Our Struggles, Ourselves: Rethinking Healing Work
Friday, March 4
7:30pm – 9:00pm

JOIN US March 4 for a discussion featuring autonomist, feminist, activist, and writer Silvia Federici.

How do healing and self-care interact with movements for social justice? What does care work have to do with capitalism? Federici will tie political questions of the body with healing and care work. For hundreds of years, capitalism has been upheld by “reproductive labor” that is primarily done by women and not compensated with a wage. Federici will challenge us to look at healing from the viewpoint of rethinking the powers of the body, the mind-body split, and undervaluing women’s labor.

Silvia Federici is Emerita Professor in Political Philosophy and International Studies at Hofstra University and a longtime feminist activist and writer. She is the author of many essays on feminist theory, women and globalization, and feminist struggles. Her published work includes Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation; A Thousand Flowers: Social Struggles Against Structural Adjustment in African Universities (co-editor); and Enduring Western Civilization: The Construction of the Concept of the West and its ‘Others’ (editor).