05/07/2022
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.