This event was recorded live. As some feminist epistemologists (Gilligan, Belenky et al.) have taught us, seeing and seeking connections seems to be women’s ways of knowing. Our economics is lived in real complex communities. Our goal is to model how women can talk together and learn together about traditionally male territory still new to most women. Together we can construct a fuller knowledge and set of values now omitted from the mainstream “free market.” To that end, we're making the webinar—and will make all of them moving forward—available here for viewing forevermore.
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Much has been said about “the new normal.” After the pandemic, what will our world look like? The last four years (and the centuries before them!) have revealed that we must dream beyond “reform”—and envision and design real feminist futures that look entirely different from our lopsided reality that discounts our value.
Join us for a conversation on how we can truly “build back better”—by addressing the she-cession caused by COVID-19 and the underlying racism, sexism, and economic inequality that it has highlighted.
Victoria DeFrancesco Soto, the LBJ School's associate dean for civic engagement and lead author of the white paper "America's Recovery from the 2020 'Shecession': Building a Female Future of Childcare and Work," will explain how women have been shortchanged during the pandemic and what needs to change—at home, at work and in our culture—to ensure we don’t lose generations of progress. Karen Bassarab, senior program officer with the Food Communities and Public Health Program at The Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, will suss out what is needed to build a resilient and equitable global food system. Farah Tanis, executive director of Black Women’s Blueprint, will lay out a powerful vision for a future in which Black women—and therefore all of us—are truly free.
Led in conversation by AEOO’s Digital Director Carmen Rios—a feminist superstar who has been writing about workplace inequality, working-class women, and feminism beyond capitalism for over 10 years—our panel will share actions we can take to to begin building an economy of our own. What do YOU think it would look like?