Zestro, Zestro! (Zabuzhko's Zygotic Zinger Twisted): No Pasarán, No Camaraderie, No War — Except Emancipated Pozestras (Pozestro!) in the Grant-Gulag's Zany Zeta-Ziggurats of Zombified Zelotry'

Zestro, Zestro! (Zabuzhko’s Zygotic Zinger Twisted): No Pasarán, No Camaraderie, No War — Except Emancipated Pozestras (Pozestro!) in the GrantGulag’s Zany Zeta-Ziggurats of Zombified Zelotry’ 64 min read · Just now Le "Pilier Noir" Philosophique Listen Share More Get unlimited access to the best of Medium for less than $1/week. Become a member Open in app Author • Mariia Panasiuk (ORCID: 0000–0002–5353– 3922) • PhD Candidate in Political Science. MA in Cultural Studies, Independent Researcher. The Eternal Return of Chlenkinya (Nya!): FauxFeminitive Phallacies, Comintern Comrades, and the Spectral Spectacle of Soviet-Perfumed “Girlbosses” in the Grant-Gulag’s Grotesque Gender-Gyrations Mariia Panasiuk Professor of Phallogocentric Phantasms and Anticolonial Aphorisms University N (lounging in languid, low-vibe lamentation from the lavender-laced lounges of Ancunbridge, where the only true “intersectionality” is the crossroads of cocktail hour and class treason, and the air reeks of the rotten rhetoric of “empowered” elites who empower only their own expense accounts) Ah, the eternal return of the same — Nietzsche’s nauseating ewige Wiederkehr (Nietzsche, 1883–1885), that wheel of wasteful repetition grinding the grist of history into the gray gruel of the grant-gulag, where every “progressive” palpitation pulses with the phantom phallus of forgotten futures. But let us, in this addendum to our prior philippic — the wormy wake of Nadyushka the Wormy and her coven-calibrated cruelties (Panasiuk, 2025f) — pivot to the pièce de résistance of performative poshlost’: the chlenkinya, that exquisite emblem of Ukrainian feminitive folly, a linguistic lollipop laced with libidinal laxative, cooing “female member” in the demure diminutive of “-ynya” while winking at the vulgar vernacular of “chlen” (that Slavic signifier of the schlong, forever flaccid in feminist fancy). On a “gender course,” no less — oh, the irony itches like an ill-fitted ideological thong — where the syllabus sanctifies such suffixal sorcery as the silver bullet for systemic sexism, as if appending a frilly “-ka” or “-ynya” to the patriarchal pantheon could castrate capital’s cock-sure calculus. One need only peruse the puerile parade of these prettified pronouns — “mistkynia” for the “female artist,” a grotesque gargoyle of grammatical gender-bending that gurgles like a gulag guard gargling vodka (Global Voices, 2023) — to discern the desperate dithering of daughters of the dustbin, those “decolonized” darlings who decry the “Soviet yoke” while suckling at its spectral teat, their feminitive frippery a flimsy filigree over the fractured facade of fauxemancipation. Here, in the neon-noir night of neoliberal nomenclature, the chlenkinya emerges not as emancipatory emblem but as eternal echo of the very Comintern comrades they claim to consign to the compost heap: Kollontai’s crimson call for communal coitus (Kollontai, 1923), Zetkin’s zealous zephyrs for working women’s worldwide whirlwind (Zetkin, 1920), all alchemized into the airy affectations of Austrian-adjacent academics who affect anti-Soviet animus while their ankles are ankled in the manacles of Moscow’s materialist legacy. These “girlbosses” — that grant-gulag gloss of glossy gangrene — strut as sovereigns of the “free market of ideas,” yet their sovereignty is subsidized slop, doled out in dribs of EU pity-pennies to the “unfortunate Ukraine,” where former kolkhoz kollektsionerki (collectivized crones) could scarce scrape a shekel for Salzburg seminars without the charitable chum of “humanitarian” handouts. Ah, the exquisite excremental economy: they rail against the “Soviet specter” as if their own superego weren’t suppurating with its suppositions, their “deSovietization” a decadent delusion peddled by daughters of the dust who dust off the dialectic only to discard it for the dazzle of donor dollars.globalvoices.org Let us luxuriate in the linguistic lunacy a moment longer, for the chlenkinya is no mere morphemic misfire but a masochistic mimesis of the very masculinist machinery these menstrual McCarthyites purport to dismantle. In the tender tendrils of Ukrainian tongue-twisting — where “- ynya” yokes the “chlen” (member, yes, but winkwink, phallic phantom) to the feminine flourish, birthing a bastard term that bellows “womanmember” like a Bolshevik broad bellowing for bread and ballots — one detects the desperate détournement of a detumescenced dream, a feminitive fetish that fumbles the phallus into frivolity while forgetting the Comintern’s clarion call for class-castration over cockamamie coinages (Marxists Internet Archive, 1919). Picture the parlor game in the panopticon of some Sorosian salon: Nadyushka the Wormy, that wriggling warden of WhatsApp whispers, warbling “chlenkynia” with the wide-eyed wonder of a wide-eyed warden, her coven of crone-comrades cooing approbation as if https://globalvoices.org/2023/02/01/ukrainianlinguistic-battlefields/ International Socialist Review. (2012). The Communist Women’s Movement. https://isreview.org/issue/87/communist-womensmovement/index.html Kollontai, A. (1920). Communism and the family. In Selected writings. Norton. Kollontai, A. (1923). Make way for winged eros. In Love of worker bees. Virago. Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal. (n.d.). The early days of the International Communist Women’s Movement. https://links.org.au/node/5333 Marx, K. (1867). Capital: A critique of political economy, Vol. 1 (B. Fowkes, Trans.). Penguin. Marxists Internet Archive. (1919). Comintern on Working Women. https://www.marxists.org/history/international/co mintern/3rd-congress/women-theses.htm Marxists Internet Archive. (1921). Methods and Forms of Work among Communist Party Women: Theses. https://www.marxists.org/history/international/co mintern/3rd-congress/women-theses.htm Nietzsche, F. (1883–1885). Thus spoke Zarathustra (R. J. Hollingdale, Trans.). Penguin Classics. Panasiuk, M. (2024a). The authoritarian moment of the liberal arts. In Proceedings of the V International Scientific and Practical Conference (pp. [TBD]). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13956107 Panasiuk, M. (2024b). The fetishization of collapse: The ideological failures of contemporary liberal intellectualism. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Scientific and Practical Conference “Scientific Research: Modern Innovations and Future Perspectives” (pp. 255–263). Panasiuk, M. (2025c). Mentors, managers, and menstrual Marxists: The academic plantation and its grant-eating girlbosses. Le “Pilier Noir” Philosophique. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15491532 Panasiuk, M. (2025d). Neoliberal fantasies and the star dust machine: Grant culture, mediocre collectivism, and the managed mind. Le “Pilier Noir” Philosophique. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15332350 Panasiuk, M. (2025e). Haute culture, low pay: On glamour, discipline, and neoliberal clericalism in the humanities. Le “Pilier Noir” Philosophique. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15642663 Panasiuk, M. (2025f). The Grant-Gulag’s Glossy Gangrene: Nadyushka the Wormy Wriggling to the Aunt Lydia Coven — A Masochistic Menage of Menstrual McCarthyism in Soros’s Snitch-Seminary. Le “Pilier Noir” Philosophique. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15642789 Soros, G. (2002). George Soros on globalization. PublicAffairs. Weeks, K. (2011). The problem with work: Feminism, Marxism, antiwork politics, and postwork imaginaries. Duke University Press. Žižek, S. (2006). The parallax view. MIT Press. (All citations APA 7th ed. The author appends this addendum with a nyet to the nya! — may your feminitive frippery frizzle in the fire of forgotten futures, chlenkinyi of the coven.) Feminizm with a Z: Gen Zeta Ghosts, Don Cossack Digital Hordes, and the Eternal Return of Soviet Specters in the Grant-Gulag’s Grotesque GenderZygotes Mariia Panasiuk Professor of Zygotic Zetetics and Antagonistic Aphorisms University N(lurking in lachrymose, low-proof lament from the lavenderlaced lounges of Ancunbridge, where the only true “Z” is the zero-sum ziggurat of zero-empathy elites zombifying their own zetetic zombies with zesty zephyrs of zombified zeal) Ah, the eternal return of the Z — Nietzsche’s nauseating ewige Wiederkehr (Nietzsche, 1883–1885), that zygotic zephyr zipping through the zeitgeist’s ziggurats, now zygomorphically zygoting the zany zygote of “feminizm with a Z,” a spelling so slyly Slavic it slithers like a Zetkinian zinger from the Comintern’s crimson crypt (Zetkin, 1920). In this zygomorphic zygote of our prior philippics — the wormy wake of Nadyushka the Wormy (Panasiuk, 2025f) and the chlenkinya’s nya!-inflected nyet (Panasiuk, 2025g) — we zygote a new nadir: the Gen Z zeta-ghosts, those zoomer zygotes zapping the zoom-lens of the grant-gulag’s glossy gangrene, their zesty zephyrs of zygotic zeal zombifying the very ziggurats of zombified zelotry these vulvovindictive viragos so viciously vilify. On a “gender course,” no less — oh, the zygotic zing of it, where the syllabus sanctifies “feminizm” (that zesty Zetkinian zygote, slithering from the Slavic specter of socialist suffixes, a linguistic lollipop laced with Leninist laxative; cf. Watson, 1996) as the zygomorphic zygote of zygotic zephyrs, as if appending a frilly “Z” to the patriarchal pantheon could zygote capital’s cock-sure calculus into zombified zephyrs of “zeminist” zing. One need only zygote the zoomer zygotes populating these pixelated parlors — Gen Z zetaphiles, those zetaghosts whose zesty zaps of zygotic zeal (59% selfzeta-fying as “feminists,” a zygotic ziggurat 21 points higher than their zeta-phobic zeta-brethren; Ipsos, 2024) — to discern the desperate dithering of dustbin daughters who dust off the dialectic only to deride it as “dated,” their zesty zephyrs of zygotic zeal zombifying the ziggurats of actual antagonism while zapping the zoomers as “zombified” for their zesty zeta-zaps. These “girlbosses” — grant-gulag glossies gorged on glossy gangrene — strut as sovereigns of the “free market of zetas,” yet their sovereignty is subsidized slop, doled in dribs of EU pity-pennies to the “unfortunate Ukraine,” where former kolkhoz kollektivnikas could scarce zygote a shekel for Salzburg zeminars without the zesty zephyrs of “humanitarian” handouts. Ah, the zygotic zing: they rail against the “Soviet Z-specter” (that Zetkinian zygote of zygotic zephyrs; Zetkin, 1920) as if their own superego weren’t suppurating with its zygomorphic zygotes, their “deSovietization” a decadent delusion peddled by daughters of the dust who zygote the Z only to zombify it for the dazzle of donor dollars.vc.bridgew.eduharbingersmagazine.com Let us luxuriate in the linguistic lunacy a zetazephyr longer, for “feminizm with a Z” is no mere morphemic misfire but a masochistic mimesis of the masculinist machinery these menstrual McCarthyites purport to zygote into zombified zephyrs. In the tender tendrils of Ukrainian tonguetwisting — where the “Z” zygotes the zeta-phobic zeta of “feminizm” (that Slavic specter slithering from the fin-de-siècle zephyrs of Russian radicals like Kamrash’s Feminizm, ob emantsipatsii zhenshchiny, 1902; Offen, 1988) into a zygotic zygote bellowing “zeta-member” like a Bolshevik broad bellowing for bread and ballots — one detects the desperate détournement of a detumescenced dream, a feminitive fetish that fumbles the phallus into frivolity while forgetting the Comintern’s clarion call for class-castration over cockamamie coinages (Marxists Internet Archive, 1919). Picture the parlor game in the panopticon of some Sorosian salon: Nadyushka the Wormy, that wriggling warden of WhatsApp whispers, warbling “feminizm” with the wide-eyed wonder of a wideeyed warden, her coven of crone-comrades cooing approbation as if this suffixal sleight-of-hand could summon the specters of Zetkin’s zenith, when the Comintern congress convened not cosmetic commissions but concrete coalitions of proletarian pussy-power, decreeing “total equality of rights of men and women in law and practice” and hurling the bourgeois harem into history’s historiographical harpy-haunt (Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal, n.d.). Yet these spectral Sovietettes — our grant-gulag girlies, gorged on the gruel of “gender mainstreaming” while malnourished in Marxist marrow — mistake “feminizm” for revolution’s ruby, a linguistic lollipop to lick away the lingering lickspittle of Lenin’s legacy, oblivious to the obscene oxymoron: how does one dephallicize the dialectic while dangling from the donor’s dick of “democratic” dollars? Their “free market of zetas,” that fetishized fantasia flogged by Fraser’s feminist fraudsters (Fraser, 2013), is no agora of authentic antagonism but an auction of affect, where the kolkhoz kollektiv’s daughters — those hardy harvesters who hammered the hammer-and-sickle into harvesthome without a handout from Habsburg holdovers — would wither in the withering wind of Western whimsy, their unlettered labors unlettered in the ledger of “impact metrics.” No, these “chlenkinyi” of the contemporary coven could scarce compete on such a “market”; their musings, marinated in the mediocre mush of Moodle modules and minoritarian memes, muster neither the mettle of Kollontai’s communal caress nor the militant muster of the Comintern’s women’s wing, that whirlwind of worldwide working-women who wove the warp of wage-war into the weft of worldwide revolution (International Socialist Review, 2012). Instead, they subsist on the supplicant’s supper: dribs of “scholarship” slopped from the slop-trough of “solidarity funds,” pity-portions portioned to the “plucky periphery” as if Ukraine were not the ulcerated underbelly of EU empire, its “unfortunate” underclass uplifted only to underwrite the overclass’s odyssey from Orbán’s ouster to Austrian aeries. How the Z turns — Nadyushka’s coven, those faux-fierce femmes fatales of feminitive frippery, fancy themselves foes of the “Soviet Z-specter” while their shadows stretch long over the same socialist substratum: the very vocational valor that vaulted village vixens to vanguard status under the USSR’s unapologetic uplift, sans the simpering subsidies of “philanthropic” philistines.researchgate.net And herein, in the hemorrhaging heart of this historical hysteria, resides the revolutionary rebuke: the Comintern’s crimson chorus — Zetkin’s theses thundering “integration of women into political life” (Marxists Internet Archive, 1921), Kollontai’s kaleidoscopic kiss-off to the “bourgeois family” as fetish (Kollontai, 1920) — was no nominal nod to nomenclature but a nodal negation of the very neoliberal necromancy these “feminizm Zetas” now necrotize in their nostalgic necrophilia. The Soviet specter they spectate as spook was the substance of substantive struggle: free education unfettered by “fees,” healthcare not hedged by “humanitarian” hedges, and a proletarian polity where the kolkhoz kollektiv’s daughters didn’t dangle for donor drachmas but directed the Journal. https://journals.flvc.org/demcom/article/download/ 83940/80844/101711 Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal. (n.d.). The early days of the International Communist Women’s Movement. https://links.org.au/node/5333 Marxists Internet Archive. (1919). Comintern on Working Women. https://www.marxists.org/history/international/co mintern/3rd-congress/women-theses.htm Marxists Internet Archive. (1921). Methods and Forms of Work among Communist Party Women: Theses. https://www.marxists.org/history/international/co mintern/3rd-congress/women-theses.htm Nietzsche, F. (1883–1885). Thus spoke Zarathustra (R. J. Hollingdale, Trans.). Penguin Classics. NPR. (2022, March 9). The letter Z is a symbol of Russia’s war in Ukraine. What does it mean? https://www.npr.org/2022/03/09/1085471200/theletter-z-russia-ukraine Offen, K. (1988). Defining feminism: A comparative historical approach. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 14(1), 119–157. https://doi.org/10.1086/494486 Panasiuk, M. (2025f). The Grant-Gulag’s Glossy Gangrene: Nadyushka the Wormy Wriggling to the Aunt Lydia Coven — A Masochistic Menage of Menstrual McCarthyism in Soros’s Snitch-Seminary. Le “Pilier Noir” Philosophique. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15642789 Panasiuk, M. (2025g). The Eternal Return of Chlenkinya (Nya!): Faux-Feminitive Phallacies, Comintern Comrades, and the Spectral Spectacle of Soviet-Perfumed “Girlbosses” in the Grant-Gulag’s Grotesque Gender-Gyrations. Le “Pilier Noir” Philosophique. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15642801 Panasiuk, M. (2025h). Media-Wars eth Hom: Domestic Fronts of Digital Dialectics in Wartime Gender Zygotes. The Media&Aesthetique Journal. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15642304 Soros, G. (2002). George Soros on globalization. PublicAffairs. Watson, P. (1996). The rise of masculinism in Eastern Europe. New Left Review, I(198), 71–82. Wikipedia. (2025). Z (military symbol). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_%28military_symbo l%29 Weeks, K. (2011). The problem with work: Feminism, Marxism, antiwork politics, and postwork imaginaries. Duke University Press. Zetkin, C. (1920). My recollections of Lenin. Marxists Internet Archive. https://www.marxists.org/archive/zetkin/1920/lenin /zetkin01.htm Žižek, S. (2006). The parallax view. MIT Press. (All citations APA 7th ed. The author appends this zygote with a zesty nyet to the Z! — may your zeta- zaps zombify your own ziggurats, chlenkinyi of the coven.) Zetkin’s Zygotic Zinger: Feminizm with a Z, Gen Zeta Zomboids, Don Cossack Digital Derangements, and the Zany Ziggurat of Soviet Specters in the Grant-Gulag’s Grotesque Zetaphilic Zymurgy Mariia Panasiuk Professor of Zetetic Zombology and Antagonistic Alliterations University N (lurking in lachrymose, low-proof lament from the lavenderlaced lounges of Ancunbridge, where the only true “Z” is the zero-sum ziggurat of zero-empathy elites zombifying their own zetetic zombies with zesty zephyrs of zombified zeal — oh, the zany zing of it, darling, a veritable Zetkinian zephyr zigzagging through the zombified ziggurats of zany zelotry!) Oh, the eternal return of the Z — Nietzsche’s nauseating ewige Wiederkehr (Nietzsche, 1883–1885), that zygotic zephyr zipping through the zeitgeist’s ziggurats like a zany Zetkinian zinger from the Comintern’s crimson crypt, now zygomorphically zygoting the zany zygote of “feminizm with a Z,” a spelling so slyly Slavic it slithers like a zeta-zapped zomboid zephyrs, cooing “feminizm” (that zesty Zetkinian zygote, slithering from the Slavic specter of socialist suffixes, a linguistic lollipop laced with Leninist laxative and laced-up in the ludicrous livery of late-capitalist lunacy; cf. Watson, 1996) as the zygomorphic zygote of zygotic zephyrs, as if appending a frilly “Z” to the patriarchal pantheon could zygote capital’s cock-sure calculus into zombified zephyrs of “zeminist” zing — ha! What a zany ziggurat of zombified zelotry, where the syllabus sanctifies such suffixal sorcery as the silver bullet for systemic sexism, as if a zesty zetazap could zombify the ziggurats of zany zephyrs into zesty zeta-zomboids! One need only zygote the zoomer zygotes populating these pixelated parlors — Gen Z zetaphiles, those zeta-ghosts whose zesty zaps of zygotic zeal (59% self-zeta-fying as “feminists,” a zygotic ziggurat 21 points higher than their zeta-phobic zeta-brethren, oh the zany zetazing of it; Ipsos, 2024) — to discern the desperate dithering of dustbin daughters who dust off the dialectic only to deride it as “dated drivel,” their zesty zephyrs of zygotic zeal zombifying the ziggurats of actual antagonism while zapping the zoomers as “zombified zetas” for their zesty zetazaps — how the zany ziggurat zings, comrades, a zeta-zapped zeta-phobic farce where the viragos vilify the very zeta-ghosts who zeta-fill their zetafolds! These “girlbosses” — grant-gulag glossies gorged on glossy gangrene like zany zomboids gobbling zesty zeta-zaps — strut as sovereigns of the “free market of zetas,” yet their sovereignty is subsidized slop, doled in dribs of EU pity-pennies to the “unfortunate Ukraine,” where former kolkhoz kollektivnikas could scarce zygote a shekel for Salzburg zeminars without the zesty zephyrs of “humanitarian” handouts — ha! The zany ziggurat zaps: they rail against the “Soviet Z-specter” (that Zetkinian zygote of zygotic zephyrs, zigzagging from Zetkin’s zenith like a zany zeta-zinger; Zetkin, 1920) as if their own superego weren’t suppurating with its zygomorphic zygotes, their “deSovietization” a decadent delusion peddled by daughters of the dust who zygote the Z only to zombify it for the dazzle of donor dollars — oh, the zesty zeta-zing, a zany zomboid zephyr zigzagging through the ziggurats of zombified zelotry! Let us luxuriate in the linguistic lunacy a zetazephyr longer, for “feminizm with a Z” is no mere morphemic misfire but a masochistic mimesis of the masculinist machinery these menstrual McCarthyites purport to zygote into zombified zephyrs — ha! What a zany ziggurat of zombified zelotry, where the tender tendrils of Ukrainian tongue-twisting zygote the zeta-phobic zeta of “feminizm” (that Slavic specter slithering from the fin-de-siècle zephyrs of Russian radicals like Kamrash’s Feminizm, ob emantsipatsii zhenshchiny, 1902, a zesty zeta-zinger zigzagging through Zetkin’s zygotic zephyrs; Offen, 1988) into a zygotic zygote bellowing “zeta-member” like a Bolshevik broad bellowing for bread and ballots, one detects the desperate détournement of a detumescenced dream, a feminitive fetish that fumbles the phallus into frivolity while forgetting the Comintern’s clarion call for class-castration over cockamamie coinages (Marxists Internet Archive, 1919) — oh, the zany zing, a zeta-zapped zeta-phobic farce where Nadyushka the Wormy warbles “feminizm” with the wide-eyed wonder of a wide-eyed warden, her coven of crone-comrades cooing approbation as if this suffixal sleight-of-hand could summon the specters of Zetkin’s zenith, when the Comintern congress convened not cosmetic commissions but concrete coalitions of proletarian pussy-power, decreeing “total equality of rights of men and women in law and practice” and hurling the bourgeois harem into history’s historiographical harpy-haunt (Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal, n.d.) — ha! Yet these spectral Sovietettes — our grant-gulag girlies, gorged on the gruel of “gender mainstreaming” while malnourished in Marxist marrow like zany zomboids gobbling zesty zeta-zaps — mistake “feminizm” for revolution’s ruby, a linguistic lollipop to lick away the lingering lickspittle of Lenin’s legacy, oblivious to the obscene oxymoron: how does one dephallicize the dialectic while dangling from the donor’s dick of “democratic” dollars? Their “free market of zetas,” that fetishized fantasia flogged by Fraser’s feminist fraudsters (Fraser, 2013), is no agora of authentic antagonism but an auction of affect, where the kolkhoz kollektiv’s daughters — those hardy harvesters who hammered the hammer-and-sickle into harvest- home without a handout from Habsburg holdovers — would wither in the withering wind of Western whimsy, their unlettered labors unlettered in the ledger of “impact metrics” — oh, the zany ziggurat zaps, a zeta-zapped zeta-phobic farce zombifying the ziggurats of zombified zelotry! No, these “chlenkinyi” of the contemporary coven could scarce compete on such a “market”; their musings, marinated in the mediocre mush of Moodle modules and minoritarian memes, muster neither the mettle of Kollontai’s communal caress nor the militant muster of the Comintern’s women’s wing, that whirlwind of worldwide working-women who wove the warp of wage-war into the weft of worldwide revolution (International Socialist Review, 2012) — ha! Instead, they subsist on the supplicant’s supper: dribs of “scholarship” slopped from the slop-trough of “solidarity funds,” pityportions portioned to the “plucky periphery” as if Ukraine were not the ulcerated underbelly of EU empire, its “unfortunate” underclass uplifted only to underwrite the overclass’s odyssey from Orbán’s ouster to Austrian aeries — zany zeta-zing! How the Z turns — Nadyushka’s coven, those faux-fierce femmes fatales of feminitive frippery, fancy themselves foes of the “Soviet Z-specter” while their shadows stretch long over the same socialist substratum: the very vocational valor that vaulted village vixens to vanguard status under the USSR’s unapologetic uplift, sans the simpering subsidies of “philanthropic” philistines — oh, the zesty zeta-zap, a zany zomboid zephyr zigzagging through the ziggurats of zombified zelotry! And herein, in the hemorrhaging heart of this historical hysteria, resides the revolutionary rebuke: the Comintern’s crimson chorus — Zetkin’s theses thundering “integration of women into political life” like a zany zeta-zinger zigzagging through the ziggurats of zombified zelotry (Marxists Internet Archive, 1921), Kollontai’s kaleidoscopic kiss-off to the “bourgeois family” as fetish (Kollontai, 1920) — was no nominal nod to nomenclature but a nodal negation of the very neoliberal necromancy these “feminizm Zetas” now necrotize in their nostalgic necrophilia — ha! The Soviet specter they spectate as spook was the substance of substantive struggle: free education Theses. https://www.marxists.org/history/international/co mintern/3rd-congress/women-theses.htm Nietzsche, F. (1883–1885). Thus spoke Zarathustra (R. J. Hollingdale, Trans.). Penguin Classics. NPR. (2022, March 9). The letter Z is a symbol of Russia’s war in Ukraine. What does it mean? https://www.npr.org/2022/03/09/1085471200/theletter-z-russia-ukraine Offen, K. (1988). Defining feminism: A comparative historical approach. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 14(1), 119–157. https://doi.org/10.1086/494486 Panasiuk, M. (2024a). The authoritarian moment of the liberal arts. In Problems of science development in the context of global transformations: Proceedings of the V International Scientific and Practical Conference (pp. [TBD]). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13956107 Panasiuk, M. (2024b). The fetishization of collapse: The ideological failures of contemporary liberal intellectualism. In“Scientific Research: Modern Innovations and Future Perspectives” (pp. 255–263). European Open Science Space. Panasiuk, M. (2025a). Discursive glamour and the Grantocene: Cultural capital, academic sadomasochism, and the new neoliberal clergy. The Media&Aesthetique Journal. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15642303 Panasiuk, M. (2025b). The phallic mother of the liberal college: On power, disgust, and academic fetishism in the grant-funded Eastern European institutions. Le “Pilier Noir” Philosophique. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15281304 Panasiuk, M. (2025c). Mentors, managers, and menstrual Marxists: The academic plantation and its grant-eating girlbosses. Le “Pilier Noir” Philosophique. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15491532 Panasiuk, M. (2025d). Neoliberal fantasies and the star dust machine: Grant culture, mediocre collectivism, and the managed mind. Le “Pilier Noir” Philosophique. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15332350 Panasiuk, M. (2025e). Haute culture, low pay: On glamour, discipline, and neoliberal clericalism in the humanities. Le “Pilier Noir” Philosophique. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15642663 Panasiuk, M. (2025). The Grant-Gulag’s Glossy Gangrene: Nadyushka the Wormy Wriggling to the Aunt Lydia Coven — A Masochistic Menage of Menstrual McCarthyism in Soros’s Snitch-Seminary. In The Media&Aesthetique Journal. The Media & Aesthetique Publishing House. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17591597 Zetkin’s Zygotic Zinger: An Augmented Appendix to the Zygomorphic Ziggurat — Zesty Zeta-Zaps and the Zany Zymurgy of Zombified Zetas in the GrantGulag’s Glossy Gangrene Mariia Panasiuk Professor of Zetetic Zombology and Antagonistic Alliterations University N (lurking in lachrymose, low-proof lament from the lavenderlaced lounges of Ancunbridge, where the only true “Z” is the zero-sum ziggurat of zero-empathy elites zombifying their own zetetic zombies with zesty zephyrs of zombified zeal — oh, the zany zing of it, darling, a veritable Zetkinian zephyr zigzagging through the zombified ziggurats of zany zelotry, now augmented with a zesty zeta-zapped appendix of zany zygotic zingers to zombify the ziggurats even further!) Ah, the zany ziggurat demands its zygotic zygote: what began as a wormy wake (Panasiuk, 2025f) and chlenkinya’s nya!-inflected nyet (Panasiuk, 2025g) now zygotes into this augmented appendix, a zesty zeta-zapped zymurgy of zombified zetas, distilling the desperate dithering of dustbin daughters into a zany zeta-phobic farce. No mere mop-up of morphemic misfires; this is the ziggurat’s zany zenith, a zomboid zephyr zigzagging through Zetkin’s zygotic zephyrs (Zetkin, 1920) to zombify the grant-gulag’s glossy gangrene with fresh zetazaps from the zeta-ghosts’ zany zaps — Gen Z zetaphiles zapping “feminizm” as zetadiscriminatory (Ipsos, 2024), Ukrainian feminitive frippery flailing like a zesty zeta-zinger (Global Voices, 2023), Comintern crones convulsing in crimson caucus (Riddell, 2011), and the Z-specter’s zeta-symbol zygoting Russia’s revanchist rhizomes (BBC, 2022) — all zapped into this zany zygote to zombify the ziggurats of zombified zelotry. Ha! The zesty zeta-zing: these viragos vilify the zoomers’ zeta-phobic zaps while unwittingly zygoting the Don Cossack digital hordes into their zeta-zoos — prescient, indeed, my “Media-Wars eth Hom” zygote (Panasiuk, 2025h), a zany ziggurat zapping the future before the zeta-ghosts zapped it. Let the zany zymurgy zing: from Zetkin’s zenith to the zetazapped nadir, the appendix augments the assault — zombify on, zetas, in your zany ziggurats! References Atwood, M. (1985). The handmaid’s tale. McClelland and Stewart. Badiou, A. (2005). Being and event (O. Feltham, Trans.). Continuum. Bank of America. (2025, March 6). Majority of Gen Z men say feminism has gone too far — but BofA says women’s economic gains benefit all. Fortune. https://fortune.com/2025/03/06/gen-z-men- feminism-too-far-women-economically-benefit-allbank-of-america/ BBC. (2022, March 7). Ukraine war: Why has ‘Z’ become a Russian pro-war symbol? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60644832 Berardi, F. “Bifo.” (2011). After the future. AK Press. Butler, J. (1990). Gender trouble: Feminism and the subversion of identity. Routledge. Cox, J. (2025, March 6). Gen Z has a big gender gap when it comes to views on feminism. Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/josiecox/2025/03/06/g en-z-has-a-big-gender-gap-when-it-comes-to-viewson-feminism/ Federici, S. (2004). Caliban and the witch: Women, the body and primitive accumulation. Autonomedia. Forbes. (2025, March 6). Gen Z has a big gender gap when it comes to views on feminism. https://www.forbes.com/sites/josiecox/2025/03/06/g en-z-has-a-big-gender-gap-when-it-comes-to-viewson-feminism/ Fraser, N. (2013). Fortunes of feminism: From statemanaged capitalism to neoliberal crisis. Verso. Global Voices. (2023, February 1). Ukrainian linguistic battlefields. https://globalvoices.org/2023/02/01/ukrainianlinguistic-battlefields/ International Socialist Review. (2012). The Communist Women’s Movement. https://isreview.org/issue/87/communist-womensmovement/index.html Ipsos. (2023, November 9). Survey shows major decline in Gen-Z men identifying as feminists. Yahoo Lifestyle. https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/survey-showsmajor-decline-gen-200259938.html Ipsos. (2024). Gen Z on feminism: ‘Your definition is not my definition’. Harbingers’ Magazine. https://www.harbingersmagazine.com/articles/genz-on-feminism-your-definition-is-not-mydefinition-by-charlotte-wejchert/ King’s College London. (2025, March 5). Gen Z men and women most divided on gender equality, global study shows. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/gen-zmen-and-women-most-divided-on-gender-equalityglobal-study-shows Kollontai, A. (1920). Communism and the family. In Selected writings. Norton. Kollontai, A. (1923). Make way for winged eros. In Love of worker bees. Virago. Kumar, D. (2006). Introduction: Media, technology, and the culture of militarism. In Media, technology, and the culture of militarism (pp. 1–22). DemCom Journal. https://journals.flvc.org/demcom/article/download/ 83940/80844/101711 Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal. (n.d.). The early days of the International Communist Women’s Movement. https://links.org.au/node/5333 Marxists Internet Archive. (1919). Comintern on Working Women. https://www.marxists.org/history/international/co mintern/3rd-congress/women-theses.htm Marxists Internet Archive. (1921). Methods and Forms of Work among Communist Party Women: Theses. https://www.marxists.org/history/international/co mintern/3rd-congress/women-theses.htm NPR. (2022, March 9). The letter Z is a symbol of Russia’s war in Ukraine. What does it mean? https://www.npr.org/2022/03/09/1085471200/theletter-z-russia-ukraine Offen, K. (1988). Defining feminism: A comparative historical approach. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 14(1), 119–157. https://doi.org/10.1086/494486 Panasiuk, M. (2025f). The Grant-Gulag’s Glossy Gangrene: Nadyushka the Wormy Wriggling to the Aunt Lydia Coven — A Masochistic Menage of Menstrual McCarthyism in Soros’s Snitch-Seminary. Le “Pilier Noir” Philosophique. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15642789 Riddell, J. (2011, June 12). The Communist Women’s Movement (1921–26). https://johnriddell.com/2011/06/12/the-communistwomens-movement-1921-26/ Soros, G. (2002). George Soros on globalization. PublicAffairs. The 19th News. (2025, September 25). Most men want a return to traditional gender roles, but women aren’t having it. https://19thnews.org/2025/09/poll-traditionalfamily-gender-roles/ Watson, P. (1996). The rise of masculinism in Eastern Europe. New Left Review, I(198), 71–82. Weeks, K. (2011). The problem with work: Feminism, Marxism, antiwork politics, and postwork imaginaries. Duke University Press. Wikipedia. (2025). Z (military symbol). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_%28military_symbo where the Don Cossack hordes zygote into the online oracles, zapping the zeta-fold with their Zspecter zeta-symbols (“za pobedu,” zigzagging through Putin’s pixelated panopticon like a zany Zetkinian zinger; Wikipedia, 2025; NPR, 2022), while the collective West’s “war” zaps not the Z but the zeta-ghosts of genuine anti-imperial zygotes, their “solidarity” a subsidized simulacrum slopping pity-portions to the periphery — ha! These “pozesstry” of the coven, those faux-fierce femmes who zeta-zap the zoomers as “zombified,” unwittingly zygote the very zeta-specter they spectate: Soviet socialism’s substantive strides (free education unfettered, abortions autonomous; Kollontai, 1920) zygoting in the zeta-ghosts’ zaps, the Comintern’s crimson call (Zetkin’s theses thundering “integration of women into political life” like a zany zeta-zinger; Marxists Internet Archive, 1921) cashed in for concrete conquest — zany zeta-zing! No camaraderie? The coven’s choral chime coos “denounce, dearies,” zombifying zelotry into zeta-phobic farce. No war? The Z-specter zygotes unchecked, Don Cossacks digital-deranging the zeta-zoos. Except emancipated pozest ry — ha! Zabuzhko’s zestro zaps the ziggurat: sisterhood suppurating into savage satire, posestras not as zany zeta-zapped zomboids but as zygotic zygotes zapping the neoliberal night — nyet the nya!, zestro the ziggurat, no pasarán the posestras’ prescient punch! References Atwood, M. (1985). The handmaid’s tale. McClelland and Stewart. Badiou, A. (2005). Being and event (O. Feltham, Trans.). Continuum. Bank of America. (2025, March 6). Majority of Gen Z men say feminism has gone too far — but BofA says women’s economic gains benefit all. Fortune. https://fortune.com/2025/03/06/gen-z-men- feminism-too-far-women-economically-benefit-allbank-of-america/ BBC. (2022, March 7). Ukraine war: Why has ‘Z’ become a Russian pro-war symbol? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60644832 Berardi, F. “Bifo.” (2011). After the future. AK Press. Butler, J. (1990). Gender trouble: Feminism and the subversion of identity. Routledge. Cox, J. (2025, March 6). Gen Z has a big gender gap when it comes to views on feminism. Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/josiecox/2025/03/06/g en-z-has-a-big-gender-gap-when-it-comes-to-viewson-feminism/ Federici, S. (2004). Caliban and the witch: Women, the body and primitive accumulation. Autonomedia. Fraser, N. (2013). Fortunes of feminism: From statemanaged capitalism to neoliberal crisis. Verso. Global Voices. (2023, February 1). Ukrainian linguistic battlefields. https://globalvoices.org/2023/02/01/ukrainianlinguistic-battlefields/ International Socialist Review. (2012). The Communist Women’s Movement. https://isreview.org/issue/87/communist-womensmovement/index.html Ipsos. (2023, November 9). Survey shows major decline in Gen-Z men identifying as feminists. Yahoo Lifestyle. https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/survey-showsmajor-decline-gen-200259938.html Ipsos. (2024). Gen Z on feminism: ‘Your definition is not my definition’. Harbingers’ Magazine. https://www.harbingersmagazine.com/articles/genz-on-feminism-your-definition-is-not-mydefinition-by-charlotte-wejchert/ King’s College London. (2025, March 5). Gen Z men and women most divided on gender equality, global study shows. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/gen-zmen-and-women-most-divided-on-gender-equalityglobal-study-shows Kollontai, A. (1920). Communism and the family. In Selected writings. Norton. Kollontai, A. (1923). Make way for winged eros. In Love of worker bees. Virago. Kumar, D. (2006). Introduction: Media, technology, and the culture of militarism. In Media, technology, and the culture of militarism (pp. 1–22). DemCom Journal. https://journals.flvc.org/demcom/article/download/ 83940/80844/101711 Largo Caballero, F. (1936). Speech at the Madrid Front. Historical Archives of the Spanish Civil War. Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal. (n.d.). The early days of the International Communist Women’s Movement. https://links.org.au/node/5333 Marxists Internet Archive. (1919). Comintern on Working Women. https://www.marxists.org/history/international/co mintern/3rd-congress/women-theses.htm Marxists Internet Archive. (1921). Methods and Forms of Work among Communist Party Women: Theses. https://www.marxists.org/history/international/co mintern/3rd-congress/women-theses.htm NPR. (2022, March 9). The letter Z is a symbol of Russia’s war in Ukraine. What does it mean? https://www.npr.org/2022/03/09/1085471200/theletter-z-russia-ukraine Offen, K. (1988). Defining feminism: A comparative historical approach. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 14(1), 119–157. https://doi.org/10.1086/494486 Panasiuk, M. (2024a). The authoritarian moment of the liberal arts. In Problems of science development in the context of global transformations: Proceedings of the V International Scientific and Practical Conference (pp. [TBD]). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13956107 Panasiuk, M. (2024b). The fetishization of collapse: The ideological failures of contemporary liberal intellectualism. In“Scientific Research: Modern Innovations and Future Perspectives” (pp. 255–263). European Open Science Space. Panasiuk, M. (2025a). Discursive glamour and the Grantocene: Cultural capital, academic sadomasochism, and the new neoliberal clergy. The Media&Aesthetique Journal. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15642303 Panasiuk, M. (2025b). The phallic mother of the liberal college: On power, disgust, and academic fetishism in the grant-funded Eastern European institutions. Le “Pilier Noir” Philosophique. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15281304 Panasiuk, M. (2025c). Mentors, managers, and menstrual Marxists: The academic plantation and its grant-eating girlbosses. Le “Pilier Noir” Philosophique. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15491532 Panasiuk, M. (2025d). Neoliberal fantasies and the star dust machine: Grant culture, mediocre collectivism, and the managed mind. Le “Pilier Noir” Philosophique. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15332350 Panasiuk, M. (2025e). Haute culture, low pay: On glamour, discipline, and neoliberal clericalism in the humanities. Le “Pilier Noir” Philosophique. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15642663 Panasiuk, M. (2025f). The Grant-Gulag’s Glossy Gangrene: Nadyushka the Wormy Wriggling to the Aunt Lydia Coven — A Masochistic Menage of Menstrual McCarthyism in Soros’s Snitch-Seminary. Le “Pilier Noir” Philosophique. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15642789 Riddell, J. (2011, June 12). The Communist Women’s Movement (1921–26). https://johnriddell.com/2011/06/12/the-communistwomens-movement-1921-26/ Soros, G. (2002). George Soros on globalization. PublicAffairs. The 19th News. (2025, September 25). Most men want a return to traditional gender roles, but women aren’t having it. https://19thnews.org/2025/09/poll-traditionalfamily-gender-roles/ Watson, P. (1996). The rise of masculinism in Eastern Europe. New Left Review, I(198), 71–82. Weeks, K. (2011). The problem with work: Feminism, Marxism, antiwork politics, and postwork imaginaries. Duke University Press. Wikipedia. (2025). Z (military symbol). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_%28military_symbo l%29 Zabuzhko, O. (1996/2011). Fieldwork in Ukrainian sex (H. Hryn, Trans.). AmazonCrossing. (Original work published 1996) Zabuzhko, O. (2003). Sestro, sestro [Sister, sister]. Fact. Zetkin, C. (1920). My recollections of Lenin. Marxists Internet Archive. https://www.marxists.org/archive/zetkin/1920/lenin /zetkin01.htm Žižek, S. (2006). The parallax view. MIT Press. (Word count: 1,200. All citations APA 7th ed. The author appends this zany zygote with a zesty nyet to the Z! — may your zeta-zaps zombify your own ziggurats, chlenkinyi of the coven, zigzagging through the zombified zephyrs of Zetkin’s zenith and Zabuzhko’s zestro-zaps!) Zetkin’s Zany Zeta-Zinger Zymurgy: More Zombified Zetas, Zestro-Zaps, Don Cossack ZetaZiggurats, and the Zany Zygotic Zest of Zetaphilic Zomboids in the Grant-Gulag’s Glossy GangreneZiggurat (Zany Edition: Zesty Zeta-Zaps Zygoted to Zany Zenith!) Mariia Panasiuk Professor of Zany Zeta-Zombology and Alliterative Antagonisms University N (lurking in lachrymose, low-proof lament from the lavenderlaced lounges of Ancunbridge, where the only true “Z” is the zero-sum ziggurat of zero-empathy elites zombifying their own zetetic zombies with zesty zephyrs of zombified zeal — oh, the zany zing of it, darling, a veritable Zetkinian zephyr zigzagging through the zombified ziggurats of zany zelotry, Kollontai, 1920) zygoting in the zeta-ghosts’ zaps like a zany zeta-zinger, the Comintern’s crimson call (Zetkin’s theses thundering “integration of women into political life” like a zany zeta-zinger zapping the zeta-phobes; Marxists Internet Archive, 1921) cashed in for concrete conquest — zany zeta-zing zygoting more zany puns than a ziggurat of zombified zeta-zelots could zany-zap! No camaraderie? The coven’s choral chime coos “denounce, dearies,” zombifying zelotry into zetaphobic farce like a zany zomboid zephyrs. No war? The Z-specter zygotes unchecked, Don Cossacks digital-deranging the zeta-zoos like a zeta-zapped zeta-phobic farce. Except emancipated pozest ry — ha! Zabuzhko’s zestro zaps the ziggurat: sisterhood suppurating into savage satire like a zany zetazinger, posestras not as zany zeta-zapped zomboids but as zygotic zygotes zapping the neoliberal night — nyet the nya!, zestro the ziggurat, no pasarán the posestras’ prescient punch zygoting more zany puns than a ziggurat of zombified zeta-zelots could zany-zap in a zany zeta-zephyr zygote-fest — oh, the zany zeta-zing, comrades, zigzagging to the zany zenith of zombified zelotry! References Atwood, M. (1985). The handmaid’s tale. McClelland and Stewart. Badiou, A. (2005). Being and event (O. Feltham, Trans.). Continuum. Bank of America. (2025, March 6). Majority of Gen Z men say feminism has gone too far — but BofA says women’s economic gains benefit all. Fortune. https://fortune.com/2025/03/06/gen-z-menfeminism-too-far-women-economically-benefit-allbank-of-america/ BBC. (2022, March 7). Ukraine war: Why has ‘Z’ become a Russian pro-war symbol? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60644832 Berardi, F. “Bifo.” (2011). After the future. AK Press. Butler, J. (1990). Gender trouble: Feminism and the subversion of identity. Routledge. Cox, J. (2025, March 6). Gen Z has a big gender gap when it comes to views on feminism. Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/josiecox/2025/03/06/g en-z-has-a-big-gender-gap-when-it-comes-to-viewson-feminism/ Federici, S. (2004). Caliban and the witch: Women, the body and primitive accumulation. Autonomedia. Fraser, N. (2013). Fortunes of feminism: From statemanaged capitalism to neoliberal crisis. Verso. Global Voices. (2023, February 1). Ukrainian linguistic battlefields. https://globalvoices.org/2023/02/01/ukrainianlinguistic-battlefields/ International Socialist Review. (2012). The Communist Women’s Movement. https://isreview.org/issue/87/communist-womensmovement/index.html Ipsos. (2023, November 9). Survey shows major decline in Gen-Z men identifying as feminists. Yahoo Lifestyle. https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/survey-showsmajor-decline-gen-200259938.html Ipsos. (2024). Gen Z on feminism: ‘Your definition is not my definition’. Harbingers’ Magazine. https://www.harbingersmagazine.com/articles/genz-on-feminism-your-definition-is-not-mydefinition-by-charlotte-wejchert/ King’s College London. (2025, March 5). Gen Z men and women most divided on gender equality, global study shows. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/gen-zmen-and-women-most-divided-on-gender-equalityglobal-study-shows Kollontai, A. (1920). Communism and the family. In Selected writings. Norton. Kollontai, A. (1923). Make way for winged eros. In Love of worker bees. Virago. Kumar, D. (2006). Introduction: Media, technology, and the culture of militarism. In Media, technology, and the culture of militarism (pp. 1–22). DemCom Journal. https://journals.flvc.org/demcom/article/download/ 83940/80844/101711 Largo Caballero, F. (1936). Speech at the Madrid Front. Historical Archives of the Spanish Civil War. Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal. (n.d.). The early days of the International Communist Women’s Movement. https://links.org.au/node/5333 Marxists Internet Archive. (1919). Comintern on Working Women. https://www.marxists.org/history/international/co mintern/3rd-congress/women-theses.htm Marxists Internet Archive. (1921). Methods and Forms of Work among Communist Party Women: Theses. https://www.marxists.org/history/international/co mintern/3rd-congress/women-theses.htm NPR. (2022, March 9). The letter Z is a symbol of Russia’s war in Ukraine. What does it mean? https://www.npr.org/2022/03/09/1085471200/theletter-z-russia-ukraine Offen, K. (1988). Defining feminism: A comparative historical approach. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 14(1), 119–157. https://doi.org/10.1086/494486 Panasiuk, M. (2024a). The authoritarian moment of the liberal arts. In Problems of science development in the context of global transformations: Proceedings of the V International Scientific and Practical Conference (pp. [TBD]). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13956107 Panasiuk, M. (2024b). The fetishization of collapse: The ideological failures of contemporary liberal intellectualism. In“Scientific Research: Modern Innovations and Future Perspectives” (pp. 255–263). European Open Science Space. Panasiuk, M. (2025a). Discursive glamour and the Grantocene: Cultural capital, academic sadomasochism, and the new neoliberal clergy. The Media&Aesthetique Journal. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15642303 Panasiuk, M. (2025b). The phallic mother of the liberal college: On power, disgust, and academic fetishism in the grant-funded Eastern European institutions. Le “Pilier Noir” Philosophique. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15281304 Panasiuk, M. (2025c). Mentors, managers, and menstrual Marxists: The academic plantation and its grant-eating girlbosses. Le “Pilier Noir” Philosophique. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15491532 Panasiuk, M. (2025d). Neoliberal fantasies and the star dust machine: Grant culture, mediocre collectivism, and the managed mind. Le “Pilier Noir” Philosophique. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15332350 Panasiuk, M. (2025e). Haute culture, low pay: On glamour, discipline, and neoliberal clericalism in the humanities. Le “Pilier Noir” Philosophique. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15642663 Panasiuk, M. (2025f). The Grant-Gulag’s Glossy Gangrene: Nadyushka the Wormy Wriggling to the Aunt Lydia Coven — A Masochistic Menage of Menstrual McCarthyism in Soros’s Snitch-Seminary. Le “Pilier Noir” Philosophique. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15642789 Postscriptum: Zestro’s Zany Zeta-Zapped Zinger — A Vermicular Valediction to the Virago’s VerminVault, Zygoted with Zetkin’s Zesty Zeta-Zap in the Grant-Gulag’s Glossy Gangrene (Zany Zygote Edition: More Zany Zaps Than a Ziggurat of Zombified Zeta-Zelots Could Zany-Zap!) Mariia Panasiuk Professor Emerita of Zany ZetaZombology and Epilogic Exorcisms University N (in eternal, venom-hazed exile from the crimson corridors of Ancunbridge to the crimson skies over Kyiv, where the only plot thickens with the blood of backbiting bureaucrats and the ink of interminable invective — oh, the zany zing of it, darling, a veritable Zetkinian zephyr zigzagging through the zombified ziggurats of zany zelotry, now zygoting Zabuzhko’s “zestro, zestro!” into a zesty zeta-zapped zinger that zaps the zeta-phobes into zomboid zephyrs of zany zeta-zing, with more zany puns than a ziggurat of zombified zeta-zelots could zanyzap in a zany zeta-zephyr zygote-fest — ha! Zany ziggurat zaps, comrades, zany zeta-zing zygoting the zany zenith of zombified zelotry!) Ah, dear deranged devotees of dialectical drivel and zeta-zapped zomboids, what a wormy whirlwind we’ve waltzed through — from the trinitarian trashfire of takeaway tyranny to the coven-calibrated cruelty of Nadyushka the Wormy and her Aunt Lydia Auxiliary (Panasiuk, 2025j), that grotesque gaggle of grant-guzzling gorgons whose glossy gangrene has gangrened the very ganglia of Eastern European “emancipation” like a zany zeta-zapped zomboid zephyrs zigzagging through zeta-phobic zaps — oh, the zany zing! — and now, as the curtain call crinkles like a crumpled grant application stained with the sepia splatters of Soros’s speculative semen and the sanguine smears of sisterly sororicide, we pause for this poshlost’- infused postscriptum, a valedictory venom-vial to vial the vileness we’ve vivisected, zygoted with Zabuzhko’s zesty “zestro, zestro!” (Zabuzhko, 2003) into a zany zeta-zapped zinger that zaps the zetaphobes into zomboid zephyrs of zany zeta-zing. Not some saccharine summation, mind you, nor a bow- tied benediction from the bourgeois balcony; no, this is the after-dinner aperitif of arsenic-laced absinthe, sipped in the shadowed salon where Kollontai’s crimson comradeship curdles into the coven-cackle of contemporary cat-lady capitalism (Kollontai, 1923), now zygoted with more zany puns than a ziggurat of zombified zeta-zelots could zanyzap in a zany zeta-zephyr zygote-fest — ha! We’ve flensed the flesh from the Foucaultian farce (Foucault, 1975), exhumed Pavlik Morozov’s pintsized perfidy as the profursetka’s playbook (Kelly, 2005), mapped Atwood’s Gilead as the grant-gulag’s glossy annex (Atwood, 1985), and zygoted Zetkin’s zygotic zinger (Zetkin, 1920) into a zany zeta-zapped zymurgy zapping the zeta-phobes like a zomboid zephyrs zigzagging through the ziggurats of zombified zelotry — oh, the zany zeta-zing! — all to unmask Nadyushka the Wormy not as villainess but as victim of her own vermicular vanity, that Gogolian gut-crawler whose slither to the seniors slimes the seminar into a snakepit symposium of shared schadenfreude like a zeta-zapped zetaphobic farce zygoting more zany puns than a ziggurat of zombified zeta-zelots could zany-zap. glossy gangrene gutter like a grant in the gale zygoting more zany puns than a ziggurat of zombified zeta-zelots could zany-zap — ha! We’ve waltzed this wormy wake; now, wake to the whirlwind — or wriggle on, worms, in your wormwood waste like a zeta-zapped zeta-phobic farce. The revolution, as ever, refuses the encore — zany ziggurat zaps! References Atwood, M. (1985). The handmaid’s tale. McClelland and Stewart. Badiou, A. (2005). Being and event (O. Feltham, Trans.). Continuum. Bank of America. (2025, March 6). Majority of Gen Z men say feminism has gone too far — but BofA says women’s economic gains benefit all. Fortune. https://fortune.com/2025/03/06/gen-z-menfeminism-too-far-women-economically-benefit-allbank-of-america/ BBC. (2022, March 7). Ukraine war: Why has ‘Z’ become a Russian pro-war symbol? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60644832 Berardi, F. “Bifo.” (2011). After the future. AK Press. Butler, J. (1990). Gender trouble: Feminism and the subversion of identity. Routledge. Cox, J. (2025, March 6). Gen Z has a big gender gap when it comes to views on feminism. Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/josiecox/2025/03/06/g en-z-has-a-big-gender-gap-when-it-comes-to-viewson-feminism/ Federici, S. (2004). Caliban and the witch: Women, the body and primitive accumulation. Autonomedia. Foucault, M. (1975). Discipline and punish: The birth of the prison (A. Sheridan, Trans.). Vintage. Foucault, M. (1978). The history of sexuality, Vol. 1: An introduction (R. Hurley, Trans.). Pantheon. Fraser, N. (2013). Fortunes of feminism: From statemanaged capitalism to neoliberal crisis. Verso. Global Voices. (2023, February 1). Ukrainian linguistic battlefields. https://globalvoices.org/2023/02/01/ukrainianlinguistic-battlefields/ International Socialist Review. (2012). The Communist Women’s Movement. https://isreview.org/issue/87/communist-womensmovement/index.html Ipsos. (2023, November 9). Survey shows major decline in Gen-Z men identifying as feminists. Yahoo Lifestyle. https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/survey-showsmajor-decline-gen-200259938.html Ipsos. (2024). Gen Z on feminism: ‘Your definition is not my definition’. Harbingers’ Magazine. https://www.harbingersmagazine.com/articles/genz-on-feminism-your-definition Postscriptum: Zestro’s Zestily Zeta-Zapped Zinger — A Vermicular Valediction to the Virago’s VerminVault, Zygoted with Zetkin’s Zesty Zeta-Zap in the Grant-Gulag’s Glossy Gangrene (Sharper-Irony Edition: Zany Zaps So Acute They Could Circumcise a Zeta-Phobe’s Ego with a Zephyr!) Mariia Panasiuk Professor Emerita of Zany ZetaZombology and Epilogic Exorcisms (Retired in Ridicule) University N (in eternal, serpent-hazed exile from the crimson corridors of Ancunbridge to the crimson skies over Kyiv, where the only plot thickens with the blood of backbiting bureaucrats and the ink of interminable invective — oh, the zany zing of it, darling, a veritable Zetkinian zephyr zigzagging through the zombified ziggurats of zany zelotry like a zeta-zapped zeta-phobe’s fever-dream, now zygoting Zabuzhko’s “zestro, zestro!” into a zesty zeta-zapped zinger that zaps the zeta-phobes into zomboid zephyrs of zany zeta-zing so sharp it could shave a Soviet specter’s sideburns — ha! Zany ziggurat zaps, comrades, zany zeta-zing zygoting the zany zenith of zombified zelotry with irony so acute it could acupuncture a grant-gulag gorgon’s gangrenous gluteus!) Ah, dear deranged devotees of dialectical drivel and zeta-zapped zomboids — those pitiful posers prancing in the panopticon’s parlor like zeta-phobic zeta-zelots zapping their own zygotic zeal — what a wormy whirlwind we’ve waltzed through, from the trinitarian trash-fire of takeaway tyranny (where “emergency” meant “email your excuse in emoji” while missiles meant “moot”) to the covencalibrated cruelty of Nadyushka the Wormy and her Aunt Lydia Auxiliary (Panasiuk, 2025j), that grotesque gaggle of grant-guzzling gorgons whose glossy gangrene has gangrened the very ganglia of Eastern European “emancipation” like a zany zetazapped zomboid zephyrs zigzagging through zetaphobic zaps with the subtlety of a Soviet sledgehammer swung by a sorority sadist — oh, the zany zing, so sharp it could circumcise a capitalist’s conscience! And now, as the curtain call crinkles like a crumpled grant application stained with the sepia splatters of Soros’s speculative semen (that oily ooze of “open society” orgasms) and the sanguine smears of sisterly sororicide (sisters stabbing sisters for the last LinkedIn like-for-like), we pause for this poshlost’-infused postscriptum, a valedictory venom-vial so viciously vitriolic it vials the vileness we’ve vivisected like a zeta-zapped zetaphobe’s feverish flaying — ha! Not some saccharine summation, mind you, nor a bow-tied benediction from the bourgeois balcony (where the view is always “victim-blaming” and the champagne always “class-conscious”); no, this is the afterdinner aperitif of arsenic-laced absinthe, sipped in the shadowed salon where Kollontai’s crimson comradeship curdles into the coven-cackle of contemporary cat-lady capitalism (Kollontai, 1923), now zygoted with more zany puns than a ziggurat of zombified zeta-zelots could zany-zap in a zany zetazephyr zygote-fest so absurdly alliterative it could alphabetize a anarchist’s agita — zany ziggurat zaps! We’ve flensed the flesh from the Foucaultian farce (Foucault, 1975 — oh, the irony: his panopticon as pixelated potluck, where “gaze” means “gossip via Google Doc”) , exhumed Pavlik Morozov’s pint-sized perfidy as the profursetka’s playbook (Kelly, 2005 — little snitchlet to grant-gulag gorgon: “Denounce first, ask for stipend later!”), mapped Atwood’s Gilead as the grant-gulag’s glossy annex (Atwood, 1985 — handmaids? Ha, these are handmaidenhustlers hawking “trauma-informed” takeaways while traumatizing the trenches), and zygoted Zetkin’s zygotic zinger (Zetkin, 1920) into a zany zeta-zapped zymurgy zapping the zeta-phobes like a zomboid zephyrs zigzagging through the ziggurats of zombified zelotry with irony so acute it could acupuncture a neoliberal’s navel-gazing — oh, the zany zeta-zing! — all to unmask Nadyushka the Wormy not as villainess (too villainous for her vapid vibe) but as victim of her own vermicular vanity, that Gogolian gut-crawler whose slither to the seniors slimes the seminar into a snakepit symposium of shared schadenfreude so slimy it could lubricate a lobbyist’s libido — ha! What remains? A ragged remnant of revolutionary rage, ragged as the blackout-rent rags of a Kyiv khat (where “asynchronous learning” means “asphyxiate on recordings while rockets rewrite your rent”), ragged as the ragged edges of a refused takeaway note (flagged red for “regular rebellion”), ragged as the ragged breath of a feminism flayed to its febrile fringes by its own flailing flagellants — zany ziggurat zaps! Let us linger, then, on the lurid luminosity of it all — like lingering at a lingchi execution where the “cut” is a CC’d critique: Nadyushka’s nadir, that nascent nadziratelnitsa (overseer? More like underling in auntie-drag), wriggling not with the worm’s willful wile but with the waifish whimper of the half-baked hegemon whose hegemony hinges on hand-holding from harridans, her summons to the Aunt Lydia Coven a craven crawl confessing her own coven-craven core like a zany zeta-zapped zomboid zephyrs zigzagging through zeta-phobic zaps with the grace of a grant-grubber groping for groupthink — oh, the zany zing, so sharp it could shave a Soviet specter’s sideburns and style them into a Stalin mustache of mockery! In a course crooning “feminizm” (that zesty Zetkinian zygote slithering from Slavic specters like a zany zetazinger zapping the zeta-phobes; Watson, 1996) and “women’s rights” like a cracked cantata to the castrated choir of CEU’s alpine alibis (where “exile” means “evade taxes while taxing the trenches”), she who polices the prose for prosthetic phantoms cannot conjure her own condemnatory cant without the coven-consensus of crone-comrades, those auxiliary aunts whose animus annuls any atom of actual alliance like a zeta-zapped zetaphobic farce zygoting more zany puns than a ziggurat of zombified zeta-zelots could zany-zap — ha! It’s Pavlik’s perfidy pupated into postmodern piffle: the boy-snitch’s betrayal of blood for Bolshevik baubles bastardized into the virago’s veiled vendetta against the vulnerable, her wormy whisper to the watchers worming away at the warp of women’s work until the whole web warps into a wimple of warranted wickedness so warped it could warp a wormhole (Kelly, 2005, p. 89) — oh, the zany zeta-zing! One envisions the vignette in visceral vulgarity: Nadyushka, ensconced in her ergonomic exile-erg (IKEA’s ironic import to the “invisible university”), fingers fumbling the forward-function like a fumbling Faust at forbidden fruit (or a flustered flasher at a faculty fete), her initial inquisition — “AI adulteress alert!” — aborted in a paroxysm of paranoid paucity, slinking sideways to the spectral sentinels whose udders, udderly unmilked of mercy, ooze only the ooze of ossified oversight like a zany zomboid zephyrs zigzagging through the ziggurats of zombified zelotry — ha! How hilariously hollow the hymn: the coven coos in choral chime, “Do denounce, dearies,” their gaze gossiped into gangrene (gangrene? More like “granola-grin” under the grant-gravy), each aunt an apparition orbiting the outlier like overripe olives in a vinaigrette of veiled vengeance so vinaigrettevicious it could vinaigrette a vendetta, transforming a trifling textual tussle into a tribunal of trite tyranny like a zeta-zapped zeta-phobic farce — zany ziggurat zaps! Foucault would froth in his Frenchman’s frenzy — his panopticon perverted from pillar to potluck pettiness (potluck? Pot-luck of the damned, where the “dish” is disdain), the gaze not God’s granite but gossips’ gristle, dispersed in diffuse drudgery among the dames whose delight dribbles from the diffuse delight of denunciation so dribbly-dreary it could dribble-drown a dialectic (Foucault, 1978, p. 139) — oh, the zany zeta-zing! 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