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, […]
Category: Critical Theory
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. III: The Culture Industry & The Spectacle
As I mentioned in the previous section, I’m not familiar enough with the critical discussions/literature on the “culture industry”, the “spectacle” and modern culture/art (Friedriech Kracauer, György Lukács, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Bertol Brecht, Guy Debord and the Situationists, Roland Barthes, Oskar Negt/Alexander Kluge, Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall, Fredric Jameson, etc.) to get into an […]
List of Critical Readings
Here’s an ongoing list of critical/radical readings that have influenced me and that I want to keep as important references/resources! Some of those are also ones that I plan to read but I already know are crucial. Chuǎng: China FAQ Issue #1 (2016), esp. Sorghum & Steel: The Socialist Developmental Regime and the Forging of […]
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 […]