Happy Butch Appreciation Day!! I have a new essay out for the occasion: Butch Anarchism. “Butchness is serious about everything and takes nothing very seriously; anarchism calls for the same approach.”. (links below)

RT @gadsbodikins666: @butchanarchy People see asks for an accommodation as some kind of barrier to organizing when it’s always an invitatio….

What do you want to know?.

Maybe in the process you could also consider that life with such needs/limitations exists beyond a thought experiment. That people live those lives and share your political interests. And the necessity of organizing that recognizes needs beyond those of the “Able Body.”.

At an absolute minimum this is a good exercise in creative thinking and poltical organizing. Which I know y’all love :).

Whichever disabled person the internet last ridiculed for articulating their needs/limitations, suspend your own mocking affect for long enough to take those needs seriously. Again, how *could* they be accommodated in that world you dream of? In the process towards it?.

If someone could only or primarily eat a food that is on boycott: taking it seriously as a need (even as a thought experiment, no need to be afraid), how could you imagine accommodating that need while helping maintain a boycott? I bet you could think of several ways :).

How could you accommodate that need as an individual? In a shared social space? How might you influence facilitators of that space to accommodate that need? Just try taking for granted that the need for someone, somewhere, is actually real. Try! It could take you places.

Your poltical and especially your strategic analysis could improve a hundredfold if you dared yourself to take every accessibility ask and critique seriously, not matter how “ridiculous” or “bad faith” it seems to you. Challenge yourself: how *could* that need be accommodated?.

woah incredible essay. i’ve only recently come across and started engaging with Beatrice’s analysis on disability and its location in capitalism and it’s been profoundly helpful and generative. give this a read!.

RT @butchanarchy: Good morning everyone I am very broke please consider buying my little zine for $3 or more :) it’s a good one!.

RT @chronicallybeee: “i’ll happily wear a mask around an immunocompromised person” .ok so you mask at the grocery store and public transit….

if you want to just wait for my essay to be free, don’t want to mess around with ko-fi, and you wanna send me some funds for my work, you can via my other tip jars :)

Good morning everyone I am very broke please consider buying my little zine for $3 or more :) it’s a good one!.

RT @butchanarchy: If you missed Butch Appreciation Day yesterday it’s not too late to show a little appreciation to a butch (me) and get to….

I’ve been assaulted twice by doctors and dismissed countless more within the last 9 months alone. I had to overcome an anxiety spiral just to go to this fucked up appointment. The medical trauma, at this point, is just making shit worse. They are not interested in helping me.

Gonna explore the neurological avenue a bit more (I’ve got an appointment in November with a neurologist) and after that if nothing helpful has been discovered I’m probably gonna stop trying for a while and prioritize reducing my contact with the medical industrial complex.

Jump through every hoop required to get a referral to Pain Management, take yourself to your Pain Management appointment, ask your Pain Management doctor for help Managing your Pain and he’ll treat you like you just stormed in unannounced and demanded nuclear launch codes.

worn down and burnt out and the people who control all the resources that could maybe help me dismiss me at best, with occasional assault and naked aggression thrown in.

he was like “well you know athletes get sore all the time also, but their bodies are still functioning and healthy”.

i am not doing well. feels like i’m just sitting around waiting to finally be a casualty in this undeclared war.

took 6 years to finally get a referral to a pain management clinic just for them to tell me “you know, just because something is painful doesn’t mean that something is wrong. we can’t do anything for you. try to take a 30 minute walk each day.”.