Feminists vs. the War Machine w/ Lux Magazine

Published: May 30, 2022, 8 a.m.

b'Join Lux and Haymarket for a discussion about feminist internationalism in the face of war.\\n\\nHow do we practice feminist internationalism? The question has never been more urgent than today, as war rages in Ukraine.\\n\\nThis is a problem feminists have faced many times before. Remember when Laura Bush tried to sell the war in Afghanistan as women\\u2019s liberation? At the time, the left was hampered by thin relationships with our feminist counterparts in these countries, leaving the anti-war movement vulnerable to claims that women there really did want the help of the US military. Today, we\\u2019re committed to strengthening those relationships through conversations like this one.\\n\\nThe spring 2022 issue of Lux features several explorations of US empire from a feminist perspective. We talk with the women of the Revolutionary Afghan Women\\u2019s Association about the US withdrawal, profile National Book Award-finalist poet Solmaz Sharif whose work confronts the War on Terror and her own exile from Iran, report on Okinawa\\u2019s multigenerational anti-US-base movement, and pay tribute to Puerto Rican radical Luisa Capetillo.\\n\\nThis event will take on the special role that feminism continues to play in anti-imperalist struggles, from the Middle East to East Asia to Latin America, connecting these struggles, and activists, across borders.\\n\\n-----------------------------------------------------------\\n\\nSpeakers:\\n\\nRozina Ali is a contributing writer at New York Times Magazine and a fellow at Type Media Center. Her writing covers the War on Terror, Islamophobia, and the Middle East and South Asia. She was previously on the staff of The New Yorker and The Cairo Review of Global Affairs. She is currently working on a book about the history of Islamophobia in the United States.\\n\\nMargo Okazawa-Rey is a professor emerita at San Francisco State University and a transnational feminist activist. She works on militarism, armed conflict, and violence against women in the US and around the world. She is a founding member of the International Women\\u2019s Network against Militarism and Women for Genuine Security, and was a founding member of the Combahee River Collective. Her recent publications include \\u201c\\u2018Nation-izing\\u2019 Coalition and Solidarity Politics for US Anti-militarist Feminists,\\u201d and Gendered Lives: Intersectional Perspectives (Oxford, 2020).\\n\\nSophie Pinkham is the author of Black Square: Adventures in Post-Soviet Ukraine. She has written about Russian and Ukrainian culture and politics for The New York Review of Books, The New Left Review, The New Republic, The Nation, and many other publications. She produced the short documentary Balka, on women, drugs, and HIV in Ukraine.\\n\\nSarah Leonard (moderator) is editor-in-chief of Lux magazine. She is contributing editor to Dissent and The Nation. (@sarahrlnrd)\\n\\nThis event is sponsored by Lux magazine and Haymarket Books.\\n\\nWatch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/vRuCwaSiHyg\\n\\nBuy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org\\n\\nFollow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks'