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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

Source: Margaret Law Callcott, ed and trans., Mistress of Riversdale: The Plantation Letters of Rosalie Stier Calvert 1795-1821, (The John Hopkins University Press, 1991), 334, 340.

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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

Source: Elizabeth Semmelhack, Shoes: The Meaning of Style (Reaktion Books, 2017), p178.

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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

Olga Soffer and James M. Adovasio, “The Roles of Perishable Technologies in Upper Paleolithic Lives,” in The Magdalenian Household: Unraveling Domesticity, ed. Ezra Zubrow et al. (State University of New York Press, 2010).

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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

I used to use the language of democracy cause I was radicalised by occupy, but now generally avoid it cause it can confuse people into thinking anarchism is just a ultra democratic government. But I don't think semantic debates about language matter much. Debates about ideas are more important.

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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

Source: Marina Montesano, Cross-Dressing in the Middle Ages (Routledge, 2025), p131-32. The medieval book is called Tristan de Nanteuil.

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

She answers yes and "became a real man, because God sent her all the nature of a man . . . the [woman's] name Blanchandine will stop right here, for from now on he will be called Blanchandin [man's name], which better suits him. When he saw himself transformed, he praised Jesus Christ."

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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

Source: Gregory M. Pflugfelder, Cartographies of Desire: Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse, 1600-1950 (University of California Press, 1999), p153.

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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

This is something I'm researching atm but don't have anything definitive to share yet. Currently I don't think we can know what the origins of gender etc were due to the inherent limits with archeological evidence. Its much easier to talk about how it functions once it is observed in the data.

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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

Source: Quoted in Eileen Power, Medieval Women (Cambridge University Press, 1975), p36.

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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

Second essay will go through everything Malatesta wrote about democracy and collective decision-making in exhaustive detail because other people keep misrepresenting quotes. First essay is 14,000 words and is ready to record. Second essay is 8000 ish words and almost done.

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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

Source: Quoted in Felipe Corrêa, Freedom or Death: The Theory and Practice of Mikhail Bakunin (Black Rose Books, 2024), 247. Primary source is the 1851 confessions to the Tsar.

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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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