In an increasingly expensive and antisocial world, tradwives forsake life with others for the lonely, constrictive spaces of bourgeois ownership.
Winter 2023
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Sex and the State
Paisley Currah’s Sex Is as Sex Does raises questions about efforts to achieve equal recognition under laws that sanction repression and inequality.
Starving for Justice in Thailand
Two political prisoners arrested for questioning the Thai monarchy have been on a life-threatening hunger strike for over a week. The government has met their demands for the right to free expression with silence.
Reproductive Rights at the Bargaining Table
A roundtable on Dobbs and organized labor.
The Poetry of a Prison Uprising
A new book of poems from a workshop at Attica in the 1970s reveals how prisoners resisted the dehumanizing effects of incarceration.
Iran’s Cinema of Resistance
Independent filmmakers offer a vital portal into the struggle against the theocratic regime.
The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Ghost of Margaret Sanger
Religious conservatives see “anti-eugenic” state laws as the most promising avenue for establishing a federal ban on abortion. Much of the feminist left is ill-equipped to deal with this threat.
Nurses End Strike in New York
After a three-day strike, the New York State Nurses Association announced it had reached tentative agreements with two hospitals that will strengthen safe staffing standards.
Abortion Is Healthcare: Lessons From a Public Hospital
Even in the Roe era, access to abortion was limited, hard-fought, and dependent on local conditions.
Righteous Anger
Introducing our Winter 2023 special section, “Feminism After Dobbs.”
A Landmark Wage Increase at the University of California
Graduate students won a major raise after five weeks on strike. The victory is a product of the militancy that has pushed the union to the vanguard of organized labor in higher ed.
Belabored: Essential Workers in Crisis, with Elizabeth Lalasz and Jia Lee
Healthcare and education have been at the center of pandemic labor struggles. Two rank-and-file leaders from these fields join the podcast for a live episode.
Sharon Graham’s Fighting Union
The new leader of the British union Unite is meeting workers’ militant mood with a strategy rooted in the workplace.
