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Hello and welcome to Cool Zone Media Bork Clorb.

The only Bork Chlorb where you don't have to do the reading because I do it for you.

Wait, no, book club.

The only book club where you don't have to do the reading because I do it for you.

I'm your host, Margaret Kiljoy, and today I'm going to read some poetry.

I'm going to read some poetry to you.

I'm not sorry. Because April is

National Poetry Month. And so we figured we'd read you some poetry from a prominent anarchist

feminist writer and public speaker, Volterine Declare. Volterine DeClair, if you haven't heard of

her, she's like 19th century, right? She was radicalized to anarchism by the Haymarket Affair of 1886 in Chicago.

See the very first episode of the podcast, Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff About That Story,

and why you have an eight-hour workday.

I don't know anyone who has an eight-hour workday.

Why we ostensibly have an eight-hour work day.

She was a lifelong advocate for free thought, women's liberation, atheism, and antithism,

and anarchy, and spoke fiercely against authoritarianism and state repression.

She was a friend of Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman, Lucy Parsons, the IWW, some of the people I talk about all the time on my podcast, and also the broader Philadelphia and Chicago anarchist scenes.

Her politics were influenced by her lived experience with extreme poverty and gender-based violence, as well as chronic illness and disability. She passed away in

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