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Well my friends, the condoms have arrived. Yes, that means that on my bedroom floor sit a box of one thousand prophylactics in glorious teal-blue packaging just waiting to be distributed. The question, of course, remains: what to do now? Don't worry, we've got plans, and lots of them. While I don't want to spoil any surprises, Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood should be expecting some guerilla sex ed, party favors, and HIV/STD awareness events. On such a short notice, it looks like we'll miss Valentines Day, but never fear, people have sex all year round, and we'll make sure they are protected.
But, of course, these condoms are one part of a greater struggle. They are just one piece to a much larger fight for health, justice, and pleasure. Within public health there is an understanding that we cannot be healthy physically until we are healthy environmentally. As such, we use these condoms to fight against queer-negativity, against misogyny, against violence, hate, racism, ageism, ableism, the gender binary, and so much more. We use these condoms as a method to a greater goal, one that we hope will eventually lead us as global citizens to a world where sex and pleasure are always synonymous, where justice prevails, and where we are healthy.
We leave you with both guiding quotes and photos. Viva la revolution!
Organization is not only directly linked to unity, but a natural development of that unity. Accordingly, the leaders' pursuit of that unity is also an attempt to organize the people, requiring witness to the fact that the struggle for liberation is a common task.
Paulo Friere - Pedagogy of the Oppressed
How can I tell you. How can I convince you, brother, sister that your life is in danger: That everyday you wake up alive, relatively happy, and a functioning human being, you are committing a rebellious act. You as an alive and functioning queer are a revolutionary.
Anonymous - "Queers Read This," June 1990
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