gender

In what is an important reflection on the political stakes for wider Marxist Feminist theory, Cinzia Arruzza has counselled against the fashionable conflation of racial and patriarchy oppressions within capitalism. Asserting the intersectionality of race, gender, and class is simply not enough in attempting to unpack such oppressions as features of capitalism. Equally an emphasis on relationality can become bland without the capacity to decide on where a relation begins or ends. Significant logical and historical questions can then arise. Is gender oppression a structurally necessary feature of capitalism? Is discrimination based on race in-built into the reproduction of racial capitalism? These are knotty issues that come to prominence and utility when assessing Nancy Fraser’s new book Cannibal Capitalism, the latest text completed in the Past & Present Reading Group.

The post Nancy Fraser, Cannibal Capitalism appeared first on Progress in Political Economy (PPE).

On the three-year anniversary of Keir Starmer becoming Labour Leader, Adam Bienkov analyses whether he has kept to his word or broken it

No more talk of gender or sexuality in school!

Fire up the gender-o-tron 3000.

Revd Joe Haward reflects on how hardliners in the Church are stifling progress on LGBTQ+ rights – but homophobia and transphobia are not confined to evangelical congregations

I was 28 when I first got a maid. She wasn’t even my maid. My partner and I spent a year renting a flat in Mexico City from friends-of-friends, a well-to-do family who were abroad, and who paid their maid to keep coming while we stayed at their place. So she was taking care of […]

And the Non-Binary and Transgender Folks Among Us, Too.

The post Who Will Speak Up for My Child, the Drag Queen? appeared first on scheerpost.com.

...the platform exposes even beginner programmers to the gender-biases of technical communities.

The post Gender Bias and Reputation on Stack Overflow appeared first on Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design.

First Minister tells Starmer to stop being a ‘pale imitation’ of the Tories and provide some actual opposition Nicola Sturgeon has derided Labour leader Keir Starmer’s ‘pale imitation’ of the Tories after the UK government trampled on Scottish autonomy to overrule Holyrood’s gender reform bill. Starmer has sided with the Tories against the bill, telling […]

By Warwick Smith Another article published at 10daily last year that I want to keep a record of in case the site gets taken down. (Note: I didn’t choose to use the word “househusband” in the title, that was the … Continue reading →