Tag: Feminism
The Crisis of Social Reproduction, Women’s Agency, and Feminism in China
Ralf Ruckus interviews Yige Dong on the crisis of social reproduction in China, highlighting left feminisms and expanding women’s agency.
China’s Other Crisis
The People’s Republic of China has been hit by capitalism’s historical tendency toward fertility decline, a result of both increasing economic burdens on the proletariat and women’s resistance. So far, women have withstood the pressures from the Chinese Communist Party regime to give up their birth strike and bear more children.
“Feminism Is a Sine Qua Non of All Genuinely Liberatory Struggles…”
Alva Gotby interviews Sophie Lewis about the potential for liberatory feminism and the necessity of a reckoning with reactionary feminist thought.
The Price of Freedom
Jordan Daniels reviews Alyssa Battistoni’s Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature.
Queer Is Total, Baby!
Ira Hybris and Ricci Galiano argue that true communist revolution demands embracing the full diversity of the proletariat—queer, racialized, disabled, feminized and beyond—as essential to building a liberatory politics of totality that leaves no one behind.
Palestine Solidarity Encampment Diary
Katie Fustich translates the diary of Yuka, a Tokyo University student and member of their Palestine solidarity encampment’s steering committee.
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“Are Women Weak Jews?”
Sophie Lewis looks back on Scapegoat to reassess the Andrea Dworkin’s legacy, concluding that the current Dworkin revival is a “terrible idea.”
Give Us Our Land Back
With the concept of “Shamiya Feminism”, Banah Ghadbian highlights the solidarities connecting Syrian and Palestinian earth-based feminist, ecological, and liberatory resistances.
Reproducing Life Through Capital
Pedro M. Rey-Araújo offers a critical amendment to social reproduction’s idealization of life-making practices through an analysis of capital’s logic.
¡No fue el fuego, fue el estado!
Carla Macal reports on decolonial feminist organizing against gender-based violence in Guatemala.