Around the world, women’s and reproductive rights are under attack and feminists are fighting back! From the US Supreme Court overturning Roe vs. Wade to Iranian feminists struggling for civil rights; from Chilean feminists rewriting their constitution, to the assault on feminist organizing in China—the importance of standing in solidarity with feminist movements has never been clearer.

Join Justice is Global and Haymarket Books on January 19th at 6:30PM ET for an online teach-in with Italian feminist activist and thinker Silvia Federici and feminist organizers from Argentina, India, and Egypt.

Together, we will discuss how capitalism produces gender injustice, how feminism informs Justice is Global’s progressive internationalist strategy, and how we can support our feminist allies around the world!

A little more on our guests:

Silvia Federici:

Silvia Federici is a feminist writer, teacher, and militant. In 1972, she cofounded the International Feminist Collective, which launched the Wages for Housework campaign. She is a professor emerita at Hofstra University, where she taught social sciences. She worked as a teacher in Nigeria for many years and was also the cofounder of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa. She has written extensively about philosophy and feminist theory, and more recently the worldwide struggle against capitalist globalization and for a feminist reconstruction of the commons.  

Luci Cavallero:

Lucí Cavallero is a researcher at the University of Buenos Aires. Her work focuses on the link between debt, illegal capital, and different forms of violence. She is a feminist activist and member of the Ni Una Menos Collective.

Varsha Gandikota:

Varsha Gandikota is a member of the Cabinet of Progressive International and leads its policy pillar, Blueprint. Prior to PI, Varsha worked on a global reproductive justice campaign at Women Deliver in New York. She's from Hyderabad, India.

Nana Abuelsoud:

Nana Abuelsoud is a feminist based in Cairo, she is a member of realizing sexual and reproductive justice (RESURJ) and is the programs and advocacy coordinator of the alliance. Locally, Nana researches Egypt's population policies in relation to international aid, bodily autonomy, and access to sexual and reproductive health services. Previously, she worked as a reproductive rights policy researcher at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR).