Thread by @monaeltahawy

Via this book, I am intellectually living and wrestling with Leda Rafanelli - an Italian anarchist and Muslim who coined the term “feminility.” It is for a new book I’m working on about anarchist feminists patreon.com/posts/40846842

“Leda walked how she talked, and her life was a testimony to how people can live anarchically free, even within the oppressive society and overbearing institutions of fascism. She flagrantly overturned every externally imposed constraint that came her way.”

I’m interested in exploring more how Leda Rafanelli synthesized her ideas on women’s liberation, Islam, and anarchism

And I am also looking at Kurdish anarchist feminists and the revolutionary structures and dynamic they have fought for in northern Syria

I’ve posted about often and I will include in my book the world's first explicitly anarchist-feminist group which was created as part of the thriving 19th century anarchist movement in #Argentina. libcom.org/history/no-god…

In 1906 Japan, anarchist feminist Kanno Sugako: "Rise up, women wake up! As in the struggle workers are engaged in against capitalists to break down the class system,our demands for freedom & equality with men will not be won...if we do not raise our voices, if no blood is shed”

“All these compañeros, however radical they may be in cafes, unions, even (Anarchist) groups, seem to drop their costumes as lovers of female liberation at the doors of their homes,”
- Lola Iturbe, Mujeres Libres, 1935

https://twitter.com/wrkclasshistory/status/1289664247438295041

I reviewed this on Mujeres Libres and they will be in my book patreon.com/posts/36327571

And this will be a core tenet of my book:

"It is not difficult to see why feminists were attracted to Anarchism and why they were so rightly opposed to male anarchist hypocrisy.”

I will be serializing this project on anarchist feminists here 👇🏽 To read it as it develops, follow the link for the subscription plans. And thank you for supporting my work and keeping it independent! patreon.com/monaeltahawy?u…

And this is background in the project patreon.com/posts/40846842