Membership in the Front can be understood as occurring on two levels, the covert cell level and the public support level, both of which operate in tandem to produce and publicize acts of property destruction. Tactical and operational knowledge is developed and shared through commercially available books written by the broader environmental movement throughout the last four decades, as well as inter-movement publications produced by the cells and distributed through numerous sympathetic websites. The small unit cells are self-contained entities that can operate without the support of external entities such as financiers or weapons procurers. In its current form, the Earth Liberation Front is a transnational, decentralized network of clandestine, autonomous, cells that utilize illegal methods of protest by sabotaging and vandalizing property. Its ideological underpinnings are based in deep ecology, anti-authoritarian leftism highlighting its critique of capitalism, a commitment to non-violence, a collective defense of the Earth, and a warranted feeling of persecution by State forces. The Earth Liberation Front is a radical environmental movement that developed from the ideological factionalization of the British Earth First! movement of the 1990s. What are the boundaries of our movement? Can Ted Kaczynski, Noam Chomsky, the Conspiracy of Fire Cells, and the NAASN membership ranks really exist within a singular label? Amongst this taxonomic challenge, one can easily locate numerous anarchist-linked individuals and projects that have explicitly “anti-academic” tendencies and thus exhibit categorical ideological cleavages. If Graeber’s account is correct, and Marxist scholars are moving aside for a new generation of anarcho-academics, how does this assertion compare to counterpoints proclaimed by other portions of our movement that scorn our studious eye?.Since the anarchist movement is fluid, amorphous, and more of a ‘network of networks’ than anything else, it is sometimes hard to pinpoint where there borders start and end. Borrowing from Barbara Epstein, David Graeber writes in Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology that anarchism has replaced Marxism as the discipline of critical scholarship, whilst lamenting the lack of anti-Statists within the academy. Whilst some of us identify chiefly as activists and others as academics, we are all anarchists. Some of us are entrenched in universities, others with independent writing and research endeavors, but the thread that runs throughout remains stable-anarchist studies. The North American Anarchist Studies Network (NAASN) has positioned itself within the continental anarchist milieu as a network of idea producers, activists, theorists, historians, critics, students and teachers. Through a queering of this understanding of liberation, Bash Back! serves to shift the animal liberation discourse away from the human centric “total liberation” framework, and towards an anti-speciest framework proposed herein, termed “total solidarity.” Through satirical posturing and a liberatory framework, Bash Back! attempts to draw intersectional connection between the systems of domination that enslave both non-human animals and non-heterosexual Queers. Through their appropriation of an attack wherein an orca whale killed its trainer at SeaWorld, Bash Back! problematizes not only the normalized domestication of non-human animals for entertainment, but also the discourse used to critique such enslavement. The neo-insurrectionist network known as Bash Back! has contributed to the queering of the animal liberation discourse through the publication of their 2010 communiqué entitled, “Bash Back!ers in Support of Autonomous Animal Action Call For Trans-Species Solidarity With Tillikum.” The politic developed by the larger movement of neo-insurrectionist Queers, as exemplified by Bash Back!, has served to disrupt anthropocentric notions of human-liberator, animal-captive that form the centerpiece of the animal liberation discourse.