A feminist municipalist manifesto

By Laura Roth, Red Pepper

We take the feminisation of politics to mean ‘making politics more feminist’, but that does not simply mean seeing more women in traditional positions of power.

Katherine Gibson and the Community Economies Research Network

By David Bollier, David Bollier blog

A primary goal of the Community Economies literature is to “decenter” capitalism as the reference point for thinking about alternative economic projects. Why must everything be seen through the normative lens of capitalism?

Linking food and feminisms: learning from decolonial movements

By Jessica Milgroom, Agroecology Now!

Feminist movements that are anti-racist, decolonial, anti- and post-colonial, including indigenous feminism, offer other ways of thinking about the link between feminism and food. Specifically borne from the context of Turtle Island and Abya Yala, decoloniality offers a particularly powerful lens.

A feminist response to the pandemic

By ROAR Collective, ROAR Magazine

Given the rapidly changing attitudes towards care work and reproductive labor as our globalized society combats COVID-19, it may finally be time to recognize gender liberation as a practical and necessary achievement.

The Banality of Evocation

By Erin Thompson, TomDispatch

When it comes to the feminist movement, monuments to individuals are “a standing historic lie” because women’s rights have been won “by a steady history of millions of women and men... working together at the best of times, separately at the worst.” Wagner believes that to honor individuals for such achievements today is to disempower the movement itself.

Collaborative Feminist Degrowth: Pandemic as an Opening for a Care-Full Radical Transformation

By Feminisms and Degrowth Alliance, Degrowth.de

Change needs to be systemic to match the scale of the emergency and the inequalities uncovered and reproduced by the pandemic. This crisis can and should be used as a collective learning point for a transformation towards an alternative feminist degrowth future.

Ecological and Feminist Economics: an Interview with Julie A. Nelson

By Julie Nelson, Jamie Morgan, Real World Economics Review

It’s much easier to teach students how to shift curves, solve equations, and run regressions, than to carefully observe economic life and think deeply and critically about it. Students also tend to feel comfortable – and even feel powerful – when told “here, we are handing you the exact tools and models you need to use to understand how the economy works.”

The Right to Say No

By Boniface Mabanza Bambu, Uneven Earth

We can only successfully overcome the crises triggered by extractivism if the voices that have been marginalized up until now, especially those of women, claim a space in the center of the process of change.

The White Man Stole the Weather

By Mary Robinson, Maeve Higgins, Mothers of Invention

Mary and Maeve are talking about money, money. Fighting climate change might be a moral necessity but women are learning to hit vested interests where it hurts the most, in the pocket.

Feminism and Revolution: Looking Back, Looking Ahead

By Julie Matthaei, The Great Transition

An implacable and inclusive feminism remains essential for building the larger solidarity politics and economics we need for a Great Transition that eliminates oppression of all kinds.

A Sea Change in Science

By Eve Andrews, Grist

As the world watches the U.S. government withdraw from the Paris Agreement and extend lifelines to the coal industry, many in academia are asking: Should climate scientists be publicly advocating for climate action?

A World for the Many, not the Few

By Asad Rehman, Red Pepper

After decades in which the only thing that’s changed has been the language, The World for the Many, Not the Few represents a change in the landscape. This new policy presents a radically different vision for how the UK should approach international development.