Breaking the Waves: Challenging the Liberal Tendency within Anarchist Feminism

by Romina Akemi and Bree Busk

Breaking the Waves is a call to break with liberal feminism and acknowledge the necessity of reconstructing our own anarchist feminist historical tradition. We are simultaneously declaring a need for anarchists who are feminists and feminists who are anarchists to discuss and debate what anarchist feminism means in practice and to refine that definition through renewed struggle. … Our politics are more than just useful tools for managing our personal lives; they represent the blueprints for a world worth fighting and dying for.
Available in English and Spanish.

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[lala · Rating 4 out of 5]

A reaction to the IDPOL of the year 2014. No commentary on anything good that may have come out of the self-reflective practices of IDpol. An argument to resituate anarchist feminism in concrete histories and social struggles, rather than individualist self reflection. Multisectoralism, critique of the academic and wave theory of liberal feminism, a discussion of alzada organization! A critique of fetishizing individual anarchist women. Argument that anarchist feminism can challenge anarchism, feminism, labor, and be a tradition that can push all social struggles.