LSE Blog: Book Review: Our Time is Now: Sex, Race, Class, and Caring for People and Planet by Selma James
Dr Julia Downes March 9th, 2022 In Our Time is Now: Sex, Race, Class, and Caring for People and Planet, Selma James brings together essays and writings that reflect on collaborative activist practice and span her reflective thinking on a range of themes, including care, anti-capitalism and climate justice. Written in James’s characteristically accessible, whip-smart and defiant voice, this…
Read MorePoem for Selma James has been published in new book “House Work” by Khadija Rouf
A poem for Selma James has been published in new book “House Work” by Khadija Rouf for International Women’s Day 2022 https://fairacrepress.co.uk/shop/house-work-by-khadija-rouf/. All profits are being donated to Global Women’s Strike.
Read MoreThai Women Human Rights Defenders Collective statement on International Women’s Day
8 March 2022, International Women’s Day #BreaktheNPOLawtoBreaktheBias 111 years ago, women in Russia, the United States of America, Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland banded together to form groups and take to the street. Their organization and struggles have ensured that we are not made to do more than eight hours of waged work a day,…
Read MoreSelma James is Kentish Town on City of Women London map
The City of Women map is the result of a collaboration launched in 2020 between Reni Eddo-Lodge, Rebecca Solnit, Emma Watson, cartographer Molly Roy, designer Lia Tjandra and Haymarket Books, in partnership with Transport for London, the Women of the World Foundation and University College London (UCL). See the interactive map here: https://www.cityofwomenlondon.org/ Press here:…
Read MoreWomen’s organisations internationally must support women in Myanmar
90% of garment workers in Myanmar are women, the primary carers of children and others. Their unions are calling for fashion brands to act urgently and cease all production in Myanmar to weaken the military dictatorship and force it to step down. Over 170 organisations internationally have so far signed our statement in support of…
Read MoreBoston Review: Care Work in a Wageless World
As the planet burns and pandemics rage, Selma James’s work with the Wages for Housework movement shows that we ignore the labor of care at our own peril. Emily Callaci March 2, 2022 Sex, Race, and Class—The Perspective of Winning: A Selection of Writings 1952–2011Selma JamesCommon Notions and PM Press, $20 (paper) Our Time is…
Read MoreURGENT! Tell Congress & the White House to Restore the #ChildTaxCredit Payments Now!
Children are suffering due to Senate inaction! ⚡ Twitterstorm Tuesday March 8, International Women’s Day ⚡ 11am-1pm PT / 2-4pm ETDefend the #ChildTaxCredit The #ChildTaxCredit in the Build Back Better plan helped more than 36 million families with children afford groceries and school supplies, pay bills and make ends meet. It lifted 3.7 million children…
Read MoreCamden New Journal: Caring Not Killing
Ham & High: International Women’s Day: Kentish Town charity launches global survey for mothers
Frankie Lister-Fell0Published: 1:59 PM March 1, 2022 Global Women’s Strike at an Extinction Rebellion protest on October 12 2019. – Credit: Crossroads Audiovisual Collective Ahead of International Women’s Day next Tuesday, a charity based at Kentish Town’s pioneering women’s centre, Crossroads, is launching a global survey asking: What do women and carers really want? Global Women’s Strike (GWS), which is…
Read MorePress release: March 8, Int’l Survey Asks Mothers and other Caregivers What They Want and Need
CONTACT: Peggy O’Mara 505-699-3909 Nina Lopez 44 20 7482 2496 wmsurvey@gmail.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE International Survey Asks Mothers and other CaregiversWhat They Want and Need On Tuesday March 8, 2022, International Women’s Day, the Global Women’s Strike (GWS) will launch an international survey, “What Do Mothers and Caregivers Want?” This event opens a year of…
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