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[Comic] Voltairine de Cleyre - «Anarchism without a Label» [01]
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Born on November 17, 1866, to an American woman and a French man from Lille who emigrated to the United States. He named his daughter Voltairine in honor of Voltaire.
Her parents divorced in 1880, and her father placed her in a convent. Upon her release, Voltairine became involved in the Freethinker movement.
Influenced by the writings of Thomas Payne and Mary Wollstonecraft, she gave lectures and wrote newspaper columns.
Following a bomb attack during the Haymarket Square Riot, on May 1st, 1886, 8 anarchists were wrongly accused of it and four executed on November 11, 1887, causing Voltairine became an anarchist.
In it, she condemned the beauty queens who encouraged women to distort their bodies, and the educational practices that molded children according to their gender.
Her son, Harry, was born on June 12, 1890. She never lived with the child’s father , James B. Elliot t, nor with any o f her other lovers.
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