I will never forget the first time I saw Leslie Feinberg speak–New York City, 1996. The auditorium was full of young people like me who had read Stone Butch Blues and wanted to hear about gender and queerness. Leslie spoke about those things, but also about war and labor struggles and racism and US militarism, refusing to deliver the narrow single-issue politics that the mainstreaming gay rights discourse had trained us to expect. It blew my mind and transformed what I thought was possible to say and be. I still think of Leslie every time I give a speech, hoping to build connections like the ones I saw Leslie build. So sad today. Let’s all make sure Leslie’s books and articles are being read in our communities and on our campuses with fervor.

Happy birthday, Voltairine de Cleyre!

She would have been 148 if she was still alive.

Hopefully if science ever gets around to it we’ll all be able to live such long lives where saying happy birthday to people of such age is common. :)

And even more hopefully it’ll also be just as common, if not more so, for those people to be as wonderful and powerful as Voltairine was.

-Nick

Join us (and our friends in OU Young Americans for Liberty) tomorrow to hear anarcha-feminist Elizabeth Tate, from Appalachian State University’s S4SS chapter, talk about the intersections of feminism and libertarianism!

(6:00 P.M., Tuesday November 18th, Cate 237.)

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During his lifetime Pierre-Joseph Proudhon published two dozen works, ranging from pamphlets to the six-volume Justice in the Revolution and in the Church. Another fifteen were published posthumously. His published notebooks and correspondence add another seventeen volumes, and his unpublished manus…

Through the practice of austerities, Raktabija was granted a boon. This boon, granted by Brahma, allowed Raktabija’s power to increase by a thousand every time a drop of his blood was spilled.

The Libertarian Labyrinth is an online archive of texts and images relating to the history of the anarchist tradition.