Tag Archives: anarcho-feminism

For March 8: Gender is a Weapon

Gender is a Weapon: Coercion, domination and self-determination Sally Darity (From The Anarchist Library) I was on the bus recently, and a guy about my age got on the bus and sat across from me. He and some others were … Continue reading

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For March 8: Ruth Kinna – Anarchism and Feminism

(Published version in Nathan Jun (ed.) Brill’s Companion to Anarchism and Philosophy. Thanks to Raffaella Bianchi, Kathy Ferguson and Bice Maiguashca for enormously helpful comments on an earlier draft of this chapter.) Introduction The conjunction of anarchism and feminism can be understood … Continue reading

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For March 8: Emma Goldman

What is There in Anarchy for Women? Emma Goldman (Published on St. Louis Post-Dispatch, October 24, 1897) “What does anarchy hold out to me—a woman?” “More to woman than to anyone else—everything which she has not—freedom and equality.”

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“Anti-Sex” and the Real Sexual Politics of the Right

by Lee Shevek (butchanarchy.medium.com/The Anarchist Library) So common is the conceptualization of reactionaries as having “anti-sex” politics that it is hardly remarked upon. They hate sex workers, they hate it when women and other marginalized genders have a lot of … Continue reading

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Mujeres Libres: A genealogy of anarchist feminism

Celebrating March 8, International Women’s Day … Mujeres Libres was born from a genealogy that came from the First International, but it fully flourished at a time of social revolution and civil war. Marginalised from the social revolution modeled and … Continue reading

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Abortion without Borders

N’oubliez jamais qu’il suffira d’une crise politique, économique ou religieuse pour que les droits des femmes soient remis en question. Ces droits ne sont jamais acquis. Vous devrez rester vigilantes votre vie durant. Simone de Beauvoir From the CrimethInc. collective (14/11/2022) … … Continue reading

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Chiara Bottici: Anarchafeminism

For March 8, we share a rich reflection on “anarchafeminism” by Chiara Bottici, followed by a recorded performance of the same, as well as an earlier lecture on anarchism. 1. Why anarcha-feminism? It has become something of a commonplace to argue that … Continue reading

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March 8: Calls for a feminist strike

From spain, from the 8M organising committee of the strike, from spain’s CNT anarcho-syndicalist labour union, from an anarcho-feminist collective in south america, and from an anarchist feminist collective in mexico …

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“We Burned What We Could”: Anti-Police Revolt in Mexico City

From mexico: State authorities condemned the violence of a women’s protest against sexist police violence and femicide, in a country where on average ten women are murdered every (the Guardian 26/08/2019) … (from its going down, 20/08/2019) Just over a … Continue reading

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Las mujeres libres of spain

Voices of revolutionary feminism … We share two articles, a first on women in the spanish revolution and a second on the spanish anarchist organisation Mujeres Libres. And we close with the spanish film, Libertarias (1996).

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