Another World Is Possible

  • (Click here to read:The Fire and the Circle: A Chaos Collectivist Protocol for Handling Accusations of Harm)

    Let’s be real from the start. I don’t need a rigid system with appointed officials and a 7-step process to tell me when a man is harming me or my community. That’s what the state already does. That’s what the courts do. You need “evidence,” “due process,” a “committee,” and “digital records” just to be allowed to name your harm. And Qggly, whether he meant to or not, copied that shit and gave it a different name.

    You said, “We do not fear contradiction. We do not erase it. We confront it through structure, not spectacle.” But who built the structure? You did. Overnight. After you were the one accused. The next day, this whole “protocol” was drafted. That’s not revolutionary praxis—that’s a personal defense mechanism dressed up as political theory.

    And let’s not forget the context. A white woman accused a BIPOC man of predation. Predation of which he was not guilty of.  The state has always used that lie to murder and cage Black and Brown people. Your community—radical anarchists, people grounded in Black resistance—knew that. They didn’t need your protocol to know what was right. They handled it with care and clarity, rooted in history. So why did you feel the need to throw together this Waffle House menu of moral bureaucracy the very next night?

    Because it wasn’t about the collective. It was about you.

    Then, the real damage shows up when this same “Chaos Collectivist” protocol gets used in another case. This time, a white man is the accused. And he’s actually guilty. And the fems already knew that, as we keep a whisper network. Men will call it gossiping- but its our survival mechanism. A white man who is not rooted in the community, by the way. His connection to this community is just that he bought Qgglys book. He’s not a Chaos Collectivist, he’s not even an anarchist. A white man who benefits from both patriarchy and white supremacy. And suddenly, the whole system protects him. Not the BIPOC fem who brought it forward, and was met with misogynoir. Not the whisper network. Not the survivors who already had to organize quietly to stay safe.

    Because this system, this “circle,” is designed to make harm digestible to the abuser. It’s not about justice—it’s about containment.

    Let’s look at some of your own words:

    “The accusation does not become proof. It becomes a signal—a rupture we are now called to hold with care and consequence.”

    Okay… but what does that mean in practice? If I say, “Hey, this man hurt me,” the first step is not safety. It’s containment. It’s control. It’s telling everyone, “Don’t speak on it yet.” We’re told to wait until a RAC forms—made up of people who affirm the ethics of Chaos Collectivism. Why are the only people allowed to name my harm those who agree with the theory that Qggly alone writes. A theory that he just wrote LAST NIGHT out of shit that happened to him through different power dynamics. Not the people who know the survivor best. Not those most affected. But people who agree with your theory.

    “No one is assumed innocent. No one is assumed guilty. Everyone is expected to be honest.”

    Cute in theory. But who defines “honest”? Because in my case, the benefit of the doubt went to a man. A white man. And the person who spoke up a bipoc fem was questioned, sidelined, and gaslit by people who claimed to be enacting a non-carceral process. Then they experienced misogynoir and had two smear videos made about them.  That’s not transformation. That’s cult behavior. That’s what happens when your system is more invested in protecting a theory or one mans ego than protecting people.

    Let’s talk about the Relational Accountability Circle, this little Supreme Court of chaos. You said it must be “3–7 members rooted in the community” and “people who have no allegiance to either party’s status, platform, or perceived virtue.” Sounds nice. But when push came to shove, who got picked? Who gets to decide what “rooted in community” even means? Would you have picked white men? Men scared they’d be next? People who value process over protection?

    Because that’s what happened. The protocol that protected you from a false accusation then got used to protect a real abuser. That’s not justice. That’s systemic failure. And it’s worse than the state in some ways—because it masquerades as abolition.

    “We do not base judgment on: Who is more beloved / Who cries more convincingly / Who has more followers / Who fits the aesthetic of survivorhood.”

    This sounds good until you realize what it really means: we ignore our own instincts. We pretend that patterns of harm, of manipulation, of community awareness don’t matter. We throw out the whisper network and demand documentation. And in that moment, you’ve made your so-called “liberatory” system indistinguishable from a courtroom.

    The state already tells us we need evidence to prove we were harmed. The state already makes us sit in a room full of people who don’t believe us and “present our case.” The state already protects white men while putting women and the BIPOC femmes  protecting them through hell.

    So what’s different about your system, Qggly? Nothing, apparently. Except now you get to cosplay as a revolutionary while doing it.

    “This protocol will not go viral. It is not aesthetic. It will not satisfy those addicted to exile or eager to perform justice as punishment.”

    No, it won’t go viral. But not because it’s radical. Because it’s ineffective. Because it reproduces harm. Because it makes a false promise: that you can create a neutral, safe, structured response to harm that never threatens the status quo.

    But let’s be honest. Anarchism is not new. Our whisper networks are not new. Femmes keeping each other safe from harm without permission or process is not new. What is new is this attempt to bureaucratize survival and call it liberation.

    You made a theory out of your trauma, and then you enforced that theory on others. When confronted with its failure, you showed misogynoir and mysoginy. You made excuses for my abuser and attacked my allies. You sided with whiteness. You became the thing you claimed to resist.

    And the rest of us? We’re still here. Building trust through relation. Naming harm without courts or circles. Keeping each other safe without your permission. This doesn’t rock our foundation- we are actually revolutionists.

    Thank you to everyone who supported me through this. Thank you mostly to the person who came forward in the server and took the brunt of that reaction. And thank you to the only man I trusted through his whole thing. You both know who you are.


  • There is no greater disservice to the revolutionary cause than optimism without action. Passive optimism, that liberal illusion of hope divorced from struggle, has seduced many, convincing them that merely believing in change is enough to dismantle the very structures of oppression. But belief alone will not destroy capitalism, it will not free the oppressed, and it will not nourish the hungry. Passive optimism, by lulling us into comfort, only ensures the survival of the oppressor’s chains.

    Optimism, without the will to act, eventually turns inward. When hope meets the hard reality of entrenched systems, when ideals meet the cold brutality of repression, despair is born. This despair is not accidental; it is a weapon. The oppressor feeds on our disappointment, turning it against us, hoping we will surrender to pessimism and accept defeat as inevitable. They want our despair because it paralyzes us, weakening our resolve, convincing us that we are too few, too scattered, and too weak to challenge their rule.

    But to surrender to despair is to insult those who resist, who suffer, and who persist in their fight under conditions far more brutal than our own. We must reject pessimism as we reject the enemy’s lies. Pessimism is their tool; it breeds inaction, and inaction sustains oppression.

    True revolutionary optimism lives in action. It is the courage to confront power, the resilience to persist despite losses, and the understanding that liberation is born not from hope alone, but from struggle.

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