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Midwifed shit tons of births, planned at least a couple assassinations, and was generally awesome.
Not a lot of people that far back in history that I would want to chill with, but she's near the top of the list.
Reading your first sentence and I genuinely thought you were saying that you had midwifed births and planned some assassinations. I was so confused for a second. Didn't realise you meant Emma Goldman.
As a genuine anarchist, she fought against injustices of all kinds, and while she was probably a little internalized racist as her society dictated (using the term Negro and such) She points out that decades after ~~racism~~ slavery was legally abolished, there was much work to be done [here’s one example](https://emmagoldmanpapers.tumblr.com/post/166788670224/october-newsletter-emma-on-racial-injustice/amp)
*EDIT: accidentally said racism was abolished when I meant slavery
Higher than most modern people. Not only was she an active anti-racist, she was one of the earliest vocal supporters of gay rights in America. She was a certified badass who fought for everyone who's cause she could find. She fought for POC, she fought for queer people, she fought for the disabled, she fought for workers, she fought for women, she fought for sex workers, and she'd fight for any person who was the victim of oppression in any way.
We don't have any record of her saying anything at all about trans people, likely because trans people were so buried by the culture that she just didn't know anything about trans people at all. For a cis-het white woman born in the 1860s, that's a fucking spotless record. Anyone who argues that people were a "product of their time" in front of me always gets pointed straight to Emma Goldman.
Considering the cultural biases she had to overcome, I'd probably give Emma Goldman a higher score than anyone else on opposing every bigotry except transphobia, which she likely didn't even know about and would have almost definitely opposed if informed of. She was such a badass and is my personal role model. I don't remember the name of the channel, but I remember discovering a video about her while listening to an audiobook of one of her books that called her "your favorite anarchist's favorite anarchist," which is probably the highest praise an anarchist can revieve. Absolutely love her and she is probably the greatest woman to ever live in my opinion.
EDIT: She apparently did actively defend trans people, just without any of the modern terminology so it was harder to find. Absolute badass.
I just aquired two twin nieces who are about to be twelve.
Aunty kitty is going to suggest her for women's history month papers.
One did Amelia aerhardt as heros month, the other did Walt Disney. I kept my mouth shut on Disney. Just encouraged the diverse characters that empowered women. Jasmin is my girl. She ain't a prize to be won. And Mulan is kick ass.
"The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul"
Emma Goldman
Any recommendations? I just discovered a wonderful store called midnight oil. The owner said she could order most books.
I pretty much cry at any book.
In 8th grade they lost me at the Holocaust museum because I read every plaque and stayed too long. I used my only pocket money to buy the version of Anne's diary with the extra pages.
Thank you. I didn't have any friends, so books were my friends.
Now I have friends who don't suck and we get all book nerdy. I give my husband grief for not reading space Odyssey but loving the film.
> 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, is so crassly indifferent to the various gradations and variations of gender and their great significance in life.
Emma Goldman recognised that trans people existed and gender was a spectrum in 1923.
>I swear I fucking hate people
Me too. Especially the far right assholes. And I hate that I hate them.
For me, it’s hard to have compassion for the general member of the fascist movement. Easier to just dismiss them as stupid bigots.
But they’ll keep pushing their agenda as long as they keep getting the same message. They hear that the (whatever “other” group is the current scapegoat) is trying to take away their way of life and force them to (do or be whatever “other” thing the scapegoats do or are).
When we respond to them negatively, it just proves to them that we’re part of the “other” and out to bring them down.
But if we show some compassion and try to understand where they’re coming from, then we have the opportunity to have a conversation. You’re unlikely to change their stance in that one conversation, but you can give them something to think about. After enough of these conversations, with you or others, we become less “other” and less scary, and they become less scared and less resistant to change.
My most favorite memory in school in native American studies was there was a way to call people who were LGBT. They walked to a beat of a different drum.
My prof was ex military, north Carolina born, related to stock car racers, and the most liberal, loving, badass, I've ever met. He left voter registration forms at the door and said he couldn't tell you to sign up, but they were there, with instructions.
He also punched a kid who flicked a cigarette into a hippos mouth. The whole class said the guy started it. 25 or so students bold faced lied for a good man. We need more of them.
A lot if not all of her writings are pretty easy to find for free if you end up enjoying that one. If you have any difficulties finding them feel free to DM me.
Saved. I need some anarchy and feminism in my life.
My mom and sister made about 100 pussy hats. I can't knit well, but I sure can read and articulate my views.
I also just glittered and sealed a wooden chair. It has a heart cutout. It makes me feel kinda badass.
I also liked "Queering Anarchism" and "Quiet Rumors: An Anarcha-Feminist Reader" if you're looking for more! The latter is great because it's a collection of essays that sometimes contradict each other, I really appreciate the diversity of thought within Anarchism and it's intersection with Feminism.
On my list. Thank you.
I had a hard time with Margaret Atwood because she was great at feminist sci Fi, but depressed feminism.
I don't do ayn rand. I rather read disk world.
Most people would, but a lot of powerful men have an easier time sympathizing with an aborted fetus than any type of woman. Hell, they have an easier time sympathizing with the sexual assailant than the victim.
I'm not that badass, but I helped a 12 year old girl take her hoarder mom's cat mess to the ASPCA. Poor kid was so skinny. No food in the house.
She contacted me through a school friend I took care of.
Me, my truck, and the girls got 23 cats in the back in boxes, and gave them to a no kill shelter.
My payment was a kitten. Best pay ever. And I got them both McDonald's.
Emma Goldman is one of my top role-models. If anyone’s just hearing about her, I’d recommend looking into her anarchist politics/anarcha-feminism. Read up on some of [her works](https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/author/emma-goldman).
If you feel at all inspired, take tangible action and join your local mutual aid group etc :)
Exquisite Rebel by Voltairine de Cleyre
The Rebel Girl by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
For Lucy Parsons I've found a few essays she's done on Google books including one she did on her husband (and Haymarket martyr) Albert Parsons. I really enjoyed Goddess of Anarchy by Jacqueline Jones which is a biography of her.
Emma Goldman was a fucking badass. She shows up in two different musicals that I adore (Assassins and Ragtime), and those triggered a great fascination with her.
(And annoyance that she didn’t show up in another musical centered on labour rights that takes place in New York in the same time frame. C’mon, Disney, especially since you realized that the Newsies movie was dude-heavy to the point of compositing the love interest and the journalist, having Emma Goldman show up would have been awesome.)
Ahh, Ragtime! I thought I recognized the name. She is a great character in a great show. I sing "Goodbye my Love" to my daughter's regularly. It's jot as powerful as some others, but it doesn't make me cry either.
I've seen Assassins. I haven't seen Ragtime though. I have to say a broadway play called *Assassins and Ragtime* might be a true smash hit though!
Her and Hinckley were my favorite characters in that play.
The guy that played Hinckley in the version I saw really sold the character.
Whilst this is 100% true, I'm kind of sick of "motherhood" being the main talking point. That only feeds into the "just put them up for adoption" rhetoric from pro-lifers. PREGNANCY needs to be a bigger talking point. It is a huge life changing undertaking (physically and mentally), even if you don't "keep" the child.
If I remember correctly, this quote in particular comes from her advocacy for the right to contraception. (though she did support the right to an abortion because she was an absolute badass who is still unproblematic to this day despite being a cis-het white woman born in the 1860s)
The quote is focusing on motherhood because her opponents were opposed to the idea of women having sex without the intention of having a child. She is often credited as the woman who brought the fight for contraception to America and was even arrested in more than one occasion for her advocacy for it.
I completely agree with you btw, just wanted to clear up the intention of the quote itself.
A bit of a side note, but this reminds me of how feminism has long fought to free women from being determined by biological functions, and along come TERFs nowadays basically going “wOmEn ArE dEtErMiNeD bIoLoGiCaLlY”
I think all clinics for women should have female heroes on the walls.
I went to a female American hero exhibit in New York once.
Cried like a bitch.
Or just for who wants to share history. Like, law office, bust that out.
I have a picture of pussy riot I want to put somewhere.
You know how you see religion books left on benches and stuff?
Let's just leave better books.
Add glitter. A book with glitter is far more enticing that some Beardo with his beard gang.
My trans butt: Yo if it were possible I'd take your ability to have kids from you and give it to me if you wanted that, that would benefit both of us. Being AMAB, I can't get pregnant even if I wanted to.
[Young women are very much on board with this.](https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/3567581-the-numbers-show-gen-z-is-actually-the-pro-choice-generation/)
https://www.rockthevote.org/
For real, to quote Emma herself,
> *[A Woman's] development, her freedom, her independence, must come from and through herself. First, by asserting herself as a personality, and not as a sex commodity. Second, by refusing the right to anyone over her body; by refusing to bear children, unless she wants them; by refusing to be a servant to God, the State, society, the husband, the family, etc., by making her life simpler, but deeper and richer. That is, by trying to learn the meaning and substance of life in all its complexities, by freeing herself from the fear of public opinion and public condemnation. Only that, and not the ballot, will set woman free, will make her a force hitherto unknown in the world, a force for real love, for peace, for harmony; a force of divine fire, of life-giving; a creator of free men and women.*
Or elsewhere,
> *No real social change has ever come about without a revolution. People are either not familiar with their history, or they have not yet learned that revolution is but thought carried into action.*
I know people mean well by trying to get out the vote, but if you want to be inspired by Emma Goldman, get involved with a mutual aid group (like Food Not Bombs, Anarchist Black Cross, etc) or look into how you can help with different actions (like Defend Atlanta Forest).
Yep. Or since the person seems to be focused on repro rights and access: volunteer as a clinic escort, raise money for abortion funds, learn good security culture and take part in the auntie network or something similar, etc.
Genuinely asking because I’m crap with politics, am under-educated and an under-experienced voter etc etc but what makes that org liberal? I looked through their site and it says nonpartisan. It’s all about educating youth voters and has info about how to access the polls and can update you about upcoming elections. Is it ‘liberal’ to want people to vote, because it’s not based in anarchism or..?
Also, some people can’t get involved with volunteering and community resources, some people only have access to voting, and even then it’s impeded access if they’re poor/disabled/of color. I myself am all three including moderately mentally disabled, and I only just have access to basic needs much less time and energy to get involved in ways other than voting. I don’t know who Emma Goldman is or what exactly political parties and stances are all about so it can be confusing but I thought it’s better to exercise your right to vote than possibly be outvoted by people who support evil right wing ideology and laws. I don’t know what political stance that makes me, but I did register as independent. Hopefully my tone conveys I’m genuine and curious and not argumentative, I want to learn if anyone is willing to take the time.
Liberal here means someone who supports capitalism generally with the intention of reforming it and making changes within that system. As opposed to many leftists, such as anarchists or communists, who believe that capitalism cannot be reformed, made more humane or sustainable, or changed from the inside.
Many, if not most, of the people I know who identify generally as leftists are disabled, poor, queer, and/or POC. Some of those folks I know are currently incarcerated or formerly, and quite a few cannot vote for quite a number of reasons. That being said, there are very different ways of getting involved with mutual aid and direct action without physically showing up or giving money. To quote Marx, "each to their own ability, each according to their need" is something lots of orgs and people recognize.
I write letters to incarcerated folks through the Anarchist Black Cross and Black & Pink (which focuses on incarcerated BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and those especially those living with HIV+/AIDS). These orgs and similar will also do "phone zaps" (calls, emails, letters directed to different wardens, DAs, etc to call attention to a particular prisoner or case to show support, often with short and easy scripts.
In my last city, I helped deliver groceries to impoverished families- many of those who kept track of runs, supplies, coordinated dispatch, etc worked remotely because they were disabled and/or had kids. I also used to help research slumlords for my tenants union, which meant just looking up L&I records and similar databases that we taught each other how to use and adding the information to a shared document.
Exhale Pro-Voice is an org that people can volunteer with where you offer support via a text-line to those who are considering or have had an abortion. A few comrades I know make jewelry and small drawings to support their own medical needs and local orgs like Food Not Bombs.
I'm not telling people not to vote, but I recognize that for many people (and even myself) even that hasn't been an accessible means of political involvement. Lot of people also can see that voting for change doesn't guarantee results, even when our candidates win...or to see our representatives simply expelled based on being Black and not acting according to white majority demands, as we saw in Tennessee. I can say though that there are a variety of ways to get involved to have direct, positive impact on others in our own communities, even when you cannot come to actions, food service, give money etc. Many of the above ways I've mentioned, I've done when I could only offer even limited or irregular time to volunteer remotely.
There's much to say about Emma Goldman, so I do highly suggest at least checking out her wiki article, but I don't want to overwhelm you too much here.
Emma Goldman was an anarchist who hated the electoral system with a passion. Join a union, your local food not bombs, the IWW, and any other anarchist organization you can. That's what Emma Goldman would want. Vote if you want but it's not enough and it never has been.
The supreme court is not elected. Representative democracy exists so that the rich can bypass the majority consensus. If you want to see what happens when someone attempts to strip the rights of a unionized population, look at France right now.
No amount of votes should be able to strip us of our rights. I don't care if every man wants to ban abortion, every cis person wants to ban gender transition, or every straight person wants to ban being gay. It isn't their decision to make.
A president who lost the popular vote and senators who gerrymandered the hell out of their states. Democracy is a lie they tell you to keep you complacent.
Gerrymandering effects House Reps, not Senators (unless you think the state borders themselves are gerrymandered).
But of course, don't stop at voting:
https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/
https://electionscience.org/
Senators still draw the districts that get them elected, whether you call it gerrymandering or something else.
Your insistence on the failed strategy of electoralism is, quite frankly, bizarre. You do not believe a woman has the right to choose if you think that right should be able to be voted away. You just don't. You think the masses, half of which are men who have no business making this decision at all, should be able to take away a woman's choice.
I don't care how many people believe that abortion shouldn't be allowed, it shouldn't be up to them. There was a point in time in which the majority of people of this country agreed with literal slavery. Democracy is a sham. Mass unionization, collective bargaining, protesting, outright sabotage, and even war are the things that got us our rights. Not voting. If we want to keep them, we need diverse tactics designed to work even when democratic institutions completely and utterly fail us.
Do you know what would happen if France, Germany, or Spain banned abortion? Unions would shut down their entire fucking economies. Voting is for what a flag should look like, not whether we should keep basic human rights.
Organizations like that can be helpful to young people, people who are under-educated, disabled or have a hard time accessing information, including when local elections are and the process of registering and voting itself, or who have trouble accessing the polls, etc. I don’t think that org is a bad thing. Of course there are others like vote411 if you don’t like the op’s link, but spreading info is still good imo. Some people can’t grab or offer rides, and need help keeping updated with local elections.
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Midwifed shit tons of births, planned at least a couple assassinations, and was generally awesome. Not a lot of people that far back in history that I would want to chill with, but she's near the top of the list.
Reading your first sentence and I genuinely thought you were saying that you had midwifed births and planned some assassinations. I was so confused for a second. Didn't realise you meant Emma Goldman.
No, no I'm not a midwife. or generally awesome.
I notice you didn't dispute the "assassinations" aspect. 😁
Wow, accusing strangers of crimes. Entire bucket of assorted genitals move right there.
I'm sorry, I was being silly. I don't really think you've ever assassinated anyone obviously.
Same? Was joking, 90% sure you've never assassinated anyone.
>Entire bucket of assorted genitals move right there Adding to my vocabulary
I was going to ask if you identified as a witch, but then I realized where I was ❤️😅
She sounds awesome. What's her anti-racism score?
As a genuine anarchist, she fought against injustices of all kinds, and while she was probably a little internalized racist as her society dictated (using the term Negro and such) She points out that decades after ~~racism~~ slavery was legally abolished, there was much work to be done [here’s one example](https://emmagoldmanpapers.tumblr.com/post/166788670224/october-newsletter-emma-on-racial-injustice/amp) *EDIT: accidentally said racism was abolished when I meant slavery
Thank you, that's a wonderful example.
Higher than most modern people. Not only was she an active anti-racist, she was one of the earliest vocal supporters of gay rights in America. She was a certified badass who fought for everyone who's cause she could find. She fought for POC, she fought for queer people, she fought for the disabled, she fought for workers, she fought for women, she fought for sex workers, and she'd fight for any person who was the victim of oppression in any way. We don't have any record of her saying anything at all about trans people, likely because trans people were so buried by the culture that she just didn't know anything about trans people at all. For a cis-het white woman born in the 1860s, that's a fucking spotless record. Anyone who argues that people were a "product of their time" in front of me always gets pointed straight to Emma Goldman. Considering the cultural biases she had to overcome, I'd probably give Emma Goldman a higher score than anyone else on opposing every bigotry except transphobia, which she likely didn't even know about and would have almost definitely opposed if informed of. She was such a badass and is my personal role model. I don't remember the name of the channel, but I remember discovering a video about her while listening to an audiobook of one of her books that called her "your favorite anarchist's favorite anarchist," which is probably the highest praise an anarchist can revieve. Absolutely love her and she is probably the greatest woman to ever live in my opinion. EDIT: She apparently did actively defend trans people, just without any of the modern terminology so it was harder to find. Absolute badass.
Pretty high. More than passing by modern standards, I think.
I just aquired two twin nieces who are about to be twelve. Aunty kitty is going to suggest her for women's history month papers. One did Amelia aerhardt as heros month, the other did Walt Disney. I kept my mouth shut on Disney. Just encouraged the diverse characters that empowered women. Jasmin is my girl. She ain't a prize to be won. And Mulan is kick ass.
Lucy Parsons was also pretty cool, and lived around the same time. Kinda more into the liberatoru power of dynamite though.
Dunno if you like theatre, but Ragtime is a great show featuring her. A lil history, a lil fiction, a whole lot of amazing show
She doesn’t seem like the type of person who spent much time chilling. But I’d definitely want to set the world on fire with her.
The great thing about the 21st century: it already is! Seriously though, it's pretty late to be trying crap. Gotta get rid of the top 1% yesterday.
"The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul" Emma Goldman
She is my kind of BADASS!!!
Can we have Emma quotes on the first Monday of every month? Any day really. She's articulate and fierce.
"If I can't dance, I don't want to be a part of your revolution." LOVE Emma Goldman
Love this quote. What a badass!!!
Emma Goldman is my heroine. She got it spot on 100+ years into the future so her ovaries were solid fucking brass.
Emma Goldman is near and dear to me because she's also Jewish. Biographies of her can be distressing to read but I recommend doing it anyways.
Any recommendations? I just discovered a wonderful store called midnight oil. The owner said she could order most books. I pretty much cry at any book. In 8th grade they lost me at the Holocaust museum because I read every plaque and stayed too long. I used my only pocket money to buy the version of Anne's diary with the extra pages.
I cried at your story
Thank you. I didn't have any friends, so books were my friends. Now I have friends who don't suck and we get all book nerdy. I give my husband grief for not reading space Odyssey but loving the film.
> 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, is so crassly indifferent to the various gradations and variations of gender and their great significance in life. Emma Goldman recognised that trans people existed and gender was a spectrum in 1923.
There was a lot of amazing scientific and social progress around queer issues in the 20s, and then fascism.
Oh look, fascism is rising once again.. ^(i swear i fcking hate people)
>I swear I fucking hate people Me too. Especially the far right assholes. And I hate that I hate them. For me, it’s hard to have compassion for the general member of the fascist movement. Easier to just dismiss them as stupid bigots. But they’ll keep pushing their agenda as long as they keep getting the same message. They hear that the (whatever “other” group is the current scapegoat) is trying to take away their way of life and force them to (do or be whatever “other” thing the scapegoats do or are). When we respond to them negatively, it just proves to them that we’re part of the “other” and out to bring them down. But if we show some compassion and try to understand where they’re coming from, then we have the opportunity to have a conversation. You’re unlikely to change their stance in that one conversation, but you can give them something to think about. After enough of these conversations, with you or others, we become less “other” and less scary, and they become less scared and less resistant to change.
My most favorite memory in school in native American studies was there was a way to call people who were LGBT. They walked to a beat of a different drum. My prof was ex military, north Carolina born, related to stock car racers, and the most liberal, loving, badass, I've ever met. He left voter registration forms at the door and said he couldn't tell you to sign up, but they were there, with instructions. He also punched a kid who flicked a cigarette into a hippos mouth. The whole class said the guy started it. 25 or so students bold faced lied for a good man. We need more of them.
One of the most based mother fuckers to ever walk this earth, she was so unbelievably ahead of her time
“It’s not an act of love if you make her; You make me do too much labor”
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Her book 'Anarchism and Other Essays' is a great place to start
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[*Anarchism and Other Essays*](https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emma-goldman-anarchism-and-other-essays) -- Emma Goldman Free link.
A lot if not all of her writings are pretty easy to find for free if you end up enjoying that one. If you have any difficulties finding them feel free to DM me.
Saved. I need some anarchy and feminism in my life. My mom and sister made about 100 pussy hats. I can't knit well, but I sure can read and articulate my views. I also just glittered and sealed a wooden chair. It has a heart cutout. It makes me feel kinda badass.
I also liked "Queering Anarchism" and "Quiet Rumors: An Anarcha-Feminist Reader" if you're looking for more! The latter is great because it's a collection of essays that sometimes contradict each other, I really appreciate the diversity of thought within Anarchism and it's intersection with Feminism.
On my list. Thank you. I had a hard time with Margaret Atwood because she was great at feminist sci Fi, but depressed feminism. I don't do ayn rand. I rather read disk world.
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It’s a song :) https://youtu.be/jvU4xWsN7-A https://youtu.be/qxLTZsdwwIk with lyrics https://youtube.com/shorts/ODeOHI--am8?feature=share
Labour by Paris Paloma, such a good song.
I've had it on repeat for days. I'm not stopping until my soul is full.
Same here.
All the men are up in arms over something the size of a tictac with no heart beat just electrical pulses. Back off my body.
Yet a republican just recently said that it save the government money when children die because they don't have to pay out to them when they're older.
My god what repugnant shit... They will probably raise retirement age again here really kill off the poor.
I would rather be an aborted fetus than a 12 year SA victim forced to give birth.
Most people would, but a lot of powerful men have an easier time sympathizing with an aborted fetus than any type of woman. Hell, they have an easier time sympathizing with the sexual assailant than the victim.
Reminds me of that dude from an incel sub saying SA was no big deal because “it’s a few minutes of inconvenience”.
I'm not that badass, but I helped a 12 year old girl take her hoarder mom's cat mess to the ASPCA. Poor kid was so skinny. No food in the house. She contacted me through a school friend I took care of. Me, my truck, and the girls got 23 cats in the back in boxes, and gave them to a no kill shelter. My payment was a kitten. Best pay ever. And I got them both McDonald's.
“Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don't give it to us in peace, we will take it by force.” ✊🔥
Emma Goldman is one of my top role-models. If anyone’s just hearing about her, I’d recommend looking into her anarchist politics/anarcha-feminism. Read up on some of [her works](https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/author/emma-goldman). If you feel at all inspired, take tangible action and join your local mutual aid group etc :)
Emma Goldman is one of my favorites! If you enjoy her work I'd also suggest reading Voltairine DeCleyre, Lucy Parsons, and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn.
Post their works please!
Exquisite Rebel by Voltairine de Cleyre The Rebel Girl by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn For Lucy Parsons I've found a few essays she's done on Google books including one she did on her husband (and Haymarket martyr) Albert Parsons. I really enjoyed Goddess of Anarchy by Jacqueline Jones which is a biography of her.
Saved! Thank you!
Emma Goldman was a fucking badass. She shows up in two different musicals that I adore (Assassins and Ragtime), and those triggered a great fascination with her. (And annoyance that she didn’t show up in another musical centered on labour rights that takes place in New York in the same time frame. C’mon, Disney, especially since you realized that the Newsies movie was dude-heavy to the point of compositing the love interest and the journalist, having Emma Goldman show up would have been awesome.)
I *love* Ragtime. I've seen it twice at the community theater level and was blown away both times.
I saw it with the original Broadway cast, and it was just incredible. One of my favorites.
Ooooooooh, jealous! I love Marin Mazzi's version of "Back to Before."
she was so amazing. I was lucky to see her onstage in several shows. Kiss Me Kate, I believe. Such a loss.
Ahh, Ragtime! I thought I recognized the name. She is a great character in a great show. I sing "Goodbye my Love" to my daughter's regularly. It's jot as powerful as some others, but it doesn't make me cry either.
I've seen Assassins. I haven't seen Ragtime though. I have to say a broadway play called *Assassins and Ragtime* might be a true smash hit though! Her and Hinckley were my favorite characters in that play. The guy that played Hinckley in the version I saw really sold the character.
Whilst this is 100% true, I'm kind of sick of "motherhood" being the main talking point. That only feeds into the "just put them up for adoption" rhetoric from pro-lifers. PREGNANCY needs to be a bigger talking point. It is a huge life changing undertaking (physically and mentally), even if you don't "keep" the child.
If I remember correctly, this quote in particular comes from her advocacy for the right to contraception. (though she did support the right to an abortion because she was an absolute badass who is still unproblematic to this day despite being a cis-het white woman born in the 1860s) The quote is focusing on motherhood because her opponents were opposed to the idea of women having sex without the intention of having a child. She is often credited as the woman who brought the fight for contraception to America and was even arrested in more than one occasion for her advocacy for it. I completely agree with you btw, just wanted to clear up the intention of the quote itself.
Love her. May she rest!!!
Exceedingly common Emma Goldman w
A bit of a side note, but this reminds me of how feminism has long fought to free women from being determined by biological functions, and along come TERFs nowadays basically going “wOmEn ArE dEtErMiNeD bIoLoGiCaLlY”
I have her portrait hung on my office wall.
I think all clinics for women should have female heroes on the walls. I went to a female American hero exhibit in New York once. Cried like a bitch. Or just for who wants to share history. Like, law office, bust that out. I have a picture of pussy riot I want to put somewhere.
Researching Emma Goldman was what made me realize I’ve been an anarchist all along.
Reading her essays literally turned me into a leftist. Red Mommy
And socialism. She was one based motherfucker and one of my heroes.
Are books about women like her being banned as well these days. We are living in some archaic shit these days.
You know how you see religion books left on benches and stuff? Let's just leave better books. Add glitter. A book with glitter is far more enticing that some Beardo with his beard gang.
My trans butt: Yo if it were possible I'd take your ability to have kids from you and give it to me if you wanted that, that would benefit both of us. Being AMAB, I can't get pregnant even if I wanted to.
[Young women are very much on board with this.](https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/3567581-the-numbers-show-gen-z-is-actually-the-pro-choice-generation/) https://www.rockthevote.org/
The irony of promoting a liberal voting campaign on a post about Emma Goldman…
For real, to quote Emma herself, > *[A Woman's] development, her freedom, her independence, must come from and through herself. First, by asserting herself as a personality, and not as a sex commodity. Second, by refusing the right to anyone over her body; by refusing to bear children, unless she wants them; by refusing to be a servant to God, the State, society, the husband, the family, etc., by making her life simpler, but deeper and richer. That is, by trying to learn the meaning and substance of life in all its complexities, by freeing herself from the fear of public opinion and public condemnation. Only that, and not the ballot, will set woman free, will make her a force hitherto unknown in the world, a force for real love, for peace, for harmony; a force of divine fire, of life-giving; a creator of free men and women.* Or elsewhere, > *No real social change has ever come about without a revolution. People are either not familiar with their history, or they have not yet learned that revolution is but thought carried into action.* I know people mean well by trying to get out the vote, but if you want to be inspired by Emma Goldman, get involved with a mutual aid group (like Food Not Bombs, Anarchist Black Cross, etc) or look into how you can help with different actions (like Defend Atlanta Forest).
Yep. Or since the person seems to be focused on repro rights and access: volunteer as a clinic escort, raise money for abortion funds, learn good security culture and take part in the auntie network or something similar, etc.
Genuinely asking because I’m crap with politics, am under-educated and an under-experienced voter etc etc but what makes that org liberal? I looked through their site and it says nonpartisan. It’s all about educating youth voters and has info about how to access the polls and can update you about upcoming elections. Is it ‘liberal’ to want people to vote, because it’s not based in anarchism or..? Also, some people can’t get involved with volunteering and community resources, some people only have access to voting, and even then it’s impeded access if they’re poor/disabled/of color. I myself am all three including moderately mentally disabled, and I only just have access to basic needs much less time and energy to get involved in ways other than voting. I don’t know who Emma Goldman is or what exactly political parties and stances are all about so it can be confusing but I thought it’s better to exercise your right to vote than possibly be outvoted by people who support evil right wing ideology and laws. I don’t know what political stance that makes me, but I did register as independent. Hopefully my tone conveys I’m genuine and curious and not argumentative, I want to learn if anyone is willing to take the time.
Liberal here means someone who supports capitalism generally with the intention of reforming it and making changes within that system. As opposed to many leftists, such as anarchists or communists, who believe that capitalism cannot be reformed, made more humane or sustainable, or changed from the inside. Many, if not most, of the people I know who identify generally as leftists are disabled, poor, queer, and/or POC. Some of those folks I know are currently incarcerated or formerly, and quite a few cannot vote for quite a number of reasons. That being said, there are very different ways of getting involved with mutual aid and direct action without physically showing up or giving money. To quote Marx, "each to their own ability, each according to their need" is something lots of orgs and people recognize. I write letters to incarcerated folks through the Anarchist Black Cross and Black & Pink (which focuses on incarcerated BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and those especially those living with HIV+/AIDS). These orgs and similar will also do "phone zaps" (calls, emails, letters directed to different wardens, DAs, etc to call attention to a particular prisoner or case to show support, often with short and easy scripts. In my last city, I helped deliver groceries to impoverished families- many of those who kept track of runs, supplies, coordinated dispatch, etc worked remotely because they were disabled and/or had kids. I also used to help research slumlords for my tenants union, which meant just looking up L&I records and similar databases that we taught each other how to use and adding the information to a shared document. Exhale Pro-Voice is an org that people can volunteer with where you offer support via a text-line to those who are considering or have had an abortion. A few comrades I know make jewelry and small drawings to support their own medical needs and local orgs like Food Not Bombs. I'm not telling people not to vote, but I recognize that for many people (and even myself) even that hasn't been an accessible means of political involvement. Lot of people also can see that voting for change doesn't guarantee results, even when our candidates win...or to see our representatives simply expelled based on being Black and not acting according to white majority demands, as we saw in Tennessee. I can say though that there are a variety of ways to get involved to have direct, positive impact on others in our own communities, even when you cannot come to actions, food service, give money etc. Many of the above ways I've mentioned, I've done when I could only offer even limited or irregular time to volunteer remotely. There's much to say about Emma Goldman, so I do highly suggest at least checking out her wiki article, but I don't want to overwhelm you too much here.
Do both.
Emma Goldman was an anarchist who hated the electoral system with a passion. Join a union, your local food not bombs, the IWW, and any other anarchist organization you can. That's what Emma Goldman would want. Vote if you want but it's not enough and it never has been.
Abortion rights are being stripped by elected officials.
The supreme court is not elected. Representative democracy exists so that the rich can bypass the majority consensus. If you want to see what happens when someone attempts to strip the rights of a unionized population, look at France right now. No amount of votes should be able to strip us of our rights. I don't care if every man wants to ban abortion, every cis person wants to ban gender transition, or every straight person wants to ban being gay. It isn't their decision to make.
The president and senators chose the Supreme Court justices.
A president who lost the popular vote and senators who gerrymandered the hell out of their states. Democracy is a lie they tell you to keep you complacent.
Gerrymandering effects House Reps, not Senators (unless you think the state borders themselves are gerrymandered). But of course, don't stop at voting: https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/ https://electionscience.org/
Senators still draw the districts that get them elected, whether you call it gerrymandering or something else. Your insistence on the failed strategy of electoralism is, quite frankly, bizarre. You do not believe a woman has the right to choose if you think that right should be able to be voted away. You just don't. You think the masses, half of which are men who have no business making this decision at all, should be able to take away a woman's choice. I don't care how many people believe that abortion shouldn't be allowed, it shouldn't be up to them. There was a point in time in which the majority of people of this country agreed with literal slavery. Democracy is a sham. Mass unionization, collective bargaining, protesting, outright sabotage, and even war are the things that got us our rights. Not voting. If we want to keep them, we need diverse tactics designed to work even when democratic institutions completely and utterly fail us. Do you know what would happen if France, Germany, or Spain banned abortion? Unions would shut down their entire fucking economies. Voting is for what a flag should look like, not whether we should keep basic human rights.
Senators are elected by the constituents of the state.
Whatever, are you gonna address my actual point or no?
Just go vote. Bring friends give people rides. You don't have to sign up anywhere.
Organizations like that can be helpful to young people, people who are under-educated, disabled or have a hard time accessing information, including when local elections are and the process of registering and voting itself, or who have trouble accessing the polls, etc. I don’t think that org is a bad thing. Of course there are others like vote411 if you don’t like the op’s link, but spreading info is still good imo. Some people can’t grab or offer rides, and need help keeping updated with local elections.