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10:00am CDT

Friday September 4, 2026 10:00am - 1:00pm CDT

Join activists from around the country to discuss what’s next for the movement for abortion access and reproductive justice. Learn more and register here.

Sponsors

Chicago For Abortion Rights

Friday September 4, 2026 10:00am - 1:00pm CDT

Gender-Sexuality-Liberation

2:30pm CDT

From a Marxist Feminist Point of View: Freedom, Rationality and Human Nature

Friday September 4, 2026 2:30pm - 4:00pm CDT

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This panel explores the fruitfulness of approaching key philosophical questions from a Marxist-feminist perspective. It will examine how different modes of production (such as capitalism or feudalism) have structures which shape and limit potentials for human emancipation, particularly women’s freedom. In the process, panelists will articulate how capitalism should be understood as a framework within which other relations of oppression are structured and hierarchized.

Speakers

Nancy Holmstrom

Nancy Holmstrom, Prof Emerita Philosophy Rutgers, New Politics Editorial Board

Phil Gasper

Phil Gasper is co-editor of New Politics, editor of an annotated edition of The Communist Manifesto, and a member of the Tempest Collective.

Alex Holmstrom-Smith

Alex Holmstrom-Smith, labor lawyer

Rose Lenehan

Rose Lenehan, PhD Philosophy, tenant organizer

Friday September 4, 2026 2:30pm - 4:00pm CDT
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Gender-Sexuality-Liberation

4:30pm CDT

Femme-inism Against Cisness: Bread, Roses, and Hormones, Too

Friday September 4, 2026 4:30pm - 6:00pm CDT

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Why must our struggles against capitalism combat “cisness” (the naturalization of assigned sex), and how can the political distinction between femininity and the “femme” assist us in this task? Join Sophie Lewis for a conversation about “femmunism,” life-making labor, whorish artifice, gender-maximalism, transfeminist abolitionism, and the class war from above waged upon us by contemporary misogynist and femmephobic enemy feminisms.

Speakers

A.J. Bohrer

A.J. Bohrer is a theorist, activist, and translator based in Chicago. Their first book, Marxism and Intersectionality: Race, Gender, Class, and Sexuality under Contemporary Capitalism (Transcript Verlag, 2019) was short-listed for the Deutscher Prize and has been translated into Spanish... Read More →

Sophie Lewis

Sophie Lewis is a writer, utopian, feminist, and ex-academic scholar based in Philadelphia, hailing originally from the UK, France, and Germany. She is the author of Femmephilia, Enemy Feminisms, Abolish the Family, and Full Surrogacy Now. Lewis’s essays and articles appear routinely... Read More →

Friday September 4, 2026 4:30pm - 6:00pm CDT
TBA

Gender-Sexuality-Liberation

10:00am CDT

2:30pm CDT

4:30pm CDT

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