Our Purpose

We put YOU at the center of an economic agenda for 2021 and our future. How?

• By sharing how women (and the men and non-binary people who love us) can finance all those things we’ve been told Americans cannot afford.

• By introducing you to female and pro-female economic thinkers and activists with exciting ideas and organizations.

• By helping you disarm an unjust economy waged as war by a tiny minority of privileged men.. We can and will wage life..

• By uniting women across divisions of race, sexuality, gender, religion, and nationality that only benefit the One Percent.

• By helping you to change “women’s issues” into everyone’s issues, while making women, caring, and the planet count.

Declaration

Today’s economy is the product of 2400 years of male-only discourse. It generally omits, misnames, or discounts women’s essential production, passionate attention, and ideas. None of our present financial systems and tools—banks, corporations, coins and currency, stocks and bonds, or basic rules of their exchange and trade—were invented by women. Females continue to be blocked from owning this economy or its dollars..

Why? Twelve thousand years ago, women’s reproductive powers became the first property, Our unpaid labor as brides, concubines, and slaves laid the foundation of every ancient civilization’s wealth, just as it did our modern nation. Owning women led to owning vanquished people as slaves, and normalizing hyper-masculinity. Elite men brought our resources to market, often by violence and threat.

US black slavery only ended 158 years ago.  Women have always worked, but only in the past 50 years have a majority, including young mothers, entered the modern economy’s job market. Women, people of color, and LGBTQ people finally hurdled educational and legal barriers—and now we newly function as financial, banking, and investment managers, policy-makers, and self-employed business owners.

Still the larger the pile of money, the more exclusively white and male the territory. Our economic system’s racist sexism is so ancient a story, we hardly recognize a male-dominated economy waged as war. It’s simply what’s normal.

UNITED, WOMEN CAN EDUCATE AND EMPOWER US ALL IN NEW WAYS OF THINKING ABOUT LIVING ON OUR PLANET, CREATING INTERCONNECTED EXCHANGES THAT WAGE LIFE—NOT WAR.

An Economy of Our Own is prompting Conversations, Econo-Consciousness-Raising groups, Learning Circles, and local action on problems, like the pay gap and childcare. But it turns out the macro-economic policies now perceived as free from gender, such as GDP (Gross Domestic Product) and QE (Quantitative Easing) and currency, are also issues putting care-giving “females” at a disadvantage. We will seek to network with women, men, and transgender, non-binary people seeking generative change, especially communities of color shortchanged and redlined. We pledge to share heartening economic news, local reports of earth-bound solutions, and more passionately loving ways to fuel a procreative, inclusive economy..

YES, THE CHANGES WE NEED SEEM IMPOSSIBLY HUGE. BUT YOU ALREADY KNOW THAT OUR MOTHER EARTH AND THE CHILDREN OF OUR FUTURE CANNOT AFFORD MORE ALPHA-MALE-ONLY BUSINESS-AS-USUAL. PLEASE JOIN US IN LIFE-WAGING CHANGE!

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Our current economy is built on a model that exploits the bodies of Black Indigenous People of Color—especially Black Indigenous Women of Color— to support a white dominant culture. White communities and structures thrive through an education that is funded with property taxes, ensuring that white, affluent schools flourish, while schools in poverty-stricken communities suffer the results of decades of redlining and often cease to exist. White communities and structures thrive through a criminal justice system that over-polices Black and Brown communities and then supports itself through fines, court costs, and bail money. White communities and structures thrive through capitalism and consumerism which underpays Black Indigenous People of Color and women of all colors, and incites spending on stuff that doesn’t build wealth. 

All lives won’t matter until Black Lives Matter. And all lives won’t matter until all of us recognize being indigenous is powerful, rooted in earthly communities, in our democracy, and in a sustainable economy owned and shared by us all.