Feminism & Gender Justice

Founded on women’s liberation, ecological sustainability, and direct democracy, Rojava’s political system provides a dramatic alternative to the status quo values of patriarchy, capitalism, and the nation-state that define the Middle East and much of the world. 

Nebula describes itself as a group that supports “survivors of battering, SA, IPV & DV with community & physical resources in crisis & in their empowerment”. They also “ assist neighbors & mutual aid groups learning how to build liberatory practices in their groups.”

In this article I’m exploring the potential for sex and single parenthood to be arenas that hold answers to interpersonal liberation and deeper solidarity.

ReSew sewing cooperative – Швейний Кооператив (Chveïniï kooperativ), exists politically and ecologically without bosses or subordinates and is united by the love of their work-sewing.

This is the 10 December 2022 phone bank and exchange between Americans and Rojava cooperator Kraker.

Canadian members of the African diaspora make use of traditional forms of group savings, known as susu, to overcome financial and cultural exclusion in the mainstream system. 

How cooperatives have helped rebuild the infrastructure and trust of Rwandans after the 1994 genocide.

In this chapter Razeto uses the analysis of solidarity economy developed to this point to make sense of the family as an economic unit and form of collective organization, and understand the roles of women as its main protagonists. The disintegration of the traditional family under industrial capitalism, with the rise of wage labor outside the home, the erosion of domestic and community economic activity, the creation of the nuclear family, and the concomitant changes in gender roles and the division of labor are shown to have aggravated inequality and damaged core relations of human solidarity.

Melanie Conn talks about her life in the Canadian co-op movement.