A Zoom of Our Own: Join Us for Woman-Centered Economic Conversations
As some feminist epistemologists (Gilligan, Belenky et al.) have taught us, seeing and seeking connections seems to be women’s ways of knowing. Our economics is lived in real complex communities. Our goal is to model how women can talk together and learn together about traditionally male territory still new to most women. Together we can construct a fuller knowledge and set of values now omitted from the mainstream “free market.”
Our Zoom of Our Own series is putting multicultural, multiracial women together to talk about economic combinations and test them out in partnership. (Like a cooperative business and a bank to finance it. Or assigning value to, and counting, the things we love.) And we’re inviting YOU to be part of the conversation—to listen, learn and dream with us!
Feminist economics is experienced in every day, often complex, interactions in real communities. The goal of these conversations is to model how women talking and learning together about economics can use what they learn to disrupt the rigged system that exists and create ‘an economy of our own’. They’ll share innovative economic connections they are making to visualize an economy where all work is valued and remunerated, and where projects that invest in community can be funded locally
We know that when women have control of the way the economy works we collaborate to create potent solutions to inequity. We’re tired of being told there is not enough money for what we need and want. So women are devising creative ways to fund what communities need most: education, healthcare, affordable housing, clean water, national daycare, maintaining locally owned utilities, making student loans affordable, and providing people-centered relief efforts during national emergencies. These solutions can help us mindfully move the money from endless war, to projects that nurture life.
We hope you will be inspired by these innovative solutions women are advancing in cities like yours, to fund projects that advance equity. Click here to join us free at our upcoming events!
OCT 13 @ 8pm EST/5pm PST: SHARED ECONOMIES
What If You and Your Community Owned Your Own Bank and Your Own Corporation?
How can the collective approach of cooperative business models and banking in the public interest work in concert? Why would these make a difference for women? This webinar blends the projects communities most want to fund with innovative local investment strategies.
We’ll hear from Philly banking pioneer Emma Chappell with the Public Banking Institute and Jamila Medley of Philadelphia Area Cooperative Alliance about the difference cooperatively owned businesses are making in their city, for communities of color facing gentrification in Philadelphia. And we’ll explore how the same kinds of innovations are working in Oakland California, hearing from Susan Harman with the East Bay Public Banking movement and Jhumpa Bhattacharya at The Insight Center for Community Economic Development.
OCT 27 @ 8pm EST/5pm PST: THE INVISIBLE WOMAN
Exploring Exploitation Beyond the Pay Gap
The work women do is mostly underpaid, always undervalued, and frequently invisible. That won’t change till we change the way we value women’s contributions, paid or unpaid. Our society values what we count and measure. Advocates for a Caring Economy insist we count and value how caring makes the world go around.
Riane Eisler (feminist ROCK STAR and Caring Economy enthusiast who wrote The Chalice and the Blade and The Real Wealth of Nations) will connect the links between the invisibility of care work, women’s discounted paychecks for care work, and what the pandemic has helped us see more clearly: all our work at home we’re expected to do for free. Khara Jabola-Carolus of Hawaii’s Commission on Women will report on her state’s The Feminist Post-Covid Economic Recovery Plan). Artist Patti Maciecz has created an invoice for all that invisible work and value. She calls it “Bill the Patriarchy”, part of her Invisible Labor Union. Martha Collins from the Milwaukee area food bank will bring the perspective of single moms who are doing it all, and often facing poverty.
Register FREE to join us at www.AnEconomyOfOurOwn.org/events. You’ll receive brief introductory materials and a chance to submit a short question for each webinar’s panelists.
Talk soon!
