How to inspreken:

come check it out!

Manchester, UK. 2080.
It is a subculture whereby people are sexually attracted to the idea of transmitting and receiving STI’s. It started as a counter-culture against computer algorithms that determine every aspect of people’s lives, from careers to romantic interests, where they live, all over the world. The Virosexuals decided to alter their own bodies in order to subvert the algorithm. Now treated as non humans and thus ignored, Virosexuals like Amygdala are left to survive on their own…

The Virosexuals is an all new queer science-fantasy book published by an all queer independent collective.

https://pssss.co/books/the-virosexuals

We didnt make a specific agenda for this month, but here are the regular dates for next month!!
3rd of march we will read the last chapter of caliban and the witch!

take a mask with you or have a free selftest at the opstand 🙂

xx

[image: a transfeminist big purple logo in different shades is the background, based on the shapes of it there is a lot of text. the header says ‘anarcha boekenplek’ and fat letters form the word opstand. below there are three lines with white and black text on purple and yellow background. on the bottom there is a link to the library and a tiny illustrations of a book and playful letters saying’ anarchists care about books’. all the detail of the flyer can be found in the text.]

the letter writing for prisoners event is not happening tomorrow because of the increased infection risk concerning the chr*stm*s holidays!

We hope to see you next month, in january, in the new year, for the reading club, for some tea or the movienight or the next letter writing.

We’ll keep you posted here and on inst*gr*m about any special events or changes 🙂

Let’s watch a short documentary and learn and discuss about the struggles in Northern Ireland past and present.

This Thursday 9th Dec at 19.00 in the Opstand

Bernadette Devlin McAliskey:
Irish revolutionary, Civil rights activist, Feminist
Politically active 1968 – present day

Brought up in a cathlolic working class home in Northern Ireland, she radicalized participating in the Civil Right’s movement and was subsequently excluded from university.
Aged 21, not intending to win the elections she became the youngest woman ever elected into parliament only to realize that “… by coming to the british parliament, I’ve allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom”

Involved in the famous “battle of the bogside” she helped organize a neighborhood to defend themselves against unionist paramilitaries and the police. They held the barricades 48 hrs and surrendered only when they brought in the military.
“it is of no relevance who starts the stone throwing in these occasions but what does matter is that it always ends up with an invasion of the catholic slum area by the police”
She subsequently spent 6 months in prison for inciting riots.

“I’m just one of a number of people who grew up in a society we didn’t want to grow old in.
It’s a sick society.
I just wish that other people would try top put themselves in my shoes.
Not as bernadette devlin but as one 22 year old girl from a working class background living in northern ireland.
there’s millions, at least hundreds of bernadette devlins in the North of Ireland.
who have no adress to the british public, aren’t newsworthy
they don’t know what to do either
they can’t live in the society they find themselves in
they don’t know how to change it
and in conscience they can’t leave it and forget about it
we’re the people they call extremists”

She never stopped organizing politically.

Anarcha Boekenplek Opstand  – Events/evenementen December 2021:

Elke dinsdag en donderdag vanaf 18 tot 21.00 zijn we open voor onze bieb, om boeken met radicaal inhoud te verkopen of te lenen, we hebben zines en patches en thee en gezelligheid.

Deze december hebben we reading group, caliban and the witch chapter 3, een arrestatie en verhoorworkshop in het nederlands op de 16e (graag aanmelden via onze email boekenwinkelopstand.riseup.net tot 13.12.2021) en Letter writing to prisoners/gevangenen briefjes schrijven op de 28de.

Elk evenement begint om 19.00, maar open zijn we van 18-21!

Hou deze dagen in de gaten, want we hebben vanaf nu elke 1e donderdag, 2de donderdag en 4de dinsdag van de maand reguliere evenementen!

Onze catalogus van de bibliotheek kunnen jullie vinden op librarything.com/catalog/opstand_denhaag.