tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post3981623182992523509..comments2024-03-28T19:52:07.635-04:00Comments on Sweet Freedom: FFB: THE SPITBOY RULE: Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band by Michelle Cruz Gonzales (PM Press 2016)Todd Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-2272557453938893232018-02-16T11:38:28.594-05:002018-02-16T11:38:28.594-05:00Or a fringe-punk who hangs around a lot of subcult...Or a fringe-punk who hangs around a lot of subcultures and such, and always has. I've been a fringe-fan in the literary fantastic fiction community for quite a few decades now...the community that gave the fanzine/zine concept to punk, as well as the convention/zine traditions to comics fandom, folkies, and crime-fiction fandom...<br /><br />She was dubbed Todd in a relatively null-feminist way, by a young male punk friend, but I guess the relative absurdity of it appealed to her. <br /><br />I never much liked then name myself (a PE teacher I suffered in 2nd Grade took great joy in calling me "Clod") till, not long after, I learned that it not only meant fox but Mr. Fox had a long history as a trickster figure in the English traditions (recall Reynard) and when Christianity came in, the identification with the macabre when not proscribed (and the German tod, death personified) was if anything intensified. So, relatively interesting for a name that seemed to mostly belong to the more ineffectual sort of WASP, at least in popular culture in the US.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-91241562926831148712018-02-16T11:17:42.250-05:002018-02-16T11:17:42.250-05:00Todd does strike me as an appropriate name for a f...Todd does strike me as an appropriate name for a feminist, hard core, punk rocker.Jerry Househttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482856733981933159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-44562273280184391162018-02-16T11:04:11.227-05:002018-02-16T11:04:11.227-05:00Anarchists aren't necessarily against order, s...Anarchists aren't necessarily against order, so much as hierarchy. The democratization of everything tends to be the aim of most left-leaning anarchists...direct democracy, with the possibility of opting out. <br /><br />So, yes, it's a book fair for anarchists and one where people go to talk about anarchist books. <br /><br />How many book events aren't chaotic?<br /><br />You might be surprised how many times I've heard this kind of joke about the anarchist gatherings I've been a part of over the decades. Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-71795361731323800992018-02-16T10:43:11.317-05:002018-02-16T10:43:11.317-05:00What exactly is an anarchist book fair? Is it a bo...What exactly is an anarchist book fair? Is it a book fair for anarchists or a place where people go to talk about anarchist books? Is it rather chaotic if everyone is an anarchist? Or can they all get together and agree that they support anarchy?Jack Seabrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216640325305820140noreply@blogger.com