A-Infos (en) Germany, Karlsruhe, ANIKA: Cockroaches Text for the International Day Against Patriarchal Violence, November 25, 2025 - Cooking Against the Patriarchy: (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Why Food and Liberation Belong Together ---- Those who cook together 
create far more than just a meal. The "Kitchen for All (KüfA)" is a 
small, practical revolt against the logic of profit, overproduction, and 
waste. Here, food is cooked that others would throw away. Here, what is 
otherwise unequally distributed is shared. And here, people eat together 
who, in a society without domination, would naturally sit together. And 
because cooking, cleaning, organizing, and caregiving are often 
invisible tasks in this society, mostly attributed to women, the KüfA 
demonstrates in practice that care work can be shared, consciously, and 
in solidarity.

Freedom doesn't fall from the sky. It is lived, fought for, and tested. 
That's exactly what happens in every KüfA. Vegan dishes, sharing in 
solidarity, cleaning up together. All of this is not a moralizing 
lecture, but an attempt to bring a piece of the future into the present. 
This practice aligns with the ideas of anarchafeminism. A society 
without domination is impossible as long as patriarchal violence, 
exploitation, and devaluation continue to structure everyday life. 
Patriarchy is not just about beatings, control, or abuse. It is embedded 
in labor relations, family structures, state institutions, language, 
culture, and the economy. It means that men, as a group, possess more 
power and resources.

Anarchafeminism states: Liberation cannot be delegated. No party, no 
state, no vanguard will liberate women, FLINTA*, or other marginalized 
people. Emancipation arises from self-organization, mutual support, and 
the courage to change one's own living conditions. It is an illusion to 
think that "everyone is equal among comrades anyway" and that overcoming 
the state and capital would eliminate sexism. This problem is explored 
in Bini Adamczak's "Relationship Revolution" using various historical 
examples.

Kitchen for All and anarcha-feminism meet where people begin to rethink 
the relationships between themselves, food, work, and power. Where 
hierarchies have no place. Where we not only satisfy hunger, but also 
the desire for a world without violence and without domination. On 
November 25th, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence 
against Patriarchy, we remember that this violence is not a fringe 
phenomenon. It is systemic. It is commonplace. And it can be changed.

Our utopia? A society in which no one is subjugated, in which people 
determine their own lives, in which we live with each other instead of 
over each other. A society in which food is not a luxury, care work is 
not an invisible duty, and freedom is not a privilege. Kitchen for All 
can be a seed in which the new can already be found within the old. The 
seed carries within it the potential for a new form of society to 
develop. The ingredients used in this social transformation define the 
flavor of the new social order.

Not one less! ¡Vivas Nos Queremos - We want to live!

https://anika.noblogs.org/2025/11/26/kuechenschaben-text-zum-tag-gegen-patriarchale-gewalt-25-11-25/
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