Butch Lee liked to compare life to a busy transit system, in which people were always coming and going. Butch herself has left, died this passing year 2021, after a long determined battle with terminal illness. She leaves behind comrades and friends and family who cared deeply for her. She …
This is exciting. Because it starts to break away from the once fresh but increasingly dead end of what had become macho antifa. There’s not only false gender assumptions involved, but white racism stirred in here. Some white people always want to think that fascism is a white issue they …
In Jailbreak Out of History, revolutionary Amazon theorist Butch Lee shows how the anticolonial struggles of New Afrikan/Black women were central to the unfolding of 19th century amerika, both during and “after” slavery. The book’s title essay, “The Re-Biography of Harriet Tubman”, recounts the life and politics of Harriet Tubman, …
Amazons need a different viewpoint of our own on world reality, and it has to be a military viewpoint. If someone isnât waving a gun, women donât think itâs military. But patriarchal capitalism doesnât see it that way. With a wink and a nod, they know that in their world it …
The words that follow should be understood not as newly found ideas but as geological strata underneath our feet. Almost twenty years ago i began an exploration to answer one question â how can women make revolutionary change? These first few essays/chapters represent ideas that radical women as a whole were trying …
[toc] Childhood & the Gathering Storm Focus on Amazons. About why we deal with real women as myths. Girls who never really existed. Yet and again, are all around us & that we canât bring ourselves to see. Cause seeing through white menâs eyes is about non-vision of ourselves. So …
This is an Amazon training exercise. Because i come from political movements that failed at explaining the present or radaring the storms moving in from the future. (Let’s leave aside the point that previous movements of rebellion often claimed “victories” that were really defeats). We didn’t understand things as basic …
WOMENâS WAR DAILY #1 [A paper critiquing the political assumptions of todayâs Anti-War/anti-imperialist activism by J. Sakai – Beyond McAntiwar: notes on finding our footing in the collapsing stageset of u.s. empire – has been circulated in the current issue of the maoist zine 8th Route. Below is an alternate viewpoint from …
WOMENâS WAR DAILY #2 The following essay follows Butch Lee’s After Anti-War Movements Win or Lose in Iraq… there’s still women Sister, this discussion is just on time. Because these new men’s wars of the 21st century are just starting up. They are different because they take place within the …
What âinsuranceâ could you buy that would keep you safer than living in a world where people actually cared for each other? (page 260) Get the uzi! Some MAN i’d never met before handed this book to me at a meeting, and mumbled something about reviewing it. Lucky wimmin get …