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Nai: New Immigrant Community Empowerment (NICE)

International Women’s Strike Interview Project

March 2, 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 ...

Nai: New Immigrant Community Empowerment (NICE)

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When Sexism Became a Word

1968 and Feminism

March 2, 2018 • by Maria Bucur

A year can only be a snapshot, an image at best partial and at worse distorting of the complex messiness of life. For me, 1968 is indubitably a very important year. I was born in September of that year and have lived my whole life with the lingering question of ...

International Women's Strike NYC

Heleodora: Street Vendors Project

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 ...

International Women's Strike NYC

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 ...

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A Primary Moral Position

Black feminism and self possession

February 23, 2018 • by Christopher Lebron

Race/isms Book Forum is a new series aimed at bringing established and emerging voices together in conversation around recent work that critically engages our world’s racial scripts, past and present. The structure of the forum is straightforward. We invite three to four thinkers to grapple with a book, highlighting a section ...

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Is Equality Enough?

Black feminist views of justice

February 22, 2018 • by Deva Woodly

Race/isms Book Forum is a new series aimed at bringing established and emerging voices together in conversation around recent work that critically engages our world’s racial scripts, past and present. The structure of the forum is straightforward. We invite three to four thinkers to grapple with a book, highlighting a section ...

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Trump Has a Small Pence

Sexual metaphors have the power to turn old hierarchies inside out

February 13, 2018 • by Rachel Hope Cleves and Amanda Littauer

Over the weekend of January 20-21, throughout the United States and beyond its borders, millions of protesters gathered in self-proclaimed “Women’s Marches.” 200,000 in New York City. 500,000 in Los Angeles. At least 1,000 in Richmond, Virginia; Concord, New Hampshire; and Raleigh, North Carolina. And 300,000 in Chicago, more than ...

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Solidarity is Not a Liberal Value

Feminism and collective struggle

February 12, 2018 • by Bryant William Sculos

On January 20, 2018, at the end of the Pioneer Valley’s Women’s March in Northampton, Massachusetts hundreds stood gathered in front of the imposing, castle-like City Hall. We were children, women, and men, trans and non-gender conforming people. We were black, white, and brown, gay and straight. We were rich and poor ...

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#MeToo in Hungary

Liberal self-cleansing or real change?

February 2, 2018 • by Réka Kinga Papp

This post was originally published by Eurozine and was accompanied by three other posts that Public Seminar will repost throughout this week. Following the first wave of the #MeToo movement, a new phase of reflection has set in. Here, four authors and journal editors from the US and Europe assess #MeToo's ...

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Work-based Campaigns Have Shifted the Focus From Victims to Structures

A look at Sweden and sexual harassment

February 1, 2018 • by Ann Ighe

This post was originally published by Eurozine and was accompanied by three other posts that Public Seminar will repost throughout the week. Following the first wave of the #MeToo movement, a new phase of reflection has set in. Here, four authors and journal editors from the US and Europe assess #MeToo's ...