Bluesky Thread (February 2026)

Insurrectionary feminist anarchism is such a secure home for me in a way mass movement focused anarchism never could be because it starts with acceptance that the most crucial conflicts are and will remain profoundly asymmetric, then challenges one to develop a principled response from that point. [ ]

Mass movement focused politics have an undeniably conservative influence on most people. As evidenced by the countless conversations about anarchism, misogyny, white supremacy, ableism, etc. get derailed by activists concerned foremost with popularity and mass appeal. [ ]

Mass movement focused politics are also a spirit killer for me personally. Feels a little evangelical a lot of the time, and patronizing. And every time you fail to convince liberals they have nothing to lose but their chains or whatever, your big dreams of Collective Liberation give a tremble. [ ]

I am, frankly, extremely uninterested in any ideology that sees large-scale conversion as a necessary condition for its projects. For both anarchism and feminism, such a focus has shown to be doomed to extreme burnout, failure, and disillusionment, or else extreme co-optation. [ ]

Reckoning with this doesn’t mean I accept the inevitability of “failure,” it’s that insurrectionary feminist anarchism has entirely redefined what “failure” and “success” look like to me from how mass movement focused politics tend to define them. [ ]

Instead of defining success by conversion, by numbers, or media representation, success in my insurrectionary anarchist feminism is defined by my values, my relationships, my actions, my capacity, and how they all might be leveraged to undermine regime and expand agency for those on the margins. [ ]

It’s really freeing to me. It makes staring down horrible odds more bearable (if only because that asymmetry is taken for granted). When I consider and reconsider my political positions and theories, whether my conclusion will have “good optics” doesn’t distract from my central concern with integrity. [ ]

There’s no dream of mass appeal for insurrectionary feminist anarchism. We are unpopular and the louder and clearer and more militant we are about our position, about total liberation from all authoritarianism, the less popular we will be. Good thing then that we’re not running for election. [ ]

And we don’t need to. We don’t need to be popular. We absolutely don’t need to appeal to men and we have no dependence on their acquiescence to engage in our projects. Sabotage is an insurgent activity that ultimately requires very few participants to have lasting impact. [ ]

Bluesky Thread (February 2026)

Al in policing still seems to work like most of their junk science “forensics” in that it provides extra pretext and vaguely plausible narrative to arrest and incarcerate people (its actual purpose) but never with the kind of “accuracy” (pinpointing a perpetrator) their propaganda suggests it has. [ ]

That the threat of Al in policing is general & never just specific is important to be clear about. It means both that there are ways for individuals engaging in direct anti-regime action to protect themselves from surveillance & that *everyone* has a stake in bringing that infrastructure down. [ ]

Al in policing is not magical and it does not bypass the necessity for human labor and discernment. It requires significant conditions to be met to work at its peak (and advertised) efficiency. Police don’t use Al to find perpetrators they use Al to make arrests. That distinction is meaningful! [ ]

This means, on one hand, yay! Not everyone who takes anti-regime action will get caught, especially if they take certain precautions! On the other, Al in policing means anyone* can be arrested for anti-regime action regardless of whether they’ve ever participated in it. It’s a threat to all. [ ]

And, like all other policing technologies, the burden and intensity of the threat falls disproportionately on Black and brown people, on whom the technology is even more inaccurate and against whom it is leveraged the most aggressively by police. [ ]