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Zoe Baker @anarchozoe.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Two big essays/videos are coming soon: 1. How Kropotkin became an anarchist. 2. How Marxist social theory influenced the historical anarchist movement.

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Zoe Baker @anarchozoe.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Have been prescribed ADHD medication and it turns out I've spent the past decade operating at like 1/10 of my power level. I can at last become the workaholic I was socialised to be.

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Zoe Baker @anarchozoe.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Dog section press are crowd funding to cover the printing costs of a new collection of essays on anarchism. It features an essay I wrote about anarchist views on authority alongside contributions by other authors like Ruth Kinna and Peter Gelderloos. Link below: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/anarchisms

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ANARCHISMS

Help us to pay for the printing costs of our next publication: Anarchisms

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Zoe Baker @anarchozoe.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

New micro video about how the word 'marxist' first emerged. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFyn...

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Why Marxists Are Called Marxists

YouTube video by Micro Zoe

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Interregnum @intrrgnm.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Join us at 7pm on April 24 for the launch of The Game of Chance: Unaccompanied Minors in Italy and the Risk of ‘Going Back to Square One’ at May Day Rooms, 88 Fleet Street, London, EC4Y 1DH. interregnum.ghost.io/comic-book-l... #comicbook #booklaunch #comics #london #events #migrants

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Comic Book Launch 24 April 2026: The Game of Chance

Join us in London on April 24, 2026 for the launch of the English translation of The Game of Chance : Unaccompanied Minors in Italy and the Risk of ‘Going Back to Square One’ (May Day Rooms, 19.00 to ...

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Zoe Baker @anarchozoe.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Have spent this month mostly reading about intimate partner violence and sexual violence statistics. So far this paper depressed me the most. It found that in 2023 an estimated 18.9% of females and 14.8% of males aged 20+ are survivors of child sex abuse. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Prevalence of sexual violence against children and age at first exposure: a global analysis by location, age, and sex (1990–2023)

The prevalence of SVAC is extremely high for both females and males across the globe. Given data sparsity and ongoing measurement challenges, findings probably underestimate the true pervasiveness of ...

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Zoe Baker @anarchozoe.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Two baptists knocked on my door and asked me where life came from. They were not ready for my five minute monologue explaining what a prokaryote is.

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Zoe Baker @anarchozoe.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Interview with Iranian anarchists: "the liberation of the people of Iran cannot be the result of projects imposed by foreign powers. Freedom can only emerge from the struggle and will of the people themselves". freedomnews.org.uk/2026/03/10/i...

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Iranian anarchists: "We continue to organise and resist" - Freedom News

Second interview with Anarchist Front on repression and resilience, regional war, and internet shutdowns ~ Gabriel Fonten ~ When you last spoke to …

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Interregnum @intrrgnm.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Interregnum interviews @jacobengelberg.bsky.social on his new book, Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression. The book argues that the way we look at queer film centres the gay/straight binary and considers what happens when bisexuality breaks the rules. interregnum.ghost.io/the-dangerou... #bisexual

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Zoe Baker @anarchozoe.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Read a 1819 letter by a white woman complaining about how overwhelmed she is by domestic labour because her husband doesn't help around the house and she has to manage 'the servants' by herself. What she called 'the servants' included slaves. One wonders what the slaves thought about this.

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Zoe Baker @anarchozoe.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

An 1871 editorial article in the New York Times argued that women should not be granted the right to vote or hold political office because they *check notes* wear high heels and so are clearly senseless and just mindlessly follow trends. Misogyny is so bizarre.

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Zoe Baker @anarchozoe.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Am struggling with rad libs in gender history. Today I read an academic say that women weren't passive victims of the expanding Aztec empire which demanded cloth (made by women) as tribute because they *checks notes* started making stew so they could make other stuff like cloth whilst it cooked.

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Zoe Baker @anarchozoe.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

75% of the gender studies/queer theory stuff I read was so bad that I realised for my book on gender I'd have to start from scratch and build up an empirical model from a systematic evaluation of global human history. Anyway, this is why I'm currently reading a book about the domestication of dogs.

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Zoe Baker @anarchozoe.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Good article summarising Anarchist Communist Federation's (ACF) first year as an org in Australia. We need more stuff like this if anarchism is gonna grow and thrive. ancomfed.org/2026/01/one-...

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One year of the ACF

On the 18th of January 2025, an ‘Anarchist Communist Forum’ was held at Kathleen Syme library in inner city Melbourne. Anarchists hosted workshops on various topics; industrial struggle, imperialism…

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Zoe Baker @anarchozoe.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Have been reading lots of prehistory and learned that prior to the emergence of agriculture 12,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers invented ceramics, sewing/weaving, and sea-worthy boats. Don't think they get enough credit for amazing innovations that still impact our lives today.

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Zoe Baker @anarchozoe.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

The more I read about the division of labour in hunter-gatherer societies the more I want to hit anyone who says that men evolved to hunt and women evolved to gather eg til that among the Yamana women regularly hunted birds and sometimes used dogs to hunt guanaco, the largest prey in the area.

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Zoe Baker @anarchozoe.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Have finally been diagnosed with ADHD. So should get on meds soonish and can then go super saiyan on history of gender/trans liberation book.

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Zoe Baker @anarchozoe.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

New big video debunking four myths about anarchist views on democracy and collective decision-making. youtu.be/9I-TueoyeOY?...

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Myths About Anarchism, Democracy, and Decision-Making

YouTube video by Zoe Baker

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Zoe Baker @anarchozoe.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

My long essay debunking myths about historical anarchist views on democracy and collective decision-making will be released early next week. Covers their critiques of democracy, views on majority voting, and usage of democratic language in exhaustive detail.

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Zoe Baker @anarchozoe.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

There's a subgenre of medieval lit that features god turning women into men. The result is incredible passages like this from the 14th century: "Jesus, who made the world, now asks you which you prefer – speak honestly: to remain a woman, as he created you, or to become a man? The choice is yours".

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Zoe Baker @anarchozoe.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Keep finding links between patriarchy and prohibition of cross-dressing eg in 1843 authorities in Osaka banned the custom of parents dressing girls as boys in order to avoid the expense of buying women's clothing. They argued it harmed a girl's ability to perform 'womanly duties' later in life.

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Zoe Baker @anarchozoe.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Kropotkin's analysis of women's domestic labour remains relevant over a century later.

Kropotkin quote from the Conquest of Bread: "Why has woman’s work never been of any account? Why in every family are the mother and three or four servants obliged to spend so much time at what pertains to cooking? Because those who want to emancipate mankind have not included woman in their dream of emancipation, and consider it beneath their superior masculine dignity to think “of those kitchen arrangements,” which they have rayed on the shoulders of that drudge-woman.

To emancipate woman is not only to open the gates of the university, the law courts, or the parliaments, for her, for the “emancipated” woman will always throw domestic toil on to another woman. To emancipate woman is to free her from the brutalizing toil of kitchen and washhouse; it is to organize your household in such a way as to enable her to rear her children, if she be so minded, while still retaining sufficient leisure to take her share of social life.

It will come to pass. As we have said, things are already improving. Only let us fully understand that a revolution, intoxicated with the beautiful words Liberty, Equality, Solidarity would not be a revolution if it maintained slavery at home. Half humanity subjected to the slavery of the hearth would still have to rebel against the other half."

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Zoe Baker @anarchozoe.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Me whenever my best friend complains about her toxic ex boyfriend:

Quote by Chinese anarchist feminist He-Yin Zhen writing in 1907: "there is not a single woman who has not been ill treated by some man. Consequently, there is not a single woman who does not bear a grudge against men. Critics compare this situation to the political subjugation of a subject to his prince, but I beg to disagree. It is true that men can be subjugated and must submit to an alien group, the will of a king, or some capitalists. When that happens, the people who rule and the people who submit to the rule are both men. With women, however, the subjugation takes on a whole different character. One cannot deny that an empress occupies a highly esteemed position, but she never questions her own subjugation to a man (men). At the other end of the hierarchy, one finds beggars whose social position cannot be more degraded, yet even a female beggar would not question her subjugation to a man (men)".

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Zoe Baker @anarchozoe.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

What abolishing the state meant to anarchists in the past.

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Zoe Baker @anarchozoe.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Great article on @intrrgum.bsky.social about how engaging in precarious jobs impacts migrant labourers. interregnum.ghost.io/from-the-gro...

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Zoe Baker @anarchozoe.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Today I read Jesuit descriptions of Wendat Indigenous communities in the 17th century. They claim that chiefs, who they call captains, "do not govern their subjects by means of command and absolute power; they have no force at hand to compel them to their duty".

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Zoe Baker @anarchozoe.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Found an interesting example of a medieval woman's perspective on patriarchy. In the 15th century the Duchess of Brunswick said “I have a hard husband (as you know) who has scarce any care or inclination towards women. Have I not been in this castle even as it were in a cell?”.

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Zoe Baker @anarchozoe.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Essay I'm writing got too long. So now it's two essays! The first will debunk the myths that (1) anarchism only rejects representative democracy, (2) no anarchists advocated democracy prior to the 1960s, (3) anarchists only use consensus, and (4) all advocates of federations endorse majority voting.

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Zoe Baker @anarchozoe.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Bakunin's hatred of Germans is so bizarre: "the Germans have since become so odious to me that I could not speak calmly to any of them; I could not hear their language, not even a German voice, and I remember when a German beggar asked me for alms once, and I had to restrain myself from hitting him"

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Zoe Baker @anarchozoe.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

I have once again written a 15,000 word essay by mistake. It debunks five myths about historical anarchist views on democracy and collective decision making. 5,000 words are just on what Malatesta thought about voting in anarchist orgs. Should be finished by the end of the month.

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Zoe Baker @anarchozoe.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Marriage guides in Europe have often just been men telling women that the ideal marriage is an abusive relationship eg the 14th century merchant who informs his teen wife that she should always obey her husband, never do anything he had forbidden her to do, and never answer back or contradict him.

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Zoe Baker @anarchozoe.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Re-read the 1868 programme of the Alliance by Bakunin, which both Marx and Engels read. It claimed that "all the political and authoritarian States of today must scale down their functions to the simple administration of the public services" and "merge into the universal union of free Associations".

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Zoe Baker @anarchozoe.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

In 1877 Engels claimed that with the abolition of the state "the government of persons is replaced by the administration of things". This is typically framed as a Saint Simon reference. I also think it might be a nod to anarchist ideas from the first international that he was likely familiar with.

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Zoe Baker @anarchozoe.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

During the early 19th century a Japanese woman named Take ran away from her job as a maid, started wearing men’s clothes, and sought work as a man under the male name Takejirô. She not only adopted the physical appearance and mannerisms of a man, but also joined a gang of young men.

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Zoe Baker @anarchozoe.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

In 1583 the puritan Philip Stubbes claimed that women who cross dress as men would change their sex and become men if given the opportunity. For context the weird looking f is actually an s.

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Zoe Baker @anarchozoe.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

In 1587 a man named William Harrison wrote an attack on women wearing men's clothes or dressing masc in England. He reported that, “I have met with some of these trulls in London so disguised that it hath passed my skill to discern whether they were men or women”. Trulls meant sex worker.

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Zoe Baker @anarchozoe.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I think that leftist social theory should be grounded in at least the beliefs that: (1) a mind independent world exists and we can develop knowledge of it; (2) the scientific method is the best currently available means to do this; (3) humans are an animal within a web of life.

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Zoe Baker @anarchozoe.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

I did some brief investigation into the 17th century word transfeminate, which meant "to turn from woman to man, or from one sex to another". So far looks like it was used to refer to people who were raised as one sex but then were found to actually be another, most likely due to being intersex.

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Zoe Baker @anarchozoe.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

King James I of England sounded like an anime villain: source: J. P. Kenyon, ed., The Stuart Constitution 1603-1688: Documents and Commentary, 2nd Edition (Cambridge University Press, 1986), p12.

"Kings are justly called gods for that they exercise a manner or resemblance of divine power upon earth, for if you will consider the attributes to God you shall see how they agree in the person of a king. God hath power to create or destroy, make or unmake, at his pleasure; to give life or send death, tojudge all and to be judged not accountable to none; to raise low things and to make high things low at his pleasure; and to God are both soul and body due. And the like power have kings: they make and unmake their subjects; they have power of raising, and casting down; of life, and of death, judges over all their subjects, and in all causes, and yet accountable to none but God only. They have power
to exalt low things, and abase high things, and make of their subjects like men at the chess — a pawn to take a bishop or a knight — and cry up or down any of their subjects, as they do their money. And to the king is due both the affection of the soul and the service of the body of his subjects."

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Zoe Baker @anarchozoe.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Found another early example of anarchism being linked to democracy. A 1937 article in Vanguard by the anonymous authors S.M. and R.W. described an anarchist communist society as one in which “democracy is therefore maximised and made an active process” (Vanguard Vol 4, no 1, p13).

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Zoe Baker @anarchozoe.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

"there is a republic in America . . . but the native peoples are reduced to desperate straits and hunted down like wild animals… What am I saying? In America, as in Rome and in Greece before her, we have seen that the republic is compatible with slavery!" - Malatesta, 1884

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The Republic of the Boys and that of the Bearded Men

Errico Malatesta The Republic of the Boys and that of the Bearded Men 5 January 1884 Translated from “La repubblica dei giovanetti e quella degli uomini...

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Zoe Baker @anarchozoe.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

TIL that Ainu parents tried to manifest via child names.

"Ainu names were meaningful and usually expressed a wish of well-being for the child. Some feminine names were “Be-able-to-do-work-well,” “Be-chaste,” “Remain-faithful-to-husband,” “Be-quiet-and-calm,” and “Prosperity-for-posterity.” Kinaratup’s name meant “A-woman-skilled-in-weaving-bulrush-mats.” It might also be interpreted to mean ““T’o-be-sitting-on-a-mat.” Kinaratup explained that it meant to have a good home and be free from worries.

A Toyohata woman’s name was “T'o-have-a-good-grain-harvest.” She
explained, “When I was born, my father was working away from home. He sent this name to my mother. The harvest of that year promised to be an abundant one and he wanted me always to have such a harvest.” “And she is a woman who in truth always reaps a good harvest,” remarked
a man who squatted near us".

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Zoe Baker @anarchozoe.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

The ethnographic atlas: only Unangax̂ [Aleut] men hunted birds and used traps. The first journal article I find: women hunted birds with traps and slings. This database underpins so much research in the field. I kept seeing it's name pop up but nobody seems to have systematically fact checked it.

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Zoe Baker @anarchozoe.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

The ethnographic atlas compiled by Murdock et al claims that among the Haida trapping and fowling are exclusively male activities. The source for this claim says that women snare birds. The author of this source is Murdock himself. I am slowly losing my mind fact checking this guy.

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Zoe Baker @anarchozoe.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

More evidence of some Inuit women hunting like men. Source: Diamond Jenness, Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-18, Volume XII: The Life of the Copper Eskimos (F. A. Acland, 1922), p88.

"Vice versa, a few of the women take part in the hunting and sealing.
The eldest of Uloksak’s three wives, indeed, was quite a noted caribou hunter. The same woman sometimes went sealing, as did also Milukkattak, Avranna’s wife. The two of them went out together one day, leaving their husbands to mind the huts, and they often taunted the men with this afterwards. During my stay with Ikpakhuak the old man was teaching his little step-daughter to seal. She was only twelve years old at the time, and when she did finally transfix a seal in the winter of 1916 she had to call to one of the other hunters to help her drag her victim, on to the ice. It is only the younger women, however, who go out hunting, though everyone, men, women and children, have to take part in the organized caribou-drive."

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Zoe Baker @anarchozoe.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Evidence of some Inuit women hunting like men: Source: Jean L. Briggs, “Eskimo Women: Makers of Men,” in Many Sisters: Women in Cross-Cultural Perspective, ed. Carolyn Matthiasson (The Free Press, 1974), p271).

Quote reads: "Similarly, if a family has only daughters, a father may decide to bring up one or two daughters as hunters, so that they can help him and also that, if anything should happen to him, the family will not be left without a provider. Again, the older daughters tend to be chosen for this role. Such girls will go hunting with their fathers from the time they are small. To be sure, they also learn female skills, and eventually they marry and have children, but the masculine training they have received may show itself, according to the same female informant, in a tendency to be somewhat bossy toward their husbands."

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Zoe Baker @anarchozoe.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

The Ethnographic Atlas: only Washo men specialised in hunting. The ethnographic literature: women hunted gopher and squirrels. The taboo of women using men's hunting equipment to hunt larger animals was broken by widows trying to feed their families. I keep finding omissions like this.

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Zoe Baker @anarchozoe.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

The transphobes current slogan 'there is no such thing as a transgender child' is an obvious disguise for their actual belief: trans people do not actually exist and are just deluded. They focus on children because it's the best way to generate a moral panic.

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Zoe Baker @anarchozoe.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

I don't think there is anything political or radical about being trans. It's just a characteristic that some people have like being an introvert. The political and radical element is supporting and building towards trans liberation in a social context where trans people are oppressed.

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