Links to our reading schedule (going backwards in time)
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Risk, sex and climate change – 2nd September 2015
Is consent sexy? Tanya Seriser (2014)
The future is kids stuff (2015)
Capitalism is identity politics / the politics of difference – 19th August
The Ideal of Community and the Politics of Difference – Iris Marion Young (1986)
It’s not the time for a party – Sarah Ahmed (2013)
Organisations – 5th August
‘Law reform & movement building’ from Normal Life – Dean Spade (2014)
Transmisogyny: gender and capital – 15th August
Meta etc. – Trans women in ‘queer’ communities (2015)
Fat, privilege, trauma and resistance – 8th July
Anwen Crawford – Fat, privilege and resistance (2012)
NB. this piece is in response to the article by Jennifer Lee, below
Jennifer Lee – A big fat fight (2012)
Judith Herman – A new diagnosis (1992)
Haraway and Fraser – 24th June
Rebel bodies – June 10th
Silvia Federici – The Great Caliban: the Struggle Against the Rebel Body (from Caliban and the Witch)
Emily Martin – The Woman in the Flexible Body
Race in gender, gender in race – 27th May
Tiddas talkin_ up to the white woman – Moreton-Robinson
Racial Ethnic Women’s Labor: The Intersection of Race, Gender and Class Oppression, Evelyn Nakano Glenn
Women and welfare – 13th May
This Isn’t Working: Single Mothers and Welfare, Anwen Crawford
Women and welfare. Where is Jocasta? Alisa del Re
Listening and asking #2 – 15th April
Gender, temporality, and the reproduction of labour power. Women migrant workers in South China, Hannah Schling
Workers’ Inquiry and Reproductive Labor, Alisa Del Re
Listening and asking #1 – 1st April
Of questions, illusions, swarms and deserts: Notes on research and activism from, Precarias a la Deriva, Precarias a la Deriva
Listen to sex workers: support decriminalisation and anti-discrimination protections, Elena Jeffreys, Audry Autonomy, Jane Green, Christian Vega (Scarlet Alliance Australian Sex Workers Association)
4 Lessons We Should Learn From the Focus E15 Mothers, Tom Gillespie
How did we get here? – 18th March
From Servitude to Service work, Evelyn Nakano Glenn
The impossibility of women’s studies, Wendy Brown
Austerity vs the ‘Commons’ – 27th August
- Feminism and the Politics of the Common in an Era of Primitive Accumulation, Federici
Communisation #2 – 13th August
(and possibly one short critique of this piece)
Communisation #1 – 30th July
The Gender Rift in Communisation
“Going home, staying home”? Why the homelessness sector reforms – 2nd July
Workfare, Familyfare, Godfare – Transforming Contingency into Necessity (click here), Melinda Cooper
Women, Austerity and Revolt, Annette Maguire
Commodified love and Sexuality and its refusal – 18th June
- Why Sexuality is Work, in Federici, S (2012)
- Advertising Love, Southall N (2014)
- Sex Work Is Work, Novara podcast
On collective struggle –4th June
- An Interview with Mujeres Creando, in Quiet Rumours Anarcha-Feminist Reader (2002)
- Riot Grrrl Manifesto, Bikini Kill and Kathleen Hanna (1993)
- The Sixth Global Women’s Strike Call (2005) in James, S (2012)
- The Tyranny of Structurelessness, by Freeman, J in Quiet Rumours Anarcha-Feminist Reader (2002)
What are we doing here? Radical Pedagogy – 21st May
Teaching to Transgress, Introduction – bell hooks
Here, bell hooks draws on her own experiences of both oppressive and emancipatory learning and teaching environments to discuss elements of radical pedagogy.
Toward the Destruction of Schooling – Jan Matthews
An overview of how and why schooling is authoritarian and exploitative.
Rewind 2: Reflections on 30 years of the Zapatistas – Sub. Marcos
This touches on how knowledge, in its conventional forms, often dispossess those who are already disenfranchised. It talks about the importance of taking the view of history “from below”.
Intersectionality
How Do You Practice Intersectionalism? an interview with Bell Hooks (2009)
The Contempt of the Middle Class Made Me The Person I Am Today, in Clenched Fists, Empty Pockets (2010)
Angela Mitropoulos’ ‘the Materialisation of Race’ 2008
Harry Chang’s ‘Toward a Marxist Theory of Racism’.
Caring Labour
‘Caring: A labour of stolen time’. This is an analysis of working in a nursing home, it cuts through all the slipperiness of race and gender as they are ‘put to work’ in capitalism, it’s about the type of work involved in ‘caring’, and about a particular moment of struggle at a nursing home in the US. http://libcom.org/files/lies-final-download-single-page.pdf
Feminisms
Nina Power ‘Marxism and Feminism: Beyond the Unhappy Marriage’
Selma James, “Int’l women’s day and sexual division”, in the Guardian. Offers a reflection on IWD. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/mar/08/international-womens-day-sexual-division
Correspondence via the facebook group “Feminist Discussion Circle” or leave a comment here below.
Correspondence via the facebook group “Feminist Discussion Circle” or leave a comment here below.
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