A. Mark Liddle (1993) Gender, Desire, and Child Sexual Abuse: Accounting for the Male Majority. Theory, Culture & Society, Vol. 10,SAGE: London, Newbury Park and New Delhi, p. 103-126. URL: https://immerautonom.noblogs.org/files/2023/04/liddle1993.pdf Alana Queer (2025) Abolishing the family: A survivor’s perspective. Freedom News [Blog]. Machine translation. URL: https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/05/20/abolishing-the-family-a-survivors-perspective/. The original text in Spanish: Abolir la familia, […]
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Beyond Empty Words: Disempowerment & Abolishing Manhood
This is section 3 of Down With The Cisness: Betrayal To Manhood is Loyalty to Humanity. See the intro here. As a conclusion, let me rewind to the words from He-Yin Zhen that I quoted at the start of this text. What she pointed out is that for the most part even progressive cishet men who […]
“Won’t Somebody Think of the Poor Cis Men?”: Anti-Feminist Backlash in Fascist Times
This is section 2 of Down With The Cisness: Betrayal To Manhood is Loyalty to Humanity. See the intro here. What we’ve seen in the West in the past decade especially, is a reactionary and fascist(ic) backlash against gender non-conforming as well as feminism. There’s been a coordinated and violent political movement to strip back the […]
Defining Patriarchy as a System of Domination
This is section 1 of Down With The Cisness: Betrayal To Manhood is Loyalty to Humanity. See the intro here. You’ve probably noticed that I’ve used class above to refer to cishet men as a group. While this might anger some dogmatic marxists in the crowd, this is a banal category in feminist literature, from He-Yin Zhen […]
Down With The Cisness: Betrayal To Manhood is Loyalty to Humanity – Introduction & PDF
Feminism, in its best instances, is a burning prison: an insistence that life can be worth living and that every person’s pleasure matters. It is, too, the practices that make life livable, wresting care free from the market; freely distributing bread, roses, and hormones; desegregating the generations; bailing mamas out of detention; disempowering rapists in […]
Notes on Media Ecology, Disinformation & Propaganda, Pt. II: Research/Concepts
Understanding Contemporary Media Ecology, Disinformation & Propaganda Some authors who completed meta-analyses (Abu Arqoub et al. 2020, Li and Tang 2012, Zheng et al. 2016, Wasike 2017) have criticized the fact that most of the research on disinformation (and “fake news”) and in media and communication studies is atheoretical. It’s therefore necessary to use some […]
Notes on Media Ecology, Disinformation & Propaganda, Pt. I: How Not to Study Propaganda
Without pretending that disinformation and propaganda were in any sense less dangerous, destructive or widespread in the past, pre-Internet era, their sheer proliferation in the 21st century has been rather overwhelming. Among other things, we’ve seen genocides in Myanmar and Tigray being celebrated and intensified through social media, far right murder plots organized through forums, […]
Best Resources for Understanding The Capitalist System
Karl Marx wrote in 1848: Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by […]
Postcolonial Racism(s) & the Mainstreaming of Far Right Ideology
Originally written: 10.02.2022. The ideology and actions of the far right are often portrayed as an anomaly that is the very antithesis of liberal democracy or general nationalist conceptions: in many countries the authorities, political actors and the media claim that these ‘extremists’ have nothing to do with ‘us’, with ‘our’ values, with ‘good’ patriotism […]
Totalitarian Violence & Policing: From Counter-Insurgency to “Terror Capitalism”
Originally written: 11.02.2022. In the early hours of November 9, 2020, Austrian police raided the house of Salzburg University scholar Farid Hafez, pointing their guns at him and his family. Their warrant accused him of “terrorist” allegiances, wanting to “destroy Israel” and “establish a worldwide califate”, and supporting the toppling of Egyptian dictator Abdel Fattah […]