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It's Fascism. New Rules. | Part 4 |by Esmée Streachailt

New Rules, Same as the Old Rules, but Different

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The Emergency

It's Faaascism. New Rules. | Part 3 |by Esmée Streachailt

Don't collapse. Don't comply. Don't collaborate with power.

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The Emergency

It's Fascism. New Rules. | Part 2 |by Esmée Streachailt

I'm not ready to make nice --- and this is a looooong post, y'all. -- Update: Recordings have moved behind the paywall.

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The Emergency

Why Do Male Dominated Societies Regularly Collapse? |by Esmée Streachailt

Free public reprint from my Substack. Rare Saturday post.

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The Emergency

It's Fascism. New Rules. |by Esmée Streachailt

Part 1 | Is this goal possible? I don't know. Are they dreaming it? Yes. Should we assume we are in a fight against men who want to reprise the 13th century? Yes, I think we should.

Key Concepts

SANDRA G. HARDING 29 March 1935 - 5 March 2025

Dr Harding ... was always attentive to the importance of building networks with intellectual allies and activists ... internationally acclaimed for her pioneering development of “standpoint theory,” which apprehended science as a contextualized and culturally embedded undertaking...

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coalition

Sisterhood / Coalition 5 |by Esmée Streachailt

The opposite of this hardening and isolation is not fusion and gumminess. That happens inside the hardened identity in unconscious and unexamined ways.