Publications

"Because, in order to organize ourselves politically, we first had to hold each other up." This sentence was the seed from which this booklet slowly grew. Across 100 pages, migrant domestic workers organized around Territorio Doméstico and the Jeanneth Beltrán Observatory share their story, their demands, and the many ways they struggle and build community together. It is an inspiration for all who fight for a better world — theory [...]

1. How to Escape the Trap? Feminist Narratives against the Media Siege and Punitivism By Valentina Huelga (Madrid)   How then can one expect the state to solve the problem of violence against women, when it constantly recapitulates its own history of colonialism, racism, and war? How can we ask the state to intervene when, in fact, its armed forces have always practiced rape and battery against enemy women? In fact, sexual [...]

By way of a prologue  Ilustración de Vane Julián, cedida por Pikara Magazine By La Laboratoria I A woven image can give rise to misunderstandings. From a distance, we perceive large masses of color that make up homogeneous and unified shapes. But, when we look closer and focus in, we discover that what appeared to be a continuous image is, in reality, made up of an infinite number of points [...]

"We—women, trans, queer folks, feminized bodies and subjects— already, in our everyday lives, make time multiply, we cook, we clean, we care, we teach, we think, we write, all at the same time. It is not only that we have multiple working days—the work outside the home (which of course is now inside of the home for many of us), the work in the home, the work in the community or the [...]

This is the introductory text to “Del campo a los cuidados. El sindicalismo feminista y antirracista que viene”, published by the La Laboratoria, with support of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Madrid and Foundation for Arts Initiatives. It was translated into English for Common Ecologies and the MovE research project, by Maggie Schmitt from Zenobia translations. Illustrations by Cynthia Veneno. Deregulation, new and old The old unionist machinery is worn out. The realities [...]

By Feminist Research on Violence Platform Elizabeth Downer, Susana Draper, Alejandra Estigarribia, Silvia Federici, Anna Fox, Lewanne Jones, Jesal Kapadia, Belén Marco-Crespo, Alice Markham-Cantor, and Begonia Santa-Cecilia We created this pamphlet in order to analyze the forms of criminalization of pregnancy that have been reinforced in recent decades in the United States as one of the forms of war against women in the field of reproductive justice. When speaking of [...]