This open letter was written in August 2025, in a context of rising fascism leading to increased violence against queer people and anyone with a deviant identity. Moins! is a political ecology magazine with which we have been collaborating for several years and with which we share valuable contacts. This open letter is intended as a contribution to a collective discussion on the difficulty faced by the social groups most threatened by fascism in forming alliances with groups and individuals who also forge ties with groups that contribute to our oppression.
We know that this is an issue that currently affects many people, and we look forward to reading your own thoughts on the subject with pleasure and interest => evasions@riseup.net
Hi Moins!
We received copies of your latest issue, in which we published an article. It looks great, well done!
However, we were quite disappointed to see an article by Nicolas Casaux in the same issue, just as we were disappointed to see the article on PMO in the previous issue. Both are openly transphobic and reactionary—reactionary in the sense that their political battle is focused on preserving a rigid identity (the “real” woman, the “real” man) in the face of what they themselves consider deviant: our lives. A quick visit to Nicolas Casaux’s website—which you link to in your latest issue—makes this reactionary position abundantly clear. For us, a collective with anarchist, queer, and trans realities as well as sex workers (another cause that Nicolas Casaux takes very seriously in his hunt for deviance), this raises real questions that are difficult to answer. At a time when growing fascism is targeting us in words and deeds, can we continue to maintain revolutionary ties of complicity as we have done with you for years, having published several columns in your pages while promoting your newspaper, when you are acting as a mouthpiece for groups and individuals who are happily contributing to the attack we are facing? We know that you are aware of the problematic positions of both PMO and Casaux; there is no longer any debate on the issue. However, in your view, this is clearly not enough to stop you from using their content. It is clear that you filter their content in what you publish on their behalf, but this strategy of separating the work from the artist is never enough to avoid promoting the artist. The question of how to maintain links within our movements is an important issue. The divide with groups that are openly hostile to our existence, such as PMO and Casaux, is obvious, but what about groups like your newspaper and others with whom we share struggles but who nevertheless do not feel concerned by the violence and systemic oppression we face, minimize it, and give space to those who attack us? This is also what investing in our struggles through the prisms of intersectionality and convergence of struggles allows us to do: to care for one another and support each other in our different realities. Because given the state of the world, if you don’t understand why your queers allies feel threatened to the point of endangering their very existence… then perhaps you don’t have queer allies… only queer contacts.
With love and Rage
Projet-Evasions
Our articles shared in the Moins! newspaper