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INITIAL DRAFT : 11/25/2025 REVISED : 11/30/25 (v2) : 1/11/2026,  1/15/26 (v3) : 2/13/26, 2/18/26, 2/20/26 2/24/26 "It perhaps takes less heart to pick up the gun than to face the task of creating a new identity, a self, perhaps an androgynous self , via commitment to the struggle." In spirit of Toni Bambara's "On the Issue of Roles" , this essay expands on her concept of the "Androgynous Self" and proposes its application across race and ethnicity for both cisgender and transexual people, written in regard to gender divisions in class systems as well as radical spaces. It is possible that any Socialist looking to dismantle cisnormative Patriarchy and Misogyny, or to deepen their understanding of Decolonial theory, could benefit by adopting this Androgynous Self in service of Radicalism. "Gender," to begin simply, is a culturally produced system that divides "roles" of societal behaviors, appearances, symbols, and labor between diffe...

Previously titled: "The Role of Environmentalism in the Russian Revolution" Original submission: 11/19/2019, Noel T.   "newarks" , University of Victoria. Revised & published: 11/2/2025, 11/4/2025 The nation of Russia, once the USSR and now the Russian Federation, has never been specially known by either the Western conscience for being particularly "environmentally friendly," although a mind for sustainability is often paired with being decried as a "commie" or "hippie bum". The reason behind the conflation is simple: that socialism propels environmentalism and vice versa, contrary to anti-Soviet mythos. The industrialism that swept through Russia after the 1917 Revolution could be argued as directly oppositional to environmentalist efforts- but to counter; the early development of all productive technology, internationally, was sometimes too encumbered by its goals and responsibilities to conceive the full potential of its consequ...