The club likes seriesHere’s the 2nd part of our selection of women and their works in the fields of political activism, film and literature. Leslie Kernwriter of the book 'Feminist City, Claiming Space in a Man-Made World' Verso Books, 2019Callie Khouri (b. 1957)wrote...
The Club likes… Inspiring Women — Part 1
We’re continuing our series where we share what the club likes.Here’s a first selection of women and their works in the fields of art, film, literature, science, etc. — Part 1. Susan Kare (b. 1954)Designer of Macintosh’s system and application icons in the...
110 Years International Women’s day
♀︎💪Today we celebrate 110 years International Women*s Day, the day where we make ourselves heard and seen for women*s rights! We look back on some of the women and events of the women’s movement.On March 19th in 1911, the first international women’s day was held in...
Join your local women*s march
Tomorrow is international women*s day! ♀︎💪Join your local protest/strike/actions! If you can’t take part in the march there are other ways you can join the protests:– Join an online strike/protest!– Slow down your work if it’s not possible to completely withdraw from...
What about ‘essential jobs’?
Especially during the holidays, let's think about who does most of the low-paid and unpaid 'essential work' in our society.As opposed to 'bullshit jobs' (meaningless jobs that if not done, no one would notice), essential jobs, like health care work, are discussed...
Glossary: Equal Pay
Today is the first International Equal Pay Day. ♀💪 "Equal pay means that all workers have the right to receive equal remuneration for work of equal value." (Un Women) It will be 257 years before men and women have pay equality. (The World Economic Forum, Global Gender...
Ways of Seeing – John Berger
Visual representations are never neutral "The series and book criticize traditional Western cultural aesthetics by raising questions about hidden ideologies in visual images.""Berger asserts that only twenty or thirty nudes in the European oil painting tradition...