Comments on: Anarchist Housewife: The Kit http://www.autostraddle.com/anarchist-housewife-the-kit-109550/ The World's Most Popular Independently-Owned Website for Lesbian, Bisexual and Queer Women Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:37:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Lizzie http://www.autostraddle.com/anarchist-housewife-the-kit-109550/#comment-201856 Lizzie Sun, 20 May 2012 20:21:57 +0000 http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=109550#comment-201856 I really want an Anarchist Housewife book or zine..

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]]> By: Grumbert Grimsby http://www.autostraddle.com/anarchist-housewife-the-kit-109550/#comment-195472 Grumbert Grimsby Tue, 01 May 2012 05:40:44 +0000 http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=109550#comment-195472 all the anarchists in the house say FUCK THE POLICE!!!!
or are there just liberals in here?

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]]> By: Grumbert Grimsby http://www.autostraddle.com/anarchist-housewife-the-kit-109550/#comment-195462 Grumbert Grimsby Tue, 01 May 2012 05:28:26 +0000 http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=109550#comment-195462 I peruse this website on occasion and it’s cool to see anarchism represented here but… this list is pretty damn bourgeois, and frankly it made me cringe. For one thing, why would anyone be an anarchist HOUSEWIFE? That’s such an archaic gender role and I don’t think anyone who is really a committed anarchist would participate in the state’s institutional appropriation of romance (ie. marriage)… and okay I get it, maybe it’s tongue-in-cheek and intentionally oxymoronic, but it still seems like it reinscribes the status quo in order to strip anarchism of its subversive connotations and make it a safe, trendy, superficial commodity. Then the list proceeds to do more or less exactly that, and other than a couple items is indistinguishable from the Yuppie Cabin in Rural Vermont Survival Kit. A fucking espresso machine and a cocktail shaker? Really??? Who has $115 to spend on a redundant piece of machinery, and why is the opportunity cost phrased in Starbucks lattes?! What kind of anarchist shops at a multinational corporation which doesn’t even serve fair trade coffee? Oh right, the same one who listens to the Misfits, wears Converse and uses an iPhone, and has never heard of Emma Goldman or Peter Kropotkin or even Crass. This list basically just recommends DIY books. Why should I go BUY a DIY book? That’s antithetical to the DIY ethic! This is the INTERNET. You can post tutorials and DIY instructions on here, for FREE! I’m not saying anarchists shouldn’t buy books, far from it, but I would not spend money on ANY of the books on this list because I turn to the internet for that reason. Why aren’t there any books on this list by noteworthy anarchists, about ANARCHISM?!?! Punk rock and a DIY ethic ≠ anarchism. I agree they go hand in hand, are informed by one another, etc, but that doesn’t make them interchangeable ideas and this list conflates them IMO. Also it didn’t include any ANARCHO-punk bands, just hardcore and riot grrrl bands, what’s up with that? riot grrrl is a great movement, don’t get me wrong, but it is NOT affiliated with anarchism whatsoever. Also this list is so depoliticized, and totally does not engage with the social activism that is an integral component to anarchism. It is a list of items that mostly don’t relate to anarchism, and uses anarchism as a trendy buzzword to attract attention from vaguely Leftist readers who think they can buy Anarchy in a store and consider themselves to be radicals because they made their own avocado face moisturizer once. Basically, it seems like a consumerist cooptation of the anarchism.

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]]> By: Dina http://www.autostraddle.com/anarchist-housewife-the-kit-109550/#comment-139081 Dina Thu, 15 Sep 2011 10:44:01 +0000 http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=109550#comment-139081 I wish they were less cramps for me. Ah well.

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]]> By: e http://www.autostraddle.com/anarchist-housewife-the-kit-109550/#comment-139038 e Thu, 15 Sep 2011 04:01:48 +0000 http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=109550#comment-139038 i have two of these things! and they’re awesome!

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]]> By: Marika http://www.autostraddle.com/anarchist-housewife-the-kit-109550/#comment-139000 Marika Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:37:49 +0000 http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=109550#comment-139000 Whatevs. Obviously you’ve never had a fleecy vag hug. Don’t be jealous.

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]]> By: Tryonosaurus http://www.autostraddle.com/anarchist-housewife-the-kit-109550/#comment-138942 Tryonosaurus Wed, 14 Sep 2011 19:27:52 +0000 http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=109550#comment-138942 Bhahahah, I loved this. I need me some subversive cross stitching.

Also, may I request a zombie survival kit please?

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]]> By: Raksha http://www.autostraddle.com/anarchist-housewife-the-kit-109550/#comment-138837 Raksha Wed, 14 Sep 2011 05:39:32 +0000 http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=109550#comment-138837 I know, right? I have so many books now that I wouldn’t have been able to afford otherwise. And I just got one today that’s been out of print for nearly a decade. Yay!

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]]> By: chrissie riot http://www.autostraddle.com/anarchist-housewife-the-kit-109550/#comment-138836 chrissie riot Wed, 14 Sep 2011 05:24:22 +0000 http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=109550#comment-138836 I love paperback swap so hard.

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]]> By: V http://www.autostraddle.com/anarchist-housewife-the-kit-109550/#comment-138833 V Wed, 14 Sep 2011 05:13:57 +0000 http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=109550#comment-138833 YES PLEASE let’s do that :)

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]]> By: leafdarking http://www.autostraddle.com/anarchist-housewife-the-kit-109550/#comment-138806 leafdarking Wed, 14 Sep 2011 03:22:38 +0000 http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=109550#comment-138806 I love this article!

Some of the chemical recipes in the Anarchist Cookbook have flaws that can make them dangerous to try to make, so be careful with that one! You can download it online for free, too.

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]]> By: Raksha http://www.autostraddle.com/anarchist-housewife-the-kit-109550/#comment-138769 Raksha Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:54:20 +0000 http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=109550#comment-138769 Ooh, thanks for that Microcosm Publishing link. There’s a lot of stuff going on my Yule wishlist!

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