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red and weren t seen as political issues other times it was overt anarchist men who committed rape and relationship abuse were being defended by their comrades and women who were raped and abused weren t supported in response to that we started up an anarcha feminist group most of us didn t know a lot about feminist history or theory we were learning as we went we spent a lot of our meetings talking about our own lives we talked about experiences that we had in common and experiences that we didn t have in common sharing our experiences with each other helped us connect the dots and understand the ways that our personal hardships were political in nature and were caused by living in a patriarchal society when we started our group we decided that our meetings would only be open to women at the time it was important to us to have a space without men where we felt safe speaking our minds and where we were allowed time to speak our minds without being talked over in retrospect having women only meetings wasn t a good idea it meant that we had to police who was and wasn t welcome which excluded a lot of people especially trans women and genderqueer folks it also meant that we had a tendency to homogenise women s experiences and assume that we all had particular things in common we often ended up ignoring the ways that racism colonisation class heterosexism transphobia and disability shape women s lives when we started talking about what issues we should organise around i think we made the mistake of taking a really narrow view of what constituted a feminist issue we talked about rape domestic violence abortion sexuality diets beauty standards these are all really important issues and they re often dismissed because they re seen as women s issues but what i ve come to realise is that every political issue is a feminist issue poverty is a feminist issue war is a feminist issue prisons are a feminist issue colonialism is a feminist issue benefit cuts are a feminist issue workers rights are a feminist issue part of the reason that i m not involved in a feminist group at the moment is that i don t feel like i need to work in an explicitly feminist organisation i bring my feminist practice to all the political work that i do in spite of our mistakes all that fighting to make women heard did have an effect the anarchist movement in wellington has changed there are more women active there are more women being listened to and issues that affect women are treated as political issues this has alienated some men from anarchism the ones that didn t like their power being challenged decolonising anarchism nowadays i see the same pattern being repeated anarchist activity is dominated by pākehā there s a lot of racism both explicit and implicit to the point where a lot of māori and other people of colour are fed up and don t want anything to do with anarchism a big part of that is that for some people anarchism has become synonymous with a kind of class reductionist politics that ignores the relationship between class and sexism racism transphobia disability and homophobia pākehā anarchists have a tendency to be eurocentric they take ideas developed by people like bakunin and kropotkin in europe and try to apply them to aotearoa these are useful ideas but there is a different context here the new zealand state exists as a direct result of colonisation and if we want to dismantle the state then we need to put decolonisation at the centre of our anarchist practice don t ban bossy ban bosses in the last couple of years feminism has made a comeback being a feminist is no longer taboo miley cyrus beyoncé tina fey sheryl sandberg national s jo goodhew and nz first s tracey martin are all self professed feminists being a feminist has been reduced to an individual identity and a brand rather than a political movement and a set of ethics instead of mass grassroots organising we get viral youtube videos and facebook memes one of the most prominent and grating examples of this type of feminism is sheryl sandberg s lean in book and ngo lean in encourages women to achieve their goals by learning to overcome their fears and have confidence in themselves this brand and it literally is a brand of feminism has no room for collective struggle or for recognising structural oppression instead of naming and abolishing the many barriers to women s freedom lean in places the blame for women s suffering on women we just need to overcome our fears and learn self confidence in this way feminism is reduced to an individualist aspiration for individual success lean in s main contribution to the feminist movement is ban bossy the campaign aims to encourage girls to take leadership positions by banning words like bossy and know it all there are countless reasons to criticise ban bossy it fails to acknowledge the ways that girls experiences are shaped by class ethnicity religion sexual orientation disability and assigned sex it emphasises individual achievement over collective liberation it assumes that the solution to sexism is putting more women in positions of power instead of abolishing power inequality and constructing horizontal models of social organisation it s also incredibly inane functioning as an advertising campaign not a social movement it transforms women s liberation into a commodity you purchase rather than collectively fight for like everything else in a capitalist economy in fact the ban bossy online shop sells branded t shirts tote bags mugs and even iphone cases there s nothing new about feminist ideas being co opted and used to uphold capitalism at best it s brought us nothing at worst it s created the illusion that sexism no longer exists because women can exploit the working class as efficiently as men this is why it s so important to articulate a feminist politics that aims for liberation from all oppression smashing patriarchy on teh interwebz new forms of media have made it easier to spread feminist and radical ideas facebook tumblr twitter youtube and instagram allow people to share ideas dialogue and orchestrate mass activist campaigns without relying on conventional media to give them a platform it s been a double edged sword we risk having feminism reduced to a fad a youth subculture defined by a love of cupcakes winged eyeliner and beyoncé instead of a political movement based on shared principles but the rise of online feminism has also meant that feminist ideas can flow from the periphery to the centre or from periphery to periphery without commercial publishers acting as gatekeepers some of the most useful and exciting feminist commentary is coming from bloggers like budour hassan in palestine sara salem in egypt and razan ghazawi in syria and in a world where arab women are consistently portrayed as passive victims of their own culture these women s voices are hella relevant likwise the group blog tits and sass provides a perspective on sex work from the people whose perspective matters the most sex workers when cece mcdonald was incarcerated for defending herself and her friends from a racist and transphobic attacker the website support cece featured updates from her support team and blog posts written by mcdonald in prison the website didn t just build solidarity with a political prisoner it also served to link her struggle with a broader struggle against racism transmisogyny and the prison industrial complex here in aotearoa kim mcbreen s he hōaka is an amazing resource on decolonisation gender and sexuality the group blog mellow yellow publishes feminist perspectives on racism and migrant identity capitalism bad tree pretty covers everything from labour struggles to rape culture to buffy the vampire slayer but i particularly recommend it for maia s articulate discussion of the politics of human bodies tangles assemblages and intersections in 1989 kimberlé crenshaw coined the term intersectionality to illustrate that different types of oppression don t exist in isolation they intersect with each other since then it s become a bit of a feminist buzzword people throw it around a lot but don t always stop to think about what it means in practice i actually don t think that intersectionality is a very good model for understanding oppression because it suggests that different types of oppression exist on separate axes that occasionally intersect the reality is that they are deeply intertwined class is racialised racism is gendered and so on jasbir puar suggests that we need to understand these as assemblages rather than intersections i tend to think of them as entanglements identities experiences material circumstances interpersonal and structural oppressions get tangled together if we want to undermine oppression we have to start by mapping these tangles so we can understand the relationship between different types of oppression where to from here what attracted me to anarcha feminism as a teenager was this idea that all oppression is connected instead of arguing over which is more important fighting capitalism or fighting sexism or fighting colonialism we need to be fighting all of them simultaneously that s the theoretical basis of it anyway in practice people don t always do that feminists can be incredibly racist transmisogynist and ableist it s important to acknowledge that it s important to listen to people when they challenge you on the way your political organising is throwing them under the bus we can only get better if we re willing to be honest about our fuck ups i m trying to think of what i want for the future of anarcha feminist organising i think the most important thing is that we prioritise the needs of the people who have the least power in this society all anarchists need to focus on decolonisation and fighting racism we all need to organise in ways that are welcoming and inclusive to people who aren t pākehā and not make it the responsibility of māori and other people of colour we need to prioritise making spaces safe for trans women and other trans people without making it the responsibility of trans anarchists we need to make feminist spaces accessible to organise in ways that don t disable people and we need to do this everywhere all of the time leave a comment filed under uncategorized tagged as anarcha feminism anarchism feminism iwd february 17 2016 9 25 am nightmares and ghosts when i was seven my parents took me on a day trip to ein hod an artists village near haifa i thought it was the coolest place i d ever been we walked through galleries studios and workshops and i even got to make some prints of my own years later when i was an adult my mother told me the true story of ein hod it had been a palestinian village ein houd in 1945 the village occupied 12 605 dunams 1 260 5 hectares of land and had a population of around 700 in may 1948 ein houd was invaded by the newly established israeli defense force and its inhabitants were ethnically cleansed in the early 1950s the village s buildings were settled by israeli artists who renamed it ein hod most of ein houd s palestinian residents ended up refugees in the west bank but a group of 35 villagers stayed in the area and re established ein houd near its original site in 2005 after 57 years of struggle the state of israel finally recognized the village and allowed it to join the electricity grid haifa born palestinian novelist salman natour who died this week wrote about ein houd in his book the chronicle of the wrinkled face sheikh the village of ayn houd was transformed into a jewish artists colony known as ein hod in the old days there was a grand mosque whose spire rose high above the ground in the artists colony the mosque had been converted into a highbrow restaurant at the entrance stood a female host who catered to the artists needs and to those of their respectable guests a few years ago an old sheikh arrived at the artists colony from siris a village located in the jenin district he headed to a house inhabited by an artist who had immigrated from europe or america the artist s wife opened the door and was startled at first seeing the strange keffiyeh wearing man staring back at her the man was silent as a stone as he had never seen a half naked woman opening the door of a house the woman recovered quickly and gently invited the man inside she summoned her husband the artist who was also apprehensive when he saw the keffiyeh and the thick mustache of the visitor but the artist also recovered quickly particularly after he saw the smile spreading across the visitor s face what brings you here he asked the arab man answered without hesitation i was born here this is my home this is your home the artist s voice expressed great amazement what do you mean tell me what happened the guest seated himself on a comfortable armchair and told his story from beginning to end the artist served him a cup of coffee he even offered him a glass of whisky he sat next to him and begged to hear the details the artist believed every word the arab man went back to his village in the west bank the artist however was seized by guilt sadness and irritability he decided to leave the house and moved to another but the ghosts kept pursuing him to the new home every day he woke up expecting another arab man to visit the house where he had been born the nightmares and ghosts never vanished ein hod encapsulates my relationship with the country i was born to there are so many things i love about israeli culture but all of them every last one are built on the ethnic cleansing of palestinians and none of them no matter how brilliant vibrant and amazing can ever ever make up for the ethnic cleansing on which this culture and society is built the nightmares and ghosts will never vanish not until palestinian refugees can return to their homes and live freely and without fear leave a comment filed under uncategorized tagged as colonisation ein hod ein houd nakba palestine zionism october 4 2015 10 09 pm shana tova and a gut yor 5775 went by so fast i can barely remember it i do know that i ve neglected this blog terribly i will now attempt to make up for it by kvetching a year s worth of blogging into one post it s taken me almost a month partly because of the inexplicable fatigue that s hit me recently but if nothing else it s forced me to work out just what i ve been doing this last year last rosh hashana i was enjoying the warm spring in the backyard drawing and discussing my love life with my flatmate s dog i m not a relationship person every relationship i ve ever been in whether monogamous or poly made me miserable i don t like feeling like my life revolves around one person i don t like being expected to prioritise one person over everyone and everything that makes me happy most of all i don t like the constant guilt and shame associated with failing to be exactly what my partner expects me to be it was spring in sydney things were growing for 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