Bash Back!

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Bash Back marches in Minneapolis, 2009

Bash Back! was a network of queer, insurrectionary anarchist cells active in the United States between 2007 and 2011.[1]

Formed in

anarchist movement and radical queer groups, such as ACT UP, and took inspiration from the Stonewall and San Francisco's White Night riots
.

The group arose out of anti–Republican National Convention and anti–Democratic National Convention organizing, and continued up to 2011. Chapters sprang up across the country, including in Philadelphia and Seattle. The organization's model was a nonhierarchical autonomous network based on agreed-upon points of unity, such as fighting for "queer liberation" rather than "heteronormative assimilation", and accepting a diversity of tactics, "including an individual’s autonomy to participate in actions deemed illegal by the government".[2]

Actions

Bash Back! Chicago carried out a number of actions during their city's Pride Weekend in 2008. The first was participation in the annual

Mayor Richard M. Daley, whom the group charged was responsible for cutting AIDS funding, turning a blind eye to police torture and brutality, and supporting gentrification. Simultaneously, members of the group also distributed barf bags with slogans written on them such as "Corporate Pride Makes Me Sick," a statement about the commercial and assimilative intentions of mainstream gay culture.[4]

A contingent from Bash Back! picketed in

Alliance Defense Fund filed a federal lawsuit against Bash Back! on behalf of the church, under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act.[6] The suit ended in 2011 with an agreement for the defendants to pay $2,750 in damages and refrain from future church demonstrations.[7]

Bash Back dissolved by July 2011 due to internal politics.[7]

In March 2023 a Bash Back! international convergence was announced and set to occur on September 8–11 of that year in Chicago, IL.[8]

See also

References

  1. ISBN 978-1-5261-2813-3
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  2. ^ Fassler, Ella (June 20, 2019). "This Pride, Everybody Loves Stonewall. But Can We Stomach the Queer Insurrections of Today?". Slate Magazine. Archived from the original on March 31, 2020. Retrieved June 29, 2019.
  3. ^ Nair, Yasmin (July 2, 2008). "Dyke March: Different neighborhood, same message". Archived from the original on February 14, 2012. Retrieved October 16, 2008.
  4. ^ Nair, Yasmin (July 2, 2008). "Bash Back! makes point at parade". Archived from the original on February 14, 2012. Retrieved October 16, 2008.
  5. ^ Harris, Nathan. (November 19, 2008). "One Week Later". City Pulse, p. 6
  6. Lansing City Pulse. Archived
    from the original on November 26, 2011.
  7. ^ a b Balaskovitz, Andy (July 20, 2011). "Bash Back! resolved". Lansing City Pulse. Archived from the original on November 2, 2013. Retrieved November 1, 2013.
  8. ^ "Bash Back! Int'l Convergence 2023". www.anarchistfederation.net. Anarchist Federation. March 15, 2023.

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