / discussion/presentation / meeting

The first Zagreb anarchist bookfair (ZASK) took place from 18 till 20 march 2005. A total of hundreds of publishers, groups and projects participated in the fairs, and during all the fairs we had several thousand visitors.

categories: 

  • book shop/info shop/library / course/workshop / discussion/presentation / meeting