Preface We asked the author’s permission to host her recent research work concerning the revolutionary suicide by self-immolation of Lilly Bushnell, a.k.a. Aaron Bushnell. We regard it as a project that reflects our concern for militant remembering, de-erasure, and anarchism as a radical form of grief. Our gratitude to the author for doing this work, […]
Author: narcissus
Anarchist. Useless academic. Debt peon. Enemy of all so-called “Great Men of History.” Current author of long-running IA Project. I am not anyone special or important. I just want a world without all this trauma.
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"Sed fuit in tenera tam dura superbia forma:
nulli illum iuvenes, nullae tetigere puellae."
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https://ko-fi.com/narcissus_andtheircats
“Conversion Therapy” and Callous Indifference
One of the qualities that overwhelmingly characterizes the attitude adopted by sexologists advocating either conversion therapy for trans children or for normalization and destigmatization of adult sexual interest in children (or both) is a pervasive, deeply troubling callous indifference toward the young person’s experience of acute distress. We’ve be given permission to share this article […]
Three Short Arguments About Youth Liberation and Body Autonomy
⚠Content Warning: Discussion of Sexual Violence, Sexual Coercion, Child Sexual Assault, Rape Apologia, Pedophilia (Non-Graphic) Introduction This will not be a very well-organized essay, since it amounts to more or less collating and editing a few related conversations and arguments I had several years ago concerning the matter of body autonomy and youth liberation. At […]
Book Review: “Harmful to Minors,” by Judith Levine
⚠Content Warning: Sexual Violence, Sexual Coercion, Child Sexual Assault, Rape Apologia, Pedophilia Table of Contents: The Short Version and the Long Version This was supposed to be a one-paragraph blurb. Numerous times since I began talking about youth liberation, consent, and rape culture, friends and radicals have asked what I think of Judith Levine’s highly […]
Every Rapist is a Cop Without a Badge
⚠Content Warning: Sexual Violence, Sexual Coercion, Child Sexual Assault, Rape Apologia, Pedophilia (Non-Graphic) This is a follow-up to a previous article. To read Part I, please click here. A feature of the rape apologist ideology to which feminist analysis of rape-as-power responds is the reversal of the power relations between the victim and the rapist. […]
Sex, Desire, and Violence
⚠Content Warning: Sexual Violence, Sexual Coercion, Child Sexual Assault, Rape Apologia, Pedophilia (Non-Graphic) This essay is one of a two-part series. Read Part II here. Table of Contents: On Strange Bedfellows You have most likely heard someone assert that, “rape is not sex, rape is power.” Or the somewhat less reductive: “rape is not about […]
DEFEND THE ATLANTA FOREST!
Please read and share this statement in solidarity with the movement to defend Atlanta’s forests and Stop Cop City and Defend Weelaunee Forest! Below are two short excerpts: “We call on all people of good conscience to stand in solidarity with the movement to stop Cop City and defend the Weelaunee Forest in Atlanta. On […]
The Elephant in the Room
⚠Content Warning: Sexual Violence, Sexual Coercion, Child Sexual Assault, Rape Apologia, Pedophilia
Saying the Hard Parts
⚠Content Warning: Discussion of Child Sexual Abuse, Grooming, Transphobia
As a child I didn’t have many friends. I was trans and didn’t know it, and didn’t perform gender in the way I was expected to. I was autistic and didn’t know it, and didn’t engage socially in the way I was expected to. I was plural and didn’t know it…
Combat Manarchists
To the true anarchist anarchy is freedom from rulers and the patriarchy; to the manarchist it is the freedom to exercise patriarchal control and rule over others. Combat manarchists. The true anarchist stands with the oppressed and the ruled against their oppressors and rulers; the manarchist feels free to go on one side or the […]