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Why hasn’t the women’s movement posed the question of freeing the university, not simply in terms of what subjects should be studied, but also in terms of eliminating the financial cost of studying?
Silvia Federici • Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle
We have to refuse to support the system that sucks the blood, vitality, and life from the limbs of workers.
Sara Ahmed • Living a Feminist Life
So many of the words we introduce have killjoy histories. When we use them, we are heard as making a point, a sore point, although in time some of them become less pointed, more habitual.
Sara Ahmed • The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way
k-punk • Democracy is Joy
When we struggle for wages for housework we struggle unambiguously and directly against our social role.
Silvia Federici • Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle
But all women should have free access to school, for as long as studying is a commodity we have to pay for, or a step in the “job hunt,” our relation to intellectual work cannot be a liberating experience.
Silvia Federici • Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle
How can we hope to change anything, she asked, “if we don’t rebel in the everyday?”