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
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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 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/3f8f7d611fYou 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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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 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/3f8f7d611fYou 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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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 donate via my ko-fi, venmo (@/genderchaos), or cashapp (@butchanarchy). Or sign up to support my patreon https://www.patreon.com/butchanarchy
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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-fi, venmo (@/genderchaos), or cashapp (@butchanarchy). Or sign up to support my patreon https://www.patreon.com/butchanarchy
Lee Shevek'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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