How can we be sure the oppressed do not become oppressors in their turn? How can we create a
feminism that doesn't turn into yet another tool for oppression? It has become commonplace to
argue that in order to fight the subjugation of women we have to unpack the ways different
forms of oppression intersect with one another: class race gender sexuality disability and
ecology to name only a few. By arguing that there is no single factor or arche explaining
the oppression of women Chiara Bottici proposes a radical anarchafeminist philosophy inspired
by two major claims: that there is something specific to the oppression of women and that in
order to fight that we need to untangle all other forms of oppression and the anthropocentrism
they inhabit. Anarchism needs feminism to address the continued subordination of all femina
but feminism needs anarchism if it does not want to become the privilege of a few.
Anarchafeminism calls for a decolonial and deimperial position and for a renewed awareness of
the somatic communism connecting all different life forms on the planet. In this new
revolutionary vision feminism does not mean the liberation of the lucky few but liberation
for all living creatures from both capitalist exploitation and an androcentric politics of
domination. Either all or none of us will be free.
