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Reading: In The Thick Of It

Hey all! Right now I'm reading Complaint! by Sara Ahmed, a book that explores the way power responds to and suppresses complaint. There is a central focus on trying to complain within the Universit...

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NEW ESSAY- Self Assertion With a Body Out of Control

I have been in nonstop pain for the last five years of my life. While pain and frequent illness have been features of my lived experience for as long as I can remember, chronic pain introduced itse...

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Deeply sorry to be this kind of writer y'all lol

Thank you for hanging in there and supporting me anyway! I have about 5 essays that are halfway or more than halfway done, and several ones I have a little start on, and several older drafts that a...

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Reading: The Complainer as Carceral Feminist by Sara Ahmed

Just finally read this amazing essay by Sara Ahmed (it’s been in my to-read pile for much too long) and y’all can read it here: 2024-04-17 15:34:29 +0000 UTC View Post

NEW ESSAY- Leave, Or Else: Giving Ultimatums to Abuse Victims

Abuse is ubiquitous in our society, and as a result there are very few among us, if any, who have not b...

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Personal Update

Hey folks, not posting anything particularly interesting to share with y’all today, but thought I might offer up a mini update on me. As y’all have seen over the last couple of weeks I am worki...

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Book: The Tragedy of Heterosexuality by Jane Ward

Hey y'all! Hope you are doing well today. Just working on my Love Lies Bleeding essay and I am referencing thi...

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Resource: Monique Wittig's Dank Audio Stash

Hey there patrons! I’ve taken a break from the essay I’ve been sharing the research materials for in the last couple weeks (don’t worry i’m coming back to it) to write a fun little essay ab...

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More of Response Based Practice Video Series

If you didn’t click in and watch any of the other videos from the series I shared last week, wow please watch this one. Wherever there is domination there is resistance.

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Reading: Small Acts of Living by Allan Wade

Hey y'all, hope you are getting a good start to your week! Attached below is a pdf of an essay called Small Acts of Living: Everyday Resistance to Violence and Other Forms of Oppression by Allan Wa...

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Book Rec: Domination and the Arts of Resistance

If you were interested in the videos on Response Based Practice I shared yesterday, here's a great anarchist text to pair with them! I'm working on an essay more or less combining the ideas of resp...

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Doing some research on Response Based Practice and found this amazing (and short) video

It's less than 3 minute's long, an excerpt: "Men know that women resist being abused, men know that women don't like to be abused, only psychologists think that women fail to resist abuse."

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I'm Back at It!

Hey everyone,

I have mostly recovered from top surgery, as well as the chronic illness flare up that followed it, and the covid infection (my first known positive) that followed that. To say ...

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NEW ESSAY- Playing With Power: the Essential Differences Between Kink and Abuse

A frequent critique of kink, especially hard kink that utilizes physical force (ex: slapping, whipping, etc.), is that it is indistinguishable from abuse, or is itself abuse. Without a thorough und...

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Audio Essays!

Hey there everyone, finally finished my first set of audioessays! Check out me reading each essay in my zine Destroy What Destroys You V1 here!

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An Update

Hi y'all, 

I just wanted to make an end of the year post to update y'all on me, my work, and the current direction of my projects.

You may have noticed that my writing has been les...

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My Very First Zine!

Hello lovely patrons! It's been a while since I've posted an essay, because I have been working on a zine project that includes three new essay! It's called A Woman Can Be Any Gender He Wants To Be...

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NEW ESSAY: The Point of DARVO

DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender) is a common tactic deployed by abusers to co-opt one of the few (potential) sources of power available to the survivor — disclosure — a...

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NEW ESSAY: "Anti-Sex" and the Real Sexual Politics of the Right

So common is the conceptualization of reactionaries as having “anti-sex” politics that it is hardly remarked upon. They hate sex workers, they hate it when women and other marginalized genders ...

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New Essay: Tactics for the Fight Against Abuse: Learning from Anti-Fascism


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The Size of the Problem

We live in a culture of abuse. With a...

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Butchanarchy full live reading of "Betrayal: a critical analysis of rape culture in anarchist subcultures

Hey all! If you haven't caught it on twitter I just finished a live reading of the zine Betrayal. And I'm making the full text of my summary available publicly here. Tbh, I have no idea how I manag...

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NEW ESSAY- The Right -Wing Hates Children: The Weaponization Of "Groomer"

CW: This essay includes discussion of child sexual abuse and rape.

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New Essay- Intimate Authoritarianism: The Ideology of Abuse

For far too long have radical communities and their discourses treated domestic violence and abuse as external from the considerations of revolutionary struggle. Abuse is seen as simply an interper...

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Small life update!

You may have noticed in the last couple of months my essay writing and publishing has lessened. This is because I have been in my very last term of school (my fourth and final attempt at an undergr...

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New Essay: "Why Don't They Just Leave?" Entrapment as a Symptom of Abuse

When faced with the stories of physical and sexual violence, manipulation, gaslighting, and coercion that survivors tell from their experiences within abusive relationships, many people’s first q...

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New Essay: Do Survivors Need To Be Reminded Of Their Abuser's Humanity?

Often when survivors of abuse speak out against our abuser’s behavior and control, we are approached by seemingly well-meaning people who exort us to “remember” our abuser’s humanity in the...

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New Essay: "Who Has To Do It?": A Reflection on the Compulsion to Coerce

When exploring the potential challenges of a liberatory future, one of the most frequent subjects we reflect upon is that of how our labor might be organized to attend to the needs of all without d...

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New Essay: Do I Need To Be An Optimist To Be An Anarchist?

Many people new to anarchist ideas might find much that they resonate with in the political philosophy, but feel that they have some reservations that keep them from being able to identify fully wi...

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A Small Change and a Small Perk for Supporters!

Hey there everyone, I just want to start by saying how deeply I appreciate y'all's support. It means so much to me and has seriously helped me survive when disability has made other forms of work i...

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Clarification

Hey there! 

It has come to my attention that, while I've updated the individual membership categories I have (up until today) neglected to update the About section of my Patreon, which w...

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