About Me

I am Lee Cicuta (she/her), also known as @butchanarchy, a disabled transgender butch anarchist theorist. I’ve been an anarchist for over a decade and have been writing in the public eye as Lee since 2019. I write about a breadth of subjects connected to anarchism and feminism, with a special focus on synthesizing an anarchist analysis of larger structures of authoritarian power with feminist theory on intimate partner violence.

Butchness is serious about everything and takes nothing very seriously; anarchism calls for the same approach. Butch anarchism is butchness’s daily practice of regime defiance taken to its logical conclusions, made militant, and tied irrevocably to an anti-authoritarian posture against all systems of domination. It is the theory and practice of living butchly and anarchistically at once and at all times: pain, pleasure, prefiguration. It is a declaration of the infinite ways women can be and become through postures of negation, rejection, cooptation, care, and irreverence. Butch anarchists blaspheme patriarchal masculinity. We craft butch masculinities that contest and best it by centering Women and UnWomen’s desire and our necessarily anarcha-feminist liberation.

From Butch Anarchism