No Suture!

My vision for London 1. Housing :   The government has failed the homeless. The mayor should create a London homeless lottery system. Tickets will be sold by the homeless like the Big Issue. Computer hard- and software would allow the administration of the lottery to be run from street-corner kiosks. All money raised through ticket sales would go directly into housing, which would be designed and built by the homeless themselves. This would result in some great new buildings, with eclectic styles and taste - a real addition to our capital, rather than the faceless government housing schemes that have destroyed so much of the city. No existing council or government-owned housing would be allowed to remain empty. There would also be pressure to use the space over shops - many London high streets are empty above shop level. Multiple use would lead to safer streets and livelier ones. 2. Education :   Revive the Ilea, which provided adult education at affordable prices - £1 per yea...

Capitalism, the final epoch of class society, can be described in the simplest terms, as sickening. That is to be taken in the most literal sense, as in, capitalist society renders the masses of people forced to live in it literally ill. The disease that capitalism forces onto its victims afflicts the most personal, the most human component of one’s being. That is to say, capitalism afflicts one’s mind. To live and work under the capitalist system, is to be mentally ill. For the original Socialist Patients Collective (SPK), which existed in the German Federal Republic from the late 60’s to the early 70’s,  the logical extension of that fact formed the basis of the radical axiom at the center of their movement which was conveyed to the world with the concise slogan: “ Every suicide is a murder! ” This was a great charge against the system that forces the starving to endure the anxiety of finding their next meal. It was a powerful accusation against the system that forces the majorit...

Evidencia en España y Cataluña: Inmigrantes y Minorías Los estudios en España han documentado ampliamente cómo las barreras de acceso y la falta de adaptación cultural derivan en un uso ineficiente de los recursos. Desigualdad Territorial y de Acceso La territorialidad y la despoblación se identifican como causas principales de desigualdad en el acceso a la salud en España. La falta de recursos especializados en ciertas áreas obliga a los pacientes a desplazarse o a recurrir a servicios de urgencias por falta de atención primaria adecuada, incrementando los costes operativos del sistema. Además, la brecha tecnológica afecta desproporcionadamente a pacientes mayores o en zonas rurales, generando limitaciones que pueden agravar su estado de salud. Percepción de Discriminación y Barreras Un dato crítico es que la discriminación percibida en centros sanitarios por origen racial o étnico ha aumentado hasta un 12%. Esta percepción no es trivial; actúa como una barrera de entrada que disuade ...

De cette légifération galopante, de cette peste justicière qui investit à toute allure l’époque, comment se fait-il que personne ne s’effare ? Comment se fait-il que nul ne s’inquiète de ce désir de loi qui monte sans cesse ? Ah ! la Loi ! La marche implacable de nos sociétés au pas de Loi ! Nul vivant de cette fin du siècle n’est plus censé l’ignorer. Rien de ce qui est législatif ne doit nous être étranger. « Il y a un vide juridique ! » Ce n’est qu’un cri sur les plateaux. De la bouillie de tous les débats n’émerge qu’une voix, qu’une clameur « Il faut combler le vide juridique ! » Soixante millions d’hypnotisés tombent tous les soirs en extase. La nature humaine contemporaine a horreur du vide juridique, c’est-à-dire des zones de flou où risquerait de s’infiltrer encore un peu de vie, donc d’inorganisation. Un tour d’écrou de plus chaque jour ! Projets ! Commissions ! Mises à l’étude ! Propositions ! Décisions ! Élaboration de décrets dans les cabinets ! Il faut combler le vide jur...

I’m traveling on the east coast right now, which has thrown me back into the kind of queer, mostly female assigned community that exists in the “I date women and trans men” frame (I’m not saying this doesn’t happen on the west coast – but I’ve found alternatives way more easily). This is a big part of   what my Girl Talk piece was about , but I want to address this particular issue really directly. “I date women and trans men” is the definition of cissexism.  It’s basing your frame for sexuality on the gender coercively assigned to a person by their doctor at birth, not on that person’s actual identity. In this case, we’re talking about folks who were assigned female. Of course, “women” means cis women – trans women totally drop off the map. Chart via TransFusion My critique of this frame isn’t about everyone on the trans masculine spectrum, where there’s a ton of complex gender and sexuality diversity (though there is an important conversation to have about the privileging of...

With genital reassignment surgery (GRS) still inaccessible to most trans women mostly due to cost, and with many trans women deciding they don’t need to change their bodies, trans femme bottoms have explored and developed new ways to experience receptive sex. Additionally, a lot of trans women have trouble getting or maintaining erections due to the hormones they take for transitioning. Enter muffing. Muffing is a sex act coined by Mira Bellwether, author of the zine  “Fucking Trans Women,”  widely considered to be the first and most in-depth guide to having sex with pre- and non-op trans femme bodies. Assigned-male-at-birth (AMAB) bodies each have inguinal canals, these are the spaces from which testicles descend at puberty. Trans women often use these canals for “tucking,” pushing their testicles inside their bodies to create a flat crotch. Muffing originated as a sex act from tucking. Reached by email, Bellwether describes how muffing works, “The basic process of muffing is...

An interview with Alexei Monroe (*) : "Alexei Monroe : Laibach and NSK 's aim is to make people "aware that totalitarianism isn’t a discrete historical phenomenon which went on from let’s say 1933 to 1989 and then it’s over so let’s have a nice triumph of liberal democracy " The Captain Spaulding's Bizarre Freaky Circus : Hello Alexei Monroe, you are well known in France for your work with Laibach and the NSK. Could you tell us how this first meeting in Lyon came about? How did you plan the event ? Alexei Monroe : I’m not the actual organiser. Bertrand Thibert is the organiser and he invited me. This is a follow-up to the First Congress of NSK Citizens in Berlin which took place last October. Bertrand was one of the delegates to the Congress and he was one of the main activists. The Congress was a kind of experiment to bring citizens together for the first time to see what would happen, if they could reach common points of agreement and what they would like the...