Dear Grrls,
I have been working on a project to create an interactive website for anarchist women to share ideas, info and make links. Not really a new idea, but I saw the need when I found myself having to battle waves of sexism on other anarchist sites such as infoshop.org and anarchistnews.org. Otherwise, these services are great, but for women who are interested in breaking the bonds of patriarchy as a priority, it can be alienating.
I am hoping that anarchafem.org might be a space for women who want to relate to other women.
If you would like to get involved in working on the site - I’d love to hear from you. I’m also looking for items to add to a bibliography, and material in languages other than english. If you know of anything, can you let me know?
Hopefully things will be up and running by the end of the year - so there will be chances to share information with other anarchist women in what I would like to become a supportive environment.
Please pass this on to anyone you think would be interested.
Check out the site (still in development) at dev.anarchafem.org
only women? how about transwomen? how about genderqueer anarchists? is it open to fems of all kinds?
Comment by anarchaqueer — November 24, 2006 @ 6:48 am
Bloody good question! This is the internet, so there’s no way to /check/ whether someone is a born woman or not. My hope is that the site will be welcoming to all women who are interested in liberation. And, I really hope that it won’t be alienating for anyone on the simple fact of not being a born woman, or being lesbian, etc. Basically, the idea is a safe space for women liberationists and feminists who are also anarchist to more or less degree to get together.
If you want to participate, please do! Want an account?
Comment by Anna Aniston — November 25, 2006 @ 4:33 am
Would love to help with site, though not totally up with tech stuff once its up and running would be able to do admin and moderation stuff to help.
Keep me posted about how things are going.
solidarity
jo
Comment by jo — January 27, 2007 @ 8:44 am
Oh yay! I had totally stalled there for a while (real life takes over). Hearing that you might be interested rocks and spurs my interest!
Will definitely keep you posted
Comment by Anna Aniston — January 28, 2007 @ 10:38 am
hi
just found your blog quite randomly but its something ive been looking for for some time. i’ll watch anarchafem.org
Comment by v — February 20, 2007 @ 10:58 am
Well, its up!
http://dev.anarchafem.org/login to create an account and start the grrrl revolution
Comment by Anna Aniston — February 21, 2007 @ 8:56 am
These comments have been invaluable to me as is this whole site. I thank you for your comment.
Comment by Rosie — April 28, 2007 @ 4:03 pm