Vrrrane in collaboration with the Zagreb Anarchist Bookfair collective are organizing at the Postaja squat on September 6, 2025, the first day of the official bookfair as a forum to address specifically anarcha-queer topics! It will be held mostly in English. Similar event already took place at Postaja in september 2024.
Attempts at reenvisioning our future as a place of solidarity, mutual aid, equity and degrowth require questioning existing power structures. Addressing social inequities is at the very heart of criticizing authoritarian structures and without it, we can never enable egalitarian and equitable relationships that are key to any anarchist vision.
The patriarchy continues to contribute to the marginalization, exploitation and violent repercussions against us who do not obey the strictly defined, submissive roles surrounding the figure of the dominant cis-male. Even in our anarchist collectives and communities, these power structures are reproduced and too often go unchallenged and unquestioned. This enables violence and further subjugation/marginalization/domination and poses a direct obstacle to our visions.
Queering anarchy thus means upsetting the structures that our communities are built on. Too often we see the same old patterns being reproduced in radical anarchist circles and spaces: cis-male domination, reproduction of power and domination dynamics, modes of subjugation and exploitation, as well as a lack of care and empathy. The questions of how to radically queer anarchy have an urgent need to be addressed – and here is an attempt at creating a forum for anarcha-queers prior to the general Zagreb Anarchist Bookfair.
The programme for the anarcha queer day will be held in english.
Statment from the Zagreb Anarchist Bookfair:
With fighting joy, we invite you to the Zagreb Anarchist Bookfair, which will be held this year at two locations. On the first day, September 6, the fair will be held at the Postaja squat in cooperation with Vrrrane – anarchaqueer autonomous group, where workshops and discussions await you. On September 7, in addition to book exhibitors and a rich selection of anarchist literature, discussions, forums and workshops await you at the Ribnjak Youth Center. The umbrella theme of this year’s Zagreb Anarchist Bookfair is “Antimilitarism and Antifascism”, and the subtheme is “Burnout”.
All participants of the fair will be provided with a vegan dish. We will also try to provide accommodation for participants (in Zagreb squats, private accommodation with friends from Zagreb and recommendations for alternative accommodation options, such as hostels).
The fair is based on the ideas of anti-authoritarianism, anti-fascism, anti-capitalism and other anarchist principles. We hope that this fair, like other anarchist fairs, will serve as a platform for getting to know each other, networking, distributing materials and sharing experiences in a common struggle. The fair is horizontally organized according to libertarian principles, and therefore financed on the basis of donations and benefits.
We invite you to contribute to this year’s fair with your participation.
In addition, we would ask you to forward the invitation to friendly collectives and distributors. Our desire is to bring anarchist principles and the theory of social and economic organization, philosophy and science closer to all interested parties. Let us extend the struggle against all systems of domination from the fair to the streets, to the workplaces, to apartments and houses, to schools and hospitals!
Neither slaves nor masters, anarchists!
ZASK (Zagrebački anarhistički sajam knjiga)
Zagreb Anarchist Bookfair
anarchistfair [at] riseup [dot] net
https://radar.squat.net/en/zagrebask
https://www.zagrebask.org/
Vrrrane
vrrrane [at] riseup [dot] net
https://radar.squat.net/en/zagreb/vrrrane
https://vrrrane1312.noblogs.org/
Anarchist bookfairs: https://radar.squat.net/en/anarchist-bookfairs
A list of bookfairs around the world curated by a group of volunteers. Want your bookfair here? Propose it; or better still make a group and manage your posting yourself.
Some squats in Zagreb https://radar.squat.net/en/groups/city/zagreb/city/zagreb/squated/squat
Some groups in Zagreb https://radar.squat.net/en/groups/city/zagreb
Events in Zagreb https://radar.squat.net/en/events/city/Zagreb
Some squats in Croatia https://radar.squat.net/en/groups/country/HR/country/HR/squated/squat
Some groups in Croatia https://radar.squat.net/en/groups/country/HR
Events in Croatia https://radar.squat.net/en/events/country/HR
