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Songbird, insurrectionary: continuity and escalation on the fronts of border regime
04/04/2026 | 1h 6 mins.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 racialized women and children as the inventors, developers, and most skilled practitioners of the insurgent tactics used to disrupt campaigns of ethnic cleansing of the past and present.
This zine is available for free to download (with the option to donate if you have resources to share) in the Butch Anarchy ko-fi shop: https://ko-fi.com/butchanarchy/shop. You can also tip her through Venmo: @butchanarchy and Cashapp: $butchanarchy. Or sign up to become a regular supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/butchanarchy. Lee is a disabled transgender butch anarchist who makes her work available without paywalls: so tips, when possible, are profoundly appreciated! Thank you!
Check out Lee's new website to find this zine, an archive of her other work, a digital library of compiled theory, and updates on her projects: https://butchanarchy.noblogs.org/- "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."
This zine is available for free to download (with the option to donate if you have resources to share) in the Butch Anarchy ko-fi shop: https://ko-fi.com/butchanarchy/shop. You can also tip her through Venmo: @butchanarchy and Cashapp: $butchanarchy. Lee is a disabled transgender butch anarchist who makes her work available without paywalls: so tips, when possible, are both extremely appreciated and sorely needed! Thank you!
You can also sign up to become a regular supporter on Lee's Patreon and receive early access to essays and updates on Lee's other projects: https://www.patreon.com/butchanarchy - 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 essay about a cave tour in the rural Midwest. It is an attempt to craft meaning in catastrophe.
The zine is available for free to download (with the option to donate if you have resources to share) in the Butch Anarchy ko-fi shop. Lee is a disabled transgender butch anarchist who makes her work available without paywalls so donations, when possible, are both extremely appreciated and sorely needed! Thank you! https://ko-fi.com/s/24162c4ae6
You can also sign up to become a regular supporter on Lee's Patreon and receive early access to essays and updates on Lee's other projects: https://www.patreon.com/butchanarchy - 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 shooter, and its political aftermath.
This zine is available for free to download (with the option to donate if you have resources to share) in the Butch Anarchy ko-fi shop. Lee is a disabled transgender butch anarchist who makes her work available without paywalls so donations, when possible, are both extremely appreciated and sorely needed! Thank you! https://ko-fi.com/s/3f8f7d611f
You can also sign up to become a regular supporter on Lee's Patreon and receive early access to essays and updates on Lee's other projects: https://www.patreon.com/butchanarchy - (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 disposability.
To do so Lee theorizes on her own experiences as a disabled butch as well as the life and work of Leslie Feinberg, a transgender butch communist who struggled with chronic Lyme disease for the last forty years of hir life.
This zine is available for free to download (with the option to donate if you have resources to share) in the Butch Anarchy ko-fi shop. Lee is a disabled transgender butch anarchist who makes her work available without paywalls so donations, when possible, are both extremely appreciated and sorely needed! Thank you! https://ko-fi.com/s/3f8f7d611f
You can also sign up to become a regular supporter on Lee's Patreon and receive early access to essays and updates on Lee's other projects: https://www.patreon.com/butchanarchy
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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.
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