Thanks to the fabulous Daria of East Bay Food Not Bombs and Muscovite roots, I got an introduction to one of the members of the radical conceptual-art group, Voina. For those sad folks who have yet to hear of their unthinkable anarcho-art actions, check out any or all of the following links. Among my personal favorites, group sex in the state science museum in front of the stuff bears on the eve of Medvedev's "election"; still better epatage, their tribute to the Decembrists, an in-store (in Ashan, a gipermarkt chain) lynching of three Tadzhiki guest-workers and two homos, loving christened "A Gift for Luzhkov," the homophobic, xenophobic mayor of Moscow.
Enjoy!
Акция "Хуй в очко" (концерт)
http://plucer.livejournal.com/157798.html
выставка "Леттризм"
http://plucer.livejournal.com/168286.html
Акция ЗК
http://plucer.livejournal.com/128862.html
Видео ЗК http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfCTdH_AsyI
Акция "Штурм"
http://plucer.livejournal.com/112417.html
Акция в супермаркете
http://plucer.livejournal.com/97416.html
Акция "Мент в поповской рясе"
http://plucer.livejournal.com/94884.html
Акция "Цензура сосет"
http://plucer.livejournal.com/92836.html
Акция "УМВЕД" (унижение мента в его доме)
http://plucer.livejournal.com/88685.html
Легендарная акция "Ебись за наследника медвежонка"
http://plucer.livejournal.com/55710.html
Акция ПП (Памятник Пригову, по другой версии - План Путина)
http://community.livejournal.com/rulis/1662.html
Акция "Пир"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0PRkFxOZRg&feature=related
Акция "Мордовский час"
http://www.gif.ru/themes/life-in-the-world/bombily/
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Sexuality and Socialism by Sherry Wolf
SHERRY WOLF is a long time activist currently living in Chicago. Member of the Editorial Board of International Socialist Review, Wolf has written articles on a variety of topics ranging from the war in Iraq to the struggle of women to gain access to abortion. Some recent articles include “Stonewall: The birth of gay power,” and “The Myth of the Black/Gay Divide.” Her essays and lectures can be seen in Monthly Review, Znet, and on CounterPunch.org. Her forthcoming book, Sexuality and Socialism: The History, Politics, and Theory of LGBT Liberation, published by Haymarket Books, addresses both the history of the LGBT Liberation Movement as well as the means by which we can achieve sexual equality.
http://www.thesitch.com/politics/activism/2009/02/sherry-wolf-sexuality-socialism-ur/
http://www.thesitch.com/politics/activism/2009/02/sherry-wolf-sexuality-socialism-ur/
Friday, March 27, 2009
Moscow Doesn't Believe in Queers.
If anyone knows where to locate a copy of this cleverly-named documentary, please contact me.
More movie details:
More movie details:
Title: Moscow does not believe in queers
Author: Greyson, John, 1960-; Kitchen Video Collective.
Publisher: The Kitchen Video Collection
Date: 1986.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Socialisms and Sexualities Direct!
Inquire about our working group, joining our listserv, or our upcoming Spring event at the new group email address: socialismsNsexualities@gmail.com .
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Гламурно!
Thanks to Comrade Nina for these articles on Glamorous Russia:
http://www.kultura-rus.de/kultura_dokumente/ausgaben/englisch/kultura_6_2008_EN.pdf
http://www.kultura-rus.de/kultura_dokumente/ausgaben/englisch/kultura_6_2008_EN.pdf
Monday, January 26, 2009
Tighter restrictions on Soviet archives could make S&S -style research still more arduous.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/books/review/Walker-t.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=paper%20trail&st=cse
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Frontline: Sex Slaves
In anticipation of our week on sex-trafficking:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/slaves/
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/slaves/
Fall Semester Redux
S&S Update. Courtesy of Comrade-with-Benefits, Nina Aron.
During the Fall 2008 semester, the group focused on sexuality during the early Soviet period. We strove to engage with sexuality broadly, in its prescriptive ideological forms, as a set of complex discursive and cultural practices, and as lived or embodied reality. We read selections from a number of literary, theoretical, and scholarly texts, including Sex in Public: The Incarnation of Early Soviet Ideology by UC Berkeley professor Eric Naiman, following which Naiman joined the group for a lively roundtable discussion about his work.
This semester (Spring 2009), we will consider new themes, including the sex trade and sex trafficking, pornography in post-Soviet contexts, and postsocialist GLBTQ experience and gay rights activism, among others. We will also welcome a number of guest speakers, including Shana Penn, Sonja Franeta and Juana Maria Rodriguez. In addition, we will be viewing many late socialist and postsocialist films, and will screen in May a new film entitled Maggots and Men, a retelling of the Kronstadt rebellion with a “subtext of gender anarchy.”* We have invited prominent film and gender scholars to participate in a panel discussion following the film. This event will be open to the UC Berkeley community.
*from the Maggots & Men homepage
During the Fall 2008 semester, the group focused on sexuality during the early Soviet period. We strove to engage with sexuality broadly, in its prescriptive ideological forms, as a set of complex discursive and cultural practices, and as lived or embodied reality. We read selections from a number of literary, theoretical, and scholarly texts, including Sex in Public: The Incarnation of Early Soviet Ideology by UC Berkeley professor Eric Naiman, following which Naiman joined the group for a lively roundtable discussion about his work.
This semester (Spring 2009), we will consider new themes, including the sex trade and sex trafficking, pornography in post-Soviet contexts, and postsocialist GLBTQ experience and gay rights activism, among others. We will also welcome a number of guest speakers, including Shana Penn, Sonja Franeta and Juana Maria Rodriguez. In addition, we will be viewing many late socialist and postsocialist films, and will screen in May a new film entitled Maggots and Men, a retelling of the Kronstadt rebellion with a “subtext of gender anarchy.”* We have invited prominent film and gender scholars to participate in a panel discussion following the film. This event will be open to the UC Berkeley community.
*from the Maggots & Men homepage
Who we are, what we do.
The Socialisms & Sexualities Working Group offers an interdisciplinary forum for exploring the intersection of formations and articulations of sexuality and the political economic systems called ‘socialist’ and ‘post-socialist.’
How might queer theory benefit from a more sustained look at how political economies other than those of late capitalism intersect with and inflect the formation of sexualities, specifically nonheteronormative ones? And how might theories of socialism and, in particular, the theoretical contributions generated in the aftermath of the dissolution of the Soviet Union (in the problem-space of the former second world), benefit from an engagement with theoretical insights that have emerged from the study of gender, sexuality and queer subjectivities?
This group will also address texts gathered under the banner of ‘postsocialism’ in order to investigate further the crises of meaning produced by the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and to better understand the negotiations these crises prompted at the level of individual self-making and self-understanding, as well as at the level of ideology.
How might queer theory benefit from a more sustained look at how political economies other than those of late capitalism intersect with and inflect the formation of sexualities, specifically nonheteronormative ones? And how might theories of socialism and, in particular, the theoretical contributions generated in the aftermath of the dissolution of the Soviet Union (in the problem-space of the former second world), benefit from an engagement with theoretical insights that have emerged from the study of gender, sexuality and queer subjectivities?
This group will also address texts gathered under the banner of ‘postsocialism’ in order to investigate further the crises of meaning produced by the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and to better understand the negotiations these crises prompted at the level of individual self-making and self-understanding, as well as at the level of ideology.
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