By Roger White
Although many non-white anti-authoritarian traditions never self-identified as anarchist (many were in existence before the word was invented), their social practices and formations demonstrate to us the rich history out of which our own movement comes. There’s no need to impose the term anarchist on descriptions of the history of non-white societies and [...]

In "Personal Politics: The Roots of Women’s Liberation in the Civil
Rights Movement & the New Left," Sara Evans writes in painful
detail about the mistreatment of women in political movements. Her
narrative is a sober reminder that sexism within movements has been
going on for years. Today we have many ongoing dialogs about sexism in
the anarchist movement. Most [...]

This text was originally posted on the illvox About page. Elements of it now appear elsewhere on the site, but it represents some history of APOC and is preserved here.
About Anarchist People of Color
A particular anti-authoritarian, people of color-led tendency, dubbed Anarchist People of Color (APOC), rose to prominence on February 20, 2001 with the [...]

We are Jackie Wang, Cindy Li, and Kotu Bajaj; three radical students of color from New College of Florida who are working on a project about anarchism and race with a focus on the interplay of sexuality, race, and gender. For our project, we will be interviewing anarchist people of color for a documentary. We [...]

November 29 will mark the five-year anniversary of groundbreaking protests that shut down World Trade Organization meetings in Seattle, Washington, USA. One of the most important writings to come out of the period was Elizabeth Martinez’s “Where Was the Color in Seattle?” In it, Martinez examines reasons why the 1999 WTO protests drew an overwhelmingly [...]