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The "Obnoxious Wimmin's Network" #anarchafeminist gathering in 1989:

Anarchist women formed the Obnoxious Wimmin’s Network in the late 1980s in order to build the anarcha-feminist movement and fight against male dominance in the radical scene. In 1989, they organized a women-only gathering preceding the Without Borders Anarchist Gathering in San Francisco. They decided to meet on their own to address women’s issues, talk politics without men dominating the conversation, and strategize about how to deal with sexism within the movement. This gathering helped establish anarcha-feminist connections and community that went on to transform the anarchist movement in the coming decades.

Around 150 women (trans inclusive and usually styled as “wimmin”) came together from July 18-19 under the banner of the “Obnoxious Wimmin’s Network” at the Collective Chaos anarchist space in Oakland, which had been founded by members of the Vermont Family. Over the course of two days, they hosted a series of workshops, discussions, and performances ranging from self defense and home abortion techniques to participation in sex work.

The first evening was dedicated to open mic performances including poetry, music, dance, and collective theater. Women gave presentations on fashion and the media, showed videos about women in the sex industry, and shared art based on their experiences of patriarchal violence.

Day two featured a series of workshops dealing with women’s issues. It began with a session on self defense (both physical and psychological), followed by a workshop on “wimmins health skills, including vaginal health and cervical self examination” at which “Eden demonstrated technique & explained how wimmin can take control of their health care away from the medical establishment and put it back into our own hands.” Along with a session on home abortion techniques in the afternoon, this continued a long tradition of feminist self-help infrastructure in the women’s liberation movement. These workshops led to the formation of more sustained women’s self-help groups and infrastructure in the Bay Area.

Next came a workshop on the “intolerance of sexual diversity,” in which women discussed “ways in which bisexual, lesbian, and heterosexual wimmin can work on understanding and relating supportively with eachother [sic], as well as dealing with non-monogamy, S&M, and relationships involving more than two people.” This was followed by workshops on women political prisoners & women in the sex industry.

The day ended with a workshop on anti-racism, which delved into “the relationship between feminism and racism, how wimmin’s perception of the threat of violence from men is related to racial issues, and how the anarcha-feminist movement, as mostly white wimmin, can be more inclusive and supportive of wimmin of colour.” This reflected a growing awareness of the problem of anarchism’s whiteness, which would become a central issue in the movement in the 1990s.

The wimmin’s gathering ended with “an open discussion [that] ran into the night, including the topic of dealing with sexism within the anarchist community.”

This kind of gathering was crucial for the formation and strengthening of a continental anarcha-feminist movement. It enabled women from across North America to meet each other, discuss women’s issues, compare their experiences, learn new skills from each other, engage in self-critique, and strategize about how to continue developing anarcha-feminist theory and practice.

All quotes come from an anonymous reportback printed in the “Without Borders Chronicle” on Thursday, July 20, 1989. I also consulted a flyer with the schedule for the wimmin’s gathering, included here. You can read a longer account here: https://emptyhandshistory.com/the-obnoxious-wimmins-network-anarcha-feminism-at-the-1989-san-francisco-gathering/

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Hi Fediverse, we are an #anarchafeminist #squat in Cronenbourg (#Strasbourg, France) by and for BIPOC queer people, but white ppl are still allowed in. Nice to be here and join you all, dear witches/bitches/sisters/comrades :anqueer:

As we host exiled women/queer people and their children in our big house, and support them within our queer community, feel free to contact us or to get us in touch with close mutant people :feministfist:

Autonomy, solidarity, revolution ! :blob_black_block:

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REQUEST: I am looking for English-language #leftist #anarchist and especially #anarchafeminist writings on abuse and power, especially with a focus on misogyny and the nuclear family and/or the workplace and/or leftist spaces.

I'm not sure how I would further narrow down my request, except to say that what I'm looking for will likely have Jenny Holzer "abuse of power comes as no surprise" vibes.

"It is a tragedy, I feel, that people of a different sexual type are caught in a world which shows so little understanding for homosexuals and is so crassly indifferent to the various gradations and variations of gender and their great significance in life." - #EmmaGoldman, in a letter to her friend, #MagnusHirschfeld.

#WeHaveAlwaysBeenHere.

#queerliberation #queerhistory #queer #anarchaqueer #queeranarchism #queeranarchy #queeranarchist #anarchafeminism #anarchafeminist #anarchy #anarchism

"She was the first and only woman, indeed the first and only American, to take up the defense of homosexual love before the general public." - #MagnusHirschfeld, writing about his friend, #EmmaGoldman.

#WeHaveAlwaysBeenHere.

#queerliberation #anarchaqueer #anarchafeminism #anarchafeminist #queeranarchism #queeranarchy #queeranarchist #queer #anarchism #anarchy #anarchist #queerhistory

👋 Hi Mastodon, I'm Amelia. I'm #queer and I want #LiberationNotAssimilation. I'm a #bi #kinky #polyam #trans woman with #ADHD and #BPD. I'm #pagan, Norse #Heathen to be specific. I'm a #sexpositive #transfeminist and #anarchist, more specifically an #anarchafeminist, #queeranarchist, and #anarchocommunist. I proudly identify as a #FakeGeekGirl #FakeNerdGirl #FakeGamerGirl because I refuse to define myself by what entertainment media I consume.

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👋 Hi Mastodon, I'm Amelia. I'm #queer and I want #LiberationNotAssimilation. I'm a #bi #kinky #polyam #trans woman with #ADHD and #BPD. I'm #pagan, Norse #Heathen to be specific. I'm a #sexpositive #transfeminist and #anarchist, more specifically an #anarchafeminist, #queeranarchist, and #anarchocommunist. I proudly identify as a #FakeGeekGirl #FakeNerdGirl #FakeGamerGirl because I refuse to define myself by what entertainment media I consume.

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We're glad to celebrate our birthday but we shouldn't forget all of them which have closed yet and we fully support all the (queerfeminist, antiracist) often threatened squats all over the world !

Let's stay in as possible as we can !

#ACAB #squat #queer #anarchafeminist #antiracist

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Williams speaks w/ OVAS members from La Conxa space, an #anarchafeminist collective from the Boyle Heights barrio of Los Angeles, occupied iyáanga'. They chat about organizing, race, gender, cultural engagement, bicycles & resisting incursions by #Maoists.

https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2019/09/22/the-ovas-speak-on-living-and-fighting-in-la-la-concha-the-psyco-brigade-feminism-and-anti-racisms/