In this talk, presented at MAD on April 18, 2013 as part the “Reproducing Value” series, Silvia Federici discusses gender, the commons, and ways of approaching contemporary collectivity.

Silvia Federici is a scholar, teacher, and activist from the radical feminist Marxist tradition. She is a professor emerita and Teaching Fellow at Hofstra University, where she was a social science professor. She worked as a teacher in Nigeria for many years, is also the co-founder of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa, and is a member of the Midnight Notes Collective.