Thursday, July 20, 2006

To Be Fair, The New KKK works with and for white people of all ethnic backgrounds

The Lesbian Avengers are an LGBT advocacy group that aims to identify and promote lesbian issues and perspectives, and to empower lesbians to become experienced and effective organizers for the purposes of political rebellion. Since its founding in New York City by a group of lesbian activists from the ACT-UP in June 1992, the group has worked mostly through direct action and street theater acts like fire eating. The British wing of the group was formed in 1992 by members of Outrage!.

Although the Avengers claim to be inclusive (they work with and for women of all races and classes; bisexual, heterosexual, and queer women; and transgendered and intersex individuals), they exclude men. The organization claims to emphasize the conversion of energy into constructive action against heterosexist, homophobic, heteronormative, classist, racist, sexist, and generally oppressive forces and institutions in society, particularly in the lesbian community.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbian_Avenger

There's always something to avenge. Everything you do is a defense when you misread everything as an attack.

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