Feminist Killjoys Reading Group Open Session - May 2019
This month’s session focused on WORK, in honour of International Workers’ Day (May 1).
(Image provided by Cynthia Florek ♥)
We discussed the following questions: Why do we have to work? What are the impacts of others’ work on you? How do you work for and towards change and what is the toll it has? Why is being in a constant state of work equated to success? Does the work really stop at the time your shift ends? How hard is it for the feminist killjoy in the working class? Do you have to be actively chasing toward a goal to be afforded the same level of respect? How can people be active when they don’t have a choice but to work to survive?
The labour of: love, change, relationships, feeling, the world, listening, understanding, and everything else. What is the work of the feminist killjoy?
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Selma James - Sex, Race and Class
Other readings and resources
Andy Beckett - Post-work: the radical idea of a world without jobs
Being Lazy and Slowing Down
Chanté Joseph - Puma and the gross fetishisation of working-class struggle
Class Struggle & Mental Health: Live to Fight Another Day
Dom Chatterjee - Fighting Burnout, Rest Debt, and Work as a False Path to Self-Worth
Eliana Buenrostro - Post-Non-Profit Survival: How Unemployment Benefits Improved My Mental Health
Esmé Weijun Wang - I'm Chronically Ill and Afraid of Being Lazy
Georgia Mae Cappocchi-Hunter - Why we need to foster the female Aboriginal leaders of tomorrow
Joel N Jenkins - Reconsidering To-Do Lists: The Deceptive Appeal of Productivity
Juhee Kwon - We are not machines
Kahra Wayland-Larty - Bolshy, sassy, intimidating: words used to deny WOC their voice in the workplace
Larissa Behrendt - Women’s Work: The Inclusion of the Voice of Aboriginal Women
Leah Cowan - Solidarity with Uber drivers whose labour lines the pockets of investors
Mayisha Begum - Garment workers in the Global South are leading a revolution
Mayisha Begum - International Worker’s Day marks six years of struggle by garment workers in Bangladesh
Stephanie Gilbert - ‘Never forgotten’: Pearl Gibbs (Gambanyi)
Timeline of Significant Moments in the Indigenous Struggle in south east Australia
The following links are for articles behind institutional paywalls - please email us at [email protected] if you would like access to them.
Jackie Huggins - “Firing on in the mind”: Aboriginal women domestic servants in the inter-war years
Jackie Huggins - White Aprons, Black Hands: Aboriginal Women Domestic Servants in Queensland
John Host and Jill Milroy - Towards an Aboriginal labour history
Riyad A. Shahjahan - Being ‘Lazy’ and Slowing Down: Toward decolonizing time, our body, and pedagogy
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Take care Feminist Killjoys!