Butch Anarchy
Lee Cicuta's (@butchanarchy) essays in audio format. Lee is a disabled, trans, butch anarchist theorist who focuses her theorizing on anarchism, abolitionism, and domestic violence.
Episodes
18 episodes
Songbird, insurrectionary: continuity and escalation on the fronts of border regime
In Lee's newest essay Songbird, insurrectionary: continuity and escalation on the fronts of border regime, she offers historical and current political analysis on the movements of border regime. Importantly in this piece, she locates r...
Butch Anarchism
"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 irrevocab...
Atrophy and the Subterranean Microbiome
This essay by Lee Cicuta is a reflection on disability, settler colonialism, the fragility of microbiomes, and the fear of atrophy. It is a piece about archive, about loss, about relationship to environment, and about accessibility. It is an es...
This Was Fairly Trivial: A CEOs Assassination and its Aftermath
This Was Fairly Trivial by Lee Cicuta is a research piece on the material conditions and contexts surrounding the December 4, 2024 assassination of a Unitedhealthcare CEO, the surveillance apparatus that was leveraged in the hunt for the shoote...
Butch Ability
(Update: Author's name is now Lee Cicuta) This zine by Lee Cicuta is an exploration of the ways that popular intracommunity conceptualizations of butchness that focus heavily on physicality may in some ways act as companions to notions of our d...
Gender Liberation
(Update: Author's name is now Lee Cicuta) Gender Liberation by Lee Cicuta. Read by the author. You can download the zine for free at https://ko-fi.com/butchanarchyIf you appreciate my work and want to support me you can donate via my ko...
Cry Like A Fag, Scream Like A Woman
(Update: Author's name is now Lee Cicuta) Cry Like A Fag, Scream Like A Woman by Lee Cicuta. Read by the author. You can download the zine for free at https://ko-fi.com/butchanarchyIf you appreciate my work and want to support me you ca...
Masculinity: Contested Territory
(Update: Author's name is now Lee Cicuta) Masculinity: Contested Territory by Lee Cicuta. Read by the author. You can download the zine for free at https://ko-fi.com/butchanarchyIf you appreciate my work and want to support me you can d...
Butch Anarchy
(Update: Author's name is now Lee Cicuta) Butch Anarchy by Lee Cicuta. Read by the author. You can download the zine for free at https://ko-fi.com/butchanarchyIf you appreciate my work and want to support me you can donate via my ...
Introduction to A Woman Can Be Any Gender He Wants To Be
(Update: Author's name is now Lee Cicuta) Introduction to the zine A Woman Can Be Any Gender He Wants To Be by Lee Cicuta. Read by the author. You can download the zine for free at https://ko-fi.com/butchanarchyIf you appreciate my work...
The Coercive Control of Israeli Settler Colonialism
(Update: Author's name is now Lee Cicuta) The Coercive Control of Israeli Settler Colonialism is an essay that puts into practice the argument made in Lee's previous works: that an analysis of coercive control as it appears in domestic violence...
Tactics for the Fight Against Abuse: Learning from Anti-Fascism
(Update: Author's name is now Lee Cicuta) Tactics for the Fight Against Abuse: Learning from Anti-Fascism. Found in Destroy What Destroys You V1: Essays on Abolitionism and Intimate Authoritarianism by Lee Cicuta. Read by the author. Down...
Intimate Authoritarianism: The Context of Abuse
(Update: Author's name is now Lee Cicuta) Intimate Authoritarianism: The Context of Abuse. Found in Destroy What Destroys You V1: Essays on Abolitionism and Intimate Authoritarianism by Lee Cicuta. Read by the author. Download zine for free her...
Why Don't They Just Leave? Entrapment as the Context of Abuse
(Update: Author's name is now Lee Cicuta) Why Don't They Just Leave? Entrapment as the Context of Abuse. Found in Destroy What Destroys You V1: Essays on Abolitionism and Intimate Authoritarianism by Lee Cicuta. Read by the author. Download zin...
Our Abuser's Humanity
(Update: Author's name is now Lee Cicuta) Our Abuser's Humanity. Found in Destroy What Destroys You V1: Essays on Abolitionism and Intimate Authoritarianism by Lee Cicuta. Read by the author. Download zine for free here:
Against A Liberal Abolitionism
(Update: Author's name is now Lee Cicuta) Against A Liberal Abolitionism. Found in Destroy What Destroys You V1: Essays on Abolitionism and Intimate Authoritarianism by Lee Cicuta. Read by the author. Download zine for free here:
