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Angry T------- Against Cops And Kings
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![Kill a Man
[vertical graphic of a burning cigarette]
do I swear too much she’ll ask
cigarette in hand while urban fuzz
circles around yous like a bridal dance
remember to wear white and lose
break your virginity to the night
writhing in His piss-stained vomit-soaked bedsheets
streets wah in the dark
a quiet reminder that if you want
for a small fee
you can get your stomach pumped by an amateur
some unpaid overworked student doctor who’ll
shit and fuck all over your broken body
witness His wounds
cover your eyes with rose incense
cut your teeth on whoever you want
disavow them both later or don’t
who gives a shit.
nobody’s listening anyways
certainly not to you –
not anymore
I don’t think so you’ll say
but you were always going to lie to her
take it out from her lips
suck it inhale
anything to feel the heat of a mouth inside yours](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ncgnxqf4fckp5dsoypeiq26e/bafkreiaei3wid4yqy64hsor2umsx74fmco55jj6lcvmk5s64kxlfldhf24)
![breathe in her smoke
let her fill you up like a hand puppet
besides –
your body is hers now
it always has been
later you’ll find yourself
standing in front of a mirror trying on dresses
ashamed of the Pride that you feel
sick to your teeth
on how good you look
cause god-fucking-damn…
you’ll fall in love with your neck after you’ve shaved
bathe in that feeling
[graphic of three lipstick prints in black and white]
[graphic of a headstone with the symbol for male]
nobody can be truly self-made
but fucking hell –
you’d certainly kill a man trying](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ncgnxqf4fckp5dsoypeiq26e/bafkreif6ubrm7osoh52tuhirbf2eskyedqwfwiagvyhpufftj6lom5kzpa)
![Poke the Bear
[black and white graphic of a bear separated into parts. labels on various parts are: You’re not quick enough, Life insurance up to date?, Nope, Think Again, and Skibbity-pop, permanent nap]
Poke the bear
She's sleeping soundly
Poke the bear
She's in her den
Poke the bear
She's with her young
Poke the bear
She's waking, angry
Poke the bear
She bares her teeth
Poke the bear
She roars, she lashes
Cage the bear
And say:
"What a dangerous creature this is."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ncgnxqf4fckp5dsoypeiq26e/bafkreievfexvgpeqlvgkcwl4jvorubzjxhr2jmav37syftrbhxdiumkf64)
![You don’t want me to join your cult.
You said you did, but you said that in front of that older cult member who was watching you like a hawk.
Preaching to the heathens is part of the gig, but what you don’t realise is that converting me is not your goal. Converting you is.
You’re shaky in your faith now, but a few dozen more doors slammed in your faith from the unenlightened masses who will be left out in the cold when the Rapture comes? That’ll cement your place in Us vs. my Them.
We could probably get along. But your Gender Critical/ Jehovah’s Witness/Socialist Workers Party creed sets the rules of engagement. It cuts me out before you even say a word. Unless I’m a lonely sad sack like you, prime for isolation and indoctrination, I’m not budging to your reference frame. And you’re not allowed to even consider mine.
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![Social Construction
When we say that "sex is socially constructed" what the fuck do we mean? Lots of us like talking about gender-sex as a broken up thing, where gender, that’s the social, sex, that’s the biological. But the {biological} is social, and the {social} is biological.
Butler got their arguments. Fausto-Stirling got hers. The journal *Endnotes* got their own thoughts on the “Logic of Gender.” But me? I like concrete. Sure, we know sex gotta be socially constructed due to the variable understandings of the concept and the experience of those—willingly or unwillingly— classed “intersex”. But that don’t give us the nitty-gritty.
Here’s how I see it. Binary sex is the assumed separation of two chains. These chains are made up of words-that-aren't-words. Take a look:
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![Getting Tested is an Act of Trust and Love
i see a friend comment on not wanting to have to rely on a test, to be able to just trust the person, and it grates against every fiber of my being.
being willing to share sexual histories is a way i show that i care about my partner’s well-being. that i get tested regularly shows that i want to make sure my partner is safe, even if the test was done out of an abundance of caution and i have been with no one at all it is a ritual to be performed regularly to ensure that should a situation arise, i have taken into consideration the safety and comfort of my partner.
and mistakes happen and people are lied to and there are any number of reasons a person might not test negative, but it is something that needs to be known and accounted for. to have an STI is not something one should be shamed for of course, but wilfully refusing to know if one has one is another thing entirely.
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![I'm struggling to be angry of late.
I feel more numb.
Same cause, different outcome.
Food costs more. Health is less. Across the world people are mired in wars and famines and ecological nightmares all of our own making…
And it's numbing.
Anger feels more alive though. Anger is a fire. A fuel. Fuel for a powerful engine, to drive me.
Numbness is just a poison. It's a pit.
I don't want to be numb. To see millions die and tell myself I've seen it all before.
I know I have, but that's not the point. Every death is a tragedy, no matter how many preceded
it.
So fuck it.
I'll burn this whole thing to the ground before I sink into despair.
I resolve to be really really fucking angry.
[greyscale image of human figure turning into a cloud of smoke as if head is on fire]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ncgnxqf4fckp5dsoypeiq26e/bafkreigo6feqo3juh3amo6dwl3wghjxix3hkkprdmta7lfhhv62fchzjaq)
![FUCK YOUR POPPY
I hate seeing this symbol.
Every year they appear, sprouting on pockets up and down the country. Cheap pa-per ones, expensive metal ones, a rash of red that reminds us how very lucky we are to have our army.
[graphic of red poppy with black center and red leaf]
War is a tragedy.
But you wouldn’t know it from the way Remembrance Day is ‘celebrated’ now. An orgy of
writhing politicians, desperate to bring a violent and hateful public to climax with gushing praise for ‘our boys’. Turning the dead
into props to assert their own capacity for ‘glorious’ violence.
World War One was every worst excess of the State writ large; 9.7 million soldiers dead, 10 million civilians (we don’t talk about those
though, do we? We talk about the trenches, the sacrifices soldiers made, we forget the greater
number of civilians murdered in the conflict, no room to remember them). The same number again left maimed.
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![Disgusting, and not a common sentiment when people remembered the cost of war. This
propaganda makes it seem noble that twenty million people became corpses and a further twenty one million suffered life changing
injuries, all because of the squabbles of aristocrats excited to prove that their populace were better at slaughter than the others.
Fuck the poppy. Fuck the torch. Use it to burn Flanders’ Fields.
Wilfred Owen said it best:
“If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,—
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.”
[black and white photo of british flag on fire]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ncgnxqf4fckp5dsoypeiq26e/bafkreidrw62x2veruy73myxq4n6xrmcei6boov5fgv2rkdde2lcnixo7xy)
![Abolish Doctors
ATACK has written before about how doctors are cops and I fear some readers might mistake that for figurative prose. Doctors are like cops or whatever. After all, a doctor can't lock you up…
Can they..?
Okay so they fucking can. And you already knew that. But did you know they can lock you up with even less accountability than the cops get? Crazy, I know. Interesting choice of word there, but I'm keeping it. Anyway we've all recently been reminded of the steam-ing pile of authoritarian shite that is the Mental Health Act, whose many sections (hence the verb “to section” someone as in lock them up for being too mentally ill) give doctors and the courts powers to lock someone up indefinitely. This reminder came in the form of the sentencing of an autistic guy who hacked and attempted to extort the likes of Rockstar Games, and Uber. Victimless crime of course because how can a vampiric megacorp ever be a victim.
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![What this looks like is a hospital order that can be renewed indefinitely by a single doctor for life, only lifted if the doctor feels that the person in “custody” is sufficiently treated as to earn release. Oh and also the other clause applies means the Justice Secretary has to approve it too. So good luck.
But the guy's autistic! That's not something that goes away. So either they traumatise him into compli-ance or lock him up forever. Either way, that's a teenager (did I mention he's eighteen?) that will never be free.
So fuck that.
Fuck tech giants.
And especially, fuck doctors.
[black and white printed graphic of two figures in classic “prisoner” striped outfits. the figure on the left has a sign that says “County Jail 46781” while the sign on the figure on the right says “Hospital 46781”]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ncgnxqf4fckp5dsoypeiq26e/bafkreifrb3acevbw24ryjyddq4swseui2vrbzeywbeozw2mcpztcw6fw5u)
![ADAB
you have to play the game with doctors
doctors are secret cops, you see
they say they’re not, they’re on your side and here to help you
but gods forbid you step out of line
how dare you know yourself?
forget about all the hours of research you spent on symptoms the weeks and months in community with others in similar po- sitions
nah, you’re making up those symptoms.
drug-seeking.
it’s fine to take the drugs if they push them, but you can never ask.
it doesn’t matter how many reasons you have to believe the med will help
doesn’t matter if you’ve been prescribed before, now you’re drug-seeking and that’s going in your record, you sick junkie
frankly doesn’t matter if you ask or not, if you come in with a “background” or “history” deemed suspicious
you’re homeless or work two jobs or queer or trans or not white or are fat or mentally ill or heaven forbid you had a drug use history of any kind
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![now, what next if you have your life-ruining symptoms and you’re labeled an addict already, so nothing is getting treated?
that’s when some people might, understandably, self-medicate with whatever they can
and that’s where the public cops come in
cause see? you’re an addict just like the doctors always fucking said
and now you’re so desperate for symptom relief
with no hope of medical intervention
and fuck it, the chart already says drug addict.
so your untreated chronic pain
or your anxiety for which you will never again see real medical intervention
or your unmanaged adhd with a higher pattern of community suicidality than depression alone
turns out you can medicate this non-exhaustive list yourself if you try hard enough
but that’s where drug cops come in
and your medical history says you’ve gone further into addiction
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![you’re a drug addict now.
so they throw you in supervised rehab
random drug tests
activity monitored - where does your ankle bracelet say you’ve been?
hospital stays
jail or prison, especially if you’re not white sectioned and stipulated for mental health
only to be still considered an addict when you’ve tried to be good for years
without relief from your symptoms
all you wanted was relief
relief isn’t coming
instead you are now part of the population of drug addicts, labeled by doctors for rejection by society for your crimes.
and they say the medical model replaced the moral model of addiction.
Hah.
that’s why you have to play the game with doctors. fuckin cops.
[graphic of pill bottle with medication]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ncgnxqf4fckp5dsoypeiq26e/bafkreida5radnmt5scgwa545xifosneleloijpgbbdrcoe5bguy2az5dcm)
![Queer Your Gender [page has two bullet holes at top and four at the bottom]
The story so far: In the beginning, Gender was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
To paraphrase the late Douglas Adams. (Late as in he died in 2001, not just that he was terrible with deadlines even though he was that too)
Not only was Gender created, it was created multiple times, as if a god wanted one more iteration just to get it right. Sex, language, social classes, social roles, identities, all one big mess we call Gender despite being multiple different things.
Is gender a prison, a map, a sham?
I just feel very Gender today.
As in, Gender is a wall between me and you. You can't see me and I can't see you, but if I fuck with the wall, you'll see glimpses, shapes, and see the impression I make on the medium. We still have the wall but now you know it's there and now you know I'm behind it.
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![[black and white photo of a snarling mouth and chin over shoulders and large breasts covered in marks with the letters “ACAB” scrawled in lipstick]
Kenosha FucK the cops
fuck the cops
Black man shot seven times, back and side people on the streets
out of quarantine to say
Fuck the cops
second night after the incident protesters mingling, congregate many unsure what to expect protests more violent lately militarized police; fuck the cops doesn’t take much
surrounding courthouse, we get loud
a bit unruly
someone was shot seven times after all
and there’s a cop shooting someone every week it seems that way at least
righteous anger
teargas, rubber bullets, those pepper ball things
sirens
flashing lights
headaches bruises burns and lung damage
we were unruly, they set in to “restore order” only way they know how;
violence
fuck the cops
some go marching, others at the courthouse
some in full larp costume
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![fuck the cops
this time the cops are more organized
standing on top of the courthouse, snipers shine red lights to inspire fear energy drink shot directly out of my hand
while i know they’re taking out supplies
can’t help but think:
that was a hard to find flavor
they brought tanks from all over this time
as the night progresses we’re herded
out of the park
down the streets
kept in fear
gassed 20 some more times
that’s just the hits i counted
the ones i took
cops push us
towards the other fascists
the ones at the gas station
fuck the cops
“anyone need a medic” ask a
guns strapped openly
medics don’t wear guns
at least i think
new to this, don’t know for certain
the girl watching my back as i watch hers gets
a bad feeling
says we need out of there
she was right
just as we reach the car and pull out
alarms
phones going off
things seem different
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![ARF, ARF, Motherfucker
Furries are fucking terrifying.
Well, not to me. To me they're cool and huggable.
Queer and relatable. Fun and nerdy.
But to the Straights? Terrifying.
But what's so terrifying about playing about with your presentation, adopting a visage both alien and familiar, and asserting an identity of your own crea-tion? Oh. Oh, yeah.
If you yourself are a cog in the machine, who has no identity but what you've had thrust upon you, us queers jamming up the gears must be a nightmare.
But fuck this machine. Fuck your preconceived notions about what we can be, what we must be. It never did me any good and it never did you either.
So I choose a life of freedom.
Arf, arf, etc., etc..
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![You’re Not Allowed
You're not allowed to Do It Yourself,
So just sit tight there on the shelf.
Let us wring our hands and say:
"It's safest to wait another day.
Trust your doctors. Trust the system.
And never question our true mission.
We'll help you soon. We promise we care:
Here's two milligrams spiro and a hope and a prayer."
[graphic of two pills, a capsule and a tab]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ncgnxqf4fckp5dsoypeiq26e/bafkreihf2iqbcjczwzbsz6hqhy6ff4cy2yfaablwer7snpvxy2k63lwjcm)
![The Revolution Will Not Be Monetised.
[italicized text]
The revolution will not be algorithmically friendly.
The revolution will not be trending or have a hashtag.
The revolution will not be paused for a word from our sponsors.
Because the revolution will not be monetised.
[plain text]
I’m old enough to remember when the internet was more than a half dozen websites trying to compete for your time and attention. I remember when we shared stuff because we wanted to; when speech actually WAS free, rather than carved into 280-character soundbites or polished to perfection in thirty minute long YouTube videos.
I remember when two way communication meant that we all spoke on an equal standing rather than elevating those of us who are pretty enough to garner a following. Back before corporations had figured out how to enclose the internet; how to put a harness on our dissatisfaction and hand the reins to fascists and reformists.
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![You Keep It In
you stoke the forge and build your first tools
you use it, she tells you. that heat.
you use your first tools to build better tools
of your own design;
you find a name for the thing that you are for the things that you do
for the feeling when the jackals close in
You keep it in.
let it lick out a safe amount in times of trouble
a scorching tongue of insult and derision
a release valve
Can't talk to you when you're like this
well
no That's the point, you walking corpse
you keep it in and sit under the trees in calm moments think
I could detonate
turn my world to ash
and they wouldn't care.
You keep that in, too.
but it stokes the fires. past white hot
from anger to fury to rage
[graphic of figure with arms out, a fire in each hand]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ncgnxqf4fckp5dsoypeiq26e/bafkreihbttxcufxwq6agr6yvd427mcoyqpvqqzj54zjftx6lpwic5qfuza)
![not having a chance to treat her
like the incredible vibrant
beautiful woman she is before
the simplicity of “I thought of you” overwhelms and tears overtake us
crying together through the pain of
the joy of the simple human experiences
before we even get beyond the little kindnesses.
the bar is in fucking hell and I know my pain doesn’t come close to matching hers.
PAIN
is far too much.
now I’m Angry.
but definitely not at her.
[sketch in red of heart cracked down the middle]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ncgnxqf4fckp5dsoypeiq26e/bafkreiab5g6hwikqlaqq6ci4colyesiypl36rbwycffspcfrt6gkvqmjdy)
![WHY?
Why are we Angry?
[black graphic of flames]
We have a million reasons. We could never list them all. But anger is the only rational response to the ruin and death of friends and loved ones, and the government and media shrugging, wiping their hands of blame, and continuing on regardless.
Need we say more?
Why "Tranny"?
[symbol combining male and female symbols]
This question can be interpreted one of two ways: "Why are you trans?" (Boring, pedestrian, pointless, cursed by a witch for stealing rhubarb I guess) or "Why do you use the word
tranny?" (provocative, bold, uncomfortable, makes you check over your shoulder while reading this)
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![ACAB AND AKAB
Why are we against Cops and Kings?
Because it's a silly backronym, okay? Cops and Kings stands in for "authority" but here is an inexhaustive list of grievances against both fig- urative and literal cops and kings.
[graphic of guillotine]
Literal Cops
· The police state is a
primary tool of oppression used to assault our community.
· All laws are imposed through violence and the threat of violence.
· The police defend our enemies and punish our protectors.
· There is no ‘innocent’ means by which to engage with the police. All police uphold a system of injustice, even ‘the good ones’.
· Borders and their enforcement keep our kin across the world in states which are even more dangerous to them than the ones most of us writing this experience.
· Anti-cop, anti-state action is therefore self defense. There can be no space which is safe for the police which is also safe for us.
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![A.T.A.C.K
Angry Trannies* Against Cops and Kings *and Dykes, Faggots, etc.
[The Union Flag, black and white, on cracked stone.]
Everything Fell Apart
"It’s cold and it’s mean-spirited and I don’t like it here anymore."
Issue 11 Apr 24.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ncgnxqf4fckp5dsoypeiq26e/bafkreif6sojfqg52glg5gpcvqhtxlagsjb33xirnziveszgr43pf3meeim)
![Revisiting the Scene
Last week I wrote a tale
(Tongue firmly in my cheek)
Of a voyeuristic male
And a weirdo tranny freak.
But once is just a novelty. Once won't spoil the mood
But a secong gawking cameraman Is really fucking rude.
What went through your mind
As you raised that stupid lens?
"Never seen a tranny before! I gotta show my friends!"?
I shoulda smashed that fucking phone
Smashed that other fucker's too Cause now I'm just too fucking mad To even fucking rhyme.
Fuck you.
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![I’m. Your. Problem.
Over forty thousand people, so many of them children, have been murdered by Israel. We don’t know for sure how many because they killed the people who kept count.
But breaking windows to protest this is a problem.
The world is burning. Every year is hotter than the last. Temperatures are becoming unliveable in places where thousands, soon to be millions, live.
But blocking roads to protest this is a problem.
The police mobilise against refugees. They drag our friends into vans and try to fly them halfway around the world.
But confronting them to protest this is a problem.
You commit murder and call it a right to self-defence.
You burn the world and call it progress.
You abduct our neighbours and call it safety.
And you call me a huge problem to a sane world?
Where is this sane world? Would be nice to visit.
But you’re right about one thing. I’m your problem.
[line of doodle scribbles]
So just fucking try to solve me.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ncgnxqf4fckp5dsoypeiq26e/bafkreibq6ub4nrqa33k7bwbhkdr2ip4rwqm5tdu26swred5xgejp7vkqfy)
![A Scene From an Average Street
A man in a white van sits in traffic waiting for the lights to change, playing his music loud enough for everyone to hear. Searching for distraction, he spots it across the street at the bus stop: A tranny!
Three-day stubble and a pretty dress! He must catalogue this moment. He tries to surreptitiously take a photo on his phone but the tranny notices. Oh no!
"You're confused, lad! Are you a man or a woman?!" The tranny does not respond. Just stares
indignantly. But the lights have changed, so he has to leave without answers.
But it is of course the *tranny* who is confused, he reminds himself, trying to keep his eyes on the road.
[sketch of a broken down van]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ncgnxqf4fckp5dsoypeiq26e/bafkreihhbxkunjnh6sxobhh35jx2xybi344yf2x24dqnlyq67z4s4v3ire)
![A.T.A.C.K
Angry Trannies* Against Cops and Kings
*and Dykes, Faggots, etc.
[greyscale graphic of a globe with arrows pointing around it]
It’s All Us
"If we believe out loud, maybe we can be the ones we’ve been waiting for."
Issue 12 May 24](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ncgnxqf4fckp5dsoypeiq26e/bafkreigg6t5zoao33mt3hku76fmm3a2jf5arr7hda6zeorrrr54v567dii)
![On Help
How about a wild idea?
Instead of another expected protest, another lame slogan and another meaningless platitude on „socialism“ you just fucking help people and let yourself be helped?
If you really want something better, if you really want people to be free, then walk the walk and start doing mutual aid. It doesn’t take an org, it doesn’t take donations, it does take a change in your fucking attitude and a modicum of conviction to actually help when someone asks and to let others do the same for you.
Reciprocity, that is what I am talking about. Less of the flashy, aestheticized shit. Be spontaneous and express the empathy and mutual respect that we genuinely need to properly live with each other as individuals.
If you think this is less important than „getting organized“, then I suggest you pull that last-century-socialist stick out of your ass and finally move on to shit that has worked for all of human history.
„Mir geht nichts über mich“
Max Stirner
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![[A portrait of Max Stirner, drawn to resemble the gigachad meme]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ncgnxqf4fckp5dsoypeiq26e/bafkreic53pa62rzq7tvcz2skbmgl3jpowviji22qkm2koozrdfr7ndabvm)
![POLKA DOT
[page is covered in black polka dots]
my heroes are not
family friendly and
neither the fuck am i
i will not cover myself in their clothes and
dress up spread lies tell them
that I’m Just Like You Except
For How I how do you Fuck that yes
i am you’re right a mentally ill t-slur
can you? yes you can
my friend says so he I
mean they? or she? it’s so hard
nowadays anyways they I think
they yes they let me say it
so you can I’m sure
but i mean you no harm yes
i’ll assimilate get pretty get married have kids
what’s that yes i meant sterilise
myself anyways assimilate be respectful
go to Pride once a year and
cheer on the sponsorship deal with
BombsRUs blame myself blame the
shameless the beautiful the
failed men who i swear I’m not like i’m one of the good ones who
demanded on being authentic demanded
on being themselves when the
gun is against my temple
yes of course i don’t mind no you’re not pressing too hard BLAM](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ncgnxqf4fckp5dsoypeiq26e/bafkreihejym63v37bbdnk4hgbfoq4jc7wyukzdxapbreuu6jqlo2opel4a)
![What Are We For?
Here’s this writer’s top three. Feel free to add your own at home so
long as you stay angry.
Liberation
Most important part. What united Cops
and Kings is a shared desire to
oppress. We are for liberation before
anything else.
· We shout so that others can speak. By being the loudest, brashest voices in the room we open space for more ‘reasonable’ voices to be heard.
· Cops and Kings work hard to con- vince us that we have to listen to them; we shout them down to remind everyone that without our submission they have nothing.
· Until the last cell is emptied and the last throne vacant the world cannot be free.
[graphic of raised fist]
[graphic of circle A]
Swagger
Our enemies try to keep us afraid and, more importantly, quiet. If we don’t take up space, if we can be convinced to make ourselves non-threatening, if we internalise the lie that we need their approval, we are neutralised as a threat to the status quo.
· We do not apologise for who we are.
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![BREAD AND ROSES
[black and white graphic of roses]
imagine if
for the low price
of just 2mg a day
prescribed by a doctor
or bought online
from an old woman in Ukraine
we could destroy
The West
bring
down the banks
kick out the landlords
fire our bosses
own our own labour
feel the sun in our hair
and rest
no wait times
no queues
you’re not in charge of me
and I’m not in charge of you
nobody can make it
otherwise
disruption and discontent
unworlding and yet
future building
for the right to survive authentically for clean air and drinking water
all this
for just 2mg a day
[graphic of a woman’s face filled with pills]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ncgnxqf4fckp5dsoypeiq26e/bafkreieuuikfo2upixbm6fopgvjnoqd4uoqyyge2a7qdf2h5fj4zk5wqiy)
![An Open Letter
Dear Cis Feminists,
Are you listening?
Because for all that we've been making a fuck ton of noise for so long, you don't seem interested in responding. Many of you insist we have nothing to say, which is a belief you could only hold if you deliberately refused to hear.
Practiced ignorance, essentially.
But then we have MacKinnon and her acolytes, who are happy to repeat our words, not cite their sources, and then take the credit.
Is it worse to plagiarise the wealth of trans feminism or to generate it for yourself out of whole cloth when you could have just asked?
Both seem like an insult because you still. Aren't. Listen- ing.
And what was it MLK said about riots?
Perhaps we should be heard after all.
[megaphone outline graphic]
Do you also want to be heard?
We might throw another one of these together so we'd love to have more voices that are some
combination of angry, queer, and provocative.
Get in touch with us: atackuk@proton.me](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ncgnxqf4fckp5dsoypeiq26e/bafkreigimlhnxx6pgpqzjsoosnc6zk3eja77tpfdxenfgf7mlwbzkchvba)
![Let me tell you what to do
And speak on your behalf
Idolatrous shell for me to abuse
Only with the best of intentions
Seek me out through cracking mirrors
Guidance for half that you do
Ideology of your salvation
Content to keep the fear at bay
Let me tell you what to do
Eight hour stream, new upload
Give unto you the discourse
Profit through attention
I speak on your behalf
[graphic of over ear headphones]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ncgnxqf4fckp5dsoypeiq26e/bafkreibip2uadfk42visqfap6cwa4kpabmha4h5bmezjki66brzat53sja)
![The Real Insurrection Was Within Us All Along
So many many calls for recruitment, proselytizing, and radicalization of the so called masses have been made. So many have put their faith into the teleological ideas around revolution, that all of „our“ collective efforts will lead and have led to this one monumental effort
to change the world. So many well-meaning people have spent their days with this hope keeping them going.
We supposedly just have to get enough people together and then it will work!
But curiously it hasn’t happened and there are no signs of ever it ever happening. Because it is nothing but a „leftist“ variant of the dozens upon dozens of prophesied Raptures, Armageddons and other Ends-of-the- World. A distant symbol, an idol without even a physical component.
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![And all that recruitment, all the playing around optics and all the supposedly „revolutionary content“ uploaded onto the internet has not brought anyone or anything closer to this monumental effort, despite all of the ambitions towards it.
Some might propose that this is the right way to go, that we just have to try hard enough and eventually it will happen (maybe just for those a long time after us) and baselessly accuse me of reformism or incrementalism.
But no.
What I propose is this: stop looking into the distant future, stop looking for salvation, stop your utopian yearnings.
Fight.
Fight right the fuck now!
Every day you can fight. What is keeping you?
You do not need a mass movement. What you need is clarity and conviction!
Every single one of us is capable of a myriad of acts of insurrection. Be they violent, be they caring, be they small or big.
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![And don’t fight „for the people“, don’t fight „for the greater good“, don’t fight for anything that demands you to be a follower! Fight for yourself, for your friends, for freedom, for living, for being able to keep going one more day.
The fight will only keep on going. The real insurrection was within us all along.
Let’s get to work.
[graphic of circle A anarchy symbol]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ncgnxqf4fckp5dsoypeiq26e/bafkreic6h4nd6wzt57a5cclkx2ejxlk4qrzylvn7gwgmr5ikqm6pk5oahu)
![HEY!
You.
Yeah, you.
You look like you’ve got something to say.
Come shout it with us.
[megaphone graphic]
ATACK is an electronically published zine we encourage everyone to save, send, share, print, promote, and propagate at will.
We will never own up to distributing it.
Yell any submissions to atackuk@proton.me
Or at people in the street but we can’t promise to publish those.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ncgnxqf4fckp5dsoypeiq26e/bafkreifgkh6o6n3ow7erh5xnmxfr3fhlxr6dm3lfofu6xftddka5exrqw4)
![We’re All Mad Here
The Angry Queer is a stereotype at this point, right? Why are these trannies, faggots and dykes so MAD all the time?
Can’t they just shut the fuck up and stop making a fuss?
Our question is: How are you NOT angry?
[graphic of molotov cocktail]
You look at the world around you and you can stay calm?
Are you a fucking monster?
Every single day we are denied basic dignity. We tell you who we are, and we’re told that we’re wrong. We shout, to make you listen. Then we’re making trouble.
And the cops beat us until we stop.
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![A.T.A.C.K.
Angry Trannies* Against Cops and Kings
* And Dykes, Faggots, etc.
[black and white image of King Charles III with a red “not allowed” sign over it]
“Terrific. Let’s bring down the government.”
Issue 1, June 23](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ncgnxqf4fckp5dsoypeiq26e/bafkreigjnukxcrprks3ndf5gu3pob5nvtu6cm5xmgw3zdxdzmnxv5vz6am)
![Interissue Statement #1:
Word to the wise, and especially those who know they are fools; ATACK is not a group, a clique, a party, or anything like that. It is a project, devised by a grieving angry bitch and supported by their friends, aiming to share the words of anyone else who agrees.
"We" (such that there is a "we") aim to be an outlet and a platform. There is wonder and beauty and passion in all of us and too little of that gets shared.
This is an amateur zine with circulation in the double figures, but everyone starts somewhere, and maybe you too think putting your words alongside others makes them louder and more meaningful.
Let's do our bit. For ourselves, if no one else.
Submissions always open. The "editors" will publish almost anything that fits the remit of queer and/or provocative.
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![HEY!
You.
Yeah, you.
You look like you’ve got something to say.
Come shout it with us.
[megaphone graphic]
ATACK is an electronically published zine we encourage everyone to save, send, share, print, promote, and propagate at will.
We will never own up to distributing it.
Yell any submissions to atackuk@proton.me
Or at people in the street but we can’t promise to publish those.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ncgnxqf4fckp5dsoypeiq26e/bafkreick7yf7jz4yn37su4k5w2qbcwxijczlwewl3justv7wdqvnionomy)
![I Don’t Trust Your Community
It’s nothing personal, really.
You must understand that long experience has taught me that at the first sign of dissent, their collective tolerance for me will turn to annoyance, then anger, or disgust.
It doesn’t matter what labels we share. Yeah, I’m trans, anarchist, queer, whatever. We pretend that these things mean we share common ground, that we owe each other loyalty. But that loyalty soon turns into excusing the worst behaviour among the most visible of us. Solidarity becomes a shield for abuse. Keeping things in the community, means covering up for the harm that we inflict on each other.
Those of us who point this out are targeted, ostracised, destroyed. We’re inconvenient. And over time, you convince yourself that our inconvenience means we are a threat.
It’s not the people exploiting others financially, materially, sexually, who need to be removed for the sake of the community.
It is us. The loud ones, pointing it out.
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![You don’t get to know
Where I came from.
The fuck you need to know?
Trans 'cause of genetics? Gonna breed those away?
Trans 'cause of society? Gonna train the queerness out of us?
No, fuck you. There's no cure because we're not a sickness.
I won't help you arm yourself in your war against the diversity of life.
You say your pill can fix me? Others say your pill doesn't work. That it's poison because it is not the right treatment for my disease. I say your pill is poison, whatever it contains, because it was made to kill me.
So you don't get to know where I came from. Because I'm here now, and if you want me gone, drop the smile and come at me for real.
Just don't expect me to lie here and take it.
[A fist, pointing towards the reader, with jagged impact lines above].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ncgnxqf4fckp5dsoypeiq26e/bafkreifz35vkh7lmtnpucalzbj3524nwyk3kdoxnenimhqiyd6jmovuwqi)
![To the Five Per Cent, Again
Hello.
Last month we discussed how you had captured institutions to withdraw care from trans children. Remember?
Such larks.
As I write this, the Cass Report has just been released. It’s a fascinating read. None of it stands up to even a few seconds of critical thought, but the way the press and politicians have reacted to it you’d think it was gold-plated, irrefutable proof that no person under the age of 25 deserves bodily autonomy.
Last time we spoke I said that I hope you enjoy the cruel world you have created.
Well, we’re there now.
The main thing the Cass Report has achieved is to demonstrate, without any room for deflection, that both the Labour Party and the Tories are our enemies. That trans liberation will not come from working within the democratic systems you have corrupted. That such systems are, in fact, anathema to trans life.
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![What I Am For You
[outline of hand giving middle finger]
I was born with a cock – riveting I know – so naturally I was raised as a boy
by the oppressive mass murdering rapist known as „polite
society“.
Funnily enough I was often mistaken for a girl when I was little, I had long
hair and feminine features. At that point in my life I hated it, it seemed to
invalidate the role I was given and it was often used by other kids and some
adults against me.
So for most of my life I did my damndest to be a big strong boy, a smart boy.
A big manly warrior is what I wished myself to be, when I was called girlish,
fat and strange. To be finally undoubtable in what I was pushed from birth to
be. Trying to be a man only achieved a lack in hygiene, toxic traits and ex-
cessive focus of the scraggly peach fuzz I was proud to call a „beard“.
Eventually I stopped, begun allowing myself femininity or whatever. I started
feeling better.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ncgnxqf4fckp5dsoypeiq26e/bafkreibsinib5njoxn7eyjac5de7lhvlirbsimzk6jypqk52ivekojncca)
![Interlude
Where does the mask end and I begin?
I have resolved to never answer that
question. We are all distorted shapes through
coloured lenses. Whatever is "me" cannot be
directly observed.
You can see the shadows I cast, the shapes I
form, the way the light glints through me, but
to seek the core kernel of "me" is to shame-
fully ignore the world around me and its role
in my birth, growth, and
fulfilment.
And more importantly: Why do you need to know?
I certainly don't need to. Why would you have
a more pressing need than I would?
[black and tan graphic of theatre masks and a triangle]
[black graphic of heart shape filled with treelike shape, spirals, and hearts]
[pink flower and yellow crown as title graphic]
I hope you'd be proud of me.
I never said how proud I was of you.
The world is a fucked-up, unjust, fetid
hunk of burning rock, but I have to
believe it can be made just a little
better.
Maybe I won't live to see it either,
but I have to try.
I live to try.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ncgnxqf4fckp5dsoypeiq26e/bafkreicoa2atlaymnueuhfqzguoeedpsw5vya25zz5u5uek7tjxveeqnja)
![A.T.A.C.K
Angry Trannies* Against Cops and Kings
*and Dykes, Faggots, etc.
[colored picture of earth covered by clouds]
Come Watch With Me As Our World Burns
“I act the part you expect
I was never sure, but it seemed to be
The best disguise, don't you see?
You never really saw me.”
Issue 2, Jul 23](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ncgnxqf4fckp5dsoypeiq26e/bafkreibodgp3qr35o2mdmsiy5kgad2vlpnbbxyd5tqjuo2aekpdubp7fja)
![HEY!
You.
Yeah, you.
You look like you’ve got something to
say.
Come shout it with us.
[black print megaphone graphic]
Yell any submissions to atackuk@proton.me
Or at people in the street but we can’t promise to publish those.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ncgnxqf4fckp5dsoypeiq26e/bafkreifohlpa7tqzb2l5iq5fv4bdb6krczafb2plollry5mqcwu6zqxtqq)
![UNPERSONED
Being autistic, what I often take for granted is that other people see everyone else as, yaknow, people.
Cause I certainly do. Heck, I'm so prone to anthropomorphise things that not only do I attempt to befriend every cat and bird I meet, all my stuffed toys have names and personalities (this paragraph written next to the tenacious penguin Pepito). And this isn't me being delusional. On a cognitive level I know they're not alive, and that animals aren't capable of complex language and thought, but on an emotional level the distinction doesn't matter. I lose nothing by treating them - and all my fellow humans - as people.
But it turns out most people don't do that.
Transphobes don't see us as people.
Tories don't see disabled people as people.
And you can't justify the treatment of Palestinians without assuming a Palestinian life is worth less than an Israeli one.
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![A.T.A.C.K
Angry Trannies* Against Cops and Kings
*and Dykes, Faggots, etc.
[1914 British propaganda poster "Lord Kitchener Wants You", in which a military man with a mustache points at the reader with the caption "Your Country Wants You". The picture has been defaced to cross out the man's eyes and make the caption instead read "Your Country Kills You".]
War is a Hungry God
"Peace? Ah, yes, defined as period of time to allow for preparation for the next war."
Issue 6 Nov 23](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ncgnxqf4fckp5dsoypeiq26e/bafkreiea2t46v7d353piymvhex7vmqh4vjsxyy6qs4wfwmif5dnnvktrqa)
![HEY!
You.
Yeah, you.
You look like you’ve got something to
say.
Come shout it with us.
[megaphone graphic]
Yell any submissions to atackuk@proton.me
Or at people in the street but we can’t promise to publish those.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ncgnxqf4fckp5dsoypeiq26e/bafkreidmfqmgp7u2u5gdmrt2q4hextndyuiopfwzwjxrovr7pqmakzowom)
![[background is of a brick wall in black outline]
the long embrace, defined and hollow
in mask of loving, warm support
feigned through feast, forgoing food
the breaking down the bursting dam
yet when the tides emerge, ferocious
when the floods lay bare, forsaken
their loving gaze, almighty
erects a stifling wall](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ncgnxqf4fckp5dsoypeiq26e/bafkreibtieqs3etmoo5fu6tlejm3bwelwca6ztcicjtpxu4gsrrgbevtne)