Session materials from "Toward Co-ops as Revolutionary Spaces for Challenging Gender Norms of Domesticity," presented by Lauren Beitler at NASCO Institute 2015.
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What would it look like for the domestic spaces of our co-ops to be places of radical gender equality? How can we challenge the gendered aspects of labor in our cooperatives? How can we use our cooperative homes as incubators for new ways of expressing gender in the domestic sphere and new ways of conceptualizing domesticity, family, and care? In this course we will talk about the way gender intersects with the divisions of labor in our co-ops, invisible labor, emotional labor, co-ops as support systems for family structures beyond the nuclear family, and other topics as suggested by workshop participants. We will strategize about how to have conversations about gender in our cooperatives.
