So, I am a 23 yo, man. And I have been tired telling the women in my life to carry a peper spray, so I am taking it into my own hands and making something either a traditional peper spray which honestly I feel like is not strong enough (not the commercially sold one).

I don't wanna spend money and strength the capitalist system, I wanna practice sustainability and make it myself and gift them.

If you people could direct me in the right direction to make a stronger alternative or traditional peper spray that actually works in brutal ways, I would be greatful.

Other self defence DIY alternatives are also welcomed. I am scared for my life as well, because I will be engaging in active resistance some time in my life (can't tell when for safety reasons) and I would love some forms of self defence tools that I can make on my own and is acceptable to carry around.

so i would like to do my next music about radical feminism. talking about anarcha revolutionnary feminism
so far i found a few quotes i could use as lyrics and i intend to use "el violador eres tu" as a base for melody, i compose hardcore rythmes, and feminists quotes are often too soft or too intelectual for this kind of music. so i have :

-i am not your subject

-she's not dressed as a whore, you think like a rapist

-if we can't avort we'll have to castrate you.

do you have any ideas in mind or ou would like to ear ? something isn't right about those quotes ?

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The article "Against the Masculinization of Militancy" by Laina Tanglewood is quoted in "Against the Corpse Machine: Defining A Post-Leftist Anarchist Critique of Violence" by Ashen Ruins:

Also dissenting from the self-proclaimed feminist mainstream is Laina Tanglewood in her article, “Against the Masculinization of Militancy”. She says,

Some recent “feminist” critiques of anarchism have condemned militancy as being sexist and non-inclusive to women. It was claimed that on-the-street aggressive behavior of Black Bloc members — such as property destruction and confronting the pigs — is sexist because it excludes women. This idea is actually the sexist one. Instead of condemning the black bloc men and ignoring the black bloc women, both women and men who want to fight should be welcome and encouraged to do so while those (male and female) who do not feel comfortable taking such risks can engage in a variety of other activities.

Again, as Tanglewood points out…

The "Against the Corpse Machine" quotation is re-quoted in the book How Nonviolence Protects the State, but that's all I've been able to find of it referenced in texts, and from looking her up I've only seen that name in the context of that particular article. I have not be able to even definitively find out where this article had originally been published, much less find any more of its text apart from that one quoted paragraph.

I wouldn't know where to contact the author of "Against the Corpse Machine" to find out how they'd found the quote, either, because "Ashen Ruins" is a pseudonym attached to no online or public presence that I can find, and has also not done anything noticeable for several decades.

There is this post in the Art Libraries Society of North America listserv which says,

Hi Everyone,

I have a student who is looking for an article that I think was published in Anarchy: A Journal of Desire. I literally can find no mention of this author anywhere on the web, and many folks who publish in this journal use pseudonyms. Few of the issues from this time period are online – late 90s and early 00s. The only place this journal is indexed is in the Alternative Press Index by Ebscohost, which we don’t have. If someone has access to this database, would you mind taking a quick look for this article and letting me know if I’m on the right track in trying to locate it?

The particular article is "Against the Masculinization of Militancy" by Laina Tanglewood. Thanks so much!

I haven't been able to find any response to this, if there ever was one. I'm not sure if this librarian and the student are right about the article being in AJODA or if they were mistaken.

Does anyone know anything more about this article or author? Especially if you have a full copy of the text. As an anarcha-feminist with the same perspective, it seems like it'd be right down my alley and I've love if I could be able to share it as a resource, but it just seems so elusive. If you have any idea where you might find more information or other people you could contact who might be able to help out more, that'd also be greatly appreciated.

This post is about class reductionism taken from Feminism is for everybody but I replaced certain words with one that makes sense in terms of intersectionality v class reductionism. The original quote is about black women bringing up race and white women being upset about it but I replace that context.

"In those days class reductionists who were unwilling to face the reality of racism and racial difference accused us of being traitors by introducing race. Wrongly they saw us as deflecting focus away from gender. In reality, we were demanding that we look at the status of race, gender, sexuality, and disability realistically, and that realistic understanding serve as the foundation for a real revolutionary politic. Our intent was not to diminish the vision of revolutionaries. We sought to put in place a concrete politics of solidarity that would make genuine revolution possible. We knew that there could be no real solidarity between class reductionism and intersectionality if class reductionists were not able to divest of white supremacy, patriarchy, homophobia, ableism, etc, if the socialist movement was not fundamentally anti-hate.

Critical interventions around race did not destroy the socialist movement; it became stronger. Breaking through denial about race helped everyone face the reality of difference on all levels. And we were finally putting in place a movement that did not place the class interests of privileged socialists, especially white socialists, over that of all other socialists. We put in place a vision of solidarity where all realities could be spoken for.

For years I witnessed the reluctance of white socialist thinkers to acknowledge the importance of race. I witnessed their refusal to divest of white supremacy, and their unwillingness to acknowledge that an anti-racist socialist movement was the only political foundation that would make revolution a reality. And I witnessed the revolution in consciousness that occurred as individual socialists began to break free in denial, to break free of white supremacist, patriarchal thinking. These awesome changes restore my faith in socialist movements and strengthen the solidarity I feel towards all women."

Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

Do anarchfeminists have socialist values too? Or are they capitalist alongside their feminist values (NeoLibs), if so, this might not be my type of place. I consider myself feminist but more then anything marxist or socialist

Any links to clinic defense videos or zines would be so appreciated ABORTION FOREVER 💚

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