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For March 8, women’s day: Queering anarchism, queering feminism

Posted on March 4, 2018 by Julius Gavroche

Feminism is often trapped in reified forms of female-feminine identity, appealing to state authorities for the recognition and protection of women’s rights (when rights must be taken-created, not asked for), affirming a female “nature” against an ambient, violent misogyny, demanding … Continue reading →

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In solidarity: March 8 – The call for a day without women’s work

Posted on February 17, 2018 by Julius Gavroche

It is often forgotten that the international March 8th women’s day began with striking female factory workers.  The strike, the withholding of women’s work, lies at its origins, and not the docile protests or celebrations of acquired “rights” that would … Continue reading →

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The shifting territories of the body

Posted on December 2, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

But what is a body? … For Spinoza, the individuality of a body is defined by the following: it’s when a certain composite or complex relation (I insist on that point, quite composite, very complex) of movement and rest is … Continue reading →

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A wall of exclusion and domination

Posted on October 6, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

The actual physical borderland that I’m dealing with … is the Texas-U.S Southwest/Mexican border. The psychological borderlands, the sexual borderlands and the spiritual borderlands are not particular to the Southwest. In fact, the Borderlands are physically present wherever two or … Continue reading →

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For Daniel Guérin

Posted on October 5, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

My move in the direction of socialism wasn’t objective, or of an intellectual order,” Guérin writes of his political transformation in Vietnam. “It was more subjective, physical, coming from feeling and the heart. It wasn’t in books, it was in … Continue reading →

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Radicalising feminism, radicalising pride: The revolution as trans-intersex

Posted on June 24, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

(Photograph by Joel-Peter Wilkin) Many questions were troubling the explorer, but at the sight of the prisoner he asked only: “Does he know his sentence?” “No,” said the officer, eager to go on with his exposition, but the explorer interrupted … Continue reading →

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