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True Currency: About Feminist Economics is a six-part podcast hosted by artists Amy Feneck and Ruth Beale (The Alternative School of Economics), launching on 16 July, with a new episode released weekly. The outcome of an eight month residency, the podcast is produced in collaboration with Lucia Scazzocchio from Social Broadcasts, and presents detailed testimonials from academic researchers, policy experts, community leaders and activists; and explores financial inequality, feminism, intersec ...
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The coronavirus pandemic has thrown light upon many of the issues covered so far in True Currency, from what is valued and measured as work, to inequalities, to the inadequacy of the current system to support everyone in society equally. Ruth and Amy catch up with speakers from the previous episodes to find out how lockdown has affected them, and w…
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What do we want the economy to be? How can we make a feminist economy? What does a feminist economy want? This episode looks at how feminist principals are used to shape research and economic policy, including the Women’s Budget Group’s commission for a Gender Equal Economy, as well as artists who are creating radical new spaces for rethinking what…
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Exploring the role unpaid care has in relation to women and work, this episode focuses on motherhood, and the profoundly shocking experience (for some) of infant dependency and the subsequent assertion of gender roles. It features mothers taking part in a workshop with Ruth and Amy at a local Children’s Centre, alongside academic Lisa Baraitser who…
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This is second part of Worker Struggles, centering on issues around women and paid work. Women working in the sex industry talk about their struggle to name sex work as work, meaning they can demand safer and fair working conditions. The episode also starts to unpack the idea of ‘reproductive labour’, a central idea in feminist thought, describing …
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The first of two episodes which consider the different forms of waged work women do, 'When Migrant Women Rise, We All Rise' looks at the multiple layers of discrimination and exploitation affecting women in ‘feminised’ industries. Ruth and Amy visit the Women’s Strike in central London, and speak to workers and activists fighting for better working…
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This podcast series begins by asking 'What is feminist economics? How are women part of, and excluded from, the economy?', artists Ruth Beale and Amy Feneck (The Alternative School of Economics) start to unpack the issues around work, care and parenthood. Featuring members of the Women’s Budget Group; a Latin American parents group in Brixton; work…
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True Currency: About Feminist Economics is a six-part podcast hosted by artists Amy Feneck and Ruth Beale (The Alternative School of Economics), launching on 16 July, with a new episode released weekly. The outcome of an eight month residency, the podcast is produced in collaboration with Lucia Scazzocchio from Social Broadcasts, and presents detai…
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