from the lies collective’s editorial note: 

“our materialism dispenses with concepts of rights, equality, justice, agency, representation, or any that otherwise affirm the same set of relations and political forms that inaugurate and ensure our oppression. rather we turn our attention to the various registers and forms of violence that characterize patriarchy, a structure and set of mechanisms that produces relations of domination and subordination, but within which identity categories are unstable.” 

“…we insist that patriarchy is never pure, never a relationship between two figures, but more an arrangement of violences…”

“…any discussion of gender implies race, and vice versa.” 

“everything we write will be used against us.” (*i love this because, like, everything will be used against us, might as well write it.)

“this writing is dedicated to…those who have needed to lie,/and to those who told the truth but weren’t believed anyway.”