Tuesday, March 30, 2021

'The Night will not be Silenced' - Myanmar punks oppose the coup

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Mass resistance to February's military coup is continuing in Myanmar, with more than 500 people killed as soldiers and police open fire ...
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Saturday, March 27, 2021

'Weird youths in tight trousers' and 'demoralising scenes' at 1950s dance in Huddersfield

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An everyday tale of police, the licensing laws, spooning and weird youths from Leeds in 1950s Yorkshire: Huddersfield club wants inquiry int...
Wednesday, March 10, 2021

'And I Dance with Somebody' - Diamonds are Forever & the Yokohama AIDS Conference 1994

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In 'And I Dance with Somebody: Queer History in a Japanese Nightclub' ( History Workshop Journal, Autumn 2020 ), Mark Pendleton  ref...
Tuesday, March 09, 2021

'We sing to keep ourselves from falling' - On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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I loved Ocean Vuong's poetic tale of growing up a young queer Vietnamese migrant in the US, 'On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous'...
Monday, February 01, 2021

No Blood for Oil: NHS workers and the 1991 Gulf War

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The 1991 Gulf War was months in the making and just a few weeks in the fighting. After Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990, the US and its al...
Friday, January 22, 2021

Revolt of the Ravers – The Movement against the Criminal Justice Act in Britain 1993-95

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by Neil Transpontine [first published in Datacide: magazine for noise and politics, number 13, 2013] It is now twenty years since the Britis...
Friday, December 04, 2020

Everybody is a Star! - Disconaut Association of Autonomous Astronauts (numbers one and two)

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Once upon a time I was Neil Disconaut, with my partner Juleigh Disconaut we constituted the Disconaut node of the Association of Autonomous ...