a list of artists whose work i particularly enjoy/regularly keep track of. those i know personally (friends, friends-of-friends etc.) are marked with a *
barbatus, ROTTEN or: gorehound's retrospective (2021) — autobio about being exposed to gore during the earlier internet. 18+. twitter version CW: extreme violence & gore (drawn but based on memories of real material), trypophobia (maggots in skin), death, mortality, self-harm
Remy Boydell, Recovery Blogger (2016) — CW: intimate partner abuse
Isabel Fall, "I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter" (2020?)
Jennifer Coates, I Am A Transwoman. I Am In The Closet. I Am Not Coming Out. (2016) — A closeted trans woman's thoughts on dysphoria, cis-feminism, and "not all men". CW: dysphoria, transmisogyny, sexual assault, eating disorder mention
Junot Diaz, The Silence: The Legacy of Childhood Trauma (2018) — Memoir on surviving childhood rape as a Dominican man. CW: CSA, rape, suicide, cheating
narcissus of Immer Autonom, Sex, Desire, and Power part I: What Do We Mean by “Rape is About Power”? (2023) — Examination of the link between sexual violence & structural power relations, and the idea of "rape is about power, not sex". CW: sexual violence, coercion, rape, CSA, pedophilia
narcissus of Immer Autonom, Sex, Violence, and Desire part II: Every Rapist is a Cop Without a Badge (2023) — Continued examination of the link between sexual violence & structural power relations, and how rape reinforces and embodies those power relations the same as a cop does. CW: sexual violence, coercion, rape, CSA, pedophilia
narcissus of Immer Autonom, Three Short Arguments About Youth Liberation and Body Autonomy (2023) — As the title says. Deconstructs and refutes the idea that bodily autonomy & liberation for youth = their sexual availability to adults. Explains what youth liberation entails and why it's needed.CW: sexual violence, coercion, rape, CSA, pedophilia
Tim Kreider, I Know What You Think of Me (2013) — If we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known. CW: warnings
Courtney Desiree Morris, Why Misogynists Make Great Informants (2010) — What it says on the tin. How misogyny & defense of abusers in leftist circles primes them for infiltration by the state.CW: misogyny, homophobia, gendered violence, sexual assault
Porpentine, Hot Allostatic Load (2015) — Memoir on the use (and effects) of social power as a tool for abuse & control in queer spaces. Disposability & being "human trash". CW: abuse, sexual assault, neglect, harassment, transmisogyny
Lee Shevek, Ongoing from Death: Loss and Immortality in Interrelationality (2021) — Thoughts on grief, mortality, and how consciousness maintains itself through interactions with other consciousnesses. CW: death, grief, prison, solitary confinement
Lee Shevek, Towards the Abolition of The Family! (2022) — Explanation of what "abolish the Family" means— abolishing the oppressive power structure of the Family(TM), not your actual family members. CW: abuse, control, loss of autonomy
Lee Shevek, “Why Don’t They Just Leave?”: Entrapment as the Context of Abuse (2023) — Explanation of why victims of abuse don't just leave: they aren't being abused because they won't leave, they can't leave because they are being abused. CW: abuse, intimate partner violence, loss of autonomy
Lee Shevek, Intimate Authoritarianism: The Ideology of Abuse (2023) — Essay on abuse of all kinds not as individual pathology, but manifestation & reinforcement of oppressive power structures. CW: abuse, intimate partner violence, rape & sexual assault
Lee Shevek, Tactics for the Fight Against Abuse: Learning from Anti-Fascism (2023) — Abuse as authoritarianism and power relation, and how to effectively fight it as an anti-fascist. CW: abuse, intimate partner violence, rape & sexual assault
Lee Shevek, The Right-Wing Hates Children: The Weaponization Of “Groomer” (2023) — description. CW: child sexual abuse, rape, incest, homo/transphobia, youth oppression
author, title (date) — description. CW: warnings
Anne Boyer, WHAT RESEMBLES THE GRAVE BUT ISN'T (2017)
Chen Chen, I Invite My Parents to a Dinner Party (2018) CW: family homophobia
Patricia Lockwood, Rape Joke (2013) CW: rape, abuse, grooming
Richard Siken, Crush (2004)
Maggie Smith, Good Bones (2016)
author, title (date) CW: warnings
12ft.io — Show me a 10ft paywall, I'll show you a 12ft ladder.
The Anarchist Library (theanarchistlibrary.org) — exactly what it sounds like
Don't Call the Police (dontcallthepolice.com) — community-based alternatives to police in your city
FitGirl Repacks (fitgirl-repacks.site) — repacked games
Healthy Multiplicity (healthymultiplicity.com) — resources, art, & writing about multiplicity from LB Lee & Zyfron
sadgrl.online — Neocities user with helpful resources & internet manifesto
↳ Internet Library (Internet history)
↳ Webmastery (website-making resources)
Yesterweb (yesterweb.org) — (partially defunct) community devoted to a new web & healing social alienation
Title (url) — description
Trans Tool Shed (transtoolshed.com) — trans-centered products, from clothing to packers & shapewear to books
Autistic Self Advocacy Network (autisticadvocacy.org)