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Archive of Works

Sunday, June 14, 2026

Essays, Articles, & Speeches



  • An extended meditation on why I know that (as of writing) Volume II is only 76 pages, and I want it to be 340 and why you should hop off my dick about it

On a Sense of Self-Doubt - June 25, 2026

  •  This essay reflects on the tension between prolific political writing and a persistent sense of self-doubt about one’s own knowledge and authority. Drawing on Mao’s “On Practice” and Kim Jong Il’s On the Juche Idea, it distinguishes first-order knowledge (knowing a proposition P) from second-order knowledge (knowing that one knows P), arguing that both are material, social processes rather than abstract mental states. The author contends that genuine second-order knowledge requires “rigorous interrogation” of one’s ideas through practice, struggle, and collective engagement, not mere solitary rumination. Writing itself is defended as one such practice: by forcing amorphous thoughts into structured, material form, it becomes a creative transformation that can clarify, test, and refine consciousness. Returning to the autobiographical thread, the essay examines how crises of confidence arise from treating “wrongness” as a fixed personal essence rather than as a contingent outcome of specific actions and conditions. This metaphysical self-condemnation is linked to the intersecting material realities of being transfeminine, dark-skinned, and committed to a proletarian stand within a patriarchal, racialized, imperialist order. The text frames self-doubt as both a product of domination and a site of struggle: second-order knowledge can be stunted by oppressive structures but can also be strengthened through collective practice, ideological rectification, and continued creative work. It concludes by insisting that knowledge must be returned to practice—“seeking truth from facts”—and that confidence is forged in the ongoing struggle to transform the world, echoing Fred Hampton’s maxim about daring to struggle and win.


Queer'd Liberalism: An Infantile Disorder - June 23, 2026 (Work-in-Progress)
  • Fifty-seven years after the rebellion at Stonewall, Queer people face assault from without and confusion from within. While legislatures strip transgender Americans of their rights and the bourgeois-patriarchal state tightens its grip, an equally dangerous struggle is being lost inside Queer communities themselves — the creeping displacement of a proud, proletarian liberation politics by the psychologically castrating ideologies of liberalism and puritanism. Queer'd Liberalism does not intend to let this pass without a ruthless accounting. Drawing on the traditions of historical materialism and the working-class lineage of Queer liberation — from William Dorsey Swann in the aftermath of the Civil War, to the trans woman who threw her coffee at a cop in Compton's Cafeteria, to the Sisters Rivera and Johnson and the ballroom mothers who built community in the face of state abandonment — M. R. Framboise argues that the dominant politics of contemporary Queer life represent not the maturation of Queer freedom but its dilution: a petit-bourgeois deviation from a proletarian tradition that won every real gain the Queer masses have ever known. Queer liberation, this pamphlet insists, is working-class liberation. It always has been. And the struggle to make it so again begins here.

 Theses on Welpemaedchen [Puppygirls] - June 15, 2026

  • Structured in deliberate echo of Marx's Theses on Feuerbach — footnotes, formal register, and all — this seven-thesis essay applies the Juche idea's framework of independence, creativity, and consciousness to the phenomenon of puppygirl headspace with complete analytical sincerity. Framboise's central argument is that prior understandings of the Welpemaedchen (lit. "puppy girl") have gotten the principal aspect backwards: the state is not a minor perturbation layered over ordinary human consciousness, but a genuine qualitative change in how personhood is expressed — one that emerges from quantitative accumulation of escapist proclivity in the same way that any dialectical leap does. The essay argues that Welpemaedchen attitudes function by consciously and temporarily subordinating independence and consciousness to creativity, thereby insulating the subject from the paralysis that chronic internal and external struggle can produce. The condition is traced to the contradiction within man's own social character, requires a foundation of community security to safely occur, and is understood as a superstructural expression of the tension between intimate security and broader structures of dominationism. Citing Kim Jong Il and Marx in the same breath as a straight-faced formal apparatus, the piece operates simultaneously as genuine philosophical analysis and as the funniest possible deployment of dialectical materialism.

On the Defects of Attention - June 14, 2026

  • The most recent essay in the archive turns the lens of dialectical materialism inward, onto the lived experience of ADHD and chronic task-avoidance. Framing ADHD not as a personal failing but as a sharply antagonistic contradiction between "thinking" and "doing," Framboise maps the secondary symptoms — emotional dysregulation, negative self-image, social impairment — as downstream effects of this primary contradiction, demonstrating how each reinforces the other until a qualitative crisis is reached. The proposed resolution refuses any fantasy of eradicating the contradiction: rather, the goal is to soften the antagonism between thought and action through the patient, consistent, material practice of building habits — one at a time, through doing rather than through planning to do. The essay is notable for applying the same analytical rigor Framboise brings to political economy and social philosophy to the most granular terrain of her own daily life.

  • The longest and most systematically ambitious of the archived essays, this six-part work engages the question Who am I?not as an exercise in liberal introspection but as a materialist-dialectical inquiry into the nature of identity itself. Moving through Blackness, Creolism, and transfemininity in turn, Framboise dismantles the liberal-idealist model of identity as a fixed knot of innate essences and replaces it with a dialectical understanding of identities as syntheses of historical contradictions, forged through struggle and continuously transformed by it. The Juche idea's framework of independence, creativity, and consciousness serves as the theoretical connective tissue across the essay's movement. The concluding sections argue that communism is not an additional identity but the philosophical praxis through which all others are unified — and that identity is not a noun or adjective but a verb. First published in The Daily Salad and later collected in Collected Works from The Daily Salad.
  • The most personally intimate piece in the archive, this essay takes the form of a letter addressed to a version of Framboise that will never exist — the doctor, mathematician, wife, and mother once imagined as the destination of her life. Opening with Huey P. Newton's concept of revolutionary suicide, the piece meditates on what it means to abandon a planned future in favor of a conscious and risky one. Framboise does not mourn the unlived life so much as acknowledge it honestly before turning to face the one she is actually living: organizing among the people, writing on their struggle, and theorizing the sciences of society. The letter ends with Fred Hampton's dare-to-struggle refrain — equal parts elegy and affirmation, and one of the most emotionally direct statements in the Framboise body of work.


  • Taking aim at the increasingly prevalent internet nihilism captured in the phrase "nothing ever happens," this essay offers a dialectical-materialist rebuttal grounded in the Juche idea's understanding of human social character. Drawing on Ri Kwang Il's formulation that the purpose of all human activity is to shape one's destiny, Framboise argues that the appearance of spontaneous historical change — illustrated through coverage of ICE raids and community resistance in Minneapolis — conceals long chains of organized relations between people of different classes and national identities. Things do not simply happen; they are made to happen through collective struggle and interconnection. The essay closes as a call to action: the broad masses must make change, and can only do so through organized solidarity with each other.
My Trans is Beautiful - October 15, 2025
  • Originally delivered as a speech at the Queer Trans Community Action Project's vigil for Trans Day of Remembrance 2025, this piece opens with an insistence that trans experience cannot be reduced to suffering — that transness is, before everything else, a creative gift. Written in the immediate shadow of federal anti-trans policy and the White House's labeling of trans people as violent extremists, Framboise pivots from mourning toward a call for mass organization, community dual power, and mutual aid infrastructure. The speech closes with a direct address to trans youth: a declaration of love, protection, and the promise that they will be allowed to grow old. It is a landmark in Framboise's public voice — moving fluently between fire and tenderness.
What Does Victory Look Like? - September 9, 2025

  • Framboise's earliest archived essay takes up a question habitually posed in bad faith by critics of progressive movements: what, concretely, does winning look like? Rejecting both the nihilist's fantasy of pure destruction and the liberal's hazy utopia, the piece argues that victory is already happening in every act of care, mutual aid, and dared struggle. Framed around the image of a people's state as simultaneously sword and shield — striking the ruling class while protecting ordinary people — the essay insists that victory is not a singular revelatory event but a practice of radical declaration accumulated across every breath and action. Poetic in register and direct in its political commitments, it is a foundational statement of the Framboisian outlook: that the future is built by those willing to fight for the present.

Books



  • The Starshine Essays gathers the political writings and addresses of M. R. Framboise, a student activist and theorist based in New Orleans. Works in the first volume cover the late spring to mid-summer of 2026. These essays blend rigorous Marxist analysis with lived experience of campus organizing, exploring the interconnections between power, identity, and revolutionary transformation. Framboise examines student power as an engine of social change, interrogates liberal frameworks of identity through a materialist lens, and articulates a vision of victory rooted in collective struggle and human dignity. Whether over-analyzing puppygirls, theorizing trans intimacy, or unpacking ADHD through materialist dialectics, her work refuses the false separation between theory and practice

M. R. Framboise Aphorisms - June 23, 2026

  • Drawn from The Starshine Essays and the upcoming Queer'd Liberalism: An Infantile Disorder, this collection gathers the most essential aphorisms of Mikaylah-Rosalina D. V. Framboise — a young revolutionary thinker, writer, and organizer writing from New Orleans at the intersection of Blackness, transness, and the struggle for liberation. In seventy-four condensed passages, Framboise weaves together dialectical materialism and lived experience, political theory and intimate confession, Creole tongue and revolutionary fire. She writes of victory not as spectacle but as the wolf pup running because he can; of identity not as noun but as verb; of love not as static possession but as labor and transformation. Urgent, poetic, and unflinching, Aphorisms is a testament to what it means to think, to struggle, and to refuse — at almost nineteen years old — to stop becoming.


  • The Starshine Essays represent a comprehensive collection of the written works of M. R. Framboise. Framboise is a student activist based in New Orleans, Louisiana, U. S. A., and her work spans campus organizing, Marxist and Juche-inflected analysis, cultural critique, and general opinion commentary. This first volume is essentially the "second edition" of Collected Works (see below)







  • This monograph was originally produced in a joint-effort by the Soviet and Socialist Mongolian Academies of Sciences. It is being reprinted by Lastær Rouj Publications for archival and personal usage purposes. History of the Mongolian People's Republic (1973, Nauka Publishing House) is a monumental joint Marxist study compiled by the leading scholars of the USSR and MPR Academies of Sciences. This comprehensive monograph, a translation of the revised and expanded second edition, offers an extensive, erudite account of the Mongolian people across a sweeping timeline. Utilizing unique archaeological and written source materials, the text moves from the ancient primitive communes of the Stone Age, through the rise and fall of early feudal states and the global campaigns of Genghis Khan, to the long era of Manchu domination. The second half of the volume provides an invaluable, deep-dive into the 20th-century contemporary history of the nation. It meticulously details the 1921 national liberation revolution, the ultimate liquidation of the feudal class, and the complex socioeconomic transition to a non-capitalist path of development and socialist construction up to 1970. Spanning over 500 pages and complete with detailed cultural surveys, comprehensive bibliographies, and historical timelines, this rare publication stands as a critical, definitive landmark in Marxist historiography and Central Asian studies.


  • The print collection of Framboise's journalism and essays published in The Daily Salad between September 2025 and March 2026, gathering into a single volume the pieces that would define her early public voice. The collection includes What Does Victory Look Like?, My Trans is Beautiful, Change, Things, and Nothing Ever Happening, and On Subjecthood and Identity Mine Own, among other work from her time covering student and community organizing in New Orleans. Taken together, these pieces trace a writer moving with confidence and increasing theoretical sophistication across the registers of political philosophy, personal testimony, and agitational speech — always in service of the communities whose struggle she documents and shares.