KUILONYOTL: FIRST MEETING OF ANTICAPITALIST SEXUAL DIVERSITY

By Filo Zitlalxochitzin in La Sexta Trabajadores – La Otra Obrera

On June 13, the press conference to announce Kuilonyotl: the First Encounter of Anticapitalist Sexual Diversity was held in the city of Puebla, at Cafe Secret.
This act was convoked by the Caracol that sings to the Universe (integral of the National Indigenous Congress) and Vida Plena. Not to Leave Is Included A.C.

Here are the words of Master Philo:
Good middle days, thirds and fifths of communication.
In fact, I, the Master Philo, teacher of the Autonomous School Emiliano Zapata, I am a councilor of the Indigenous Council of Government for Mexico of the National Indigenous Congress.

But no, I did not come to speak about our Indigenous Council of Government, for that is our spokeswoman: Maria de Jesus Patricio.
I just came to confirm that next July 1 and 2 will be held in our territory, there in the Mixteca poblana, the First Meeting of Anti-capitalist Sexual Diversity and will be called Kuilonyotl.

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We honor Anarcha the Slave! Resisting Patriarchy and Racist Capitalism

In 2015 #Anarchagland, an autonomous-research project of #gynepunk in Catalonia, renamed female sex glands after 3 slaves, Anarcha, Betsey and Lucy, who were abused as guinea pigs by the maverick doctor J Marion Sims. …..

Dr Sims, who had no gynecological experience, obtained up to 20 black slave women suffering gynecological injuries of torn fistulas and experimented on them, without anesthetics , for 4 years in his ”medical Plantation” in Alabama .

“If there was anything I hated,” he wrote from the outset, “it was investigating the organs of the female pelvis.”

Remembering our comrade Leah Feldman 1899 – 1993 .. A Rebel Spirit!

by kate Sharpley Library Leah Feldman was one of the ordinary men and women who rarely get into history books but have been the backbone of the anarchist movement.

Born in Warsaw in 1899, as a schoolgirl she became interested in anarchism. She said that her mother used to hide her shoes so that she could not attend meetings, which were then illegal in Poland. Finally she ran away to her sister in London where she earned her living at the sewing machine.

Leah’s photo album

Working in the sweatshops of the East End she became active in the Yiddish-speaking anarchist movement that flourished at that time. When the Russian revolution broke out in 1917 the overwhelming majority of Russian male Jewish anarchists returned home. Many of those women whose husbands and lovers died at the hands of the Tsarists or the Bolsheviks, remained in England.

Leah, however, had made her own way to Russia. Upon arrival she saw the reality of Bolshevik rule and was not impressed. As a working woman she could see the effects of their dictatorship in a way that visiting intellectuals could not. Continue reading “Remembering our comrade Leah Feldman 1899 – 1993 .. A Rebel Spirit!”

How Wonder Woman turned from a Hero to a War Crimes Supporter.

The wonder of imperial feminism

Susan Abulhawa is a Palestinian writer and the author of the international bestselling novel, Mornings in Jenin (Bloomsbury 2010). She is also the founder of Playgrounds for Palestine, an NGO for children.

by Susan Abulhawa from Al Jazeera with thanks When I was a little girl, like many women of my generation who grew up watching American television shows (even if they were dubbed in Arabic), I used to twirl and twirl, trying to attain super powers like Wonder Woman. I would twitch my nose to magically transform my surroundings, like Samantha from Bewitched.

These female characters were exceptions among the docile housewives, the efficient secretaries, and damsels in distress that pervaded the popular media of my time. Wonder Woman and Samantha had the power to change their lives, even if that power had to remain hidden, forever a secret. Continue reading “How Wonder Woman turned from a Hero to a War Crimes Supporter.”

Who are these Anarchists? and What the Hell do they Want?

WHO ARE THE ANARCHISTS AND WHAT IS ANARCHISM?

By Thomas Giovanni at Black Rose Anarchist Federation: ………….. In the wake of the use of militant street tactics at the Trump inauguration protests, the controversial shut down of two prominent right-wing speakers at the University of California, Berkeley, and a variety of high profile actions against the far right, anarchists have received increased media attention in the USA and sparked widespread debate, particularly around anti-fascist struggles.see also> Murray Bookchin: anarchist heretic who Inspired spreading Revolution in Middle East

But many people are still confused about anarchism, associating it with indiscriminate violence, chaos, and disorder. This distorted image runs counter to more than a century of anarchist activity in and outside the United States.

So if not chaos or disorder, what does anarchism stand for? What do anarchists believe in?

Core Anarchist Values

At the most basic level, anarchists believe in the equal value of all human beings. Anarchists also believe that hierarchical power relations are not only unjust, but corrupt those who have power and dehumanize those who don’t. Continue reading “Who are these Anarchists? and What the Hell do they Want?”

Why you Can’t be a Feminist if you’re Not an Anarchist

~ from VIOLETREVA shared with thanks

Is every feminist secretly an anarchist?

Feminism is not feminism if it is not antisexist, but also must be:

Antiracist (for wimmin of color)
Anticapitalist (for working class wimmin)
Female+Female love-positive (for lesbians and bisexual wimmin)
Anti-state (against the state control of wimmin’s autonomy, rejecting patriarchal protection rackets)
Anti-hierarchy (against wimmin exploiting other wimmin)

I can’t tell you how many wimmin have been turned away from anarchism — the politics of opposing all hierarchy — due to male violence, male abuse, male threats, male testerics. And that is an awful shame, because wimmin have the greatest chance for achieving anarchy.It’s pretty simple… Forget all your preconceptions about what anarchism is. Forget malestream anarchism with its male fantasies of “let’s kill all the bad people and we will win” because that’s just naive. Men are pretty dumb, let’s be honest. They expect everything to be cleaned up after them. Continue reading “Why you Can’t be a Feminist if you’re Not an Anarchist”

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Core Anarchist Values

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‘Appalling’ Draft Rule by Trump Threatens Contraceptive Access for Millions of Women

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Feminism is not feminism if it is not antisexist, but also must be:

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