I keep forgetting to mention that I’ve got an article in the Winter 2008 issue of Soho House Magazine. Entitled “Taekwondo in a Hijab: Muscular Feminism in Iran,” it looks at the achievements of a couple of Iranian sports stars in the context of the ongoing struggle for women’s rights in that country. The magazine [...]
So, I understand that Obama-palooza culminated with two white guys singing “this land was made for you and me.”
That reminded me of a night, several years ago, in Ann Arbor. The organizers of the annual womens’s Take Back the Night march against rape had worked out a deal with the so-called progressive men who — [...]
I’ll be out of town and offline for a few days starting tomorrow, so don’t be dismayed if it takes a few days for new comments to appear. If you’re looking for something to read while I’m gone, check out my blogroll or visit the new, rebooted, and improved Anarchoblogs. “Anarchoblogs is a collection of [...]
What do anarchist cooking collectives, decadently healthy deserts, and the sniveling excuses of leftists who give into their own greed under the guise of solidarity with the masses have in common? They’re all featured in the latest action-packed edition of the Abolitionist Online.
Yes, Australia’s indefatigable Claudette Vaughn has done it again, pulling together an [...]
I’ve posted a few new (or, rather, old) texts, one of which I seem to have forgotten to publish back when I wrote it, on my archive. From the sadly defunct Impact Press, I’ve posted my 2005 book reviews of The Voltairine de Cleyre Reader and Normon Solomon’s War Made Easy. De Cleyre [...]
Coming back to the subject of texts that work themselves into who you are, I recently had occasion to reread a couple of classic texts in anarcha-feminism and found myself staring, slack-jawed, at neatly underlined pages filled with ideas that are so much a part of me I’d swear they were my own if the [...]
Whenever I’m in an independent bookstore, I always make sure to buy something. So, while I was at Arise! bookstore in Minneapolis, I picked up a copy of Evasion (CrimetInc), which I’d been wanting to read anyway and because I always like reading travelogues while traveling.
In the course of that travelogue of train hopping, dumpster [...]
