Lee Cicuta

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trans butch lesbian anarchist. disabled feminist theorist. she/her.

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Lee Cicuta@butchanarchy· 23d

My body has finally given out and demanded a full day of bedrest. Reading @vickyacab.bsky.social’s newest book “The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World” while I’m laid up and I am riveted! A strong analysis of intellectual property and an engaging work of history.

But seeing as how knowledge and IP have become such wildly profitable forms of private property over the last century and a half—the highest estimates put the economic value of IP holdings in the US as equivalent to more than half the nation's GDP—it seems more productive to ask:
What does IP show us about the nature of property? Does it show, perhaps, that all private property-from the first English meadows fenced off by aristocrats, the first Africans kidnapped into bondage, the first colony founded on stolen land—is in fact a social relation, built on expropriation, and only backstopped by the ultimate violence of the state? Is the financier's ownership of an empty condo building or the mining conglomerate's ownership of underground mineral rights any less fictitious than Disney's ownership of Mickey Mouse?

But Hollywood (which is to say, the consortium of financiers and owners that manage cinematic and televisual images, dominated
by
Disney,
NBCUniversal/Comcast,
Paramount,
Warner Bros., and Sony Pictures) hasn't primarily been in the moviemaking
business for decades—not really. Movies are the marquee commodities that
Hollywood manages as part of a broader intellectual property business.

Throughout US history, IP rights have been denied to the originators of ideas especially if those artists and inventors are Black or Indigenous. From the charges of fraud against Phillis Wheatley's poems, to Delta blues artists dying in penury while their songs created the phenomenon of the rock star, to Black TikTokers having viral dances stolen and sold as emotes in Fortnite, when it comes to Black artists, IP law and management has predominantly been a weapon in the great American project of appropriating value from Black communities while recuperating liberatory cultural energies.
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Nostalgia is a
is a form of political
mythmaking that obliterates history, even recent history, in the name of giving total justification to current regimes. It emphasizes feeling over thinking, aesthetics over politics, and appeals to emotional needs and gut instincts and desires while explicitly avoiding material needs and the intellect.- As we saw in the last chapter, these had been longstanding artistic principles of Walt Disney (and Joseph Goebbels). The
The association
between Plasticine realism, anti-intellectual sentimentality,
US
nationalism,
and
childhood wonder is likely Walt's most lasting aesthetic contribution to visual culture.

Lee Cicuta@butchanarchy· May 7

THIS BOOK WOW WOW WOW

Lee Cicuta@butchanarchy· Apr 16

Zine sales have raised $81.50 so far to contribute to No More Deaths/No Más Muertes! Thank you for engaging with my work! Half of all “Songbird, insurrectionary” zine sales will continue to go to No More Deaths. I encourage you to donate to them directly here: nomoredeaths.org/donate-money/

A credit card payment to the amount of $81.50

Thank you email from No More Deaths/No Más Muertes for the donation

Lee Cicuta@butchanarchy· Mar 28

My next essay is finished, along with the audio-essay and zine 🖤 It will be available for my patreon supporters and for purchase on my ko-fi in the next few days! Keep a look out :)

An illustration of many small birds mobbing one large predator bird. Accompanied by the text: Songbird, insurrectionary: continuity and escalation on the fronts of border regime. By Lee Cicuta

Lee Cicuta@butchanarchy· Mar 25

hey did i tell you all about a distro project in-the-works? it’s not going to be active until after i move, maybe after hip surgery, but its name is Death of Man Distro (DOM Distro) and this is its logo :)

The words Death of Man are bold and prominent, and the top of the D is made up of a kitchen knife. In smaller text tucked next to a sprouting cicuta plant reads “DOM Distro”

Lee Cicuta@butchanarchy· Mar 12

A 1990 flyer from the first group to call themselves a Cop Watch in Berkeley, California. It’s a call to action after police attacked a legal observer. The struggles of today are always in continuity with the resistance of the past!

1990 flyer that reads: PROTEST POLICE
REPRESSION
MEET AT PEOPLE'S PARK...TUES. NOV. 27
AT NOON FOR A RALLY AND MARCH
Early in November, Oska Hermasa, & respected senior member of the Berkeley community and Berkeley Police Review Commissioner, in the role of legal observer requested the badge numbers of officers Braunecker And Sifuentes of the UCPD. They responded to his request by body slamming him to
the ground, cracking a rib. He was handcuffed and arrested on the charge of interfering with a police
officer in the line of duty. Those duties consisted of rousting homeless people under new guidelines for People's Park.
On November 8, 300 people attended a speakout and
march to the UC cop shop, which ended with 11 arrests on trespassing charges.
Since these actions, the level of police repression has greatly iscreased. Witnesses and protestors have been harassed and intimidated. copwatchers have been verbally abused and arrested in retaliation.
Braunecker And Sifuentes have continued to brutalize the community, including clubbing anti-war protestors and beating up a well-know homeless activist. Oska is scheduled for arraignment on Nov.
27, 2 PM at the Berkeley Courthouse (2120 MLK
Vay). Come out to support Oska. Defend your right to observe the cops!!!

We Are Marching To The Court House With These Demands:
* Drop The Charges Against Osha Neumann.
* Fire Braunecker And Sifuentes.
* Stop The Repression Against The Homeless.
* Drop The Charges Against The Sproul Steps 11.
REFUSE TO BE ABUSED STOP ALL COP VIOLENCE!

Lee Cicuta@butchanarchy· Mar 3

In case folks see this post now and want to help out and miss my official ask a little later. You can also donate via ko-fi.com/butchanarchy

Lee Cicuta@butchanarchy· Feb 17

Totally! No problems with this “cure!” Groups of men talking about their feelings in-person are notoriously free of the radicalizing elements found in online groups of men. This is why all of the problems of men’s violence today started with the invention of the internet.

More from the article: A potential cure, then, is ensuring that there are other opportunities for young men to connect with each other.
Dashtgard added that "there are proven, empirically validated strategies for preventing this kind of violence from happening," primarily by helping young people in general create offline spaces and networks where they can discuss the feelings that would otherwise lead them to online fringe groups.

Lee Cicuta@butchanarchy· Feb 17

Yeah yeah yeah sure let’s “jump ahead” of the complaints about the lack of explanatory power of our core argument. A one-sentence sneering aside in parentheses should do it. Once you remind people that men are isolated and lonely they don’t read much more anyway because they’re too busy crying.

an article from The New Republic whose headline reads: “Trump's Sick
Campaign to Gamity Violence
Young men are isolated and lonely.
Trump's exploitation of internet culture has made that trend worse.” I’ve underlined “young men are isolated and lonely” in red

Text from the article that reads: It is also unfair and inaccurate to blame video games, social media, or the internet as a whole for the isolation that young men may feel, or the extremism that vulnerability can beget. Loneliness can stem from something as simple as having no outlet for difficult emotions. (Let's also just jump ahead of whatever complaint you may have about young men not being the only ones struggling with loneliness; this is a universal issue that plagues young women as well, and indeed, Americans across all ages and genders.)

Lee Cicuta@butchanarchy· Jan 18

I just discovered this Instagram analytic of account views and obviously take it with a huge grain of salt (not the least because I have so many followers who are not these genders) but I can’t deny the huge smile and satisfied giggles that burst from me when I saw it 🥰

An Instagram analytic that shows that 75.8% of the people who interact with the butchanarchy account are women, and only 24.2% are men

Lee Cicuta@butchanarchy· Jan 15

girl stumbling

Pencil sketch of a lanky and shirtless human figure hanging down from one leg and laying awkwardly on their head and shoulders, one hand dangles down, the other arm is tucked under the body, mostly obscured.

Lee Cicuta@butchanarchy· Jan 13

Hey folks, just got hit with a $230 dental bill that I didn’t know I owed, had to pay it to get out of the office and now I am broke broke broke halfway through the month 😞 Passing around my tip jars to see if any folks can help take some of the pressure off. 🙏💚

Lee Cicuta@butchanarchy· Jan 7

They paraded her corpse through the neighborhood afterwards. Just carried her “like a sack of potatoes” by her arms and legs. No stretcher. Every form of revenge I can imagine would be too good for these evil fucks.

It took about 15 minutes for EMS to arrive, Heller estimated, because vehicles were blocking the street.
"They were on foot when they got through, and they carried her body out, just like by her limbs, they didn't even have a stretcher," Heller said.
"She was carried out like a sack of potatoes."

Lee Cicuta@butchanarchy· Jan 7

This is the agent who murdered Renee. Share his image as widely as possible. I want to be able to put a name to this face.

An ICE agent, a man with short cropped hair with the lower half of his face obscured by a mask.

Lee Cicuta@butchanarchy· Dec 29

Easy to miss this with all the goodies I have on the site, but on it is also an early announcement of Death of Man (DOM) Distro 🤗 Nothing much about it yet, but watch this spot for more updates and follow the account on IG if you’re on there :) butchanarchy.noblogs.org/post/2025/12...

Lee Cicuta@butchanarchy· Dec 28

Was painting on this and listening to Marie Krüttli’s Transparence album. By the end of the song Dark Belly I was surprised to find tears streaming down my face, my breathing shallow and shakey, and I had to put my painting fully out of the room. Art and music hurts so good damn.

Unfinished painting on a doctor looming over and obscuring a patient in a chair. The patient’s big brown boots and outstretched legs are visible, but nothing of her features.

Lee Cicuta@butchanarchy· Dec 15

You don’t ever have to make an argument to tie escalating fascist violence to this guy, he just loudly rushes in to take credit and beg for more of it.

Trump social media post that reads: “A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together with his wife, Michele, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to as TDS. He was known to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump Administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness, and with the Golden Age of America upon us, perhaps like never before.
May Rob and Michele rest in peace!”

Lee Cicuta@butchanarchy· Dec 12

what an absolute delight 🥰

Lee Cicuta@butchanarchy· Dec 6

Little dog finally gets to live her life without a cone, but she’s still on bedrest and is sooooo bored. Poor thing 😭 her fur is starting to grow back, but she’s a lot colder outside than she’s had to be before. fundraiser is at $2,120, really appreciative of everyone who’s helped out 🩵

Pencil sketch of a dog stretched out on her right side on a blanket and couch. Most of her left side is shaved short and she has a long scar running up her side and another small one on her chest.

Lee Cicuta@butchanarchy· Nov 20

sketched a little nibble or two this morning

Two pencil sketches on one paper. Most of the page is taken up by one dog lightly nibbling the side of another dog’s face, the one being nibbled has a comical sideways glance on its face. Small in the corner of the page is a sketch of one woman leaning against a wall while holding of the thigh of another woman who is leaning against her while lighting a cigarette for her.

Lee Cicuta@butchanarchy· Nov 18

Oop seems like someone’s looking to get paintballed in The Revolution 👀

A quote tweet of a butchanarchy post. Butchanarchy post reads: “My most woke opinions would get my account nuked. Some softer ones:
No Borders. No Prisons. No States.
Abolish the Family. Popping your abuser is a liberatory act. I personally should be allowed to hit every unmasked person w/n 20ft of me w/ a paintball with no consequences as a Covid precaution.” And the quote tweet, by @anonymouslefty.bsky reads: “Vulgar maskism”

Lee Cicuta@butchanarchy· Nov 18

Nighttime sketch, gonna keep adding to it probably. Experimenting with what kind of weird poses I can pull off :)

Pencil sketch of a shirtless person with their back mostly to the viewer, sitting on the floor. Their arms are crossed tightly up and over their shoulders, nails pressing into their back. They are drawn in an oddly shaped box in the middle of the page, and climbing the left side of the box are some smoke-like curling blobs.

Lee Cicuta@butchanarchy· Nov 17

a morning sketch, another woman I’d like to be friends with

A pencil sketch of an elderly woman sitting on some steps and smoking a cigarette

Lee Cicuta@butchanarchy· Nov 16

Little girl is so so exhausted but doing good, all things considered. When I’m not drawing her I’m staring at her little face and thinking about how lucky we are she’s okay.

Pencil drawing of my dog, staring directly at viewer, sitting up with a black cone around her head. Half her body is shaved and on her chest is a big wound, switched up.

Lee Cicuta@butchanarchy· Nov 14

She’s back home now 🥰 half of her body is shaved and she has been sleeping heavily. Seems like she’s relaxing from her big ordeal, we are too. So so glad she is alive! Really appreciate everyone who is helping us out materially and commenting kindly 💕

A pencil sketch of my little dog. Fluffy except for her left side, facing away but almost entirely shaved. She’s wearing a soft black cone around her head and is sleeping. She has black stitches visible on her shaved chest and left side.

Lee Cicuta@butchanarchy· Nov 12

The stick is circled in red, for size comparison the black circle in the middle is her trachea. It was huge compared to her, so messed up 😭😭

Lee Cicuta@butchanarchy· Nov 10

Always relevant!

Cycle chart labeled “Function of the Democratic Party” Topmost circle reads “Grassroots Left Mobilization Happens” the points to the next circle that reads “Mobilization becomes a threat to the status quo” points to next circle that reads “Democrats find representatives of the most moderate elements, co-opt and hire them.” Points to next circle that reads “co-opted leaders use language of popular movement to funnel energy back into the electoral system” points to next circle that reads “Nothing fundamentally changes”

Lee Cicuta@butchanarchy· Oct 16

a little mouse getting a snack!

a pencil sketch of a field mouse climbing up a stalk of wheat and nibbling at it, the stalk curves under the mouse’s weight

Lee Cicuta@butchanarchy· Oct 15

also i love these ladies 🥰

a small sketch drawing of a famous photo of two older fat women in bathing suits and big floppy hats talking to each other while standing with their feet in the ocean. one has a cane in her hand.

Lee Cicuta@butchanarchy· Oct 15

i’m trying to challenge myself with figures. look at this foreshortening i’m proud 😊