An Australian Anarchist Weblog

I was talking last night with my brother-in-law and partner. Somehow the topic of masculinity came up, and I realised that I still felt very strongly that one of the fundamental problems facing society is masculinity. Not men as such. After all, I am male, a man now and have been a boy. There is, […]

In 1870, Julia Ward Howe of Boston, Massachusetts, appalled by the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War, wrote a proclamation, had it translated into French, Spanish, Italian, German, and Swedish, and disseminated it internationally.

In Julia’s own words, “The question forced itself on me, ‘Why do not the mothers of mankind interfere in these matters to […]