Anarchist historian Spencer Beswick looks back on the intersection of queerness and anarchism within the past 40 years. Anarchists grappled with the intersection of queerness and anarchism as part of a broader transformation of the US anarchist movement in the 1980s-1990s. Against gay assimilationism on one side and class reductionism on the other, radicals began...

Anarchist historian Spencer Beswick looks back on the intersection of queerness and anarchism within the past 40 years.

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  •  ThatFembyWho   ( @ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English
    17•4 months ago

    Yes, you are missing something kinda important.

    Skinheads were not originally associated with racism, it was a working-class counterculture movement. In fact it was quite diverse in its influences. I would argue it still is.

    Only later did a far-right subset emerge and unfortunately that is what people associate with the term “skinheads” because they caused the most trouble.

    •  technomad   ( @technomad@slrpnk.net ) English
      5•4 months ago

      Thanks for the explanation.

      It’s a shame that is what ended up sticking then, and that the terminology couldn’t have been associated with something better. In my mind, it’s impossible to think of them in any other context. That is the default definition that I have.