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Left Coast Panel on New Directions for Socialist Feminist Resistance: An International Dialogue
August 25, 2018 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm PDT
The Left Coast Conference will include the following panel organized by the Alliance of Middle Eastern Socialists:
New Directions for Socialist Feminist Resistance: An International Dialogue
This panel is aimed at promoting socialist feminist organizing by addressing the following questions: Why is authoritarianism on the rise globally, and how does it affect women? How can the “Me Too Movement” challenge the capitalist commodification of women’s bodies? What are the connections between Black Lives Matter and the movement against patriarchy/homophobia? What do the struggles of women in the West and the Middle East have in common? Do socialist feminists have an alternative to capitalism?
Julia Wallace, Black anti-racist activist, member of SEIU and Left Voice. Wallace has been a revolutionary socialist for over ten years. She served on the South Central Neighborhood Council in Los Angeles and organizes against police brutality and in defense of LGBTQ, women, and immigrants’ rights. When she is not actively fighting patriarchy, white supremacy and/or capitalism, she enjoyes many things: she loves Thudercat, plays ultimate frisbee and is a founder of the team, “Black Lives Hammer.”
Mary Ann Curtis,
Mary Ann Curtis, socialist feminist labor activist and community organizer, is a member of the Freedom Socialist Party, Radical Women and AFSCME Retirees, Chapter 36. The 1960s Black Civil Rights movement sparked her involvement in the fight to end segregation. Her job at a Chicago Black youth center inspired her ongoing advocacy for public education and housing. As a public university staff member and active unionist, she worked with others to defend the lowest paid. Her internationalism began in Taipei, Taiwan as an English teacher. With an M.A. in Chinese Language and Literature, she travelled to China. Her article, China today through feminist eyes: free market misery and resistance, can be found in the Freedom Socialist http://socialism.com/fs-article/china-today-through-feminist-eyes-free-market-misery-and-resistance
Lara Al Kateb, Syrian socialist feminist
Frieda Afary
Frieda Afary, Philosophy M.A., M.L.I.S., writer, translator and producer of Iranian Progressives in Translation, is a founding member of the Alliance of Middle Eastern Socialists. Her Persian translations include Marx on Gender and the Family by Heather Brown. In addition to writing political analyses on the Middle East, she has published articles in English and Persian on Marxist Feminism, Marx’s Capital, Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century, Marxist-Humanism, and state capitalism in the former Soviet Union and Maoist China.
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