Rad AF - July 2021

Rad AF - July 2021

pop art portrait of Emma Goldman in vibrant, strange colors with the words "Rad AF" above her

Emma Goldman is rad AF. Also, she didn't really say "If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution." That's a modern paraphrasing of her response to a young man who interrupted her dancing. He told her it was undignified for a leader of the 'Cause' to dance. This was her response:

"I grew furious at the impudent interference of the boy. I told him to mind his own business. I was tired of having the Cause constantly thrown into my face. I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and prejudice, should demand the denial of life and joy. I insisted that our Cause could not expect me to become a nun and that the movement would not be turned into a cloister. If it meant that, I did not want it."

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