Lee Cicuta
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Lee Cicuta
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· Aug 26
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…
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Butch Anarchism
"Butchness is serious about everything and takes nothing very seriously; anarchism calls for the same approach.“
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Butch Anarchism
"Butchness is serious about everything and takes nothing very seriously; anarchism calls for the same approach.“
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Lee has been through so much already and now this!
Hi everyone, my sweet little dog had a really gruesome freak accident yesterday. Survived it pretty miraculously, but my partner and I are broke and facing new medical debt in order to make that possible. Any help would mean a great deal 🖤🙏
November 13, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Lee has been through so much already and now this!
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Please help Lee, her partner and her sweet dog! ❤️ It's been super rough this year for her so she needs our support.
Hi everyone, my sweet little dog had a really gruesome freak accident yesterday. Survived it pretty miraculously, but my partner and I are broke and facing new medical debt in order to make that possible. Any help would mean a great deal 🖤🙏
November 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Please help Lee, her partner and her sweet dog! ❤️ It's been super rough this year for her so she needs our support.
Hi everyone, my sweet little dog had a really gruesome freak accident yesterday. Survived it pretty miraculously, but my partner and I are broke and facing new medical debt in order to make that possible. Any help would mean a great deal 🖤🙏
November 13, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Hi everyone, my sweet little dog had a really gruesome freak accident yesterday. Survived it pretty miraculously, but my partner and I are broke and facing new medical debt in order to make that possible. Any help would mean a great deal 🖤🙏
Everyone already knew because multiple victims have come forward to tell us over the span of decades, at astronomic risk to themselves and with incredible courage. Behind nearly every new “revelation” about someone’s involvement w/ Epstein is a victim’s account that was made public 5+ years ago.
November 13, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Everyone already knew because multiple victims have come forward to tell us over the span of decades, at astronomic risk to themselves and with incredible courage. Behind nearly every new “revelation” about someone’s involvement w/ Epstein is a victim’s account that was made public 5+ years ago.
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i will say, the epstein emails coming out like one week after the NYT ran its double whammy of "did women destroy the west and ruin the workplace?" headlines and then implicating the NYT is pretty fucking wild
November 13, 2025 at 4:20 AM
i will say, the epstein emails coming out like one week after the NYT ran its double whammy of "did women destroy the west and ruin the workplace?" headlines and then implicating the NYT is pretty fucking wild
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every so often it's breaking news that powerful men are doing exactly what we all knew they were doing
November 12, 2025 at 5:22 PM
every so often it's breaking news that powerful men are doing exactly what we all knew they were doing
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i wish i could convince myself to hope that maybe, just maybe, THIS time people will finally admit that sexual violence is *political violence*, is a political and social structure, is a technology of oppression, not a private, basically forgivable transgression. but i really can't fool myself
The idea that sexual abuse is part of “private” life instead of a public crisis has done incalculable damage. Anti-rape activists have to fight to even make it possible to expose sexual abuse as a wrongdoing in public without being silenced and undermined. That fight is far from won
November 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
i wish i could convince myself to hope that maybe, just maybe, THIS time people will finally admit that sexual violence is *political violence*, is a political and social structure, is a technology of oppression, not a private, basically forgivable transgression. but i really can't fool myself
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What the Epstein files show is the *solidarity* of many men-across class, race, religion, profession & party affiliation-in the global political project of keeping the boot on women's necks.
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?
November 12, 2025 at 9:09 PM
What the Epstein files show is the *solidarity* of many men-across class, race, religion, profession & party affiliation-in the global political project of keeping the boot on women's necks.
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
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I was talking with a friend my age not long ago about how she received the largest amount of male interest from older men when she was ~8 years old to around 19 or so.
At least a couple of them--from church, mind you--said she was "worth the risk with law enforcement". She wasn't safe at church.
At least a couple of them--from church, mind you--said she was "worth the risk with law enforcement". She wasn't safe at church.
I want people to understand that in my youth, a youth that happened somewhere between the youth of Epstein, Trump, Maxwell, ex-Prince Andrew, et al & that of their victims, the term "jail bait" was framed as a compliment.
November 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I was talking with a friend my age not long ago about how she received the largest amount of male interest from older men when she was ~8 years old to around 19 or so.
At least a couple of them--from church, mind you--said she was "worth the risk with law enforcement". She wasn't safe at church.
At least a couple of them--from church, mind you--said she was "worth the risk with law enforcement". She wasn't safe at church.
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lee, who already has to deal with mounting medical bills, is now also has a sudden unexpected very scary pet injury requiring chest surgery to deal with. please consider helping her and her poor sweet dog 🖤🖤🖤
Not an official fundraising post yet but if folks see this one now and wanna help, here’s how, or via ko-fi.com/butchanarchy
November 12, 2025 at 9:10 PM
lee, who already has to deal with mounting medical bills, is now also has a sudden unexpected very scary pet injury requiring chest surgery to deal with. please consider helping her and her poor sweet dog 🖤🖤🖤
Well my partner and I are up shit-creek financially because of this but our little dog is going into surgery now and the vet feels very optimistic about likely outcomes. Waiting to hear for sure but she’ll probably be okay 😭😭
CW: Pet injury
This morning my partner let our dogs in from outside and one of them had a thick branch impaled in her chest. Got her to the vet and waiting on a CT scan to see if it punctured her lungs and what kind of surgical intervention she’ll need. I’m a total wreck.
This morning my partner let our dogs in from outside and one of them had a thick branch impaled in her chest. Got her to the vet and waiting on a CT scan to see if it punctured her lungs and what kind of surgical intervention she’ll need. I’m a total wreck.
November 12, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Well my partner and I are up shit-creek financially because of this but our little dog is going into surgery now and the vet feels very optimistic about likely outcomes. Waiting to hear for sure but she’ll probably be okay 😭😭
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Was having a conversation with a partner today about just how much the last five years or so has just killed any benefit of the doubt I ever gave to the cis. They know. They fucking know and they want us gone. They don't care that much, but they know.
At some point we have to confront that we're not trying to educate an ignorant population about the struggles of queer life and epistemic injustice.
They KNOW, and they want to keep it that way, if not make it worse. We are an affront to their pathetic, rotten societies.
They KNOW, and they want to keep it that way, if not make it worse. We are an affront to their pathetic, rotten societies.
November 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Was having a conversation with a partner today about just how much the last five years or so has just killed any benefit of the doubt I ever gave to the cis. They know. They fucking know and they want us gone. They don't care that much, but they know.
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trans friend who is not online has only 9 dollars in the bank atm and needs some cash, please help out if you can!
Venmo: @/OrobasGacinovicDomany
CA: $OrobasGacinovic
Venmo: @/OrobasGacinovicDomany
CA: $OrobasGacinovic
November 12, 2025 at 4:56 PM
trans friend who is not online has only 9 dollars in the bank atm and needs some cash, please help out if you can!
Venmo: @/OrobasGacinovicDomany
CA: $OrobasGacinovic
Venmo: @/OrobasGacinovicDomany
CA: $OrobasGacinovic
CW: Pet injury
This morning my partner let our dogs in from outside and one of them had a thick branch impaled in her chest. Got her to the vet and waiting on a CT scan to see if it punctured her lungs and what kind of surgical intervention she’ll need. I’m a total wreck.
This morning my partner let our dogs in from outside and one of them had a thick branch impaled in her chest. Got her to the vet and waiting on a CT scan to see if it punctured her lungs and what kind of surgical intervention she’ll need. I’m a total wreck.
November 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
CW: Pet injury
This morning my partner let our dogs in from outside and one of them had a thick branch impaled in her chest. Got her to the vet and waiting on a CT scan to see if it punctured her lungs and what kind of surgical intervention she’ll need. I’m a total wreck.
This morning my partner let our dogs in from outside and one of them had a thick branch impaled in her chest. Got her to the vet and waiting on a CT scan to see if it punctured her lungs and what kind of surgical intervention she’ll need. I’m a total wreck.
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I hate this "phones" conversation regarding queer people and queer kids because the bottom line is, cishet society KNOWS. Right-wingers KNOW that the internet is how queer people connect to each other---hell, that marginalized people period use it to organize and educate.
That's why they hate it.
That's why they hate it.
November 12, 2025 at 8:19 AM
I hate this "phones" conversation regarding queer people and queer kids because the bottom line is, cishet society KNOWS. Right-wingers KNOW that the internet is how queer people connect to each other---hell, that marginalized people period use it to organize and educate.
That's why they hate it.
That's why they hate it.
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useful to remind people that "if they go for A then they'll go for B next" is just a half truth. what actually happens is they attempt to leverage B against A then when A is rightless & policed by B, they'll leverage C against B. it's the assumption that B is untouched but B is Recruited Against A
tbh, the US supreme court not budging on gay marriage is great, but also this happening while codifying anti-abortion and anti-trans laws is either strategic in the face of opposition or an example of the project of homonationalist integration, at a time where fascist parties have cis LGB leaders
November 11, 2025 at 4:21 AM
useful to remind people that "if they go for A then they'll go for B next" is just a half truth. what actually happens is they attempt to leverage B against A then when A is rightless & policed by B, they'll leverage C against B. it's the assumption that B is untouched but B is Recruited Against A
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This is what I try to always tell people: food banks can do way more with your money than you can, due to bulk buying deals. And they can do way, way more with your money than with the canned goods you didn’t want to eat
spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
November 11, 2025 at 9:21 PM
This is what I try to always tell people: food banks can do way more with your money than you can, due to bulk buying deals. And they can do way, way more with your money than with the canned goods you didn’t want to eat
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6hrs left to raise $340, plus i just ran out of food again and im definitely having symptoms of a crohn’s stricture I need to ub*r to the hospital for later if it doesn’t stop :/
ko-fi.com/katimcf
ko-fi.com/katimcf
November 11, 2025 at 8:15 PM
6hrs left to raise $340, plus i just ran out of food again and im definitely having symptoms of a crohn’s stricture I need to ub*r to the hospital for later if it doesn’t stop :/
ko-fi.com/katimcf
ko-fi.com/katimcf
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Sharing because not enough folks know that this is a whole ass diagnosis. If your internal experience matches this, you can know you’re not alone.
This was the first time I’d ever heard of Moral Scrupulosity OCD, spent an hour reading about it and about half that time also crying, I’ve never seen this part of my internal experience ever described before 🤯😭
Here’s a helpful article about it:
embrace-autism.com/moral-scrupu...
Here’s a helpful article about it:
embrace-autism.com/moral-scrupu...
November 11, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Sharing because not enough folks know that this is a whole ass diagnosis. If your internal experience matches this, you can know you’re not alone.
This was the first time I’d ever heard of Moral Scrupulosity OCD, spent an hour reading about it and about half that time also crying, I’ve never seen this part of my internal experience ever described before 🤯😭
Here’s a helpful article about it:
embrace-autism.com/moral-scrupu...
Here’s a helpful article about it:
embrace-autism.com/moral-scrupu...
November 11, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This was the first time I’d ever heard of Moral Scrupulosity OCD, spent an hour reading about it and about half that time also crying, I’ve never seen this part of my internal experience ever described before 🤯😭
Here’s a helpful article about it:
embrace-autism.com/moral-scrupu...
Here’s a helpful article about it:
embrace-autism.com/moral-scrupu...
Been about a week now of not being able to sleep much more than 3 hours at a stretch. Woke up at 3am covered in sweat and threw up for reasons unknown. Most of the time it really does feel like my body is just breaking down. How much time do I really have with it when it’s so deeply unwell? 😞
November 11, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Been about a week now of not being able to sleep much more than 3 hours at a stretch. Woke up at 3am covered in sweat and threw up for reasons unknown. Most of the time it really does feel like my body is just breaking down. How much time do I really have with it when it’s so deeply unwell? 😞
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I genuinely think that trans people need to fight a bigger fight about research ethics governing our treatment. "Trans rights are human rights" is vague.
No research without consent is specific.
No research without consent is specific.
It's right that trans people should be able to refuse to be subjects in research being conducted with an aim of reducing their options in life, reducing their comfort and wellbeing.
November 11, 2025 at 9:03 AM
I genuinely think that trans people need to fight a bigger fight about research ethics governing our treatment. "Trans rights are human rights" is vague.
No research without consent is specific.
No research without consent is specific.
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Are you genuinely too thick to be aware of how many trans people's families misgender and dishonor us in death, or are you just vile and craven enough to pretend you don't know even when talking to queer people?
Do you not think it's bizarre to have strangers on the internet decide they know better than Brianna's own loved ones on what is or isn't insulting to her memory?
I've got no time for Rosie Duffield, but she turned up at a drop-in event in Parliament and that's been the limit of her involvement.
I've got no time for Rosie Duffield, but she turned up at a drop-in event in Parliament and that's been the limit of her involvement.
November 11, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Are you genuinely too thick to be aware of how many trans people's families misgender and dishonor us in death, or are you just vile and craven enough to pretend you don't know even when talking to queer people?
After focusing so much of my work on intimate violence
“It’s bad faith to call out an observable pattern of behavior even I recognize as real” is not a position I’m ever surprised to come across but there is something strangely refreshing about folks without the art to conceal it.
“It’s bad faith to call out an observable pattern of behavior even I recognize as real” is not a position I’m ever surprised to come across but there is something strangely refreshing about folks without the art to conceal it.
November 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
After focusing so much of my work on intimate violence
“It’s bad faith to call out an observable pattern of behavior even I recognize as real” is not a position I’m ever surprised to come across but there is something strangely refreshing about folks without the art to conceal it.
“It’s bad faith to call out an observable pattern of behavior even I recognize as real” is not a position I’m ever surprised to come across but there is something strangely refreshing about folks without the art to conceal it.
Always relevant!
November 10, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Always relevant!