“Western civilization” is dreadful, there’s nothing here worth saving. A history of colonization and genocide, rape and repression, unspeakable violence on fathomless scales. Yes, I want to destroy “Western Civilization.” I want to destroy rape culture. I want to destroy every other “civilization” built on patriarchy, slavery, genocide, and oppression, too. I want to set […]
Month: August 2022
Thirty-One Theses
⚠Content Warning: Rape, Sexual Assault, Child Sexual Abuse, Incarceration, Abuse, Racism.
1. Every rapist is a cop without a badge.
2. Every cop is a rapist with a badge.
On the name “Judith’s Dagger”
Although a frequent subject in renaissance paintings already, the Florentine painter Artemisia Gentileschi famously depicted Judith’s beheading of Holofernes with unusually visceral and tactile detail, in what is believed to be a self-portrait…