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Transnational feminist politics

Nikita Dhawan (Innsbruck) and Maria do Mar Castro Varela (ASH Berlin): "What Difference Does Difference Make?" Diversity, Intersectionality and Transnational Feminist Politics. Simplice A. Asongu (AGDI), Uchenna Efobi (Covenant), and Belmondo Tanankem: On the Relationship between Globalisation and the Economic Participation of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa. Say Burgin (Leeds): White Women, Anti-Imperialist Feminism and the Story of Race within the US Women's Liberation Movement. Catherine Rottenberg (Ben Gurion): Neoliberal Feminism and the Future of Human Capital. Thread: "When I first figured out the difference between interpersonal sexism & structural sexism, a lot of stuff suddenly made sense".

From TNR, Josephine Livingstone on a feminism of the 99 percent: The organizers of the International Women's Strike say they are addressing the everyday concerns of women across the country; why we strike: Women across the country will put down tools to give expression to a new kind of feminism; and yes all women: Maggie Doherty on how feminists do not have to be ideologically pure to be radical. While the iron is hot: Dayna Tortorici on the case for the Women's Strike. Jia Tolentino on the Women’s Strike and the messy space of change.