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Heleodora: Proyecto de vendedores ambulantes

International Women’s Strike Interview Project

March 1, 2018 • by International Women's Strike NYC

En este proyecto miembros del comité del paro internacional de mujeres de Nueva York entrevistaron con organizadoras de trabajos y cooperativas, como parte de un processo de co-produccion de sabiduría militante. Estamos interesadas particularmente en esclarecer las condiciones que a la vez permiten y limitan la organización laboral autónoma y la auto-determinacion. También nos interesa ...

Heleodora: Proyecto de vendedores ambulantes

International Women's Strike NYC

Cynthia: Brandworkers (Español)

International Women’s Strike Interview Project

March 1, 2018 • by International Women's Strike NYC

En este proyecto miembros del comité del paro internacional de mujeres de Nueva York entrevistaron con organizadoras de trabajos y cooperativas, como parte de un processo de co-produccion de sabiduría militante. Estamos interesadas particularmente en esclarecer las condiciones que a la vez permiten y limitan la organización laboral autónoma y la auto-determinacion. También nos interesa ...

International Women's Strike NYC

Cynthia: Brandworkers

International Women’s Strike Interview Project

March 1, 2018 • by International Women's Strike NYC

In this project, IWS-NYC members perform interviews with women organizers from worker centers and cooperatives, as part of a process of militant knowledge co-production. We are particularly interested in unpacking the conditions that both enable and limit autonomous labor organizing and self-determination, as well as the way in which feminist ...

Sex & Gender

Sexuality and Agency

A course at the New School for Public Engagement

February 21, 2018 • by Ali Shames-Dawson

This course is an exploration of various perspectives addressing the enabling and constraining conditions for sexual agency. Beginning with the question of how we might define agency as a psychological construct, we chart a course along theoretical, empirical, ethnographic, autobiographical, and popular renderings of what it means to have -- ...

Feature

A Conversation We Must Not Stop Having

The #MeToo movement

February 5, 2018 • by Elena Gagovska

I tried to speak out. I told our homeroom teacher and she yelled at the boys in our class in front of the girls, telling them that this was wrong. But no real disciplinary measures were taken. Most of the boys (at least in my class) engaged in non-consensual touching, ...

Sex & Gender

Snitow Receives the Courage in Public Scholarship Award

A report from Warsaw, June 9th, 2015

October 1, 2015 • by Elzbieta Matynia

It was in late July of 2014, during the final two days of the 23rd annual Democracy & Diversity Institute, that a sizable group of the Institute’s alumni -- representatives of a much larger NSSR/TCDS community now living and working in Europe -- joined us in Wroclaw. They were an impressive and ...

Snitow Receives the Courage in Public Scholarship Award

Feminism

Nancy Fraser on Feminism and Neo-liberalism

October 15, 2013 • by Cinzia Arruzza

In the last decade or so an increasing number of theorists and scholars working on gender and sexuality have started paying attention to the relation between gender, sexuality, and capitalism, and to the intersection of gender oppression, class exploitation and racism. This has been a welcome turn in the feminist ...

Feminism

What’s Left After Penis Envy?

October 15, 2013 • by Chiara Bottici

I am teaching a course called “Feminism and Literature” at the New School that explores how literature can articulate feminist claims in the public sphere. One of the problems we discussed is whether the language we are currently using, as well as the imaginary that sustains it, are actually adapted ...

Feminism

Rethinking the Split Between Feminists and the Left

October 11, 2013 • by Eli Zaretsky

The recent death of Shulamith Firestone marks a milestone in the history of second wave feminism, and encourages an historical perspective. Firestone was one of the most inspired and original political intellectuals of the sixties, and a founder of the modern feminist movement. I can speak personally here of the ...