Against Normalcy

If we desire a world without restraint, we must tear this one to the ground

Mary Nardini Gang "Toward the queerest insurrection"[1]

1.   I am weary of the tendency for everything to be confined within predefined frameworks. Occasionally, unconventional entities emerge, only to be swiftly enveloped by new frameworks.

2. The recent LGBTQ movement serves as a striking example. Why should we concern ourselves with the sexual preferences of others? It has little impact on our lives whether our neighbors are LGBTQ.

3. We possess a natural propensity to exclude those who deviate from the confines of normalcy, whether by relegating them to isolation or constructing novel frameworks. Nevertheless, we must come to the realization that these trivial constructs are dispensable, as our existence has the power to transcend their limiting constraints.

4. However, in actuality, when we find ourselves ensnared within the confines of a framework, we metamorphose into captives stripped of freedom. None dares to break out prison, for we remain at the mercy of the prison warden. At times, prisoners sabotage one another, entangled within the treacherous web of power games.

5. We can only attain freedom by dismantling the normalcy. Nation, race, gender, ideology—they are all fucked.

thumbnail: Industrial Workers of the World, published in Solidarity, 1917; Rebel Voices: An IWW Anthology, edited by Joyce L. Kornbluh, Charles H. Kerr Publishing, 1998
[1] Mary Nardini Gang "Toward the queerest insurrection"
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/mary-nardini-gang-toward-the-queerest-insurrection