Author: Sandra Woo

This is a summary of what was discussed on 25 February, 2024 on the topic of financial feminism. At the Sunday discussion on financial feminism, one of the main questions was how to not perpetuate a growth-oriented exploitative system while this system is forcing us to take care of our financial and thus existential security […]

“Intellectual freedom depends on material things. Poetry depends on intellectual freedom. And women have always been poor, not for two hundred years merely, but from the beginning of time. […] Women, then, have not had a dog’s chance of writing poetry.” A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf What personal wisdom or advice would […]

“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept”. ~ Angela Davis Women, Race and Class by Angela Davis is the first book on intersectional feminism that I have ever read. As the title promises, the book describes the historical development of the feminist movement in […]

We will never solve the feminisation of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.”  – Gloria Steinem Imagine if women collectively had more money. What might change?  What are some of the changes you’d expect to see if we achieved economic gender equality tomorrow? What might your daily life look like? What thoughts and […]

I recently attended a virtual lecture from the scholar and feminist activist Silvia Federici about her book Caliban and the Witch. Professor Federici researched the European witch hunts because she wanted to understand the causes of the particular forms of discrimination that women have suffered in capitalist society and how they could be traced back […]