Lgbt commune
Dreaming About Queer Communes
Growing up as queer kids, we envision the city as the only possibility for our emancipation, the only territory we can more or less safely reside. Once we’ve reached it and got around to it, it’s to the countryside that we twist our attention as a form of escapism, especially in this climate crisis context. Beyond this blurry fantasy, there is a rich history of theorization and experimentation we can all learn from. But first, let’s start by clarifying what’s a gay commune.
Although when talking about queer communes, we fetch a rather specific concept of what they may look like, it is more of an umbrella term that doesn’t inform us much about their actual forms and organizations. There are many distinct types of queer alternative rural communities, and this article is not an attempt to list them all, nor is it to make a typology, as it would justify way more than this small online article to do so. But if each community has its own basis, some mutual essential characteristics still exist: they are built in rural spaces, function by sharing resources and responsibilities, follow a non-hierarchal nonprofit and are queer through their residents, their id
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Activism: Twin Oakers contain done a variety of activist work over moment. Some members have grow more locally politically active around issues relating to national politics, such as voter registration. We accomplish some amount of self-education around oppression within the community. Past outward-facing activities that members have participated in include Books Behind Bars (books to incarcerated persons), indigenous rights, women's marches, LGBTQ activism, Inky Lives Matter actions, and more. While many individuals at Twin Oaks occupy in activist activities, as a community we execute not officially endorse any particular course of political activism (i.e. members undertake this work as individuals, not in the designate of community).
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