Our event is starting. Moderator Jasmine Gibson is introducing the panelists: Amber Hollibaugh, Barms Armstrong, and Michelle O’Brien (Che had to bow out) #pinkoNYPL Jasmine: what brought you here?
Amber: I have been a Marxist since the 60s and 70. In that period, it was not unlikely to be queer and a commie. But once the movement professionalized or disappeared, it became more and more difficult to be a radical

The idea that queer pleasure must be banished from the public is at the center of the moral order which allows private wealth to risk the lives of every earthly being. Undoing this is part of the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. Let’s go back: As the European bourgeoisie began exerting political control over the world it was transforming and enclosing, one of the key weapons in its hand was the concept of a moral geography it extended over its territories through the public/private distinction.