Tag Archives: Feminism

For Marjane Satrapi  (1969-2026)

When we’re afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators’ repression. The regime had understood that one person leaving her house while asking herself:Are … Continue reading

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Ursula K. Le Guin: Is Gender Necessary? Redux

“Is Gender Necessary?” first appeared in Aurora, that splendid first anthology of science fiction written by women, edited by Susan Anderson and Vonda N. McIntyre. It was later included in The Language of the Night. Even then I was getting uncomfortable with some of … Continue reading

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“I Believe in an Anti-Systemic Feminism.” A Conversation with María Galindo

Si el feminismo deja de incomodar, no sirve absolutamente para nada. Por eso es que yo reivindico mucho ese feminismo intuitivo, que es un feminismo que quizás no se llama a sí mismo como feminismo, o sí, pero que básicamente … Continue reading

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“The anti-feminism of the far right is not just a cultural war.”

From lundi matin #459, 14/01/2025 Interview with Argentine philosopher Veronica Gago Philosopher, feminist activist and member of the Ni Una Menos collective. “How has neo-liberalism managed to make the logic of sacrifice part of the common language?” she asks in … Continue reading

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For March 8th: Judith Butler on Gender

Judith Butler in Barcelona’s Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (2018). Gender and sexuality for teenagers: Discussion with Miquel Missé and 300 students

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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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Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar: Feminism in defence of life

Celebrating March 8, International Women’s Day … Because we want ourselves alive, together we are disrupting everything: Notes for thinking about the paths of social transformation today Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar, March 7, 2018 For Carla, because I share the life that … Continue reading

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