WOMEN/TRANS READING GROUP

Please note: meetings will be closed to cismen (male-assigned, male-identified).                                
Feminist and queer politics have always been accused of detracting from the real class struggle. Rejecting this notion, our reading group will start from the premise that feminist and queer politics implies a class and race analysis, and will consider the annihilation of capitalism from the standpoint of those accused of prolonging its life. Some questions we will think about: How are patriarchy, white supremacy, and capitalism linked? How is sexual difference inseparable from the way labour and its products are organized, appropriated, and consumed? What role does sexual violence play in keeping capitalism going? What counts as a revolutionary class, or a revolutionary politics? How are sexual and social reproduction conceptualized, or erased, when capitalism is narrowly defined as an economic system?
Our readings will include academic and non-academic texts, and are very open to modification from participants – no background in feminist or queer theory necessary.