“No Gods, No Masters, No Husbands”

Via Freedom News UK

from Pikara Magazine.

The participation of women in anarchist print culture on an international scale was essential for the extraordinary dissemination of the libertarian movement’s press and editorial production from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th.

Molders of the Idea: Women in Anarchist Printed Culture

From Fundación Anselmo Lorenzo

Parallel to the congress Editors and translators beyond borders: women in the transnational anarchist culture (1890-1939), which will take place at the UC3M Campus in Puerta de Toledo (Madrid) between 19 and 21 March, at the Madrid headquarters of the FAL you can visit the exhibition Molders of the idea: women in the anarchist printed culture (visitable from 19 March to 26 April).

ELENA PURGATORIO; OR, A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE GALLEANISTI

From The Transmetropolitan Review

Like most anarchist women, we know very little about Elena Purgatorio. She was born Elena Alfonsi on August 4, 1891 in the ancient town of Gualdo Tadino, nestled beneath the Perugian mountains in the center of the Italian peninsula. Along with thousands of others, Elena left Italy and immigrated across the Atlantic to the US, registering under her birth name at Ellis Island, New York on August 17, 1907. She was sixteen years old, and seemingly alone.

The Unstoppable Anarchist Ersilia Cavedagni

From The Transmetropolitan Review

Unlike most anarchist women, we know a lot about Ersilia Cavedagni, although only her early history. It’s in the US that her path begins to blur into fragments, eventually dissolving into a mystery shared by many other anarchist women. No one knows when she died, just like her friend Frankie Moore, nor where she might have died, and the latest record of her existence is from 1941, when she had already left her mark on the west coast of the US.

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