Hey awesome folks… you should submit to this awesome ‘zine!
Bound to Struggle
Where Kink and Radical Politics Meet
Volume 4: Desire
Call for Submissions – *Extended Deadline* January 1st 2010!!
PURPOSE: To create a ‘zine that brings together the words of a diverse
group of practitioners of both kink and radical politics
Here’s some questions to get you thinking-
*Does radical politics inform how you do kink? Has kink taught you
ways to be a better activist or political thinker? Can the
non-physical mechanics of kink (notions of consent, etc.) affect the
nitty-gritty mechanics of an action bloc or campaign fight? Do
conscientious ideas of environmentalism, anti-sexism, racism,
able-ism, classism, gender-ism, etc. figure into the negotiating
process of your scenes or relationships? How do you talk about power?
Where do these ideas meet action and how do they affect our lives?
WHY “DESIRE”?
Clearly, why not? But what do we envision when we work towards the
fulfillment of our desires? What does desire bring us closer to? Is
desire a means towards it own end? Do we work towards having desire,
or does desire bring us to more meaningful work? How does sexual
desire take shape in the desire for a better world? Where do power
and desire meet?
YES: personal essays, comics, theoretical works, poetry; serious,
funny, sexually explicit, fabulous, unfinished; clearly drawn art due
to cheap copy machines
NO: grocery lists of anecdotes, using others’ names without their
consent, photos (sorry, I don’t have the equipment necessary to
replicate photos)
PLEASE: questions you may not have the answers to, analyses you can’t
talk about in class or reading group, thoughts about power and sex
that get more complicated the more they are dissected, turning readers
on with your brilliance
SEND ALL SUBMISSIONS TO (or for questions or to get past volumes):
simon strikeback 1433 W. Lunt #1N Chicago, IL 60626 s.strikeback@gmail.com
If you frequent an info shop, coffee shop, sex shop, book shop,
anywhere that many post a call for submissions of this nature, thank
you in advance for printing up this flyer and posting it!
