the chapter called “anthropologists and other friends” from this book (Custer Died for Your Sins),

http://www.zinelibrary.info/files/Custer_Died_for_Your_Sins.pdf

photocopies are at the long haul. we should remember to get them on tuesday.

last time we brainstormed on future readings. it was a bit muddled at the end, but i think we left it that we will be reading stuff on isabelle eberhardt for this coming week, and something of crowley’s for the second week in june.
in the direction of eberhardt,

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Nomad is an enthusiastic rendition of her life (this will be made more interesting by questions that are raised in the following link)

here is an academic paper (a review of a review of a play about her life! couldn’t get more academic than that!), that seems interesting to me so far.

here is an article by eberhardt…

and for more of a sense of what was happening when eberhardt was alive, here is an interview with an anthropologist about her and her time…

(one of the things that comes up for me while reading about eberhardt is the question of how we will/want to be remembered after we’re dead, how frequently a person’s anarchy is disappeared once they’re not around.

AND POTLUCK!

readings on post-left anarchy…

leftovers

leftist millstone

and if you just can’t get enough…
 leaving the left behind

this week the reading group is taking a field trip to city lights in san francisco, to hear karen avrich (paul avrich’s daughter) speak on his posthumous book on alexander berkman and emma goldman.
the event starts at 7, people are meeting at the long haul at 6 for those who need, and those who can provide, rides to meet up with each other.

this is one of the articles from the new journal Baedan (a journal of queer nihilism). the entire journal is worth reading, but we can at least start with this piece and see what happens.

identity in crisis