For International Women's Day, Kristen Ghodsee reads the Black Trinidadian activist and journalist Claudia Jones's speech for International Women's Day in 1950. This speech, (and the published version which appeared afterwards) led to Jones's arrest and eventual deportation from the United States. Jones was a member of the CPUSA, and believed that women's emancipation and civil rights required a strong stance against imperialism and militarism. She say capitalism, patriarchy, and white supremacy are deeply intertwined ideologies.

Read the full text of Claudia Jones's speech here
Listen to Kristen Ghodsee's IWD guest appearance on the Upstream Podcast
Watch Kristen Ghodsee's IWD guest appearance on the Total Liberation Podcast
Read Kristen Ghodsee's 2019 Op-Ed in the New York Times on IWD
Read an Associated Press article about 8 March 2024

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