GenderTalks

The work of political philosopher Silvia Federici is a thought-provoking way to look at recent attacks on women's around the world.

For her, the idea of reproduction, which, in addition to the biological sense, also includes all the necessary care work that refers to children + domestic labour, has an essential role in the formation of collectivity.

This work has historically been undervalued - and despite its importance in shaping societies, it does not receive its own importance or payment. Instead, women's reproduction has been - and still is today - politically instrumentalized for the sake of maintaining an unjust society and private capital.

Today we turn to Federici's work to bring attention to all women & people with uteruses who have their rights and lives violated, diminished or taken away as a result of gender, economic and political domination.

- Image quote: interview of Silvia Federici by George Souvlis and Ankica Čakardić, January 19, 2017.

Next Monday we will be welcoming Dr. Hilkje Hänel and Prof. Dr. Kristina Lepold to a Panel on recognition theory and epistemic justice.
11.04, 18h (CEST)

All welcome!
Registration & more info links in the bio!

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What a sad day! Rest in power and thank you for everything 🖤

That’s today! Join us for this Panel, in which Moira Pérez and Sophie Grace Chappell will discuss on the idea of “safe spaces”.
All welcome!

+ more info & registration links in the bio!

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Today at 16h (CET). There is still time to register: www.gendertalks.com/safespaces

All welcome!

Join us for this Panel, in which Moira Pérez and Sophie Grace Chappell will discuss on the idea of “safe spaces”. All welcome!

+ more info & registration links in the bio!

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The term TERF (Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists) was coined in the mid-1980s to denote support (or lack of) for tr*******al women. But it is only more recently that this label - but more importantly what it stands for - has gained new life on social networks, in particular, due to the rise of those who refer to themselves as "gender-critical feminists".

In the latest essay published by Pikara Magazine and translated by GenderTalks, Gracia Trujillo and Moira Pérez draw attention to this movement that is leaning on feminism to emerge with increasing power worldwide.

Among other extremely relevant issues for the current debate on gender issues, they discuss the ideology behind the oppressive belief systems of which exclusionary feminist movements take part.

Read the full essay at gendertalks.com (link in bio > last entries)!

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What if social transformation depends on how we develop and exercise our capacities? Consider the typically human capacities, such as rational and affective capacities, the capacity to create and innovate, even the capacity to innovate and transform. Does the way Western society is currently organized favor the fostering of these capacities? Moreover, although these are universal, that is, capacities that do not depend on gender, culture, or race, what role do these social determinations play? On these and other questions Avigail Ferdman has addressed in her research.

In this video she some ideas on how the social determinations of gender can affect the development of typically and universally human capacities.

Check it out, link in the bio!

Today Prof. Dr. Anne Pollok will be at WIP talking about Jewish women and the Salon. At 6 pm (CEST) via ZOOM, all welcome!

Free attendance!
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More info and other events at: www.womeninphilosophy.com/

Today at 6pm (CEST) via ZOOM, all welcome!
Registrations: https://forms.gle/qNvkKRiZQFYymMTu9

New entry:
Black Brazilian Women, Care Work and Covid-19, Larissa Margarido

One of the main effects of the pandemic caused by the New Coronavirus (Covid-19) worldwide was the disclosure and worsening of multiple dimensions of pre-existing inequalities. In Brazil, asymmetries of race, gender, and class – among many others – have been reinforced by old and new forms of social production and reproduction, affecting mainly Black women. In addition to social markers of difference affecting the position of these female professionals in the capitalist market, they also influence vulnerability factors for the infection and coping with Covid-19.

In this essay, Larissa Margarido seeks to outline the effects of the pandemic on the lives of Black Brazilian women who work in the care labor market.

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Read the complete essay at:
www.gendertalks.com/blackbrwomen-carework-cov19/

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