Life, Love, and Liberty

The beautiful Serena of the San Francisco Bay Area was kind enough to allow me to use the below picture of her. She is an author, singer, actress, model, and eccentric. This is one of my favorite modeling pictures of her, and I thought she was wearing a swimsuit. It turns out that it’s underwear! Sure fooled me.

I hereby invite the carnival members to participate in a discussion on the topic of anarchism and sexuality. After posting that Goldman essay on jealousy, I decided that this would be a good thing to talk about.

I encourage people to be as creative as possible in coming up with ideas for posts, but here are some suggestions:

1. Talk about the relation between anarchism and feminism. You’d probably be hard pressed to find a left-wing anarchist who doesn’t consider themselves a feminist, but there are Rothbardian influenced libertarian anarchists on here too. I am not sure if all of them would say they are feminists. I know Roderick Long is one though. And some would say that Rothbard wasn’t even an anarchist. If you want to hear my take on the issue, then just email me.

2. Is monogamy or polyamory more consistent with the anarchist ideal? Does it really matter? Is jealousy innate, and does that undercut notions of “free love”? Is polygamy or polyandry compatible with anarchism?

3. Does the existence of patriarchy provide the ideological basis for the existence of the state? Does matriarchy also do so? If not; why not?

4. What can anarchist philosophy help us understand in the area of gender and gender roles?

Please start posting your responses on the 29th of this month.

Happy Writing!

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