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Lee Cicuta

@butchanarchy.bsky.social

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trans butch lesbian anarchist. disabled feminist theorist. she/her. https://ko-fi.com/butchanarchy

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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · Aug 26

New Essay!

Butch Anarchism

"Butchness is serious about everything and takes nothing very seriously; anarchism calls for the same approach.“
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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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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 6h

haha you are right on, they are both!

Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 7h

thank you i feel pretty proud of how it came together! not something i could have pulled off a few months ago

Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 7h

thank you!! 😊

Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 8h

anything i put about it into writing is gonna fail to be helpful in the same way i think 😅 it was very similar in content to so many videos i’ve watched before (step 1: draw circle(s) step 2: fill in drawing) but having someone skilled look at what i’m doing, clarify, etc. was really valuable to me!

Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 8h

ahhh thank you!! i have felt sooo stuck with drawing as a skill for years and years. and then my friend explained the mechanics of sketching to me in-person for like an hour. and it’s unlocked so much for me since! i’m looser in my approach, it looks better, and it’s actually fun sometimes now wow 🤩

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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 8h

i showed the friend who gave me my life-changing lesson on sketching the first photo here and they went “ugh no *I* wanted to be the one to do the art for your future graphic novel 😤” 🥰🥰

Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 8h

i’m trying to challenge myself with figures. look at this foreshortening i’m proud 😊

a pencil sketch of a masculine figure pointing directly at the viewer. at a perspective where the hand occupies nearly half the space of the page that the rest of his figure does.

another masculine figure, at an angle that suggests a jump or drop, off the ground with one knee tucked under them, their face tilting up and away from the viewer.

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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 8h

also i love these ladies 🥰

a small sketch drawing of a famous photo of two older fat women in bathing suits and big floppy hats talking to each other while standing with their feet in the ocean. one has a cane in her hand.

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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 8h

i’m trying to challenge myself with figures. look at this foreshortening i’m proud 😊

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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 8h

finally some more evocative sketching ;)

three pencil sketches on one paper, one of an open mouth, with someone else’s fingers pressing inside. another of a masculine person’s head, tilted back, eyes lidded, tongue out. and the third is a dog with its face held in a human’s hands, the hands are pressing up the dogs lips into the shape of a snarl

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 1d

That does horrible things to a community, to people's ability to function. There are families who haven't left their homes in weeks, relying on networks of trust to bring them essentials. Kids staying home from school, fear about every unknown car on the block. And those fears are not unfounded.

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 1d

Rogers Park and surrounding neighborhoods were hit hard by immigration enforcement activity over the weekend.

There's no competition here, but I want to name that the same heavy, violent, fast-moving abduction pattern has invaded the southwest side about three times a week for over a month now.

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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 20h

Liberals whenever they get vaguely active: “What the enemy *really* wants is the militant acts of direct resistance they spend most of their resources and air-time suppressing. Which is why we’re doing what they *hate*: being orderly and nice at this protest they wrote us a permit for.”

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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 20h

Every time liberals decide to show up to protests again they start declaring that they are succeeding where the militant freaks (who never left off challenging regime) have failed: with the groundbreaking strategy of looking more “normal” and fun-loving in front of the cops.

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the legendary transgender activist and veteran of the Stonewall uprising who dedicated her life to the liberation of trans people, especially Black trans women, has died at 78.

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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 1d

it’s been about two months since i last published an essay and right on time today arrives my ‘i never write anything i hardly write anything have i ever will i ever have anything relevant to say’ crisis. as reductionistic, extreme, and counterproductive as it always is.

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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 1d

Demanding administrative labor is how insurance companies profit. Providing it is how doctors get paid, which they do by pushing that labor off onto their patients in exchange for substandard wage-i mean…‘medical care.’

Pretty sure my insurance company is my boss and my doctor is my manager.

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Jane Shi | 皮爬高 echolalia echolalia is out now @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social · 1d

"Is it not telling that the conversation of abolition has been co-opted so strongly by liberal values that anything beyond nicely asking an abuser to volunteer to engage in an accountability process is accused of being one-in-the-same with State violence?”

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Against a Liberal Abolitionism

Lee Cicuta Against a Liberal Abolitionism February 21, 2022

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 2d

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD
PROTECT EACH OTHER
CODE I:
ICE NEARBY
BLOW QUICKLY IN A BROKEN RHYTHM:
PRE-PRE-PRE!
→ ALERTS THE COMMUNITY THAT ICE AGENTS ARE IN THE AREA.
ROGERS PARK WHISTLE PROTOCOLS
WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS
• A SIMPLE TOOL FOR FAST ALERTS.
• LOUD.
RECOGNIZABLE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.
• OUR VOICES ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER.
WHISTLES GUIDE
PEOPLE TO:
• FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS
• CATCH UP WITH THE CROWD
• ALERT NEIGHBORS
TO JOIN IN
NOISE = VISIBILITY.
CODE 2:
CODE RED
BLOW THREE LONG BLASTS:
PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE!
→ ICE IS DETAINING SOMEONE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
DON'T STAY SILENT. STAY NONVIOLENT.
WHY IT WORKS
• INSTANT ALERT
SYSTEM
• FASTER THAN SOCIAL MEDIA
• TURNS SILENCE INTO COMMUNITY
ACTION
ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY:
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• WEAR YOUR WHISTLE AROUND YOUR NECK
TEACH FAMILY
EIGHBORS TH
CODES
• USE IT WHEN ICE IS
SPOTTED
• PROTECT EACH OTHER, ALWAYS
TOGETHER, WE KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY:
PROTECT RP
• @PROTECTRP_

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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 2d

thank you for the sweet comments and encouragement, even the messages as simple as “we’d love to have you back here” are genuinely helpful for me in the place i’m in rn 🖤

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 4d

Ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social is SO CLOSE to her goal, less than 350 dollars left, could you please help? Im passing forward $20 that I got from yall for mutual aid, can you match me?

Project Bring Ruaa and Her Family to Safety

I'm helping my friend, Ruaa from gaza, raise funds to help her family survive.

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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 3d

cool for us that we are non-monogamous, mutually value autonomy, and are individually flexible and creative people, so big changes/differences in needs don’t mean the total rupture of our connection.

but yeah, considering certain losses, being at a distance, is still pretty gutting.

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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 3d

my partner and i are solid. so solid. we love the fuck out of each other and are really intentional about navigating questions like this together with love and respect. it’s just that we don’t always need the same things. which has the potential to be devastating, but isn’t wrong.

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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 3d

honestly this is really helpful and validating to hear! i finally heard one other person here reflect this feeling a couple weeks ago and i was like “oh! it isn’t just me” 😮‍💨 and “fuck i have to get out of here” followed quickly upon.

Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 3d

there’s a lot of unknowns and time to come before a move can happen. but it’s really possible that when i come i’ll have to come back without my closest friend and biggest source of support: my partner of many years. at least for a bit. so yeah, it’s just a really big choice to set on leaving.

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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 3d

nuanced takes about the downsides of the city are not needed nor desired i lived there for 5 years and also my choice is made. it’s just a big and scary choice (in the context of my life, i’m not scared of the city lol) and maybe some genuine encouragement could be helpful?

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