We are excited to invite you to participate in four sessions of Socialist Sunday School dedicated to “Gender & Empire.”

The program, designed by our comrade Noor, allows you to build a theoretical and contemporary understanding of the links between gender oppression and imperialism.

For the first two sessions, we will read a chapter from Angela Saini, The Patriarchs (2023) a powerful exploration of how patriarchy is made and remade, and, from Kristen Ghodsee, Red Valkyries (2022), the chapter on Alexandra Kollontai, the Russian revolutionary and pioneer in Marxian feminism.  

The other two sessions will help us bridge theory and practice through case studies from Armenia and China.

After the four sessions, we will have a screening of the movie, Salt of the Earth.

Here are some details:

THE PATRIARCHS - Sunday, August 11 @ 3:00 to 4:30 p.m.
Angela Saini, The Patriarchs, Chapter 6, “Alienation”

This is a hybrid meeting. Attend in person, if you can, or attend on Zoom, where we’ll have a dedicated facilitator to make sure you can fully participate in the discussion.

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THE RED VALKYRIES - Sunday, August 18 @ 3:00 to 4:30 p.m.
Kristen R. Ghodsee, Red Valkyries, Chapter 2, “The Communist Valkyrie: Alexandra Kollontai (1872–1952)”

This is a hybrid meeting. Attend in person, if you can, or attend on Zoom, where we’ll have a dedicated facilitator to make sure you can fully participate in the discussion.

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IVF, MOTHERHOOD & THE AFTERMATH OF WAR - Sunday, August 25 @ 3:00 to 4:30 p.m.
Case Study: IVF, Motherhood, and the Aftermath of War (The Case of Armenia)

Armine Avetisyan, “Armenia: Mothers Bereaved by War Offered IVF”
https://iwpr.net/global-voices/armenia-mothers-bereaved-war-offered-ivf

Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow. (poetry excerpt)

This is a remote meeting.

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TRANSNATIONAL MOBILITY & THE POLITICS OF DESTINATION - Sunday, September 1 @ 3:00 to 4:30 p.m.
Case Study: Locality, Location, and the Politics of Being (The Case of Fuzhou, China)

Reading: Julie Chu, Cosmologies of Credit: Transnational Mobility and the Politics of Destination in China (excerpt)

This is a remote meeting.

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THE SALT OF THE EARTH - Friday, September 13 @ TBD
Movie: Salt of the Earth

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These sessions will be a great opportunity to meet your comrades and discuss important ideas with them, whether you’re new to these conversations or have been involved in them for a long time. Every effort will be made to create a safe, accessible, and comradely space for learning and discussion.

We look forward to seeing you for our first session, on Sunday, August 11, in person or on Zoom!