New Essay and Zine “Dykes, bitches, harpies, sluts! Every street is flooded with them! Overflowing! They fall down from trees as walnuts, burdensome with vicious promise: thunk, thunk, thunk, crash. They gush out from stinking gutters. They radiate out from the beams of street lights. Everywhere there are women: their voices, their faces, their hands, […]
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New in February
New in Social Media Threads New to the Library Books Hernández, Kelly Lytle- Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol Plant, Sadie- Zeroes + Ones: Digital Women + the New Technoculture Articles The Anatomy of a Cover-up: How Organizations Respond to Patriarchy and Reinforce it García, Mario T.- The Chicana in American History: The Mexican […]
New in January
I’ll be posting an update like this at the end of every month that will tell you what’s new to the site, what I’ve been working on, what’s going on in my life, and ways to support my work! New in Social Media Threads New in Art When I shared this drawing on Instagram I […]
What’s going on with my health?
I always feel complicated about listing out my ailments and debilities in an attempt to appear more legible in my disability to an audience. There isn’t anything more personal and intimate in my life than the chaotic conditions of my own body. Why do you need to know? Why does anyone need to know this? […]
Introducing: Death of Man (DOM) Distro
Watch this spot! While inactive for now, I have founded Death of Man (DOM) Distro to distribute material copies of my art and work as well as that of other artists and theorists. It will become active relatively soon, so give DOM Distro a follow on Instagram to keep up-to-date on its activities.
Butch Anarchism
This essay is written as both a development and a correction of my essay Butch Anarchy, written and published just over four years ago at time of writing. While that piece remains special to me, there are undeniably passages within it that disrupt transfeminine butches’ ability to read themselves there. This is a foundational flaw […]
This Was Fairly Trivial: A CEO’s Assassination and its Aftermath
Brian Thompson, CEO of health insurance giant UnitedHealthcare, was fired upon by a masked assailant around 6:46 a.m. on December 4, 2024 outside the New York Hilton Midtown Hotel where the company was set to hold an investor meeting. The shooter stepped up behind Thompson with a handgun fitted with a silencer and fired three […]
Returning Shevek to Anarres
I chose Lee Shevek as a pen name early on in this ongoing writing project, when my theoretical focus was on insurgency and counterinsurgency. Shevek is the name given to the main character in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed, a book that held — and still holds — a special place in my heart and in […]
Butch Ability
Butches hold open doors. Butches arm ourselves and patrol around the local queer bars in order to protect other queer folks from bashers. Butches use power tools, build sheds, haul the heaviest furniture when our friends are moving. Butches step in and beat down predatory men. Butches protect. Butches build. Butches act. Butches serve. This […]
The Coercive Control of Israeli Settler Colonialism
Coercive control, a framework originally conceptualized in Evan Stark’s Coercive Control: How Men Entrap Women in Everyday Life and widely utilized in domestic violence theory, is one that can be expanded to understand the tactics and underlying values of all forms of authoritarian control. I have argued for this in other essays and have alluded […]