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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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The anarchist feminism of Voltairine de Cleyre

… this ill-got thing you call morality, sealed with the seal of marriage … [is] … the consummation of immorality, impurity, and injustice. … every married woman … is a bonded slave, who takes her master’s name, her master’s bread, … Continue reading

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Anarchafeminist Manifesto

Voices of revolutionary feminism … The origin of the Anarchafeminist Manifesto is in Norway. The Anarchafeminist Manifesto is the summary of the feminist political program unanimously agreed upon by the third congress of the Anarchist Federation of Norway, 1—7 of … Continue reading

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Anarcho-Feminism: Two Statements

Voices of revolutionary feminism … The Anarcho-Feminist Manifesto was written by Chicago Anarcho-Feminists. Blood of the Flower was written by Red Rosia and Black Maria of Black Rose Anarcho-Feminists, who in 1971 could be reached c/o The Women’s Centre, 46 Pleasant Street, Cambridge … Continue reading

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