WOMEN ON STRIKE

May 9

2:00 - 4:00 PM EDT

This virtual event is free

All are welcome!

The point of departure for this event is the intensified violence against women and gender minorities that we are witnessing across the globe, as a patriarchy under threat attempts to reassert or augment its authority. Its effects are plural: from intimate partner violence to the criminalization of abortion, from the wage gap to the care gap, from the persecution of migrants to state complicity in femicide. We are all at the mercy of a dynamic Jacqueline Rose captures succinctly: “It is masculinity out of control—masculinity in a panic—that is most likely to turn ugly.”

But we are also witnessing an extraordinary global mobilization against this violence. In Italy, Chile, Argentina, Mexico, Iran, Spain, Poland, India, and in cities throughout the world, women have been demonstrating and striking in rebellion against femicide and all forms of gender-based violence. This mobilization is the focus of “Women on Strike,” a roundtable discussion featuring four international scholars whose work analyzes various aspects of feminist resistance, from the strikes and assemblies of Ni Una Menos and Non Una di Meno, to militant action and the call for a redistribution of power.

Our Roundtable Guests:

  • Valentina Moro is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University. She obtained her PhD at the University of Padua in 2018 and has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Istituto italiano per gli studi filosofici (Naples), the Center for Advanced Studies for South-East Europe (Rijeka), the University of Verona, and DePaul University. Her research intersects feminist philosophy, political theory, and classical antiquity, with a particular interest in ancient Greek tragedy. Among her recent publications: V. Moro, Il teatro della polis. Filosofia dell’agonismo tragico (ETS, 2023) and E. C. Mason, V. Moro (eds.), Judith Butler and Marxism: The Radical Feminism of Performativity, Vulnerability, and Care (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025). She is a member of the Society for Women in Philosophy and formerly an organizer in the Non Una Di Meno (Not One Less) movement.

  • Paola Rudan is Associate Professor in History of Political Thought at the Department of History, University of Bologna. Her research focuses on the transatlantic dimension of eighteenth and nineteenth century political thought, in particular the revolutions in North America and France, the South American wars of independence and post-colonial constitutional process. Her research also addresses the history of women’s political thought, feminist and Marxist political theory, and is currently focused on the feminist critique of the politics of the algorithm. She is the author of Woman. History and Critique of a Polemical Concept (Brill, 2023), and an active participant in the feminist strike movement and the Women’s assembly of the Migrant Coordination based in Bologna

  • Verónica Schild, born and raised in Chile, is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario, and an interdisciplinary scholar with studies in critical theory and political economy. She has published extensively on feminism and the women’s movement in Chile, on feminism and neoliberalism in Latin America, and more recently on gendered neoliberal state formation. She has been actively involved in research and graduate teaching in Chile and Germany, most recently as Associate Researcher of Núcleo Interdisciplinario de Excelencia, Desigualdades y Derechos Humanos, Universidad Austral de Chile (2019-2023),  Research Fellow and Visiting Professor (under the modality of Científica de Excelencia del Extranjero) in the PhD program of the School of Psychology of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (2019-2023), and Research Fellow of the Berlin-based project DesiguALdades.net (2010-2015).  She is Advisory Board Member, Margherita-von-Brentano Centre for Gender Studies, Freie Universität Berlin (2016 - ongoing). 

  • Verónica Zebadúa-Yáñez is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Women's Studies at Spelman College, and a Visiting Faculty Fellow in The Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University. Her interests include feminist political theory, decolonial thought, and transnational perspectives on women's and LGBTI rights. She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Experiments in Sovereignty: A Political Theory of Feminist Freedom, and her work has appeared in Hypatia. A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Arendt Studies, Contemporary Political Theory, and Theory & Event. Verónica also has experience working at the United Nations as a women's rights specialist.