Broken Teapot Thesis

As you can imagine, the term zine isn’t a common type of media our society reads on a daily basis. Imagine a magazine and a personal letter having a baby, that is what a zine would be. The demand for individuality is a major component behind the creation of zines. A recently published zine called The Broken Teapot is meant to question the accountability process of rape and abuse. The current accountability process gets falsely classified as ‘blaming the victim’. Instead, we should consider the appropriate consequences for the victim and analyze their innocence and guilt. The appearance of The Broken Teapot is what initially attracted me to give the zine a try. The zine is a collection of five essays that examine the role of accountability

Every essay allowed each author space to fully express their perspective on the accountability process for rape and abuse. The creators of this zine most likely didn’t have any connections tying them together, but instead, they just contributed all of their thoughts and experiences within their own essay. Gorrion and Celeste are both unknown author’s whose identities still remain a mystery. Although, the motives to create this zine are nothing but a mystery. These authors have experienced violence and received betrayal of close family or friends, yet they are able to speak so bluntly against the ideological odds. Their personal experiences inspired them to write and evaluate the innocence and guilt and question the accountability process. Anger could have also been a motive behind this zine. The authors might have felt angry that they were supposed to identify themselves as being the right kind of victim in order to get support. Celeste talks about how rape breaks you and robs you of any illusion of safety or sanity. They feel that our society needs a new model that helps people take their power back. A good way to overcome something as traumatic as rape or abuse is to write it down and/or talk it out with someone. A zine is a perfect place to voice your opinions and personal experiences because not many people read it, and the one’s who would choose to read most likely went

Before we get any further, by accountability process, I mean closely examining each case of rape or abuse and critique the innocence and guilt. More specifically, the creators were writing to the anarchist community. The anonymous author mentions how he/she received some support from close friends and family, but the general anarchist community, said nothing. The author then goes on to write how he/she noticed that a funny thing has happened with the anarchists and that they have become afraid to support each other in a sincere way. I can conclude that the creators were writing to the anarchist community because they frequently brought up anarchists as if they were apart of the community. The Broken Teapot abstract talks about how it offers more thoughts on accountability inside the anarchist community, it explores the limitation of current anarchist models of “accountability” and how the zine raises numerous questions involving the accountability processes that deal with issues within the anarchist