The Colours of Resistance Archive is a collection of analysis and tools for liberatory organizing and movement-building.

Category: Resisting Patriarchy

Sexual Domination in Uniform: An American Value

The Abu Ghraib portraits of sexual humiliation and submission have exposed the unbelievably tangled strands of racism, misogyny, homophobia, national arrogance and hyper-masculinity that characterize the U.S. military. Militarized sexual domination is neither “contrary to American values” nor simply the … Continue reading

Men in the Movement

Just got back from National Conference on Organized Resistance (NCOR) in DC. It was good, there were around a thousand people…and there were some really righteous discussions. One particularly thought provoking session was an Anti-Sexist Organizing workshop led by 2 … Continue reading

Going To Places That Scare Me: Personal Reflections On Challenging Male Supremacy

Part I: “How can I be sexist? I’m an anarchist!” “What do you mean I’m sexist?” I was shocked. I wasn’t a jock, I didn’t hate women, I wasn’t an evil person. “But how can I be a sexist, I’m … Continue reading

Intersections: Organizing All the Oppressed To End All Our Oppressions

What I hope to do in this presentation is to underscore a number of points that have already been made, to elaborate a bit on them, and to add a few new ones. The several points I wish to discuss … Continue reading

the healing journey as a site of resistance

“Addressing our individual and collective suffering, we will find ways to heal and recover that can be sustained, that can endure from generation to generation” (hooks, 1995, 145). I am real. I am a woman who, as a child, was … Continue reading

Free trade, racial oppression, and how we can respond

[The following is adapted from a presentation at the “From Protest to Resistance: a radical look at the FTAA” forum hosted by Anti-Racist Action. Toronto, January 25, 2001.] I’ve been asked to come here today to talk about the effects … Continue reading

Strategic Resistance Against Global Capitalism: lessons from a conference on strategy and anti-racism

“Our conversations are finally moving beyond anarchism 101”, he said. “It’s pretty exciting, isn’t it?” I responded. Facing challenging questions of radical political organizing was the goal of Strategic Resistance, a conference held August 3-5, 2001, in Los Angeles, California. … Continue reading

Doing things differently this time: Kananaskis G8 meeting and movement building

The next meeting of the Group of Eight (G8) is taking place in Kananaskis Country, Alberta, ‘canada’*. The previous G8 meeting in Genoa, Italy was the target of massive protests and intense police/state repression, in which 23 year old Carlo … Continue reading