anti social butterfly

Well, it has been an incredibly long time since I’ve written something that’s non-academic, let alone personal or for this website. For a while I contemplated deleting it entirely, largely due to the sizeable amount of hate-mail, death and rape threats and a list of other problems it created for me in my personal and private life.

But instead of saying my usual “fuck you” to those responsible I am going one further and actually doing a “fuck you” to those responsible; and that even bigger “fuck you” is the re-starting of this blog.

I still have nearly all of the old entries but I have purged them as this is about a fresh beginning for The AntiSocial Butterfly, and indeed for myself as the writer Aileen Wuornos. Instead, I am going to revise them, edit them, play with them and the ideas one, two and three years post-writing.

I anticipate that this change in my articulation may seem a bit off and unlike myself at first, but I assure you as readers and sisters that this is:
a) a fair amount of personal and intellectual growth on my part
b) just part of the change I thought was needed around here,

and there is change everywhere on the interwebs. There are a fair few more radical feminist tumblrs and a fair few more radical feminist blogs than I remember were active when I started on this journey three years ago which is of course, fantastic, and I hope to be reading, lurking and eventually posting on all of your wonderful sites because our voices are powerful, our voices are wonderful and most importantly … our voices are important.

So sit back, relax and enjoy the new direction of The AntiSocial Butterfly.

- Aileen