Drawing a ‘revolutionary we’: queer antifascist lines for universal liberation

Gassner, Günter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5891-6228 2025. Drawing a ‘revolutionary we’: queer antifascist lines for universal liberation. cultural geographies 10.1177/14744740251324901

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Abstract

This paper explores drawing as a queer antifascist praxis. Discussing ‘who’ comes together through the line drawings that were included in the Gay Liberation Front’s (GLF) main newspaper Come Together in the 1970s, I explore how drawing can construct a ‘we’ as a group agent. Based on distinctions that the GLF drew between revolution and liberal reform, and between universal liberation and identity politics, drawing as a liberatory praxis constitutes a space for interrogating connections between revolution and fascism, including microfascist aspects within revolutionary processes. Examining this space in relation to exploring social and urban relations, I propose drawing as a process of antifascist subjectification for a future of sexual becoming. I argue that when queering and antifascisting come together – drawing a ‘revolutionary we’ – a political horizon can be generated to end differing and interrelated forms of oppression.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	In Press
Schools:	Schools > Geography and Planning (GEOPL)
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
ISSN:	1474-4740
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	17 January 2025
Date of Acceptance:	13 January 2025
Last Modified:	25 Mar 2025 12:15
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/175350

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