Gassner, Günter  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5891-6228
2025.
Drawing a ‘revolutionary we’: queer antifascist lines for universal liberation.
Cultural Geographies
32
(4)
, pp. 465-484.
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: | Publication |
| Status: | Published |
| 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: | 01 Oct 2025 14:27 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/175350 |
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