77 - A.K. 47 - International Women's Day - Part 1
Kristen Ghodsee reads part one of Alexandra Kollontai's 1920 essay on the history of International Women's Day.
Ghodsee also announces some upcoming lectures and events.
5 March 2021 (09:30 GMT-5) Conference Presentation: "Infrastructures of Solidarity: East-South Alliances During the United Nations Decade for Women, 1975-1985," Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London
7 March 2021 (15:00 GMT-5) A special event for the Democratic Socialists of America International Committee (co-sponsored by the socialist feminist working group and Lux Magazine): Love and Sex Behind the Iron Curtain: 20th Century State Socialism in Eastern Europe
9 March 2021 (19:00 GMT-5) A keynote lecture for IWD at the University of Kansas: Women's History Month Lecture: Dr. Kristen R. Ghodsee on International Women's Day
11 March 2021 (10:30 GMT-5) Guest Lecture: "State socialist women's organizations and their role during the U.N. Decade for Women (1975-1985)" Center for History, Sciences Po, Paris
16 March 2021 (11:00 GMT-5) Discussion: "Socialism in the Age of AOC and Bernie Sanders: A Conversation with Bhaskar Sunkara and Kristen Ghodsee" New York Writer's Institute
 Goodreads is also doing a giveaway of the paperback version of Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence to mark International Women's Day. If you are interested in winning a free copy you can do that here before March 8th.
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