#Kristen ghodsee

[appalachianfuturism]

ROBINSON: …But there’s what is sometimes called the “techno-utopianism” of Silicon Valley, which often you posit as totally unrealistic—we’re going to merge with machines and upload our consciousness and do things we don’t know how to do.

But these other things you cover, which we do know how to do, are utopian, crazy, and unrealistic.

GHODSEE: Exactly. It’s like the Coalition for Radical Life Extension, these people out in Silicon Valley who are basically trying to be immortal.

If you’re talking about universal health care, that’s totally utopian, but immortality is totally feasible. It’s a really weird double standard that tech bros and billionaires and Saudi princes get to dream up cities in the desert or like this new plan for a utopian city in Solano County in Northern California, but the rest of us are just going to be stuck with a housing crisis and homelessness. Why can’t ordinary people dream in a way that imagines a better future, rather than just constantly ceding this territory of blue sky thinking to the tech bros and the billionaires and the Saudi princes who have the means, at least theoretically, to realize those dreams?

#utopia #blue sky thinking #thinking outside the box #techno-utopianism #visionary fiction #utopian thinking #interviews #solarpunk #current affairs #Kristen ghodsee #writing

[the-final-sentence]

Comrades - all the way back.

Kristen Ghodsee, from Red Valkyries

#Red Valkyries #Kristen Ghodsee

[queen-mabs-revenge]

forgot i pre-ordered this - best suprise!

#kristen ghodsee #alexandra kollontai #nadezhda krupskaya #inessa armand #lyudmila pavlichenko #elena lagadinova

[shinyasahalo]

Excerpt from Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism

The renowned historian of sexuality Dagmar Herzorg shared a conversation with several East European men in their late forties in 2006. They told her that

"It was really annoying that East German women had so much sexual self-confidence and economic independence. Money was useless, they complained. The few extra Eastern Marks that a doctor could make in contrast with, say, someone who worked in the theater, they explained, in luring or retaining women the way a doctor's salary could and did in the West. You had to be interesting."

What pressure.

#Kristen R Ghodsee #Socialism #Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism #At the same time the USSR was not a utopia #Socialist history #Feminism #Anti capitalism

[dipnotski]

Kristen R. Ghodsee – Kızıl Savaşçı Kadınlar (2023)

‘Kızıl Savaşçı Kadınlar’, sosyalist kadın hakları aktivizminin tarihini bu tarihin önde gelen beş figürü üzerinden anlatıyor: Sovyetler’in kadınlara yönelik politikalarına şekil veren teorisyen, siyasetçi ve diplomat Aleksandra Kollontay; kendini halk eğitimine adamış Nadejda Krupskaya; Komünist Parti Kadın Birimi Jenotdel’in kurucularından İnessa Armand; efsanevi keskin nişancı Lüdmila…

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#2023 #Aleksandra Kollontay #Beş Devrimci Kadından Dersler #Elena Lagadinova #Kristen R. Ghodsee #Kızıl Savaşçı Kadınlar #Lyudmila Pavliçenko #Nadejda Krupskaya #Senem Erdoğan #Yordam Kitap #İnessa Armand

[probablyasocialecologist]

While state socialism had its downsides, the sudden change of East European women’s fortunes after 1989 amply demonstrates how free markets quickly erode women’s potential for economic autonomy. In Central Europe, for instance, post-1989 governments pursued conscious policies of “refamilization” to support the transition from state socialism to neoliberal capitalism. As state enterprises closed or were sold to private investors, unemployment rates skyrocketed. Too many workers competed for too few jobs. At the same time, the new democratic states reduced their public expenditures by defunding crèches and kindergartens. Public child care establishments closed, and new private facilities required substantial fees. Some governments made up for closing kindergartens by extending parental leaves for up to four years, but at far lower rates of wage compensation and without job protections.

These policies conspired to force women back into the home. Without state-funded child care or well-paid maternity leave, and in a new economic climate where employers had a large army of the unemployed from which to choose, many women were pushed out of the labor markets. From a macroeconomic perspective, this proved a boon to transitioning states. Unemployment rates dropped (and this the need for social benefits), and women now performed for free the care work the state had once subsidized in order to promote gender equality. Later, when deeper budget cuts hit pensioners and the health care system, women already at home looking after children could now care for the sick and the old —at great savings to the state budget.

Kristen Ghodsee, Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism

#Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism #state socialism #cold war #work

[azspot]

Capitalist realism refers to a particular cultural mindset that convinces us that there are no workable alternatives to the way things are today. It finds its most powerful expression in the ubiquity of dystopian films, books, and television shows that bombard us with the message that any deviation from our current way of doing things will inevitably make us worse off.

Kristen Ghodsee

[vague-humanoid]

The Socialist History of International Women's Day with Dr. Kristen Ghodsee

#Youtube

[inqilabi]

What’s GDR? And where could I read more about it?

East Germany. Kristen Ghodsee wrote a book (Why Women have better Sex under Socialism) and has done a couple of podcasts on the topic. You can probably start by listening to the podcast first. I’m not sure which Episode might be the best, but she’s done a lot on this topic. She can be a bit liberal/sexual revolutionesque/pro sex work (which is silly cos gdr banned porn & sex work lol)

One of the survey samples from her book:

Another study indicated that East German women typically enjoyed sex much more (with a 70% orgasm rate), at least partially because communism allowed East German women to feel equal, far more independent, and far less oppressed (Kleinschmidt 1985).

[bookloure]

Twenty-eight days to go before we say goodbye to 2023. What is time, really? Anyway, a month's ending means a wrap-up in this space. So here are eight books I managed to finish in November, with mini-reviews: 5⭐ 📖 Tagalog Bestsellers of the Twentieth Century: A History of the Book in the Philippines by Patricia May B. Jurilla—this is my favorite reading journey of the month for sure! 📖Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë—i love this book, but I hate everyone. well, everyone Hareton. i love him to death! 4⭐ 📱Garlic & the Vampire by Bree Paulsen—such a cute and wholesome graphic novel! I'm definitely picking up the sequel. 📱Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit by Jen Campbell—jen is my favorite book reviewer, but I think her poetry is not for me. still, I enjoyed this very personal collection of hers. 3⭐ 📱Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence by Kristen R. Ghodsee—very much a primer book. i recommend it to young people interested in the topic! 🎧Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino—this would have benefitted me more had I read this is 2019 when it was published. now it just tells me things I already know, and nothing in the writing particularly wowed me. 📱Braised Pork by An Yu—not bad. but i was hoping to like this more than i did. would recommend it to fans of weird books! 2.5⭐ 📖 Armor by John Bengan—ah, i love the idea behind this short story collection. unfortunately, the writing did not gel with me.

#bookblr #booklr #reading wrap up #november reading wrap up #book review

[lemonflowercat]

75 soft (attempt 5): day 0

//getting in the zone//

[x] yoga every morning x20m

[] midday wxo

<period break>

[] 1400 kcal/day x6/week: ate 1716

went over but I felt very balanced in that I indulged (had some delicious iftaar snacks and an ice cream to beat the heat) while being mindful (ate 3 home-cooked meals after ages!). i want more cheat days to be this way ♡

[] meditate once

[x] study just a little today: 3h of finishing all my leftover biochemistry qbank modules. this little tick is so satisfyingggg

got my backlog of chores done - most importantly, meal prep ☆ such a relief because now I'm more likely to stick to calorie budget (':

the worst part of PMS for me is the lack of motivation to do absolutely anything. it's day 3 of period now and I'm so glad PMS is over! this one wasn't as productive as last time - also it's been a pretty turbulent month for me internally. I'm super excited about the full moon tonight + incoming post-PMS clarity...I can feel it already ☆ I love that my cycle syncs with the moon hehe. are post-period downloads a thing for all women?

I listened to this today while cooking

especially in the Indian context, this really hits home. I've witnessed firsthand financial disadvantage caging my mother in a life she despises. this goes on to impact my father also because patriarchal society dictates that it's his duty to be the provider of the family, binding him too. growing up in a home like this, financial independence has always been a non-negotiable goal for me, especially because I'm a woman. but what I love about this episode that it reminds me that just that girl-boss goal isn't enough - it's still subservient to a capitalistic society. it makes me dream of a world with fluid gender roles and taking the "romantic couple" based nuclear families out of the box and expanding into a more communal life.

anyway - today was a good goood reset day. here's to what's to come ☆

#75 soft #day 0 #Spotify

[jrmilazzo]

<< Ghodsee’s book builds up to her ultimate and most radical anti-institutionalist proposal: that the modern monogamous nuclear family should be redesigned. She argues that insular family units should be replaced with communal living situations wherein care, housework, and resources would be shared among relatives, friends, and neighbors. She knows that questioning the family is still something of a third rail in the United States and other Western countries (even though the queer community has been modeling chosen family over biological bonds for quite some time now, and practices that challenge traditional families abound—polyamory, cohabitation, BirthStrike, cooperative apartment buildings, and so on). But she convincingly argues that the nuclear family is part and parcel of individualistic societies troubled by extreme wealth inequality and frayed social safety nets because it prioritizes a small, insular group over neighbors and the larger community. It is within the nuclear family unit that patriarchy reasserts itself, that capitalism reasserts itself, that property is passed down and assets are inherited, maintaining class inequality and driving competition.

For Ghodsee, therefore, we must fundamentally rethink the organization of our intimate lives. She notes that Plato said more or less the same thing in The Republic—the oikos (meaning “family” or “house”), he argued, undermined social cooperation. But she also points out the utopian behaviors that many readers might already recognize and amplify in their daily lives: Sharing more means consuming less; marriage need not determine the experience and organization of parenthood; nourishing friendships and expanding chosen family will multiply affection and care; swapping childcare with other parents will free up time; letting the kids spend more time among relatives and friends further spreads nurture; strangers can become kin; social dreaming is an act of radical hope. >>

#family #patriarchy #society #the future

[dropitlikefscott]

“Let them see that we were not heroines or heroes after all. But we believed passionately and ardently. We believed in our goals and we pursued them. Sometimes we were strong and sometimes we were very weak.” -Red Valkyries, Kristen Ghodsee

[mirandamckenni1]

Liked on YouTube: Reviewing 18 Books in 18 Minutes || https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTX_Id0XRNY || Welcome back to #Vlognukah! Today I'm going to be reviewing 18 books in 18 minutes 📚 Normally I do a video about my favourite books of the year but since becoming a parent I've had way less time to read & read way less overall so INSTEAD I thought I'd do quickfire reviews of ALL the books I've read this year! And in case kids' books count too, I go through all the kids' books I've read this year too. ABCs of Equality, anyone? Storygraph profile: https://ift.tt/9f3gb8M Eva Bloom: https://ift.tt/ZsuPHVA 📚ADULT BOOKS📚 The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson*: https://ift.tt/5dAaMsO Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert*: https://ift.tt/aWT5LiO Consumed by Aja Barber*: https://ift.tt/YhiLmfA The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green*: https://ift.tt/kdTUwfK The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune*: https://ift.tt/uk0LvCY How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question by Mike Schur*: https://ift.tt/YU6aBAH Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism by Kristen Ghodsee*: https://ift.tt/p49rtJH The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood*: https://ift.tt/38V6HuI Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler*: https://ift.tt/hrntSN0 Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo*: https://ift.tt/hYInRSs Idol by Louise O’Neill*: https://ift.tt/bTLogZn Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir*: https://ift.tt/M4XSgCZ The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee*: https://ift.tt/vn3EDyb Girl Friends by Holly Bourne*: https://ift.tt/OFKRMoB The Nobleman’s Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks by Mackenzi Lee*: https://ift.tt/6mjLAv5 Don’t Forget to Scream by Marianne Levy*: https://ift.tt/2uoMt3x Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid*: https://ift.tt/Vxg03ot Infamous by Lex Croucher*: https://ift.tt/KmN7T4A 📚KIDS BOOKS📚 Poppy on the Go: https://ift.tt/tjFlmGy Poppy Says Hello: https://ift.tt/LhUGwlP Whatever Next! by Jill Murphy*: https://ift.tt/4qWkUMQ Zoom to the Moon: https://ift.tt/bLf8xXZ An ABC of Equality*: https://ift.tt/DbUCVg4 Noisy Farm: https://ift.tt/xTRyFfv We’re Going on a Bear Hunt*: https://ift.tt/Jw7qbeY The Lion Inside*: https://ift.tt/ckuQMGd Quantum Physics for Babies*: https://ift.tt/pPDfFcC My First Signs*: https://ift.tt/K4tuBNi The Gruffalo Puppet Book*: https://ift.tt/mp8wcAH Shh! We Have a Plan*: https://ift.tt/6jDYSu4 Book of Animals*: https://ift.tt/K6kbLCX Love Makes a Family*: https://ift.tt/gx3NZr5 The Very Hungry Caterpillar*: https://ift.tt/N39otrC Together*: https://ift.tt/LP1ARp6 CHAPTERS 00:00 – Intro 01:24 – Adult books 13:28 – Kids books 17:11 – Outro SIMILAR VIDEOS Vlognukah 2022 playlist: 🍑MY SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, STOMA & DISABILITY YOUTUBE CHANNEL🍑 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/hannahwitton?sub_confirmation=1 ✨WANT TO SUPPORT ME AND MY WORK?✨ Join The Common Room on Patreon! https://ift.tt/mEvzi9Z 📚MY BOOKS*📚 The Hormone Diaries: http://bit.ly/TheHormoneDiariesBook Doing It: http://bit.ly/DoingItBook Want to be the first to know about new projects & exclusive content? 📝SIGN UP TO MY NEWSLETTER📝 http://bit.ly/HannahWittonsNewsletter 🌻LET’S CONNECT🌻 Instagram: https://ift.tt/PWfMCzE Twitter: https://twitter.com/hannahwitton Facebook: https://ift.tt/zoONlLw 🎧LISTEN TO MY PODCAST🎧 https://ift.tt/Ru4onZ6 💕JOIN THE HORMONE DIARIES COMMUNITY 💕 https://ift.tt/BjtRq8o 💛MY WEBSITE💛 https://ift.tt/kS6Rr2f 🎮WATCH ME PLAY GAMES🎮 https://ift.tt/FlKOz42 ⭐CAPTIONS BY REV*⭐ https://ift.tt/YvTsuap 🎶MUSIC FOR YOUTUBE VIDEOS* 🎶 https://ift.tt/xj5rXpo 🎥VIDEO EQUIPMENT*🎥 Main camera - Canon 80d: http://bit.ly/HannahsMainCamera Lens - Sigma 18-35mm f1.8: http://bit.ly/HannahsLens Microphone - H4n Zoom: http://bit.ly/HannahsMicrophone Vlog camera - Sony ZV-1: https://bit.ly/HannahsNewVlogCamera Twitch camera - http://bit.ly/HannahsTwitchCamera 🎙PODCAST EQUIPMENT*🎙 Microphone - Samson Q2U: http://bit.ly/HannahsPodcastMicrophone Recorder - H6n Zoom: http://bit.ly/HannahsPodcastRecorder *Affiliate links #HannahWitton #MoreHannah

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[probablyasocialecologist]

Although research shows that children are not harmed by quality center-based child care, and may even enjoy greater cognitive, linguistic, and socioemotional development than children cared for at home, American conservatives hate the idea of child care because it also challenges male authority in the family. One op-ed contributor for Fox News sees universal child care as part of an evil plot, arguing “totalitarian governments have gone to great lengths to indoctrinate children, and the biggest obstacles they faced was parents who contradicted what the government was telling their kids.” In this view, everything that state socialist countries did to support women —increasing labor force participation, liberalizing divorce laws, creating kindergartens and crèches, and supporting women’s economic independence—was aimed as brainwashing children. Even public schools served the primary purpose of indoctrination.

Kristen Ghodsee, Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism  

#Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism #childcare #children #conservatism

[traceydyer]

(Download PDF/Epub) Red Valkyries: The Revolutionary Women of Eastern Europe - Kristen R. Ghodsee

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 The overlooked revolutionary women of Eastern Europe and their contribution to socialist feminist history, from the author of Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism.Through a series of lively and accessible biographical essays, Red Valkyries explores the history of socialist feminism by examining the revolutionary careers of five prominent socialist women active in the 19th and 20th centuries. ? Alexandra Kollontai, the aristocratic Bolshevik ? Nadezhda Krupskaya, the radical pedagogue ? Inessa Armand, the polyamorous firebrand ? Lyudmila Pavlichenko, the deadly sniper ? Elena Lagadinova, the partisan turned scientist turned global women?s activistNone of these women were ?perfect? leftists. Their lives were filled with inner conflicts, contradictions, and sometimes outrageous privilege, but they still managed to move forward their own political projects through perseverance and dedication to their cause.Always walking a fine line between the need for class solidarity and the